Thread: Gender transformation in lucids / New life

(For those who find the huge wall of text daunting: skip to the last paragraph for the main reason of this post.)

Anybody on here had any experience with this? It's a main dream goal of mine to become a woman and I'm really not sure how to go about achieving it. I have this theory that once I find my Dream Guide he/she will be able to teach me how, but ideally I'd like to have this nailed by 2012, which is when I intend to coincide this goal with another, which is to begin another life (in a RPG style) and let things take their toll from there.

I've slacked off with dream recall for some time now, but just recently I finally managed to motivate myself again, so I'd class the time between now and the new year as a ''Recall preparation period'' so I can really beef it up.

My plan of action subsequently is to start fresh - with my lucid count, recorded dreams, etc - and completely change how my lucids are. I read about this ''Ninja world'' concept a while back which Matte came up with and this really lit my light-bulb up. What it basically was, was creating a portal and ending up in a Naruto-type world where you progressed as you would in a game or something, and really begin a completely different life at night. Since then I've taken the concept and tried to apply it to personal preferences, and I've established that I want to totally revamp how I go about my lucid adventures.

Firstly, (and most importantly) I don't want to do this in a male form. I want to take RP to a whole new level and live my ''night-life'' as a woman - purely as a woman. For those of you who don't know, I have a rather intense desire to become such in waking reality, but for religious reasons I can't do so. I feel this is the answer to my problems, as I don't have to worry about eternal or social consequences; it's totally harmless.

Secondly, in terms of ''dream powers'' I want to have to earn them and learn how to control them instead of simply thinking ''Oh, let's do this and this tonight''. I don't know about you guys, but I find that quite boring. I'd rather go on some massive quest-line to gain the power to influence people with my mind, or to control fire and spawn things, etc.

Thirdly, one of the first things I want to do when I enter my chosen universe is fly up high, take note of everything I possibly can, wake myself up and record it all on a huge map (lets say A3 as a starter). With time I'll add to this and really get used to the specific world(s) that I'm going to spend my lucid time in. I plan on re-entering this place when next lucid and finding some form of civilization. In essence, I'll create additional maps of everywhere I visit (like a main city, for example), really noting down every little detail.

Fourthly, (and this is where I haven't fully decided on what I'm going to do) I want my new life to have a specific theme to it. Since I like quite a lot of things, I reckon I'll either whittle it down to one specific theme or go hybrid. For example, I could choose to base things on the Abhorsen Trilogy (by Garth Nix, I would suggest reading it if you're into necromancy and such) or perhaps have a mix of Star Wars and Naruto. Like I said, I still haven't decided yet (although I'm quite liking the Abhorsen idea). There's just so much to choose from!

Ideally, I don't want to plan out my adventures too much. I think I'll just fill my mind with whatever my chosen theme is and let my dreams take their toll - pretty much lucidly going along with a storyline if that makes sense? I think that would make it all the more fun; not knowing what it is I'm going to experience next. Now and then I may influence what happens to bring in a bit more action or something, but the majority of things I want to keep untouched.

If possible, I'd like to have every lucid this way too. I've encountered a few flaws in my calculations though. I've thought up the concept that perhaps I could train myself to automatically teleport to my place of residence (in the new life) every time I got lucid (like you end up in your home every time you load up GTA), but I have no idea how to go about that. I could always work around it and access it via a portal/change of scenery every time I got lucid but I feel my 1st idea would help me get into the RP side of things better so it feels more real (with both ideas I'd need to master portal creation - another of my ''preparatory'' goals).

Anyway, I've kind of waffled on a bit more than originally intended. Any tips for the whole transforming into a woman thing?

That would be pure awesomeness. I've thought about that as well. But im searching for my dream guide and I simply don't have enough lucids under my belt

Generally in dreams, one just sees through ones own eyes (as opposed to watching oneself) so if you want to be a woman then I'd argue you just are. I've had non-lucids like this. A couple times in lucids, I've tried to actually transform my body (once just looking down at myself, once in a mirror) with poor results. When I look in a mirror in a LD, my reflection tends to morph anyway as though I were looking in a carnival mirror. When I tried to look like a man I looked like a carnival mirror man, which I guess isn't surprising.

Also, I know you aren't asking about RL, but I think it's really sad when people are told they can't be themselves for religious reasons. I hope you have some queer positive people to talk to

I had a dream once where I lived a separate life as a girl, although I didn't know my true identity at that time in the dream. I then told myself hey I'm not a girl then i transformed back to normal and became lucid for a little. You can read the dream in my dream journal I think, it's quite interesting.

Originally Posted by Aeroproxy

That would be pure awesomeness. I've thought about that as well. But im searching for my dream guide and I simply don't have enough lucids under my belt

Most definitely. I think finding my dream guide will speed up the process tenfold.

Originally Posted by FancyRat

Generally in dreams, one just sees through ones own eyes (as opposed to watching oneself) so if you want to be a woman then I'd argue you just are. I've had non-lucids like this. A couple times in lucids, I've tried to actually transform my body (once just looking down at myself, once in a mirror) with poor results. When I look in a mirror in a LD, my reflection tends to morph anyway as though I were looking in a carnival mirror. When I tried to look like a man I looked like a carnival mirror man, which I guess isn't surprising.

Also, I know you aren't asking about RL, but I think it's really sad when people are told they can't be themselves for religious reasons. I hope you have some queer positive people to talk to

This is true. I've tried morphing myself as well which hasn't turned out that well.. but like I said, I feel my dream guide will be able to help me do this, as anything is possible after all.

Also, I don't know if you meant it this way or not, but I'm not queer - totally straight. I just dislike being male is all. I guess you could say I want to be a lesbian.

Originally Posted by Reclypso

I had a dream once where I lived a separate life as a girl, although I didn't know my true identity at that time in the dream. I then told myself hey I'm not a girl then i transformed back to normal and became lucid for a little. You can read the dream in my dream journal I think, it's quite interesting.

Sounds interesting. I shall do so.

Originally Posted by Graves

Also, I don't know if you meant it this way or not, but I'm not queer - totally straight. I just dislike being male is all. I guess you could say I want to be a lesbian.

Sorry that wasn't clear. I considered using LGBT but didn't know if you identified with any of those so I use queer as an all-encompassing word. It's the word I like best for myself as I'm not exactly gay or trans but not straight or cisgendered. 'Queer' includes more fringe identities like genderqueer, male lesbian and many more. That's why I like to some it all up in queer, but yeah, the old-fashioned verison of the word (and still to many people) just means gay so sorry for the confusion

Ahh. No worries.

Haha, when I compared our goals my want to transform into a woman was slightly different that yours...