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- From: angelai@wam.umd.edu (Angela I.)
- Subject: Re: Strange Masturbation Memory Dream
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- References: <1993Jan18.194912.2004@fuug.fi> <43698@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:21:01 GMT
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- In article <43698@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> cs64wag@sdcc8.ucsd.edu (Jeremy Friesner) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan18.194912.2004@fuug.fi> an5938@anon.penet.fi writes:
- >
- >>I am a male-to-female transsexual who had sex reassignment surgery long enough
- >>ago that I have no conscious memory of what it physically felt like to have a
- >>penis. When I am awake, if I try to imagine having a penis again, I completely
- >>fail (and, no, I do NOT want it back! this is just a thought experiment).
- >
- >and then later writes....
- >
- >>What kind of woman am I that I could have
- >>a dream like that?! And that it could affect me so!
- >
- >I think you answered your own question in the first paragraph,
- >there. :-)
- >
- >Jeremy
-
- First of all, <growl directed at Jeremy> Well, I'll leave you alone,
- since you put the smiley face in there...
-
- 2nd: <To the original poster, whose name does not appear>
- It is not really so unusual to have very vivid dreams of things that you
- no longer have conscious memory of. A number of stimuli could have
- triggered it: sights, sounds, odors that you encounter during the preceding
- days that themselves may not register consciously (or you may notice the
- stimuli but not make a conscious connection between it and your early
- memory). It does _not_ necessarily mean that you want to go back to the way
- you were at that time. I don't know what you encountered recently
- that triggered the memory/dream, but early sexual activity usually strongly
- affects a person's subconscious, so that, combined with whatever caused
- the dream in the first place, could easily have such an intense physical
- effect. (I usually wake up from sexual dreams panting and with my
- heart-racing, and I have awoken to orgasms a couple of times. Maybe not
- quite the same, but what you experienced is not totally unimaginable.)
-
- I guess the conclusion is that I don't know why you had the dream, but
- it's perfectly ok to have the dream, and the memories that caused it (if you
- were repressing it, I don't think there's any need to). You're fine, exactly
- the way you are now, and if something is not right, whether it is
- physical, emotional, or other, you can fix it, with others' help. But having
- a very vivid dream of the past does not necessarily indicate that there is
- something wrong in the present. If it recurrs, you may want to figure out
- what is triggering it. Even if it doesn't recur, you may want to try to
- figure that out. Just for your own sense of curiosity & well-being.
-
- :)
- Angela
-
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