Thanks so much for your reply, Kraken: Yes, intellectually I know this is true. But I grew up in an aging family. Most of the extended family members I grew up with were born in the mid to late 1800's. So I was surrounded by the values of late 19th century, small town America. And even though I'm now in my 6th decade of life, I still carry those values with me, like it or not. This has made my being trans even more difficult than it would have needed to be otherwise.

I'm pretty certain that the content of the dream was related to my transgenderedness along with content that I have been reading here on PC. (I have an internet friend who has been encouraging me to get off of PC. She's concerned it may be having a deleterious effect.) My dream is nothing I have any plans to explore in the real world... even if it is an intriguing thought, given my Gender Identity Disorder related struggles...