Hi Robert,
What a delight to read your blog!
Last night I dreamed about you! However, I was not in your body. You were reminding me to use my animal medicine gifts. Always the teacher, aren’t you?
In reference to your question regarding cross-gender dreams, some years ago, I had a dream where I saw and felt myself inside the body of a young male from some indigenous culture. In my dream, I took note of my attire – or lack thereof.
I informed myself that I was Tonga(n). (Upon waking, I googled & found there is such a culture.)There wasn’t much more to the dream. Within the dream, I sort of remembered I was me, yet I knew I was this young man too. I wondered if it was some type of past life memory..
I’ll be interested in reading your research.
Thanks for reminding me of this dream – and my animal medicine gifts!

Hi Robert,
I have had quite a number of dreams in which I am in the body of a man, experiencing his emotions, often in difficult situations, and even looking around at my surroundings and taking note of them – and taking note of the period of time where I find myself. I have been in the body of a young soldier preparing for battle and even knew that it was the Battle of Cowpens. I have been a slave who was a king before his capture and felt the strength, the humiliation, the fear, the anger, and the considerations of what the consequences would be for others and for myself if I made certain moves toward freedom. I have also been inside the body – and mind – of a dangerous stalker and in the mind of his alter ego which turned out to be a precognitive experience. These experiences – even when I believe I understand them – continue to intrigue me and leave so many questions unanswered.

Dear Robert: Dreams have held a special fascination for me ever since I read Carl Jung’s ‘Memories, Dreams and Reflections’ some years ago which launched me onto a lifetime journey of learning and exploring the unconscious and dreams in particular. Which is no doubt why I enjoy reading your many books and blogs so much.
Like you and other folks here, I have had dreams which portrayed me as the opposite sex and honestly, it took me some time to come to terms with the idea that a person can have such intimate understanding of both sexes. Once that hurdle was overcome, I soon realized that my past life explorations would reveal much more understanding than I could have ever imagined.
Over the years I have begun to record my own past life recollections and have put them into a blog which can be found here: http://dhyanak.wordpress.com/past-lives-recalled — here is a snippet of a past life fragment that you may find interesting:
In a group past life regression session I found myself falling from the sky over vast green plains dotted with low trees into the body of a figure below. Instantly, I am one among a hunting party of men. We appear to be pre-modern man. Our faces are broad and our foreheads slope … feet and hands are quite large and quite hairy.
We are pursuing an antelope or deer-type of animal with crude wooden spears. This animal has long sharp horns or antlers curving back and away from the head. We surround the animal making noise and gesturing with our arms to cause it to turn in such a way that we can stab at it … when suddenly the animal bucks and bolts towards me, head down. I jump out of the way, but not far or fast enough and I get gored in the side, knocking the breath out of me. I feel unconcerned — my immediate and lasting thought is for the remaining members to capture the meat for the families back home.
I struggle on the ground for a few moments before hoisting myself up into a nearby tree – knowing I will be eaten by lions eventually, but from here I can see how the hunt plays out and I am thrilled that they are successful. Looking down I can clearly see my hands and feet … and I see the blood running out of the gash in my side down along the tree towards the ground … feel myself becoming light-headed, and I am content.

Dhyana – Thanks for sharing this vivid experience of a prehistoric life. We are more than we know.

Wanda – Thanks for sharing here. As you know, these experiences run a full gamut from possible past-life memories of an individual to recollection of the life of an ancestor, to entry into the life of another person who is in our field – perhaps because we are on the land where that person lived – to a mode of psychic dreaming in which you are very well-versed, in which we are drawn into the mind and seemingly the body of someone else for varying reasons.

Sherry – Yes I do seem to be quite as active as a teacher IN the dreamspace as in waking life. The skeptic in my left brain always finds it helpful when I am given clues in a dream or vision that I can research. When this leads me to confirming information to which I did not have access before the dream (as with your “Tongan” experience) this provides important verification that I have entered objective, transpersonal ground.

I don´t know if it helps a bit but a couple of cross-gender dreams I dimly remember now.
Probably the most expressive and very old one. I am a warrior walking on the white plain somewhere freezing cold. Everything around me is covered in the white blanket. I´m following a man who is supposed to be my father in the dream. There is one more person, the third man who looks like my brother. We are all wearing very heavy archaic armour with equally heavy swords. I know I´m going to fight my father and I realize that I´m not competent at all. There is too much difference between us. He is the personification of power and I´m very young and inexperienced. I feel hopeless but there is no space for my refusal, I know I must fight. Then we are standing opposite to each other and I think that I can´t even lift the huge sword,it´s so immensely heavy. The scene continues in a different way because there is no fight. Fatherly figure is raising his sword and he places the point of the sword exactly on my third eye. I feel accepted. Immediately I am back in my civil situation as a student of the secondary school in the first year. About the third person, possibly my brother – I´m aware in the dream that just one of us is destined to continue to live, the other had to die.
About general feelings – frightened, suprised and in the end empowered. I don´t think that I was taken aback at all by being a man. I simply took it for granted.
Again an old dream – less recollected – I´m a young man and I´m just jumping from the top of one roof to another. It´s like jumping and flying at the same time and I love it. It requires courage and energy and I feel capable. No question in mind about beeing a man. It´s a neutral position.
Maybe one more dream in which I perceived a strong male energy, but I was transformed into an animal, not a person. As a matter of fact, this dream has a funny background. My new university friend invited me for the first time to her family during summer holiday. The first night before I fell asleep she told me jokingly: And don´t forget to remember your dream, it will be fulfilled. (many people believe that the first dream in a new place has a special meaning). And I dreamed about being a great bull, having big horns and hitting them against a big gate. I reckon the dream suggested my stubborness, but the feeling of a great strength and perseverance evoked a male (animal?)energy.
My feelings were very confused and I hoped my friend wouldn´t ask me about my dream. How you can possibly tell nice people that instead of inviting a person they were hosting a giant bull.
Thank you a lot for sharing male perspective about female energy.

Robert,
I’ve had dreams through the years of living in a masculine body in other lifetimes; a vivid one occurred in the early 1980s. I was able to research this dream and “verify” the historical personality and to see how that life has impacted the one I’m living in this consciousness. A biography of the person was published in 2007. When I read it I found many parallels in our life patterns – some that I’ve been working on to change for quite some time. Some of his natural talents and abilities were in the same areas as my own. There were many things to which I resonated in his life experience.
In most of the dream experiences I’ve been a young man/boy of about 17 years of age. Another interesting one was in a setting which I recognized as a life between lives. I was involved in helping spirits choose the gender they wanted to express in their next incarnation.
When I was a small child in my present life, I was sure that an error had been made. I was supposed to be a little boy. I liked playing what little boys played and I played with the boys in our neighborhood more than with the girls. In other words, I became a real tomboy. I eventually learned to be a little girl, but I believe I’ve been more masculine than feminine in my mental expression for the most part.

Ann – Thanks so much for sharing these experiences. Interesting when our dreams provide clues for specific research that pan out.

Hello! This topic is one that has come up in my life more than once. One of the few childhood dreams I can recall with vivid detail had me as a small boy (saving the day, no less!). In my middle age, I am just as likely to dream of myself as male, as female.
While reading the book, “Dancing the Dream” by Jamie Sams, I realized that I resonated strongly to her description of the two-spirited, those who carry both the male and the female energies. I assumed that, for me, this is why the masculine dreams are so common. Even when I journey in a drum circle, it is quite common for me to realize that I am walking the dreamwinds as a male instead of a female.

Didi – thank you for sharing these powerful experiences.