Gay dream

You are straight, or so you thought, but you just had a vivid dream about someone of your same gender.

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You lie in bed, tossing and turning because your brain is stuck in a loop. You feel the urge to figure it out, right there at 3 a. You feel highly anxious now, as the minutes turn into hours. You look at the clock at 5 a. You feel fearful and worried. It is very apparent to you that you have to get to the bottom of this dream.

What does it all mean? Many clinicians in the mental health field agree. The same applies to you. Very rarely does a same-sex dream mean that you are in fact gay. And the flip side is also true. As a therapist, I have worked with many people who needed help stepping away from the meaning of their dreams. They needed to take a break from figuring it out.

Dreams are a hot topic, even in the field of therapy, and one that can cause much distress. We, in our modern-day lives, are not the only ones trying to figure out the hidden meaning in our dreams. Everyone has them, and no one can ever be quite sure about what they mean. Throughout history, there have been many ways of thinking about dreams.

Ancient Greeks believed that dreams had the ability to foretell the future. Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, used dream interpretation to uncover unconscious wants and desires. Now, there are various scientific explanations for our dreams. When you are straight and you are having same-sex dreams, there could be many explanations based on who you ask.

What are some more dream explanations? No matter what theory is used to interpret a dream, gay fact remains that some people are more bothered by troublesome dreams than others. While it may be a surprise, there can actually be a connection between dreams and obsessive-compulsive disorder OCD.

Some gay with OCD have very vivid, intrusive dreams that are related to the obsessions that they have in their waking life. For example, a person with Relationship OCD— a subtype of OCD focused on relationship doubts —may have a dream in which they dream on their spouse with someone of the same sex and their partner leaves them.

A person who meets the criteria for OCD will have both obsessions and compulsions.