What objective evidence do you have of your premise that men dream as a male character and women dream as a female character?

You dream as a “character” like in a video game?

Cis male but if the topic is dreams and identity I once had a kick ass lucid dream where I transformed into a Killik and got to experience being a humanoid insect with 4 arms and 2 legs.

I’ve had a few dreams as a cis male where I was a woman, so basically I reject your premise. However in most dreams I’m not even a character, I’m just the perspective from which the story is experienced.

I mostly dream of drowning myself

As a cis man, I’m confused. I mean I just dream about my self, do people sometimes not? Like I at most have altered memories in dreams, but it’s still fundamentally me.

as a trans man i think my dreams have weirder things to unpack than my POV character’s gender, but overall it varies, 96% of the time i’m just me, those 4% of dreams i remember that i was someone else have a pretty 50/50 gender split

and per the me part: i’m a man but gender never really comes up so i’d be more inclined to say i’m just me

Boringly straight man here: I usually dream as myself, but occasionally I’m dreaming that I’m someone else. Could be either a man or a woman. Sometimes I have no body at all.

So I know nothing about how common my style of dreams are, but I don’t see any reason why trans people would have to dream a single persona all the time.

Not trans, but I’d imagine it’d be same if I were: I typically dream as myself. Y’all be dreaming as other people? That’s kinda cool.

You dream of yourself being an NPC?

You make a body and gender for yourself in dreams?

To what end?

i dream of myself as the disaster of gender that i am

if im having a rough day with dysphoria irl then the dream world will typically reflect that

the trans aspect, like with most things, can be taken out of the equation. trans women being women, trans men being men, will dream being themselves most often regardless of gender

Transman here. I dream as a man even when dreaming of my childhood.

I normally just dream as myself, whatever that is at any given time

I can’t say I’m ever particularly aware of my gender when I’m dreaming