From an archetypal perspective, the individual who is homosexually oriented has the gift of being able to vibrate with both of these principles as a natural part of his or her energetic birthright, so a dream featuring some reference to homosexuality may be expressing this higher nature associated with such an orientation. This is not sexual at all the masculine principle is related to doing and the feminine principle is related to being. The Bedside Dream DictionaryĪt the heart of this aspect of the human condition from a symbolic perspective is the joining up of either the feminine principle or the masculine principle in greater force and emphasis. Sexual dreams are either wish-fulfilling, compensatory, or non-sexual, but rather are about issues mentioned above. The dream may be about integrating ideas and attitudes, and in a few, rare cases may be about sexual orientation. This dream may be about loving yourself, especially if the other individual in your dream is a stranger.
The interpretation of this dream, as with all others, is very personal and generalizations are difficult to make. If a heterosexual person is having a homosexual dream, it may have a variety of connotations. They are simply the extension of your thoughts and feelings in the form that is the most familiar and meaningful to you. If you are homosexual, dreams regarding this particular sexual orientation are not atypical. They are at times about power, control, identity and other non-sexual issues of life. Sexual dreams don’t always have sexual meaning. Sex in many different forms is frequently the topic of dreams. If you are gay and have dreams of heterosexual sex, your unconscious may be highlighting unconscious attractions or emphasizing the closeness of your emotional bonds with friends of the opposite sex. If you are gay and dream of making love to a person of the same sex, this will have much the same interpretation as dreams concerning heterosexual sex and partnerships. If you are homophobic in waking life or in your dream, your unconscious may have been urging you to be more open-minded. Your unconscious may also have been highlighting the fact that if you are in a relationship, you sometimes you feel closer to your friends than you do to your partner. If, however, you are convinced you are not gay or lesbian, your dream may simply have highlighted the intimate nature of your friendships with people of the same sex or your desire to meet someone similar to yourself. Many psychologists believe that we are all bisexual at a deep level a dream like this may have given you the opportunity to explore in a safe environment an experience that your conscious mind finds objectionable due to social conditioning. If this is the case, your dream may have been fulfilling your unconscious fantasies and was encouraging you to be honest with yourself. If you are heterosexual and had a dream in which you were having sex with a person of the same sex, this may suggest that you are sexually attracted to members of your own sex but have repressed this inclination.