Gender Differences
(This is an excerpt from a University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org,
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Men dream more often about outdoor settings. Fewer people appear in men’s dreams and are more often strangers. Men are more concerned about boundary issues and the male usually is the central figure playing out his role in his dream. Men are more likely to see themselves as lone figures in a strange world.
It was discovered that females tend to dream about indoor settings and are more concerned about intimacy and personal relationships. Women’s dreams are more likely to include family and sensory input from the surrounding environment. Dreams of destruction or collapse are more common during the days preceding a woman’s menstrual cycle. Women who are pregnant are especially prone to somatic (physically influenced) dreams as the baby moves or develops within her. It is not uncommon for women to see a bulging building or other such patterns in their dream imagery. Depending on how they view their pregnancy, women were quite preoccupied with dreams around this event. Pregnancy dream meaning varies widely with the emotional state of the individual.