Originally Posted by
Alyzarin
I've had a million girlfriend dreams and I'm seemingly straight lol. But in my dreams it doesn't seem to matter, lucids included. Interestingly, there's a paper about how mice that were genetically altered to lack serotonin didn't distinguish between partners of different sexes, but they started to again when they when serotonergic activity was exogenously restored. It was a little bit controversial because of people trying to say that serotonin played a role in sexual orientation, but really all it proved is that mice might not care so much who or what they're fucking as long as they're doing it when they have low or no serotonin. But I bring it up because serotonin levels are at their absolute lowest during REM sleep. We seem to be alike mice in most other ways so it wouldn't surprise me if this change loosened some of our preferences in dreams.