# The opposite of a typical "naked dream": What's it mean?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 26, 2004, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-opposite-of-a-typical-naked-dream-whats-it-mean/281703 "2004-12-26T20:26:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2004, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-opposite-of-a-typical-naked-dream-whats-it-mean/281703/1 "2004-12-26T20:26:35Z")

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Last night, I dreamed I was in a hotel with an indoor pool and jacuzzi. Long story short, I wanted to swim naked, but always got caught by staff, who went from simply telling me I couldn’t do that to eventually threatening to have me arrested.

This is not the first time I’ve had such a dream, although it’s been several years: **wanting** to be naked in public, but being thwarted. What could this mean? (BTW, there’s never an erotic element to this.)

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**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2004, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-opposite-of-a-typical-naked-dream-whats-it-mean/281703/2 "2004-12-26T20:32:16Z")

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Do you ever sleep naked? I always have, and I’m _always_ nude in my dreams. It’s only an issue (in the dream) when it’s _made_ an issue. The only time it’s erotic is when there’s other stimulus.  
Peace,  
mangeorge

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**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2004, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-opposite-of-a-typical-naked-dream-whats-it-mean/281703/3 "2004-12-26T20:33:43Z")

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Wild guess: Repressive parents? Teachers? Bosses? Overactive superego?

I have this recurring thing where I take a woman’s clothes off and she turns out to be a sort of living doll - i.e., anatomically incorrect. ☹

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**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2004, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-opposite-of-a-typical-naked-dream-whats-it-mean/281703/4 "2004-12-26T20:53:38Z")

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I occasionally sleep naked, but last night I did not.

I’m not currently being oppressed by anything except the state of being unemployed.

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**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2004, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-opposite-of-a-typical-naked-dream-whats-it-mean/281703/5 "2004-12-26T21:04:57Z")

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> [@Beware of Doug](#):
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> Wild guess: Repressive parents? Teachers? Bosses? Overactive superego?
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> I have this recurring thing where I take a woman’s clothes off and she turns out to be a sort of living doll - i.e., anatomically incorrect. ☹

Back in the early days of _Playboy_ magazine many teenage boys had dreams exactly as you describe. Airbrushed fantasies.