Non-Epileptic Seizures and Lucid Dreaming anyone?

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I had 3 major seizures when I was very young. The first and most severe was at 8 months, the other two happened sometime around a year old. I've read a little bit about early childhood seizures potentially being connected to autism/aspergers but haven't found a great deal to confirm that. Does anyone know anything conclusive on this?

Also, does anyone else seem to have the incredible ability to lucid dream? (lucid dream= control the outcome of your own dreams to various extents) OR how about having incredibly vivid dreams? By incredibly vivid, I mean it's as though my brain does everything in its power to convince me that the dream is really happening. Twice I've had dreams where I wake up in the dream exactly where I went to sleep in real life; I usually decide things are way too crazy and go back to sleep (still in the dream) then I wake up in real life. Sometimes my dreams are so real that I believe them for days until I ask someone something stupid like "Didn't you get a dog?"

What's the difference between an epileptic seizure and a non-epileptic one?

When I wake up, I always know that my dreams were not real. They often involve things that would never happen in real life, and they're generally hazy and hard to remember. I do tend to fully believe them while I'm having them, however ridiculous they may be, but I can tell after I wake up.

Unless, of course, I've been having dreams that are so convincing I have yet to figure them out! The mind boggles.

I haven't seen anything that supports any causual relationship between seizures and the spectrum disorders. I have, and have had for years, optical migraines. These are caused by electrical discharges running amok in the brain, so I guess, in a way, they are a kind of seizure in addition to being rather annoying.

Lucid dream - yes, I do that nightly. I also dream in sound/color/touch/taste. I've dreamed of engaging in very strenuous activities and had sore muscles the next day. Or being on the Antartic ice shelf and getting snow-blind, and waking up the next day with really sore eyes. (Interesting how the mind can integrate things into dreams - much like you dream of rain if it's raining outside.) On the nights when the dreams drive themselves, they tend to be incredibly vivid and sometimes rather bizarre, as if someone else's dreams have invaded my head. I much prefer to start the dreams out myself, then throw them on auto-pilot.

Only very rarely do I confuse them with reality, although I have had times where I've had to ask someone if we've had a conversation on a particular topic because I wasn't sure if I'd dreamed it or if it had happened.

A non-epileptic seizure was, at one time suspected to be a "fake seizure", but I'm living proof that it's real since I had my first when I was obviously too young to fake a seizure. Here's What Wikipedia says:

"Non-epileptic seizures are paroxysmal events that mimic an epileptic seizure but do not involve abnormal, rhythmic discharges of cortical neurons.[1] They are caused by either physiological or psychological conditions. The latter is discussed more fully in psychogenic non-epileptic seizures."

Yeah Nan, I've definitely dreamed in sound/colour/taste/touch/smell before too.

same here i dream that i im like that

I have incredibly vivid lucid/semi-lucid dreams quite frequently.

Well, since I've never looked into my seizures and never been checked out, I guess I'd have no way of knowing whether they were epileptic or not.

I have often had incredibly vivid dreams.