Autistic Dreams

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So I've heard most people don't dream in color, and more vivid dreams are more common among autistic people. I was surprised to learn that most people apparently dream in black and whitecap my dreams are extremely vivid, not only are they in color, but I can also sort of taste things, and even read in them. I can also think logically I'm dreams, as long as my memory serves me right while in dreamland. However, my dreams are also very unstable, constantly changing, following a plot structure that is as unstable as the world it's in. I read text, but the text is constantly changing as when I reread it it says something else. I have problems with short term memory recall, and it's only after the things change that I relize it used to something else, but I forgot exactly what. I wonder, do the various strenghths and weaknesses of our psych determine how are dream world materializes?

I also have vivid dreams as well. All the colours that I see in my waking life, I also see in my dreams. I also have my five senses in my dreams as well. I don't think I remember ever having a dream that was in black and white. I've dreamed in colour as far back as I can remember.

I had never heard of this "most people dream in black and white" thing until finding forums like this. As far as I can tell it's rubbish. What seems plausible is that nonautistics perhaps don't recall the colour so well, because they seem to notice less of everything.

Range of answers here: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Does_everyone_dream_in_color

I have never had a dream in black and white. Ever. My dreams are also vivid.

A long time ago, like back in the 90's, some people thought that people with Asperger's didn't dream at all.

I also have different "dream themes" than NTs often do. Like I have never had a chasing dream or a flying dream (I have had dreams about flying in airplanes, but not in any way that humans can't actually fly). My dream themes are commonly about my special interests, but sometimes, even those ones are bad.

My dreams were always about killing people with my hands. But I haven't slept in years.

I've never had a dream in black and white. My dreams are also very vivid. I can taste, smell, feel, ect, in my dreams. They usually are about me attempting to break some kind of dream barrier. Have a dream that is more realistic and more vivid than the past. It seems like my brain is trying to comply with me, because I've been having a series of dreams where I am flying into an ocean filled with small islands. The ocean is golden, like the sunset. The island have their own worlds on them, each one seemingly grows when I visit it.

Another strange phenomenon I've been having for the past three years, is that when startled by a noise when I'm laying down, I see a fractal, or a tribal pattern, or something abstract (this is always in black and white) Sometimes it will look like a Rorschach blob. It's only for a very split second, and it isn't a dream or an imagination, it's visual. Very strange.

One of them was a lady holding an umbrella in one hand, and pushing a stroller in another, and the pattern continued like a computer wallpaper. Three one way, down a row, three more, down a row. In Rorschach blottiness.

Another one was of a tribal creature with a horse body. and the head of the main monster from Where the Wild Things Are, and the background was grainy stippling.

I've had X-rays done on my brain when I bumped my head, so I know it isn't anything like a tumor. But I don't want to assume it's some sort of 'Asperger's superpower', or anything like that. I don't know what it is.

Anyone else have that problem?

I too dream in color. I don't know if this is really an autistic trait or not, but it's interesting to consider. Furthermore, I dream every time I sleep, even when it is for just a few minutes. I suspect that my REM cycle is out of order and precedes my deep sleep cycle for some reason.

Does anyone else here have very complex settings in their dreams? In my dreams I often walk into a building I know in real life, but I lift a ceiling panel, or make a hole in a wall and move through the tiny crawl spaces of the house.

No one else has explicitly said this, but think about it... lots of studies that came about about B&W vs. color came out when the media was dominated by B&W. I haven't looked more into it, but that says something, I think. Everyone I know says that they dream in color.
My dreams are vivid as hell and I lucid dream a lot unintentionally. Like, my brain says, "Hey Jane, you're dreaming lolol." I can't really do anything like people usually can in a lucid dream. Sometimes I wake up in my dreams, but not in real life. It's really trippy sometimes, and Prozac has made them even more vivid. I feel sensations such as fatigue, weakness, etc. just as strongly as I do in real life, if not stronger. The coloring seems to be normal; it's just the situations that are very vivid and detailed. I can't put my dreams into words often, but I remember them very well in the morning and throughout the day (and often longer, depending on the significance of the dream.) I don't know why it's so difficult to verbalize them. O.o

I have vivid dreams, I dream in colour, and when I was little I usually had lucid dream. My bigger sister still has lucid dreams.

It probably is. The way I dream changes a lot with the way my mind changes. And we know changes in the brain are a part of ageing.

my dreams are often dark, or sepia-toned. but definitely colour

I have lucid dreams a lot of the time. I have a desire to make the best of it while I'm sleeping. Gotta enjoy that adventure!