Autistic Dreams

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All mine are in colour and my other senses are quite vivid too. Sometimes my real life sensations are felt in a dream, if I have a blocked nose or a headache I'll also have those things in my dream and may even become part of the plot.
Most of the time they don't make much sense but I do sometimes hear or read something in a dream that makes sooo much sense in real life, last night I had quite an inspiring sort of one where an old but healthy dog was going to be put down then later there was an old man and his family were saying it was time to die, then I heard or read this phrase "you wouldn't do that to your relatives so why do that to your pets?" I woke up and was like "wow." Even though it was pretty much my sentiments anyway it was extremely vividly shown.

I don't think I've ever had a dream that wasn't in colour. However I have recurring dreams that I'm slipping towards a cliff unable to pull myself back up. Or I'm being dangled off a cliff. Or I'm on a ledge near the top of a cliff with no way of escape available except to jump down. Or I'm on an extremely small platform (perhaps only big enough for my feet and no more) with MILES of drop below which is the only way off. I can safely say the majority of my dreams are on one of these themes. Make of that what you will.

I have some colorblindness so I'm going to avoid that dreaming in color thing that was mentioned in the topic. I don't usually remember my dreams much unless there is something going on like I'm under some kind of emotional stress/psychological issues or taking psych meds. I'm not sure if those dreams are usually very vivid but I tend to remember the emotions more than anything else like being terrified. I do sometimes remember bits & pieces of my actions like running from something, fighting, hiding ect. The rest I remember are little bits & pieces of my environment/surroundings & they make very little sense & resemble shroom trips(I NEVER done shrooms but from the people I've talked to who had & vids I've seen where people were on them) My brain is seriously NOT rite

I agree with the guy that said people likely don't see in black and white, but just don't notice the colors from inattention. Non-aspergians definitely pay little attention to details, jsut to the content of the dream.

My dreams are almost always symbolic or goal-oriented. Many tiems it feels like I am in a Tool music video or a Salvador Dali painting.

Other times I am just drifting through beautiful landscapes, either natural or archtiectural.

I also have some dreams of vvarious sensory experiences, such as the sound of wind or a feeling of water. These would be foreign to any neurotypical I'd imagine, but I find them the most calming.

I hardly remember my dreams, but they're not that interesting, probably like anyone elses.

A bit of both. I had a few sets of dreams where I became aware that I was dreaming. I seem to remember most of the time now that I'm dreaming, but sometimes I have to work my way through it and force myself to realize that what is going on isn't real.

My dreams are always colorful, and they're usually goal-oriented. Sometimes they seem nonsensical and I'm supposed to learn how they're logical. Sometimes they have a point and I'm supposed to decide whether or not I agree with it. I usually interact with people who help me reach my goal in my dream. Occasionally they're just entertaining and mindless.

Not sure what you are trying to say. I thought that pretty everyone dreams every time they sleep. They don't always remember them.

By the way, I have never had a lucid dream in sense, I can "realize" I am dreaming, but I am unable to control my actions, I might want to go over and talk to the person in the corner, but my friend says "come on let's go!" and I am unable to convince the friend to go and talk to the person in the corner with me.

Another interesting thing is I ALWAYS dreamed of animals when I was little. I have heard that animal dreams are common in young children, but that was pretty much all I dreamed about. They were almost always negative and would usually involve cats or dogs. I remember one vividly where I had a "false wakening", I was playing a green lady from a computer game I used to play when I was little (the lady in the game wasn't actually green, but had the same facial features as the lady in the dream), then I woke up (in the dream), my door was open and my cat wandered into my room. I was totally scared because I HATED my cat coming into my room at night when I was little. I woke up for real once the cat had stepped one foot into my room.

I have dreams that are exclusively in black and white and in color or both.

This isn't the place for it, but I had one that switched from black & white to full color with the scene change, and within the same dream theme. The color portion was a green Christmas tree/evergreen tree in picture frame, with a miniature Leprechaun man next to it, waving his pipe mouth piece to the lights and decorations. As he touched the picture symbols with his pipe, they would illuminate and he was communicating to me a symbolic language via his touch points. He was floating in the air and the picture was mounted but on a transparent glass wall. He'd touch them and then look at me, communicating.

The next scene was entirely black and white with an alien hairless man's head in the scene, and saying or announcing "you ninny" and a hand appeared and pounded a homemade cross into the ground via a stone or rock as the hammer. The face had a jaw that illuminated as he enunciated those words, but his mouth was shut-- never opened or moved. It lit up like the Lost in Space robot's speech via a flashing light.

Very symbolic and detailed in color.

When I dream, I just dream about past events and the various possible outcomes my subconscious thinks of (apart from one specific reoccurring one).

I rarely dream though.

This topic is really interesting I thought everyone dreamed in colour - I do anyway!
Once I had a dream where all the colours were so vivid and bright that when I woke up then real life seemed like most of the colour had gone in comparison... and there was this particular shade of blue in my dream that is impossible to describe except for that it's just not there in real life. Weird huh?

My dreams are in colour, though I think I did dream in black and white once.

Most of my dreams are very realistic, but with a few strange things in that aren't always right. I've dreamed about flying once or twice, but it's very rare something impossible in real life happens to me in dreams.

Some of my dreams are like adventures, though, or games. Sometimes I also dream about watching a show or movie or someone playing a game, and then gradually, I find myself IN the show/movie/game, even if I'm still watching it and no one is doing anything to me.

Sometimes I also predict the future in my dreams. Yes, it has happened before. Only very vaguely, and it's rare too, but I have had dreams about things that do happen later in real life.

I also tend to dream about the people I think about most, like someone who talks to me lots online, or the person I have a crush on. Usually in dreams, if I'm not sure what a person's voice sounds like for certain, it may sound different to how it does in reality, but if I do know what their voice sounds like, then it will be there when they talk in my dreams.

Sometimes I have dreams about doing things as well that I haven't done yet, and I see them as signs that maybe I should go and do those things. I like those dreams the most, as well as the ones that turn out to be partially true.

But really, my dreams are almost always in colour, like a normal day, because they feel normal and realistic to me. I do sometimes realise I'm dreaming, though, but even then, it still looks normally coloured to me.

CAN'T SLEEP. CUPCAKE TOASTER WILL EAT ME

All my dreams are in color and most of them are very vivid, I can use all senses there. What's more. They usually got a decent, long plot. I got a dream diary where I write my dreams down - sometimes a single dream can take even 6 notebook pages and my handwriting "font" is small. The usual plot in my dreams is me being a demon trying to live between humans and trying to protect my human friends from myself, other demons, bad people or even angels. As the demon I can fly, change reality, use fireballs, kill people with my mind, teleportate, become invisible, survive jumps from huge heights, instantly heal etc. It is so fun. And the best part of it is I do all the stuff without knowing I am dreaming.

BTW. I got a theory why some people dream in black&white. They got rised in the times of black&white photography and TV so their mind use the b&w to create something they consider not real world. I believe most people younger than 30 year old dream only in color (with maybe a few b&w dreams) while older ones got more b&w dreams in their lives, even if their dreams become colorful nowadays. How do you think? Is it true?
About that - my 12 year old cousin got "youtube like" dreams. She said she can choose any dream she likes by choosing them on a page that looks like the youtube website. New era of dreams is coming.

I have many of my dreams in color but a few are in black and white, or brown and white, like in The Wizard of Oz. I lucid dream a lot too and they can end up being very strange things.

I only ever dream in colour too. My dream re-call isn't great either, so I just end up with random fragments that I can never really piece together into any kind of a symbolic whole. I do have lucid dreams, but I just seem to float around (literally!) without the element of control that most lucid dreamers experience.