How hard is it to lucid dream for aspies?

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Sometime I can get control in my dreams, it's a hit or miss deal with me, lol!

Does anyone else have dreams so vivid and realistic ( to an extent ) that when you wake up, it actually feels like you were ripped from one reality into another?

I do. It's enough to make me question what "reality" is at times.

^Yes, some dreams are very realistic

I find that my dreams are hard to control.

I lucid dream quite a lot BUT I now try not to, because I usually wake up from lucid dreams, and it can take a while to fall asleep again.

Pinching myself isn't a way for me to tell if I'm dreaming as my 5 senses are all intact during dreaming.

I had an extreme experience a few nights ago when I couldn't get to sleep so I decided to take 200mg of melatonin (quite a large dose!) as an experiment. I did fall asleep and started lucid dreaming. I woke up from this dream - or so I thought. I was actually still asleep and in another dream. Each time I 'woke up' I would start checking my surroundings for anything weird or out of place to see if I'd genuinely woke up yet. This happened about 10 times before I genuinely woke up.

I haven't tried to fly in a lucid dream yet, I don't remember to try. Even if I did remember I have a suspicion that I wouldnt be able to fly anyway. Though I have an idea that if I find a 'deus ex machina' like a handset with a button on it that when pressed grants me the ability to fly, then I could fly

Nope...I can only think of one lucid dream I've ever had...though I may have had one or two others that I'm overlooking.

But there was this one year where I was having an above-average amount of nightmares, and I was starting to get really good at saying "It's okay, I'm going to wake up." and then I would.

What was really freaky was one nightmare where a guy was stabbing me, and I told him I was going to wake up, and he said "No you're not." and stabbed me harder It hurt pretty bad, too...then I prayed and finally broke free.

Oh, right, there was also this period where I had a really bad fever and could have super lucid fever dreams whenever I wanted, I just had to hold my eyelids a certain way. They were incredibly colorful, but completely silent...the only sounds I could hear in them were the television, unless I stayed too long and drifted into sleep. I had to stay concentrated, otherwise I would wake back up (or drift into sleep, eventually).

I had a few that would turn into out-of-body experiences, but then I would see something, like my legs for instance, and think to myself "I didn't leave my legs in that position..." and lose concentration, open my eyes, and see that I was right =/ So that leaves me kind of wondering how much credit actually can be put into OBEs. But they did seem slightly more dream-like than OBE, so who knows...

Lucid dreaming is like my hobby and religion. Since I was a child, I've been waking up just to write about my dreams. Because of this, I believe it has gotten stronger and I have so much control in my dreams.

As I recall most of my dreams my entire life have been non-lucid.

Generally speaking they are symbolic (poetic) and clear to me.

Occasionally, they are not-symbolic like mashed or fried potatoes or a scattered (to me) meaningless look at what was done on a particular day.

In A Christmas Carol, Scrooge said he thought a dream could be due to what he had eaten for supper like a pudding.

Robert Lewis Stevenson said he wrote books based on what he saw in his dreams.

Generally speaking I cannot sustain the vivid and controlled imagination in an awake state which is anywhere near the kind of vivid and controlled imagination a movie director needs to produce a movie allowing the actors and actresses, etc. to be paint for the movie canvas/the storyboard/the movie story being told.

I simply was not given a great imagination to really work with (my view). I consciously, at times, have to struggle to try to engage my imagination to kick in, so to speak, since it does not always engage automatically.

Am likely aware of the imagination only because, on rare occasions, I have been able to be somewhat imaginative vs most periods where I have not been imaginative so I can see the big difference between a vivid imagination and almost no imagination present.

Imagination is a very real human faculty (gift, ability, talent, skill)(my experience).

Imagination is extremely hard for me to come by. Seems during dream time though, it is fantastic.

I'm a little confused as to the definition of a lucid dream. Are lucid dreams dreams where you realize that you are dreaming, yet are unable to wake up? Or are they dreams where you have control?

The former type of dream is very rare and it's never been of the pleasent variety for me. Usually I'm not capable of realizing that I'm dreaming without immediately waking up. Only when I'm having a nightmare does it sometimes take a while to "come to" from the dream.

As for dreams where I have (at least partial) control? I have a lot of these, maybe even 50-70% of all dreaming. They usually aren't particularly vivid, realistic, or emotionally charged. They're often just random meanderings of my mind where lots of odd thoughts come into my head which don't make too much sense once I wake up enough to reflect on them. It's almost like my mind is regurgitating all kinds of jumbled up thoughts, ideas, and images that I've come across in my waking life. It's kind of an alternate universe where I don't really exist in the first person per say. Stories play out, but they are constantly being altered and refined in my minds attempts to make sense of them.

I have them a lot. Sometimes it's just a repeat the whole time of me telling myself to wake up (an overview of me sleeping, essentially)... it just keeps going on and on-wake up, then I'm over myself telling myself to wake up again. Sometimes I get upset in the dream and start saying things like "oh for chrissake! Not again!"

I've had several where I'm in a video game of some sort, and I'm actually saying something like, "oh, that's right-I'm not limited here to what I do".

It's kind of neat, but freaks me out, too, lol. Once I finally do wake up for real, I have to pinch myself to make sure I'm awake at that point.

I have them quite a lot since i was little. Usually i dont remember my dreams though.

I have lucid dreams almost every night and they go on for hours. I've also woke myself out of sleep with solutions to problems I'm investigating as part of my research. I just woke up this afternoon speaking chinese. It's been over a year since I studied the language but I've been trying to refresh my memory recently because I would like to continue studying where I left off. The most bizarre recurring lucid dream that I have is reading books. I realize I'm dreaming, but continue to read for a bit. I actively seek out lucid dreams and they have gotten far more vivid over the years.