Are you Aspie-like in your dreams?

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Most of my dreams include few or no people. Usually any people involved are not the focus of the dream. They often involve exploring secret passageways or huge buildings by myself. I can remember the layout of many of the places but in the rare cases in which there are people, I don't remember much about them beyond the fact that they were humanoid.

I don't recall having sensory issues in my dreams except twice. Both times involved dreaming about a drive thru timer at my first job which was incredibly loud, high pitched and painful.
I don't recall having problems socializing in any dreams, but my dreams rarely involve people.

My dreams tend to have long, quite elaborate narratives, with a lot of interactions. Normally there will be several scenarios after each other, such as being at school and then some SciFi setting, but it's often hard to tell where one ends and the next starts. They're always related, and it's normally the same people in each section (either people I know or very well imagined people; those are usually female). I'd say I don't tend to show my symptoms in dreams as I'm normally in some kind of group, but depending on the dream I sometimes feel a bit lost and detached, or left out, as I do in unfamiliar situations. My dreams do tend to reflect things I've seen or done recently as well, like my ex appeared a lot after our break up, and even now there are a lot of 'ideal female personalities' in my dreams.

I'm not me in my dreams. Sometimes, there are elements of me in the person I embody, but I am never actually me. I actually feel more like an omniscient presence in most dreams because I can feel and experience what everyone in the dream is feeling and experiencing. And I almost never dream about real people, and when I do, they aren't inhabiting the same physical form as they do in real life.

The only thing I would say is rather aspie-like is that, now that I think of it, I very rarely talk in my dreams, no matter whose perspective I'm taking. If someone is talking, my perspective shifts over to the person who is listening, and I feel all of the person's reactions to what is being said. Also, there have been dreams in which I felt that I didn't quite fit in and couldn't understand the customs of those around me, but I usually still enjoy those dreams because the people manage to accept and enjoy me despite my awkwardness.

My dreams do not seem to have a lot to do with what is happening in my real life -- they seem to be completely original, although there are certainly some elements that I've heard other people have, too, such as being able to float through the air as one does in the water but without the pressure on the eardrums or having to hold my breath. Dreams are fun.

No. I am nonverbal or minimally verbal in dreams, I have meltdowns over things that frustrate me much more easily.

It is not that far from how I am when awake, except I am calmer.

Last edited by Lumi on 30 Jul 2013, 6:41 pm, edited 1 time in total.

My dreams are very realistic.

I am many people in my dreams. Only around 25% of my dreams actually feature the real me. In those ones, I always act roughly like I would if faced with that situation in real life (except for taking a bizarre situation as normal). However, the other 75% are quite varied. Most of the time I'm at least BAP, but not always. A few I actually consciously think of myself as an autistic person, even though I'm not me. I've even had a couple where I was LFA.

Same... I am me in all of my dreams, sometimes younger me, sometimes older me. However, I dream of myself in different contexts, often very beautiful surroundings I yearn for in real life. There's also a lot of action in my dreams, but, on a physical level, it's not beyond anything I experience on a regular basis. On an emotional level, however, it is - many of my dreams are traumatic, but many are euphoric. I often become heavily emotionally affected by my dreams for some time after they happen...

My social circles in my dreams are also the same as in real life; mostly others on the spectrum.