Are you autistic in your dreams?

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I'm just myself--can't really imagine myself any other way--so, yes.

My dreams are 90% devoid of people. When they're there, they're usually trying to kill me. Or they're all me inhabiting different bodies.
I think that says something.

I'm never really in my dreams. However, when I actually am in the dream as a character, I'm virtually the same as I am in real life. So in essence, I'm still autistic.

There are dreams where I'm someone other than myself. Usually I keep most of my personality, but occasionally I find myself being someone I'm really not--a killer, perhaps. When that happens, when I dream about doing things I'd never do in real life, it can feel really creepy once I wake up.

But for the most part, I'm myself. I don't think I've ever been non-autistic in my dreams. I'm pretty good at controlling dreams when I go lucid, but I really wouldn't know how to put myself in the shoes of a neurotypical person. I can throw a fireball or fly into outer space, and telekinesis is second nature, but being a neurotypical... that would be a really complex thing to manufacture in the fuzzy-headed state I'm in when I'm dreaming. I could declare myself NT and change my perceptions somehow, probably, but I don't think it'd be a reasonable simulation of what being NT is really like. I can hardly even figure it out very well in waking life, and NTs seem to be similarly bad at knowing what it's like to be us, if their "autism simulations" are anything to go by.

I'm autistic when I'm awake and when I'm asleep.

Almost never but sometimes I have dreams that I'm neurotypical with neurotypical traits.

I'm the same as I am awake (whatever that is, autistic or not) but without being able to camouflage anything about myself. So all my strange traits and oddities are even more pronounced and obvious. A lot of my dreams are about other people trying to intrude into my personal space and me being unable to communicate or stand up for myself.

Just last night I had a nightmare that I couldn't remember where I parked my car. I was walking all over a city trying to find the parking deck. I kept trying to ask for help but I couldn't phrase my questions properly and no one could help me. A group of people started following me around. At first I thought they might help me but it turned out they were bullies. They were getting up really close to me, trying to intimidate me and trying to touch me. I started having a meltdown. I was frantically trying to dial 911 on my phone and scream for help. I couldn't punch the right buttons on the phone.

Another dream I had lately, my stove had caught on fire (one of my biggest worries because I get mixed up on which knob goes to what burner) and I was trying to call for help in that one too but I couldn't communicate properly with anyone.

I dunno, I mean, I am always the same as when I'm awake.

Yes I'm even more autistic in my dreams

One recurrent dream is that I scream for HELP or attention and people around me don't hear me let alone listen to me and move on as if I wasn't there, a bit like the movie "ghost". Then I panic and yell my lungs out to everyone's indifference. Maybe because I experienced this many times in rl especially as a child and it was traumatic.

The events in my dreams are too unusual for me to be able to gauge myself that way.

Don´t think so. I am sometimes without language, - but that is probably a sign, that there is a very early element in the dream. Often I am a cat/have to take care of a cat.
Most of the time, I am the only sensible creature on this earth.

I haven't noticed if I'm autistic in my dreams or not. I feel like myself in my dreams.

No, I'm not aspie-like in my dreams. I can read people perfectly in my dreams and I never have food issues. If I have obsessions I will dream of them but they work for me in the dream in that I can do what they're about, like being hired by a company related to it or otherwise getting to do something related to it. My special interest in turtles influence some dreams, although I dream more about the pets I had.

I have never had dreams that were just colors or shapes as I have seen people here talk about before.
In the vast majority of my dreams there are people, either people I know/ know of, or people I only know in the dream, and I always interact with them.

lol well I don't even consciously interpret myself as "autistic" most of the time, I mean, heck, if you are born a certain way that's what you know! In my dreams I am myself. Although, my dreams rarely deal with situations where I would feel nervous in social situations, such as big crowds and stuff.

In my dreams I'm definitely autistic, I'm never good at social interaction in them, the main problems that make dreams nightmareish are caused by my social awkwardness.

I usually am me in my dreams.