Asperger's dreams?

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I used to frequently drown in my dreams. I had recurring dreams years ago, that I would be trying to swim across a lake to an island in the middle, there would be a crocodile after me, and I would never be able to make it, and I would drown. Everything would go black and I would sink down into nothingness. That type of dream happened a lot. I wonder whether the quilt was over my face and making me lack in oxygen to make me dream that type of thing.

I also dreamed once that I was shot in the stomach, and I actually felt it, it was intensely vivid, and I think I died then too.

The falling ones are somehow the worst. I think about space IRL, and whether it goes on into infinity and if you could fall down through it endlessly - hardly logical I know because of no gravity unless you are on a planet. But that awful feeling of just falling, I can't explain it, it's worse than anything and I hate those dreams. It's not even the thought that you might hit bottom somewhere, it's the dropping sensation, almost like being on a fairground ride that plummets and your stomach takes a while to catch up and that awful feeling in the pit of your stomach. I've also had those dreams that you fall off a cliff and hit the bottom with a really big shock, and it wakes you up. I read somewhere (don't know how true this is) that your senses fall asleep in a certain order, and occasionally they get out of order when you are falling asleep and those types of dreams are your body's way of making you wake up to restart the process.

My dreams are always nonsensical. I'll think their real up until I wake up. The dream and emotions will still feel real until I go back and analyze and realize that nothing in the dream made sense whatsoever. I rarely have nightmares, but when I do there about me running from someone or something That I just can't escape. Rarely, I will dream about a maggot or other insect larva burrowing into my flesh. But htat always fascinates me in the dream instead of horrifying me. I enjoy insects.

Have any of you seen this thread that has been going on for quite a while now? It has lots of very interesting dreams by Aspies.

What Did You Dream Last Night?

I used to have recurring nightmares about 2 things:
1) my mother
2) the Blob

These dreams would recur and sometimes I would remember parts of previous dreams in the current dream. Many of my dreams would refer to previous dreams.

I often would dream that I was flying in my dreams, usually to get away from either of the two above-mentioned monsters. I really felt like I could fly! It was amazing. All I would have to do is run really fast, lean my belly over a bar or a stick and kick my legs, and up, up, up I would go like a hang glider! If I started to descend I would just have to kick my legs harder and faster to go up again.

I've also had disturbing dreams of hell. I opened a door that looked into hell and could literally feel the evil in the pit of my stomach.

I remember these dreams as if they just happened yesterday.

I’ve had dreams where I was injured or died.
- Once a girl threw herself at me knocking me to the ground. It really shouldn’t have killed me, but the next thing I knew I stood some meters away and looked down at my body. I was wondering what would happen next. That’s all I remember.
- Another time my mother and I were at a tube station when I was shot in the cheek. I fell to the floor and as I lay there, I looked at her, knowing I was dying and asked if she’d miss me terribly. She said no and I died. Then I was outside my body and saw the bullet wound. Next thing I knew I was boarding a tube and sat at my favorite spot. A mother with a young son wanted me to give up the seat because it was his favorite spot. I said “Tough luck. I’m dead”
I wondered if I was meant to get off at the station I normally would or if I was to go to the end of the line since I was dead. Suddenly I was outside the block where I live but now it was all grey and there was no door. There were only small openings into the verandas. Was this where I was to live in the afterlife? I realized I’d had to climb up.
- We were invaded and there were two sides but neither of them were mine. I was taken by one side and taken inside their enemy’s building and made to go down the basement and exchange something there with a similar device. I was caught and they hang me after a beam, so my toes only just touched on the floor, and then they beat me severely with a big stick. My skin turned purple.
- I was pregnant and had agreed to give the baby up for adoption but decided against just before giving birth. Next thing I knew I came to myself only to realize that they had taken my baby somehow and injured my eye in revenge for me going back on the agreement.
There wasn’t pain in these dreams.
- There was an explosion and I was thrown to the ground and lost consciousness. Waking up (from the unconscious condition, not from the dream) I felt very heavy, like I always do after I have fainted. I had my eyes shut and felt very confused. I had a bad feeling that I didn’t wish to open my eyes and assess the damage. I tried to feel if anything was missing but I couldn’t feel much at all, I was too numb and lost.
- A vampire bit me in the neck and it really hurt.
That’s not the only dream I have felt pain in, but can’t recall the rest, would have to check my diary but that’d be a lot of work since I’m not even sure which year I’ve had the dreams.

I wouldn't call them nightmares, but my mom is in my dreams all the time, even though I left home in 1980 and she passed away in 2003.

I often have "movie dreams" where I'm not even in them as myself. The best one was a crazy science fiction thriller a la "Alien". They have camera moves and angles that are not just a person's ordinary POV--low angles, tracking shots, rack focus, etc.. I'm not a particularly big movie fan in waking life so I don't know why I do cinematography in my sleep. Maybe I just watch too much TV.

I also have ordinary sad dreams where my mom is alive again and/or my husband tells me I'm not good enough so he's going to move out until I get better. But he's so vague about what constitutes "better" that I have no idea at all what I did wrong or what specifically I could do to improve.

I had a weird one the past night.
I was with my girlfriend in a small city by the sea. People who had payed entrance enjoyed bathing, entertainment and long-drinks in the sunshine. A bit further away, just outside a factory area, there was another part of the beach to use for free. Litter and dirt was strewn all over, - disgusting. While looking at the two beaches and discussing thir condition with my girlfriend, reality "froze" shortly a couple of times, just like a computer. I thought it weird, and wondered why. My girlfriend looked into my eyes during freeze and said "There is so much evil in there, - so many horrifying things": I couldn´t actually feel that anything should be especially wrong.

I wouldn´t say, that it has ridden me all day, but it wasn´t pleasant either.

Dreams are supposed to tell us something about ourselves, our wishes, our issues, needs, self images. Wonder what that was.

My dreams have started to get very complicated. About ten years ago I started having dreams within dreams. Then I started having dreams within dreams within dreams. Then I started having memories in dreams where I don't know if the memory is an actual memory or a dream of a memory. Sometimes in my awake state, I have to question whether my memory is real or the memory of a memory from a dream. Like when I have deja vu I don't know if it is from a dream or something that really happened in a physical world. This memory confusion started when I realized how I would sometimes miss locations that were in Star Wars Galaxy Online (SWG) as if they were real physical location. I mean the time I spent in a virtual world was real. It is just interesting that the mind does not differentiate between real and virtual. The first time I ran over a hill in SWGEMU on Dantooine where our town had been located in SWG, I was so actually so happy. Then a Graul's nest appeared and a bunch of Grauls killed me.

The times I dream of having memories of dreams is always interesting, as are the dreams within dreams layering thing. There are many times in real live where I perceive and remember one thing, and later it turns out it could not have been real. There are also times when I lose something, and then I find it in a place I previously looked for it. My theory, which I don't take too seriously, is that part of me is jumping from one reality to another alternate reality. Life will be interesting if I make it to be 80.

I also have dreams where my mom and step dad are alive. Some are very vivid. I call those visitation dreams.

Spoiler alert, if you have not seen or read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows! Don't read this next part.

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry has been killed by Voldemort, and he finds himself in place between life and beyond.
"Tell me one last thing,” said Harry. “Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?” “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”"

Last edited by pcgoblin on 16 Apr 2013, 1:14 pm, edited 1 time in total.

^Sounds like INCEPTION--except yours aren't artificial...right?

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I also get majorly confused between what I dreamt and what I actually lived through.

The good thing is that I don't have many nightmares.

I tend to dream a dream, then it is lost, just like a hummingbirds tune.

but of course, if the dream turns real but in reality it seemed just as bad then im just profoundly aware of it.

I don't have them often, but I too have dreams that are like that. I'm not there, I just see the event happening.

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This.