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21 Jun 2012, 7:49 pm

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I feel weird saying TV shows and movies are my special interest too!


I wouldn't think that's uncommon? They're my special interest too, or rather one of mine, together with several others. They also shift in "severity". That at least makes three of us :-)

Edit: Intensity was the word I was looking for...



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21 Jun 2012, 7:51 pm

I dreamed that there were no buildings a mile high.



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21 Jun 2012, 8:04 pm

Mostly nightmares.



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22 Jun 2012, 2:28 pm

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I remember a couple of dreams over the previous couple of years where I feel neurotypical. These dreams related back to a childhood i.e., seven-years of age while I was attending a Montesorri school program.

I'm planning further discussions (outside the topic of dreams) on how some non-traditional educational experiences may be helpful where (high-fuctioning Autism) is a factor. Once more, Autism (let alone high-functioning Autism) was largely unknown throughout much of the 1970s - the time of my childhood.


[Off-topic comment: I, too went to a Montessori elementary school and I believe this was the best thing that could have happened to me school-wise. I doubt that I would have learnt to function that well had I gone to an ordinary school. It might be interesting to compare experiences.]


Thank-you for responding to my post.

I hope to boost the discussion of 'dreams where people on the Autism-spectrum feel neurotypical' -- I'm surprised this discussion did not bring more responses.

As I said, the dreams of being neurotypical mostly draw parallels to those non-traditional educational experiences.



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22 Jun 2012, 4:38 pm

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I hope to boost the discussion of 'dreams where people on the Autism-spectrum feel neurotypical' -- I'm surprised this discussion did not bring more responses.


I can't remember ever having had a dream like that.



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22 Jun 2012, 7:10 pm

I do have some recurring ones with the same themes repeated..
Getting lost in the desert, where I used to live, but finding all the brush grown into an impenetrable maze..
Going running with/or encountering a girl I used to run with decades ago.
Escaping from prisons/schools/mazes.
Being back in school but not prepared for class (college I mean)
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Those seem to be the most common repeated elements in mine.

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22 Jun 2012, 7:22 pm

They are very colorful and does Kafka ring a bell?



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22 Jun 2012, 7:31 pm

I suppose there are a couple different kinds. As hard as it is to categorize them, I can try at least. Some have more to do with games or gifts or holidays which usually just end it disappointment. :P Most others I guess would be nightmares, only they aren't exactly typical, or your normal average every day scary stuff. My dreams tend to be very abstract, almost to the point where I just don't understand them, even if they are reoccurring. I have made sense of some of them though. There was one particularly long one that was very memorable, wherein I killed an ex girlfriend, and that has been the most obvious.


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23 Jun 2012, 6:02 pm

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sometimes wet ones? lol


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23 Jun 2012, 7:59 pm

I have both realistic ones and very bizarre ones that has no connections. Here are my most common ones:
1. Teeth falling out, face looking deformed. This starts out by chewing gum of all things. The gum gets bigger for no apparent reason and I can't spit it out. Then it gets so powerful it just rips out all my teeth. Since I started having these dreams I don't chew gum anymore.
2. Flying.
3. Being tortured and raped. This probably relates to the fact that I was bullied verbally and physically along with the attempted rape on me in real life.
4. Video games of the future.
5. Being in the worst part of a major city with criminals everywhere and I have to run away from them.
6. Government agents and aliens being after me... my so called delusions are also in my dreams. Also in one dream that I am able to remember the government used me under mind control to kill another person and I didn't have any control over the movements.
7. Me being a little kid. A bad kid by stealing cars.
8. Last night I had a dream of a fantasy world. It had a Pegasus and some Unicorns and somehow a T-Rex got in my bizarre not connected dream.
9. I get dreams of buildings with many rooms and it is not connected and is just not a normal building.
10. My parents health problems. Mainly about my mom because she has constant health problems and I mostly dream about her dying or being in the hospital with a breathing machine. Recently I had a dream about my mom's knee becoming infected (this was the latest surgery she has had).
11. Like someone else on here, I have psychic dreams. I had a dream about 9/11, the tsunami in Indonesia, certain plane crashes, bombings, even personal things like the night before my dad was going to get in a car accident I had a dream about it. What is weird is my mom has some psychic dreams as well and she had the same dream! Then the next day it happened.
12. Sometimes I have dreams of having superpowers and I have to use them against criminals or government agents.

OK that is enough for now I can't think of anymore but I know there is.



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23 Jun 2012, 8:35 pm

I do not remember my dreams a lot but they usually make no sense like: going to walk my pet squid at the park or being lost in a department store looking for socks.

The last dream I remember the most vividly was going to the store with my roommate and seeing everyone wearing big clown noses, like the ones from killer clowns from outer space.



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23 Jun 2012, 11:03 pm

World domination, special interest related, sometimes nightmares, normally involving a vast government conspiracy against the whole of humanity. Ocassionally odd sex related dreams, but those are pretty uncommon, fortunately (not all that interesting...). And lucid dreams about once a month, which I usually spend testing what I can control in the environment, having fun with the nonsensical physics, etc. Then sometimes there is stuff thats completely random (me in a wizard costume riding a dinosaur on top of a truck was one from a few weeks ago)



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24 Jun 2012, 1:30 am

i've been having drug dreams lately. where i get the drugs but they belong to somebody else who wants 'em back.



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25 Jun 2012, 12:41 pm

I have never had a dream that I can remember.


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25 Jun 2012, 12:50 pm

Banquo wrote:
I have never had a dream that I can remember.


You do dream. You just have a low recall of them and can't remember.



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25 Jun 2012, 1:13 pm

I remember most of my dreams. The most common theme in my dreams is violence. Sometimes I wake up punching or kicking and my heart racing.