Do you have people in your dreams?

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Inspired by a dream thread in the Random Discussion, want to see how common this is in autistics. Please answer the poll.

Those that never remember their dreams need not answer. Also only /relevant/ posts are appreciated (i.e. only about people or the absence of in dreams, not about how you dreamed of a zombie apocalypse last night).

My dreams often involve some drama, so by logic that includes people too. Usually, these are the subjects of my drama -- family, professors, girlfriends. Sometimes I have dreams about antichrist since that is one thing I am stressed about as well. But there are sometiemes some ppl I don't know, too. Often my dreams also involve inanimate characters comming to life.

When I was younger, and less stressed, my dreams were less dramatic, but still there were ppl there. When I was really small, I often had dreams involving Snow White, as that was my favorite fairy tale at that time.

My dreams usually have some abstract image or some new sound I just heard. Often it will be a new song that keeps repeating. Often there will be lightning, tornadoes or something on fire. I may be moving through some familiar scene, usually alone. If there are any people, they'll be in the distant background and nondescript, though occasionally they'll be altered versions of people I know or they'll be totally fictional and substituting in the role of people I knew.

I always dream about either my work friends, or my clubhouse friends. If I'm woken by an alarm or my mum, if I'm at her trailer, I see still images of The Kinks, behind closed eyes.

I voted for "Often, But They Rarely Have Characteristics"

My dreams do include people but they are in the very background of my dreams, just there to fill in the blank spaces like buildings, trees or vehicles do. Very rarely do we interract and usually I only ever see the back of their head, not their face. I'm not quite sure why this is. I hardly ever dream of people I know either.

In my dreams there are often people, whom I either know in person or by reputation. But although I recognise them in my dreams (whether it's my husband or Michael Angelo) they are rarely clearly defined. I hardly ever see a face in my dreams.

The only exception to this is when I dream about my son. Him I see clearly and vividly. Everyone else is a shape.

For example, I dreamt of my husband walking along a beach, with a white horse walking beside him. The water was very clearly defined in the dream, the way it washed over my husband's feet, the way his feet sank in the sand. The white horse was very clear, the way she let her head droop over my husband's shoulder. I could even see her eyelashes. But I couldn't see my husband's face.

Of course, that could be because he's dead. But it's so rare for me to see a human face in my dreams that when I do it's a major surprise.

My dreams are too much like reality they are boring. I know people that can write 1000 words explaining their dreams, but I never remember that much. I've rarely have weird dreams.
I dream a lot about my past pets.
Embarrassing things happening at school are quite common.
I rarely have really long dreams where I remember everything, but they sometimes happen. I had one about enrolling in a private school that I went to years ago.

i am always alone in my dreams.

My dreams involve people maybe half the time, but it's hardly ever anyone I know - and I know I don't know them because the strangest thing is that on the rare occasions there is someone I know, I can recognize them with no trouble - I just look at their face and know who they are!

When I had a boyfriend, he was in all my dreams, sometimes just there and sometimes actually involved.

And I am almost never myself in my dreams. I'm always a completely different person to myself (NT, I assume, from the absence of face-blindness, and how I sometimes initiate physical contact or eye contact, have no OCD tendencies, and a useless memory!). Mostly they're new to me - the person I am, that is - although there's a few recurring ones. I think one might be another Aspie, actually. Young guy, maybe 16, English, plays guitar, not in best of health.

I don't know who any of them are, or what they represent. Anyone any good at dream interpretation? I'd love to know if there's any significance to them.

There are people in my dreams, but they usually just play cameo roles.

I am usually floating/defying gravity in my dreams, and often, rattlesnakes appear in them.

Sometimes there is a shape nearby, but I don't know any characteristics.

I dream about situations that can't happen in real life... there's just something totally absurd going on that couldn't happen in the waking world. And I have recurring dreams where I'm trying to get somewhere, like an airport, but something keeps holding me up and I start to panic that I'm going to miss the plane. Sometimes I'm with people, sometimes not. But they don't have speaking parts in the dreams. Sometimes my parents are in them, but they never speak, either. I don't remember ever having a dream with my wife in it, but she dreams about me all the time - and I'm often being mean to her, or having an affair, neither of which I have ever done (or plan to do) IRL.

Very often... my dreams are usually pretty crowded. XD;
"Characteristics", uuuh.. well, since there are so many, usually only one or two are definite people, (like I can remember who they were when I wake up) and the others shift around and aren't distinct.

When I wake up I remember mostly where I was in the dream. How does the building and the rooms in it look like, if it's some kind of a structure. I seem to be interested in architecture when I'm asleep and the people (mostly people I don't know in reality) are just there...

I do, but I do not see their faces. It's not like they don't have a face or anything, just that the area where their face is is "taken for granted" by my psyche and is therefore not a point of focus. I know for sure that "this person is Joe" or somesuch, but "the camera never pans to their face".

I remember my dreams every night...The more sleep I get , the better I remember the dreams. Recently , I have been sleeping 12 hours or more. It's been great - my dreams are fab, with lots of people I know and some I don't. I continue my dreams on from the previous night too when I fall asleep and they are lucid sometimes too. I really like sleeping at the moment.