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I have vivid dreams all the time. There are normally exciting, cinematic almost, like a really good action film, but I am playing the main part. There are also generally really moving/emotional.


Does anyone else have these? Is it an aspie thing?

I have very vivid dreams. The bigest problem with these is not that some of them are nightmares or disturbing but that sometimes they are so real to me that I sometimes have difficulties trying to figure out if a certian "memory" is really a memory or if it is something that I dreamed.

dude i rarely remeber my dreams they are not vivd and i am unsure if i do dream.
i used to have a recurrign dream about failing at university, but this has gone away.

I have alot of vivid dreams. I think it's mostly because, I'm taking prescribed sleeping pills. Well technically an antipsychotic medicine, that is also prescribed as sleeping medication. So it puts me into that deep REM sleep, where you have major dreams.

I mainly have nightmares if i sleep past 9 am.
Otherwise i don't usually remember much of it.
Half the time i can't see at all in my dreams, it's like i can't open my eyes.

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I kept having nightmares where I would die and go to hell. Not a conventional 'fire and brimstone' hell but an individual hell, where I would have to perform some horrible task over tens of thousands of years in order to correct all of my wrongs and also complete the cycle of life on the planet.

Sounds weird I know, but stick with it...

The first concept is that most systems, including life itself, are cyclical. It's impossible to imagine the universe without life. Unless you are a creationist, it is also impossible to imagine matter and then life suddenly springing from nowhere. But what if the whole process of evolution is a cycle, or a loop, so the end then forms the new beginning?

Secondly, what if God is testing us? What if the whole cycle is a gigantic laboratory experiment?

Thirdly, what if life is the result of a paradox? An exception that proves the rule? What if it is all some mistake or sick joke?

Fourthly, what if hell is actually personal. What if our own individual hell, if we have sinned, will consist of the worst thoughts we have ever had in our own heads?

In my dreams I was destined to wander a silent, lifeless world in slow motion, each heartbeat taking a minute or more, carrying out some pointless, impossible or grotesque task that would grow worse every day over a huge period of time. For example, in one dream I believed that I had put myself into that position by being the sickest and most contradictory person ever. Furthermore, God had given me chance upon chance and warnning after warning, and I had ignored them all. The themes of life being a paradox and also a cyclical process were combined - the universe existed as a result of a sick paradox, whereby only someone totally stupid and sick would ever consider what I was about to do, but because I had thought of it the universe existed AND I therefore had to do it in order to complete the loop and start things off again. My task was to unravel the entire world into its component DNA strands one by one, over the course of millions of years, finishing by unravelling my own flesh and pulling each strand out through my own ass. Worse, I knew from the outset that this was my fate, and that it was my own stupidity and nastiness which had put me in this place. I could spend decades wandering the lonely planet, trying to find someone to talk to, but my friends would be silent and lifeless. I could try and think of a get-out clause - a cheat, or a way of breaking the cycle - but I knew deep down that it couldn't be done. Sooner or later I'd have to begin.

Just to make it worse, the dream always had an encore. I could eventually prove to myself that the nightmare wasn't happening, e.g. by turning a light on, but then as I watched the room would pixellate and dissolve and I would go back into the dream, REALLY believing it was happening this time. I had left it too late and 'stitched myself up'.

What really scares me is that these nightmares are often the result of hypoglycaemia (low blood sugar) with readings of sub-2.0mmol/L and a very noticeable reduction in heart rate. My resting pulse is around 45 so anything which reduces it still further might be dangerous. Other people get visions of white lights and angels and I get visions of eternal damnation? If this is some sort of glimpse into the afterlife then am I in trouble here or what?

I have been having very vivid dreams since starting a new sleep med(remmeron) about a month ago not sure if the med as any more to do with it than getting me to sleep more than a couple hours at a time. The dreams are usally good very movie like a lot with a scfi turn to them

I have vivid dreams of exploring gigantic landscapes, which I interpret to represent the vastness of my psyche.

I couldn't pick an answer in the poll because I have very vivid dreams that aren't usually good or nightmares. They are stress dreams where I'm observing something or driving or doing some mundane task but I"m under pressure. Sometimes I'm watching a movie, then I'm involved in making the movie and then the line between story and the making of the movie is blurred.
Like I have dreamt of anachronistic events within historical eras. Dreaming of Little House on the Prairie and seeing Pa (Michael Landon) riding around on a motorcycle. All the lines separating realities are demolished.

My dreams are usually boring and mundane or nonsensical, but I only have them every several nights. It might be that I don't get enough sleep to reach the dream phase.

My last dream, for instance, was that I was at school but it was also one of the Twin Towers and a fire alarm sounded and we all had to tour the building before be able to get out. Turns out it was just a test alarm.
That one was just weird and slightly disturbing, but it didn't feel scary. Actually I don't think I felt any emotion at all during it.

Sometimes I have extremely vivid dreams complete with realistic color tasting, touching and even smelly dreams, yes smelly dreams.
I heard Robin Williams (not the actor) on the science show on Radio National few years back. He was introducing a guest expert in the field, Daniel Dennett and as he was introducing him he asked the question "why don't we have smelly dreams?" I could have put my hand up there and then and vigorously refuted it. Because I do and I also have tastey dreams occasionally. Well people do in fact have them but it is rare.

I you do not believe me, click here for a link to the issue of smelly dreams.


Paul

I have very vivid dreams which often include strong emotions and sensations of touch (like the last dream I had, I was running barefoot on a road and I could clearly feel it), and also the other senses. If I'm stressed I'll have a series of dreams with a recurring theme, like getting lost on the first day of class or a devastating tsunami that makes me really excited. Sometimes they'll be long epic adventures switching between different characters, real and imagined, sometimes good, sometimes bad, sometimes predictive. There have a been a few that I got mixed up with real life even after I woke up... often about a location that I try to find in real life and I find it's not really there. Or sometimes I discover that I thought it was a dream but it IS really there in real life, too (apparently I saw it before but forgot about it in my active memory). Even if I take a short nap I will start dreaming almost immediately, and usually remember it.

I might be wrong but I think vivid dreaming is something that people with AS who are really good visual thinkers do. Myself I’m really bad at visual thinking and I usually have the opposite of vivid dreams.

I’ve had a few exceptions though. When I was on an anti-anxiety medication not to long ago I had really vivid dreams, and these were very scary because I could never tell if I was awake or asleep.

Also every now and than I get a random weird/bad/vivid dream. For instance I had a dream where there were bad people with the heads of crows trying to break in and hurt me and I got a gun and shot at them, and then reality changes in the dream and i realize that I was shooting at regular people, and reality keeps changing in the dream like I’m going schizophrenic or something. And when I finally wake up in real life it leaves me unsure of my sanity for a while.

I’ve had these sorts of dreams before to. The most vivid one I had, and this stems from bad thoughts that I’ve had in reality, was where my personal hell was living my life over and over again but in hell, like I think it’s really my life but it’s a simulation of the life that I had before I died, and no matter how many times I live it I can’t make anything right because it’s really hell, and none of the people in it are real their just demons pretending to be people that I once knew. This was a very tarebol dream to have because when I woke up I was terrified that it was real and that I wasn’t really awake but still in hell and for like an hour after that I had the irrational fear that my dad was a demon. I’m also hypoglycemic (supposedly anyway I’ve never seen my blood sugar go below normal range).

Sorry to talk so much, I know long post can be annoying if you don’t have a lot of time.

I have gone into to much detail on other dreaming posts...so I will spare you that...but last night I had a dream that has been recurrent through out my life...the setting and carictures change but one thing is consistent...I have to pee really bad....I am hunting futily for a bathroom and finally find one ...more dream...still have to pee...more bathroom hunting....should I just pee in the corner or in the sink...I have to go really ,really bad...doesnt matter that I am being chased by mutants in the apocalypse(another recurrent theme)...I will risk my life to find a bathroom....

then I wake up and go pee....it feels wonderful(i am amazed I am not a bed wetter...I have such vivd peeing in the dreams)

hehe I have the peeing dreams too, sometimes they get really inventive in terms of where I have to go to find a toilet or ANYwhere tp go, and still no relief! I sometimes have the same type of dream when my alarm goes off, and I keep trying to figure out what is making this awful noise in my dream... finding one thing after another and stopping the noise but still it continues.

Isnt it a little creepy how we are being "tricked" by our own brains to avoid leaving the dream...its like some weird brain verses body conspiricy....I wonder what else that sneaky brain is up to.....