Are your dreams 'social'?

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When I dream, I am often dreaming about social situations and interactions. I'm surprised. I would imagine that autistical types might dream more about objects than people. How about you guys? And what do you make of this?

I dream about social interactions pretty frequently. Most of us think about such interactions a lot (either imagine scenarios in our heads, or reflect on how a real interaction could have gone differently, etc...) so it doesn't really surprise me that I dream about these things. I do notice that in my dreams, I interact with people much more easily than I do IRL. I don't know if I have ever had a dream that was strictly object-centric.

Thanks Kat.

Same for me, to both.

Yes I dream about social situations a lot. Perhaps my subconscious mind is trying to tell me something.

I've thought about this topic several times over the past few years.

In my dreams, when there are people, I don't really interact with them much.

I had a dream last night I was swimming in water able to breath and all these weird creatures were swimming around me...all black and different shapes...it was bizarre...it was like a swimming pool that was pretty large indoors and at night....dont know the meaning at all of it, if any..could be neurons flying around.

The majority of my dreams are social. Usually I am able to converse well because I know the other person will understand me.

Mine mostly don't contain other people. If there are other people, then they're usually just standing in a position or they're poorly developed. For some this may not be much different than in waking life.

As I run through the trees, I start to lift off the ground, eventually flying over the forest.

Using my arms to steer like a bird, I'm smiling intensely as I bank left then right, the wind in my hair. When I wake up there is a sticky patch on the bed.


When you get older, you do miss those types of dreams.

I think my dreams are 50/50 social/non social

I find myself very confident socially in dreams (the sort-of-down-to-Earth type ones, not the ones where I go on an amazing journey around the universe). If only when I wake up, I could remember what I did right!

Usually, about 80% of the time. The ones that aren't are always more exciting though.

I dream primarily about violent conflict. Not sure what that says about me. Probably nothing good.

I have dreams that are very social. I also have dreams about my favourite objects as well, such as vintage drum sets.

Interesting query. Correct in that Aspies, by convention, *tend* to dream about people & social situations with less frequency; that's a given. Fairly recently I've learned that females 'on the spectrum' may express themselves quite differently, tending toward designing & 'testing' social scenarios. For instance, little girls with AS being intensely fascinated with their Little Pony collection or dollies with imaginery roles. Just a guess. Of course, you may be, by nature, a caring 'people person' as expressed by your dreams. Just another guess!

Dreams are nearly intangible to analyse and really depends upon the person.....neural discharge does account for dreams, at least in part, and sometimes we may insert meaning where it doesn't exist. Personally, I do not so much about people or social situations. If so, they appear as smoky glass. (In confidence, IRL people sometimes look like smoky glass and I'm not so aware of them).

Moog, maybe you could keep a dream journal? Like a Jungian dream journal! My friend (NT male) keeps a dream journal and he says it's really revealing for him.

Maybe. I'm not entirely sure that I am autistic, I might just have ADD instead. I'm still trying to work that out. I guess this thread was partly an attempt to get some samples to compare with.



Pareidolia... Some people tend to think that the human proclivity for finding meaning in otherwise not meaningful phenomena is some kind of 'flaw'... I think it's quite interesting, and when harnessed and utilised properly and carefully can be very useful.

I'm not entirely sure that dreams are entirely random neural discharge though. I had a lucid dream the other day. That cannot be random neural discharge. Maybe it's directed discharge (not random, but under user control). Hmm, this conversation just makes me wonder more...



I keep an on and off dream journal. I write my interesting dreams up in the thread in Random. I am quite the fan of Jung and many of his ideas.

Most of the dreams I can remember have an element of anxiety. People cause me anxiety, so most of them involve people.