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23 Feb 2012, 9:21 pm

One type of dream I have is where I am living as a completely differnet person. These people are from different times and are all kinds of people. It is as if I am them.

Do others have this kind of dream?

Some of the people I dream about are the opposite sex or NT or with other disorders.
There have been a few that died and I no longer dream about them.

The dreams are in great detail and many detials are completey new to me. I learn from them.

A guy I work with has many autistic traits. He to said he has this king of dreams.
Is this an autistic thing?



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23 Feb 2012, 10:40 pm

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Is this an autistic thing?

I don't thing so, however there is a problem: lot's of people don't care about remembering their dreams.

At the last dreams I remember I was me, but I also had dreamt I'm someone else (male or female), sometimes I'm no one (like watching a movie) and sometimes I can switch characters at the same dream.



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23 Feb 2012, 10:42 pm

That's cool. :o


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23 Feb 2012, 11:01 pm

Though it is less common for me now, from about age 5 to 16 I used to dream that I was other people quite frequently. Often I would shift from one person to another person within the dream. While not "possessing" someone I was just a shapeless astral projection floating in the upper corners of rooms. It really felt quite liberating. Admittedly, dreaming about being men was always awkward feeling the next day though.

I think I was about 8 when I dreamed I was wolverine from X-men. It was all going great until the end of the dream when I looked in a mirror and awoke screaming "I DON'T WANNA BE A SHORT HAIRY MAN!"

Since I don't know if I am autistic or not, none of this really helps answer your question though, sorry about that.



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24 Feb 2012, 5:56 am

No, I'm always me in my dreams.


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24 Feb 2012, 6:00 am

I have a dream alter-ego. It's me, but not even female, different age, different cultural background and life altogether. He crops up all the time.


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24 Feb 2012, 6:05 am

I am always myself in my dreams.

My location and activities may be different, but I still have generally the same personality.


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