Autistic Spectrum - Dream Questionnarie

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Hello, I'm a college student from Derby College and an aspiring Psychologist. One of the areas I want to research is Autism. A recent assigment from college had us make a questionnarie on dreams. I decided—since I've never seen any research into the dreams of people on the Autistic spectrum—to use this questionnaire to understand the dreams of people on the Autistic spectrum.

There is only 10 questions.

I will be so grateful to anyone who completes it.



https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XCWP7ZR



Thanks, Shane

Fun survey - good luck with your research.

I'm glad you didn't ask for details on dream landscapes. I could have written you a book.

Here's to an A!

Too much writing, blah survey.

Sorry, that boils things down to a grossly oversimplified level. I don't know what you hope to glean from that limited, generalized information.

I kept a dream journal for more than a decade. My dreams are like an ethereal Cineplex, showing an endless mixture of Peter Jackson, James Cameron, Tim Burton and David Lynch films. Full Technicolor, 3D Imax, plenty of CGI effects. They not only affect me emotionally, they're sometimes so lucid and complex, they leave me with 'hangovers' - a sort of disconnected fugue state that can last half the next day.

Can I tell them from reality? What a ridiculous question. When I'm in THIS world, I know it's real and when I'm in THAT world, I also know it's real. I do not confuse the two. The dream world is far more interesting.

I have found that often events or occurrences in the dream world do presage events in the physical world, unfortunately, there's no predictable pattern to it, so you can't know which ones are clairvoyant until they come to pass, and if you haven't been writing them all down, you're likely not to even notice. Like size, shape and every other type of relationship, normal assumptions about time and space do not always apply in the dream reality.

Having Autism does not affect how the person dreams. All dreams are all different. If you hear NTs telling you their dreams, you will notice that they were just as muddly and strange and your's.

The only different types of dreams are lucid dreams and nightmares. Like some people might have frequent nightmares when on certain medication, or some people (not exclusively Autistics) have lucid dreams. But otherwise, general dreams are general dreams. I've never been a lucid dreamer myself. Whilst I am dreaming, I always vividly think that it's really happening to me in real life. Sometimes they're so vivid that it takes a few seconds for me to realise that it was only a dream after waking up.

I do love dreaming. Usually it's about things that happen to me in the day, all muddled up. Other times I dream about my worst fears, like having spiders in my bed, being horribly humiliated in public, missing the bus and being stranded on my own, walking miles and miles away from home only to realise I am carrying my cat and then suddenly losing her, and eating something then discovering that it will make me ill. There's probably loads more but that's all I can think of at the moment.

I don't often get nightmares, but when I do occasionally, I usually wake up feeling really relieved. Like once I dreamt of a nuclear bomb hitting Europe, and just sitting there with my family waiting to be wiped out any minute. It wasn't just the plot, it was the detail and the emotion I felt in the dream what was so terrifying. I then suddenly woke up early hours of the morning to find it was only a dream, and I had never felt so relieved in all my life.

Thanks to everyone who has replied!

I'm interested to know why you made this survey.
I filled it out. I have very intense dreams.
They are nothing like this reality but are just as real to me.
I could write a novel about my dreams.
I can always fly in my dreams and most of them are lucid.
I usually know when I am dreaming but can forget if I dreamed something often. Usually it is conversations I cannot remember if they happened in the waking reality or not.
I do believe dreams are real
here we are in a linier format dimension but in dreams chaos theory takes place causing them to be random.
Most people have been surprised not only how strange my dreams are but how much detail I remember from them.

I took the survey. It's odd you didn't ask about lucidity.

I think it'd be most interesting to see how people's dreams compare to their lives, but dreams in general, as far as effects from autism, is an interesting thing to research.

Are you planning on disclosing any of the results from this poll?

Hi Shane, welcome to WP. Because of the security on my computer I have to answer your questions manually so here are my answers:

1. Asperger's
2. skiing, biking, lake kayaking
3. agree
4. yes
5. I have reoccurring plane crash dreams (seeing plane crashes not being in the plane itself), dreams where I have been in the middle of gang warfare, dreams where I have to go to pee and can't get my underwear off.
6. being chased, landscape
7.scary dreams can be a 4 or 5
8. they can be very detailed and graphically vivid and complete full stories some are even like watching a well written movie and many times I wish I could remember them when I wake up because they could be made into movies.
9. yes
10. I don't really understand the question sorry

I hope this helps you with your project. Best of luck with it. Let us know how it turns out.