Do you dream?

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Dreams, one of the things about myself that I find most curious about. The why is simple; when I sleep I do not dream. I never have, and probably never will. I've had people try waking me up in the middle of the night just to ask me if I remember a dream. Nope, it's always a blank.

I doesn't bother me as it's all I've ever known, but I am curious if this is something other autistics experience. I also find playing 'make believe' impossible for me, and I wonder if that is somehow connected.

Rarely, but I've heard that's common among people who smoke weed.

I do dream.

But I couldn't see the pattern when I tend to dream yet.
There are months that I do and often enough to dream every time I close my eyes in exhaustion -- or those in between days or weeks, and there are months that I just don't.


If that counts as often enough, no, I don't smoke weed. Or smoke at all.

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I dream. Never noticed if weed affected it or not.

There are two long threads in "general" devoted to WP members reporting dreams. So I doubt the lack of dreaming correlates with being autistic.

Do autists dream of autistic sheep?

I dream a ton, including lucid dreaming.

From my understanding, scientists think everybody dreams, just not everyone remembers them.

I dream, and I remember them most mornings when I wake. Believe it or not, I've had true psychic dreams, Just a few. Four to be exact.

Weed gave me bad dreams.

I dream every night and I can usually recall them. Sometimes I can control my dreams, make things come into existence, do anything I wished to do, fly, solve the mysteries of the universe (unfortunately I never remember the detail of those when I wake up), communicate with the dead...etc. It's pretty cool. The only thing I can never do in my dreams is finding a working toilet. It's a part of our dinner time topic for everyone to share their recent dreams.

I dream fairly often but my dreams are mostly mundane, in which ordinary things happen that might happen in real life, though a feature of my dreams is that they are often about architectural spaces, or at least the architecture of the space I'm in is a prominent feature and I'm often in spaces like parking garages or warehouses, but also regular houses.

I dream, and sometimes they get really repetitive and annoying, as if my brain is tormenting me even in my sleep.

I think the Trazodone I take every night to help me sleep might have something to do with it, but I don't really know since I've always had pretty unusual dreams. At least I'm not sleepwalking and putting myself and others in danger like those sleeping pills I've seen on TV.

I've thought about this lately and it seems that I dream a LOT. Every time I sleep I dream. I don't really get sleep without dreams which may explain why I need 10+ hours of sleep every night. I remember my dreams for an hour or so then my recollection fades.

I don't know that not being able to play make believe is connected because I can't do it either, never have been able to. When I'm around kids, I dread being asked to play something make believe with them.

I only remember a few of them, but the ones I remember are quite complex.
I can usually figure out what caused the major themes.

One fun fact is I can read and write / compose in my dreams.
That's very rare.

I have very vivid and memorable dreams. I don't know how drugs affect sleep and dreams because I've never done drugs.

I dream, not alot, when I do dream, i dream of my mom, I used to dream more when I was younger.