What are your dreams like?

[WonderingWoman]

Hi -
I introd-ed just now - think of me as an ADDie married to a probably RAS with 1000 questions.

Do you dream? Are you dreams like the dreams of other people you know?

I dream long sagas with long lost friends and relatives doing deep and archtypal things.
My DH (probably RAS) dreams like this - "I was taking off my coat and my hat dropped.'
Me: and then?
DH: Nothing - it just happened twice.
Me: where were you?
DH: In the kitchen I guess...

So I was wondering if ASpies dreamed in any particular pattern...thoughts?
(Has this been looked at scientifically?)

Peace Out,
WonderingWoman

[Aspen]

Unfortunately, I don't remember most of my dreams.

I remember one which involves someone giving me lots of fancy chocolate bars, much more than we could eat, just before we left for a very long drive across the country back to where my family lives. Because we had so much chocolate, I was giving it away to people, especially children, we met along the way. It turned out that the person who gave me all that chocolate had hidden something inside the wrappers and therefore giving the people chocolate put their lives in danger and in addition to this, the police were pursuing us because of what was hidden in the chocolate.

My daughter remembers lots of her dreams and is interested in trying to interpret them, so she has several books about dream interpretation.

[adhocisadirtyword]

I also don't remember my dreams usually. Sometimes I do if I'm not all the way asleep, but then I have more control over what happens and I tend to manipulate them (except occasionally when I have ones where I can't scream but desperately need to - I've never been able to manipulate those).

The dreams I do remember are very vivid, but that could be because I'm interacting with them.

I have had dreams that have given me vertigo and others that have given me motion sickness.

[Civet]

I don't remember most of my dreams either, and many of the ones I do are extremely banal. I actually have moments sometimes where I'm not sure if something happened in reality or not because my dreams are so practical that they often deal with everyday matters that I have to attend to. I've read somewhere that alexithymia can be associated with rather banal dreams like this, and I also feel that I have some level of alexithymia so this makes sense for me. There also seems to be a higher level of alexithymia in autistics (generally speaking) so I wonder if this could be connected to this type of boring dream. I will say, though, I do occasionally have more fantastical dreams, and most interestingly will sometimes have dreams that connect to one another on different nights or even in different years, almost like I'm slipping into a parallel dream dimension.

[WonderingWoman]

Because we had so much chocolate, I was giving it away to people, especially children, we met along the way. It turned out that the person who gave me all that chocolate had hidden something inside the wrappers and therefore giving the people chocolate put their lives in danger

What a bummer! I was really enjoying the idea of driving across country giving away candy to children until it turned out that there was danger in the candy. Drat!

Thanks for sharing, and to the other Repliers also. I hadn't heard the term Alexithymia , but I'm glad to make it's acquaintance.

Peace Out
WW

[renaeden]

My dreams are like Civet's, pretty boring and about normal everyday occurrences. I have to wonder sometimes if something I did was in a dream or was it in reality.

Never heard of it being linked to alexithymia, so that is interesting to know.

[Sophist]

I normally don't remember my dreams, probably because my sleeping patterns are fairly consistent and so my alarm doesn't often wake me up out of a dream.

I've noticed that of the dreams I do recall, most of them are banal and don't follow much of a storyline. However, if I happened to be more emotional the day or evening prior, my dreams are much more prone to be emotional, reflective of whatever I was upset about, and follow a definite storyline. So for me, emotion promotes cohesion, whereas with calmness my dreams are usually just a loosely defined collection of imagery.