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Have you ever had a Lucid dream or a Hypnagogic hallucinations

Neo101b

Have you ever had a Lucid dream or a Hypnagogic hallucinations

As a child I used to have lucid dreams where I could interact or control the reality I was dreaming. As I got older I started to ask the people in my dreams if they are real or are they part of me. They would say I was crazy and they are real, It was impossible for me to know what they where thinking or about to say, it was as if they where there own person.
At times when I wake up, I am paralyzed and I see people or things, once there was a knocking at the door which woke me up. I thought it was my mum, instead a blue floating girl floated towards me and whispered something in my ear, as I touched her she disappeared and faded away. This was no dream, I have had various things like this happen through my life and I think its because of Autism.
This is where ghosts and alien abduction stories might come from, the body paralyzed you when you sleep so you dont act out your dreams and sleep walk. Sometimes the mind wakes up when the body is sleeping giving a frightening paralyzed experience.

Now my mum once told me that she awoke to see a little boy who talked to her and then he faded away. This makes me think that the Autism Trait was passed down from her side of the family, even though NF1 can also cause Autism.
This paper suggests that females can be carriers of the Autism Gene, yet men are more likely to show autistic traits. Men can still pass on the gene but its less likely, females can also have autistic traits. The ratio is 1:4


The role of sex-differential biology in risk for autism spectrum disorder


www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/.../

Now on my mums side their entire family is female, except for my granddad who was a quiet reserved person and my uncle, who I can now see Autistic traits in his behavior. My mum cut him of because she thought he was acting up. Now it all makes sense, I do wonder if the autism came from my granddad which is a statistic improbability.

I just came up with this recently and it surprised my mum as all her side of the family are anxious and taking medication and so on. As they are all females mostly, the autistic traits are not as bad as they could be. Im not saying females cant have it bad though.

When I self medicate, which I dont think any of you should, it can trigger these dream hallucinations, which makes me think its all down to dopamine.
I dont see Mr Robot Hallucinations when I am awake and I know I dont have schizophrenia.

So I wonder if there is a link between abnormal dreams and autism ?

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  • It's pretty rare but I have had some special types of dreams which are similar to definition of the ones you mention although it's pretty hard to categorise them exact as my memories of these are quite vague after a long time. I beleive that everyone dreams but not everyone remembers them. Most people I know do not seem to dream as often or as vividly as me. I have had  different 7 dreams in one night before but usually I will only remember 1 or 2. I am more likely to remember dreams if I have shorter sleeps or am woken up early.

    Lucid dreams: I have a few of these a year (which I remember). It usually involves something like me realising that it is a dream and then giving myself some superpowers such as flying or floating, teleporting, driving an expensive car which I am interested in. Another part may be realising it is a dream and being with a girl in a sexual way since I know it isn't real. Usually once I realise it is a dream it will not last much longer.

    Hypnagognic hallucinations: These tend to take place in the room I am currently sleeping in. Around a year after my great-grandmother died I had a dream that a ghost of her was across the room from me and said she's ok. When I was younger I used to have nightmares of scary things out of cartoons being in my room as if they were actually there. More recently I once dreamt that a badger was on top of my bed and jumped up awake, another time I must have hallucinated that there was lava coming through the floor of my bedroom (red light light on extension lead) and jumped out of my bed and tried to escape through my cupboard half asleep.

    I have also experienced dreams which seem to go on forever or are insanely detailed and vivid with senses such as touch being so realistic. Some recent ones of these were like I was Bran from Game of Thrones going back in time and watching things from third person unseen. In one I was spying on someone and in another I was at my great grandparents house when they first built it and they were in the garden.

    Another thing is occasionally when I am half asleep trying to fall asleep I will associate the unpleasant feeling of actually needing the toilet with something else like another problem but it's very hard to explain.

    Just to add I have been diagnosed with a mild form of autism but I am on no medication or drugs and have never hallucinated while awake LOL

    In my opinion the link between autism and these dreams may be good memory?

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  • It's pretty rare but I have had some special types of dreams which are similar to definition of the ones you mention although it's pretty hard to categorise them exact as my memories of these are quite vague after a long time. I beleive that everyone dreams but not everyone remembers them. Most people I know do not seem to dream as often or as vividly as me. I have had  different 7 dreams in one night before but usually I will only remember 1 or 2. I am more likely to remember dreams if I have shorter sleeps or am woken up early.

    Lucid dreams: I have a few of these a year (which I remember). It usually involves something like me realising that it is a dream and then giving myself some superpowers such as flying or floating, teleporting, driving an expensive car which I am interested in. Another part may be realising it is a dream and being with a girl in a sexual way since I know it isn't real. Usually once I realise it is a dream it will not last much longer.

    Hypnagognic hallucinations: These tend to take place in the room I am currently sleeping in. Around a year after my great-grandmother died I had a dream that a ghost of her was across the room from me and said she's ok. When I was younger I used to have nightmares of scary things out of cartoons being in my room as if they were actually there. More recently I once dreamt that a badger was on top of my bed and jumped up awake, another time I must have hallucinated that there was lava coming through the floor of my bedroom (red light light on extension lead) and jumped out of my bed and tried to escape through my cupboard half asleep.

    I have also experienced dreams which seem to go on forever or are insanely detailed and vivid with senses such as touch being so realistic. Some recent ones of these were like I was Bran from Game of Thrones going back in time and watching things from third person unseen. In one I was spying on someone and in another I was at my great grandparents house when they first built it and they were in the garden.

    Another thing is occasionally when I am half asleep trying to fall asleep I will associate the unpleasant feeling of actually needing the toilet with something else like another problem but it's very hard to explain.

    Just to add I have been diagnosed with a mild form of autism but I am on no medication or drugs and have never hallucinated while awake LOL

    In my opinion the link between autism and these dreams may be good memory?

Children
  • in reply to NAS62563

    When lucid dreaming try asking the people in your dream if they are real and see what they say, I tried to swap phone numbers or emails addresses, I dont think they exist in this universe. Usually when lucid you are in between waking up and sleeping its like walking along a tightrope, there is only once where I tried to wake my self up but couldn't and that was because a virus was turning people into monkeys, That was a weird one.