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Has anyone scratched the surface of Cognitive Neuroscience, or Carl Jung's theory of dreams.

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I don't have a background with psychology.  The closest I came to it was a college course many years ago "Understanding Human Personalities" most of which I forgot.  My one takeaway I can remember is a phrase called "defence mechanisms". Today it's called Masking.  As a newby to this site I'm curious to know if anyone has perused these -- or related topics with reference to ASD or has followed research results furthering its understanding. I've probably lifted the lid of a basket swarming with replies eager to escape!  

Cognitive science studies how the brain is organized, including thought processes and learning. I think CS studies are more applicable to our group rather than Neuroscience that studies the nervous system, including the brain, neurons, and cellular processes.

Dreams --- I am told --- interplay with our consciousness which may possibly have an effect on our ASD perceptions which is why I thought of Carl Jung (ref: Dreams in Jungian Analysis (jungian-confrerie.com) of which reams of information have been written.

I quietly tip toe out of this query seeking shelter from a deluge of responses.:-)

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  • Honestly, I find ASD to be so mysterious that I've considered everything from Julian Jaynes' theories to synaesthesia to ghosts-as-Jungian-archetypes as hinting at a connection with autism. Aside from the more severe cases, I'm tempted to view autism as - partly - an existential or philosophical matter. That all sounds glib or pretentious or horribly ignorant but, then again, I wouldn't be so insensitive as to post these ideas if they didn't 'whisper' their presence to me, again and again. The irony is that *my* autism seems to me to be so inexplicable that I spend ages vainly trying to solve the mystery of myself; and so I unwittingly tick the box of standard symptoms like 'obsessions'. 

    EDIT: My post makes it sound like I believe autism is merely some kind of idle, aloof intellectual exercise, which would be an appalling and crass stance to take. What I really meant, but could not accurately express, is that *my* autism seems so multi-faceted & so often overlaps with other states (anxiety, depression etc etc) that speculation about possible causes and connections haunts me. My perspective on things is tunnel-visioned, too narrow and, therefore, flawed.

  • in reply to Steven

    I really should've cut to the chase and just written: 'I meant that many of my issues are *symbolised*, rather than accurately represented, in my mind. This frequently leads me to misinterpret, over-analyse, and to endlessly get things out of proportion.

    A simple, stereotypical and staged photograph of a vacant wheelchair in an abandoned asylum is not merely simple: like van Gogh's painting of a chair, the photo - and what it potentially symbolises, personally and universally - is all too open to interpretation. It's not the asylum which may be haunted or trapped in past trauma, it's not Vincent who was tormented and lonely: it is, instead, the observer. It's almost as if our problems brought forth their art, as if to give an image to our vague problems, to put a face to them.

    My problems are a) misinterpreting the meaning (if any exists or was intended), and b) being prone to lose myself in speculation and pondering. In my 'world', nearly *everything* is meaning-laden and significant. 

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  • in reply to Steven

    I really should've cut to the chase and just written: 'I meant that many of my issues are *symbolised*, rather than accurately represented, in my mind. This frequently leads me to misinterpret, over-analyse, and to endlessly get things out of proportion.

    A simple, stereotypical and staged photograph of a vacant wheelchair in an abandoned asylum is not merely simple: like van Gogh's painting of a chair, the photo - and what it potentially symbolises, personally and universally - is all too open to interpretation. It's not the asylum which may be haunted or trapped in past trauma, it's not Vincent who was tormented and lonely: it is, instead, the observer. It's almost as if our problems brought forth their art, as if to give an image to our vague problems, to put a face to them.

    My problems are a) misinterpreting the meaning (if any exists or was intended), and b) being prone to lose myself in speculation and pondering. In my 'world', nearly *everything* is meaning-laden and significant. 

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