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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.:-)

  • 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.