Published on 12, July, 2020
Do you dream? (or at least, do you remember your dreams)..
Do you have recurrent dreams?
Do you assign meaning to your dreams?
One recurrent dream I have is of being somewhere where I need to use a phone urgently and all the numbers I need aren't on it, so it's a very frustrating panicky situation.
Last night I dreamt I was trying to take a shower in someone's loft. Someone was already in there + came out so I stepped in but the shower curtain didn't fit and the water was going all over bags of belongings.
Then I found I didn't have a towel to dry myself.
Then I remember saying these words: do you think that all the organised people in the world who are trying to control their lives, who lead quiet lives, who like everything in order, who notice fine details and are careful in what they say and do are autistic and the rest are not?
In my dream I'd decided that half the world was autistic.
As I've aged, I have found myself less able to remember any dreams or nightmares I may have had, but what I will say is that they have always been in full technicolor glory.
I'm not so sure if I've ever had recurrent dreams, but there were recurrent themes when I was a child, such as running up or down a never-ending flight of stairs to get away from someone who was chasing me.
Sometimes I feel I am able to make sense of my dreams and determine what triggered them, but at other times I can't because they are just too nonsensical and bizarre.
It doesn't happen often, but if I've been watching something on TV with 'adult' scenes, I can sometimes have dreams based on those scenes. A close friend of mine once told me that this was probably my subconscious mind trying to tell me that my body was in need of some 'action' - if you get my drift.
What I have found is that if I awake from pleasant dreams, I can never continue those dreams if I roll over and go straight back to sleep.