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Vivid Dreams

JuniperFromGallifrey

Does everyone else here have really vivid dreams? I'm in my 40s. They haven't ceased. They're intricate and colourful and sometimes creepy and like an entire movie. There's always so many people! How is this possible?? How do I see all these intricacies and faces and these elaborate structures or interiors. Sometimes I wish I could convey them when I wake up because they're so vivid but... just out of reach. I used to log them years ago.

Do all autists think in pictures? Is this a particular marker of ASD or are these things which all Children experience which seem to fade with age. 

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  • Reading all of these comments is so interesting! I create entire cities and their outskirts, many times they're about going to school, finding the theatre or pottery class. The bus ride is picturesque. Or even sorting through political affairs - the royal family became this clan of vampires with a whole underworld... LOL. Sometimes  I am genuinely curious if there is a connexion, though. In psychoanalysis, it is thought there is a word prior to an image in the brain. But I'd suggest otherwise. Apparently people actually think in words rather than pictures, I just don't know how that's possible. And from conversations, most can't recall having dreams since they were young, so is there a correlation to Lacan's theory that autists lack normal defence mechanisms (dulling the senses to block out sensory loads or sublimation).  

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  • Reading all of these comments is so interesting! I create entire cities and their outskirts, many times they're about going to school, finding the theatre or pottery class. The bus ride is picturesque. Or even sorting through political affairs - the royal family became this clan of vampires with a whole underworld... LOL. Sometimes  I am genuinely curious if there is a connexion, though. In psychoanalysis, it is thought there is a word prior to an image in the brain. But I'd suggest otherwise. Apparently people actually think in words rather than pictures, I just don't know how that's possible. And from conversations, most can't recall having dreams since they were young, so is there a correlation to Lacan's theory that autists lack normal defence mechanisms (dulling the senses to block out sensory loads or sublimation).  

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  • in reply to JuniperFromGallifrey

    I had a brain injury a while back and I suffered from hallucinations for a few weeks afterwards - weirdly mundane hallucinations.

    One was I could see a single wall in the bedroom was covered in heavily textured blown-vinyl wallpaper.      I could walk up to it to examine it in great detail but as I went to touch it, my finger bumped into a layer of glass in front of it about 10mm thick.       I could look all around my finger pressing on the glass with all the parallax proving my finger was 10mm from the surface of the wallpaper.     I could leave the room and come back later and it was still the same.      It went back to a plain wall later on.

    Another was while sitting watching tv, I was aware of a person on the other sofa reading a book.    If I looked at them, they disappeared - if I looked back at the tv, they reappeared - I could describe everything about them except their face..

    Another was having a little dog running around in the hallway - again, if I looked, it disappeared.

    From that experience of my own brain altering my reality in real-time, I totally believe people who say they've seen ghosts and UFOs - they don't necessarily exist, but their brain has lied to them enough to convince them..

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