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Hello my name is Kao I live in UK. I'm female and 22. I found this website when I was looking for information on nightmares as I've been suffering with them for a while now and they are starting to affect my waking life negatively.
I have autism, and I'm particularly interested in whether anyone else has autism or ASD and if they think this has a bearing on their dream life in any way. I dont want to go on now and bore people so I'll leave it at that and probably post something more specific at a later date. So yea anyway that's me so hello to everyone.

Hi Kao, welcome to Dreamviews.

Developing a general awareness of your surroundings and questioning whether you could be dreaming or not can really help fight nightmares. There's also the more general fixes, such as a change in diet or not being stressed out during the day.

Kao. It will be interesting to hear about how you think your autism effects your dreams. Our differences are what make our dreams so unique

Welcome, Kao. I hope you learn what you need to kick those nightmares.

I haven't had a nightmare since I was quite young. I'd be glad to take just one off your hands for you.

If you have any questions ask away

Hello all! Ever since I was a child I have known in my dreams that I am dreaming. In fact, I was surprised to discover that not everyone did. I don't know whether this is to do with my autism or not, although I do believe that people with autism have brains which are 'wired' differently, and therefore see no reason why this should not have a bearing on dreams as it does in waking life.
My dreams recently (last 6 months or so) have been interesting in the sense that every night I return to the same location. The location is a town, with its own road names, shops, landscape and even bus and rail service with numbers that correspond with the different places in the dream town. As far as I can recall, I have never really been to this location.
Events do not repeat themselves in the way they do in reaccuring dreams, it is very much like living two lives at the moment as I go to this other place at night and experience all manners of mundane and not so mundane goings on. Stories seem to be ongoing from one night to another in this place, for example, it has a shopping area with market stalls and the like and if they close before I've been in them one night, I will make a point of visiting them first the next time I'm in the dream location.
I do get frustrated however when I make maticulous plans of how to bring purchases from the dream world into my waking world and I wake up without them.
Not sure really how any of this relates to lucidity, and I havn't touched on my nightmares yet sorry as it takes me ages to type things lol.

That's cool. It's interesting to read about the dreams of someone who is, as you said, 'wired' differently. So thank you for taking the time to type this description out.

Like you I wouldn't know if your autism plays a part in your natural gift for lucidity, but there are a lot of people out there who seem to have the same natural gift for becoming lucid in their dreams — even from a young age.

I would wager that your autism does of course heavily impact the content in your dreams. i.e. I know a lot of people with autism have a fascination with numbers. This could be why numbers feature heavily in this dream town of yours. Though I didn't quite understand how they featured. Did each place have a number assigned to it and that's that, or did the rail service use numbers somehow to clarify which destination it was going to next?
The fact that you dream of the same place each night is probably pretty heavily influenced by your autism. But then I'm sure I don't need to sit here and point this out; if you're 22 years old then I'm sure you know what your autism means for you and how it impacts on your day to day life.

Still I'm interested to hear more when you have the time to type.

Originally Posted by theKAO

Hello my name is Kao I live in UK. I'm female and 22. I found this website when I was looking for information on nightmares as I've been suffering with them for a while now and they are starting to affect my waking life negatively.
I have autism, and I'm particularly interested in whether anyone else has autism or ASD and if they think this has a bearing on their dream life in any way. I dont want to go on now and bore people so I'll leave it at that and probably post something more specific at a later date. So yea anyway that's me so hello to everyone.

Heya theKAO. While I don't have autism or aspergers I have worked with a lot of children who have, and I will look forward to you presence on DV. It would be interesting to see how your distinct brain chemistry affects your lucid experiences.

Anywhoot, welcome to DV!

That's really fascinating, Kao!!I do know a few people who are like you, and thought that everyone knew when they were dreaming So that part isn't very unusual at all I hope you decide to keep a dream journal on here... I think you'd have a few of us already who would like to read it