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.