aspergers

Quest for Lucidity
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I tried searching about this on the internet, but haven’t found anything yet. I have a mental disorder known as aspergers, but I am actually fairly normal. My case is so slight that other than my social anxiety, I appear normal. But I’ve been wondering about something. I have trouble forming images in my mind, and rarely remember my dreams. I’m wondering if aspergers could be inhibiting my ability to recall dreams and have lucid dreams. I should point out that while I can’t easily create images in my mind I can imagine highly realistic sounds, and repeat sounds I hear over and over in my head and they are just like when I first heard them. Is it possible to have an auditory dream? :happy:

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I have Aspergers too. I don’t think it affects my ability to LD.

If you aren’t using a dream journal, you should definitely start using one. I didn’t remember my dreams at all until I started recording my dreams. And remember, EVERYONE can have lucid dreams.

BTW, if you are by some chance also taking an antidepressant, you might want to consider getting off of it. Some of them can damage dream recall. It was like this in my case. But ask your doctor’s permission first!

BTW2, we are both lucky we don’t have Autism, which is a much more severe version of Aspergers.

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There is another member here who has aspergers and he has managed to be consistent with his dream journal since he joined… But he has left now.

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thanks for replying Nate879. Yes I know aspergers is a mild form of autism, so lucky indeed. I actually like having aspergers :happy:. Aside from the anxiety, it has m,any benefits. I considering having an obsession with computers, and jazz trumpet a good thing :razz:. I do not have a dream journal at the moment, but I have been writing them im my computer. The only problem with that is I have to get out of bed (even though its about 1 foot from my bed :smile: ) and usually its off at night. I could just take one of my note books for school and use it as a dream journal. oh and btw no antidepressants. My aspergers is actually undiagnosed, but I am 99.9 percent sure I have it. Being undiagnosed I haven’t attempted any treatment for the symptoms. Hmm… I do drink a LOT of soda though. I should probably stop that even if I don’t lucid dream lol. I’m sure thats not good for me.

Btw, the ones I have recorded on my computer haven’t been dreams at all but weird thougts I woke up in the middle of. One time I for some reason woke up and thought I need to reset some digital timer that had something to do with lucid dreaming. I do remember dreaming about pressing the button for that timer multiple times though. And I had one about revealing the truth behind a consipracy :happy:. That one was just a thought, no dreaming at all that i remember.

edit: I just noticed your sig. I love that joke. 10 types of people :happy:

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Well after last night I am pretty sure aspergers does not hurt the ability to lucid dream. I had some dreams last night. Funny I only remembered 1 at first but I started writing that one and another came back to me. The thing is I actually realized I was dreaming in the dream, but I was given no control and I didn’t exactly feel like I was conscious, then later i forgot I ever realized I was dreaming, but the dream continued. I must say I remembered the details in that dream better than I EVER do. I can never remember this stuff and I did :happy: Also I made a dream journal and posted it there. I have another dream journal I use when I wake, them copy it to the forum later. My dream journal is in my sig.

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I have asbergers as well i have had several LDs but they were mostly low level. I also recommend keeping a journal. Only after a few days my dreams were easily coming to me the moment i wake up.

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Holy crap, I’m like that! Does it mean…

Nein.

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That doesn’t mean anything :happy:. If you are thinking you have aspergers, research it, but I did not give a good enough description for you to get that idea. There are loads of other things I didn’t mention that go with having aspergers, and I’m not even sure if the trouble visualizing is from aspergers, or if that has even ever been found as a symptom. I may just be bad at it :smile:.