Lucid Dreaming

**coastercrazy10** · Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 8:31 pm Post subject: Lucid Dreaming

I've been fascinated with Lucid Dreaming for a long time and i've only been able to do it once, but yesterday i was talking with my friend who has asperger syndrome and another of my friends. They both lucid dream consistently, which got me thinking. Do any of you guys think there's any connection with Aspergers and lucid dreaming? Since those with aspergers have a better connection between their conscious and subconscious minds during wake, could that possibly transcend wake/sleep and allow those with aspergers to lucid dream more? My other friend doesn't have aspergers as far as i know, but he's extremely good at certain things without the ability to explain it and is very anti-social, so he may have something similar to aspergers.

Have any of you guys had lucid dreams, thought about them, know people who can have them? Do you know about connections between mental illnesses and lucid dreaming/dreams in general?

And if you don't know what either lucid dreaming or aspergers is, look here:
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**TheThirdDay** · Joined: 27 Mar 2008 Posts: 4357 Location: Toms River, NJ

We had a really cool thread about lucid dreaming a few months ago. Nothing about ASD's came up, though. That's actually a pretty cool theory, though, I must say. But I suggest you read through the other topic, it's full of info and useful links.

And off topic, as long as you make your searches really specific, the search function is very reliable.
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**sedron** · Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 10:08 pm Post subject:

I have lucid dreams semi-frequentely. I was dropped on my head as a child, but I don't think that counts as a mental illness.

I think it is possible for Aspergers and Lucid dreaming to be connected, but it seems to me that having these dreams is connected to sleep patterns as well. I had one of these dreams this morning, as I often hit the snooze button of my alarm clock multiple times and go back to sleep. So, I'm still tired enough to start dreaming, but somehow I also know that I'm gonna need to wake up in another 10 minutes to hit the damn button again. During longer periods of sleep, I have less of a chance to have a lucid dream.
So, from what I experience, the way I sleep causes me to dream differentely. This is just my own experience, though, so don't take it for fact.

**Macaron11** · Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 10:18 pm Post subject:

I've never had it in my life before, I want to try WBTB.

I really want to try this, I HAD to of had it at least once it my life, I can't recall.

For anyone that has, how exactly do you know it wasn't just a normal dream? And it just like "Boom, there's a hot chick", like you just picture something and it comes there? I'm sad now.
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**TSorbera** · Joined: 19 Apr 2008 Posts: 2152

I think I have Asperger's, or something like it, and I lucid dream pretty often...not every time I dream, but I'd guesstimate a majority of dreams become lucid. No idea if it's connected. I don't see how people can never notice that they're in dreams.

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**coastercrazy10** · Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 10:34 pm Post subject:

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**TSorbera** · Joined: 19 Apr 2008 Posts: 2152

I don't really have some specific way I know of to check if I'm dreaming or not, I just notice it somehow...sometimes I'll wake up right away, but usually if it's an exciting dream I'll stay in it for a while before I wake up.
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**Deak2112** · Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 11:40 pm Post subject:

As I said in the other thread, I read on this and heard of a guy who would check his hand every 90 minutes during the day and decide if he was awake or not. Eventually when he was asleep he would do the same and figure out he was dreaming. I tried this and it kinda worked, the only problem was that I convinced myself that I was awake when I was actually sleeping. My other problem is that when I realize I'm dreaming I usually wake up. I'm a very light sleeper so lucid dreaming might not be my thing. I think I did it once but after I woke up I couldn't decide if I was lucid dreaming or if it was just apart of my dream.

i think your connection to your friends and lucid dreaming is really a convincing argument also. I think you're on to something.
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**thegibbonator** · Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 11:41 pm Post subject: Re: Lucid Dreaming

**coastercrazy10** · Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 12:59 am Post subject:

that really doesn't qualify...you need to have at least a bit of sustained conscious direction. And i should have said certain mental disorders, not all...specifically autism/aspergers.

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**muna** · Joined: 04 Jun 2007 Posts: 2929 Location: South Florida

I do not have asperger syndrome, but just this morning something strange happened. I was dreaming, then within my dream, I suddenly came to the conclusion that I was dreaming and immediately woke up.
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