Aspies For Freedom

I had a dream earlier of driving/walking around an unfamilar town, and wondering what I was doing there.  A lot of typical dream nonsense went on, a few familar people showed up, but then I found my "dream self" wondering what in God's name I was doing in that town.  My "dream self" was wondering.. when did I get here?  I just "appeared" for no reason?  Did I just "wake up" here with no explanation?  It didn't seem possible.  My dream self was looking for reasons.  Among them I was wondering if I had been sleepwalking, and managed to drive all the way to some remote part of the state.

As the dream went further, the location "felt" more and more unfamiliar, and feelings of dread continued as I was getting genuinely worried that I had lost control of my existence.  I was reaching an emotional crisis stage within the dream.  It came to a point where I was at dinner in a restaurant with two elegant-looking fellows, who I believe were trying to convince me that I was in the "town" for a specific reason.  But I don't remember any more details of that.

My dream self was frantically trying to come up with an explanation for being in a strange town, away from all that was familiar to me.  I came to the idea, in the dream, of "What if I'm in a dream?  What if I'm dreaming all this?"  The fellas looked skeptical of it, so I asked them to pinch me on the arm, and they did so repeatedly.  Apparently it proved to them, that I was not in a dream.

But I wouldn't give up.  My dream self then was saying: "Wait a second, I'm not really the person you see here!  I know who I really am.  I know his name... I just know that I'm really this other person, this other person in real life," or something very much to that effect.  And also, "wait, he needs to wake up!"

I think I woke up shortly afterwards.  I found it fascinating that it seemed the character of myself in the dreamworld grew its own consciousness and examined his surroundings as in the context in a dream, to the extent that the character realized "this must be a dream!"  And repeatedly questioned the point until I did wake up.

Well was that existential or what!  Maybe it means I'm getting better control of my dreams now, which is something I've never figured out before.  But this was a novel sensation!

I am a believer that dreams can mirror something that is going on in reality. So maybe the fact that your dream self was saying "I know who I really am", "I am not the person you see here", means that you may be close to finding out who you really are, or what your existence means. You may be "waking up" to seeing who you really are.

But I am no dream professional, but I have done a lot of research.

You can go to dreammoods.com to really break down your dream into specific details and describe what your dream means. That website has helped a bunch describing my dreams and such.

My supercool dreams are flying dreams.  I fly standing up because I emit the mysterious flying force out of the bottoms of my feet.  Sometimes I can easily take off and soar high above the trees and buildings.  Other times I can barely hover a foot above the ground and I can only stop moving if I crash into something.  At some point during my flight, I realize that my flying is real life and I'm not just dreaming about flying; I'm actually flying!   Unfortunately, I always wake up to this cold hard world, forever bound by gravity.  Stupid gravity...

I checked out flying dreams at dreammoods.com and it really says a lot about my experience.  "Flying dreams and the ability to control your flight is representative of your own personal sense of power."  Indeed, I do seem to fly higher and with better control when I believe I have power and control over my own life.

Thanks for the insight, folks, anyone else have any comments on my dream?

Or any cool dreams of your own to share?

I agree with autisticinsanity. It's a great dream, and if you can find your own strenght there, that can be the beginning of finding it awake.

I do not often dream. But when I do I do take them serious. If I ponder on going back to my former job, with all the modifications I would need. I dream of the job. Everything has changed for the better, but still its a horrid nightmare. It's a warning sign to me, 'don't even think about it'.

But in the middle of my 'regression' I had a great dream. Walking in a strange city, where I really felt at home. Old buildings, trees, water. Meeting people I liked, but everyone had a space of his/her own. The freedom in the city was so great that even squirrels could swim. I had a place of my own and could interact. The positivity of that dream did help me come out of my 'regression'. There is a place for me, somewhere. And I'm finding it, bit by bit.

Perhaps my dream is a good "sign" then, eh?  

When I see my kids growing, I sometimes notice they grow in their dreams also. They seem to be ahead of them selves in some dreams. As if its a safe place to experiment with the new.

So yes, if it's positive, take it as a good sign.

Hi Batman - It sounds like this might have been the precursor to lucid dreaming. As soon as your "dream self" becomes able to recognise that you are in a dream very quickly, you'll be able to control what happens to you - then there's all sorts of impressive and freaky things that you can do (including self-programming - lots of fun).

If you want to speed the process up, you can try to make a habit of looking at your hands every hour or so, then looking up and trying to work out logically whether or not you're in a dream. If this becomes a habit, then your dreaming self will end up doing it too. With me, it got to the stage where I'd look at my hands in a dream, then look up and see a big sign saying "Yep, it's a dream". *grins*

Once, I dreamt I saw this big red monster, and the next day he was on some TV show for kids. It was sooooo weird!

I probably saw an advert for it somewhere, and he was in it, but it was still freaky

Was it Elmo?
I'd like to see what your signature bad-ass robot does to Elmo.
(ratatatatatat splat fwoosh boom KABLOOIE !!!)

Awww... On second thought, maybe your robot just wants to be loved.