Horribly Vivid Dreams/Nightmares?

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My dreams are so vivid they are almost surrealist.
I some times think I know where Dali was comming from!

my nightmares are sick and twisted filled with blood guts and gore, mutilations or anything else that would normally make me turn my head in disgust.

my dreams however, are laid out like a movie. I'm never in them, it's usually got a creative plot and twist, and when I wake up, I feel like I just watched a DVD.

NT here And I have to say my dreams, when I remember them, are not only in colour but very vivid. Don't have many nightmares though...

I've had dreams like that but I was still aware I was dreaming, and I know I'm asleep so I really didn't mind.

Yes, I have very vivid dreams and nightmares, they really freak me out sometimes.

Yes, sometimes I avoid sleeping to avoid those dreams.

I've had different types of vivid dreams at different times during my life. When I was a little kid I used have some very clear recurring dreams, which I can still remember in great detail over 30 years later. The oddest ones I had were when I knew I was having a bad dream. I'd then have something like a dream within a dream, where I saw myself standing inside my head banging on my skull shouting wake up, it's only a dream. Othertimes I'd see myself standing over me, pinching my arm to wake me up.

Now my vivid dreams mainly consist of "real life" situations, so life-like that when I wake up I'm convinced that they have really happened. Sometimes it's just plain funny, but a lot of the time it is downright frightening - I just don't know what's real or not.

I'm sure I dream in colour - never knew that you weren't meant to.

Like a lot of people on the site, my sleep patterns are so bad that I don't dream that often though.

I've no idea whether my dreams have to do with being AS or whether it's just that a proportion of people of any population have similar dreams.

I have incredibly intense, vivid dreams, and lately they've developed a tendency to have plots. Once I had a dream which was a full story with a beginning, middle, end, and moral. The moral was, "Even if something terrible happens, it's all going to be okay." The dream was about a doomed martian colony and a serial killer. I saw the earth from space. It was cool.

I frequently dream about the end of the world, in a variety of different ways. I keep a dreamjournal online now for these sorts of things. I think that for the mind, the dream world is more real than the world outside, since it is created entirely within the brain and thus is wholly constructed from the mental and emotional mindstuffs. Dreams act as a nice way to measure one's mental state at any given time.

When I was little I had 'em all the time. They got less frequent as I got older, but didn't go away till I was 16. No magic hormonal changes or anything like that. What happened was I learned about Lucid Dreaming. Still have nightmares from time to time now, but I can recognize them for what they are, and what's more, I can take control of the situation. It's not always perfect, sometimes it's all I can do to just to get away, but I can always at least get away, if not bend things around for my own amusement. And then there's jumping through mirrors. Totall mindf**k, every time, but oh so worth it.

When I were younger, I had nightmares frequently. But then I started telling myself every night, before falling asleep, that I would not have a nightmare that night, and strangely enough, they did cease to come, after a while. Now they are rare, very far between. Although I did have a nightmare not long ago, where I was in the bathroom and the floor was covered with hundreds of ticks, or all sizes. Needless to say, I was glad to wake up, as I have a phobia of ticks.

I'm kind of in the same boat here. When I was a kid, I had nightmares at least a few times a week, and every time, they were so realistic, I never knew if it was a dream or for real. Needless to say, I hated bedtime with a passion. The vivid nightmares disappeared around age 12, but still resurface from time to time. Now, however, I learned to recognize when something is a dream, by looking for telltale signs. For instance, if I'm walking on a grim-looking street and I see a person hanging from a lamppost, I immediately recognize that I'm dreaming. After all, the odds of something like this happening in real life (at least where I live) are virtually nonexistent. At that point, I usually wake up, turn on the lights, and say to myself: "that wasn't real; just my brain f*cking with me". As a result, I almost always go back to sleep, barely remembering the nightmare in the morning.

I have lucid dreams regularly.

I also have dreams in which I'm taking a test and I can't think of a thing. I finished college long ago with a good grade average, but I still have those stupid dreams.