Dreaming

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As a kid I used to wake up remembering at least some of the dreams I had. It was good and I would try to figure out their meaning.

Nowadays I go to sleep and wake up thinking about special interests. I'm not sure if I even dream anymore as during sleep I just seem to be thinking and analyzing different aspects of a special interest. I'm pretty sure of this because even when I wake up in the middle of the night I am thinking intensely about the special interest.

Is this common? I'm worried that dreaming serves some kind of function that I am missing out on (maybe that explains why I look pretty miserable these days)

Sometimes I remember dreams, other I don't. I', just glad I don't feel pain in them anymore.

I wish I dreamed about my special interests! Instead I phase into a world where I don't retain my waking identity and memories, let alone the things I think about the most. Not that I don't like my dreams, but it would be nice to have one about riding Sybok's horse with him at least once. Or traveling through my fictional world.

My dream life seems to go through phases. Sometimes I'll be having complicated dreams with elaborate "sets" that make me wish I could be that inventive in waking life, and sometimes I'll have night after night of boring dreams with long, many-doored corridors that never seem to end. Sometimes I'll go to sleep comfortably musing about my special interests and sometimes I'll go to sleep gnawing over everyday problems. Whatever, my ability to function during the day seems to be related more to the hours of sleep I get, rather than the frequency and quality of my dreams. I see no sense in worrying about not dreaming properly.

oceandrop: I think it's pretty normal for special interests to be the last thing we think about at night and the first thing we think about in the morning. Thinking about interests during sleep is how some inventors and scientists have solved problems before. I don't think dreaming serves any physical purpose, though I am one of those people who believes that it reveals a lot about our subconscious.

I go through phases where I don't dream about my special interests and than after a while, I do dream about them for a period.

Remembering dreams is always like this for me:

I rarely remember my dreams, given the content of the ones i do remember... i am kind of glad i don't remember many of them

I'm on a medication which one of the side effects is really vivid dreams. I have to say I'm enjoying the experience.

But anyway - please don't worry. I think for autistic people it's pretty normal for everything to be centred around a special interest.

I always dream about my special intrests and obsessions. I often have reoccuring dreams. I used to have the same dream every night as a kid about jaguars. I also had another one about giraffes in a pen near a playground. I wanted to touch them but I couldn't. I was told something like they weren't going to be there much longer. I can't remember the exact details of the giraffe dream but I can remember the details of the jaguar one in detail.

If I remember any dreams I have I write them down I found I dream about a place I used to work at or I'm trying to find the public toilets but when I do they're blocked and not working.
Another one is I'm trying to catch the bus but unable to get to the bus stop in time.

I never dream.

No this isn't "I don't remember my dreams", but a plain "I don't dream"

The only thing that awaits me when I go to bed is the dark oblivion and time passing.

Even if I focus on my "special subject" (Which is probably the mental construction of either my ideal afterlife or my ideal future at the moment), they never intrude on my sleeptime. It might have something to do with the fact that I've been on varying medications since I was 10 to either keep me focused or make me sleep.

If, in the unlikely event that I do dream, it's usually something like "I'm on a cliff pointing over the sea, picking daisies. I dive off the cliff and turn into a shark with the daisies in my mouth and as I swim, the ocean gets darker and darker."

Most dreams I have are a replay of the day or some twisted version of a place I have been or a completely made up nonsense world.
When they are 'different' from that ie extremely realistic not distorted, or have some kind of intense spiritual vibration like an out of body dream, where the feelings are beyond real but cannot be described, is when I wonder hmm... This has to mean something, this has to be MORE than just a dream...
I am very interested in dreams
I am very interested in Jungian type theories about dreaming because, I have experienced what you could say shared dreaming.
It's actually becoming a major focus of my studies, access to peoples unconscious mind through art, I believe some kind of basic unconscious human instincts can be tapped into people and with that same symbolism in the artwork in some facet of your mind, this causes the mirror neurons in people to fire off, as they look at your art and pick off some kind of vibration or wavelength, if you are sharing a wavelength then with someone, could cause a long-distance or unconscious dreaming connection...
My goal is to get the ability to lucid dream, and to be able to share dreams with people more often, because I believe dreams can be very healing mentally and as for me cause a very new way at looking at life, as a spiritually connected web.

As you can see my 'special interest' is dream/consciousness right now...
btw I have very good dream recall. Usually if I remember a dream it must be meaningful, but if I believe I have dreamless sleep, then I probably did..