Animation in Dreams?

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Sometimes I dream in cartoons. Two people have told me this is an AS thing, but I've never heard of it before.
Do NTs do this too?

It happens to me occasionally, but the closest thing to my dreams are the Youtube Poops that seem to dominate the site.

I'm not familiar with that.
I asked two people who were outside of the conversation I had, and one (NT) said she'd never had a cartoon dream, however, my other friend (AS) often does.

i believe dreams are as varied as snowflakes.and the higher power that is uses dreams to comunicate with us. to guide us to protect us to show us luv, it manifests in our dreams as a matrix of light and sound. amatrix that our conciousness is comfortable with and can acceptt. mabe because aspies have neurological issues with light and sound it stands to reason that our dreams are going to be more lucid more vivid more animated than ntyp.. i believe when we try to interpit the symbolic and ritualistic nature of our dreams and there meaning ,every person is unique. no symble means the same thing to two different people.for instance, what do cartoons mean to u.?what dose animation mean to u ? what are u doing in the cartoon? is anouther charactor interacting with u ? what are all the who what and wheres of the dream . i believe we can learn and grow from our dreams, but in no way do they validate or inversely invalidate us . and all my instincts will return, and the grand fasad so soon will burn, with out a noise with out my pride, i reach out from the inside

My dreams are made up of my thoughts in a story form. Of course, my thoughts aren't exactly normal. Ive asked people about this before... most people can say that they think in words, pictures, video, etc... I can't put any definition on what format my thoughts come in. I can think up pictures, words, etc... but by default they're just "thoughts" and thats the only way I can describe them to someone who isn't in my head. My dreams are very much like this as well. They always feel very real at the time. But upon waking up, thinking about my dreams is a very complicated process because of their "format". ie... no people in my dreams have faces or any other physical features for that matter. I usually just know who the person is and they exist as a concept and nothing more. The same goes for everything else. So.. I can say with certainty that I've never had a cartoon dream. However, I'm not officially diagnosed either... Sometimes I think I might just have something else entirely

I've never dreamed in cartoon. It's almost always three dimensional, sometimes two or four, but always realistic. (Yeah, four dimensions... only a total geek would try to think in four spatial dimensions enough to start dreaming about them... I am such a nerd! )

I'm not sure that I have ever had one personally. Like kalantir my people do not normally have faces or features, I just KNOW who they are and why they are there. There are a couple times when I remember colour vividly and have had cartoon characters or cartoon-like chars in my dreams, but whether it was drawn in a cartoon way I have no clue.

Yeah, this occasionally happens to me too. Last night I had a Wallace & Gromit / The Simpsons dream, so it was rather animated. I'm also guessing the few dreams where SpongeBob appeared have been animated too.

I've dreamed of cartoon characters, being a cartoon, parts of a scene in a dream being animated, or an entire dream being animated (coming from media or my mind's own creation.)

ive had a dream in like 3d kinda computer graphics style but no cartoony ones

I once had a dream in black and white and there was a fire engine which was bright red. It was a really weird dream...

I had a cartoon-like dream last night. I can't really recall have any like this before though--- but it is strange that this topic was brought up. I must share this dream I had last night---I had to go downstairs so as to not wake my wife up---I was laughing so hard I started crying.

Here is the dream---It had a title, "The Amish Aspies Meet the Phantom of the Opry" (it was animated like a Monty Python cartoon---the ones done by Terry Gilliam).

The Amish women were being abducted by the opry phantom. They would be sucked over to the fireplace in their home and begin twirling really fast before being sucked up the chimney to the horror of the Amish husbands and family. Finally, the Amish men said enough was enough and they organized a meeting. The only problem was, these men had Asperger's and couldn't communicate well---their eyes were dodging around in an over-exaggerated manner. In order to communicate they decided they had to do something about their eye contact issues---so they would pull their beards up in front of their face and then speak to the others. So here is this meeting of Amish men with their beards pulled up over their faces. Their voices were muffled due to the beards and here was all this beard hair flapping around as their breath blew through it. They finally took off in their horse-drawn carriages to track down the Phantom of the Opry (like the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville--their was goofy country music playing during this---Benny Hill like---maybe Yakety Sax). I think one of the carriages tipped over because the Amish guy in it had his beard pulled up over his face---it ran off the road.

Anyway, it was just a goofy dream. The images in it were a hilarious to me. Before going to bed last night I was browsing the WrongPlanet and saw a post about if anyone knew the number of Amish people with Asperger's. So that fueled my dream. But I have no idea where the opry phantom came from. He was different from the Phantom of the Opera.

NTs definitely get this, too. I doubt there are many discrepancies between dreams of most humans. Dreams are so varied as it is that to try to define them by group would probably do more harm than good.

I only did this once, but it wasn't really an animated cartoon... it was more like a Tim Burton movie. I read somewhere that people with Asperger's only dream in black & white & don't have much imagination. Both of these things are the total opposite of me, though. Most of my dreams are very vivid & realistic looking, with a lot of imaginative qualities.