Autism related nightmares?

How many of you have autism related nightmares? I have Asperger's, so I obsess over the position of everything around me, and I do not like their position to change. Just last night, I had a dream, in which I came back from school just to find out that my mother had cleaned my room, and changed the position of EVERY SINGLE THING in my room. It was a very disturbing dream. Does anyone else have such dreams?

404notfound wrote:Does anyone else have such dreams?

I remember a nightmare, in which I made a mistake at my job.

I had one rather recently.

It's a struggle for me to think from another person's perspective, and in the dream I was arguing with my wife for that very reason.

Thank god I'm not the only one!

Most of my nightmares (I don't have them very often) are about school. The school environment I dream of can be anywhere from kindergarten to college, and it seems random which educational level it will be. The feeling I get is always the same, and it's terrifying: "What am I doing here? How is this supposed to be important? Why can't I stop worrying about it if it seems so stupid?".

Still, most of my dreams aren't nightmares, and they do involve little things being somewhere else other than the place where I left them, which always gets me confused.

I dont have nightmares very often too. Even when I am in school, its 90% daydreaming and thinking, I do not pay attention to whats going outside(though I easily get distracted, due to ADHD), so I am really not aware of what goes on at school, so no nightmares about it.
I guess school was not really good for you.

I´ve also had bad nightmares about school, in which the teacher was like "oh well you are not going home in this century". The actually being in school was worse than the nightmare though.

I used to have nightmares revolving around guilt. It was a variety of subjects, but all were about tthat I had done something horribly wrong and I felt really guilty about it. Not sure if that was directly related to AS, but certainly related to anxiety!

slugger, I have a lot of those. Not directly AS related, I suppose, but generally caused by real-life rejection and guilt for messing up.

I have a lot of generally bad nightmares too...seems like I live in a mostly constant state of intense fear. When I wake up in the morning, I'm up instantly, heart literally racing, hyperventilating, and so horribly terrified that for the next hour or two all I can think is that I want to die. Soon.

It's worse the earlier I wake up. Still haven't figured out what in the world is causing it.

LukeAlistar wrote:I have a lot of generally bad nightmares too...seems like I live in a mostly constant state of intense fear. When I wake up in the morning, I'm up instantly, heart literally racing, hyperventilating, and so horribly terrified that for the next hour or two all I can think is that I want to die. Soon.

It's worse the earlier I wake up. Still haven't figured out what in the world is causing it.

I can so relate to this, i used to be like this a few months ago because of my severe anxiety. It was actually so bad i was afraid of leaving the house because i thought i could faint at the street or something. I'm on medicine and counselling now and it has really helped a lot, i think you should also see a psychiatrist if it's seriously affecting your life.