Just had a full-blown meltdown in a dream.
Normally, I am not a person to have nightmares: my dreams are full of absurd elements, but they are usually not scary and don’t even read as absurd while dreaming, it’s only after when I see the absurdity/surrealism of what’s happened. But this one probably is an exception.

Had a dream that I accidentally enter a building. It is some kind of an attraction/art center, where people pay big money to enter, but I somehow enter accidentally, by mistake. It provides immersive experience for the funs of horror. Personally I am a big coward, I hate horrors, terrors and any kind of disturbing scenes, so I don’t watch movies of this genre at all, and IRL would never go to such a place if it existed.
Nevertheless, in this dream I end up in this multy-story building, on the top floor. It has endless corridors with lots of doors. Behind every door there is an immersive experience that is absurd and may have elements of horror. If you go through that experience and do the right thing, in one of the rooms on the floor you may find a way to get down to the next(lower) floor. The exit from the building is supposed to be on the ground floor. There are people around, some of them are the actors which are the parts of the performance, and some are visitors. You start moving through the rooms with the crowd(which is both scary as you don’t trust crowds and less scary because it’s easier to hide behind the crowd letting the attention to the performers/effects to focus on those who enjoy the experience), but eventually it’s way less crowdy, at some moments there is no one around or just a few people.
At some point I become so overwhelmed/disgusted by the absurd and horror of the experiences that I decide to not engage with the rooms and just walk down the corridor to find a normal service door and go down by the service stairs. I see some doors in the middle of the floor marked by a little mark that may mean exit, as well as some room that looks like a toilet, but I am not sure if they are real or a part of the experience, and by that point I am so fed up/overwhelmed with those that I don’t want to even try - so I decide to check if there isn’t something that is more obviously out of the game at the floor - and I go till the end of corridor, and clearly there’s no service exit there, and there is something going on behind each door, so I decide to go back and give that door with a little mark a try - but when I am returning, it’s not there, the geometry of the floor somehow changes, and there are numerous turns now, and it seems like there are less doors now, and that one is gone. I feel on the verge of a breakdown, and I see some people and start talking to them asking about the service exit, and some tell they have no idea while some other start telling me that there’s no other way down, and I must live through the experience, and isn’t it why everybody comes and pays money for, and I am trying to explain that I am here by an accident, and I am not enjoying, and I am overwhelmed and the only thing I want is to quit right now as I can’t bear it anymore. But the person is smiling and telling me to not be dramatic, calm down and enjoy it. And I snap at them, telling them don’t you understand that someone may be so done with that that would be ready to do anything to stop this experience, including suicide - but the person laughs at me, and I have a full meltdown. I feel intense despair and the desire to stop it all, and I cry with all the tears of Universe for it to stop. And I wake up.

It actually is something that happens to me: to wake up because of negative emotions being so overwhelming in a dream I can’t bear them anymore.
Is it something that happens to other autists as well?
Is it because we are so used to overwhelm and meltdowns that they are inevitably showing up in the dreams like any other part of our life experience, or is it because I don’t let myself have full-blown meltdowns, and the brain/body just needs to release all that?

@autistics