In short, it could be either or, and based on all of our personal experience it is ALWAYS DAYDREAMING.

Do androids dream of electric sheep, how would I know, too busy counting Unicorns :)

Laurentius

BBC:
“Autistic brains ‘never daydream’

People with autism do not daydream, a study has found.”

New Scientist:
“Daydreams are different in autistic minds

PEOPLE with autism seem not to daydream in the way that other people do.”

Or what about a NT expert in christian iconography, would such a person daydream while looking at a cross? Maybe they don’t daydream either!

weak design. A test like that would have to be done over a larger series of objects. Even the colour of the wall, lighting in the room, time of day, etc. would have to be controlled.

Scientists think they’re so clever sometimes.

You can’t determine that someone ‘never’ daydreams based on their reaction to a single non-neutral pattern. This seems to be the kind of junk science that the press is hungry for, however; you see a lot of similar bullshit in regards to male-female differences, conducted under similarly flawed conditions, and all I can conclude is that the media is generally hungry for any kind of study that purports to show how one group of people intrinsically differs from (read: is inferior to/incapable of doing the same things as) “normal people,” and which might justify stereotype-based treatment of them.

I’m not sure my brain knows how NOT to daydream…

He has always told me he has a secret world, and I had NO idea what he meant. Now, he has given me the particulars of it, and I understand that he has a vivid imagination! The things he shared are sacred to me…the fact that he daydreams is not.

I felt honored by his trust. I hope I only revealed what was necessary to show his imagination.

In the 1950s through the 1980s, daydreaming was supposed to be a “danger sign” indicating incipient autism. Ah, those thrilling days of yesteryear when autism was supposed to mean a kid was “lost in a fantasy”. All that “Silent Snow, Secret Snow” bologna. I still bristle when I read references to “in his own world” about autism.

Naturally, the Ex-Perts (just like R.B. says) have to stay ahead of the curve, so now we have “extreme male brains” and “lack theory of mind” and are incapable of fantasizing. Which, taken to its logical extreme, means we are incapable of conceiving new ideas, being creative, or uh… gee, independent thought.

We have a homeworld too… have had all our lives. Only difference is that we no longer talk out loud when interacting with there. (More bologna, about “losing it when you grow up.”)

R.B., I’m curious about something though — if you promised not to tell anyone about your son’s secret world, why reveal it here?