Thread: Video Games In Dreams

I don't know what's wrong with me. After playing FFXIII, I tend to dream about the characters many times. So far I managed to dream about Lightning and her gang except Sazh. I'm waiting for him to pop up in my dream for my dream characters collection. Their appearances were so detailed.

I even entered combats with them. Gosh, dreaming about video games really make my day brighter and wish for more. I even dreamt about Nemesis from RE:3 twice. Those were really creepy dreams, having to dodge and escape from being chased by Nemesis.

Originally Posted by Xvaiuer

It's actually really weird when you're inside of the game but also controlling it with a controller/mouse/keyboard as well. That's what most of my dreams are like when I'm inside of a video game.

I agree, like others, I do the in-game with controller protocol usually. rarely do I play as the character itself, and even more rarely do I play from outside the game. Sometimes my dream is themed from a game, but is not that game, like if I'm playing Call of Duty, and the map is blocky like Minecraft (which is an old dream from years ago, let's get it straight, I play Battlefield now).

The most recent game where I played outside the game like IRL I was playing GTA Online. I was taking cover in a Burgershot. and enemy came in, and won the gunfight. My character acted as if it would IRL, got the death screen, the player collapsing, etc. I love it when my dreams act realistically.

Very common experience for me. I simply "become" the character (usually FPS games) and play the game in first person. Like virtual reality.

Woot! Best day ever. I dreamt about becoming one of the characters from FF Type-0 and we're in a mall. We were fighting the bad guys wearing armors and veils. In order to save the world, I travelled with the others to a place kinda look like Gran Pulse.

There, I can witness Auron and Jecht from FFX were talking to each other and joking around. Then, I saw vivid images of characters from FFXIII(Lightning and co.) were running behind Jecht and Auron for an unknown reason.

I want moar dreams like this. It was so entertaining and pleasing. FF fans, don't get jealous, lol.

To original poster, dreaming about video game is one of the best thing that can be accomplished.

Yeah. Back in time i was playing CS 1.6 i've seen dreams where i'm a part of game. Actually running on the map. And headshots, headshots
But detalization still was sux!

When I dream of video games it is occasionally where I am playing the game on a console or computer with the controller, but usually it's like a virtual reality version of the game where either I join the main characters of the game or I am one of the characters from the game. The last time I had a video game dream I saw someone in Assassin's Creed robes and he gave me a mission to take out a Templar spy. I really like dreaming in video games.

Its pretty comum for me to have this kind of dream... I mean, in the dream I'm "playing"/living inside a game.

I'm not playing much games theses days...

Story time. For a large part of my childhood, many of my regular nightmares involved me being in a horrible video game full of things that would chase me and/or constantly scare me. I was in the game's world, but I still felt the controller in my hands all the time. A large chunk of these nightmares consisted of me pausing the game and then struggling to scroll down to the "Quit Game" option, which I only ever made it to once. The highlight on the menu would skip over the option to quit and wouldn't be that responsive in general to my interactions with the controller. The rest of the nightmares where I didn't get to "Quit" would just strain me until I woke up, which was not very pleasant.

Yeah, I've had dreams of being in video games many times, but I'm not sure I've ever been in a certain game. Maybe a game that was reminiscent of others, but never an exact representation of the real thing.

One question: When you're in these video game dreams, do most of you see the HUD (user controls)? I've never seen it in my dreams but maybe in some of yours, like Spyke here:

SpykeTheGamer: ...then struggling to scroll down to the "Quit Game" option, which I only ever made it to once. The highlight on the menu would skip over the option to quit and wouldn't be that responsive in general to my interactions with the controller. The rest of the nightmares where I didn't get to "Quit" would just strain me until I woke up, which was not very pleasant.

Did you see the menu right in front of you like a hologram or did it take up your whole field of vision? I find it interesting you actually see a menu at all!

Originally Posted by Jellyd0nut

Did you see the menu right in front of you like a hologram or did it take up your whole field of vision? I find it interesting you actually see a menu at all!

Yeah, it took up my whole FOV, and everything else in the background became blurry. I guess that's the easiest way I can describe it.

Originally Posted by SpykeTheGamer

Yeah, it took up my whole FOV, and everything else in the background became blurry. I guess that's the easiest way I can describe it.

Wow, sounds cool! It's interesting that one can remember that level of detail. I've personally never had any kind of menu or HUD show up in a video-game-esque dream. Great stuff!

I once had a dream about being inside Grand Theft Auto, with my friends, we were in the middle of a heist!!

Probably not surprising I did, since I was playing GTA pretty much every day when I had that dream!

Most of the time when its a game dream it is still third person for example, but it is if I am actually there, not behind a screen. For example one time I dreamt I was playing age of empires three and I was like an omniscient third person floating around, but it was if I was actually there, not 'playing' the game. I think this is similar to dreams where it feels like watching a movie, but a bit more involved because of the gameplay aspect.

For all dreams I've games featured, it could be anything.

1) I'm just playing it. Obviously using phone or PC. Same as waking life.
2) I'm inside. I think that game is my reality.
3) Games with virtual reality. Nothing to explain much.
4) Mixed. I once had a dream that I was playing via my desktop computer. However, after few minutes, I completely believe that was actually virtual reality. Ugh, I don't really know. It changed according to timeline in my dream. So, that literally means the image somehow consumed me.

Though, I always wish it's possible to have some handy interactive dialog boxes floating in real life. Example goes by anime like Sword Art Online/Log Horizon. I did have them in some of my dreams though, even though it wasn't about games at all. Also sometimes, HUD exists by my vision. They're placed around my FOV without interrupting my vision at all. For example, if HP bar is shown on top left. I'll just try to look for it without moving my head.

I recently dreamed that I was playing GoldenEye 007 for the N64 (that game PWNZORZ, by the way), and all of a sudden I saw Bond's front body, slightly from his upper left, and I actually saw him reloading a weapon.
All of this was very strange, because you never see your own character's front body like that, except during cutscenes and in the very beginning of a Multiplayer match of course, and you also never see them move their arms when they reload their weapons.
I remember I was almost about to become somewhat lucid, because I started to feel that something was weird about the whole thing, and then I woke up.

I also remember seeing Boris inside a shed of some sort high up in the sky (kind of like that final shed on the Cradle stage, right before the very last part of the fight with Trevelyan, except it seemed to levitate all by itself), and he shot at me with a Klobb.
Obviously, I took no damage at all.

Well by now I'm sure you've figured out that this is fairly common haha Like just about everyone else, this happens to me all the time. I don't remember ever playing a video game in a dream where it didn't turn into the point where I was in the video game.