Dreams Becoming Video Games

**PKJacker** · 01-19-2014 05:19 AM

Basically I've had it happen where I will see strange thing happening in the dream, but instead of the realization that it's a lucid dream, I instead assume I'm playing a video game (I go pretty hardcore in Immersion when playing video games)

This wouldn't be so bad except that the assumption that it's a video game means that I will automatically set up barriers to what I can and cannot do in the dream. Like I wanted to run on a wall, so I would go onto a ride that made me go up in the air and onto a wall and assume that I glitched off of the ride but was still able to run on the walls.
Other times I'd have it where if I wanted to look at what is inside of a cabinet or something, a little HUD like in Bioshock would display that lists what's in there, that's a pretty big clue that I'm dreaming but I'll just shrug it off as me playing a game.

So my question is, how can I go from assuming it's just me playing a video game to realizing that this is a dream where there are no limits?

**RyanCol** · 01-19-2014 05:41 AM

Reality check every time you get a glitch in a game, that way when you get a "glitch" in a dream you can figure out it's a dream.

**SinisterDezz** · 01-19-2014 05:53 AM

The problem with that is that video games don't "glitch" enough to become a regular RC. Unless you play games that are in beta stage. I suggest ANYTIME you are playing video games, reality check every so often, that could work (slightly) better.

**LouaiB** · 01-19-2014 06:13 AM

I think that it should be a more specific thing to use as a DS. You can practice MILD with self-awareness! They are the solution to everything

**DreamscapeGoat** · 01-19-2014 06:55 AM

Since you know that the dream will become a game of sorts, you should use this as a dream sign - reality check after seeing this, and hey, it's a lucid.