Thread: New Study - Video Gamers have more Lucid Dreams and less Nightmares

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/70...act-on-dreams/

Hmm...this is a rather interesting subject.

Video gaming has long been amongst my list of favored leisure activities. Ergo, looking back upon my own dreaming experiences, I'd say the hypothesis presented in the article is fairly credible.

Many of my dreams have had various out-of-body moments, and for the few nightmares I've had, I cannot recall ever experiencing fear or discomfort while they occurred. And, there is seldom a moment in my dreams in which there is no aggressive situation taking place.

As one of the article's commentators notes, perhaps there is a particular brain activity that functions alike in both the activities of dreams and video gaming.

...But, anyhow, I think I'll have to agree with this theory for the time being. I think I'll keep an eye on this article for a while.

if this is true, dang, i should be having at least 3 lucid dreams a week, instead of the current 1 of couple of months. for some reason, lucid dreams have stopped occurring as much as they used to.

That's cool. Lol, to have lucid dreams you can either meditate or play video games, take your pick.

I enjoy video games and play them often enough, but I wouldn't call myself a video gamer. My dreams seem to correlate with the article. I haven't had a nightmare in a long time. I can only remember one recently, and it had nothing to do with being chased or whatnot. Being attacked in dreams doesn't usually scare me much, unless it involves bees and/or spiders. xP My dreams are kind of half way between gamer and non-gamer.

I'm able to relate to it, since I usually game daily.

I did not read the article. I can't be bothered to at the moment, for it is 4:37 AM and I have a headache.

However I can say that my lucid dreams (when they don't become nightmares) are alot like getting out of the map or "world" in a video game. There is just nothing but one or two solid colors and a dark sky that stretch on to infinity, kind of eerie. The programmers didn't code the game to display any discernible landscape for such a situation because they didn't expect it would happen. So is it as if my mind didn't expect me (itself) to "get outside of the map" so to speak?

Hm. I've been playing video games for about 11 years and I had a lot of nightmares as a child, and only in the past few years have I attained lucidity in dreams.

I think this is true, because I dont have a console so I dont play videogames very often, but I started playing a football ( soccer ) videogame online the other day, and since that day my LD's have increased to the point that the game has become a dream sign for me.
I think that videogames enables people to focus their attention in something ficticious, wich may help LD