Firstly, Video games can last longer than any one Lucid Dream.
True, but videogames get boring after a while and do end. Lucid dreams are based on your creativity and imagination and you could spend a whole lifetime having them and not get bored of them, and you start mastering it the longer you go on for meaning you can have lucid dreams more often, adding up.
The "money" argument has no backing because anyone resourceful enough can get a game they want to play for free.
That is also illegal in most cases, lucid dreaming is not illegal and benefits you mentally. Video games can also do this but most video gamers do not buy many games that do. If they do get games free and illegally, it can make them feel a bit bad if they are the type to feel bad from things like that.
Video games are consistent, and allow you to control things with a push of a button. No fancy attention and focus shifting to bring about a certain archetype.
If you are bad at lucid dreaming then sure, video games can be better but for lucid dreamers who are more experienced, they have the satisfaction of doing it themselves instead of the game making it. You also can control everything in a lucid dream if you get to that point. You can not control everything in videogames even if you have played them for years.
To have an experience and get lost in a captivating story all you have to do is pop in a disc, or cartridge, or other. If you want to change your experience altogether there's nothing fancy you have to do to change the scene. And when switching games there's no leftover archetypes that might mess up your fun.
Part of the above I said about satisfaction applies to this too. The experiences you have in lucid dreams are amazing because you personally are there if you know what I mean and it's your mind that created it instead of a programme. This is partly still a valid point however.
Video games can be quite realistic. It all depends on what game you're playing. Very rarely are LDs actually as vivid as we like to think they are.
You're never actually there in a video game though. In a dream even if it isn't that realistic you're still there. I'm not going to get into this but what in your opinion is realistic? It can mean many different things to different people so without knowing more I cannot really say anything else.
Controls in games aren't really that big of a deal. Furthermore, how many people have to get used to something simple like flying in LDs, Let alone something much more complex?
Another good point that I can't really think of a response at the moment except that when you do learn how to do those things, you learn it for life and it can stay the same while in a video game, the controls change each videogame. A bit offtopic but the controls in a videogame, there aren't very many buttons on an average controller and you can only control a limited amount of things with them when with lucids you can learn and control anything you want.
Most people have restrictions in LDs. They shouldn't, but they do for various reasons.
If they do, it would still be very few restrictions. Lucid dreams have a lot less restrictions than real life. Think of how many restrictions there are in a videogame compared to real life. In shooting games, pretty much the only thing you can do is walk, shoot, reload and not much else.
Most modern games use games use vision, sound, and touch. LDs only use whatever senses you're focusing on at the time. This could be all of them, or none at all.
Videogames can use those senses, yes but they use them to a lesser degree than lucid dreams (except sound if you have surround sound speakers) Touch is really really restricted in videogames, though they are trying to improve this, it's pretty much restricted to vibration for some controllers and the wii-mote all you can feel is the wii-mote still... In lucid dreams, you use these three senses most the time and can use the other two as well when in a videogame you cannot.
Undoubtedly I've missed out a lot as I'm kind of new to lucid dreaming but a more experienced dreamer would be able to go into it in a lot more detail.
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