Thread: Too many video games = lousy lucid dreams?

Aye, I agree on that.

Actually, I've had quite alot of good dreams where my Brain manages to fit alot of games together.

I've had one that started out as doing some parkour, suddenly it was GTA where we would try to parkour on the cars. Then I got thrown into a cave by the car, now it was an Oblivion related dream, with vampires. However still with some GTA elements.

I've also had a few Assassins Creed + GTA mixes.

I don't play GTA at all anymore, why do I dream of it? ;_;

I had a cool dream about crysis today, I am building a map for it which has a sewer, I had been working on it all night and it came back in my dream.

I just awoke from a dream about Halo 3 multiplayer, well I awoke in my dream and then awoke again in real life . I have had a fair amount of dreams about video games and what this one made me realise is that:

A) I dream that im playing the game with a controller or keyboard or whatever and that the character im controlling is also myself. Its multiple levels of immersion. Perhaps peter moore was on to something when he said playing xbox 360 would be like being in a lucid dream

B) The "graphics" of the world that you are in are actually what the game looks like. For example in the halo 3 one last night/this morning, I was on some sort of snow "map". The snow looked like it did from Halo 3, the lighting and HDR had the same effect from halo 3. And when I got knocked down from one of the grav lifts, my teammates that had just respawned ran past me and their footprints looked the same in the snow. Its basically the games graphics engine in real life resolutions.

I recommend not playing Unreal tournament 3 before sleeping.
I played it for a whole day and my dreams were so crazy and fast paced, every corner i took i was already in pieces...

Originally Posted by warock

I recommend not playing Unreal tournament 3 before sleeping.
I played it for a whole day and my dreams were so crazy and fast paced, every corner i took i was already in pieces...

lol that does sound pretty insane

I play a lot of video games, so I tend to dream about them a lot too. One thing I've noticed is that, in a lot of my dreams, I'm using a keyboard to control what I do; in other words, I'm not physically doing things. My dream keyboard activity commonly consists of shortcut combinations for some reason.

Not just video games, but anything repetitive.

It used to happen to be when I had a job as a dishwasher. After a really busy night I would come home and dream about washing dishes. OUCH! Or when I was programming and doing 12 hour days trying to meet an impossible deadline I would dream in code. That was a little better though, because I even figured out how to do somethings that were tripping me up a couple of times. It didn't make for a great night of sleep, but I would drive in to the office and do in a few minutes what I had been hacking away at for hours the night before.

The subconscious mind is surprisingly easy to program.