Thread: Video Gamers Can Control Dreams

Interesting... I game quite a bit, although recently not as much as I used to... Maybe I should more

Hmm I've kind of stopped gaming, just haven't had time recently. But I've been thinking of starting a new one, I think I will after reading this

I can remember a few months ago when I was really into Mass Effect 2 I had a couple dreams were I was commander Shepherd lol.. So fun :bravo:

While you play, the rest of your mind can be a blissful blank.

this is actually true, back in the days when i played cod 2 on a professional level and we trained strategies for 6-8 hours per day I remember me gliding into lucid dreams very easily. I would usually imagine the map we were practicing and just walk around remembering every detail, every move, every position. The next day I would wake up and know the map a lot better and my movement within the map would be incredible. Imagine knowing a place like your own room. Every little edge, crack, hole and so on.... Maybe that was the reason I was able to compete on such a high level...

This is a pretty dubious study guys. I mean it says so itself it only suggests. At one point it says "whether honed through lucidity-training activities, such as meditation, or through hours spent fighting virtual enemies to reach the next level in a game." Must be the games. And on top of all that, a second study found the opposite "A second study tried to narrow down the uncertainties by examining dreams that participants experienced from the night before, and focused more on gamers. It found that lucid dreams were common, but that the gamers never had dream control over anything beyond their dream selves." Even if we disreguard all of this, lucid dreaming didnt become a global phenomenon overnight when gaming was created. If we look at how the study was done aswell, it was all feedback from the participants. This is highly unreliable on top of that fact it's dreams they are remembering.

Let's just say I'm sceptical of this study.

Yes that would work reinhardt.

Also I found out that in my dreams I would have an item menu lol and I was contorlling in third person sort of thing. This is after playing Dragon Age Origins. Even after the first day playing I had these dreams. Strange. I think first person games might be a bit better.

Theme - You're missing the point entirely. You could easily use your gaming dreams to become lucid through persistent reality checking when playing games IRL.

Perhaps you could do that, but it is nothing ike what this article is saying.

Yeah maybe technically this article could be misunderstood. I don't think games = lucid dreams. But games does definitely = control over dreams. Even though you may not know you are dreaming, hence not a lucid dream.

Awesome! I'm completely addicted to videogames, and it started when i was a little kid. I don't remember having a nightmare in at least a year. Now I know why. Also I've noticed I get angry very easily in dreams, cuss people out, and other stuff I try very hard not to do in RL. I wonder if it's different depending on what games you play, like if you play non-violent games then maybe you won't act violent in dreams. Something to think about.

This sounds great to me! I've noticed that a ton of my dreams involve characters from games or TV. Hmm...I wonder what would happen if you designed a game online that somehow related to lucidity, then played it at least once a day? If anyone has actually bothered to do this, could I play the game?

Ah I know! I want someone to make a lucid dreaming game too. I find watching movies/tv shows to do with dreaming does help. House is a good one, there's at least 4 episodes that have something to do with lucidity, although sometimes it involves hallucinations and not actual dreams but still it gets you in that mind state.

I know a site where I could create a lucid level. In fact, I'll start working on one today. I'll post a link when it's finished!

Well, that was quick. Please try the level, reading the signs and penguins (don't ask, you'll see) as you go. Go to this site and click on the level called "Lucidity Assist." Tell me if anyone has success with it!
http://runouw.com/viewprofile.php?name=ManBoy

Originally Posted by TheOneirologist

Well, that was quick. Please try the level, reading the signs and penguins (don't ask, you'll see) as you go. Go to this site and click on the level called "Lucidity Assist." Tell me if anyone has success with it!
Runouw's Website - Flash games by Runouw

Yea, it works, Its very cool, i somehow got stuck inside the letter D =p
Im going to bed now, seeing that ive been up for 30 hours, Going to possibly try to lucid, If I end up Dreaming about this level I'm pretty sure I'll laugh out loud.

Yeah... the penguins bump you around because they were meant to be obstacles. Try not to touch them or you might not make it to the end of the level. If you get a running start and press down, you can duck under them.

...WHOA! You stayed up for 30 hours?!?

INCEPTION: MIND CRIME

I used to have a Superman game for N64. It sucked.

BUT one night I awoke during a phase of sleep paralysis and whilst trying to dissasosiate myself (actually for astral projection, but some people here might consider astral projections as lucid dreams) I imagined flying round in the same way as that game. You could flip upside down and whip under bridges and stuff and due to being used to playing the game it made the mental simulation really easily.

Interesting but I'm not entirely sure how much of it is accurate. I've been playing video games for nearly my entire life and I put many hours of my day into playing video games, I'd like to think that I actually play more then your average gamer, I haven't noticed any gain in lucid dreaming from playing games, infact I've noticed quite the opposite. I've had so many chances of becoming lucid in many dreams which I did not because I took silly things as reality because silly things as such actually happen in my waking life of playing video games.

With that being said, maybe its just my problem. If so, I suppose I should rather get into believing it does help with all the gaming I do, rather then the opposite. Perhaps that alone would give me more chances of becoming lucid.

I stayed up all night with my friend one time so we went to church and they started playing a really soft song and we had been playing video games all that night so I started nodding off then when my head started falling I would wake up (it's really funny to watch my friend was doing it too). When I would wake up I found my left finger twitching like I was hitting R2 on the playstation lol

This is very interesting, as I pretty much end every night with playing Modern Warfare 2 with my friends. And I have looked through my DJ and found that I tend to see Call of Duty or something to do with it in most of my dreams. Also Starcraft 2 since I have been playing that

Originally Posted by Wonderbread

This is very interesting, as I pretty much end every night with playing Modern Warfare 2 with my friends. And I have looked through my DJ and found that I tend to see Call of Duty or something to do with it in most of my dreams. Also Starcraft 2 since I have been playing that

Haha yea, i had a dream last night where I can use the "Blink" teleportation ability of the stalker in real life but it was obviously a dream Wasn't lucid but it was pretty cool though.

Huh. I game a heck of a lot, yet I still fail at gaining lucidity and control. Though I suppose I mostly play for story, so the whole suspension-of-disbelief thing might factor into it. Especially when Hideo Kojima's involved.

Well this is interesting. Perhaps i can channel my street fighter addiction into something useful after all.