Thread: Video Games In Dreams

When I dream about me playing video games, I actually become part of the game. Like lm not on the computer playing I teleport into the game.

In one of my dreams, I was playing counter strike and when my team lost, we became part of some zombie survival setting. A few of my teammates died, which caused us to lose again. the game ended and my view chamged to me on the computer saying "GG"

Anyone else like this? Sonething different?

Yes, this happens to me often. I use this as a way to teleport now! I have also had some dreams where I am both things, at the controls and in the game, very difficult to get the coordination between buttons and movements.

Question about counter-strike... Did you run faster in the dream when you had the knife out?

Lol I never noticed about the knife thing. Usually I can tell its counter strike because i see a terrorist or counter terrorist outfit

I don't get games that often but about 75% of the time I stay outside playing it at the controls. A few times I've transitioned to inside.

Haha, cool topic. I don't know how many times I've gotten the "You have died" Diablo 2 screen in my dreams.

This usually happens to me when I'm really anticipating a new game. (I mean really anticipating) A lot of the time my dream will be a mix between playing the game and actually being in the game.

I was wondering, is it possible to play games with any accuracy in a Lucid dream? Like if there was a lot of footage and information of an upcoming game could you replicate it with any success while lucid dreaming?

I play a lot of different games and experienced a number of them whilst dreaming. Like you said it's as though your actually in the game not playing it on a computer, although sometimes I do have access to a keyboard.

I remember one dream playing counterstrike and I got shot with a shotgun. It hurt real bad! It felt like I had been shot IRL! so much pain

Othertimes if I get shot I don't feel anything and just respawn.

It's actually really weird when you're inside of the game but also controlling it with a controller/mouse/keyboard as well. That's what most of my dreams are like when I'm inside of a video game.

Originally Posted by Xvaiuer

It's actually really weird when you're inside of the game but also controlling it with a controller/mouse/keyboard as well. That's what most of my dreams are like when I'm inside of a video game.

This. In a recent dream "I" right-clicked all the time to make my dream body do roundhouse kicks.
Also, I often become a video game character while still doing all the stuff usual dream-me would do. In the one with the roundhouse kicks I was some redhead chick I don't know and in another one I was my Saints Row 2 character owning a bakery and looking for a house to buy in decidedly nonviolent ways.

Originally Posted by Xvaiuer

It's actually really weird when you're inside of the game but also controlling it with a controller/mouse/keyboard as well. That's what most of my dreams are like when I'm inside of a video game.

I agree, like others, I do the in-game with controller protocol usually. rarely do I play as the character itself, and even more rarely do I play from outside the game. Sometimes my dream is themed from a game, but is not that game, like if I'm playing Call of Duty, and the map is blocky like Minecraft (which is an old dream from years ago, let's get it straight, I play Battlefield now).

The most recent game where I played outside the game like IRL I was playing GTA Online. I was taking cover in a Burgershot. and enemy came in, and won the gunfight. My character acted as if it would IRL, got the death screen, the player collapsing, etc. I love it when my dreams act realistically.

I've been having video-game dreams off and on, even lately; But I don't have an Xbox 360 like I sometimes do in dreams.

One time I had a dream that I was in black ops 2 domination mode and whenever I died I could just respawn, so the whole thing about dying and then coming back to life in a dream was weird.

Recently been playing H1Z1 which only just came out a little while ago and already I've had dreams about it.

I can remember walking over some punjabi sticks that dug right into my feet it hurt like hell

I once had a dream about Legend of Zelda - Ocarina of Time, and I was at that waterfall at the entrance to Gerudo Valley and jumped down it, and floated down to Lake Hylia - and it was late in the night in the game, shortly before sunrise.
It was a truly beautiful experience, and those of you who played that game as kids in the late 90s will probably understand exactly what it felt like.

Video games in dreams are very common for me. The way it usually works is that video game type stuff starts happening gradually, which then spirals into the dream plot being entirely game like, like I'm living a game from the inside. Eventually what usually happens is I 'zoom out' and it's as if I was playing the game all along from the outside, instead of being inside it. It's funny because I thought I'd quit playing video games, but since practising dream recall it turns out that I never stopped! Maybe I never will!

The problem I'm facing now is how to figure out I'm dreaming in those situations, because anything weird can be just explained away as 'game mechanics'.

This happens to me if i grind out games to much and fast. I remember once it happend with tetris. I was one with the blocks. Creepy as hell.

Sometimes I have dreams about being in video games, and I won't be able to see my hands but I have to use the controller in order to make myself move. I had to stop playing zombie video games late at night because I kept dreaming about them, but one of those dreams ended up being one of my favorite lucid dreams.

Exact thing happens to me, and its in counterstrike as well.

Dreaming pokemon is the best thing ever. Gotta catch em all.

It used to happen to me very often when I played video games--it's pretty understandable if you think about it. When you play a game in waking life, you are so concentrated on it that you almost put yourself into the world of the game anyway. Dreams just give your mind the power to make that more literal.

For a while when I was younger, every time I got into a car, I would suddenly be driving a car like I would drive them in Grand Theft Auto. (When I was dreaming, of course)

Originally Posted by Manat

I would drive them in Grand Theft Auto. (When I was dreaming, of course)

This also happens to me!

yea this often happens to me to but kinda differently its more the video game mechanics or characteristics mush its self into my dreamscape like some times the world has a more blocky mincraft look to it but is still real life looking a lot of the land is set out like free roam rpg game levels but not enough to really notice till afterwards and the constant never ending lines of quests. but rarely do I get a dream where there are controllers or monitors involved or a set game that I'm playing. its as if games don't exist in the dreams but yet all the logic to a game applies to the dream as well as the logic of real life.

I have the same thing. Even in non-first person games. Like RTS games for example when I play them. I'm not looking at a computer screen or handling a keyboard and mouse, I'm just doing it, and my whole vision is JUST the game.

I actually had a problem last time I was in a video game. Instead of being in both the normal world holding a controller and in the game at the same time, I was in the game with the controller. In order to run faster or attack I had to hit the buttons, but I usually accidentally lost the controller in the middle of a fight or race and had to look for it. I was lucid at first, but lost it and regained it later.

I've been having a lot of video game dreams lately where it transitions from playing the game to being in the game (or both at once.)
I had one dream similar to Sensei's the other night, where I had the controller inside the game. It was a fighting game like Tekken, and I had to mash buttons while I was right there next to my opponent.

My game dreams are usually semi-lucid, since I know I'm in a virtual world and can respawn/rewind, and usually I have good dream control too. They can sometimes lead to fully lucid dreams where I acknowledge the dreamworld, but sometimes I just follow along with the storyline without being very aware.