Video Games Have Power Over Their Nightmares

[Revitozu]

http://kotaku.com/5547398/video-game...eir-nightmares

- Study suggests that video gamers could have the power to alter their nightmares

- Psychologist named Gackenbach and something about her son kissing boxes

- Both lucid dreams and video games are forms of alternate realities, though one is the result of a biological process and the other technological

- The second study, showed that while gamers did have control over their dream worlds, the control was limited to their dream selves, as if controlling a video game character.

""What happens with gamers is that something inexplicable happens," Gackenbach explained. "They don't run away, they turn and fight back. They're more aggressive than the norms.""

What the articles says about dreams being seen in a third person aspect made sense to me. Majority of the dreams I have are in third person, as if the camera is just a few keystrokes away from changing.


first topic posted in general >.> go easy on me

[Kuya]

Pull down your pants.

[Pirian]

When I dream I go from first person and third person seamlessly. Hard to explain, but it makes perfect sense while dreaming, and I'm sure this lame explanation is enough for those who know what I'm talking about


But yeah, I had a reoccurring nightmare as a child, and when I got into my teen years the dream gradually changed so that I was "fighting back". Whether this is because I was more into gaming, or because of my maturing, I can't be sure of

[Aerides]

I have casted Warp in my dreams.

[Pirian]

I have casted Warp in my dreams.

You know you play ffxi too much when...

[Kerberoz]

Umm... what doesn't affect dreams? I thought it was pretty obvious that anything you experience in real life can make its way into your subconscious.

[AoE]

All my nightmares invole someone getting shot.

Maybe I fear being black?

[Metah]

I had a dream last night that someone was stealing my Dad's money right out of his pockets. Later, I found out it was my best friend. So I decided to kill him because he wouldn't stop. I went to an ammo pile, setup exactly like one from L4D/L4D2, and shot him with a hunting rifle.

I was zoomed in too so I hard perfect accuracy even though I was running.
Okay that last part was a lie.

[Riposte]

POPULAR science

Studies show that nerds will listen to you say any fucking thing you want if it makes them sound more manly.

[Salodin]

I don't know since I have only one life to live, but I do notice that if I'm having a bad dream I usually tend to fight back eventually, instead of running away. On the other hand, my gf explains some of her bad dreams to me once in awhile and I don't think she ever fights back. Not really concrete or anything, but I can see why it would make sense.

[Priran]

Video Games Have Power Over Their Nightmares

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[Militant]

I wouldn't even say I really have nightmares anymore, not in many years anyway. I do have some pretty fucked up/weird dreams though, but I've always had an ability to figure out that I am in fact dreaming and wake myself up if shit gets out of hand.

[Souj]

why is this news and why do people still care?
I'll care about my dreams when Freddy's chasin after me.

[Lucavi]

True story:

Super Ghouls and Ghosts altered my dreams. I never had lances and daggers in my dreams before then.

[Omniyoji]

^ Fucking LoL

Nice one Lucavi

[Aristio]

I haven't had one of those "Break into a sweat screaming" nightmares. Never been scared of going to bed, or fears of having nightmares. Nothing in a dream seems real to me, so I have never had one of those nightmares. Although, the threesome with the two blondes I had the other day...I wish that was real.

[Tyrath]

I actually read somewhere before that if you play video games you're more likely to have lucid dreams, so this doesn't really surprise me all that much. I've never had a lucid nightmare though. But the nightmares I do have generally tend to be more in the vein of horror/comedy movies as opposed to just straight up horror.

[Kerberoz]

stay awake for 2 days then take melatonin and you'll have fucked up vivid dreams

I don't think lucid nightmares are even possible

[Chun Liroy]

I don't even have any dreams, let alone nightmares. I think I'm broken. Also lol@AoE.

[Xno Kappa]

You want to have sex with your mother.