Video games change the way you dream

No Ayla? tsk tsk

When the PS2 was about to be released I had a dream I was playing PS2 for hours on end. When I awoke I hoped out of bed. And turned on my PS2. I didn’t realize I was playing my PS1 until 10 minutes in.

after playing resident evil 1 at the age of 8 this is how I saw doors for the next three months

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRSo-Jk703A

I had legit nightmares of my game cds breaking, handheld falling into gutters, game saves getting erased etc… FUCK THAT

What game was you playing

Ive never had a lucid dream

That’s because listening to Lil B rots your brain

Go to sleep listening to this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f-2IKXr3R8

I’m sure something has to happen.

I did, once. I got murdered in it, though. Cleaved in half, down the middle. Right after I stopped running and said, “Wait. This is my dream.”

If I’ve been on a loot whore game binge, I dream in big bold explosions of white, blue, yellow, green, gold sometimes orange and/or purple letters.

One of the best things about dreams to me is how real they feel. A self aware dream would be a waste of time

The closest I had to a video game related dream was back when I was younger. I was all hype about GT2 I think and I had a dream that I was sitting in my chair playing it.

I dont remember most of my dreams now.

IDK. Probably a random sports game. Which actually makes a lot more sense now.

I used to dream about Paper Mario, and I tried to do hammer throw, but I couldn’t throw the hammer far enough, and died. I woke up right when I got hit, and realized that I fell asleep while fighting jr troopa. Since then, I have made it a point to turn off the vidya when I begin losing consciousness, but I forget sometimes and end up in similar dreams.

Have you guys ever had dreams mid-sleep paralysis?

Sleep paralysis is terrifying in itself, but I remember this one time where I was stuck in it and was laying in bed on my back, the only thing I could see being my chest. My eyes were barely open and I couldn’t do anything besides control my breathing.

All of a sudden, I see this big motherfucker tarantula crawling up my chest in slow motion or something. There was nothing I could do as I watched it slowly inch towards my face. I could have sworn on my life that that fucking spider was there, but as soon as I was able to snap out of it I woke up fully; lo and behold there was nothing there.

I’ve never experienced anything like it in my entire life before or after that.

More like an hallucination I guess.

There was this ghostly lady standing over top of me, and I remember calling out for help but no one was waking up.

Probably cause in reality in terms of volume my shouts for help were nothing greater than a hushed sigh.

I’m always stuck in sleep paralysis. It takes so much out of me to will myself awake.

After playing hella Tekken one time I had a dream that Devil Kaz was tryna get me smh
I also had a dream that the MK cast were having a free for all and I was in the middld of it 0.0

Funny this just popped up.

Last night I was in some room in a castle with a princess, and some sort of undead things started entering the room. I called up the console, typed delete a few times, and went back to the princess…

In fact, thinking back, all of my lucid dreams were somehow video game related. My first lucid dream was when I was eight, I was falling from a sheer cliff which must have been miles high, onto a green jungle. I was so high it didn’t look like the jungle was getting any closer. What tipped me off that it was a dream was that, well, everything looked like a Sega Genesis game. It looked realistic, sure, but the colors, the fact that the cliff was almost completely flat, the general shape of the clouds. So I took control. I was eight so all I could think of was bouncing off the cliff face like a tennis ball, and then I woke up. This was the “most lucid” dream I ever had. The other ones were like the one up above where I just do some simple task but the dream otherwise runs entirely on autopilot, including me.

My non-lucid dreams are often extremely powerful, to the point where I think they are memories. I once woke up and was pretty troubled that my dad had attacked me over my hair cut the day before. It wasn’t just heckling, he was yelling and hurling insults as though I had just murdered somebody. When I was showering, I ran my hand through my hair and realized “wait a minute, he can’t have yelled at me over my haircut, I haven’t had a haircut in two months”. And then I realized that I hadn’t gone to visit my folks in a week. Most of my dreams are not like this, but somewhere on the order of once every two weeks or so I have an extremely powerful, vivid, but not lucid dream. I often have to catch myself or I will just internalize the dream as a memory.

I used to have dreams where I’d make a video game, but it always ended up looking like Air Fortress for the NES.

When I used to have my long Final Fantasy Tactics sessions, the world in my dreams always looked like an FFT map. It was kind of irritating, actually.

You get the old hag? Oh dear :shake: