This just in: dreaming makes you better at video games.
Y’all go to sleep while I hit up EVO…in my dreams of course.
I wouldn’t say she is old. there is a ton of youth in her face, it’s just very…warped.
ok I will try now
What’s your relationship like with your mother?
I had a dream about sound glitches and frame skips on life situations. If you recognize what i am saying. That’s the horrible effect of playing that game way too much back in the day. 
I literally woke up sweating and feeling anxious. So awkward.
had a dream I killed everyone in demon souls, then fucked Yuria the witch
Has anyone had dreams where they fall deeply in love with someone?
In this case I dreamed about a girl who strongly resembled Ashley Graham, and we were fighting against the forces of evil. When I woke up I felt a sad bliss that never gets encountered throughout other areas of my life.
If there was something to describe my feelings during that dream in detail, it would be this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSMeUPFjQHc
Props to Tweleve for showing me this video.
Don’t get me started about having dreams with everything having 700 ping delay and 50% packetloss in real life. Crossing the street was terrifying. I’d bolt across and then there would be teleporting cars, me running in place and then teleporting right back into the middle of the street.
Dial up was some shit back then. I don’t know how people could play Quake with that ping way back in the 90s. aside from LAN
Great.
…Where are you trying to take this?
Ive had dreams with video game graphics and gameplay in them before, how freaky would it be if that happened to someone before video games were invented?
People probably had dreams that were as if they were part of a painting
I think this is a really interesting topic, and is a great break from most psychological research that typically tries to correlate video games with violence.
However, it does make me curious as to whether lucid dreamers are more likely to pick up gaming as a hobby. I know with myself I’ve had lucid dreams as far back as I can remember, even at like 3 and 4 years old. So maybe games do help you dream lucidly, but lucid dreamers also tend to be attracted to games.
you remember what you dreamt at 3?
I remember being able to control some things, but not really the details of the dreams. By the time I was around 6 or 7 I was a lot better at it.
I wasn’t really afraid of nightmares as a kid, cause when I was having one I would just change the dream or fly away from the monster.
Oddly enough, as much as I play video games I hardly have dreams at all. Either that or I never remember them. The ones I do remember though are either:
A. WEIRD AS FUCK
B. Clairvoyant foresight of about 20 seconds of some random shit that happens 6 years later in life.
Examples: Weird as fuck dream.
About a year ago I had a dream that I was the first person to go to mars. It was just me. No team or anything. For some reason, rocks and shit from mars were really valuable. So I grabbed a whole bunch and went back to earth. Sold all my mars stuff on amazon for millions of dollars. Only to find out the next day that I somehow logged in with someone elses amazon account, and they got all the money. I was mad as fuck. I found out who the guy was and a car chase ensued. He managed to get air off of a railroad track hill, flipped his car and it exploded. Then he appeared in the backseat of my jeep. I woke up after that
Example: Clairvoyant dream.
This has happened about 7 or 8 times through out my life, but every once in a while Ill have a dream that isnt weird at all. It just seems like regular life. But Im always in a place I dont recognize or talking to people I’ve never met. Then about 4 years later, that exact same dream turns into reality and I get massive deja vu. Like when I was in 5th grade I had this dream that I was in what looked like a classroom. There were desks, a big dry erase board on the front wall, a regular chalkboard on the right wall, and a tv in the corner, with a desk on the opposite side of the room. I sat in the front row desk two columns away from the door. Fast forward to 11th grade, and I am in the exact same room, exact same people, same god damn desk. I seen the high school I would attend 6 years ahead of time.
I also seen this conversation I had with a manager in training at my job. I even remembered some parts of the conversation. He was talking about is ex wife. The table we were sitting at matched up perfectly. I had the dream way before I even had that job. The weird thing is that these dreams are so insignificant when I have them, that I forget them within a week. But I eventually come across that situation in actual life and I get this really heavy feeling that Ive been to this place before and talked to these people, when I know I have never physically been to the location or met anyone here. I wish one of these dreams would actually give me something useful though. So that way I know “Hey dont go down that street. You get hit by a truck.” Or “Dont say this to that person”
I have dreams about getting bodied in Street Fighter. Oh wait that’s reality too
I learned to have my dream girls ride cowgirl because when I thrust my hips I do it IRL as well and that wakes me up.
This is so funny because I just had a discussion with my friends about this and they all have lucid dreams maybe twice a year. None of them play games as much as I do. I asked my parents and of course my mom said no because she hates video games. My dad, however, said that he can control them somewhat. It makes sense because he was a hardcore gamer around my age. He’s too lazy to play now. But my experiences just validates this theory even more. I’ve been playing games since I was 5 and I’ve always been able to control my dreams. It’s to the point where I create my own character and put my “avatar” in a recent episode of DBZ I watched or something to that effect. I would interact with the other characters, fight alongside them, etc. It’s really fun actually. As a kid, I couldn’t wait to go to sleep again so I could start from where I left off.
Hmm, well, technically speaking, I’ve had millions and millions of dreams my whole life. It always happens during REM sleep, whether or not we’re consciously engaged in the dream, right? Unfortunately, one of the more vivid dreams I remember is when I was a young child, and some big dogs were chasing me with scary “counting” bark voices, and they were biting near my genitals…
It’s always some inconsequential moment lol. Have you ever been able to actually say something before it happens? Or is it always the “I know what’s going to happen next but I can’t say anything” situation?
The two that I always recall are:
- A field trip that I’d dreamt off. Something triggered the memory and I suddenly realized I knew what was going to happen. Someone’s camera was about to fall but I got so sluggish/slow that I couldn’t do anything till it happened.
- A math class in college. I suddenly realized that I’d been in that class before and knew what question was coming next (and the answer). I kept trying to say the question out loud but couldn’t. Immediately after the professor asked the question, I blurted out the answer very loudly (without solving the problem). I remember being extremely tired and having a massive head-ache after that. I don’t know what to make of this one because I’ve rarely had deja vu after this.
It always seems like it’s impossible to alter those “deja vu” situations, like you’re stuck observing the situation till it occurs right?
On the topic of lucid dreams, as soon as I realize it’s a dream, I feel like I’m no longer asleep. Sometimes the dream continues and sometimes it doesn’t but it doesn’t feel like an actual dream anymore.
These sort of things, like that kid that remembers his death in WW2, are really disturbing; we know so little about our own minds and our existence.