Warpticon just reminded me that I also had dreams within dreams quite frequently as a kid. Whenever I was having a nightmare, I would try to wake myself up, but I ended just waking up in a dream, sometimes I’d realize I was still dreaming but sometimes I wouldn’t. :looney:
Regarding the lucidity of my dreams, I can’t do whatever I want in them, but if something happens that I don’t like, sometimes I can rewind and try again. And I’m pretty sure anybody who has played any rhythm game a lot has had the dreams of endlessly cascading arrows or notes.
I never have video game dreams. But I’d have dreams from movies and stuff like that. I had one back in 05’ that I was Terminator getting chased by T1000 on roof tops. I eventually gave up and jumped to my death, while falling a little girl’s voice was narrating my death.
This is funny because I had a dream just last night where I was in a virtual platformer with my friends jumping over mini waterfalls and such. For some reason my only weapon was a pillow without a pillow case and I would just try to catch it as they threw it back at me across the waterfalls.
Later on in the same dream I was practicing mirage feint cancels with X-23 and somehow she started breakdancing and doing Eddy Gordo stuff in the middle of it. She had some secret dark green color I’ve never seen before and the camera was rotating around her in 3D and shit. Made me want to pick up X-23 again even though she dies to all of the shit that’s on the screen now.
I remember one of the first Nintendo Power magazines had Simon holding Dracula’s severed head, and a fuckton of kids had their childhoods crushed. Ironically, this probably lead to Nintendo’s current kid friendly shitfest.
I honestly don’t think I have had a dream in awhile. Sometimes I wake up and kinda remember bits of a dream, or think shit is still going on (fuck you, dreams about Christmas in the middle of summer). A lot of the time I wake up and I must have been tossing and turning (I sleep with headphones in my ears, and wake up with the cord wrapped around my body several times quite frequently). Hell, I wake up and suddenly have slashes or cuts on me. Kinda fucked up, I know. I’m like that gay beating victim from Ted.
Also whenever I get sick, or am about to get sick, I have this fucked up dream where I’m tiny and everything else is huge, and it kinda carries over when I wake up. I’ll look at my headboard and it seems too fucking big to me. I think I may just randomly hallucinate due to the LSD and shrooms I’ve ingested over the years, combined with random virus related fevers. Who knows? 
But lately, I haven’t had any awakenings where I remember even a hint of dream or even acknowledge that one happened. I’ve also been having a lot of nights where I will go to bed at like 3am, then wake up at 6am and I’m good to go. Or I’m super tired but can’t fall asleep worth shit.
Man I am fucked up 
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I used to watch high level Starcraft 2 and play Starcraft 2 every night, and in my dreams I would keep playing. Seriously. It was the weirdest thing and I had to quit starcraft. I wasn’t getting any rest because of it.
This doesn’t happen for Street Fighter though.
I think i remember AVGN mentioning this in his Nintendo Power video.
I’ve had times where I am working on a combo or strategy, and work on it for like a day, go to sleep, and I swear I am practicing it in my sleep, then I end up having to wake up early to fucking play the game.
you can just check out the wiki for Castlevania 2, they mention it there. Nintendo Power got in a world of shit over it, and it was a pretty good cover (and literally their second issue of NP I think)
Man I wish I could dream about dreaming myself doing Raging Storms in parking lots.