Gamers More Likely to Become Nightmare Masters

[Hithlain]

Hm that is an interesting theory. I used to have nightmares every night. EVERY NIGHT when I was little. I still remember a lot of them very clearly and they used to terrify me. Then when I got a little older they became less and less frequent until I stopped having nightmares at all. I have lucid dreams quite often now as well.

I wonder if my introduction to gaming when I was about 10 has anything to do with it.

 

[Samurai Goomba]

I've had frequent Lucid Dreams my entire life. But I can't really control when I have them. Sometimes it just happens for me, sometimes not. A lot of times when I'm having a bad dream, I can recognize something out of place about it and actively change the dream (like the setting, or the characters or whatever).

 

[Scobie]

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[Jharry5]

If only I'd have know this sooner, I'd have been saved from having some seriously fucked up dreams/nightmares in earlier life.

I've had lucid dreams as far back as I can remember. Now I know why.

 

[RN7]

This would explain why I rarely ever have nightmares. When I do have nightmares, the threat normally ends up with a large javelin stick through their genetalia, coming out through their mouth, or chopped into little bits that were lit on fire.


Don't ask.

 

[V8 Ninja]

Does that mean if I play enough video games I'll be able to have "Free Will" in my dreams? Hmm...Oh boy would that be fun! =D

 

[The Random One]

I can never hold on to my lucid dreaming experiences for long. Usually just long enough to turn the dream into an erotic dream. Not on purpose, really. Wait, got an incoming call from Freud...

The concept of people suffering from PTSD playing war games to turn war dreams into war games is at once incredible and strange.

 

[Eric the Orange]

Yeah I can do that, flying, invincibility are the usual ones.

 

[Bobipine]

Now that I think about it, I don't have nightmares anymore neither. And some of the recent ones could easily fall into a nightmare considering what the surroundings looked like, and constantly being in danger, escaping from stuff. I still never really control myself except very few exceptions, where I start off my dream as a ghost strange enough, but usually, not perfect control of the dream, just few control over my actions, and endurance it seems, 3 days ago I eventually got impaled in the lower abdomen, through my spine, in my dream, still kept protecting a certain someone (why, not quite sure, it bugs me a little as in why.. anyway, not the subject at hand) as if it was, to quote the black knight, "just a flesh wound". So yeah, dreams, those that I remember at least, aren't nightmares at all, even if they could normally be seen as so. Now, will thinking about this cause an actual nightmare tonight?....

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

So play enough Mario, and we can finally destory Freddy once and for all?

YES!

WHO IS PLAYING WITH POWER NOW #$%^@!!

 

[GamerLuck]

Ive always fought back in my dreams, though i wouldnt say its by choice, thats just hat happens

and kinda off topic, but is that game Little Nemo: Dream Master in any way to Little Nemo: Andventures in Slumberland the movie? Cause that movie is one of the obscure bits of my childhood that made me think dreams were something to thought about.

 

[Lim3]

Wow, gotta love psychologists. 2 hours of gaming is not only similar to cocaine it also allows for dream control. Oh and it makes us more violent.

 

[Atmos Duality]

How funny. I can actually recognize a dream (good or bad) in progress, and control it to a large extent.
So, do I have games to thank for that? It certainly would be ironic.

 

[Striker501]

We become a threat to our own nightmares? AWESOME!

 

[Poomanchu745]

BULL SHIT. I play video games all day and whenever I have a bad dream I can't do shit about it. Im basically Indiana Jones when it comes to how much I like snakes and when I had a dream where a bunch of snakes were eating everything I basically sat in the corner and cowered in fear like a little girl the whole dream.

 

[bloodknight13]

I think that videogames help by causing you to stop dreaming, cause i used to dream all the bloody time, then i got a nintendo 64, got obsessed with smash bros and the dreams stop

 

[Logic 0]

I guess I'll get a little more training before I go to bed.

 

[Serenegoose]

I wish this story was true for me. I have PTSD and nightmares happen to me most nights. I cannot lucid dream at all, however. In fact, any advice to help lucid dreaming specifically does not work on me, because aspects of dreams (such as the inability to read) don't trigger. I have read in my dreams, plenty of times. I game almost daily, and have done for most of my life.