Gamers More Likely to Become Nightmare Masters

[XMark]

I love nightmares! They're like really awesome immersive survival horror games that you get for free. I wake up and I'm like "whoa, that ruled!"

Nightmares with zombies are the best ones.

I remember I had one strange dream. It was a zombie apocalypse, and I was holed up in a building in the middle of a city which had been overrun by the living dead. In this dream, zombies had gotten into the building, and I had to go into the dark basement armed with a flashlight and a shotgun to take care of them.

Strange thing though, was that this dream wasn't scary. Even though it was dark and claustrophobic, and there were a ton of zombies down there, it felt like a job to me. I was all like *sigh* those idiots let zombies in again. Why do I have to take care of this? Bang bang bang, zombies dead. Oh there's another one. All in a day's work.

I'd like to think I'd be that cool in a real zombie apocalypse, but I'd probably freak out and get eaten on day one.

 

[Aeshi]

Never have dreams that I would classify as nightmare, because I am always in control. Now I know why.

Same here.

 

[Deadlock Radium]

And I'm suddenly wishing I still had the recurring nightmare I had when I was a kid, if only to see myself turn around and kill the *****.

I have often revisited my dreams and done that, it's awesome. But I don't dream as often anymore.

 

[Lullabye]

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.

Doesn't mean it's bullshit, simply means your one of the unlucky ones.
I find it true enough for me. Since the first thing I do when face any monsters, by reflex, is go through their stats and weakness'. Then I check my health bar etc....choose a weapon and have at them. Since this is so embedded in my mind, I can see why it happens in dreams.
Geez, I even dream I'm playing videogames.
Not in them, just sitting on my couch, playing them. Maybe beating a part I couldn't in reality, then being terribly disappointed when I wake up.

 

[MR.Spartacus]

I know for a fact that I control my dreams. Although I nearly never dream. Considering that I can do anything from fly to spontaneously create "jet-bike".
Edit: anyone know what causes dreaming? I had about one week recently where I had any kind of dreams and it had been at least a decade before that.

 

[Protocol95]

This may explain one thing i happened in my life. Having dream where i was stuck on an oil rig with zombies on it. (Note that its not huge hordes like l4d but 1 or 2 zombies around each corner or something) Anyway i had to fight of the zombies and I did. With my bear hands. Easily one of the weirdest nightmares or dream i've either had.

 

[superbatranger]

Reading this makes me want to have nightmares just so I can turn the tables and kick ass.

 

[Vrex360]

Yeah, I had always noticed that I have the ability to control my dreams and at least now I know a whole new way to defeat Freddy Krueger for any future Nightmare sequels. Play half an hour of ODST firefight before you go to bed and then when Freddy comes blow him to pieces with a Needler.

 

[JesterRaiin]

Interesting. I stopped having any nightmares, or to be more precise they became less frightening. I thought it was because of shock i felt after paying my first taxes, but...

 

[Meowzen]

So dreaming about a world infested with zombies without being scared of them after playing L4D2 is totally normal?...

 

[Allan Foe]

I guess it depends on the kind of person you are and your gaming habits, but I'm proud to testify that as a (mostly) PC gamer I've save-scummed several action sequences in my dreams.

 

[AnAngryMoose]

Extremely interesting read. Last nightmare I had was a couple months back and that was probably due to my arachnophobia because I found a spider in my room, but it vanished before I could kill it. Damn, I wish video games could cure that.

 

[Lunar Shadow]

Gackenbach says of gamers in dreams: "They don't run away, they turn and fight back. They're more aggressive than the norms." She also deduced that gamers have less aggression in dreams, but when it arises it's extreme. "If you look at the actual overall amount of aggression, gamers have less aggression in dreams, but when they're aggressive, oh boy, they go off the top," she revealed.

Well, that certainly would explain that dream I had back in high school where I saved my school from a giant monster by casting the Giga Slave...

It's a shame I remember so few of my dreams these days, it seems.

Only ones I remember are the sex ones and the lucid ones. Which , to be honset, are the same thing half the time.

 

[Sovvolf]

Well I do admit that I've had a few dreams where I've been chased by a monster and about half way through chasing I've though... screw it, it's my dream... He's in my world, and I'm going to fuck is day up big time. Which is what I never got about TNOES films, Freddy may have mystical powers in your dreams but it's still your world and your plain of imagination, you should be far stronger then him giving that he's fighting on your playing field.

I've had the odd nightmare of old Freddy when I was a kid... then I guess computer games made me more genre savvy and gave me the ideas of above and I was able to beat my own Freddy by using my imagination against him. Actually I think that's why we have better control over our nightmares, because we become more genre savvy and we are used to being chased my monsters and have learned how to deal with them over the years.

 

[Rodger]

I laughed when I saw the title because the suggestion seemed so absolutely ludicrous.

Then I realized I can't remember the last time I've ever had a nightmare. It would definitely be before I really got into video games, though.

 

[luclin92]

i dont really have nightmares only dreams were im the supreme ruler of the world mvhahahaha...

 

[shadow skill]

Gackenbach says of gamers in dreams: "They don't run away, they turn and fight back. They're more aggressive than the norms." She also deduced that gamers have less aggression in dreams, but when it arises it's extreme. "If you look at the actual overall amount of aggression, gamers have less aggression in dreams, but when they're aggressive, oh boy, they go off the top," she revealed.

Well, that certainly would explain that dream I had back in high school where I saved my school from a giant monster by casting the Giga Slave...

It's a shame I remember so few of my dreams these days, it seems.

It's not a good idea to summon the lord of nightmares you know.

 

[NeutralDrow]

Gackenbach says of gamers in dreams: "They don't run away, they turn and fight back. They're more aggressive than the norms." She also deduced that gamers have less aggression in dreams, but when it arises it's extreme. "If you look at the actual overall amount of aggression, gamers have less aggression in dreams, but when they're aggressive, oh boy, they go off the top," she revealed.

Well, that certainly would explain that dream I had back in high school where I saved my school from a giant monster by casting the Giga Slave...

It's a shame I remember so few of my dreams these days, it seems.

It's not a good idea to summon the lord of nightmares you know.

Why, whatever do you mean? What <url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGRuhjdo_qM&playnext_from=TL&videos=oX0TdWYPHrE>possible consequences could there be for summoning the source of all chaos, the golden <color=gold>lord, mother of the worlds, darkness beyond blackest pitch, deeper than deepest night, shining in the sea of chaos...that is how you describe me, is it not?

 

[Cucumber]

Edit: anyone know what causes dreaming? I had about one week recently where I had any kind of dreams and it had been at least a decade before that.

Oh boy, it's my time to shine!

I'm overly obsessed with lucid dreaming, so I've done so much research that it's starting to hurt. Since I discovered it, I've read billions of instructions on how to get lucid. And they all reccomend that I start to remember my dreams.

You always have dreams. Sleep in more than an hour and you've probably had a dream. Earlier if you were exhausted. Dreams happen in the REM stage of your sleep. That's the one where your eyes twitch all around the place behind your eyelids. Research at the lucid institute shows that this eye twitching isn't random at all. When you move your eyes in your dream, you move your eyes in real life too. The scientists used this to create a cross-dream communication system. Your eyes, and a few other muscles, are the only ones that aren't shut down by sleep paralysis (that's to prevent you from moving around when dreaming)

When people say that they don't dream and such, it's usually not true. You do dream, you just don't remember it. The mind is built to forget all the dreams you've had. This is probably to avoid confusing dreams with real life. You can somewhat counter-act this by traning your dream-memory. This is done very easily.

When I started my quest to learn lucidity, I needed to start remembering my dreams first off. If I couldn't remember my dreams, there was no point in me becoming lucid. Every morning when I woke up, I quickly jotted down some notes of the dream I've just had before I forgot it. If I couldn't recall any dreams, I'd just lie still. It would all come to me if I focused hard enough. Anything you recall is important. A feeling, a setting, what you were doing, who were you with, so on. I kept doing this every morning, and I suddenly noticed a while later that I could remember my dreams more frequent.

I can see how it's alike, controlling videogames, controlling dreams. I just hope that some day I'll get awesome enough at controlling my own dreams, so I can do what I've always wanted to do in my sleep...

[sub]Including my darkest fantasies...[/sub]