Has a game affected your dreams?

[Ragsnstitches]

I suppose. Whenever I play a Star Wars game, my chances of dreaming of lightsabers sky rockets... though I do dream of lightsabers in high, yet irregular, frequency regardless.

Generally the thing that gets to me is the tempo of a game. If I'm playing a high octane game before going to sleep I'm likely to dream of something frantic and almost senseless. If I played a strategic game I will some times dream in a slow methodical way, observing things as they happen, but the tempo may spike frantically on occassion.

RPGs illicit a more contemplative dream, where I'm more likely to talk to someone or be exploring something in depth.

The same can be said to films or serials that I watch prior to bed, though there affects are less pronounced since I'm often less engaged in what is happening then I am with a game.

The effects are inconsistent and often I won't dream of anything particularly relevant to the events of the day prior. But I have noticed affects such as this.

During my save scumming days I used to dream of saving progress in real life. Let it be known that waking up to a test after such a dream is quite disheartening.

 

[freaper]

I have two related stories.

The first took place way back when Pokémon Gold and Silver were new. I was playing Gold with my brother, but we got stuck on the Sudowoodo you have to shove out of the way. It turns out my brother dreamt exactly where we would find the NPC to help us with the quest. This was before we had internet access or a manual.

The second one is not nearly as remarkable. I used to play a lot of ZombieMod on CS:S and one night I dreamt I had to climb on top of car to escape a horde of those horrible models of Half-Life 2 corpses. It took place on a bridge near my high school at the time.

 

[Fijiman]

I'm sure I've had more, but I can only remember two. The first was when I was playing Dead Rising and after a week of playing that I had a weird dream that I really can't describe due to it being weird and quite some time ago. The second was when I was playing Metro 2033. I had a dream where I was in some kind of wasteland and had just come out of a ruined building and two nukes when off. However, the blasts were in slow motion and I could see and outrun the blast wave as it came at me until I was able to get to the safety of a convince store that was unaffected by anything going on around it. Suffice to say I have some pretty crazy dreams, regardless of whether they're video game fueled or not.

 

[Joccaren]

When I first played Dragon Age Origins. It went a bit beyond dreams though. Dreamt that life was controlled with the text selection list thing for my available actions, woke up, and for about half an hour I was seeing things like "Sit down and eat food", "Have a shower", "Get dressed" and such at the bottom of my vision. It was about halfway through breakfast that I realised something was wrong. Then the text selection menu disappeared and I was kinda disappointed. But, hey, sadly life can't always be a game.

 

[thejackyl]

But back to the "baaaaaad" dreams. Dream pain. I can't be the only person to ever feel that stuff

Imagine that, but after playing Outlast. After meeting Trager. I woke up in a sleep paralysis state trying to scream, but my body wouldn't let me. I just lay their awake and aware of what what happening, screaming while making no sound and shaking violently. And yeah, I feel everything. From stubbing my toe, to getting digits cut off. If it's pain that would make me pass out though, that's the point I'll usually wake up in a cold sweat.

Other than that, I think I've had a few dreams were I had a HUD, or normal life obeyed video game rules. Kind of like Scott Pilgrim (Which I've never read or seen), or something from a video game will be part of the dream. But as for actually having a dream where I'm a video game hero. No. Unless you count visual novels, that have no gameplay and are only pictures/movies.

I've had weird dreams like that... Let's just say I knew me and my (now ex)girlfriend were going to get caught at that party, because of a dream. Luckily it wasn't to the extent from said dream.

 

[FalloutJack]

I've had Doom dreams, I've had Metroid dreams, and I've had Discworld dreams. And sometimes I dream the answer to difficult puzzles and game challenges.

 

[bigfatcarp93]

I've had a couple Mass Effect dreams, most notably a nightmare from just after I played the Citadel DLC:

I was Shepard, at the house party. I had something I had to go do, don't remember what, so I left the party to go do it.

When I got back, I found that EVERYONE WAS DEAD, expect for Kasumi and Zaeed. As a surprisingly-disinterested Zaeed told me, Kasumi was apparently indoctrinated and had been waiting for me to leave so she could kill the others.

For some reason, she spared Zaeed, who was just leaning against the wall next to the entrance, looking bored.

So that was weird.

 

[Crowns18]

There was a time when I used to play tetris like 3 times a day. Maaan those were some weird dreams, also whatever makes you do repetitive stuff. Pretty much every game tends to do that to me. Like guitar hero I wouldn't dream of being a rock star I would just dream about those little damn circles. Then again have pretty darn weird dreams. There was this one time when I met snoop dogg in a dream and this other one when I cooked meth as my day to day job... so, yeah.

 

[JagermanXcell]

Back when I was a wee lad my cousin used to play Resident Evil in it's entirety right in front of my innocent face. The giant spider sections, the tryant boss, and all the zombie goodness.
Nightmares count right?

As for game's in my regular dreams I tend to dream a lot about Dark Souls, Persona 4, and just about every game Platinum Games has ever made.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuun dreams. Dark Souls dreams involved a lot of f-ing about as a spooky white phantom, Platinum dreams make me sweat in the amount of insanity my imagination can come up with once in REM sleep, and Persona 4 dreams are the best cause it's like normal life but with better high school friends.

EDIT: Just recalled a good one. I once had a Fallout NV dream, where I walked the not so lonesome road, a cold and hard badass with Veronica as we made witty remarks demolishing what the wastes threw our way.
There are fun dreams... and then their are badass ones I guess.

 

[Fullmetalfox]

Just yesterday I dreamt that Mass Effect 4 was gonna look like Battlefield 3 because it is on the frostbite 2 engine. The colours were all washed out. It was a horrible nightmare.

 

[Maximum Bert]

Hmm ive had a few but the only one that stands out was when I was dreaming about cooking fish in Dark Cloud 2 when I was grinding to finish it apparently I was having an argument with the old dear when she was trying to wake me up about the best way to cook fish I remember getting irritated because she didnt understand what I was saying.

Occasionally my mind wakes up before my body and when going to sleep my body goes to sleep before my mind which really shits you up as its literally like you are completely paralysed its only for a few seconds but it feels ages lying there desperately trying to get your body to move.

 

[Eamar]

Any piece of entertainment that I binge on tends to find its way into my dreams, games included.

It's even gone beyond dreams: there have been times when I kept seeing the WoW UI every time I closed my eyes (took that as a sign that I needed to take a break...), and whenever I play either of the Portal games, I can't help but go about my day to day business constantly thinking about where I'd place portals in order to move myself or objects around more efficiently

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Probably...It's thought that gaming can make it easier for one to control their dreams (lucid dreaming). I can't always control what goes on in my dreams but it happens. As for games directly coming to life in my dreams, it's happened. I've beaten the fuck out of people God-Hand style, I've destroyed stuff Just Cause/Burnout style and, I've done tons and, tons of platforming. This includes falling to my death...well...falling to my waking up.

 

[Uncle Comrade]

A few weeks ago I'd been playing a lot of Mass Effect and Ace Attorney, and I ended up having a dream that was a combination of the two games. In it, the Crucible turned out to be a courtroom, and Shepard Wright had to try and convince a Judge-shaped reaper that the races of the galaxy didn't deserve to be wiped out. It was all very strange.

 

[x EvilErmine x]

Never for a game but I do remember having a rather epic dream after watching The Terminator for the first time. You know that bit where Kyle is in the car sleeping near the start and he has a dream about fighting in the future war with the machines? Yeah it was exactly like that, would have made an awesome film.

 

[lacktheknack]

A couple times.

And trust me, mixing up Gubble with Riven and Silent Hill is a hell of a dream to suffer.

 

[Mersadeon]

Pretty much all the time. Now, I have several sleeping problems - night terrors, sleepwalking, confusion after waking up and regular old nightmares. Videogame dreams are actually pretty good, because they are rarely frightening for some reason. Most of these dreams just have a bit of the "feeling" of a game I played recently. Real video-game-dreams were I essentially just play the game happen at times, too.

 

[DanielBrown]

Happens often when I play a game too much, like when I first started playing WoW or during the release week of Diablo III.
As I recall the dreams where either of me playing the game or me being in the game. Nothing exciting really.