When I play too much of a game they frequently show up in my dreams
Videogames in dreamland. Have you, while dreaming, played one, watched one being played or became a videogame character?
Submitted 1 year ago by dope@lemm.ee to [deleted]
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pixeltree@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Jamie@jamie.moe 1 year ago
A lot of my dreams “zoom out” and turn out to be me playing a game, usually if too many fantastical elements are happening in it. Most of my dreams are relatively grounded, so my brain tries to explain itself when they aren’t, I guess.
dope@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Doing something (but not a game, serious real life), playing a game (serious, but not really) and watching somebody play a game could be called 3 ways of looking at the same thing
brihuang95@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Years ago I had a dream where I was basically Isaac Clarke in Dead Space. Let’s just say it wasn’t exactly a pleasant dream but I still felt very badass
dope@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Isaac Clarke. Now that is one suave moniker.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 year ago
When Battlefield 1942 came out I remember having a dream of doing an airdrop as part of operation market garden and freaking out after I landed that I couldn’t see my hud.
It was an odd dream.Mannivu@feddit.it 1 year ago
Yes, it happened to me once. I dreamed I was the main character in GTA: San Andreas, but I wasn’t CJ, I was myself inside the game. It was pretty weird, but stealing a truck was amazing.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 year ago
Don’t let your dreams be dreams. If you apply yourself you can learn how to steal trucks!
Strae@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I semi-regularly dream that I’m playing a video game, but it usually is a more like a hybrid between controlling a video game character, and being the actual character.
It usually manifests itself as some alternate reality version of WoW (because I’ve played that more than any other game, I assume). Sometimes I even think to myself, “it’s amazing that I’ve never seen this part of WoW before!”
gusVLZ@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I play Valorant at least 3 times a week, often I dream I’m playing it, and it feels exactly how you described, the perspective keep changing then I’m suddenly in the game, playing it or watching me playing it
spittingimage@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I have frequent Minecraft dreams. Usually I’m building a cathedral and the Minecraft zombies start turning into Doom zombies and then I’m building Doom levels.
TooSoon@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Why is almost everyone here getting downvoted? Lmao
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 1 year ago
More Redditors have joined, thats probably why. Bringing Reddit culture here to Lemmy.
dope@lemm.ee 1 year ago
lemmy is famous for being extra savage
Bruce_Wayne@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I had a lucid dream once upon a time, and decided I wanted to be Master Chief, it was unbelievably awesome
Bloodwoodsrisen@lemmy.tf 1 year ago
I end up being a part of the game. I’ve had “nightmares” where I’m playing minecraft skyblock on a server and am unable to type in a command to lock my island to prevent people from joining. The issue: the command doesn’t work and my keyboard is my skirt
kemsat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, happens sometimes. Usually I don’t play very long, and focus away from the game & into the rest of the dream.
awsome@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Vivid dreams where I would be in some sort of testing facility with buttons and rooms.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I’ve had several dreams that start in the real world and then transition into a Minecraft world or the other way around.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No, but I would suspect that if this is a regular occurence for someone, they may have an addiction problem with video games. While certainly not the worst of addictions, any addiction can be incredibly damaging to a person’s ability to function, so someone who regularly dreams about video games might want to seek professional help with that.
dope@lemm.ee 1 year ago
oh please
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I love video games and have been playing games since I was young, but if a person dreaming about video games is common occurrence, they probably have a serious problem.
gusVLZ@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Wow it seems I’m addicted to work, parks and flying, once I also dreamed about going to the theater, might check this, could be dangerous to be addicted to theaters
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“Once I dreamed about going to the theatre, might be addicted to theatres.”
I mean, if you had actually read my comment, this particular argument makes you look pretty unintelligent. I said if it was a common occurrence, not a one time thing. I can admit your other arguments can be more sound as an actual argument, but you ended on perhaps the worst argument.
Addiction to work is real, and a problem. “Workaholics” are a thing, and their personal lives often suffer greatly because of it.
Regardless, I never said a person who regularly dreams about the same subject is guaranteed to have an unhealthy addiction. Only that it is a strong possibility, and to seek a professionals help to make sure it isnt.
FrostbyteIX@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes. Even things being from a game appear in the dream, or references of it…I play a lot of racing games and although it’s disturbing, I like seeing that EcoBoost Ford GT in my dreams.
Grandsinge@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
In the early 2000s when I was playing EverQuest like it was my job (~50hr/wk, I’m embarassed to say) I would have a couple recurrent dreams of being a character in EverQuest. The first I was being chased by Cazel (a named sand giant) through a zone called Oasis of Mar. In the second, a griffin was being pulled to the East Commons tunnel (big trading hub in the early days of EverQuest) and I kept dropping my bags trying to run away.
LazerFX@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I’ve had the “Tetris Effect” happen to me - at one time I was really, really into Tetris (To the point where I could quite happily play GameBoy Tetris at max speed for… well, I did it for a few hours in one game once, much to the annoyance of my mate who actually owned the GameBoy and had agreed it would be, “Swap on death”), and I had the ‘visualising falling bricks’ ephemera afterwards, and vivd dreams about Tetris for a few days afterwards.
But, then again, if I get into anything pretty seriously, I’ll have dreams about it. I got really, really into building with Lego’s and I had dreams about that; same with Minecraft and No Man’s Sky.
AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I had a dream where it was videogame-like, can’t really confirm. It’s not like there was a HUD or anything like that but I remember shooting guns that could have easily been from Doom or Quake. I also died in the dream and respawned in the middle of an ocean at night.
lupec@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Videogames are a huge part of my life, so my dreams often feature them. I have a very vivid memory of “playing” some character in a side scrolling platform my dreams cooked up and it having what my dream self registered as actually pretty believable physics haha. I’m often conscious too, so I tend to notice things like that.
OrganicMeatbag@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Yes. It usually happens when I play too many hours in a day. When I go to bed it is like the game is burned into my brain that is connected to my REM sleep. So during tte REM episodes I am either still playing the game or have become the character, usually playing the same scenario over again. It’s usually a raid boss or something that I am learning and/or playing too much with multiple characters.