Has a game affected your dreams?

[IamQ]

The first time it happened to me was with Rome 1, but that only happened once. A week or so ago I got Hearthstone and while I don't have the same hours as rome, the fact that I played it it in 30 min bursts every 2 hours probably got me. I started having normal dreams, but everything had stats. Hearthstone stats. If a monster approached me in the dream, I'd see it would have like 4 atk and 2 health, and suddenly I had too. Has this ever happened to any of you fellows?

 

[DeadProxy]

Back in Modern Warfare 2's prime, I was addicted to that game like you wouldn't believe. Having Call of Duty dreams is a baaaad thing to have though, especially if you're not in control of the dream, which is something I would love to know how to do.

But back to the "baaaaaad" dreams. Dream pain. I can't be the only person to ever feel that stuff, but when it's in the form of bullets, man oh man did it hurt. Imagine your brain making you feel what you think it feels like to be shot 6-7 times before you die. And it's a CoD game-dream thing, so there's respawns, and I would experience getting shot quite a bit over the course of a few weeks.

 

[Xeorm]

Ugh. Starcraft 2 infested my dreams awhile back after I played ranked for a time. Usually when I'm frustrated they'll strike, and just amplify that. I'll be playing, and it will be pure frustration; I'm winning in my game? Voidrays out of nowhere! Drops everywhere, maybe an oracle, and there's nothing I can do, etc.

Good game though, but oh so frustrating sometimes.

 

[MysticSlayer]

I remember having a few nightmares about Amnesia: The Dark Descent. I can't remember any of the specifics, though, but I do remember waking up at least once getting ready to scream for help. I probably should have stopped playing for good after that, but I think I was near the end when that particular nightmare happened, so I kept going.

I also remember having a dream once of fighting Spider Splicers in Fort Frolic from BioShock. Yeah, it was such an annoying level it managed to find a way to annoy me even outside the game.

I'd also imagine that a lot of my dreams as a child were based on stuff from Super Mario 64. I know at least one was.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I used to play Mickey's Magical Quest as a kid. The one time (one time!) I made it to the final boss fight I was THIS close to beating it but died anyway. Later that night I had dreams of Mickey and Goofy. That's the first time I remember dreaming about a game and because of a game.

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[Clowndoe]

I've also had a lot of dreams back when I used to get hyped about upcoming games. Medieval 2: Total War was particularly invasive. I also get a few WW2 Call of Duty-inspired ones, though often monsters show up at some point, and some Red Orchestra ones, which end up being depressing. Those ones are the weirdest, I usually feel some strong melancholy, kind of like I'm paying respects to people who were actually at Stalingrad, or maybe I'm haunted by the ghosts of people I've killed in-game.

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

The closest thing to that was when some guy was waving his finger at me in a dream. I started getting infuriated so I grabbed his hand and bit down as hard as I could. It was my finger that hurt, though, but I just bit down harder. When I woke up I found I had my own finger in my mouth and I actually drew blood.

 

[Gethsemani_v1legacy]

But back to the "baaaaaad" dreams. Dream pain. I can't be the only person to ever feel that stuff, but when it's in the form of bullets, man oh man did it hurt. Imagine your brain making you feel what you think it feels like to be shot 6-7 times before you die. And it's a CoD game-dream thing, so there's respawns, and I would experience getting shot quite a bit over the course of a few weeks.

Generally accepted as a part of Night Terrors. Once or twice every year I will have a close-to-waking dream that something's about to kill me, complete with sensory sensations of whatever death I am about to experience. Being attacked is kind of okay, all things considered, but the dreams when I get strangled are not. I usually wake up when I've left the bedroom, running from whatever was in my dream.

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Games affect my dreams pretty continually, especially after intense periods of playing. Back in the days when I still did LAN parties, I would dream about games for weeks after those LANs.

 

[Sniper Team 4]

Silent Hill 2 and 3 combined into one terrible nightmare for me once. I was walking through a town that I knew was Silent Hill, but I didn't recognize the area. Then everything went blood red (like that room in the hospital in SH3), and I started running around trying to open doors and figure out where to get, because I knew something bad was coming. I think the dream ended before I figured out what to do, but I was never able to go back to Silent Hill 2 after that.

 

[DapperStache]

Ugh. Starcraft 2 infested my dreams awhile back after I played ranked for a time. Usually when I'm frustrated they'll strike, and just amplify that. I'll be playing, and it will be pure frustration; I'm winning in my game? Voidrays out of nowhere! Drops everywhere, maybe an oracle, and there's nothing I can do, etc.

Good game though, but oh so frustrating sometimes.

This right here, back when I played LoL. Every now and again I'd have short dreams of just playing bad or something bad would happen, while not so much as being terrifying it did cause me some stressful nights.

 

[Bad Jim]

I used to play Doom a lot, and when I finally went to bed I'd still be playing Doom in my dreams. That's the only game I've had dreams about.

 

[Vie]

I can think of only one occasion, but it was rather graphic.

I picked up GTA IV and took it home to play on launch day, it was pissing it down and I got drenched - ended up with a nasty little bug. I tucked myself up in bed and played a little of the new game, but ended up having to stop when the soggy suspension on the cars actually started to make me feel physically ill.

I decided it was a good idea to get my head down, so I did. However I found my dreams taking shape around me having to drive around from place to place in a car who's handling characteristics could best be described as "boat like." The experience was so bad that I awoke and had to dash to find the toilet as I was physically sick.

So, as much as I like GTA IV - even the car's handling since it was vastly more realistic than anything else in its genera outside of Mafia - it did make me vomit...

 

[thesilentman]

Games tend to give me interesting ideas when I dream.

I remember last night I had a dream that I was in a world whose premise was basically, Blame (a Tsutomu Nihei manga which is a good manga) Journey and Dark Souls mixed together. That scope man, that scope. Everything was fucking enormous and desolate, considering the tone of those stories.

That was a rather drifty dream..

 

[Headsprouter]

When I used to play Runescape, I remember I'd see it in my dreams. Usually in that groggy period I'd be left wondering whether I had actually acquired the valuables I had seen...this sort of thing happens basically every time I start to become fixated on a certain goal, I start to play the game in dreams, too. I suppose it goes hand in hand with the idea of dreams as a sort of practice that reorganises recent thought patterns. Or something.

 

[Sarge034]

I usually don't remember my dreams, but the one dream I can remember that was influenced by a game had to do with Mass Effect. I figure it affected me because I was emotionally invested in the story, boy do I love me some good space opera. Most of the dreams I can remember are affected by things I get very emotionally attached to. As for what happened in the dream... Something about being a badass, getting the girl, and riding (flying?) off into space looking for someone else that needed a good "Sheparding". There were more explosions, firefights, sexy times, and snazzy one liners in my dream but this was the abridged version.

Funny story, my dad played so much Tetris that he started to play Tetris in his dreams. That is the day he decided to give up video games. A sad day indeed.

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

I did have a dream where I had a Dragonite and we flew around the world. Fun times. Outside of that, I can't remember any specific game related dreams.

 

[pilouuuu]

I'll always remember once I was stuck on Indy Fate of Atlantis adventure game and I dreamt of a solution for the puzzle. Next day the first thing I did was to try it and to my surprise it worked! I always wondered if it was a proof of inconscious collective working or my subconscious working while I was sleeping.

 

[Dalisclock]

I occasionally have a dream where I'm playing some awesome game that reminds me of MW2 and C&C:Red Alert 2. Then I wake up and realize that game doesn't exist.

I used to have the same kind of dream but it involved an SNES-era Final Fantasy game that doesn't exist.