I've has many dreams about gaming for years. The best however will always be the dreams influenced by the MMO 'City of Heroes'. Those dreams involved 3 alternate-reality storylines going on at the same time for years. The stories had a massive cast of characters, as you'd expect having to deal with three realities. Some had short bits, and didn't come back into the picture until years later in major roles. It was really an amazing experience. Too bad I stopped having them a year before the MMO was taken down permanently, but I guess everyone's stories eventually wrapped themselves up.
Back when I was first getting into Minecraft, I had a dream recreating a more extreme version of something that happened to me in the game earlier that day. What happened in the dream was that I was wondering through the desert at in-game noon, looking for my house because I was lost, when the song Dry Hands came on, (every time I hear the song, I'm reminded of that moment) and it's important to note that, at the time, I was playing on a really shitty laptop, and had to have my draw distance set as low as it could go, so I was just constantly surrounded by this really thick fog. In the actual game, there's really nothing special about this fog, but in my dream, I would occasionally hear whispy voices calling out to me from behind it, which naturally kinda freaked me out.
I did manage to find my way back, luckily. In the actual game, my house was a rectangular wodden structure with a low ceiling, but in my dream, it felt like it was much tighter and more claustrophobic and less maneuverable than it actually was. I had already dug out a little basement in this house for me to sleep in, but in that same basement, I made the incredibly poor decision of also starting the mining operation that would eventually become the network of tunnels that connected my starting house with the rest of my creations in this world. This wasn't a poor decision because it gave hostile mobs the chance to break into my house, it was a poor decision because of what it did to me psychologically. This network in progress had, unsuprisingly on reflection, found it's way near underground caves where not only hostile mobs would spawn, but also where these really creepy sound effects would sometimes play.
I would often just be messing around in my house, when I would hear the noises that came from these caves that would actually send shivers down my neck. I knew I needed to investigate, so I started heading down to where I thought the sound was coming from. In my dream, I dug my way right into one of these caves, and for a good long time, I just stood there, petrified, standing completely still, staring into a black, empty void in silence, horrified of what might come out. And then I woke up.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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