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recycle49 · 2011-04-16 11:54:51

Well a study shows that those who play video games respond less harshly to nightmares.

Ill put into my own words. In a nightmare you normal want to do something but you cant, like your running but you want to go faster but your feet wont move. The reason you are more tolerable to nightmares if you play video games is simple but hard to understand. You have more experience in virtual reality than non video gamers. The simplest way to put this is in Lucid and nonlucid dreamers. Lucid dreamers are aware that they are dreaming and understand that when you wake up you will be unharmed. Non lucid dreamers do not understand that this is not real. Lucid dreamers can alter the dream in a way that they find it amusing instead of scary. Lucid dreams can also switch for 1st person to 3rd person. With this ability the dreamer can watch the event rather than be the person who is running. There is one catch, constant video gamers have more nightmares.

What do you think of this?

(Info from Science Illustrated )

agscratcher · 2011-04-16 12:04:52

yikes

Interesting hypothesis

kimmy123 · 2011-04-16 12:05:56

So that's why I am not getting nightmares anymore?

Harakou · 2011-04-16 12:36:04

Well, that's interesting indeed. Even weirder, I can't even remember the last time I dreamed at all. Maybe I'm not getting enough sleep like my mom says. tongue

08jackt · 2011-04-16 12:53:54

kimmy123 wrote:
So that's why I am not getting nightmares anymore?

this
i don't think i've had one since i was like 3 yikes

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Alternatives · 2011-04-16 12:55:27

08jackt wrote:
kimmy123 wrote:
So that's why I am not getting nightmares anymore?
this
i don't think i've had one since i was like 3

your sig is very strange. it changes every 5 mins.

last time i had a nightmare was recently. but i turn the dude into a cupcake.
then i woke up sweaty.

Nexstudent · 2011-04-16 12:57:07

I barely even have dreams, which is kinda sad.

The last Nightmare I had was a while ago. I could speed up and slow down time, but I couldn't do anything else, and I couldn't really altar it. Maybe minecraft will help me with my dream editing...

recycle49 · 2011-04-16 13:08:37

kimmy123 wrote:
So that's why I am not getting nightmares anymore?

Well it could be partialy why you are not and jack that must be awsesome for you

slapperbob · 2011-04-16 18:16:04

I think i'm one of those people that know the dream isn't real. I can also control what happens! big_smile

guyman55 · 2011-04-16 20:14:41

If i play 1 game for a loong time then I would have THAT video game character from the SAME GAME.

guyman55 · 2011-04-16 20:15:44

slapperbob wrote:
I think i'm one of those people that know the dream isn't real. I can also control what happens!

I can't control what happens if i was close to dying (getten thrown off) (getting shot) (getting punched) I automatically wake up weird huh?

thebuilderdd · 2011-04-16 20:20:43

Posts: 10. views: 100. LOL

guyman55 · 2011-04-16 21:03:31

thebuilderdd wrote:
Posts: 10. views: 100. LOL

Posts: 11 Views 100

TVflea · 2011-04-17 02:35:09

what if you program games? would that mean that dreaming would be like third person with you controlling someone else?

TVflea · 2011-04-17 02:36:18

guyman55 wrote:
slapperbob wrote:
I think i'm one of those people that know the dream isn't real. I can also control what happens!
I can't control what happens if i was close to dying (getten thrown off) (getting shot) (getting punched) I automatically wake up weird huh?

i never die in my dreams.and why would you get killed if you got punched?

08jackt · 2011-04-17 02:50:26

Alternatives wrote:
your sig is very strange. it changes every 5 mins.

no, you're seeing things. :-D

i use to have nightmares about clowns D:

bbbeb · 2011-04-17 03:11:33

In my dreams i always carry around a L9A61
Too much MW2 here

scimonster · 2011-04-17 03:31:03

I don't play video games and I don't get nightmares. Except about the wiki- that someone else made the edit I wanted to. XD

Calebxy_Test · 2011-04-17 03:37:50

I'd love to have a lucid dream. It would be like Inception! big_smile

Alternatives · 2011-04-17 08:59:08

08jackt wrote:
Alternatives wrote:
your sig is very strange. it changes every 5 mins.
no, you're seeing things. :-D

i use to have nightmares about clowns D:

i'm not seeing things(even though your sig says i am).
your sig must be a gif. though that doesn't explain why it only changes when i go to different forum posts.....
i've only had nightmares of this clown

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scimonster · 2011-04-17 09:41:46

08jackt wrote:
Alternatives wrote:
your sig is very strange. it changes every 5 mins.
no, you're seeing things. :-D

i use to have nightmares about clowns D:

I did after seeing Poltergeist.

recycle49 · 2011-04-17 16:12:21

Calebxy_Test wrote:
I'd love to have a lucid dream. It would be like Inception!

It would be that would be awesome!

Kileymeister · 2011-04-17 16:23:43

I'm a nonlucid dreamer yet sometimes I see things in 3rd person. I can't switch between the two though. Weird.

Those are some interesting facts. I think gamers can also cope with nightmares like running but being unable to move because they are used to game restrictions (like in some games how you can't go a certain way because there's an invisible wall).

recycle49 · 2011-04-17 16:58:50

Kileymeister wrote:
I'm a nonlucid dreamer yet sometimes I see things in 3rd person. I can't switch between the two though. Weird.

Those are some interesting facts. I think gamers can also cope with nightmares like running but being unable to move because they are used to game restrictions (like in some games how you can't go a certain way because there's an invisible wall).

Great point

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