When I play too much of a game they frequently show up in my dreams
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.
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.
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
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.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.
Don’t let your dreams be dreams. If you apply yourself you can learn how to steal trucks!
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
Isaac Clarke. Now that is one suave moniker.
Sounds like it should’ve been the name of some bass-y, smoky-voiced soul singer in the 70s.
Just in case you didn’t know, it’s the names of 2 legendary science fiction authors.
Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clarke
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!”
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
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
Why is almost everyone here getting downvoted? Lmao
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More Redditors have joined, thats probably why. Bringing Reddit culture here to Lemmy.
I’ve had several dreams that start in the real world and then transition into a Minecraft world or the other way around.
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.
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.
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.
I had a lucid dream once upon a time, and decided I wanted to be Master Chief, it was unbelievably awesome
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.