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Dreams playing like video games?


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All right, so, I wanted to get some deeper insight into dreams like this. They're actually kind of common for me to have (once, twice a week sometimes) and I wonder what they mean and if I'm not alone.

Sometimes when I dream I experience dream scenarios I'm directly involved in that go a certain way and end up with an undesireable outcome, like dream death, getting stuck, or losing track of what's going on. Then there'll be a moment where everything resets to a good "save point" and I'll go through it again a different way. All the while I feel like I'm actually playing a video game and the second (or third, fourth, etc) time around I'm more disconnected and more aware of what choices I made and what I should and shouldn't do, in addition to feeling like I'm holding a game controller. It literally feels like I'm playing a video game with my dreams. Good video games at that :P

Does this just mean I play too many of them, or do repeat scenarios like this have some sort of meaning? Does anyone else find their dreams playing out like this?

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*raises hand like exited school girl* OOO! PICK ME!
*laughs* I do, too. I often "play my dreams until I get the results I want!
As for what it means... maybe you have a great amount of self control that your subconcious exibits in your dreams?

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happens to me plenty.
Actually the BF has a story about having a dream and trying to check his map by pressing the M key. Then he realized that there was no M key and it shocked him into a lucid state. haha.

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happens to me plenty.
Actually the BF has a story about having a dream and trying to check his map by pressing the M key. Then he realized that there was no M key and it shocked him into a lucid state. haha.



lol, bet he had fun with that.

I sometimes have dreams that play out with 'save points', but more often I have dreams about actually playing a game. sitting in front of the screen, controller in hand, playing a game I've likely been playing alot in reality. and I don't even get to dream of doing good at the game; my Sims suffer on, I keep getting perpetually lost in FFXII, and Sora's still a dumb sh!t under my control.

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This very thing came up for discussion a couple of days ago between me and my boyfriend. Both of us has had dreams that back up to a certain point after something has gone wrong, e.g. the story is stuck or the result of doing something is less than satisfactory.

Some nights I've had the same scene play over and over again, always rewinding to the same point and always with a little bit changed. It can be something as small as a piece of dialogue, or bigger like taking a different route. I often find these dreams somewhat unsettling, like I'm in a deep, "hard" sleep during them and I wake up not fully rested and slightly disoriented.
Anyone else had that kind of reaction to dreams like these?

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this happens to me too a lot. Its like i have more then just 1 dream though. I dont know. Sometimes i dont know whats going on cause sometimes i am myself then i am someone else like from a cartoon or something. Like i had this dream when i was Goku, then out of nowhere i turned back to myself. I dont know but its fun at times having those kind of dreams.

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So, i have had dreams where I knew that what I was doing was a video. But, the way that Travis is describing it sounds like his mind beginning to naturally recognize dream signs throughout the week.

basically, I think that you're just beginning to pick up on the fact that you're dreaming, but not quite reaching lucidity. Dreamself does something bad, brains says "Lulz, not doing that again" and repeats the event to a better outcome. This is especially good if you dwell on the dream a little more in waking. Sometimes, if you can come up with different solutions while you're awake, and imagining yourself doing them before you fall asleep, your brain should be more prepared to try those solutions in the dream.

Of course, this all is a weird amalgam of fact and theory and testimony, so you'll have to pardon me if this is too babblish. XD

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I've sort of had dreams like that. I've had dreams where I finish the dream sort of early, so I start the whole dream over again. Only this time, I know what happens in the dream and I do things differently to change the outcome. It's really cool but hasn't happened in a while.

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My guess is you have a desire to either be playing (or LIVING in) a video game or else just a desire to explore possible outcomes?
I am a fan of Freudian dream analysis (to a point) and that would fit, I think?

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Freudian

WTF?

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I occasionally have dreams like this but I don't dream often (five ta six times a year about) once I had a dream of some characters fighting some 2 trolls with an odd combat system a character, named Abrecan, ran up to the last troll and killed it, after the fight was finished it brought me to a results screen of sorts I remember I saw it said I had obtained 2 peppers and 1 herb... a few days later I got my hands on a game called Aidyn Chronicles: The First Mage. after playing it abit I got in a fight against 2 trolls and one of my characters, you guessed it Abrecan, ran up killing the last one I was brought to a results screen exactly like the one in my dream and I even got the same items (2 peppers and an herb). I was shocked my friends with me at the time, however, simply thought I was crazy lol. I've had several dreams like this but I can't remember em <_<

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WTF?


The Freud Dude. He invented psychoanalysis. One of his first major works was "The Interpretation of Dreams" which is a long and confusing book but boils down to the belief that dreams are wish-fulfillment (conscious or unconscious).

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The Freud Dude. He invented psychoanalysis. One of his first major works was "The Interpretation of Dreams" which is a long and confusing book but boils down to the belief that dreams are wish-fulfillment (conscious or unconscious).

I just read him up, quite impressive, I think.
wouldn't it be great if dreams could play like an online game? I mean like have a dream and be able to see others in this bizzar world of the mind. Somehow be able to interact with people around the world through sleep at ones will? Just thinking out-loud I liek meeting and getting to know new people.

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The Freud Dude. He invented psychoanalysis. One of his first major works was "The Interpretation of Dreams" which is a long and confusing book but boils down to the belief that dreams are wish-fulfillment (conscious or unconscious).

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