Study Suggests Video Gamers Have the Ability to Control Their Dreams

• Sleeperdial wrote on 2010-05-26 01:08
  There seems to be an eerie connection, people who can control their dreams never remember them and people who can't control them can remember their dreams.
• Pocoyo wrote on 2010-05-26 01:09
  Heh, I can't control my dreams most of the time.
• Osayidan wrote on 2010-05-26 01:13

  Quote from Sleeperdial;44300:

  There seems to be an eerie connection, people who can control their dreams never remember them and people who can't control them can remember their dreams.

  
  If I can control them, then I don't remember ever doing it.
  
  The only really odd thing is most of the dreams I do remember are too inappropriate for this forum. Maybe that's the reason I remember them D:
• Chockeh wrote on 2010-05-26 01:16
  Do you guys get the feeling that when something happens, you had a feeling you dreamed about it before an event actually happens?
• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2010-05-26 01:16

  Quote from Osayidan;44314:

  If I can control them, then I don't remember ever doing it.
  
  The only really odd thing is most of the dreams I do remember are too inappropriate for this forum. Maybe that's the reason I remember them D:

  
  
  Osayidan has the mind of a serial killer? owo
• Osayidan wrote on 2010-05-26 01:18

  Quote from Chocklitshop;44323:

  Do you guys get the feeling that when something happens, you had a feeling you dreamed about it before an event actually happens?

  
  Not that I dreamed it, but that it actually happened. Sometimes I'm totally convinced of it, and stuff will be freakishly accurate D: Like I'll know where something is even if I shouldn't.
  
  

  Quote from BobYoMeowMeow;44326:

  Osayidan has the mind of a serial killer? owo

  
  
  Probably D: I do eat lots of cereal.
• Shirayuki wrote on 2010-05-26 01:26
  He has the mind of a boy enduring puberty ;D~~
• Bakuryu wrote on 2010-05-26 01:31

  Quote from Osayidan;44277:

  I either never have dreams or can not remember them. I've had so few dreams I could remember in detail that I could count them on my fingers going back to preschool.

  
  Everyone dreams, every night. Unless you sleep less than 3-4 hours. (depends on person, some start REM sleep pretty damn quick.)
  Even if you slept so little, you might still have a non-REM dream.
  You just don't remember them.
  
  

  Quote from Sleeperdial;44300:

  There seems to be an eerie connection, people who can control their dreams never remember them and people who can't control them can remember their dreams.

  
  Nah, plenty of people can control and remember. You need a decent Dream Recall to remember a Lucid Dream, they are easier to remember than regular dreams, because of awareness.
  And people who can't control their dreams, can learn to.
  _
  
  Also, like Sleeperdial said, Lucid Dreaming (controlling your dreams) isn't anything new.
  I'm a Lucid Dreamer, and it doesn't seem like gaming helped with it, just plenty of dedication - Or maybe Video Games actually helped me with it , I just don't know it o3o.
  
  I can remember about 8 dreams every night, and Lucid Dream about twice a week. Current goal is to LD every night D:
  Since we are on this topic, I actually recommend trying LDing to everyone, is amazing, or atleast improving dream recall. And since we spend a third of our life sleeping, why not try to make the most of it.
  
  Also, there's a difference between being aware you are dreaming, and having control over it. For example, lot of natural Lucid Dreamers, are aware that they dream most of the time, but since they don't know the power that gives them over them, they don't control it; which is the fun part of LDing.
• Chockeh wrote on 2010-05-26 01:34

  Quote from Bakuryu;44352:

  Everyone dreams, every night. Unless you sleep less than 3-4 hours. (depends on person, some start REM sleep pretty damn quick.)
  Even if you slept so little, you might still have a non-REM dream.
  You just don't remember them.
  
  
  Nah, plenty of people can control and remember. You need a decent Dream Recall to remember a Lucid Dream, they are easier to remember than regular dreams, because of awareness.
  And people who can't control their dreams, can learn to.
  _
  
  Also, like Sleeperdial said, Lucid Dreaming (controlling your dreams) isn't anything new.
  I'm a Lucid Dreamer, and it doesn't seem like gaming helped with it, just plenty of dedication - Or maybe Video Games actually helped me with it , I just don't know it o3o.
  
  I can remember about 8 dreams every night, and Lucid Dream about twice a week. Current goal is to LD every night D:
  Since we are on this topic, I actually recommend trying LDing to everyone, is amazing, or atleast improving dream recall. And since we spend a third of our life sleeping, why not try to make the most of it.
  
  Also, there's a difference between being aware you are dreaming, and having control over it. For example, lot of natural Lucid Dreamers, are aware that they dream most of the time, but since they don't know the power that gives them over them, they don't control it; which is the fun part of LDing.

  Omg, if I could study while in my dream, that would be amazing.
• Bakuryu wrote on 2010-05-26 01:45
  If the knowledge you have to study it's not in your head then you won't be able to study it in your dream =P
  
  And besides, reading in a dream is known to be pretty damn hard. And is used as a Dream Sign by many LDers. (Look at some words, look away, look again. Most of the time it says something different = you are dreaming.)
• Osayidan wrote on 2010-05-26 01:51

  Quote from Chocklitshop;44355:

  Omg, if I could study while in my dream, that would be amazing.

  
  
  I do that with meditation rather than sleep. I can program or plan something in my mind as if I was doing it for real, then go and do it, and it usually works.
  
  
  I tried the lucid dreaming thing a few years ago. The first step every 'guide' or source of info on it tells us to do is to improve dream recall by keeping notes of all the dreams we can remember as soon as we wake up. I tried this for 2 weeks, kept a paper and pen near my bed.
  
  2 problems occured. First, unlike most people who were talking about it at the time, I never woke up in the middle of the night from a dream. Second, in the morning no matter how hard I tried, it was just a blank. All I could remember was going to bed. I tried that trick where you don't get up right away but stay half asleep and try to think about your dream, but that didn't work either.
  
  So I gave up and have been sleeping dreamless, or at least entirely unaware of any dreams, for pretty much all of my life.
• Bakuryu wrote on 2010-05-26 01:56
  That sucks Os D: I think dreams are amazing, and it's very much worth trying to improve dream recall. I used to remember 1 dream every night if I was lucky, but after months of practice I remember 6 to 8 every night.
  And it's all about dedication, because the more you try the more your subconscious will process all of this.
  
  For dream recalling it's good to use mantras before going to sleep, repeating to one-self that you are going to wake up after every dream, and remember it; this has helped me a lot. Also, thinking about what you did that day before going to sleep, helps on dream recall.
  Some people keep wake journals to improve Dream Recall, I just think about what I did. And dream journals help tons.
• Lan wrote on 2010-05-26 02:37
  I forget my dreams 5 minutes or so after I wake up, unless it has zombies <3
• Forsaken wrote on 2010-05-26 02:44
  This information is old..
  
  It was found ~5 years ago during a clinical insomnia study, where one of the control groups that played video games was able to process the game into their dream, or relive the game sequence, and change outcomes.
  
  

  Quote from Bakuryu;44352:

  Everyone dreams, every night. Unless you sleep less than 3-4 hours. (depends on person, some start REM sleep pretty damn quick.)
  Even if you slept so little, you might still have a non-REM dream.
  You just don't remember them.
  

  
  
  I have a condition where I don't dream, or I rarely dream. More often than not I am thinking (I've been in studies for it, as they found it while I was in a clinical insomnia study), and I will wake nearly instantly from REM.
• Tedio wrote on 2010-05-26 02:49
  everything really affects my dreams...
  
  I once dreamed about a person with the Comedy CH on. when I heard her say a joke that I already heard:
  
  I laughed, then woke up.