Video Gamers Have Power Over Their Nightmares

[Kugyince]

A recent study suggests that video game players could have the power to alter their nightmares, turning the tide on the things that go bump in our subconscious minds. We are the Dream Warriors.

Jayne Gackenbach, a psychologist at Grant MacEwan University in Canada, thinks that gamers might have the power to alter their dreams.

Gackenbach's main area of study used to be lucid dreams - dreams where the dreamer watches from outside of their own body. 3rd-person dreams, if you will.

Video Gamers Have Power Over Their Nightmares

[nikegirl2012]

it kinda makes sense to me. On some occasions I can more or less control what goes on. Once I really wanted a sword to fight against weird zombie teenagers because I realized it be easier than just fighting with my fists, and since I didn't quite get one, I started moving my hands as if I did and then my sword appeared. Also, at the beginning of that dream I had though of the story plot, something like "yeah suddenly all teenagers get really aggressive and become zombies but after a while it goes away" And after a while of my sword fighting they turned to normal again. Other dreams I don't know what's going to happen or have no control over it

[Kong]

Gackenbach's main area of study used to be lucid dreams - dreams where the dreamer watches from outside of their own body. 3rd-person dreams, if you will.

Incorrect. Lucid dreaming means you are aware that you are dreaming. Dream Control means you have control of the dream. Watching from outside of your body is an Out of Body Experience.

[Tails]

I had one last night, some psycho was chasing me through the sky.

[fenrir1887]

Weird. Then again, I control a lot of what I dream about.

[samejamesbond]

This is exactly what happened to me when I dreamed I was in Dead Rising.
It was awesome.