Do you dream the games you play?
i had weirdest dream a month or two ago: overhaul managed to recover all the source assets for planescape :torment and it released it in 3D. at first i was skeptical at this transition, but then i got transported into the world and i just stood there in awe at the world.
of course, i wasn't playing it on monitor i was TNO at the time.
i remember how everything seemed so vivid and rich and i was just walking around, recognizing all the places, marveling how they retextured even the stuff that wasn't visible on old 2D background. it was all so logical, they didn't export backgrounds, they just improved them in original 3d files and kept them that way.
i was trying to talk to some NPC's but remembered that there is no voice over so only text remained, which disappointed me a bit, but i somehow managed to get "generic" voiced lines to cover the illusion of talking NPC's.
as i started to search the new (improved retextured) version of companions (i just saw grace and morte), hoping they still look recognizable, i woke up. i remained in bed for next 15 minutes, recollecting the dream. this was one of the more pleasant game-to-dream experiences. do you have anything to share?
of course, i wasn't playing it on monitor i was TNO at the time.
i remember how everything seemed so vivid and rich and i was just walking around, recognizing all the places, marveling how they retextured even the stuff that wasn't visible on old 2D background. it was all so logical, they didn't export backgrounds, they just improved them in original 3d files and kept them that way.
i was trying to talk to some NPC's but remembered that there is no voice over so only text remained, which disappointed me a bit, but i somehow managed to get "generic" voiced lines to cover the illusion of talking NPC's.
as i started to search the new (improved retextured) version of companions (i just saw grace and morte), hoping they still look recognizable, i woke up. i remained in bed for next 15 minutes, recollecting the dream. this was one of the more pleasant game-to-dream experiences. do you have anything to share?
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Or, often, my brain is just doing housecleaning. I am playing the game on my computer as I sleep. All the images are still active, as though burned in. I am clicking, progressing in the game, as though I were still awake and playing. Sometimes, the surrounding environment is a house I grew up in - my mother's or my grandmother's, and I am 8 years old again, playing on some kind of laptop, lying around on a couch or on the floor.
These are time-juxtaposition images. Computers were not household objects until I was in college. When I was 8 years old, nobody even knew what a "computer" was, except maybe as a sci-fi villain like Hal from 2001:A Space Odyssey. (Ha, ha, a "computer" that goes crazy and tries to kill people, what a novel idea, how fanciful as a story device, ha, ha, good thing there's no such thing in real life, ha, ha.)
One thing never fails - these are always good dreams, because I am powerful in them, and I know exactly what to do. I always wake up from them feeling excited, refreshed, and competent to handle anything.
Sometimes, I can change a nightmare into a good dream through a kind of lucid dreaming techinique, where, when I am dreaming something horrible or frightening, I suddenly remember, wait a minute, click spellbook, fireball, lightning bolt, goodbye, nightmare monster, darn, that felt good! No boogey-man nightmare creature can scare me!
This is a good, interesting topic.
yes...
i've had tetris dreams, BG dreams (had one last night), Civ dreams, & Madden dreams....
& D&D dreams
@Jolanthus this happened to me also a few times. if nothing else, i learned the best way to beat a boss at 4 AM is to go to sleep, and then beating it in the morning/noon.
on this example i learned a value of getting some sleep or nap if i need to solve something really stressful. i usually wake emotionally stable and ready to act.
I once had a dream in which I got the BWP to work on my computer, and when I woke up I was disappointed because in real life it doesn't.
Nightmares basically, most likely induced by playing a multiplayer game in BG2. For some reason, even if the game runs locally on my PC, pause is having a noticeable lag.
right now i dont have to worry about that kind of dreams... :smug:
That's why you shouldn't watch violent, bloody things before going to bed. It's bad for your psyche.