Video Gamers Can Control Dreams.

[witold]

http://www.livescience.com/culture/video-games-control-dreams-100525.html

[deoxy99]

To control them, you have to know you are dreaming, yet you do not have to be a gamer.
Please do not believe everything you read.

[sean2323]

Yeah, no they can't. To control them, you have to know you are dreaming, and be a lucid dreamer, and you don't have to be a gamer.
You know, don't believe everything you read.

To control your dreams.

Step 1, keep thinking of one single thing
Step 2, after fallen asleep the thing you were thinking of will become one of the main things in your mind, effecting what you see in a dream
Step 3, have fun in your dream

Step 4, the worst step, be woken up

[Laura]

It's not a big leap to compare gaming with lucid dreaming. Both are fantasies, both are interactive. The simple fact that a person subjects herself to lots of interactive video entertainment may well serve to condition her to have more lucid dreams. Conversely, a person who does not play video games, but watches a lot of movies or TV does not receive such conditioning.

[atomic7732]

Dreams are your day, backward. So don't learn stuff in the moring... Hmmm... Sounds ALOT like school. Maybe that's why we all forget that stuff. By the time your brain processes it, it's mainly gone.

[Naru523]

For some reason when you sleep, time forwards for you. I dunno why.

[atomic7732]

You know you slept, it seems so short, but SO LONG from when you went to sleep. It's awesome. Anyone agree?

[Naru523]

Bad for good dreams.
Good for bad dreams.
 

Edited like a pro.

[atomic7732]

No really?

[Laura]

It's really the opposite of 'missing time' in that you have the false memory of having spent a lot of time

[Darvince]

It seems like whenever I have a very deep dream, and then I realize its a dream, it ends immediately, and another one begins.

[atomic7732]

Oh really? So that's why I can never control your mi- I mean, control your dog, yeah that's it.  

[matty406]

It seems like whenever I have a very deep dream, and then I realize its a dream, it ends immediately, and another one begins.

I get thit. It's like my brain says "Oh, no you don't".

[atomic7732]

I get thit. It's like my brain says "Oh, no you don't".

Yup, that's totally how it feels. I had one of those last night.

[MassiveEffect]

As deoxy said, you don't have to be a gamer to get lucid dreams.

Lucid dreaming is an absolutely amazing experience.