Yea i had a slight increase when playing Oblivion for a long time… went into what i call gamer mode in which i do not notice anything outside of the game…also did the journal thing…thought i was playin for 30 mins and it turned out i had been playing for nearly 8 hours…went to sleep right after and had an LD …
EDIT* (sry accidently hit the enter button which for some reason posted it…) Normally i have like 1 LD every month…changed to 2 in a week and 1 more 4 days later.
I had my latest LD when I was on holiday, away from computer games for about a week. However, I don’t play many first-person games, so that might have something to do with my small chances.
I don’t play games that often anymore, but when I was younger I found it hindered my LDs.
If I had a game that I ended up playing for hours, I would end up dreaming about it, but because I was so used to it in WL it never triggered an LD and the dreams took over my regular dreams for a while, so for me at least it always hindered.
That was before I knew what LDing was though, if I was to do it now I may have a different result since I know to look for dream signs and odd things.
this thread makes me want to plat more video games
Halo 3 coming soon! Oh yeah, and Oblivion rocked. I know, I know… I am a 360 fan boy.
I’m not a big gamer, but when I do play them it doesn’t seem to affect lucid dreams. But then, I get them so rarely that it’s hard to tell…
PS: I love the Myst series. You have good taste!
I have never kept a gaming journal, and though I found the idea funny, I think I wouldn’t be interested to.
Recently I’ve heard about a scientific article about video games enhancing some capabilities (attention, concentration, etc.)
I think it depends heavily on the video game. As for me, most of the video games (and computer related environment) don’t provoke dreams. If I play, say, Tetris, I don’t have Tetris-related dreams. And I dream very rarely of the forum, though I’m spending hours on it.
This became very different when I started playing World of Worldcraft. Though it was not really first person - my point of view was located behind my character - the 3D environment is realistic enough IMO to make your brain react as it’s a real experience, that is, try to replay during dreams game situations in order to enhance its reactions. After one month, all my dreams were Wow-related nightmares, so that I eventually stopped playing this game.
Nevertheless, I didn’t notice any increase in LD’s. I could have used such dreamsigns in order to induce LD’s indeed but I didn’t.
I have noticed the similarity between games and LDs. Theyre both fantasy worlds in wich you participate in. If I were to keep a game journal, I would have played oblivion, but the game is on my computer, and my computer isnt that powerful…
Yea I just can’t find anything better to do…soooo when I’m playing a game of that type I’ll do everything to make it seem real…
Well Karma, I’m only too happy to feed your addiction 
I’m a huuuuuge Oblivion fan, I think I’ve racked up over 150hours of game time by now 
Why thankyou 
I only really noticed a significant increase in my ld’s during the time I was keeping the journal, and pretending that the game events were actually taking place.
I had about 4 ld’s in one week, which directly corresponded with the week during which I played Myst a lot and kept the gaming journal.
The correlation seemed too significant to ignore 
Lol, that would be quite an interesting LD if it were Tetris related 
I quite agree that it depends on the type of video game. It could possibly depend on the type of person your are, how involved you become in your ‘fantasy’ world - and I suppose a great deal of other factors.
And yet, the correlation remains. 
does anyone play Age of Mythology online???
i love that game…also, is Kingdom Hearts any good???
I guess it depends on what kind of game you were playing. For me it has been the exact opposite. I have never had a lucid dream after a very heavy gaming day. But one disturbing thing is that i do dream about playing the game in every following dream and these dreams are usually less vivid and less enjoyable than most normal dreams.
Ive dreamt of 2 games
tibia mmorpg
And tetris 
None of them is first-person.
Games like UT2K4 and TESIV:Oblivion are.
hmm. never seen any correlation between gaming and LDing. if there was one, i would have an LD daily 
seriously. i play games on my pc daily. every single day. its like eating. i need it to stay alive and sane. i can easily play from dawn till dusk (or in my case, from dusk till dawn ). i usually stick to just one game, and play it obsessively for months, until i get bored with it and find a new one. while playing, i have almost every single detail/command/quest memorised. if anyone is having a problem with that game, i can find the answer before they even have time to finish mentioning what the problem is about.
in short, i obsess over games. alot. but it hardly ever has any influence on my dreams. i have only had a few dreams in my life that had any game elements in it, and there hasnt been any correlation with what i did the day before. in the 9 LDs ive had so far, i can only remember 1 where i had anything from games in it, and there it was just a single item that was wildly misplaced. maybe i just think about games differently from most other people or something?
hi ive sorta kept a mental journal of games and dreams. often go through it at work or at 6thform. after thinking on it a while ill have dream about it were what i was thinking about evolves into even better stuff i would onyl think about when in bed.
I have a theory that the actual journal keeping of the game experience itself is pivotal - if there is any correlation at all to be found between ld’ing and gaming.
their deffonatly is…iam a battlefield 2 freak and last night had an awsume killing dream. roaming the streets of karkand with my l96a1 and then the pkm. but half way during the dream people started using lightsabers …i keep thinking of knights of the old republic for some reason and i figured that why they are there…??? any idea?
Maybe a WOW journal would give me more lucid dreams? I get quite some WOW dreams already. I can imagine that in computer games, we use the imagination and become a part of the game world in our minds. Almost the same thing happen in a lucid dream!
This is such an interesting discussion. Really glad to have found this site. It’s really neat to see so many different perspectives on the possible connections between gaming and lucid dreaming. I’ll be posting a research participant opportunity in the lab in a few moments. Some of you might be interested. Come have a look! 