tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601885929616016080.post1551443015172083052..comments2023-05-27T17:43:37.593-07:00Comments on Tree of Life: Gaming and dreamingKeredriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03207180365848283163noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601885929616016080.post-58956215945654843832010-05-28T07:42:08.728-07:002010-05-28T07:42:08.728-07:00@River: lol.
I love that I can always count on y...@River: lol. <br /><br />I love that I can always count on you and Klep, my fellow Chicago bloggers, to come up with comments that crack me up.Keredriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03207180365848283163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601885929616016080.post-28475751054022117582010-05-27T12:18:21.776-07:002010-05-27T12:18:21.776-07:00I dreamt I was in Candyland, and I surrounded by C...I dreamt I was in Candyland, and I surrounded by Chocolate Bars, and Marshmallows. I was so hungry I ate a Marshmallow. <br /><br />Next morning I didn't have a pillowRiverhttp://highlatencylife.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601885929616016080.post-40833865361140484342010-05-27T11:43:00.387-07:002010-05-27T11:43:00.387-07:00@Kae: OMG lawl about seeing action bars and shapes...@Kae: OMG lawl about seeing action bars and shapeshifting in your dreams. I bet you the flying/swimming effect is very similar to being in the portals for Dreamwalker!<br /><br />@Klep: Aw, I think its cute that your nightmare is your healer being attacked. :)<br /><br />@Beru: Well they say that everyone dreams, but that a lot of people don't remember them. I do think we can train ourselves to try to remember them more.<br /><br />And I think Kae is right on her theory of why you were saying use the fireball!<br /><br />@Issy: Oh, I definitely find the subject of dreams and our subconscious fascinating as well. And that is incredible you "shared" a dream with someone else!!!<br /><br />@Glacey: Wow, nearly all your dreams are lucid! I really found the comment the researcher made about both gaming and dreams being forms of an alternate reality very fascinating. Yeah, is there a connection with being a lucid dreamer and a strong gamer? Hmmm...<br /><br />@Kayeri: lol! I actually don't dream about WoW as much as I think I would. I do think this game and the events within it can expand our imaginations, which could carry over into our dreams.<br /><br />With your Illidan dream... it may have been a nightmare for someone else, but perhaps for you as a dreamer, your first instinct was to try to solve the situation instead of just freaking out. Sorta like what the researcher said around how gamers can better control nightmares?Keredriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03207180365848283163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601885929616016080.post-64967877785932458322010-05-27T10:13:14.162-07:002010-05-27T10:13:14.162-07:00Hee, I've had 2 intense WoW-related dreams tha...Hee, I've had 2 intense WoW-related dreams that I can recall... the first was a couple of years ago... it featured Kayeri in the Black Temple... her group is exitting through a mage portal, but something goes wrong, and all of a sudden she's facing Illidan and his council, all alone...<br /><br />I woke thinking, "Crap, how do I get her OUT of there?" ::chuckle::<br /><br />The second was just a couple of months ago... I had just read Gwynhwyfar(sp?), the White Spirit, by Mercedes Lackey... Well, my dreaming mind took the last section, "Queen", dropped it into WoW, and featured my warlock being told she has to marry the King of Stormwind for the good of the kingdom, but neither he nor she is really enthused about the idea... ::chuckling more::<br /><br />So yes, your dreaming mind can do STRANGE things to your toons.... :)Kayerinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601885929616016080.post-88601567931170635432010-05-27T09:40:04.148-07:002010-05-27T09:40:04.148-07:00A couple years ago my husband and I got on the sub...A couple years ago my husband and I got on the subject of dreams, and he was shocked to find out that nearly all my dreams were lucid, and that I remembered them. As I hadn't realized it was uncommon, he hadn't realized people could control dreams without training! (Scientific research and whatnot)<br /><br />Great article, now I'm just waiting for him to connect the dots that I control my dreams and maybe it is related to why I am actually better at WoW and RPGs in general than him... don't know if its true, but that'll make for a fun discussion tonight!Glaceynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601885929616016080.post-68835132021787653172010-05-27T09:39:24.601-07:002010-05-27T09:39:24.601-07:00Me too.. me too...
I bore people to tears with my...Me too.. me too... <br />I bore people to tears with my dreams, I've never tried interpreting though :)<br />I have also shared a dream with someone seeing his holiday through his eyes! (somewhere I had never been and didn't recognise and happened to mention because he and another friend were in it)<br />I know people who say they fly effortlessly but it's hard work when I do it.<br />My parents found me once at the top of the stairs with the door open shouting *wait for me* (I was asleep)<br />and I do the serial dreaming too - continuing one night with a bit of overlap from the previous.<br /><br />The connection to gaming is very interesting.. but maybe gamers just have good imagination, with lots coming from pen n paper backgrounds?<br /><br />Sorry for long comment, I find this fascinating :)Issyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17933957795168847676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601885929616016080.post-91616132802086053752010-05-27T08:14:53.110-07:002010-05-27T08:14:53.110-07:00Roasting marshmallows with your guildie mages, imo...Roasting marshmallows with your guildie mages, imo, Beru!Kaehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16164718601021220108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601885929616016080.post-21301937439108621402010-05-27T07:55:04.528-07:002010-05-27T07:55:04.528-07:00You know...I don't think that I remember a lot...You know...I don't think that I remember a lot of my dreams. However, I sometimes do have dreams that wake me up, at it's always to the sensation of falling. Always.<br /><br />However, I tend to sleep really poorly and frequently wake up any number of times in the middle of the night. To the point that I've considered some sleep studies to try and resolve it.<br /><br />Perhaps my poor sleep effects my dreams, or lack thereof?<br /><br />Although...apparently I DO talk in my sleep, I must be dreaming then, no? I have been advised that one night to kept hollering at Brade to "Use the fireball!". Beats me what was on my mind! =)Beruthielhttp://www.fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601885929616016080.post-78133761163532186052010-05-27T06:42:38.970-07:002010-05-27T06:42:38.970-07:00The endless mobs spawning behind me and attacking ...The endless mobs spawning behind me and attacking my crying healer are NOT a fun scenario! NO! Please stop attacking my healer, and why is my taunt missing so much and I seem to be slowed and go god it's as if we are endlessly wiping without dying.Klepsacovichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07915576683657376929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601885929616016080.post-66395846001295378842010-05-27T06:08:36.329-07:002010-05-27T06:08:36.329-07:00Veeery interesting. I know I have some control ov...Veeery interesting. I know I have some control over my dreams, but I hadn't considered it a by-product of gaming, in spite of evidence given to me in my own dreams: like action buttons to enable certain powers... like flight, back when I was playing City of Heroes.<br /><br />I have been able to fly in my dreams since high school, when a friend told me she could fly in hers; a couple weeks later, I managed it, too. It was a "swimming" like effect, reminiscent of swimming underwater in so many games.<br /><br />I can also shapeshift in my dreams, most often into a wolf (which doesn't directly correlate to a game I've played)... haven't been a tree yet, though ;)Kaehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16164718601021220108noreply@blogger.com