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You may have to read this.
http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/05/26/2050256/Video-Gamers-Have-Power-Over-Their-Dreams
It's interesting. Considering my video game consumption, I feel qualified to contribute. I think they could be on to something.
Now understand that my dreams are highly real in an experiential sense but not cohesive at all. Example: I'll be in a factual house that's in the wrong place. The content also makes no sense, at least as far as I remember most dreams. So they're very real but inconsistent. Some days it's so bad that I sit awake for minutes still thinking about the dream scenario as real, trying to figure out what on earth was going on or what I had been thinking.
I am able to change my dreams, though not in as dramatic or controlled a fashion as one might hope. At some points I drift close to rationality and mentally "call out" an inconsistent part of a dream. The oddity can halt the dream, which will then change course. Even while little is clear or intuitive, it seems like I avoid obvious contradictions.
I'm also able to pivot dreams around a point of interest. If I notice a detail in a dream where say, I'm running from something, I can be dreaming about that detail in a moment and the earlier scenario is gone or "redacted." Again, it's not like I can control exactly what goes on, but I can go "Ooh, look at that" and be dreaming something else.
You should also take into account that I'm not exactly an average person. I'm also a night owl and consequently in bed late and out of bed late. This sometimes means getting moving before I've sorted out exactly what's real and not...
And if you noticed the "reversal" possibility they mentioned, I have experienced something like that, though whether it was part of the dream or something I deliberately caused is not the part I remember.
http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/05/26/2050256/Video-Gamers-Have-Power-Over-Their-Dreams
It's interesting. Considering my video game consumption, I feel qualified to contribute. I think they could be on to something.
Now understand that my dreams are highly real in an experiential sense but not cohesive at all. Example: I'll be in a factual house that's in the wrong place. The content also makes no sense, at least as far as I remember most dreams. So they're very real but inconsistent. Some days it's so bad that I sit awake for minutes still thinking about the dream scenario as real, trying to figure out what on earth was going on or what I had been thinking.
I am able to change my dreams, though not in as dramatic or controlled a fashion as one might hope. At some points I drift close to rationality and mentally "call out" an inconsistent part of a dream. The oddity can halt the dream, which will then change course. Even while little is clear or intuitive, it seems like I avoid obvious contradictions.
I'm also able to pivot dreams around a point of interest. If I notice a detail in a dream where say, I'm running from something, I can be dreaming about that detail in a moment and the earlier scenario is gone or "redacted." Again, it's not like I can control exactly what goes on, but I can go "Ooh, look at that" and be dreaming something else.
You should also take into account that I'm not exactly an average person. I'm also a night owl and consequently in bed late and out of bed late. This sometimes means getting moving before I've sorted out exactly what's real and not...
And if you noticed the "reversal" possibility they mentioned, I have experienced something like that, though whether it was part of the dream or something I deliberately caused is not the part I remember.