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G-kit and I have spoken before about Counter-Strike dreams, which I've had before, but can't really remember the details of.

I often find a lot of my dreams follow a Sega "collect the rings/glowing orbs/hearts" theme, regardless of whether I'm dreaming of flying over pirate ships or having a nightmare about being stabbed on the train.

Every morning I wake up to the radio (Essex FM, but that's another story entirely, as I don't live in Essex and shouldn't be able to pick it up), but this morning some guitar-heavy song was on, I didn't clock what it was, but I was playing Guitar Hero along to it in my sleep. It was pretty difficult, but towards the end of the song I managed to pick it up and break out my Star Power. It was only when the DJ cut in at the end of the song that I realised I was dreaming.

So, am I going crazy or do the rest of you have great/bizarre gaming dreams?

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 12:13 (eighteen years ago) link

The last one I can remember was, amazingly enough, a gta-SA dream. I'd just attained 100% and the graphics suddenly changing into this sickiningly colourful world, like a Mario land or something. There were some amazing graphics in the sky line.

I wish this is what really happened when you achieved 100% on San Andreas.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 12:31 (eighteen years ago) link

I once had a dream that Jon and I were in Super Metroid and it was all dark and spooky with twinkly music, and I had an ominous feeling that we had to keep going. I realized that I needed the grappling hook to proceed at a particular juncture, and Jon had it but he wouldn't let me use it. I think I died.

― Laura H. (laurah), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link

That seems in character.

Right now my dream logic is Fire Emblem-based = all problems require hours of incredibly careful and meaningless babysteps.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 22:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I had a really disturbing dream last night where I saw some guys getting mugged in a dark alley. I was my level 60 mage from when I used to play WoW (killed my account a few months ago). I tried to throw a frost bolt, but I couldn't remember my key mappings. I was trying everything. In the meantime, the muggers saw me and summoned elementals, which started running toward me. It occured to me to log out real quick and switch to my level 56 rogue, but I would remember those key bindings either.

Then I woke up.

― josh in sf (stfu kthx), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 23:38 (eighteen years ago) link

I had a dream that that game Black was really good. Like, really good. Someone needs to confirm/deny.

― adam (adam), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 23:43 (eighteen years ago) link

i have the demo of black. it's shit.

when final fantasy x came out, i played it from 26 hours in 2 days. the 2nd night i had a dream that i was playing it and couldn't beat one of the blitzball games. that is all.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Thursday, 13 April 2006 01:56 (eighteen years ago) link

oops. that should say FOR 26 hours in 2 days.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Thursday, 13 April 2006 03:18 (eighteen years ago) link

i posted an ILE thread about this long ago, but I'm too lazy to find it now.

i dreamt i was in some boss fight in some shooter.

― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 13 April 2006 03:23 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah Black is totally nothing special

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 13 April 2006 07:56 (eighteen years ago) link

I was having Civ 4 dreams for a while there, actually it was that that made me cut back a bit.
When it first came out and I was playing it all the time I got really vivid Tetris dreams.
Other games that have cropped up in dreams include RanaRama, Zelda:OOT, Doom amd Crazy Taxi. Weird.

― Greig (treefell), Thursday, 13 April 2006 09:06 (eighteen years ago) link

I sometimes have layout dreams related to either SC4 or Teh Movies/Teh Sims, where I'm planning and laying stuff out in a grid, with the revolving/rotating views an' all.

Tho lately now I think about it, I think Zelda Minish Cap is giving me weird fight the baddies dreams too.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 13 April 2006 09:45 (eighteen years ago) link

stupid douche. don't spam my board.

― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 13 April 2006 18:08 (eighteen years ago) link

I banned him.

― Laura H. (laurah), Thursday, 13 April 2006 19:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Last night's was dreadful. I was talking to people and doing stuff, only I didn't know what I was going to say or do. I was just SAYING or DOING! I'd walk up to someone and press "talk", and I'd say something entirely inappropriate, or walk up to an object and press "action" and in most cases the object would either rotate a bit or I'd pick it up and examine it.

It was like being stuck in Shenmue.

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Friday, 14 April 2006 12:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Most video game dreams are your brain madly practicing for what you've convinced it is an essential task!
I've had the Counterstrike one, and I've also had the dreaded TETRIS DREAM even though I was never super big on tetris.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 14 April 2006 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link

oh yeah, i've definitely played entire games of tetris/lumines/katamari in my sleep.

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 14 April 2006 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link

When I was in full on QUAKE addiction in the mid nineties, I would consistently dream with the HUD emblazoned in my subconscious.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 15 April 2006 01:35 (eighteen years ago) link

I've had a lot of dreams like the Zelda games where I die and then I just end up where I was before, and have the whole dream again only to die and start over once more, etc. It's really frustrating, and I wonder if in a world without video games would I have this terrible theme in my dreams? It's just like Zelda for the SNES, everything turns red and I fall down and start over, totally frustrated.

― Abbott (Abbott), Saturday, 15 April 2006 01:38 (eighteen years ago) link

When I was in full on QUAKE addiction in the mid nineties, I would consistently dream with the HUD emblazoned in my subconscious.

see also, combat sims and MECHWARRIOR

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Saturday, 15 April 2006 03:51 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...
OMG. Last night I dreamt I had an Xbox and Outrun 2. I played the game through about three times in my dream (which is strange because, though I play the arcade quite a bit, I don't know all the forks) and when I woke up thought, "Right, one more game!"

I can't have one more game, because I don't have an Xbox OR Outrun 2 :(

I used to have Game Gear dreams like this years ago, where I'd wake up to find I couldn't complete Castle of Illusion because the console wasn't where I left it in my sleep.

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Saturday, 20 May 2006 10:55 (seventeen years ago) link

two months pass...
last night i dreamt i was in a newsagents and they told me that production on all computer magazines was being stopped.

i think this dream relates to me way back to when Your Sinclair and things like that were being stopped and it marked the end of the Speccy age.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 3 August 2006 08:31 (seventeen years ago) link

New Super Mario Bros is invading my dreamworld and it's always those bastard underwater levels.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 3 August 2006 09:01 (seventeen years ago) link

off topic, but YS! still stands up as the best magazine EVER.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Thursday, 3 August 2006 10:00 (seventeen years ago) link

We Love Katamari broke my personal record last week for the shortest time between purchasing a game and dreaming about it (12 hours).

― Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Thursday, 3 August 2006 10:22 (seventeen years ago) link

pld!

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Thursday, 3 August 2006 10:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I woke up from a dream to find myself poking the pillow with my finger and yelling "why won't you save God Damit!" I like to think I had spent the last few hours holding my pillow like a controller trying to control my dream.

― Merrini (Mezza), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:07 (seventeen years ago) link

totally agree kit, still love reading all the archives on World Of Spectrum

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I've been playing X3, which is like elite and has lots of trading in it. And last night I dreamt I was an interstellar antiques dealer, but that I had a time machine too. So my job consisted of buying various chairs and tables, hiding them in assorted pods scattered thorugh the galaxy, then jumping forward 300 years and going back to check whether any of them had become valuable yet.

― JimD (JimD), Thursday, 17 August 2006 08:17 (seventeen years ago) link

oh man i am going to play x3 for the first time tonight. that dream makes me want to play it even more.

i haven't had a good dream in a while since my sleep schedule's been righted, but I used to have WoW dreams at least weekly (which made sense given the hours I played it). They usually involved a lot of people yelling into my ears without moving their mouths, which was the style at the time, since Ventrilo doesn't make your gnome's beard wobble.

― Will M. (Will M.), Thursday, 17 August 2006 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...
Last night I dreamt that I was playing this text-input RPG (what do you call them?) where I was a plucky and inquisitive Italian supermodel skulking around a hotel/motel.

You see a door marked CUSTODIAN.

> open door

It's a custodian's closet. You see a towel on the ground.

> take towel

You pick up the towel, leave the closet, and make your way towards the lobby. You are standing at the top of a stairway that leads to the first floor.

> use towel on handrail

You put the towel on the handrail -- you can't be too careful about germs -- then proceed to slide down. "Wheee!" you squeal gleefully.

Next thing I know, the game's no longer text-based and I've become the character -- and I'm taking a shower with the towel.

― c('°c) (Leee), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

ew

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought you couldn't read/write in dreams, coz it was a different part of the brain.

― kingfish praetor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

it's really tricky to read in dreams. i think most of the time you just 'think' you're reading but probably its just a load of squishy lines

thats my technical assessment anyway.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I have had a couple vague dreams involving Dead Rising. I think the Willamette shopping mall is kind of a haunting venue for a game -- you run through the exact same places so many times that a lot of its weird half-realistic features stick with you the way an actual place would.

― nate p. (natepatrin), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 01:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I wasn't actually typing and reading the action on a screen -- instead, the game had very crude graphics: stick-figure-esque wire outlines of everything (e.g. the environment, the characters), except for the fully rendered towel!

― c('°c) (Leee), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 02:14 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...
Played Lego Star Wars II game last night until 2. Dreams were all in lego last night, I was creating new levels and everything. Very odd. When I woke up and did the usual snooze thing for a few minutes the dreams started again! Lego has replaced work hate, this is a good thing!

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Monday, 9 October 2006 09:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Last night I dreamt about Dead Rising, only instead of a mall it was in my secondary school and it was much more creepy and less bloody. I spent most of my time hiding in lockers from the fat lesbian cop. Come to think of it, it was sort of a Dead Rising/Metal Gear crossover dream.

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Monday, 9 October 2006 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link

the only thing i remember dreaming about last night is fighting some horrible half dog, half HL2 combine soldier, with my bare hands. it was brutal.

after playing counterstrike all day i was disappointed not to have dreamt up a lot more.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 9 October 2006 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

i think you had CS Overkill Mind Fatigue(tm).
that was one hell of a session you had yesterday, if your mind had even imagined/dreamed some CS, you would've melted. maybe.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Monday, 9 October 2006 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

monster space aliens instead of terrorists, multiple one shot kills ahoy, level maps based in supermarkets, all my CS dreams came in last night.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 09:16 (seventeen years ago) link


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