It might not be smart to eat before bed, but it could be a great idea to play World of Warcraft for a couple hours. LiveScience reports that controlling a game environment may translate over to controlling dreams.
Jayne Gackenbach, a psychologist at Grant MacEwan University in Canada, points out that both dreams and videogames are representations of alternate realities, albeit one is driven by biology and the other by technology. She believes that gaming is like "practice" for the ability to have a lucid dream, the term used to describe a dream where the dreamer has control.
Gackenbach says of gamers in dreams: "They don't run away, they turn and fight back. They're more aggressive than the norms." She also deduced that gamers have less aggression in dreams, but when it arises it's extreme. "If you look at the actual overall amount of aggression, gamers have less aggression in dreams, but when they're aggressive, oh boy, they go off the top," she revealed.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/100943-Gamers-More-Likely-to-Become...
I'm a Senior Strategist for digital creative agency Big Spaceship, leading strategy for a number of clients including Skittles and Crayola. I wrote and produced the virtual world documentary Second Skin and am the managing editor for the pop culture blog Popten.
I'm a Senior Strategist for digital creative agency Big Spaceship, leading strategy for a number of clients including Skittles and Crayola. I wrote and produced the virtual world documentary Second Skin and am the managing editor for the pop culture blog Popten.
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