Malice Rancor
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It depends on what it is though, like being shot with a gun or nail gun in my dreams
doesn't hurt all that bad and tearing people apart doesn't feel very realistic, because it has only
happened in my dreams.
It doesn't hurt because you play a lot of doom (or whatever). When you play doom, you accept it as reality (just there and then, hopefully not after;]), and in this reality, you are often shot at, bit by deamons and blasted by rockets. And it doesn't hurt. Dreams always reflect your perception of reality somehow :) If you have really been shot sometime, or never been subject to painless simulation, it WOULD hurt.
I know playing video games can affect my dreams, just like everything else I do . But I wouldn't go as
far as saying that if you play doom (or whatever), you won't feel pain in your dreams when you get
shot, even if you have been shot before. And I actually do feel pain, maybe not the exact kind you
would feel from a gunshot wound, or nearly as intense, but I do feel some. My brain may not know
what it is like to be shot, but it does know what it is like to feel pain and knows what happens to
someone when they get shot.
What I have noticed is that sometimes an event in my dream is associated with an event that happened in real life, to the extent that I am feeling pretty much the same things in the same order, but just seeing different images. I found it easy to rip people apart, but using a utility knife was a completely different story. I know what it is like to slowly cut flesh open with a utility knife, I know about the vibration you feel from the crunching of ripping flesh when the blade is deep and moving down, I know about the
colors and layers, etc.. When I started to cut this guys face open in my dreams, it was slow, the wounds were detailed, I could feel his flesh rip, I could feel that crunching, and so on. It really started to make me feel sick, I didn’t want to do it, but this person was keeping me captive in my dream and was going to kill me if I didn’t escape. But sure, I think if I had a utility knife for a weapon in a video game, I may have a similar dream, but instead associate that event in my dream with the video game instead. I don’t think that it totally ruins my ability to have a more realistic dream though. But you said “dreams always reflect your perception of reality”, and my perception of reality is more influenced by real experiences then that of a video game. Although this fluctuates, because obviously the more games you play, the
more of an influence it will have on your dreams. When I played EQ 18/7, I was constantly dreaming about it. Heh, even when I was awake I would see road kill and be like “I wonder what kind of loot it has” or move close to it with the intent to loot its corpse.
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