Too Much Ns?

Forfeit · April 2003

Never happened with NS.

I only dreamed about a game with Ultima Online. When I was a newbie I went to mines and stayed there for 2 hours or 3, and when I closed my eyes I could "see" myself mining. I also dreamed a lot that I was runing of PKs and Prismas <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'>

Ultima Online is like a drug. Thankfully I stopped playing it for about 2 years now.

NegaBenji · April 2003

Some of this thread is hilarious. 'I agree with your parents' <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

Personally, my dreams never really make sense. They don't really flow or have any continuity, completely unrealistic things happen (which I only realize when I wake up and remember them) and they tend to skip between themes a lot. I rarely dream about anything in my life either - which is why I tend to remember things which seem tangibly connected to my real life in some way. I have some cool dreams, and I'd really like to try lucid dreaming at some point just to explore them a little more. If you *do* constantly dream about games, then I think that's an indication that your mind is intensely preoccupied with them, so much so that even your subconscious focuses on them. If you find you *are* obsessing over something, you probably need to reduce your exposure to it, at least in proportion to other things. Read a bit. Watch a movie. Go out somewhere, play some music. Daydream and make a few plans. Give your mind and your imagination the potential to grow, and then you'll be ok playing games as much as you want. NO TURRETS IN THE BEDROOM PLS

Jower · April 2003

Man are you weak
Besides if you DID ask a serial killer that you'd be dead wouldent you ?

Dunkin_Dynamite · April 2003

I'm dreamed about knifing this gorge on ns_lost <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

yeah I used to have Starcraft dreams.. I've been gaming for a long time and it seems that I only started dreaming about games when I stayed up regularly to play them.

I skipped pg 2 and 3 of this thread, nonethless girls, stop b*tching
- No Imagination you have your answer - requires sleep deprivation and long gaming time

Dunkin_Dynamite · April 2003

dreams r0x
esp the ones with girls ^^ j/k

It's like an awesome fantasy world

yeah I had regret dreams too
but lots of cool and fantastical and nonsensical stuff

and fighting

J2pc · April 2003

In the beginning of NS I was playing like 24/7

So when I was with my girlfriend, I closed my eyes, and saw skulks running in horseshoe and heard them chukle <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'> hard to focus <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

Sometimes dream about girls, at the en u think HELL IT WAS A DREAM, I HAVE NO GIRLFRIEND IN MY DREAM!!! I'd really like to control those <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

exoity · April 2003

To much NS? Never heard of it.

Narfwak · April 2003

One of my coolest and weirdest dreams involved that Star Wars pod racing game (aptly titled "Racer" <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'> ). I had been playing it all day, and had gotten more than halfway through the game in that single period of time. However, I had gotten stuck on one of the tracks, not able to figure out how to get through a certain area; every time I tried to go through that particular turn, I was killed.

Frustrated, I went to bed. However, the moment I shut my eyes, I was playing racer again. And this wasn't just the hazy, obscure dream one gets every night - I was <i><b>THERE</b></i>. I wasn't playing racer, I wasn't dreaming about playing racer, I was in the game. Literally. I wasn't pod racing, I was in the game, like I had digitally possessed my character. It was the most vivid experience I have ever had - it was more real than real life.

I was instantly jolted awake by the sheer shock of the experience. I had been in bed only several <i>seconds</i>. Yet my body felt distinctly sore, as if I had been jolting through the same movements in real life as in my dream. With both interest and trepidation, I laid down and shut my eyes again.

The same thing happened, and I was back exactly were I left off. "This is <i>really</i> bizarre," I thought as I flew through a turn.

It only took me a few seconds to realize that I was on the track that had been so badly frustrating me before. I was flying through the same areas that had been difficult, breezing through them with no trouble at all.

And then I was there. That same turn that had been frustrating me so much. To give you an idea of this turn, imagine a flat, straight area lined by caution tape. At the end of the area, there is a hole; more precisely, a tunnel entrance. To continue through the track, one must slow down, veer up and then sharply down, steady out instantly, then continue. You get turned more than 360 degrees in the process, and all this happens in less than a second. You screw up, you die.

My instant remembrance of this jolted me awake again. My experiences in the dream had been so real; every time I was damaged, I hurt. I felt the G-forces of every turn, heard the roar of the engines and taunts of my competitors. What if when my pod came crashing into that turn, fragmenting into pieces - what if that was real too? I know it sounds ridiculous, but I honestly felt like the dream could actually <i>kill</i> me. I feared more than anything else to shut me eyes.

But I also couldn't <i>not</i> shut my eyes. An unfathomable force was holding me in my bed; I was too fascinated with the experience to simply turn away. I <i>had</i> to know what would happen.

And so I shut my eyes again. I was determined to make that turn. I hit my afterburners, flew at it full speed. My pod, my very <i>consciousness</i>, reeled and bent as a thin reed; I whirled and turned, veered and flipped, all in one death-defying moment.

I <i>owned</i> the turn.

I was literally in shock. I could not at all believe that I had made the turn. I was so amazed that my piloting a pod, or more accurately, <i>being</i> a pod, was no longer significant. I had made the turn, and had done it so impressively that I passed everyone in the race.

The next morning I beat the course in first place on my first try.

Cool, eh?

The_Real_Quasar · April 2003

I never sleep, so i never dream.
Actually, that's a lie. I tend to spend a lot of my time at the PC (i mean a LOT, i often stay up all night reading these forums <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'> ) And i once fell asleep in german class. Not for long, just a few seconds. But i remember a room with a crate in, or something to that effect. Coulda been a shelf, or a step, or a box-shaped martian. It was brown, with a light shining on teh wall illuminating the top of the crate.
I don't know why i just described that.
Actually, i didn't. This is a dream. Please wake up now.

megadeath · April 2003

only time i ever dreamed about a game was when i was playing Asheron's Call 1. I dreamt i was wearing my red mage's robe in my RL local night club. That was when I decided to sell my account on ebay.

The dream was so deep that when I woke up, it took a good hour to realise it wasn't real.

Edit -

I seem to always have the ability to wake up from a dream if I feel I'm threatened. The classic one was when I was in a sword fight, the enemy was about to do a fatal blow and I just laughed and decided to wake up.

I tend to remember all my dreams quite clearly. I even went through a phase in my 1st year of uni of sharing my dreams with flatemates and writing a couple down. For the ones I don't remember when I wake up, I fire random words into my head and it usually triggers the rememberance of key parts of a dream. Failing that, seeing objects in RL sometimes triggers the rememberance too. Many occassions I've been in control of my dream, even able to wake up and fall asleep again and continue.

Does alcohol affect REM?

When I was a little kid, I was sitting on my bed and my mum put the tip of a hoover over my foot by mistake. It made a couple of toes sore i think. After that, up to the age of about 16 (10 years), I occassionally had dreams about hoovers. Sometimes a haunted dream about a hoover chasing me, sometimes a normal dream with the incorporation of a hoover. Always associated with an evil sound and it always made me wake up eventually. All my nightmares ended with them fading to black and spinning out of unconsiousness. weird!

SilentMurderer · April 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Jower @ Apr 19 2003, 07:27 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> ( don't remember any examples but for example if I would have been playing tetris I'd see falling blocks )  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Wasn't <span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'>that</span> an example? =)

Necrotic · April 2003

I left college in may last year, (nearly a year now then) and yet I still have dreams about having not done coursework or essays, and wake up feeling panicky and try to think what my History thesis is supposed to be on then after about 5 minutes I remember that I havent been in education for ages and im all like "wth"

I also used to have lots of precognitive dreams of very short spells, like 5-10 seconds of some random rubbish then a couple of days later it would happen and i'd be like "woah"

Why I can't have those dreams about watching the lotto numbers being drawn I don't know...

Jabba_The_Hunt · April 2003

I've only ever had one precognitive dream in my life. I don't dream much, but suddenly I just got the sound of someone shouting "watch out the shelf is about to fall", I then slammed into a wall, in the dream I was having, which woke me up. About 5 seconds, after waking up, the shelf above my bed fell on top of me.

I've been told that what actually happened was my sub-concious mind realised what was about to happen, woke me up, and what seemed like 5 seconds was probably about half a second, as adreniline (sp) speeds up your thought process's their for making time seem slower.

Back to the original topic, I often play games for too long, when I come off the computer, I can still see the crosshair in the center of my vision.

NegaBenji · April 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (MeGaDeaTH @ Apr 24 2003, 04:56 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> only time i ever dreamed about a game was when i was playing Asheron's Call 1. I dreamt i was wearing my red mage's robe in my RL local night club. That was when I decided to sell my account on ebay.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
I love this thread

Seraph · April 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (ohfomehxr @ Apr 19 2003, 12:47 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Does this ever happen to u guys, too:
You're walking around in public somewhere, like in a mall or something, and happen to look up maybe. And see some little nook in the architecture and think something like, "Hey, I could get up there and wait for some 'rines to come by! It'd be perfect!" Or if you walk through a doorway or something, where the room you are walking into opens up above, and you find yourself hesitating for a moment, thinking that a skulk might be on the wall above the doorway ready to pounce.
Does anyone else experience this?  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Far too often do I walk into a large room and say, wow, this would be a great have location, only a few entrance points, lots of hiding places, you could place d chambers here and so lame over here... Then I check those hiding places to ensure that there are no aliens who had the same idea...

haWu · April 2003

I once had a really wierd dream about ns_missilecommand. I was flying up with my JP, and shooting the hives when suddenly, I hit two fps. I fell down and "oofed" off the ledge under the hives, and I was hanging on by my hands, when a gorge starts to dance on my hands, and it was really fat and heavy so I let go and fell, and fell, and fell. I was about to hit the bottom, when I saw a phase gate, and I landed in it (1.03 anyone?) and teleported to my room. I was totally freaked out by it.

dr_d · April 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Necrotic @ Apr 24 2003, 08:46 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I left college in may last year, (nearly a year now then) and yet I still have dreams about having not done coursework or essays, and wake up feeling panicky and try to think what my History thesis is supposed to be on then after about 5 minutes I remember that I havent been in education for ages and im all like "wth"

I also used to have lots of precognitive dreams of very short spells, like 5-10 seconds of some random rubbish then a couple of days later it would happen and i'd be like "woah"

Why I can't have those dreams about watching the lotto numbers being drawn I don't know... </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
This happens to me as well, I have dreams about being late to class or not having done an assignment even though I haven't been taking classes in a long time.

I've also had dreams about people I haven't seen in years and then within the week they would show up for some reason or another.

TommyVercetti · April 2003

Game related dreams... Hmm... Only one of those "lucid" dreams I can recollect (the others were too long ago for me to remember) and it was not about NS, but about AvP2 mixed with Halo. Don't worry, I'll get to the NS part soon just hear me out. At the time Halo was the best SP game I'd ever played (still is) and AvP2 was the only game I could play as fast as broadband users in multiplayer, so that was my entire multiplayer life. Anyways, this dream was incredibly creepy. Not scary, but creepy as in impending doom. It started out on the top of a tall building (I think it was a tall building) and there were slowly moving black/blue clouds moving all around and even down so I couldn't see what I was on. Anyways, it was purple just like the interior of the Covenant ships in Halo, but incredibly dark. I had a partner as well, the AvP2 single player Marine, Harrison (you probably know him from such models as Hudson Marine. That's Harrison's face). We went down a ramp and I turned on my flashlight (I was the Master Chief from Halo) and for some reason it cast the normal circular light but it was very dim and only the edges of it illuiminated anything (like the effect in the movie The Ring). We started down a ramp into the building or whatever, and I heard weird noises, beyond description. These things literally made my skin crawl. We progressed further in, saw blood dripping from the ceiling in multiple places in multiple colors (to account for all the Halo races) and some hovercraft lying in a corner. Then my Aliens-style motion tracker went nuts and aliens popped out of everywhere. It didn't feel like I was actually there, but as if the game screen replaced my eyes and my mind was the controller. I got movement sensations in my right hand as I looked around. The room we were in was a 4-story tall hangar of sorts still extremely dark with terraces on every floor. Aliens came from everywhere, from all different games. My partner kept getting hit in the side by the aliens' claws and eventually died. I was using something that looked like a mix between the Halo assault rifle and the M249 SAW. I ran out of ammo and ran across a footbridge. The Queen appeared, like the one in Aliens but 3x bigger. I got an AvP2 pistol out of knowhere and fired like mad into the Queen, but it kept coming. The Queen slashed at me and I was hit; I felt the thuds against my combat armor and the subsequent tearing of flesh and bone cracking. I fell to the floor but punched the Queen when it tried to eat me and caved in its head, killing it. Then the alien I fear the most appeared, The Thing, and the dream faded black. The combat with the Queen was furious beyond written description and when I woke up I found myself halfway across the room aching all over. I instinctively felt for my wounds and it took me 10 mins to realize they weren't there. I didn't play a game for almost a week, nearly as long as I stopped playing when I encountered the terrifying Flood in Halo. If you read this, thanks, if you didn't, here's the real post:

I had a very brief dream about NS, only 10 seconds at most, but it was very vivid and was like watching a trailer of sorts. Imagine mixing Battlefield 1942 with NS, and you'd see my dream. There were massive aliens with horns the size of school buses and cannons that would first spurt acid at a target to soften its armor and then use a chemical reaction to launch a huge spike through it like a javelin. Marines in Heavy Armor took cover behind trenches as the flood of alien bio-mass covered them and sapped their precious bodily fluids. The Marines were torn up, dying by the hundreds when their "Planetary Siege Unit" arrived. I don't know how I know the name of it; this dream was like a compressed file all being read at once, but it slaughtered the aliens. There were railguns linings its sides and a massive fusing plasma cannon on the front that literally incinerated the area the aliens had been occupying...

In real life sometimes I walk up to a wall and positoin myself just right and then wonder why I can't reach the t key to spray my logo for a split second then worry about finding out how to put that HL2 drawing of Gordon into NS as my logo. This used to happen a lot more when I used to play CS.

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>I also used to have lots of precognitive dreams of very short spells, like 5-10 seconds of some random rubbish then a couple of days later it would happen and i'd be like "woah"</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
Really? You're kidding - this happens to me on almost a monthly basis, sometimes more. Proof on the forums of some insignificant (to the rest of the world) mod for Half-Life that yes, humans really do have psychic abilities we don't know how to harness... Yet.

EvenFlow · April 2003

I woke up this morning wondering where the hive was and how on earth it could fit in my bedroom <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'> , I swear I heard *pop* just as I woke up.

Beast · April 2003

Luckily I usually play as aliens, so i have little chance of dreams about getting eaten, more so about eating things - when I do dream about NS.
Normally I dream about the randomest of stuff, ns, cs, school, random stuff, the phase-consistancy of lemons (don't ask) and other stuff.
I have about 5 diff dreams per night usually, its like eveyrthing I know/feel being put in a blender and fed to me in cubes :/

Lump · April 2003

no dreams i just randomly hear skulk leaps or a gorge when i'm walking about and things like that, people will see me just snap my head around and looking very confused, very rare though and no visual stuff... yet :/.

SpiffyJr · April 2003

I just wanna say, "shibby!"

twiliteblue · April 2003

Hey Vercetti, you can include that in your autobiography and make millions out of gamers!

Just kidding <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

BTW, I thought AVP2 has horrible netcode (I heard Monolith never polished it.).

TommyVercetti · April 2003

AvP2 probably does have horrible net code. Back when I was on 56k it probably overcompensated so much that I was going fast as the broadband users and they were getting lagged up by me, allowing me to get incredible pounce/slash kills as an alien. Or maybe it's just these natural born skills. Oh, and I can't write an autobiography until I'm a famous level designer! Silly you.

Jower · April 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (SilentMurderer @ Apr 24 2003, 02:27 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Jower @ Apr 19 2003, 07:27 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> ( don't remember any examples but for example if I would have been playing tetris I'd see falling blocks ) </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
Wasn't <span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'>that</span> an example? =)  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
I meant an example I've acctually experienced
hehe
Not sure if I've experienced that

Anyway did I say all my dreams are third-person ?
Im not kidding here
I almost always see myself from outside
Soooooo freaky...
hehe

Anyway my worst nightmare is acctually lying in my bed
And THEN suddenly 4000 freckin ANTS EAT ME ! ! !
lol
I also have a lightversion of that where im lying in my bed and then there's this one bee coming in through the window
And this is in firstperson
So im watching this bee closing in and then it flies at me and im like "AAAAAAAAAAAAAH !" and try to slap it
Then I wake up and it takes like 2 min of searching through my bed to realize I haven't been stung
hehe

ZiGGY · April 2003

drugs are bad

Jower · April 2003

Anyone here who sees green elephants should speak to ziggy here

The_Gunslinger · April 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (ohfomehxr @ Apr 19 2003, 12:47 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Does this ever happen to u guys, too:
You're walking around in public somewhere, like in a mall or something, and happen to look up maybe. And see some little nook in the architecture and think something like, "Hey, I could get up there and wait for some 'rines to come by! It'd be perfect!" Or if you walk through a doorway or something, where the room you are walking into opens up above, and you find yourself hesitating for a moment, thinking that a skulk might be on the wall above the doorway ready to pounce.
Does anyone else experience this?  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Sometimes I'll do something weird like dislocate my shoulder, and people say "HOW'D YOU DO THAT?" and I say "Good Game hacks." Now THATS pretty bad O_O

(Have yet to say "L O L" instead of laughing!)

Jower · April 2003

I acctually sometimes catch myself thinking something like "good high-res textures there..." when I look at some trees....
IRL that is...
hehe

The_Gunslinger · April 2003

We need lives... I even say "Good game" after every round of scissor paper rock....

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