Too Much Ns?

Nupi · April 2003

Well, interesting dreams. You're not alone, my dreams of NS have been very brief, usually they make me wake up in the middle of night.

First dream: I was an marine, i got stuck in webs. Ít felt like i was really stuck in something for real, so i woke up <img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>. Another dream had only the sound "hive is under attack" thats all i can remember.

Inarus_Lynx · April 2003

I've had all these types of dreams and here's one type of dream that I've had that no one mentioned. I sometimes dream of the next day. Only parts of the next day though. When I'd wake up I could remember those parts of the day, but they were foggy in my memory. As I went on with the day I actually encountered the things that took place in my dream and I remembered dreaming about that moment. Déjà vu.

moultano · April 2003

dude . . . I dreamed about tetris . . . yes, playing tetris. 100% falling shapes all night.

one time my best friend and I stayed up all night playing twisted metal 2 and the next day, everytime I saw a car i had the uncontrollable urge to hit left right forward.

Inarus_Lynx · April 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (James H4xwell @ Apr 20 2003, 01:01 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> What twisted insano world was that dream in?
My parents told me i couldnt play anymore ns because they woke up in the middle of the night because i was screaming "COMMANDER DROP ME A @^&king WELDER" real loud while i was asleep. (Im being serious) </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
I laughed so hard when I read this. LMAO

I sometimes dream about games that are about to come out or that I can't wait to get.

Rion · April 2003

After playing games for the past 12 years I've grown immune to it... how I miss those days :'(

Typhon · April 2003

My roommates say that sometimes while asleep I will talk, but i'll talk like i'm screaming into the mic at 4 marines that wont get through the phase. IE really loud and angrily.

see-you-in-disney-land · April 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (TenSix @ Apr 20 2003, 05:49 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> This is actually kinda sad and completly off topic, but:

I once dreamed I had a girlfriend. Im serious.

It was actually kinda cool, I was just sitting next to her (couldnt see her face) and a huge wave of relief came over me, I just felt like everything froze for a second and my life was perfected.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Worst dream I had is I got a girlfriend (who looked NOTHING like my girlfriend at the time) at a cinema, felt similar to how you described, then forgot to get any contact details when she left.
That dream really screwed me up I was up for about an hour thinking about it.
Naturally my girlfriend never found out about THAT dream.

wlibaers · April 2003

Only dreamed about NS once, and that wasn't normal NS. Skulks were grey, Oni skulk-coloured, and all sorts of strange stuff going on like weapons shooting around corners. I guess there's something worse than dreaming about being in a game, and that's being in a game with server cheats (no way that weird stuff could be due to clientside cheats). Then it just became stranger, completely matrix-style, third person camera, chase camera following acid rockets as they fly around corridors and home in on marines, bullet evasion, fades using IR sensors and having to get a lock before launching heat-seeking missiles (good thing you could get a lock through walls). NS-Max Payne-Matrix-Flightsim combination. Weird lerk dogfights too, lerks flying like fighter jets (which was pretty cool actually).
Hey, your dream, why try to copy a game exactly if you can mod it by just thinking about it <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Oh, about dreaming with physical sensations, let me just add this (though it's been many years since that bad stuff happened to me): If you dream about having to go to the toilet, it's probably not just a dream. Wake up before it's too late <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'>

Ender1 · April 2003

Oh yeah? Well I dreamt I was Frodo and Sam was with me, and we were running away from skulks and fades and onos chasing us from behind. Then we jumped into water and the fades followed us, they got poor Sam and then some onos crushed me to death when i got out of the water. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'>

but i think wlibaers has the weirdest dream so far....

R0x0r_Mc0wnage · April 2003

You people need to get out more

MeLeNkO · April 2003

LMFAO well i think u need to stop playing it for a day u sound addcitcted to it

UnderDOG · April 2003

i know that i dream, people tell me that i move wildly and babble incohernently in my sleep, but i cannot recall any dreaming in a very long time

Cronos · April 2003

Dreams are very strange things, we hardly ever have control over them simply becuase we have to be aware that we are dreaming, and if we are aware we are dreaming we get excited and wake up. A majority of dreams are involuntary, thrust up out of the unconscious mind. Trust me when I say that just about everything you see and hear, and even the things that you dont see and hear (IE; Subluminal Advertising) all impinge on your unconscious mind which may or may not have an effect on your dreaming.

Another fact, if you think you dont dream, dont worry. You actually DO dream all the time, since dreams are closely associated REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep, you just cannot remember you dreamed, therefore you come to the conclusion that you havent dreamed at all. People tend to dream of stuff their having difficulty or things that are occupying their mind. Take tetris, play that alot and you have a chance of dreaming of falling blocks and such, this has actually been tested and a majority of people dreamt of shapes that they had difficulty with. Going with that, it's more then likely that everyone here has dreamt of NS at least once when they released it and it was brand new to everyone.

Anyway, I cant recall ever dreaming of NS before, but I have dreamt of DOD. It was some time ago now, roughly last year, I had a bad case of the flu and was passing the time by by playing DoD. Well, sure enough, soon as I hit the sack, I dreamt of shooting up Nazi's on a covert strike. I dont particularly like discussing the parts after that, becuase it was a flu dream, and, well, it was pretty damn **** up, I mean, way **** up, the kind of stuff that would get one put into a padded cell...

Another interesting thing, dreams can be controlled (Lucid Dreaming) the problem is becoming aware, taking control, and remembering the fact afterwards, but thats another topic for another day...

Melatonin · April 2003

heres some useless info...
on dreams:
yeah, we all dream every night apparently, however youll only remember a dream if you wake while in REM (the 5th stage of sleep).
the progression of stages in sleep is kinda weird, starts from 1 the lightest (kinda between awake and asleep) goes down to 4, then back to 3, then 2 and finally 5 before back down to 4 again.
think each one lasts 15 - 30 mins, and youll only dream in the 5th stage. so the stages go;
1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, 5, 2, 3, 4, 3 etc...
if you awake from any of the other stages itll be alot harder to remember your dream, or you may think youv not dreamed that night.
think the whole cycle lasts around 90 to 120 mins or somthing?

NecromanZer · April 2003

i have those cliff dreams ALL the time.... not so bad anymore, but i used to have em 3-6 times a week, and would wake up covered in sweat, dis-orientated and feeling EXACTLY like my body had jumped a foot in the air and come back down again... i swear to god they are scary as...

i also always have scary dreams about the next day and being late, then i wake up and im like "omg wicked i have like a second chance now"

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dreams r weird... i have to say ive never dreamt about a computer game, unless dreaming about holing myself up in my school and killing 20,000 SAS and coppers counts as dreaming about CS or raven shield

esuna · April 2003

Oh dear, the unfortunate NS dream. I had one too, was in some bar full of strangers and a skulk walked in, wandered around until everyone noticed, then it got chased out, then someone closed the door. Then a minute or so later the handle began to rattle and the door opens. Sure enough, in waltzes a gorge and walks behind the bar, where someone was declaring that all the drinks were free (since the bartender left previous to the skulk entering). The the gorge starts to healthspray the person behind the bar, causing her to scream in agony while i watched her leg get disintigrated by the healing goodness.

Along with this i've had some pretty rare dreams involving having sex with friends, imagining i'm female (with cracking breasts i might add) and also the weirdest one ever where i dreamt i REALLY wanted a Playstation 2, and i tried so hard to get one, then i finally got one, only to wake up and remember i actually own one anyway. Better to aim low i guess <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

<span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'> <b>EDIT:</b> Grammar and spelling crimes.</span>

Aaron · April 2003

Man, I have this dream where all I do is play natural selection and read the NS forums, offtopic threads, and then play more natural selection...WAIT THAT IS NOT A DREAM!

abtm · April 2003

That's real life, and please seek psychological counseling <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

Corporal_Nixon · April 2003

I had a dream where i got into a moving car ( <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'> ) and crashed because i could find the arrow keys.
And one time, when id been in a bus for agggess after being on a plane for 5 hours and it was really hot i started imagining the people on the bus were saying taunts from Unreal Tournament (i was awake too).

Venmoch · April 2003

Hmm we seem to have an outbreak of Flayritus......

PseudoKnight · April 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> (and I was somehow able to benefit even though I was still using the original client - eh dreams aren't meant to make sense)</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
Sounds like you were using the Steam client in your dream. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'>

BFishman · April 2003

Well, having read this topic I'm glad to know that i'm not alone!

The day NS came out, I played at <i>least</i> 18 hours straight (thats an underestimation). I fell asleep, and don't remember dreaming. When I woke up however, I was IN NS....

I got in the shower, and literally kept checking the door for skulk rushes.
I got a call on the phone, which I ended by saying 'Roger that, Comm'.
I searched my room frantically looking for my lmg.
Upon opening the fridge, all of the shelves and food became a top-down commander view of NS_Eclipse, which I stared at for about 10 minutes trying to figure out why the 'drop medpack' key was not working.

I guess thats what happens when you loose so much sleep doing one thing.

Anyone else have this experience?

the_johnjacob · April 2003

i think it's funny that this guy, noimagination, insists it's not normal to dream about games you play, and yet he seems to be the *only* one doing so, a couple others find it funny, as do i, but as i have also experienced the dreaming and the seeing things(especially the little blue mt circles, those happen to me if i play for hours...) i know that it can happen to anyone...noimagination, you are in denial, you are denying your geekdom, and that's not cool.

wlibaers · April 2003

Seeing game-related effects away from the PC is very rare for me, but repeating sounds (turret ping, heal sound, skulk bite) are common. Not an NS-exclusive though, if some repetitive sound last long enough it will generally continue to play in my head for some time. This is really irritating when the neighbours play some loud techno music. The BOOM-BOOM-BOOM just keeps going.

DocZ · April 2003

Lucid dreaming kicks ****. When you find out you're dreaming but DON'T wake up. You can control everything you do, but that part is slightly tricky. You can work on lucid dreaming by trying your best to remember all your dreams. Some people actually go to sleep with notepads next to their beds and make notes of their dreams. Once you are aware of all your dreams, you can seriously stay in them and be aware you're dreaming. I've done it like 4 times, and all 4 times I decided to fly in it. The sensation of flying in dreams kicks **** as I'm sure you all know.

DDTrini_Lopez · April 2003

In real life when I'm walking in a very open place or in a place where there's a lot of people , I start to walk faster to avoid a decrease in my FPS.

RuBy · April 2003

I had a dream about NS a while back when I used to play it a lot... I cant remember all the details but I do remember that it was really long and I was in a place that looked kind of like a mix between cs_italy and cs_militia. At the end of the dream I was a marine and thousands and thousands of skulks were running to me (I was standing still) and I was just shooting them all down (I had infinite ammo <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>)... That was a pretty cool dream...

bobthemagicalfish · April 2003

true story i dreamed that i was in ns_ecplise and some marine had smarted off to me so i went to attack him and he jump into a big hold and type "haha you never get me" i was a lerk

then yesterday it happened excatly as i had seen in my dream i steped back and went WTH that is weird help me <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'>

MenTaL · 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'> Those of you saying this is not sane go ****** yourself
I've experienced this multiple times
Dreaming about games ( dreamt about Black&White before that was released cause I were on those forums a lot and let's just say it's like waiting for 1.1 times 2 )
And sometimes when I've played a game a lot I see stuff from the game if I close my eyes ( 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'> 
Or Pump it up or DDR they arrows god please stop the arrows.

Jower · April 2003

Controlling dreams rocks ! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>
It's like being the one ( matrix anyone )

I had a dream a while ago though which was really strange ( though not game-related )
I dreamt I was visiting some childhood home or something of mine and I really remembered everything
I wasen't acctually seeing it though it was like in the christmas story
Some spirits guide you through a dreamworld
hehe
So I was dreaming that I was dreaming about what happened to me 5 years ago
lol
And when I woke up and realized that none of that acctually never happened to me I was like SO sad
I just wanted to die cause I realized my life sucks compared to that one...
hehe
Aaw well
I got over it...

Anyway one thing that haunts me from games is the ooof-sound they often make in games when you fall from high places
I could swear I made that exact sound when I fell down about a year ago...
Aaw well...
And to anyone who says dreaming about games once in a while is insane
Poo on you

Too Much Ns?

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