When I woke up from the drugs after my surgery, the people wheeling my bed back to the room, asked me if I dreamed of anything and I said video games. I think probably because I couldn't wait to get home and try out Overlord and The Darkness.

Khoram, it's kind of like the opposite for me... I rarely get to play video games because I have such a tiny amount of spare time (it's really like about an hour a week, more if I'm lucky). I think my brain takes the entire hour and just creates more for it in my dreams! Maybe not such a good idea since I'm in the process of playing F.E.A.R., but hey, if I can't do while I'm awake, I might as well dream about it

I've had dreams of games, sure, but worse is when I'm half-awake and half-asleep, stuck in that state because it doesn't get through my head that what I think I'm seeing is not, in fact, real. I'm not saying I'm a sleepwalking gamer; I just lie in bed half asleep, but it's not good restful sleep. Normally I can't get to real sleep until I realize it's half-dreaming and wake up fully. This doesn't just happen with games, I've also had it with other things (half-asleep thinking there's a party going on in my bedroom).

I had a nightmare that I bought some gamerpics for 160 MSP. I woke up real quick and thankfully realized it was a bad dream and went back to sleep knowing my 300 MSP are safe.

A lot of my dreams are in 3rd person, but it varies from Ultima isometric, shoulder, and a couple feet behind and above my head (not offset for the shoulder view). I think a fair number of my dreams these days only involve me tangentially, though. I'm some sort of impartial observer counting ceiling tiles while the action happens across the room. I guess that makes me an NPC?

And sometimes I have more than one persona at a time. Main character, DM, meat shield/henchman, familiar, NPC, MOb, etc. Occasionally I'm both the artist playing the song on the radio (but I'm back in the recording studio when the record was cut) and I'm the guy trying to buy cheesecake on a stick from the traffic cop inside a pool hall in space. And the Klakons are there, negotiating with the Meklar over whether Han shot first, the ethics of stealing in RPGs, and whether save/load is a legitimate strategy.

I don't always sleep very well.

The worst dream I had was a night where my brain would not shut off, and kept playing Tetris for 8 hours straight. I hadn't actually played Tetris in about 10 years at that point, mind you, but there you have it.

This happends to me all the time. Whenever I play a game a lot (6+ hours, 3+ days straight), I'll start dreaming about it. Sometimes its me playing at the computer, sometimes its third person with me in the game, sometimes its me first person in the gameworld. But that doesn't seem to be effected by the type of game I'm playing, eg. all three of them happend when I played tons of tetris back in the day.

I dream about most games I play. I also dream about playing games that weren't released at the time. Planetside was one of those.

These days I'm dreaming about a Counter-Strike-style game involving magic. (That one has been released.)

Interestingly i had a dream about a "game" this morning.

Dreamt that my team and I were trying to climb this mountain (only the mountain was like a tarpaulin and to start with we could see underneath the tent-like structure that formed the mountain). As we were climbing up we were attacked by things (can't quite remember what they looked like) coming from above and below. Had to use my rocket launcher to fight them off only there were some that absorbed certain types of weapons so my team had to work together to defeat the enemies.

Don't remember much else because i didn't have time to write it down before going to work this morning.

A few years ago when DS and I were playing Fatal Frame throgh for the first time, I used to get the worst nightmares of being chased by crawling, bloody women who moaned "give me back my eyes". I'm talking, can't-go-back-to-sleep-in-a-dark-room-and-have-to-go-watch-bad-infomercials-to-get-back-to-sleep kind of nightmares. I still get the willies whenever I think about them.

For some reason i'm better at games in real life than i am in my dreams... what does that say about my self esteem?

AvP gave me the best/worst nightmares ever. Sometimes I was being hunted by aliens and predators and sometimes I was doing the hunting. It was pretty awesome.

Heh, here's a good question: if you do a bunch of game playing as a character in a dream, or even just watching the character, does that make you a better player after you wake up? Chiggie and Duoae, I'll bet playing some Halo levels "virtually" in a dream would make you better - it's your brain interpreting what's going on as professorvonbeardzine said! The more you know and the more experience you have the better you'll be.

Then again, can't see how loading barrels onto a truck will make you a better game player...

I had a dream last night and I was switching back and forth between being the main character of the game and the player. I was dressed up in knight armor and was wielding a sword. My party and I were going through a dungeon and collecting items for something. They were articles of clothing and "the player" didn't know what they were for but the characters did. Eventually we ended up in a tomb with a single coffin. The clothing belonged to the person buried here. We presented the items in the tomb and the coffin popped open. The guy inside sat up Dracula-style and fully clothed too. He was basically wearing Van Helsing's outfit and hat but was a pretty boy with shoulder length white hair. After noticing our presence, he jumped out of his casket and into my face with a huge smile. He then introduced himself as the "Prince of All Creation."

I noticed how bad the graphics were during that cutscene and that's when I realized that I was playing the PS2 version. Suddenly, my brother comes in with the 360 version and I did that entire senario all over again just to see him. He was freakin hot and apparently a gun wielder.

To be honest, I have no idea what could've triggered this dream. The whole thing reminded me of the first encounter with Vincent Valentine (FFVII) but his character was more of a cross between Van Helsing and Irvine Kinneas (FFVIII).

You do want to keep the girl, right?