I dream of games

exodus

that god darned guy!!!

in another game dream I found a handheld game system I’d never heard of. It could only display four colors, but the screen was metallic, like the “brushed steel” look that was popular in the 90s, but like a rough matte surface with a glossy (varnish-like) finish over it. The unique texture of the screen made the rust reds and forest greens of the games really stand out, and it was super neat, and I woke up convinced this was a good idea. It was shaped vaguely like a wonderswan.

JoJoestar

Funny to find this thread because exactly last night I dreamt yoko taro wrote me on DM on Twitter complaining about Square Enix and talking about obscure games like “yo, look at this dank shit, its amazing”. I woke up in a good mood because of it.

yeso

look I’m just jealous because I never have dreams, so if anyone has any tips about how to get my brain working right to have some, maybe for example featuring bayonetta or jeanne from suikoden, or maybe more specifically the boat lady who carries the rope around from suikoden 5, just LMK thanks

wickedcestus

When I used to play a lot of StarCraft, I would have dreams where I was playing hours-long matches. In each dream, there’d be something wrong: maybe a new mechanic had been added that i didn’t understand, or my keyboard was under my desk, or my mouse was inverted or something like that. So I’d be struggling the whole time, just trying so hard, and then the other person would just walk over and completely destroy me, and I would wake up in a terrible mood.

i don’t have these as much anymore, but I have found that I can not play games in dreams, because technology does not work. Be it a computer, or a phone, or TV, whenever i am dreaming they do not operate correctly. Especially my phone, when i am trying to call someone very urgently!! Dang dreams!!

It works fine when someone wants to call me and tell me they hate me, though! Dang dreams!!

exodus

yeah, that’s a classic one. if I played a puzzle game for too long (makes sense with an RTS too, where your brain is really focused on the one task), I’d be playing puzzle fighter in my dreams but couldn’t put the pieces where I wanted them, etc. the brain is a jerk!

JJSignal

When I first saw news of Demon’s Souls, I didn’t think much of it. “I have Skyrim for my fantasy hacky-slashy time.” I said to myself. I guess something about the gloomy castles and the sound and weight of everything armor/weapon related in Demon’s Souls got to me, as eventually I had a dream about playing it. It felt really satisfying hearing the armor clank around as I explored these environments oozing with atmosphere. Going back to Skyrim felt pretty shallow after that dream.

Later, a friend who got Demon’s Souls wasn’t too thrilled about the difficulty, but did love the weight of everything and sold it to me for cheaper than retail price despite having it for only about a week. Playing it felt just like how it felt in the dream, and everything “clicked” for me.

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An earlier dream involved Mario 64 and a special hidden area around the castle mote on the right side past the door that leads into the basement. When the mote was still undrained, I discovered another underwater passage that lead me into a new room inhabited by a giant green ghost and a new ghost world.

The way you got to it wasn’t like the other holes in the ground you’d jump into, instead it felt a lot (and began to look a little) like the rusty pipes area in Banjo & Kazooie before you meet Clank. You’d continue swimming through a small tunnel until you reached a room “inside” the castle. It had gray brick walls, a large dining table and chair with the rusty door texture, the large green ghost at the table, and a new painting.

At the time I was obsessed with and loved the mysterious feeling of looking around all the nooks and crannies of the hub worlds in Mario 64 and Banjo & Kazooie. This was specifically brought on by spots that felt more off-kilter, like the court yard that lead to the ghost house, the door into the metallic pool area, or the mirror room in Mario 64, and especially the first time encountering Clank in Banjo & Kazooie. Something about those specific moments in those hub worlds made me feel like anything could happen next. Maybe I might find something years down the road that I never noticed in my earlier days of playing it.

JoJoestar

Yesterday I dreamt I went to have coffee with Hideo Kojima (don’t know why I keep having these dreams with famous developers). He was very hipster and kept talking about recent films he liked and what he enjoyed the most from when he visited Madrid, but I had a very hard time paying attention to him because he kept asking for huge slices of blueberry cheesecake and I could only think Hideo please stop you are going to get diabetes if you keep up at this pace, you need to take care of your health!

tapevulture

Last night I dreamt I was in Silent Hill 2, which I have never played and from which I have never seen any content. I rarely remember my dreams, and it was the scariest and most vivid dream I can ever remember having. Basically I moved through industrial environments colored in shades of brown, grey and yellow, having perfunctory-type interactions with people that slowly devolved into horror. I remember two in particular: being chased in a circle by an initially normally proportioned person who become a large head with small limbs, and whose face was showing a scream like the guy at the end of Space Odyssey, but stretched, as if the face had been drawn onto a balloon and someone squeezed the balloon; and fleeing into a bathroom from members of my extended family whom I rarely see, who had begun leering at me. I locked the door and sat on the tank of the toilet, against the wall, but looking to my left I could see an open closet too dark to see if anything was inside, and then I was suddenly aware that there was no longer a wall behind me, at which point I woke up.

I don’t know if this remotely resembles anything in Silent Hill 2 and there were no game mechanics that I interfaced with; I only knew that I was in Silent Hill 2. I never play horror games. I’ve only heard people talk about SH2 but such is its reputation that I got a whole nightmare from it, haha

Moon

tapevulture

There was a CLOSET in a BATHROOM?

wickedcestus

I’ve had that same experience where I dream that I’m experiencing a video game I’ve heard of but never played!! The whole time I’ll be like “wow so this is why this game is so popular huh!” It’s usually the kind of thing where throughout the dream it will feel like there’s a deep profound artistic message involved in what’s going on that, when I wake up, will only exist as an abstract thought. Then I’ll think, “damn! it would be cool if someone actually made a game like that!” Upon reflection, it is always a case like yours where what I was experiencing is not in any way like a video game.

JoJoestar

Today I dreamt of videogames again.

I was talking with my editor on the website I collaborate the most these days. He’s a friend and we talk often out of the context of professional stuff, and sometimes he shares insider stuff he’s not supposed to talk about with me.

In the dream he told me they were working on a huge marketing campaign involving the whole website, which was going to be fully redesigned by some mysterious company on a strange and hazy collaboration that felt very inconsistent and weird, even in the dream. Then he showed me this picture:

(not the actual picture, I recreated it using paint)

He said: “do you recognize this logo? They are doing it”

I immediately caught that it was the Treasure logo and I felt super skeptic of the whole thing because it made absolutely no sense. I remember thinking how the hell are you going to make Treasure redesign the website of a spanish magazine for a marketing campaign of exactly what????? The whole thing felt delusional, like this weird conspiracy theory geared towards creating the Treasure’s comeback or some weird ARG that I didn’t understand.

I felt like when someone you respect or admire says something out of character and creates this uncomfortable sensation of feeling forced to play along or make some half assed excuse to leave or change the subject. I said something like hey that’s cool, hope it goes well and that’s the last thing I remember.

tapevulture

Moon yeah dude just to my left. deeply fucked up

Nemoide

The dream that most stands out in my head was one where I was in an old fashioned sort of mom & pop general store. They had spinner racks that normally hold comic books, but instead there were tons of 32X games marked down to $0.50 each. They even had Virtua Hamster!

I think that was the lamest wish-fulfillment dream I ever had…

Moon

I found out about this guy on twitter a year ago and have kind of been keeping track of him because hes facinating. The branding and “dreaming for gamers” is a little off putting. Comes off kind of juvenile.

https://dreamingforgamers.com/

He runs a 400 person subreddit and writes a bunch of guides about how to dream in videogames.

Seems like a weird grift. Maybe it’s a money laundering operation.

Jtwo

OMG I love it. When I was like 17 I got really into lucid dreaming, and some of the tips I read about actually kinda worked. I never paid for an educational program though.

I think I remember a few of the tips. One was in your concious life to remind yourself every couple of minutes to stop and take stock of whats occuring around you (also helpful for general mindfulness) but the theory was that eventually this would become a subconcious habit that you would perform while dreaming… and realize you were dreaming.

I also remember “if you were losing the dream” a method was to try and spin around in circles. Generally walking and physical activity will give you dream dissonance since your muscles aren’t moving. But spinnin in circles is a relatively stationary activitiy. Which also leads into one of the last things I still experience to this day. In dreams I “slide around” as if I’m sliding on a fresh hardwood floor in socks. I don’t use my legs to walk I just kinda skate around.

Weird shit for sure. I think as a child with asthma a lot of the steroid filled inhalers I was given would send me on insane psychedelic meditiation-esque experiences.

I dream of games most nights, but its literally only PUBG. I just… dream about PUBG and the terrain and moving around and stuff. Not even necessarily like exciting shootouts.. I’ve just spent so much time playing that game that its just another reality for me.

wickedcestus

Lucid dreaming just seems tiring. I want to sleep, not construct computer game worlds!

Whenever I happen to become lucid, my first thought is always “i gotta get out of here!” and I immediately do anything I can to wake myself up.

milo

I have recurring dreams where I’m out and about and find a retro game store. In the dream I spend hours digging through shelves and boxes looking for the perfect game. The game I’ve always wanted but never knew about that’s not already in my collection. Most of the time my brain makes up the games I’m rifling through and I always wake up having never found what I was looking for.

captain

This isn’t exactly a game but it’s relevant. I’m sitting here at close to 11 O’Clock PM and I suddenly remembered the dream I had last night.

I think I was in a Zoom meeting (or, you know, whatever, it wasn’t Zoom but it was a video chat application because that’s what life has become), and I was talking to a whole group of maybe 30 people. Everyone was on Zoom to listen to the Insert Credit podcast LIVE AND “IN-PERSON” FOLLOWED BY SPECIAL Q&A.

Finally it was my turn to ask a question, and suddenly I was at a dinner table, sitting across from… Brandon, Tim, and a few like old businessmen. I cleared my throat and I said:

“But is Bonk actually good? Or is that just a joke you guys keep making?”

bodydouble

Bonk rules btw

TracyDMcGrath

Last night I dreamed I was in a used games store and found a Genesis cart labeled Eric Chahi’s Tycho Brahe but I woke up before I could play it

Video Game King

TracyDMcGrath I vaguely remember having a similar dream in which I discovered a really cool obscure game I was eager to share with other people and which I couldn’t remember once I woke up.

milo

TracyDMcGrath

I would totally play Eric Chahi’s Tchyo Brahe. I don’t even care what it’s about.