Computer games do have an effect on my dream life. I used to play a lot Quake 3 before going to bed. I remember a dream where I was jumping around in a quake 3 map (the longest yard) while trying to solve simple math exercises. I was fully lucid …you can read about it @ the lucid laboratory…
I think I’m trying a new technique I just came up with. Zonight, I#ll play 1 or 2 quake 3 games and with every kill I say myself that I’m going to have a LD this night…
i dont know about lucidity but i remember reading about the experiment.Some ppl were told to play Tetris for few hours and other half not.Sciencists then agreed that those in the first group noted increase in vividness and recall.
I wish i remembered the thread about it:(
I read somewhere (probably here) that tetris players have an unusual amount of dreams where bricks fall on their heads.
I couldn’t agree more. I love those games, for much the same reason that I love lucid dreaming. The environments are incredibly detailed and fascinating to explore. In fact, my initial goal when I started lucid dreaming was to visit the island of Myst.
It’s odd I never notice I’m playign games in dreams although it does feel great playing games in dreams that don’t exist(cowboy bebop) and or games like FPS. I think I’ll make video games one of my dream signs.
Thanks Jeff 
Now i know why i got my first low-level LD after spending a whole night playing Half-life and soultrap… 
Finally an excuse to start playing Metroid Prime again - that game is pretty absorbing, and it can scare the crap out of you, too, if it’s your first time around.
Plus it’s in the FPS kinda view, I think it’s showed up in a couple dreams…
Games and footbagging seem to be the root of most of my dreams. 
rain drops keep falling on my head…
hmm tetris blocks keep falling on my head…
Atheist what a great idea! To visit myst in your ld wow love it!
Yup really like that idea thx!
Weird that i didnt think of that myself lol 
Jeff cant wait lol
Welcome Lccorp2!
What’s weird, is that I never once even thought about using the Myst-style teleportation method to change the dreamscape. In the Myst games (and books), people teleported around the universe by touching their palms to a picture in the first page of the book. This picture was automatically generated when someone described a world by writing in the book. Strange, but I never considered doing this in my own LDs to change location. I guess it’s worth a try.
Yep indeed a great idea!
Jeff
When i played Morrowind (kind of 3D adventure in a fantasy world) a lot it induced epic kind of style dreams, but it did not yet help me become lucid. Examples of dreamd i had was when i battled wizzards or adventuring through deep caves etc… kinda cool in a dream to do 
Heh, I’ve played that game a couple of times… It would be neat to dream about, and I guess you could become lucid from it if you trained yourself to do an RC whenever you see any weird blokes around… There are some pretty interesting looking characters in that game 
/ds
I don’t want to sound like too much of a geek here.
Jeff and Atheist, you should read the Myst books also. They are great!
They give detailed descriptions of the ‘ages’ in Myst. They are very detailed also so you don’t have to try hard to imagine it as a dream world.
I read Book of D’ni and was hooked, I now have Book of Ti-ana waiting to be read and Book of Atrus on order. The hardcovers, if you can get them are special.
I own all three of them. 
The Book of Atrus (The first book in the series) I’d have to say was the best one. You seem to be reading them in reverse order. 
I guess I just got hooked on the entire concept.
Yup, that’s the order I came across them in so that’s how I’ll read them. They don’t rely on the history too much throughout the storyline though, and playing the games has made me familiar with the main characters so I haven’t had a problem with that so far.
Mystcommunity.com is a cool forum for Myst addicts. 
At the risk of becoming even more of a forum addict - I just signed up.
Thanks for the link.
Ah…Played a couple of 007: Nightfire today, lucidity, here I come!
Prepares to dream of wielding an SG5
I don’t know which games would be good for lucidity, but I always end up dreaming about the ones I play the most. At the current moment I seem to have lots of dreams about Natural Selection (an alien vs. marine mod of Half-Life) and Soul Calibur II. I think it was pretty fun running around in a dream as an Onos (A rynocerous-like alien) gobbling up marines whole
I had my one and only dream where I didn’t have a body but was floating above the action after a prolonged session of a Final Fantasy game. I was controling the actions of the three fighters below me. It was fun…there was no danger for me!