I can't play ZombiU at night anymore. It's not even that scary of a game. But last night I had two zombie dreams.
In the first one, I was physically in the game, fighting off three zombies with something, I can't remember what, and suddenly all three eased off a bit and seemed to lose interest in me. I yelled YES until I noticed that one side of my chest was filled with some kind of paste. I could feel it squishing under my skin when I rubbed it, and I realized that I hadn't fought off the zombies.... they had lost interest because I had gotten bitten and was one of them now. Then two fingers on my right hand puffed up and burst gray paste stuff out the end like a tube of toothpaste, then I woke up.
And in the second dream, I was actually playing the game, but the zombies were way faster and the game didn't work like it really does. I kept dying at this part because there were too many zombies, but instead of respawning at the safe house as a new character, I respawned near where I died. I kept getting cornered by groups of five or six zombies in every direction. One time, I respawned about 20 feet away from a zombie and wanted to change my weapon right away to a shotgun, but by the time I looked down at the gamepad to tap the shotgun icon and looked up again, the zombie was already right on top of me and I died. From that point on, the zombies were all sprinting at me and it was impossible to get away. I woke up at some point, don't remember what caused it, but the unease from the earlier dream and the residual frustration from the second made it hard to get any real rest after that.
I've been playing ZombiU in the morning before work, but yesterday I played for awhile before I went to bed. No more of that. The dreams weren't horribly terrifying or anything, but I value my sleep too much to have it interrupted by stuff like that. :evil:
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