Do dreams become more advanced as entertainment becomes more interactive?

So I did this paper a while back, in like, 4th grade, on an article about how our dreams can become more sophisticated as the entertainment industry advances in it's interactivity. I never really though of it as much until now.

I recently bought the game Crysis, which, is pretty interactive as most graphics and physics in games go. In the game you are able to enter and interact with vehicles, destroy buildings, and do a number of other things that all registers under the physics portion of the game. Also there are vast levels which are pretty widespread and have interactive plants, shadows, trees, etc...which adds to the realism of the game in some aspects.

I had a dream the other night, where basically there was a laid out map, where I went different places multiple times and knew I had been there before because I could change the environment and come back and it would be the same. There were also vehicles on the map (in my case a row boat and a beat up truck) which I used multiple times. There was a house in the middle of a lake some person took me to earlier, which I had remembered and returned back again. Then I traveled farther down which led to a shed like structure with junk everywhere and the old truck sitting there, which I crashed in some trees later on and it broke down (just like in the game...well, they explode, but you know what I mean). Then I traveled past some ruined buildings along to a cave where a giant worm lived, and I was swalloed, and spat out. I dont really know the meaning of this, but after that I went back to all the places I went previously with everything how I left it.

What Im trying to say in all this is that the map was fully interactive, like the game, and I feel that the dream/playing the game definately had relative aspects about them.

Oh heres a picture of the map I drew out real quick (Its not that good)

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t189/Voltagemoon/map.jpg

and the key: A - being the place I woke up - B - being the lake with the boat dock - C - the house in the middle of the lake I traveled multiple times to - D - the place where the junk and truck was - E - An area of buildings - F - A cave with a giant worm in it - G - The mouth of a river

So has anyone else had any experiences with interactive dreams due to realistic games and such??

/end rant

I once had a dream where I sat at my computer playing battlefront.lycrof

I laughed at that... In a major way.

[QUOTE="lycrof"]I once had a dream where I sat at my computer playing battlefront.gobo212

I laughed at that... In a major way.

The funny thing is nothing was off about it. There were no crazy new game mechanics or I wasn't better than I normally was. It was normal Battlefront.

[QUOTE="gobo212"]

[QUOTE="lycrof"]I once had a dream where I sat at my computer playing battlefront.lycrof

I laughed at that... In a major way.

The funny thing is nothing was off about it. There were no crazy new game mechanics or I wasn't better than I normally was. It was normal Battlefront.

I always have really wacky dreams about getting kidnapped and wrestling Ligers in the Alpha Centauri system.

But real life has an unlimited amount of things to dream about.... dreams don't become "more advanced" because we have video games.FamiBox

I know that,

but it could have a play in the virtual world of video games...our minds can recreate it or our forms of entertainment.

Such as in the days of black and white television people sometimes had dreams in black and white, they still saw color, but dreamt in black and white every once in a while.

But real life has an unlimited amount of things to dream about.... dreams don't become "more advanced" because we have video games.FamiBox

I know that,

but it could have a play in the virtual world of video games...our minds can recreate it or our forms of entertainment.

Such as in the days of black and white television people sometimes had dreams in black and white, they still saw color, but dreamt in black and white every once in a while.

[QUOTE="FamiBox"]But real life has an unlimited amount of things to dream about.... dreams don't become "more advanced" because we have video games.Succumbus

I know that,

but it could have a play in the virtual world of video games...our minds can recreate it or our forms of entertainment.

Such as in the days of black and white television people sometimes had dreams in black and white, they still saw color, but dreamt in black and white every once in a while.

Doesn't mean much. Everything is interpreted by your're brain thats what sees, hears, feels etc. Same thing in dreams, so its jsut like reality.

I once had a dream where I sat at my computer playing battlefront.lycrof

:lol: last night i was playing DMC4, then i went to bed, dreamed about playing DMC4, then woke up, and played it some more :P

There is no doubt dreams are influenced by what you have experienced through your senses, but I'm not sure what you mean by more advanced. All you're doing is imitating what happens in the game. If anything it does the opposite. It requires less of our imagination to fill in the gaps. More believable scenarios in games only reinforce what we understand about the world instead of challenging it, therefore our perceptions do not change.

I have had dreams about being in games before, but they are always infinitely harder than their real life counterparts.