Dreams with video game playing typically suggest some sort of escape from reality, from your day to day tasks. If you know that you are totally absorbed in the game and ignoring others in the game, it reflects that others may feel neglected since you are into something else not shared. Depending on the type of video game being played in the dream, the purpose of playing, as well as the people whom you are playing with, and affect the interpretation of the video game playing dreams.
We will go through some of the most common video game dream interpretations and what they may represent.
If the dream is solely about the game play and you have just recently played, the dream may simply be your mind refreshing its experience without hidden meanings.
Dream About Online Video Game with Others
To dream that you are playing a online video game or MMO like WoW (World of Warcraft) or others suggests that you need better social life. You seek that kind of belonging from a dream online world.
When you cooperate with a friend to take down a boss inside the video game, suggest that you need to work with others to tackle challenging and complicated tasks
To grind or repetitively killing monsters in the game, suggest the daily grind of waking life. This interpretation is more true if you feel bored or annoyed in the dream with the game.
When the dream world focuses and revolves around PvP or player killing, the dream may reflect the brutality of your waking life. You are transferring some of your frustration to take it out on other people who simply want to enjoy the game.
Dream About Different Types of Games
When the dream’s focus is about playing certain type of games by itself, then the dream interpretation becomes based on the nature of the game.
Strategy, RTS, City building simulation Games:
If the dream features games like Clash of Clans, Starcraft…, it represents your ability to manipulate others into doing what you want them to do.
First Person Shooter or FPS Games:
Dreaming about playing a FPS game like CounterStrike, Halo…, it represents your desire to unleash your anger towards others. Consider checking out the gun dream interpretations.
Role Playing (RPG) or Adventure Games:
Dreams that feature role playing or adventure game like Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest, suggest that you do not want to confront the waking issues that you experience. You would rather live the life of a video game hero. If you are killing or defeating certain monsters like zombies or robots in the game dream, they could represent the issues that you refuse to face in waking life.
Building Adventure Games:
Games like Minecraft or Terraria that requires creative building and adventure, reflects your inner need to express yourself.
Racing Games:
Dreaming about racing games suggest that you live in a past paced environment. You need to be number 1 to get ahead and win the races.
Gambling Games:
Reflects your desire to take risks and gamble.
Fighting Games:
Suggests that you need to come face to face and confront people whom you have issues with.
Dream About Actual Game Play
Depending on what happens inside the game, they can typically have additional waking life interpretations.
To Fight a Boss or Attempting Difficult Quest or Task:
Reflects that you are undergoing difficulty and challenges in waking life. Continue trying and you can persevere. However, if you keep on failing, perhaps your preparation is not enough to finish off your project.
Dying inside a Video Game
Suggests a temporary failure that you have with the “game of life”. You will have more opportunities to try again, do not give up too early and too easily.
Lost inside a video game:
It signifies you actually feeling lost in the real world. However, since video game world is “not real”. You may be confused about the make up world that your surroundings has for you. This can reflect you feeling lost or confused about certain rules or expectations others have for you. For example, if your parents really want you to take up some career like doctor or lawyer, but you really do not want to. You may dream about lost in a video game. Where the dream signifies both being lost from other people’s expectations and trying to escape from reality.
Leveling Up in a Video Game:
To get a sense of progress inside a game, suggest that you are learning new skills and “becoming stronger” and experienced in the daily grind of life. You may be ready to take on more complicated and challenging tasks.
Finally, treat all symbols that typically occur in a dream and placed them in the setting of a video game. For example, a dream that focuses on the volcano lava and fire of a video game. Suggests the anger and rage you have buried deeply, in a parallel world hidden away from the waking life. These symbols are typically hidden so well under your subconscious that they are not seen by others.
Dream About Being Video Game Characters
To see or dream that you are a character in a video game, and that you do not have any control over yourself. Suggests that you are feeling controlled and manipulated by others similar to a robot dream. You have your own personality and decision making power stripped out of you, and replaced with a make up identity by others doing their bidding.
To dream that your real life has turned into a video game like Sword Art Online implies that you seek ambition and drive. Perhaps you want to feel alive again and see that your daily grind as boring and repetitive. However, if you experience “real” dangers when you enter video game worlds in dream, it suggests that you need to be more alert in waking life.
If you have control over your own actions while being a Video Game hero, consider the hero that you have become in the dream. These character represent role models with traits or purposes that you want to inherit. For example, if you dream about being a hero that saves the world in a RPG, you may actually want to do something great that “save” the people from their situations. Consider the ultimate goal of the hero as well, video game characters like “Mario” can suggest that you seek love or that your EX girlfriend has been taken or entered a new relationship.
Dream About Competitive Video Game Tournaments
Dreaming about competing in a competitive video game playing, suggests that you take your hobbies seriously. You want to prove that your general skills are better than others.
Dreams about witnessing or watching a competitive tournament or video, suggests that you envy the players who live their passions. However, if you feel bored about the competition, it suggests that you look down on the people who are playing and their chosen lifestyle.
I’ve been seeing GLaDOS from Portal in a few of my dreams. I had a pretty interesting one taking place after the events of Portal 2 where I was Chell and I fought HER again! After fighting her, I escaped to the surface, to that same wheat field. I suddenly ended up with a space rescue crew for some reason, and I went out to save Wheatley and I forgave him for everything. Nice happy ending but the dream was a little weird!
I have seen many video game charcaters through my dreams in the past such as from Tekken to Kingdom Hearts and now a bit of TF2. With TF2 I thought I was the Medic himself at one point in one of them. In my recent dream I saw Spy, I was with other people so I guess he decided to tag along with us.
In Tekken I just saw some characters like Hwoarang and Lee, not particularly sure what was going on but I guess I just saw them walking around not noticing me.
I dreamed I met Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy, they were having a picnic, and then they turned and looked and smiled at me. I think I was being acknowledged as being one of them.
I had a dream of where I was playing a video game. I had a good time when I was in there but then I got out of the video game when I was in some bus (No, I didn’t wake up). This time, when I got out of the bus into the real world, I was LOST. Some people said, “Good luck,” when I was lost in the dream. I didn’t know how to get back to my house. When I actually woke up, I cried.
Its strange for me to have dreams along with nightmares…
This strange dream was hitting me hard. But I’m glad I’m not the only one here…
My dream about this game… not sure what it was but the characters were people from my school and my oc’s (own characters) it felt so real. I have had these dreams over and over. Whenever i fall asleep it’s another level up.
Characters: Hunter S, Blade L, Annie W, and two of my ocs which are Jaxon and Alex.
My dream… Level 1
I woke up on a cold and harsh concreted room. I feel a sharp pain hit my leg. I look up to see a strange character. But… he looked familier… I looked closer to find out it was Jaxon. “J-Jaxon..?” I spoke up with a slight weak voice. “How do you know me?” He asked while pushing down on my upper part of my calves. “(My name)!! I’m so glad your awake!!” a unsettling voice spoke up. “Give her some space wont you?” I heard ‘his’ voice… “Hunter!?” I quickly sat up to end up falling back down hitting my head hard.
Theres more to this level 1 but… Most of it was more about the main characters finding out who each other are…
I know it couldnt have been real because my two ocs Alex and Jaxon… Alex was a human/wolf while Jaxon is a human/demon.
I had wolf ears as well, along with a fluffy tail, and horns of a devil and devil wings torn apart…
Is this dream fake or real?
It has some type of meaning i know that for sure but everything i came across was more like a game i recently played. But i havent played any games for awhile. This is the closest i got to.
this didn’t help what if you have a dream that like your significant other is playing video games in your dream
I had a dream where i went to find something then in order to find it i need to use some vr device but felt like real life like sword art online and then me and some friends of my tryed a New game and it was like warframe and attack on titans mix and then after I left the game to fortnite lobby and all my friends and me were yelling at each other about who should play but when i woke up i found out that i despire to play video games with my friends because i don’t have my xbox with me lol
I had a dream where i went to find something then in order to find it i need to use some vr device but felt like real life like sword art online and then me and some friends of my tryed a New game and it was like warframe and attack on titans mix and then after I left the game to fortnite lobby and all my friends and me were yelling at each other about who should play lol
I was looking to get back into fighting games because I loved Tekken 2 whilst growing up but I don’t think I could go back to them as I need to have a good story and a point to playing a game other than to get better at them, plus I love open – world games . But thanx for the video it’s always good to see why people are passionate about a genre or something in general.
Regards
Ross Alisha
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Titles with long, flashy combos actually decreases that element by taking control away from one player for stretches of time, and greatly reduces the appeal (to me) and my ability to enjoy it.
And, on top of that, the neutral game has gradually become less about thoughtful footsies and patience being an actual playstyles that is rewarded, and has become more about a scramble, rewarding offense/pressure, long flashy “”single-player”” combos, and actually discourage/punish patient and defensive play (by design).
Sadly, the actually popular titles are NOT for the patient defensive, except for Smash Bros (NOT Melee).
The only recent games for those who enjoy what fighting games used to reward are Blade Strangers, Koihime Enbu, Smash Bros Ultimate, and (to a lesser extent) Tekken and SoulCal.
Everything else is for those who like fast-paced gameplay and showy flashiness.”
Victoria Tegg
Heya i had a dream where i was walking around with my friend in a adventure game. It was calming, not my friend but the world. We reached a point where we were in a snowy area, Just travelling not doing any quests even though we could. Does anybody know what this means?
Fighting games have just become to compilacted for the average person. The only fighting game I can play decently is Fantasy Strike because of its simplicity. The art style is also spectacular as well.
Regards: Eve Hunt
i had a dream that i was mario and that i keep playing the last level and bowser had a pet dragon and we went to this cave to defeat it but i keep having this dream over and over again and i can see myself outside of the video game telling my baby brother that he doesn’t know how to play it right that he keeps dying meaning he keeps killing me
One of my friends had a dream of being in a video game (roblox) then all of the sudden the game crashed or is glitched I was in the dream but I left the server so all his friends were naked in the game like its just the skin color
I was in super mario bros but we weren’t doing anything, except messing around but then creepers (from Minecraft) invaded i went into a bunker and everyone was showering except the leader, I can remember what but still, odd. I took a shower, (ps there was a naked girl I couldn’t recognize her) so I went back up, then I hid from the creepers, then I woke up.
What if I had a dream that I was in a virtual reality or like living in a game world but not like playing games or anything but kinda like it is here on earth.and I feel the same emotions/sensations that I feel when awake in my dreams.
I always dream about turn my favorite turn based strategy games sometimes winning or carefully looking at a map. lol In reality games is one of my passion. 😂 As a person, people often turn to me like I’m this living journal. That will fix the problem. Sometimes I give insights when I feel it’s my business. That is my dream reflection. 😏
What about dreams of you being with the video game character but not actually being in the game?
In my most recent dream, I was with two of my favorite video game characters (Heavy and medic from TF2) and we traveled across the desert to an ocean. The Heavy opened a portal and we went through to another planet with other humans and watched ours get destroyed. I’m struggling to figure out what this all means. It was so vivid, I thought I was actually there.
what category does hoi4 fall under