Games and Dreams
December 26th, 2005
You play a game too much if it also entrenches itself in your dreams. I need to cut back on my strategy sim games. I had a number of castle/marauder/peasent uprising dreams last knight after playing Stronghold 2 for about 6 hours yesterday. Nothing like avoiding the family on Xmas to play a game that you bought a week earlier.
I did like the fact that the game noticed the date and my servent mentioned, “Merry Christmas, my liege.” Awesome, I’m a liege.
Of course, if i’m so engrossed in the game, i need to stop and look at what else i’m neglecting. My room’s cleanliness for one. Dear God it’s messy. My cousin’s mp3 player that i am supposed to be putting songs on because he doesn’t have a computer at home. Family… eh, whatever. Showering, um, yeah. Apparently not going anywhere means that i don’t have to shower… i guess. i’ll be fixing that in about 30 minutes.
But the real problem is that my game has become my sole thought lately. Not a horrible problem, but it follows my typical timeline. Get game -> Play game constantly -> Lose interest and never play game again. Dammit. That sucks. I need to just borrow these things from friends or something and quit buying them new. It’s expensive for a crush.
One Response to “Games and Dreams”
I had dreams about a game before. My friend Andrew help introduce an addiction to online textbased rpgs. I became addicted to MUD called Asgardian Nightmares. This game was constantly in my dreams and thoughts everyday, which was wierd because it was text based. Luckily I shipped off to boot camp because I was spending every waking moment playing this game that summer. I wonder where I would be had a kept feeding my addiction to this text based game.
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