How Does Gaming Affect Our Dreams?

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Dreams are the only truly alternate world that many of us know. When we dream, we often experience lucid, vivid colors, bizarre and awkward plots, chaos, and sometimes, fear. For centuries, the world of psychology has attempted to extract meaning from our dreams, but its an ever-changing storyline. Dreams can often be deeply personal, taking us back to nostalgic times, or reminding us of people once in our lives. They can be eclectic and startling. They can leave us pondering their meaning for hours after waking.

Manipulating dreams is a goal for many. There’s simpler approaches, such as diet. For example, eating spicy meals prior to bed increases body temperature which sometimes leads to heavier REM sleep, which leads to more dreams.

But what about gaming?

Gaming offers hyper-intensive visual graphics, potent audibles, and often oddball storylines. Does the exposure of heavy gaming affect how we dream?

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Rumors Heat Up: GTA 6 Announcement by Rockstar Games Coming Soon?

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Unless you’ve been living in a cave, or too inundated in Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, you probably know that the next installment to the Grand Theft Auto series is lingering for launch. But no one seems to know when GTA 6 will officially launch.

However, it seems like this morning, we might.

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The Future of Augmented Reality (AR)

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Augmented Reality (AR) is likely to become more mainstream in the coming years, as the technology continues to improve and the cost of hardware decreases. With this, AR could have a large impact across a number of industries, including education, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail. AR’s immersive experience lends itself nicely to many facets of our lives.

So what’s the future of AR?

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Do Video Games Reduce or Increase Anxiety?

On both the political and cultural fronts, video games serve as a polarizing subject. Not always, but more often than the gaming industry is comfortable with. The media runs with narratives that sometimes results in fear-mongering. Sometimes, there’s truth to claims, other times, not.

One narrative we hear a lot is that video games result in anxiety for people who play them.

But do they?

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Hack, Slash, and Play: The 3 Slasher Games You Can’t Miss

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While visiting any number of retail stores, you might notice that Halloween is getting earlier and earlier. Whether it’s your local merchandise store, or the big Spirit halloween pop-up store, halloween merchandise is everywhere by the end of August.

That’s nuts.

But you know what’s not nuts?

Slasher games. Horror games are a big deal. There far better than most recent slasher films. The jump scares are typically unrivaled. So by our estimation, it’s never too early to game out to some truly terrifying plays.

Although fear is subjective to some degree, we feel there are three horror games that stand a bit above the rest. At the very least, these are must-play slasher games ripe with bloody graphics, creepy audio, and of course, freakishly terrifying jump scares. We have a top gaming jump scares article, also, if you wanna check that out after.

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