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Lucid Lyra:

--- Quote from: Caradon on March 02, 2021, 07:38:58 PM ---Just something about looking up and seeing the walls of some massive castle tower over you. Or the mountains as you climb up them, walking along some beautiful trail.

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This sounds right up my alley.


--- Quote from: Caradon on March 02, 2021, 07:38:58 PM ---I don't know about those phone VR things.  I never tried one so I have no idea how they compare with an actual VR headset.

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My brother in law has a real VR headset, so I've tried both. The headset seemed so much better - I played an under the ocean exploration type game, but I'm not sure if it was the game or headset quality. This conversation is definitely making me want to dust off my phone VR attachment to see what's available for it now. I imagine quality would have to suffer for something made for a phone, though. Processing limitations and all. But who knows - might still be cool and good for LD induction.


--- Quote from: Caradon on March 02, 2021, 07:38:58 PM ---I've heard of the Dark Souls game but I've never payed that. My favorite non VR game is still probably Dying Light. Because of my love of both the zombie apocalypse, and  . And in Dying Light you become a parkour master in the zombie apocalypse. :) Doesn't get better than that. I want some Dying Light VR.

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Dark Souls is good if you want the adrenalin rush of a challenge. I would spend hours and sometimes days trying to beat a boss in that game, falling to the floor shaking when it finally happened! I don't have time for tall that lately, so now it's just casual/easy going stuff.

Dying Light does seem perfect in your case! I haven't heard of it, but I just looked up a walk-through video of it and I can definitely see how it could influence dreams. It seems so realistic! That'd be crazy in VR!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0nqexbrs9U

As a side note, have any VR games made you motion sick? Last I heard, that was the main thing holding VR back.

Caradon:
Wow, that is a really old video of Dying Light. The very first footage, I think. 2013, Has it really been that long already? Sheesh?  I had the game on pre-order like a year or more before it finally released because they kept pushing the release date back. And when it finally released it was pretty much the only thing I played until the release of the Playstation VR and I started playing mostly VR games. I still go back to it now and then.

The sequel was supposed to release last summer, I thought. I'm not sure if it did though. I have a feeling it didn't yet.

Caradon:
I don't really want to start living in video games again and be distracted from my dreaming goals. But I'm not sure I'll be able to resist playing the sequel to my favorite non VR game. Parkour/zombie apocalypse. It's like heaven.

It looks pretty awesome. And they say there is literally double the parkour moves in the sequel. Maybe if I just play it in moderation, a little here and there. Not sure I can do that. lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwJAAy7tPhE 

Lucid Lyra:
Hmm, WELL, I mayyyyyyy be a bit of a bad influence in the area of self-discipline  >:D ... but ... perhaps losing your days in the game doesn't have to necessarily equal 'distraction from dreaming goals'. Maybe, your dreaming goals could be tweaked to include experimenting with how the game impacts your dreams, or coming up with new goals inspired by the game scenarios! Reality checks can be done in-game, etc. C'mon ...  ;) ;)

Seriously though, not a bad idea ey? I took a peak at the preview, by the way ... the scenes are amazing! Dream landscape inspiration, for sure.  :dream:

Caradon:

--- Quote from: Lucid Lyra on May 31, 2021, 03:49:07 PM ---Hmm, WELL, I mayyyyyyy be a bit of a bad influence in the area of self-discipline  >:D ... but ... perhaps losing your days in the game doesn't have to necessarily equal 'distraction from dreaming goals'. Maybe, your dreaming goals could be tweaked to include experimenting with how the game impacts your dreams, or coming up with new goals inspired by the game scenarios! Reality checks can be done in-game, etc. C'mon ...  ;) ;)

Seriously though, not a bad idea ey? I took a peak at the preview, by the way ... the scenes are amazing! Dream landscape inspiration, for sure.  :dream:

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Yeah, in theory. But doesn't usually work that way for me, never has. If I let myself get involved with and absorbed in the games dreaming is usually pretty much out the window until I decided to get back to focusing on my dreams again. Near to impossible for me to maintain any kind of awareness work while focused on and lost in video games. And recall quickly dissolves to nothing. I skipped a couple of generations of gaming because I was avoiding them like the plague and was all in on getting lucid.

My dreaming goals, is to get back my frequency of lucidity, lol. That's the priority. There is no in dream lucid goals without the frequency, at least from my perspective. Because anything I want to work on lucid wise, is either impossible or irrelevant if there isn't enough lucidity to continue working on it with any regularity.

Kind of glad Dying Light 2 isn't set to come out until December. Quite a while still before the possibility of playing it is even an option. 

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