Now that scientists are able to look deeper in our minds, they've shed some light on the deeper workings of our minds. One of the things they found was that people who play video games have a better ability to create lucid dreams!
Lucid dreaming is being aware of the fact that you are dreaming but still having a conscious mind. This allows you to have some control over how your dream progresses or what happens in your dream. Lucid dreamers can take a nightmare and turn it into a tropical paradise!
The idea is that avid video game players are regularly put in an alternate reality where they control what happens to them and how things progress. It's kind of like lucid dream practice to be put in such an alternate reality. Sometimes lucid dreaming involves the person being outside their body and seeing themselves from a third person, like an out of body experience.
