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Your Onscreen Alter Ego
The more you play video games, the more control and awareness you'll have in your dreams—like playing your "character" in your sleep, found Jayne Gackenbach, PhD, a psychologist at Grant MacEwan University in Canada. She explains that serious gamers get a lot of practice maneuvering in a virtual environment—a skill that may translate especially well in the context of a dream.