[Boudica]

I didn't think I would ever be hearing the words "VR" and "treatment of chronic back pain" in the same sentence. But I guess anything is possible nowadays.

Another interesting use of VR that's similar to this, is relieving the terrors of sleep paralysis. A Youtuber by the name of SomeOrdinaryGamers uses VR to go to sleep in Minecraft. And anytime there's an attack from sleep paralysis, he wakes up peacefully in Minecraft. Without a single demon in sight.

Wow that is seriously impressive. Thank you for sharing this. I've heard of scientists looking into the relationship between sleep issues (like sleep paralysis, lucid dreaming etc) and people who play video games. Strangely, there have been a number of studies to suggest video games help. I would never have guessed it would help in this way. What an idea!

I dream very frequently when I go to sleep at certain times of the night. When I go to sleep between 12 AM and 2 AM, I can have 2-3 dreams in a night. I've found that it's very hard for me to lucid dream though.

Interesting. So have you never had that feeling in a dream where you've been able to actually steer the direction of the dream, or control it in any fashion?

I don't have a single night of sleep without a dream. I often will forget a lot of it within 10 minutes of being awake, but in those first few moments, I can remember a lot. I have extremely vivid, and unsurprisingly strange dreams. I also revisit places over and over that I've invented in previous dreams. I've never really been able to wake myself up from a dream, or become 100% aware that I'm dreaming, but I often can control the dream, or "take charge" of the direction it's going in. If something bad happens in the dream, I'm now able to fight back.

This could be a natural development as I've got older, or it could be attributed to more video game playing as I started playing more in my 20s xD