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Study: No Connection Between Nightmares And Video Games

July 30, 2008 in News comments 13

NextGen Player discusses a recent German study that found no correlation between the nightmares of students aged 9-13 and their video game use. They did however find a link between reading and nightmares.

Is there a correlation between video game use and nightmares? Pfft, bloody hell no!

According to a German study of 250 students aged nine to 13, no correlation was found between the amount of TV watching and game playing. They did however find a link between reading and nightmares, but Michael Schredl, head researcher for the study, cautioned that the sample size was too small to make definitive conclusions.
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  • 3
    Bandito Jul 31, 08
    Little kids need to get over it.
    it's a *bleep*ing video game.
    if it said, based on a true story, and the game looked like it was for matures only, go back to game stop, best buy or whatever you bought the game and return it immediately. no need for for another nightmare drama trauma.
  • 6
    Miss Razz Jul 31, 08
    Okay, it's nice that there are studies out there trying to prove that video games are harmless and won't send kids into a murderous-rampage, but it's ridiculous to say that there is no connection between adult/violent/horror games and nightmares at all.

    Scary movies give people nightmares. Scary books give people nightmares. But that doesn't mean the movies or books are bad. It just means they have achieved their goal in leaving an impact.

    (when I was younger I had nightmares about Resident Evil's Nemesis and Fatal Frame's ghosts chasing me and/or killing me... where did they come from if there's no connection between games and nightmares?)
  • 3
    iLLmatic Jul 31, 08
    quote
    It just means they have achieved their goal in leaving an impact.
    discussion, end of
  • 4
    Bandito Jul 31, 08
    yea, she practically owned this article in that sentence
    • 0
      Shadow of Death* Jul 31, 08
      Seconded

      When I read the bit about no connection between video games and nightmares, I was like...."WTF?". Just like horror movies and a good scary story, people can have nightmares about it....

      Are they trying to say I can plop my scaredy-cat brother in front of my TV (with a 5.1 sound system, for auditory immersion), and have him play Fatal Frame 2, and he won't, possibly, get nightmares?

      Mind you, I don't get nightmares (can't remember the last proper nightmare I've had....seriously, it has probably been 10 years or more....)....But that is me, not everybody >_>
  • 0
    Donnelly Jul 31, 08
    When I was 8, I traded Resident Evil 2 in because it gave me nightmares.
  • 0
    bbb7002004 Jul 31, 08
    I had a nightmare after playing Mario Party 1. For real.
    • 0
      black doom Jul 31, 08
      You had a psychic prediction.
  • 0
    Dio Jul 31, 08
    I used to have nightmares all the time after playing the original Resident Evil for PS1. I remember zombies taking over the world, and I had to lock myself in my house. Then the zombies would break into my house, and I would try to hide. But then they would find me and right before they would attack me, I would wake up.

    Terrible I tell ya, haha. But I still love RE.
  • 1
    Fishlock Jul 31, 08
    Any time I dream about video games they are awesome. Even if they are about RE4.
  • 0
    DarkSpyro_Dragon Aug 1, 08
    My mom always used to tell me that if I stay up too late playing video games (it doesnt matter what kind), that you would have nightmares. Seeing this title my first thought was that they were testing this and apparently they werent XD

    First of all, I was suprised at how short the actual article was. And to say that there is absolutly no connections between video games and nightmares is really idiotic. Makes me wanna take my friend and make her play resident evil just to test this myself...(just the blood in a game like Tony Hawk is enough to scare her, sad)

    The first time I ever saw someone play resident evil (I think I was like, 6 or 7) I know I had nightmares about it. But I do ocasionally dream about video games (one time I had a dream about Spyro in the world of Kingdom Hearts )
  • 0
    Bandito Aug 1, 08
    wtf? spyro is too ill for kingdom hearts, htf could spyro be there?
  • 0
    DarkSpyro_Dragon Aug 1, 08
    thats what I'd like to know

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