适当玩电子游戏可提高注意力

　　事实上，游戏可以提高你的注意力和自尊心，并且有助心理平衡，这些都是促生清醒梦的有利条件。当然，对你清醒时的生活来说，同样如此。

　　由技术心理学转而研究清醒梦的学者JayneGackenbach搜集了一些可靠的证据，表明玩电子游戏可能提高做清醒梦的几率。2006年，Gackenbach在《做梦》期刊上报道，相比从不玩游戏的人，经常玩游戏的玩家做了更多的清醒梦。

　　尽管还处于初级阶段，但研究还是表明玩游戏可以提高人的悟性，它与冥想、唱咏这样的传统方式如出一辙。

　　游戏同时对多项能力有促进作用：

　　首先，提高玩家在诸多干扰下集中注意完成目标任务的能力。

　　其次，玩家有良好的本体感觉，他们知道自己的角色在游戏矩阵中所处的位置。游戏似乎在提高人的独立性方面有所建树。而这种心理特质与保持清醒的能力有关……最后，玩家具备一种自信的态度以及卓越的自尊心，这种特质同样会渗透到你生活的其他方面。如果冥想不适合你，常玩游戏或许真能开发你的意识。

　　有趣的是，玩家并不比普通人做更多的噩梦，即使他们在清醒时花大量时间打僵尸游戏。相反的是，玩暴力游戏或许会让你对暴力麻木。

　　因此，当你用第一人称射击游戏来开发意识时，问问你自己：“我为何而训练？”

　　就个人而言，我最近花费过多的时间来玩单机有些《我的世界》（Minecraft）。这是经典的16位机游戏之后的第一人称游戏。但它真的很像《模拟城市》，角色在其中具有强大的影响力，就像《最终幻想》那样。

　　这个游戏没有目标：你可以在你的世界中自由建造和规划土地，全部要做的就是获取资源和制造工具。目前我花费时间在我的星球上设计修建新石器时代的巨石碑。

　　这个游戏同样促使你对僵尸和怪物保持警惕。但它并不是暴力游戏，除非你主动去找怪，或者在幽深晦暗的洞穴里游荡。

　　译文：

　　Gaming can actually develop your focus, self-esteem, and mental balance; which are all useful skills for encouraging lucidity in dreams… and in waking life.

　　Lucid dream researcher-turned-technology psychologist Jayne Gackenbach has collected some solid evidence that playing video games may increase the chances of going lucid. In 2006, Gackenbach reported in the journal Dreaming that frequent gamers have more lucid dreams than those who don’t game at all.

　　Although this research is still in its infancy, it appears that playing video games can develop consciousness in similar ways as more traditional methods, such as meditation or chanting.

　　Gaming targets and augments several abilities simultaneously:

　　First, gamers develop concentration by engaging in a goal-oriented task amongst many distractions.

　　Secondly, gamers have a highly developed sense of proprioception, or knowing where their avatar is in relationship to the game matrix. Gaming appears to develop field independence, a psychological trait that has already been correlated with high lucidity levels.2Finally, gamers have a “can-do” attitude and excellent self-esteem after playing, a trait that bleeds over into other aspects of your life. So if meditation is not for you, a regular gaming practice may actually develop your awareness.

　　Interestingly, gamers do not have more nightmares than non-gamers, even though they spend much of their waking awareness shooting zombies. On the contrary, playing violent video games may dampen your response to violence.3So, when using violent first person shooters games to develop your awareness, ask yourself “what am I training for?”

　　Personally, I have been recently spending an inordinate amount of time playing the indie hit Minecraft. This game is styled after classic 16-bit first-person shooters, but it’s really a building game like SimCity with strong role-playing influences a la Final Fantasy.

　　There is no goal: you are free to build structures and terraform your world all while picking up resources and making tools. Currently, I spend my time building to-scale Neolithic megaliths on my private ice planet.

　　The game also encourages vigilance due to the zombies and monsters that come out at night, but it’s not a violent game unless you seek it out or hang out in dark caves.