It would seem that this is study week – apt, considering many high schoolers will be returning to school next week (see? We’re helping) – but luckily the study we’re presenting you today isn’t one telling you that excessive gaming will cause your eyeballs to implode, or something.<\/p>\n
Nope, instead, according to a study conducted by the American Psychological Association, it has been shown that ‘hardcore gamers’ are less likely to have big bad nightmares than their ‘not-so-hardcore’ counterparts.<\/p>\n
The study took 64 hardcore gamers and 22 less-frequent gamers – all from a military background. They were all on par in terms of military experience and weren’t suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. During interviews and research into each participant’s dream content – specifically relating to military content, the study found some interesting things:<\/p>\n
The hardcore gamers’ dreams were far less threatening than the less-frequent participants. The less-frequent also tended to be passive victims in the dreams, while hardcore gamers were active participants.<\/p>\n
Interesting to note – the hardcore gamers out-numbered the casual gamers in this study, so the results actually say quite a bit.<\/p>\n
Okay, so what the study is really saying is that games desensitize gamers to violence – but with the positive benefit of not waking up in a cold sweat, fearing for your life.<\/p>\n
Who wants another study? You do, of course!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":26003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,1971,1886],"class_list":["post-30761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-nightmares","tag-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30762,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30761\/revisions\/30762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}