Lucid dreaming is an excellent model for understanding the future of video games. Consider a sample dream scenario: you’re running across a concrete, parapet-perimetered, rectangular rooftop of some nondescript multi-story building, the wind whistling over a sprawling New York City-like metropolis. Chasing you are dozens of (surprisingly athletic) street cops, perhaps with a parent or other Freudian cameo mixed in (no judgment), and they’re quickly gaining on you and your sloppy dream gait. Out of rooftop runway, you decide to leap, choosing the fall in lieu of interminable dream-jail for whatever nonsensical crimes you had committed pre-lucid-awareness.
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