Video Games: The Future of Psychotherapy?

VOA-Voice of America English News article “Video Games: The Future of Psychotherapy?” by Ross Slutsky reports that gamers who spend many hours with their VDO game intend to have capability of Lucid Dreaming. It is a state of awareness in a dream and dreamers can control it. Gaming allows you experiences to take control in the unreal world that you’d never have in your life like when you dream. The gamers also have a horrible dream when they sleep, but they can deal with it and realize that is just a dream. So the gamers fight back the frightening things in their dream. Nowadays, scientists believe that lucid dreaming is a way in which we can interact with our subconscious emotions.


According to my point of view, this research could be the great valuable for someone who suffers from his illness like returning soldiers from war, stressful business officers, and insomnia patients. VDO games could change the way we think about psychotherapy. In the past, I always thought that VDO games didn’t have any advantage but now I have to change my mind. It’s according to our purpose of using them. Thus the gaming is like a treatment technique of virtual reality that could give people a practice in order to release their bad feeling inside subconsciousness.


Reference

Video Games: The Future of Psychotherapy? (2012, October 2). VOA - Voice of America English News. Retrieved November 7, 2012
From:  http://blogs.voanews.com/digital-frontiers/2012/10/02/video-games-the-future-of-psychotherapy/