What are video game dreams about?

Context: I just started playing Terraria last week. My world has corruption, and I have time and clay to dig a shaft, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet because I’ll get killed if I dare approach the corruption with the stuff I use.

Anyway, Part One: I was trying to dig two short pits to contain the corruption. It was all I needed for now, I’d finish the shaft before hard mode. (Corruption doesn’t spread on stone or ice before hardmode.) Anyway, I brought a shitload of clay with me (to keep thorny bushes from growing and reaching across the shaft) and headed down to the forest on the other side of the snow biome next to my house, where there is corruption. (This is actually what my in-game map looks like.)

However, I traveled across the snow biome to find that the corruption had reached the edge of the snow biome. I was surprised, for corruption isn’t supposed to spread as fast as it did for the amount of time I’ve been playing. And then there’s the fact that I’m not even in Hardmode either... So I started digging the shaft right away.

And now for something completely different... Part Two:

I was experiencing the same dilemma as before. Only this time, I was in a completely different video game. I had to do a bunch of mini games to deal with the corruption for whatever reason, but was woken up before the dream ended.

So I just woke up from a dream because a person was pretty much torturing me and I was feeling that physical pain.

So in my dream, I was inside of a mall that look very similar yet very different. There were a lot of people and friends there. I was seeing some buildings I had designed in a kids video game a long time ago. After a little bit I realized I was dreaming but I was still heavily asleep.

So, I decided to walk up to one of my friends in my dream. As he and other people were conversing I walked up and asked, “can you see me” “are you able to have a real conversation with me”. He nodded and replied “yeah” but in a frustrated way.

I then told him “I know I am dreaming” and suddenly his face changes as well as the others and I don’t recognize anyone. They pin me to the ground and these two people put their feet on the each side of my ribs.

He began to say a lot of nonesense on how this is going to be painful for you and even says exactly the pain I’m going to feel when I wake up. He says “when you wake up your going to want to cough”. I tried forcing myself to wake up because I was feeling extreme pain that I could not control. It was like sleep paralysis but I felt extreme pain and I was being tortured. Finally I woke up when he said I was allowed to. I felt a lot of pain in my ribs even after I woke up.

i just woke up some hours ago after dreaming of someone that i never met. the thing is that i was aware of the conversations in my dream. i remember asking him what his name was and he said “georgica” which is a cute type of saying “George” in romanian. in my dream i also had dinner with him, his uncle i think? and my mother. (i was so happy to see her because she died 6 years ago)

i also vaguely remember meeting him in another dream in which i was playing a video game, i think it was valorant?
i felt such a strong connection with him and the whole time spent with him was so wholesome. is there a chance that we will meet in real life or another dream? maybe i have to play more valorant? haha

This dream was in what I like to call “video game perspective” - where I am watching something happen but also controlling a specific “character” in the dream. Sometimes it can feel like this even in first person perspective, where I am somehow disconnected from being the person, even if I am the person, not watching a screen or using a controller.

So in the dream there was this giant worm creature. It wasn’t really a worm, more wormlike, as in it was oblong and had no limbs and wasn’t reptilian enough to be a snake. First it chased me through a corridor (this was in the perspective of a 2d sidescroller video game) trying to I think eat me or at least somehow kill me and I ran from it and it would smash stuff behind me. Sometimes I was really close to being caught by it but I managed to get ahead. Then I got into a chamber place (it was more in first person now) and it was at the bottom of some stairs. When I would go down the stairs there were smaller worm things that would attack me. I felt like I was struggling with fighting the worms and I thought I was not strong or skilled enough to fight the big worm.

When I am awake and I think about the worm it reminds me most of a Dark Souls boss since it was very strong and big and it was sort of eldritch horror-like. Through the whole dream I was scared of the worm and I felt like I was not strong enough to fight it but I was progressing forward anyways. I also was fighting it in some sort of ruin, like ruined stonework everywhere and stuff. The closest I can describe the ruin as is maybe the Arbiter’s Grounds dungeon from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, but not as dark.

I'm 22 years old male, one thing that those last days bother me off is my own height. I am only like 1.65 in meters height, and I feel very insecure about it. My insecurity steems from the fact that it affects my self-image. Somehow, I just realised how I was compensating too hard for my own insecurities about myself and generaly how it made others view me.

Despite people told me that I am fine and look masculine with my appearance, height still bothers the hell out of me. My insecurity started from watching videos of generaly how shorter people are treated, especialy in the dating side of life.

I myself as a person had a pretty regular life, I have been mostly a Video game and Anime lover most of the time.

This dream happened during middle of the time when my stress and insecurity about my height started to take a serious turn, to the point where it left me a feeling of hopelessness.

The dream started off with me arriving with 3 other people to a planet in a different star system (not our sun) in a ship, the planet was similar to earth, it had blue skies, oceans and cities just like on earth.

We started off in some big mall trading centre, I dont remember much of the dream, but 2 of our crew guys (Which seemed to be guys), went on outside by going up the mall to look at the star, instantly this moment when those guys looked at the star shinning, they started to experience something pretty terrible, It in this point I realised in fear, that the Star that shines on this planet is an evil entity of sort that either corrupts you or does something terrible for you if you glance into it.

I got mental images of the star, the star seemed to be a blue giant, unlike our sun, and when I pictured the 2 crew members looking at it, the star would turn entirely black (Like black sphere in the sky) and basicaly corrupts their mind and it does something to them that I cant explain, eitherway, they die somehow.

I started to experience uneasiness with the presence of this star, I feared looking into it even though I felt wanting to look at it, but tried my best not to.

What only remains is me and a woman, we both decided to return back to our spaceship and avoid looking at the star. Still, when I was outside going for the ship I felt fear and uneasiness by feeling the heat coming out of the star, but I moved in and tried not to look at it, and went into the ship with the woman. The dream ended here.

TL;DR: Landing on a planet on a trading centre, the star is a sentient evil diety god, do not glance into it, 2 crew members died, me and a woman escaping back into the ship, the dream ends here.