A Nightmare

A few nights ago, I dreamt that I was watching my friends play video games (yeah I know, pretty exciting), and the violence in the game was so intense that I was paralyzed with fear. The fear only intensified as some of my friends began killing each other, and the game I was watching suddenly jumped out of the screen, until we were all either hiding or caught up in the killing frenzy. In the midst of all this terror, I thought, “this is something I could blog about. Violence in games really does spill over to violence in real life.”

Needless to say, that’s an odd reaction to have in the middle of a violent nightmare. And when I woke up the next day, I was pretty sad to realize that I didn’t have a blog post about violence in games.

I’m usually kind of cavalier about school work; it always seems to get done. So perhaps I have some serious latent anxieties over this particular assignment. But a nightmare about the blog? That’s not usually how I roll.

Then again, I do feel a sense of impending doom every time a new Wednesday rolls around, which is the day I’ve arbitrarily decided is when the week starts and my next set of posts are due...