Well, I used to have dreams about myself being in audio games, except they were taking place in real life and I would be in the temple, or be in the jungle, where the audio game was set. I remember before i bought Monkey Business, I had a very vivid dream that i was in the jungle level, then in the temple level. I'd heard teasers of the jungle level, and had played a little bit of the temple level. So I knew what they sounded like. What was scary was, in the dream, everything was 3d. I could touch the walls of the temple, feel the gravel and mud underfoot, even hear reflections off the walls of the hallways. It was very scary. I don't remember much about the jungle, just the beautiful river. i love water sounds, and that level has some nice ones, though the beach is nice too. Come ot think of it, the only game whose water sounds impress me more is Treasure Mania. The reaoson stopped playing that was partially because it doesn't work on my machine, but also because I would occasionally run into the bug of the treasure being on the cliff edges, even though they said they fixed that bug. Hmm I have to fire up my XP VM and see if it'll work on there. If it does, I'll have some nostalgic moments.
I also had a dream that I was in Super Liam in the lava lake, running around. Once again, ewverything was in reality, so I could fele the rumble and the heat, and could hear my footsteps bouncing off of trees nearby, though if you're in a fiery lanscape, why would there be trees? Oh well, it had that outdoor reverberant sound. Without it, it just doesn't feel outdoors.
I may have had a dream a ways back that i was fighting in BD2 or BD3, but I can't remember. If it was, it wasn't as vivid as the others I mentioned. But in none of these dreams did I have to jump a pit. Though I do remember occasionally feeling them and sizing them up, and smelling the smell of the acid from the acid pits in the temples, yes I love ancient temple exploration, not because of the culture and mythological things, but just for the arcade style obstacles that get thrown in there in our modern imagination. Hmm, I can remember when I first heard of acid pits, I had a burst of cinesthesia (I should make a topic about that). And my cinesthesia associated acid pits with a hot pleasant bath. I knew it would never be, but one of the sounds of falling into an acid pit in MOnkey Business, I don't know why but it is relaxing in a weird way, even though the character is screaming as he is boiled alive. It doesn't have that painful element to it, at least not to my ears.
So, as for what I would do in a pit. Hmm I've given it a bit of thought, and I think I figured it out... Wait for it...
I would turn back! And if I knew I would be coming across a pit in advance, I probably wouldn't go in. Maybe if it's really small I would try to maneuver it, but if it goes from wall to wall, or there is not a decent amount of room to go around it, forget it. Cane or no cane, I don't trust my agility, which is practically 0 right now, to see me safely jumping across a pit or a chasm. I don't even trust myself to step over it safely, since although my balance is decent, I am pretty clumsy when I get thrown off track, and my nerves would throw me off track in that situation.
I remember one time my dad and I climbed on top of a waterfall. I forget where it was, but it was a relatively safe climb, with only a few spots that my dad said were dangerous, though he is more gutsy than I. I was so nervous climbing up there, stepping over openings in the ground, or scared that the rock would collapse underneath me even though hundreds of people were there enjoying the view, as we were. The adrenaline and anxiety I got from doing that was so intense that it made me nauseous for about 15 minutes. I'm not doing that again.
And don't ask me to fight off adversaries either. I can do it in games but there are a lot of play fights I simply cannot win, partially because I am not an aggressive physical fighter, but also because I am not physically made for fighting and have 0 experience with techniques and so forth, and don't have the desire to improve either of those things right now. If I were actually in a situation where I'd actually need self defense... well we'll see what happens when I do. Until then I am just as unsure as you guys are about what would happen.
So lets' take this all the way out simply because I am bored.
If you had a virtual reality game and put me in there, I wouldn't be a very good beta tester. Just to prove I had been there, I would bring a camcorder which would record audio and video with decent quality and resolution. I would record as much as I could, and to enhance the virtual reality effect, I would not say this is in a virtual reality, I would say that it's happening, and it's as real as the world that those fortunates who haven't touched a virtual reality game yet are still living in. Let's assume that when I had had enough of virtual reality, I somehow transported to the real world. I'd think the recorder and camera would have the recordings still. But I would look normal again, without all my battle scars and without the death count. Imagine that I would know what it's like to die! Well I'd know more than I know now. I'd come back to the real reality a very different person. What would it be like when people ask me how my day was. "Oh, I fell into 20 lava pits today and got fried twice as many times by X1's laser. I gotten bitten by 10 rattlesnakes and blown up by 5 search and destruction bots." And then I would show them the recording, or at least, what I could get before me along with the camcorder became pulverized, vaporized, and, well, killed. I think nobody would know what to say unless they had played virtual reality as well.
And one last thing... I wouldn't do that virtual reality either, unless there were strong painkillers in that world. Or let's just be nice and say that you don't feel pain, just a weakening sensation or a sort of fading into unconciousness once you're dead. If that were the case, I actually think it would be fun. It would be a test of nerves, which I would actually be somewhat interested in. Though some games do scared me sometimes, like BD2 and the search and destruction bot. There's another one but I can't remember it right now.
Okay now I'll stop before someone asks me what's wrong with me. If you haven't asked that by now, then you've either stopped reading by this point, or you are just as crazy as I am! Lol
I hope it was an entertaining read, at least.
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