I keep my cellphone far from the bedroom overnight as having bad dreams that I’d watched porn were a regular enough occurrence.
With the phone outside the room, there’s no doubt in my eyes that I didn’t watch.
The dreams would be so realistic I’d expect to see my phone within arms reach upon waking, the place it would’ve been set down after watching porn. However with the phone outside the room I couldn’t possibly have watched.
Last night I had the same type of dream, not about porn, but about video games, or more specifically a computer game.
I dreamt that I was modding the files getting ready to play rome total war, setting up for a campaign on ridiculously easy mode.
Unit recruitment times, cost, and maintenance cost down to zero.
Maybe putting some powerful units like berserkers or elephants into the armies of different nations, and turning location based recruitment restrictions off.
A campaign on ridiculously easy mode.
It was a game I rather enjoyed growing up, having purchased it upon enjoying greek and roman history in class, with 11 year old logic figuring “if I like the time period in history class, I’d like playing a video game in the same”.
It’s probably the last game I played, in 2019 at the latest, as I quit video games cold turkey, before doing so with the television in all it’s forms.
I have bad dreams about participating in electronic vices.
To me these dreams are signs that sitting in front of flashing screens for entertainment truly are vices, which serve no purpose, and therefore have no part in my life.
You can exist in the digital, or, and this is what I choose – I choose to live in real life fully.
With none of that passive life slipping away screen time!