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Have you ever feel asleep while playing a video game?

Yes, whenever playing red dead redemption 2 late at night, and returning to camp on horse back, I would be practically asleep walking back into camp and then nod off. Similar thing happens with midnight suns in the abbey. I like those slow sections in games, but they can induce sleep when it's late and I'm tired.
 
FoxMcChief said:
I'm gonna fall asleep playing Diablo 4 tonight.

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That TV is not high enough. How's your neck?
 
Yes, TLOU2. It is the only game I have played that bores me so much that I actively fell asleep twice trying to beat it.
 
Sure.
Latest one was Stray.
I was pretty tired and the more open sections of the game aren't particularly stimulating.
 
Man i managed to fall a sleep while playing pvp games like league of legends. "Bro bro what are you doing you running into towers" what are you talking about, no I don't.
 
Yeah several times, usually just a few seconds, then i know it is time to hit the feathers.
 
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I don't think this has ever happened to me. If it has maybe once or twice. I'm usually too interested in what I'm playing or if I'm too tired I'll head to bed before crashing completely.
 
Only Minecraft I think, playing with friends into the wee hours of the morning many years ago.

Come close many other times after a big day but I just switch it off when that happens.
 
Not while gaming but last week I apparently slept through the latest album by Watain. So it's pretty solid (can't to sleep to shit that I actively dislike).
 
Sure have playing Jedi Survivor wandering the cowboy desert planet. I would pause and play spotify and microsleep for 10 minutes.
 
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I'm sometimes really stubborn and try to play late in the evening when I'm really tired. After nodding off a few times I call it quits and go to bed.

It's sometimes a real struggle because I'm trying to get to a good cut-off point but it takes me so long because I'm dozing off.
 
Elite Dangerous, jumping from star to star on an epic voyage to the centre of the galaxy. To break up the tedium I would take diversions to scan black holes and white dwarf stars - if you find a new one you get credited as its discoverer.

On the way back home I fell asleep during the soothing hyperspace sequence, drifted too close to a white dwarf, and when I woke up my ship was destroyed. Probably 40-50 hours of mindless voyaging, gone...

But... I emailed Frontier tech support to explain what had happened, and they actually reset my ship for me. I only lost a small amount of progress instead of my entire journey, and after that I played exclusively in VR, where it's too uncomfortable to fall asleep.
 
Zelphyr said:
Not me personally but I've seen a tester where I worked asleep with his hoodie on, controller in hand getting shot at by 12 NPCs while he was in GOD mode.

Just slapped him on the head, told him to get his shit together.

He was gone 2 weeks later 😁
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Well tbh it's so easy to doze off if you're doing same particular task over and over. I know that I've done this myself a couple of times back many years ago when I was doing uni during the day and working as a QA tester during the night for a big publisher which I won't name. :p

Edit: Luckily my lead never caught me. :messenger_grinning_sweat:
 
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Never and i'm surprised by how many people do fall asleep...

I can barely understand sleeping with the tv turned on but when you are actively playing? No chance.
 
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Like, almost every day? I tend to zone out randomly and wake up onmy keyboard at 4-5 AM then go to bed.

I famously fell asleep in vanilla WoW during Ragnaros raids.
 
Coming home drunk at like 5am at uni I did once or twice.

But as a functioning adult, no 🤣.

Get yourself a good sleep habit if you are passing out playing a game, for health reasons alone
 
Once playing Pokémon Emerald on PSP in bed, I woke up and could not recall about an hours worth of progress
 
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Any time my daughter's playing a multiplayer game and wants me to hang out, I'm constantly fighting a battle to stay awake. I don't want her to feel like I'm not interested, so I really honestly try to hang out and watch.....but sometimes I lose the battle and pass out, and it makes me feel like I'm a terrible father. I need some smelling salts for everytime my daughter turns on Among Us or Roblox and wants me to hang out.
 
Dozed off a few times watching those (very) long cutscenes in MGS4 on PS3 but normally it doesn't happen. I actually tend to mostly fall asleep or get drowsy while watching TV shows or movies. Games are what normally keep me awake!
 
I remember playing Final Fantasy 9 and getting to an early boss battle with what I believe was some type of bird. I passed out as the battle was beginning and when I woke up, I found that I must have won the battle as the bird was nowhere to be seen. Did I beat him in my sleep? Maybe I button mashed in my sleep and beat him? LOL!!!
 
Star Trek online, deep night, travel to one space system to another without transwarp and I passed out. :messenger_grinning_sweat:
But it's the first time in years and I'm over 40.
 
I do it all the time. Worst triggers for me are games were not much is happening and I'm just supposed to push the stick forward and/or listen to some talk, the forced walk sequences, or move to a dot on a map, auto steering when following a road etc.

Top sleep trigger games:
Shadow of the Colossus, follow the light rides
Red Dead Redemption 2, auto rides
GOW Ragnarök, story walks and easy puzzles
No Man's Sky, flying to a new planet
The Witcher 3, auto rides

I've fallen asleep in TOTK when riding a stone up in the heavens and flying far away with the paraglider too. Waking up when falling to death when stamina is out.

😴
 
LMAO this thread......i thought it was just me.

I have a few times but not intentionally. Some nights i have all these intentions to game for 2-3 hrs and then i turn on the PS5, put my headset on and start browsing the PS5 menu and the PS Store for deals, etc....and that amazing soothing music hits....:messenger_grinning_smiling:

#Late40sGamer

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No, but I feel asleep piloting an airplane once. Was obviously a very boring airplane, don't know why it got so many good reviews, seriously overrated.
 
Not out of boredom, but yes.
Back when I still played Ragnarok Online, me and a couple of friends (from Western Europe) joined a US-based guild, so we could do some bigger events and dungeons. Obviously, these usually happened pretty late at night for us. We once planned on doing the Endless Tower instance, which, as you can guess from its name, is pretty long. By the time we were ready to go, it was already 3 am here; I feel asleep on my keyboard while people were taking a short break between floors.
 
sloppyjoe_gamer said:
LMAO this thread......i thought it was just me.

I have a few times but not intentionally. Some nights i have all these intentions to game for 2-3 hrs and then i turn on the PS5, put my headset on and start browsing the PS5 menu and the PS Store for deals, etc....and that amazing soothing music hits....:messenger_grinning_smiling:

#Late40sGamer

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Heh yeah I can relate to that, I actually ended up checking if I had diabetes or something because it's so common for me to fall asleep, insuline related sugar dip I thought, but nope apparently I'm just a sleepy head 😴
/AnotherLate40sGamer
 
It has been happening to me while playing FFXVI. It's not a comment on the game itself (which I liked) but testament of how tired I am.

I have caught myself falling asleep both during cutscenes and while running around.
 
Nope. If I'm feeling tire I stop playing. I'm often in a party and there's a buddy who falls asleep really easily.

He'll be talking one minute and then next thing you know you can hear him snoring. Then we give him shit about it.
 
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I think first time around playing the ICO remaster...I sorta idled out. You'd think Shadow of the Colossus but I never play anything like that in a straight run.
 
Never fall asleep whilst playing but I do dream about some big games after I've finished playing for the night. I can definitely remember dreaming about what quests I was going to do in the next day's play of Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. A game is very special when that happens.
 
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