According to an online survey 98% of military personal who regularly play games that include war and combat, like Call of Duty, decreased the level of harm and aggression experienced when they dreamed about war. Soldiers who did not play these games had more violent dreams combined with a sense of unhappiness.
According to Jayne Gackenbach of Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton, Canada.
In the survey soldiers with predisposition to mental disorders were weeded out and the remaining "healthy" soldiers were put into two groups: "high gaming" and "low gaming" the former tended to play more intense, immersive games like World of Warcraft and Call of Duty,most of them played everyday or at least several times a week while the latter group gravitated towards more "casual" games and played rarely as a few times a year.
Soldiers in the "high gaming" group reported combat nightmares were less intense and they often could fight back against what was threatening them, while soldiers in the "low gaming" group reported more instances of feeling helpless against an aggressive violent enemy.
'Gackenbach theorises that playing violent games while awake may serve as a sort of "threat simulator," a way of conditioning the mind to better cope with intense, dangerous situations when they arise in nightmares.'
I love this because you always have the old fuddy duddies who have nothing but bad to say about violent games, well buster... chew on this! =p
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/03/can-video-games-quell-nightmar.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
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