It’s high time we burst some bubbles and sift fact from fiction. Gone are the days when playing video games were equivalent to wasting time and moving towards killing one self slowly. Science has come up enough reasons and logic to make us believe that being a gamer has its own health benefits. From reducing stress to improving your vision, the perks of being an active gamer are quite a lot. Read on to know more.
Boosts Physical Fitness
If you are a lazy couch potato, sitting on your bums all day long and playing games, then nothing can save you. But if you play motion games and use devices such as Nintendo Wii, Playstation Move and XBox Kinect, then there are reasons to rejoice. Motion gaming opens new avenues for physical fitness as well as agility. It requires a good amount of physical activity, which in turns improves your fitness levels by burning your calories and increasing your metabolism.
Improves Perception And Reaction Skills
Improves Perception And Reaction Skills
Your cognitive skills can shoot through the roof if you put your gaming skills to good use. An active gamer needs to have a sharp memory, and that works the other way too. Playing games also sharpens your memory and improves your reaction skills. Playing games is like training your brain to get sharper with every move and improving your perceptive skills.
Improves Visual Attention
Improves Visual Attention
Being glued to your playstation requires you to stay focussed too. Unless you pay 100 per cent attention and concentrate where you need to, you cannot ace your game. Research shows that video games can be actually used to help people who are visually impaired in order to restore their vision. The increased focus that one can gain from actively playing games also comes handy for training soldiers for military service.
Fights Depression
Fights Depression
Whether it’s the sound of bullets, or cars racing at top speed, there can’t be any better music than this for a man. Now imagine—you don’t just hear it, but also see it. Studies have shown that playing games can actually help you fight depression and beat stress.
Allows You To Control Your Dreams
Allows You To Control Your Dreams
Video games are mostly a land of fiction and fantasy. Which means, you are continuously involved in ways to control the environment and all that’s happening around in the game. So, you can effectively control what you dream of every night and perhaps, keep the nightmares at bay.
by Ipshita Kumar
by Ipshita Kumar
