The only time this happens to me is when I hear the sound for achievements being unlocked. Buy a game "Bleep-Bloop".
Psychologists Claim Games Alter Personal Reality
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I can kinda relate to the topic of game transfer.
-After playing Guitar Hero games and watching Scott Pilgrim Vs The World(awesome movie and Graphic Novels!) I took up playing the guitar.
-Every time I stack a trolley or cab I have the Tetris theme in my head and try to stack everything without gaps.
-Whenever I go out I am always keeping and eye on my surroundings incase a random encounter happens(good or bad encounters)
-I time myself when traveling around and try to improve my time and look for shortcuts(Mario Kart's to blame for that).
-I frequent the same shops all the time to build affinity with the staff regardless of making purchases until I learn their names and they know mine(I think I can blame Western RPGs for that)
I think that covers everything off the top of my head.
-After playing Guitar Hero games and watching Scott Pilgrim Vs The World(awesome movie and Graphic Novels!) I took up playing the guitar.
-Every time I stack a trolley or cab I have the Tetris theme in my head and try to stack everything without gaps.
-Whenever I go out I am always keeping and eye on my surroundings incase a random encounter happens(good or bad encounters)
-I time myself when traveling around and try to improve my time and look for shortcuts(Mario Kart's to blame for that).
-I frequent the same shops all the time to build affinity with the staff regardless of making purchases until I learn their names and they know mine(I think I can blame Western RPGs for that)
I think that covers everything off the top of my head.
While this is true games are certainly not the first hobby to color ones' views. As a 3D/2D artist I sometimes imagine how some thing I look at would look in a wireframe or how things are shaded so that I can replicate that in my own works.
At least for me it only happens when I consciously think about it, never had illusions or the like.
At least for me it only happens when I consciously think about it, never had illusions or the like.
yeah I always get this from any game i'm really into, at the moment its minecraft... No so much seeing blocks as just seeing everything with new eyes, appreciating the planning, construction and materials around us.
No, the point is that the report has established this effect scientifically, and thats whats important regardless of whether we all knew it existed before or not. Its just the media which tries to hype it up as if it were a new and startling discovery (otherwise who would care?).Loonerinoes said:
I always imagine covenant cruisers in the sky, they are just waiting for me to give them the order to release the phantoms and invade Earth... I have camouflaged spec ops following me too, protecting me wherever I go.
Don't look at me like that... you'll be sorry...
Don't look at me like that... you'll be sorry...
I think that's what's known to at least Yahtzee as immersion.
I've actually seen a real life medkit on a wall and thought to myself "I wonder if there's any bobby pins in there," and wanted to open it to go hunting after lots of Fallout 3. I also last night saw a large radio tower and kept wanting to take it down to cause Chaos and complete the area (and I've played at least 24 hours of Just Cause 2 in the last few days alone)
I think it's more the memory or thought of the game and the repetition of the actions causing a kind of screen burn on your memory. It's like how if you freeze your tv and leave it that way for about 2 weeks you'll have the image burned onto the screen.
I've actually seen a real life medkit on a wall and thought to myself "I wonder if there's any bobby pins in there," and wanted to open it to go hunting after lots of Fallout 3. I also last night saw a large radio tower and kept wanting to take it down to cause Chaos and complete the area (and I've played at least 24 hours of Just Cause 2 in the last few days alone)
I think it's more the memory or thought of the game and the repetition of the actions causing a kind of screen burn on your memory. It's like how if you freeze your tv and leave it that way for about 2 weeks you'll have the image burned onto the screen.
I do this a lot as well, thought not so much as the visual but in my own mindset and way of thinking. I keep wanting to save before doing things because I want to go back and change it if I mess up.
One of my more recent mess ups that I voiced out loud (I am usually pretty good about keeping that stuff in my head)was when I was teaching my very young Sunday School class no less. I had been playing a lot of war games with my boyfriend. The other teacher and I had to get the little guys in a line so we could all go to the Fellowship hall for a presentation of some sort. I was trying to tell her to go first and I would go to the back of the line but my reaction sentence was "you take point. I'll cover rear". I haven't lived this down yet, from her or my boyfriend.
There are others, but like I said this one sticks out for me because I said it out loud and the funny look I got. The location didn't help.
One of my more recent mess ups that I voiced out loud (I am usually pretty good about keeping that stuff in my head)was when I was teaching my very young Sunday School class no less. I had been playing a lot of war games with my boyfriend. The other teacher and I had to get the little guys in a line so we could all go to the Fellowship hall for a presentation of some sort. I was trying to tell her to go first and I would go to the back of the line but my reaction sentence was "you take point. I'll cover rear". I haven't lived this down yet, from her or my boyfriend.
There are others, but like I said this one sticks out for me because I said it out loud and the funny look I got. The location didn't help.
To be fair, this actually has some basis in reality. For example, one time I tried holding together a packet of papers by using a thread, a needle, and a spoon (total adventure game logic).
OBJECTION!!
I--err...what I mean to say is...No yeah, this article is actually a bit true for me. Only if I play a game for too long though. *You feel confident about your answer*
Carry on.
I--err...what I mean to say is...No yeah, this article is actually a bit true for me. Only if I play a game for too long though. *You feel confident about your answer*
Carry on.
At some point, after playing copious amounts of Kirby Air Ride, I began seeing Shadow Star map symbols instead of spots when I was tired. A similar thing happened when I was still playing Gears of War 1, where I developed a paranoid habit of checking my surroundings whenever I heard even the slightest sound in game. While walking home, I heard the sound of a foot on gravel, and quickly turned expecting a fight with a Gnasher shotgun. It was my neighbor.
