Psychologists Claim Games Alter Personal Reality
- Thread starter Earnest Cavalli
- Start date
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.
So those super mutants I butchered during the graduation were,uh oh,better check to see if they had Facebooks.lol
That happens. It also happens with any other form of imagination. Jut look at mythology, people saw trolls, witches, ect. just because after playing san andreas and going outside i think "hey thats a nice car" doesnt mean im going to steal it and ride with police on my ass for an hour. What affects us more is the moral dilemas. most games nowdays try to push some moral choices in grey areas, and sometimes it hits the note that makes you think outside if the game with same dilemmas.
I actually experienced something like this today. I was playing around for a while with single player commands and when I went and tried to open a locked door, I thought to myself, "I'll just use the no-clip". Took me a minute to realize I wasn't playing a game.
I can relate to this too. At one point I was playing a lot of left 4 dead late into the night.
I was working in a school for autistic children at the time and our classroom was adjacent to the yard. I was sitting in the class at lunch time doing some paperwork with one of the other teachers. Our backs were to some tall open windows.
One of the kids spots us inside and wanted us to play with him, unfortunately he had very limited communication abilities so the best he could do to get our attention was start crawling in through the window grabbing onto the neck of the girl sitting next to me giving out a loud low moan as he did so.
She screams and jumps about 10 feet in the air. Now I had spent the last 15 - 20 hours before this being trained by L4D to react quickly and with violence to exactly this situation. In my haste to help the other teacher I VERY nearly kicked the poor kid in the face. I only just stopped myself with my foot raised to smash him backwards before I realised what I was doing.
Turns out playing left 4 dead had created a zombie defence reflex that the kid had triggered.
If I had kicked him without thinking it would have been goodbye job, hello criminal conviction... I decided to cut down the gaming and get a little more sleep.
I was working in a school for autistic children at the time and our classroom was adjacent to the yard. I was sitting in the class at lunch time doing some paperwork with one of the other teachers. Our backs were to some tall open windows.
One of the kids spots us inside and wanted us to play with him, unfortunately he had very limited communication abilities so the best he could do to get our attention was start crawling in through the window grabbing onto the neck of the girl sitting next to me giving out a loud low moan as he did so.
She screams and jumps about 10 feet in the air. Now I had spent the last 15 - 20 hours before this being trained by L4D to react quickly and with violence to exactly this situation. In my haste to help the other teacher I VERY nearly kicked the poor kid in the face. I only just stopped myself with my foot raised to smash him backwards before I realised what I was doing.
Turns out playing left 4 dead had created a zombie defence reflex that the kid had triggered.
If I had kicked him without thinking it would have been goodbye job, hello criminal conviction... I decided to cut down the gaming and get a little more sleep.
As an intelligent and sensitive gamer, I can definitely say that this is bullshit, Fox News, it's all due to bad parenting and I've never felt the urge to murder the elderly.
OT: I think most of us have experienced this at one time or another. I wonder if it could be used constructively, though? I can see that kind of instinctive, ingrained thinking being useful in the emergency services.
OT: I think most of us have experienced this at one time or another. I wonder if it could be used constructively, though? I can see that kind of instinctive, ingrained thinking being useful in the emergency services.
Sounds kind of obvious to me that it would be the case. Everything you experience alters how you see the world. Every experience you have is a learning experience and alters the way you look at the world and deal with situations, and the phenomenon is not unique to games. Although I don't really like the tone of this study. It seems to imply that gamers have a sick twisted view of the world and go around seeing hallucinations of health bars everywhere.
Once after playing a load of Dragon Age Origins i kept seeing big a yellow ! over my bosses heads xD
And sometimes i'll see the little hand from oblivion when i look at things i can pick up. I love it.
And sometimes i'll see the little hand from oblivion when i look at things i can pick up. I love it.
Not really an in-game thing, but on several occations, i've caught myself making the oh so familliar hand-movement needed to press Ctt+Z when drawing with a pencil on paper after spending a lot of time in photoshop or other art programs... leaves me laughing a bit, and then disapointed about the fact that real life doesn't work that easily.
Also caught myself trying to right click my mouse to use my scope, when i spotted a a sillhouette from my kitchen window, while taking a break from battlefield.
Also caught myself trying to right click my mouse to use my scope, when i spotted a a sillhouette from my kitchen window, while taking a break from battlefield.