The Tetris Effect

[Mr Twist]

Wiki link [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect]

The Tetris effect is...interesting. I've seen a lot of talk about it without a name being given. The details pop up in "You know you've played too much...when..." threads a lot.

It consists of playing a game so much the game temporarily redefines your cogs. You start to see everything in light of the game. Dreaming about World of Warcraft? Worried that passenger plane is about to start raining missiles? Humming the Tetris theme while you fill your dishwasher?

Share your stories. I find them awesome =)



Link to a topic on Cracked.com [http://www.cracked.com/funny-2708-the-tetris-effect/]

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

I remember it when taking the test Mythbusters had about video games.

Never happened to me, since I don't play games for more than two hours at a time. And since I'm basically loner so I don't see anyone else doing it.

I'm exciting.

 

[BlindMessiah94]

Sometimes I play waaaaaaay too much SC2 (like everyday) and I look at something after playing and I see and hear SCV's mining and saying "In the rear with the gear" constantly. I have to shake it off. It eventually goes away, I figure my mind was so fixated on one task for so long it is still in "SC2 mode".

It happens to me with work too. If I spend too much time doing a repetitive task, I will continually see it when I close my eyes until I have had sufficient time to wind down from it.

 

[trollnystan]

When I was a kid - around 12 - I played a lot of Doom and I would dream about the corridors and monsters constantly. Still happens to me but not as frequently any more.

 

[Mr Twist]

Really? I used to get it quite a lot with Resident Evil 4. I dreamt every night for a week once that I was in a spanish village tracking down special gems to put in a briefcase I had. The briefcase had special bits laid out for them so I think it was meant to be something else.

And a truck exploded =)

 

[KalosCast]

Happens to me a lot in "real world' sandbox games.

"Hey, I could just run up to that car, throw open the door, threaten the guy with a shotgun and get to class on time... I need help"

 

[SwiftBlade18]

I just imagine meanial tasks being like games...sticking with the tetris idea - i had a pallet of various stock I had to condense to make as small as possible. So hey ho I turned on my tetris mode and worked that bad boy in a tightly packed wonder...shame no layers disappeared giving me a bonus

 

[gazumped]

Pretty much any game I play for a few days at a time I'll dream about.

Games where you have to concentrate really hard on a specific system (I've particularly got this puzzle games like Picross and Bubble Buster) I can't get it out of my head.

Picross actually had me not getting a good night sleep because all I could see was rows of squares and crosses and my brain was insisting on figuring out imaginary Picross puzzles as soon as I got sleepy enough for my subconscious to start kicking in.

 

[Bobbity]

I used to play WoW obsessively, and the worst that ever happened to me was a newfound curiosity of what my suburb might look like as seen from the back of a dragon

 

[similar.squirrel]

I get stuck in a Tetris mindset all too often. Doesn't happen with any other game, though. Except maybe Mirror's Edge.

Edit: It's as good a time as any to post this video, actually. Good luck getting it out of your head.

 

[scrambledeggs]

I thought about minesweeper patterns back when I played it often.

This also happens to me with chess, where I think up openings and their advantages/disadvantages in my sleep.

But never for a video game.

 

[farq1414]

i usally think about sloving problems through video games like the coding with math

 

[blankedboy]

I once wondered where the Silt Strider in my house was. Fun times.

 

[The .50 Caliber Cow]

I once played Mario Kart so long I could of swore I saw Red Shells occasionally.

 

[Zhukov]

I don't really get that.

Although I once caught myself looking at buildings and figuring out how Altiar would go about climbing them.

 

[SamuelT]

I got this with Mirrors Edge. Stuff climable was supposed to turn red damnit! I also cringe every time I hear a tingling sound, thinking it to be a grenade from CoD, though admittedly it's been a year or so since I played it. I have lost one ear, so I have a constant ringing sound in my non-existant left ear. Sometimes it just plays up, and I almost dive away.

...help