The Tetris Effect

[Proteus214]

If my guild has been slamming it's head against a particularly tough raid boss in WoW and my role in the fight is particularly difficult, there is a good chance that I will have a lucid dream about it as I am trying falling asleep.

Another thing that bugs me (not sure if this is related to the Tetris Effect, but it is related to Tetris) is that I have a really hard time watching someone play Tetris poorly. It makes my skin crawl.

 

[purf]

The first conscious look out of the windows of our new apartment onto this landscape of tightly packed roofs (not sure whether "medieval" is the right word for the surrounding building stock, "old" certainly is) had me absolutely thinking "Assassin's Creed".

And, not so much gaming related, but every once in a while in certain circumstances, for a fraction of a second, my brain wants to make me press ctrl-z.

 

[Probablynot.]

Did anyone used to hear the Msn Message received noise randomly? I did.


EDIT: Plus, when i see someone i don't want to see i sometimes go into Ezio mode to avoid. Head down hood up move through crowds all snaky like. Lol.

 

[AnAngryMoose]

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.

Damn! You ninja'd my video!


This has happened to me with Minecraft. I see Minecraft when I close my eyes for prolonged periods of time. I also had a dream where I was playing a match of TDM on Nuketown in Black Ops. >.>

 

[shadyh8er]

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 =)

Speaking of Resident Evil 4, whenever I try to remember a girl's name, my default first guess is always "Ashley."

Am I doing this right?

 

[leedwashere]

I often have pokemon or mass effect dreams. This sort of thing doesn't really happen to me when I'm awake with one exception. Every time I do something that I like or was really lucky I have the urge to quicksave. This gets especially intense when I'm driving long distance. I'll pass a landmark and think "I better save so I don't have to do that again"

Also while driving I try and quick-travel, but to no avail

 

[WolfLordAndy]

One game that I got a bit into was Battlefield 2, leading to me checking cranes and high buildings for snipers hiding on top of them. Planetside also had this effect that I'd imagine a map of buildings as I went into them, knowing where I was going and planning a route to them, also imaging people saying things in voices from the game. This video kinda sums it up:

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.

This video has replaced my tetris music in my head, so whenever I'm doing anything like packing bags or whatever else that involves spacial awareness and I start humming the tetris tune, these lyrics have become the standard.

 

[khaimera]

I dream about games all the time. Also, if I play a game for a while before bed the images will flash in my brain every time I close my eyes. Its disturbing and is almost a mild form of OCD. The obsessive part anyways.

 

[Micalas]

Whenever I'm on the phone at work I hit my push to talk key before I start talking to the other person >.>

 

[Tharwen]

I get the Tetris effect all the time. I get it with any game I play a lot, and that has included Tetris in the past (as well as Diablo 2 and Minecraft, from memory). Most recently is Killing Floor, where I keep seeing lines of clots in front of my handcannon, ripe for the headshotting.