Weird things you catch yourself doing while immersed in a game

[Sir_Tor]

I keep my mouth open, I don't really want it that way but what can I do. I also stare at the screen leaning forward so it gotta look as if I worship the screen as my god. Which is false as my computer is my god!

When playing an FPS when I'm going around a corner I used to lean as much as I could in my chair hoping to get a better view around the corner, thats over now though.

 

[Chorionicstu]

Spontaneously bursting into song.

 

[2wenty6ix]

i always whisper when i am playing sneaking parts of games, and when i play bioshock while on the exercise bike, i pedal faster while hitting people with the wrench and running away from big daddys

 

[Cookiegerard]

In RTS's when I give order's I say them out loud. "FIRE EVERYTHING!!"

 

[TheGreatCoolEnergy]

I make weird face when I am trying really hard in Guitar Hero

 

[NathanAjax]

I touch my penis[/joke]

I have a concentrated face too

 

[thylasos]

Screaming at the telly isn't exactly original, but it's all I've got that qualifies, really.

 

[accountdeletethis]

If the game's immersion is well executed, I'll sometimes catch myself holding my breath for too long, followed by a jolt the automated body responds gives me to snap out of it.

 

[SmokeyOakey]

If it's a racing or flight sim, I lean as I go around corners.
If it generally involves killing I eventually start throwing insults out loud at the enemies that can't hear me.
And finally I know when I'm really getting into something when I lean forwards so much I smack my face on the screen.

 

[wolf thing]

if some one is talking to me insted of terning my head i will tern my game avatars head.

 

[Abengoshis]

If there's a small gap I try to look underneath it....in real life. xD

 

[SantoUno]

This isn't exactly something I DO, but when I jump off a high spot and fall a really high distance sometimes my stomach gets queasy like if I was actually descending in real life. Seriously in Prototype every time I jumped off a high ledge or building and let myself fall for a while my stomach felt queasy every time like if that was me jumping off a high building.

 

[Peachfuzz1000]

grope myself during loading screens?

Hey, I'm being brutally honest here people. It just happens absent mindedly out of the boredom.

i shamefully know what you mean haha

it just....happens. you hardly even register it till the loading screen stops, but by then your back in the game so there's no need to think back to why i just did that.
Kind of like when i have those outer body experiences that i become my character. Then im just standing up in front of the tv rather than in my seat.

glad you brought this up, the more i think about it the more it explains why loading screens are an awkward moment in company of other people when there's nothing much to say. Subconciously your trying not to touch yourself xD

OH! more on the leaning to see round corners sort of area. That always happened to me in arcades when playing time crisis games. me and my mate ended up ducking alot
still got shot though

 

[blitzwing297]

When ever I fall any great distance my gut bottoms out like going over a hill at about a hundred.

 

[mayney93]

me and my dad were playing cod4 a year ago the curtains were closed we been on it for a while we were in a good quick free for all and my dad jumped in game and as he was on the edge of his seat he actually jumped in real life and fell on his back it was one of the funnies things i seen so far due to the complete *un-expectedness of the event t'was quite epically funny

* may be spelt wrong dont brand me as a troll I cant spell one word correctly

 

[DazZ.]

I'll swear. A lot. At everything.

In RTS games I'll start saying my tactics out loud, thinking about what I'm doing and saying stuff like "ok need to flank there and get a defence built here, what if they do this..." etc.

Just spout stuff verbally, I think it comes from when I had flatmates and they used to be in my room all the time and I used to talk to them when gaming.

 

[electric discordian]

Spontaneously bursting into song.

Someone else does this! For me it's Lady Gaga! I hate lady Gaga, but when my mind is engaged in a fight to death on Borderlands I find myself singing Poker Face as my subconscious comes to the fore!

 

[ElephantGuts]

Masturbating.

Unfortunately in this case that is true.

 

[MikeOfThunder]

..well sometimes i go in RPG games and try to be the most evil guy ever lived, but when i get immersed, i just forget about that and just do everything on 100 % good, it that count's as weird.

Lol I do the same thing, no matter what i just turn out really good. Although im slowly getting better

I find that i jump all the time. In say oblivion, i just jump EVERYWHERE.

 

[Atranis]

If anyone asks me a normal question while I'm playing a game, I'd reply normally to them but afterward I don't remember what I've said. It's not really that bad considering I don't say anything vulgar or wrong, but it still irks me because I hate not knowing what I've said and I'd have to ask someone to repeat my answer for me just to make me feel better.
I also tend to yell at the character I'm playing if I make a wrong move, get hurt, or die. Not at the enemies. So technically, I yell at myself. Yeah, now that I think of it, that's rather disturbing.