quote:It's challenging enough that I find myself concentrating on it so intensely that it affects me the way "Tetris" did when it first came out -- I see its patterns and movements even when I'm not playing.
You know, for -years- I've been wondering if I'm the only one who has to deal with this.
Thank you, OSC, for letting me know I'm not alone.
I'll just go back to playing Jewelbox and Snood in my head, now. . . .
Posted by aragorn64 (Member # 4204) on :
No, it's actually a fairly common occurence. I think it was actually deemed "Tetris Syndrome"...
I personally have never experienced it, though. Even after hours of playing games.
Posted by Crotalus (Member # 7339) on :
It happens with things besides computer games too. I use to work on a Tobacco belt harvester. As a cropper, you pull the leaves from the stalk and send them up the belt. As a panner you talk the conveyed leaves from the pan where the belts drop them and put them in a rack, which is in turn put in a barn. This happened sometimes when cropping, often when panning. I would see the leaves moving up the belt, dropping, over and over. I had nightmares about it. The reason I say it's the same thing is that I've played Tetris too and recognized it as the same annoying halucinatory syndrome.
Posted by Hamson (Member # 7808) on :
Yea, when I used to play Tetris a lot, I would look at things, and think about if they would physicly 'fit' together. Or watching TV I would look at things there, and see if they 'fit' into each other. It's really very odd, and I remember it bothering me a lot when things wouldn't fit and it looked like they were trying to.
Posted by 0range7Penguin (Member # 7337) on :
It really shows how the human mind can be molded doesn't it....
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Posted by Orson Scott Card (Member # 209) on :
When your brain sees a repeated movement pattern, it starts to anticipate it. I found the same thing when I first started running on treadmills. I would get off, and the floor seemed to be rushing toward me under my feet. Very disconcerting. But the Tetris effect persisted for HOURS after a game, not just for a couple of minutes, the way the treadmill effect did.
Posted by 0range7Penguin (Member # 7337) on :
When ever I go fishing or to an amusement park I feel the motion for the rest of the day. When I go to sleep at night I feel like the bed is rocking on the waves or that it is rushing like a roller coaster.
Posted by Blackthorne (Member # 8295) on :
I have had a few times where I look at carpet and it seems like it's moving. It's usually only when I'm excessively tired, but it still creeps me out.
I think it might have happened with the ceiling once, also.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
That happens to me not only with Spider, but with Freecell, Chuzzle, Bounce Out, and Diamond Mine.
Posted by RunningBear (Member # 8477) on :
Since I was about six years old I would look for patterns in everything i.e. Street addresses, I would see 2841 and 28 plus 15 equals 41 and to get 15 you have 28 times 2 minus 41. I have done this with everything i could find patterns in. I could spend hours looking at walls seeing how a certain ray could bounce around the walls bouncing off posters and shelves and things. Is that like Tetris syndrome?
Posted by Soara (Member # 6729) on :
A couple months ago, I went to Churchill, Manitoba. We spent most of the day outside on the tundra, and the mosquitoes were horrendous. We were constantly surronded by our own personal cloud of mosquitoes. During the night once, I woke up from a dream in which I was surronded in a dense cloud of mosquitoes. I sat straight up in bed, waving my arms around, trying to ward them off. It was very strange.
Posted by human_2.0 (Member # 6006) on :
I use to play Halo, Oni, Unreal, and a few other FPS games. At night I would see the game as I went to bed.
I look for pattersn everything I can. I see patterns in bathroom tiles. Squares, circles, L's, zoomed in pixel spaceships (from when I use to try to make graphics on Commodore 64's), or paths, depending on what the tile is.
I add up all numbers. 543 = 84, 93, 57, 12, and 3.
The worst thing I can think of with physical sensation is when I'm practicing basketball, and I get the ball wedged between the hoop and the backboard. I'm 5'9", but worse I'm white, so I can't jump and get it out. So I take off my shoe and knock the ball loose. But when I put my shoe on, everything feels uneven after having walked without a shoe on. And it takes me forever to shake the feeling. Running feels even funnier, like I'm running on rocks.
The funnest physical sensation is when I'm going really fast on a bike or rollerblades and hit a hill or dip. Or after ice skating after hours. I don't know what that has to do with the thread topic...
Posted by TZM (Member # 8610) on :
thats not the only thing, sounds also, being a very powerful part of our connection to the world, becomes like such as well. I remember playing pokemon for the first time... 8 hoursd in a row. I went o my tai kwon do class... and i was zoning out, the sounds of the game in my head.
Posted by human_2.0 (Member # 6006) on :
My mom told me how when she was a high schooler she was learning Spanish and shorthand and when she would go to bed at night she would see shorthand symbols and Spanish in her head.
I took a year of German and dreamed in German once or twice...
Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
quote:Originally posted by human_2.0: I took a year of German and dreamed in German once or twice...
You cannot *dream* in German. That must have been a nightmare! Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
We had the best phone number at our last apartment: (972) 437-4774. 9-7=2. 4+3=7. 4774 is a palindrome composed of the first and last numbers of the previous set. Isn't that awesome?
Posted by human_2.0 (Member # 6006) on :
Ooo. One more. I spend many days all day trying to figure why computers don't work right. So at home when I have a noncomputer problem and I try to figure it out, I see it as a computer problem. Kinda like I close my eyes and "hallucinate" in computer terms and functions.
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