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Have you ever experienced the "Tetris Effect"?
« on: July 24, 2011, 11:27:26 PM »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect

This is the whole thing where you see falling blocks when you close your eyes, or try to solve real life problems with Tetris solutions. It can happen from other games and activities, such as making the same toy in a factory for 8 hours a day for months at a time. It's the same reason your body experiences "sea legs" when getting on land for the first time after a long exposure to a boat.

The coolest thing I read in that article was that they gave Tetris to patients who could not form new declarative memories and had them play it for a long time. The next day they had no recollection of playing any game, but still made notes that they saw falling blocks when they closed their eyes (!!!!).

Aside from Tetris, I've had a few experiences with this when it relates to video games:

*When playing Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for like 9 hours straight, it turned out it was like 8AM in the morning and I was like oh shit what the hell? I guess I should go get some coffee. So while driving there, I had an urge. I want to be VERY clear, I didn't have some Jack Thompson-feared urge to steal a car, like the game was a bad influence or anything. No, I had an urge to PRESS MY "get out of car button" with my THUMB to exchange my shitty old car for the nicer one I saw on the road. I almost laughed when I realized what I was feeling.

*Playing Rogue Leader for Game Cube in co-op with my buddy, again until late hours of the night, (I think RS3 had RS2 in co-op, which is the only reason I bought it cause RS3 sucked), and after basically beating the game, I went to take a shower to wake up cause I had to drive him to work. When I closed my eyes in the shower I saw TIE Fighters coming at me in formation, like zooming past the left and right side of my vision at the same time. LOL. I also had something like the sea legs like that, we rent a beach cottage out at Bonita Beach, and after swimming all day and night (my poor skin), when taking a shower for bed I felt myself gently rocking in the waves looking at the sunset anytime I closed my eyes. Awesome feeling.

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Re: Have you ever experienced the "Tetris Effect"?
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2011, 11:31:05 PM »
Playing Left4Dead for 14 hours straight produces a similar effect.
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Re: Have you ever experienced the "Tetris Effect"?
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2011, 11:54:42 PM »
I imagined a floating Gameboy color screen playing Pokemon with the music in the background every time I closed my eyes for a week straight after playing it for 10 hours in a row (never again)

But as you made this thread right after responding to me saying this in another thread, I'm sure you already know :P
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Re: Have you ever experienced the "Tetris Effect"?
« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2011, 12:09:38 AM »
Ive had this many times,
As a lad i had a massive ant farm, and would stare at it for hours, if i did so before going to bed, i would see crawling ants when i shut my eyes.
Another one was when i spent a few days on the end of a jackhammer, i went to read a book that night but couldnt, the text kept "jumping" up and down as though i was still using the hammer
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Re: Have you ever experienced the "Tetris Effect"?
« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2011, 12:31:16 AM »
When I play Planetside, both before, during, and after, I think of ways I can use ordinary objects as Planetside tools or whatever.

Like watching the tops of tall buildings for Snipers, or hearing a strange noise and thinking it's a cloaker with a boomer he just placed, or that my car sounds like a Magrider.

Been watching Macross Frontier, and that song Lion has been running through my head for the past oh, 30 minutes to 1 hour.

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Re: Have you ever experienced the "Tetris Effect"?
« Reply #5 on: July 25, 2011, 12:46:53 AM »
I too experience this many times, when I play any game excessively.

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Re: Have you ever experienced the "Tetris Effect"?
« Reply #6 on: July 25, 2011, 01:08:04 AM »
While looking for specific info in a book.
Brain said to left hand: ctrl+F
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Re: Have you ever experienced the "Tetris Effect"?
« Reply #7 on: July 25, 2011, 01:30:40 AM »
After a marathon session of 2 days of lan party straight i basically walked/ran like the predalien from aliens versus predator 2 - primal hunt . .
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Re: Have you ever experienced the "Tetris Effect"?
« Reply #8 on: July 25, 2011, 01:41:47 AM »
Brain said to left hand: ctrl+F
Every time I use a college text book I want to do this.
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Re: Have you ever experienced the "Tetris Effect"?
« Reply #9 on: July 25, 2011, 01:44:18 AM »
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Re: Have you ever experienced the "Tetris Effect"?
« Reply #10 on: July 25, 2011, 02:29:38 AM »
That is a completely normal reaction.


When I play games like "Mass Effect" or "The Witcher 2" and even "GTA IV", I tend to adapt the problem-solving style or interaction style of my protagonist.

* For example, after playing through ME2 in less than 4 days, I noticed that I behaved much more assertive and dominant in discussions and day-to-day interactions (don't over-interpret it). I was much quicker to take charge and responsibility when co-working with others and often automatically assumed leadership roles.

* Simlar things happened while I was playing through The Witcher 2: when having to make decisions in a group or delegating tasks, my agreeableness had significantly decreased and I used much more of "You do X, you do Y, if you don't agree, fapp off and I'll do it myself" attitudes.

* While playing GTAIV, my typical ways of making appointments (and even dates) changed slightly. Instead of calling a friend a couple of hours before, I called while driving to somewhere and just told them to be there in like 15 minutes. Works.



I believe that these are pretty straightforward effects of social learning; it has long been described that people treat virtual characters as real people and then hypothesized that most of social psychology that happens between two persons also applies between a person and media (--> Reeves: the media equation, media=people). Studies with robots and digital avatars do indeed show that the usual social psychological effects occur between people and avatars or robots, although they are usually weaker (and are mediated by the perceived humanlikeness and presence of a character).
     The whole "effects-chain", from perception through cognition in brain, implicit effects like priming or social inhibition/facilitation to explicit self-reported attitudes and mentalizing: it doesn't really make a difference if interaction is real or virtual as soon as such interaction is processed in our brains. I'm currently writing a research proposal on a very similar topic and to me this is one of the most fascinating domains on which you can study social intelligence and cognition :)
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Re: Have you ever experienced the "Tetris Effect"?
« Reply #11 on: July 25, 2011, 03:33:06 PM »
When I play Serious Sam for too long, I keep hearing the screams of these headless suicide bombers for the rest of the day.

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Re: Have you ever experienced the "Tetris Effect"?
« Reply #12 on: July 25, 2011, 03:40:45 PM »
AAAAAAHHHH yourself! :D

@Thamalus: I think the Tetris effect refers to behavioural reinforcement instead of social adaptation? Definitely seems related though.

As for the effect... i most noticably had this from a non-gaming activity: on my first days of learning downhill skiing, my legs still felt like driving in slopes for the whole night ;)
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Re: Have you ever experienced the "Tetris Effect"?
« Reply #13 on: July 25, 2011, 03:49:07 PM »
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Re: Have you ever experienced the "Tetris Effect"?
« Reply #14 on: July 25, 2011, 04:08:57 PM »
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