Tetris Effect, Guitar Hero Eyes, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and more are explored by NowGamer. Pretty funny article.
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I still suffer from Playstation thumb from playing PES on the PSone.
Can I get treatment on the NHS?
I used to get a really weird effect when I played my first 3d games like Virtua Racing and Descent. After playing the games I would close my eyes and basically still see the damn game for hours. I even had a hard time sleeping after playing virtua racing. It went away after getting used to 3d games thou, but it was kinda scary at first.
He mentions Skyrim and something about cheese but I found that after too long a session in skyrim I may see a plant with colored petals and have an urge to pick them.
When I played too much Crackdown (first one) or Assassins Creed sometimes I would look at a building and wonder the best way to climb it.
And when I play a lot of racing games I tend to look at cars and wonder how they would perform and if I would like to drive them (no I do not actually have an urge to get into races in real life, but I did start watching more racing on TV like Nascar and F1....though that could also be because all the colors are so pretty on HDTV ;) :P)
Oh yea and I definitly have dreams about the different games after too long a session. It doesnt affect me so much with slower RPGs but a fast paces FPS will almost always end up in a dream. I think my brain tries to "practice" or catch up with the events. And, again, no I have never had the urge to shoot anyone in real life... maybe an urge to smack someone around a little....but that happened even in high school before I ever played a video game.
I do find playing fighting games or crashing games like burnout help me get through a typical Bengals season so I think games have medicinal affects as well.
I never knew 'The Tetris Effect' was an actual medical condition, but I've seen it myself many a time, depending on what I was currently playing.
I quite often find myself gaming in my sleep, which in most games isn't a problem, but at times when I'm playing RPGs I end up in a loop where I come to a branch in a path, follow one path to the end to discover I took the wrong path. I backtrack to the other path, follow it to the end, discover I must have missed something on the other path, backtrack again, and I'm back at square one all over again. I don't get much rest those nights.
I once almost ditched my car due to the same thing. I came around a corner to find someone had left a half dozen paint can lids in the street - I had been playing a lot of Fallout 3, and immediately recognized them as mines, and nearly lost it trying not to run them over.
With RDR, it was plants & birds - I was always spotting a plant that looked like one of the in-game flowers, and whenever a bird flew overhead, I would whip around and track it as if I was going to take a shot at it.