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When did you get hit by "the tetris effect" AKA playing a video game so much that you get the urge to do moves/actions from the video game in real life? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 3 months ago by Apytele to c/[email protected]

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When I got hooked on Morrowind in middle school it occurred to me to quicksave before a test at school.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sounds pretty accurate to me. The phenomenon op is asking about is a facet of that effect.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Really? "Urge to do moves/actions from it in real life" is the same as thinking or dreaming about it?

From my experience with the Tetris effect, not one occurrence fits his description, but I experience the Tetris effect in most weeks in my life. That's why it feels like such a disconnected description for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I agree they're not 1:1 but imo you can't feel the "actions in real life" part without being heavily incepted by a video game's loops, like in your thoughts and dreams.

But I get it a lot less because I don't game as much these days