Poll: Have you ever had gaming-induced hallucinations? (Like the "Tetris Effect")

[Henrik Persson]

Puzzle Pirates. 'nuff said.

 

[Flight]

No, but I've had gaming-related dreams after pulling the occasional all-nighter. Also, after playing Guitar Hero for awhile, I can't get the last song I played out of my head, if that counts.

 

[EnzoHonda]

Yeah, I've had Tetris Effect. I would read and I'd keep seeing ways to fit blocks into the shape of the text I was reading. Also, I get some weird stuff from playing Guitar Hero for a long time.

The first memory I have of this sort of thing was playing Road Rash. The hypnotic highway lines gave me a weird sensation after a while.

 

[Shurikens and Lightning]

When trying to get 1000G on Olbivion in 2 weeks, I dreamt about Tamriel in my sleep.

 

[rpspartin]

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-After playing a lot of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (wooo), walking around I could only see all the places I could do grinds, wall-rides, etc. (but a conspicuous lack of half-pipes)
/quote]

The same thing with me except instead of 2 it was 3.

For me I used to play a hell of a lot of Pokemon puzzle league and to this day i occasionally see entire vs. comp matches in my head....

 

[Ckeesy]

I havn't looked at a bobby pin the same way ever since I first played FO3.

 

[Ymbirtt]

yes....I played Psychonauts so much i find myself trying to set people on fire with my mind or i'll see things alot more colorful and cartoony in real life...

Oh, yeah, that one screwed me over a bit as well, only I ceased to acknowledge horizontal and vertical lines, what with them only existing in one part of the game and all.

 

[GLo Jones]

Guitar Hero. Is Evil. For This.

I stood up, the whole room started floating upwards, myself included. I looked out of my bedroom window, it looked like I was 6 floors up. I was nearly sick.

I had this, but from Rock Band 1/2. It's left a lasting effect. If I ever see a screenshot or picture of the gameplay board-thing, it just starts floating up on the page.

 

[thenoticeableshadow]

back when i was a kid and played TONS of pokemon i used to hear the ingame music when i wasn't playing it. also a few months ago after a left 4 dead marathon i kept seeing zombies every time i blinked.

 

[KitAlexHarrison]

The Mass Effect conversation wheel comes up at the bottom of my vision every time I talk to someone.

 

[nomzy]

After playing guitar hero 3 all night, everytime I looked at a wall it looked as though the paint was moving down.

 

[Delusibeta]

This thread reminded me of a Rock Paper Shotgun article I read yesterday [http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/03/31/action-half-life-the-5-a-m/]. Specifically, this bit.

Hour 6 dropped us into a giant chamber made entirely out of alternating red and white tiles. Again we scouted the perimeter of the room and started flinging ourselves against walls like moshers to find the way out, but this time it wasn?t so easy. Ten minutes later we were still stuck, and I decided to take a break to go pee. Looking away from the monitor it was with no small amount of gut-terror that I realised something was very wrong and turned back to type a message to my friends.

?OH FUCK?, I sent, followed by ?LOOK AWAY FROM THE MONITOR.?

My friends? responses were almost instantaneous. ?oh god?, ?ARGH?, ?No fucking way?.

Our real worlds had turned monochrome. Some optical trick involving those red and white tiles had broken our eyes, and we could only see in pea green, sickly yellow and all the shades in between.

Doing our best to ignore this exciting new disability we returned to the game and began spacking against the walls with a new, crazed meticulousness, each of us splitting up to check one wall. We found the exit five minutes later- a single tile you had to jump to fit through.

The articles they posted yesterday is perhaps the most earnest April Fools on a website, ever.

And yes, I concur with Guitar Hero. Also, most credits has a similar effect for me.

 

[Jedoro]

Recently I've seen small planes flying around, and my first thought was "Shit, enemy UAV."

Then I realized I didn't have a Javelin on my back, and that I was indeed in real life.

 

[ethan22122]

after playing a massive mirrors edge marathon. i whent outside for a walk i, and whenever i saw a wall or ledge i wanted run up it, or jump down...

 

[Wicky_42]

After playing Guitar Hero it used to feel like everything was moving away from me

Hah, I get that too on Rock Band, like my vision's compensating for things scrolling towards me, making things in the centre of my vision bend upwards

Would be crazy to have a 3D version of Rock Band, so the notes literally scroll towards you - I wonder what sort of distortion THAT would cause to your vision afterwards!

 

[Always_Remain]

I've done this quite a few times but my favorite is when I thought I saw a Geth from Mass Effect in a bush across the street from me. Needless to say I felt dumb afterwords.

 

[EeveeElectro]

After playing a FF, I keep trying to cast fire on things =(
And I see lots of shiny things and think they're treasures.

 

[Rhymenoceros]

I've had the guitar hero hallucination when I played it at my mates house for 4 hours straight. whenever I looked at the join between the ceiling and the wall it looked like the wall was growing taller