Hugh_Jeggs ,

Played DiRT Rally when it came out for so many hours, I'd get intrusive thoughts coming up to a corner telling me "Do a Scandinavian flick man"

noughtnaut ,
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On a similar note, back when I was playing a lot of shooters I would catch myself strafing around hallway corners at work 😅

__Lost__ ,

I still do that whenever I go up the stairs

hikaru755 ,

Happened with Lone Echo for me. It's a VR game where you're in a space station, and you move around in zero g by just grabbing your surroundings and pulling yourself along or pushing yourself off of them. I started reflexively attempting to do that in real life for a bit after longer sessions

Today ,

I'm so happy to learn that other people also change lanes at a stop light to try to complete a row.

FilthyShrooms ,

It hasn't once cleared the line 😠

TommySoda ,

I get this all the time because I tend to binge games over weekends when I got nothing else going on. I'll give two examples that I remember the most.

One of the most prolific is Factorio. Seeing conveyor belts everywhere I go. Whether I'm awake or about to fall asleep I just constantly see conveyor belts as I solve non existent problems with the efficiency of said conveyor belts.

The weirdest was after Outer Wilds. I binged it for about 12 hours straight one day. You spend a lot of time orbiting around planets and landing on them. After I was done I was walking around my apartment and felt like I was "orbiting" a spaceship around my apartment. It felt super weird to walk. Felt like the floor was the surface of a planet and my head was a spaceship flying miles above it trying to land.

JackFrostNCola ,

The Factorio one reminded me of trying to get to sleep only to start building elaborate underpasses and routes in my mind for hidden redstone circuits in Minecraft.

xavier666 ,
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When I'm looking at a huge building or scene, I instinctively think "press F4 to enable freecam" from Minecraft so that I can look from above and noclip. But alas, it's not possible :'(

Drivebyhaiku ,

I was a localization playtester at Koei for their release of Gundam Musou and played the game 40 hours a week as a job looking for errors in the Subtitles. We started with the subtitle with Japanese version and so about two weeks in I get a massive anime style fever and end up living stuck in the video game's stupid hackneyed story mode. Everybody in the dream was speaking Japanese way beyond my extraordinarily basic level so I was frustrated that I couldn't understand anything, It was a dull and repetitive hack and slash which I would occasionally revive and wake up from briefly to sigh with relief that it was over at last before passing out and going right back in. I was rescued 16 hours later by my housemates who were worried when I didn't check in.

It was bizarrely hellish.

SqueakySpider ,

Not a video game - after using OneNote on an iPad with a stylus for a lot of time, going back to using paper I tried to undo pencil strokes very often at first.

Hadriscus ,

I think it was Tomb Raider 2, one of the first games I played. The character movements were so etched in me, I began viewing the world subdivided in blocks, small steps and large steps

livus ,

Skyrim, keep seeing things to harvest. Neighbour grew leeks at one point.

I used to play multiplayer Agar.io a few years ago and got this badly, the game is about circles of various sizes attacking each other and there are circles everywhere irl.

corsicanguppy ,

Agario is awesome.

I may play that right now.

livus ,

I liked it better before miniclip bought it. There used to be a really fast paced clone called petriedish that was full of Russians, Poles, and Ukrainians, wonder what happened to it.

naticus ,

Not exactly the same thing, but when I got my first VR HMD, for about two weeks afterwards I had to fight the urge that my real hands were the fake ones rather than the ones I would see in VR. Supposedly it's something like 25% of first time VR users who get a similar feeling, but it didn't make me feel any better about it. Never happened again, even with how rare I play VR games, but it was rather off-putting.

Oh just thought of another one: when I was playing WoW back in 2005, I got so into it that it was effecting everything. My social life died and it was effecting work enough that my boss had to have a long convo with me to get my shit together. But what really made me realize how bad it had gotten was having dreams where dialog with people I knew IRL was all in text and I would have to type responses to people when face to face with them.

TheSambassador ,

This is a really common experience for a ton of VR gamers. The thing I remember the most is how white text on a black background (usually my phone) made it seem like the text was really 3D and coming out at me. It fades away but I'm sure we're going to find out some interesting things about the brain from this phenomenon.

Jon_Servo ,

Played so much Assassin's Creed, I too wanted to jump off the top of a building.

naticus ,

That's what 25 years in IT did for me.

corsicanguppy ,

I laughed, but then cried in yaml.

fubarx ,

I haven't but my kid playing Osu! Lives and breathes the game. Used birthday gift money to buy a special three-button keyboard. Walks around all the time, tapping fingers on every surface.

nycki ,

I was that kid. Get them a copy of Rhythm Heaven if you can find one, or one of its spiritual successors like Rhythm Doctor.

murmelade ,

Portal 2. Finished it in a few days and for a day or two afterwards my brain found blank white/beige wall surfaces very attention-grabbing.

nycki ,

Especially slightly angled walls!

nycki ,

I had been playing Minecraft back in the Technic modding era, lots of item tubes and machine blocks, and I remember looking at my actual real life washing machine and thinking "I bet I could use a wooden pipe to extract that into the dryer"

TheDarkestShark ,

Deep Rock Galactic. I kept wanting to toss a flare anytime I walked into a dark room.

naticus ,

"A flare"?! So you don't throw 3 flares in rapid succession and then complain that flares take too long to recharge? Just me? ...okay.

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