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Study on how intense gaming can affect real world perception
TheLizardbones
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From an article on Massively.com titled Study shows intense gaming can cause changes in real-life perception about a study titled Altered Visual Perception in Game Transfer Phenomena: An Empirical Self-Report Study I have learned that there is a name for seeing everything as blocks that can be stacked or mined after playing Minecraft for awhile. :-)
Basically the perceptions people have in games after intense gaming sessions carry over into real life. In flight aircraft being perceived as UAVs, things looking like Minecraft blocks and people seeing the Mass Effect conversation wheel in their head during conversations with real people are all examples of this.
I have had the "Minecraft Sickness", and so has my wife. :-) I've also gotten spooked by games like Silent Hill even though I don't believe in, nor have I seen ghosts and such.
How about you? Have you ever experienced anything like this?
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Great post.
I write horror novels for a living, so - despite what you'd believe - I get spooked quite easily. Most horror-themed games have a real-world impact on me; just like most other entertainment mediums: TV, movies, books. The biggest thing I notice, however, is in the way I physically move around the real world. Depending on what game I've been playing, I'll catch myself mimicking the character's animations. Craziness!
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the only thing that seems to be affected are my dreams (from gaming)
otherwise,
what i experience has more to do with sitting in front of the computer for too long
regardless of what I'm doing on the computer
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Never experienced anything like this. After some intense gaming I can have it affect my dreams, but whilst I'm awake, never.
Seems weird that people would have such a problem.
With regards to the Mass Effect conversation wheel, it could happen, but would mean a significant disconnect from reality. You can basically make yourself hallucinate about anything, on your own, right in the comfort of your own home. It's about sensory deprivation. If you remove all external stimuli and think about kicking some ass with the carebears, you can do that!
However, the whole thing about actually carrying on a conversation with the wheel sounds like bullshit to me. As soon as stimuli is re-introduced to the brain, it's really difficult to maintain that alternate reality, though because things like sight and sound are now being detected. It likely works on the same premise as hypnotic suggestion.
Then again, it says they selected their users from gaming forums, and we know how full of shit those people are
Basically 500 trolls trolling science.
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This is something that can be applied to everything.
I used to be a programmer and after my first few days of working as one I was having almost a matrix like effect seeing code on objects, would close my eyes and see code as well.
Some people who work in factories would say that their spouses would tell them that they were working while they were sleeping, arm movements and everything.
Extreme repetition does this no matter what it is you are doing.
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They are worse than useless because you want to believe them. They will defend you against critiques that are valid. They will seduce you into believing you are done learning, or into thinking that your work is better than it actually is." ~Raph Koster
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I get the lack of stimulation thing, where if you play a long time then get off to go do something else, that lack of constant stimulation makes me very detached and sleepy.
I've never actually seen blocks or anything like that. You often see people over simplify life in general because of games though. Not really sure it's related. An example is world of tanks. So many people think the tank in game should act like a real tank because it looks like a tank. The fact that everything that tank does, it does because someone programed it, seems lost on them.
I have experienced the "phenomenon" but only after playing puzzle games like Candy Crush and similar games. The way I see it, our brains are designed to learn. If you teach yourself to recognize certain patterns and react to them, then practice what you learned, you will get better at it.
I can see how this could lead to dangerous activities for those who have more trouble separating their gaming thoughts from reality, but I think it has more potential benefits to society than harm. For example, Minecraft players learn to explore their creative side and their engineering side. If they build things in real life, maybe they will see a better way of doing something.
When you're talking to someone, your responses are going to fall into a spectrum of possible choices, and there's not going to be many of those choices in how you respond. Seeing the conversation wheel could just be the possible responses they might have, and they can just choose the one they want, or more likely they are having the conversation like they always would, but they are seeing their choices internally represented as a conversation wheel. The visualization happens after the fact, not before the fact.
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The mechanics of the conversation do not change, only the internal perception of the conversation.
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Also a guy I knew played games everyday long for 15 years and he got more and more hot tempered, back talking friends alot and megalomaniac. I dont speak with him today but I cant help laughing when once he sended me a tell that was for his buddy where he said some nasty stuff about me, and he always used to send tells to me about that other guy how dumb he was lol. I think he is quite an extreme example but only playing games isnt healthy it is some sort of ludomaniac just without the gambling part. Adicted he is for sure. He onced said to me 'I havent kissed a girl for 10 years'......
How do the High Elves walk?
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After I was arrested my parents bought me PC and until today I never had problems I finished school with good grades. Graduated University. And all this time I always played games. Some times I was playing all day and all night I was studying for exams which I had next day and still I passed them all I had less debt than most students.
So this affirmation is not from category YES or NO because it depends from one individual to another.
First thing which is important is education you receive from parents. Later when child form new habits I think parents must explain to them that this is bad and this is good. And I'm saying this because now these new modern parents are very lazy and they don't treat kids correctly and spoil them. Damn I will need to type a lot to type in order to explain all....
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If parents build a good foundation for the child and support them in their daily new experiences including in game or on internet there should be no worries.
If foundation is build with indifference with no care no love no support than in this case kid will transform in one of those Call of duty kid that range on microfone.
Also it can't affect real life perception because if you're extremely rude in real life you will get your ass beaten pretty fast.
Game reality displaces real reality during immersion while gaming.
If understanding reality is based on perception, and perception of reality is altered during gaming, it is quite understandable for that change of perception to linger once gaming is terminated.
Do you think that's air you're breathing?
reminds me of the time I was at the pub and saw a few random chicks roaming on the far side of the room. one of the chicks was EPIC sexy and I wanted to get her attention but not have to talk to her entourage of friends.. so that pretty much cancelled out a body pull and I decided to go with a ranged.
i pulled the straw out of my drink, tore up a napkin and loaded my lvl 1 crafted P Shooter and ripped one loose ...
AND Boom! HEADSHOT! turns out it was a social mob of hotness and they all came running at me pulling all kinds of adds along the way
i chugged my Corona of Wobbliness , turned and sprinted towards the door .
no lie i pulled that train all the way past the parking lot and then some before they reset and went back to the bar ...
to top it off my friends just pulled up and were laughin as i ran past and yelled " Train, i'll run them off and brb!!!!"
aside from that one time i have no clue what you are talking about.
This isn't a signature, you just think it is.
I am an attorney and at a firm meeting several years ago we were discussing competition with larger lawfirms. I explained to our conference room of attorneys that "we need to find a more effective way of competing with these larger guilds."
The managing partner looked at me like I was from Mars.
The problem is that in order to get into this state you need to be hallucinating. You cannot alter reality while your sensory receptors are working correctly. If you see something or hear something you have a much wider range of data to reference than what is found in a video game. Maybe if you played a game in a completely isolated area for your entire life, you'd see an altered reality.
The way that physical hallucination works is that you deprive the body of all stimuli. It's like with acid, you're altering your brain chemistry in such a way that you deprive it of any sensory information. The only issue is that you can't simply take off earphones or anything like that. It wears off whenever.
Again, I don't know what the environment was for the testing, but unless they were kept in a sensory-deprived state while carrying on a conversation, so there is no context other than what they experienced in the game, then it's bull.
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Seems like it has more to do with what catches your attention. If you spend hours engaged with Minecraft blocks, for example, it seems reasonable that the 90 degree angles of objects in the world will catch your attention, remind you of Minecraft and the rest gets filled in by memory.
Most guilds I've been in over the last 8 years or so have a thread somewhere on their website called, "You know you are playing too much [fill in the blank] when..." and people post pages and pages of examples of this phenomenon. My most recent experience of it was a while back when I was very busy building dimensions in Rift. And I would see trees, shrubs and flowers while driving that looked very much like the ones I was using in Rift. I could see my mind mentally cataloging each piece and labeling it based on what it was called in the game.
Anyway, it seems like a common enough phenomena that is not exclusive to gaming.
The problem is that in order to get into this state you need to be hallucinating. You cannot alter reality while your sensory receptors are working correctly. If you see something or hear something you have a much wider range of data to reference than what is found in a video game. Maybe if you played a game in a completely isolated area for your entire life, you'd see an altered reality.
The way that physical hallucination works is that you deprive the body of all stimuli. It's like with acid, you're altering your brain chemistry in such a way that you deprive it of any sensory information. The only issue is that you can't simply take off earphones or anything like that. It wears off whenever.
Again, I don't know what the environment was for the testing, but unless they were kept in a sensory-deprived state while carrying on a conversation, so there is no context other than what they experienced in the game, then it's bull.
You do realize that people have different levels of internal activity that they are aware of and unaware of? It's perfectly possible to visualize conversation choices as a wheel of options while talking to someone. It would be analogous to visualizing a place that you've visited before while talking about places you've visited. Instead of visualizing an image of the conversation topics, these people are visualizing their conversation options, in the format of whatever the Mass Effect wheel looks like.
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This is probably the distinction between hallucinations that are bad, and hallucinations that are interesting. A schizophrenic would have that thought or hallucination, and then kill the pig. The average person would have that thought, think, "Man, that's weird", and then get on with their day.
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