duuude.... i see this kinda thing all the time...

I have an anecdote of my own about Tetris. I load airplanes at Fedex's World Hub. One of the smallest airplanes we use is a Boeing 727. The lower level of the plane, the bellies, is resticted to individual packages. Most nights, the weight shack sends out a shit load of boxes to put into the bellies. Doing so requires skill in what is known as T-stacking, the same stacking process that brick-layers use to cover houses. Anyway, whenever I become unfortunate enough to have to stack boxes, I start playing Tetris in my head and start humming the tune. It helps me get everything in and under the red line, which is a requirement by the FAA that states that no boxes can be placed above the red line that marks the top two inches of the compartment. In order to allow room for fire suppressants to reach the entire compartment. Which doesn't really make any sense since anything that is a fire hazard is considered Hazardous Materials and placed in a Haz-Can in the Upper Compartment. But then again, boxes are sometimes miss-labeled by the sender. I think that happened once. Some idiot sent a package that caught on fire, ruining all of the other packages in that particular container. They had to land the plane prematurely and everything was late. That cost us a lot of money.

The Guitar Hero thing is right. It makes me look down automaticly. It can get real akward and a strain on my eye's.

I don't know if it's just me, but there's a whole heap of games (and movies/shows/music/events) that have left me impacted, after playing super mario sunshine i didn't stop imagining jump combinations onto nearby rooftops. I've related numerous real world events to gaming phenomena, to the point i can see the characters clearly in front of me. me and my friends often find ourselves attempting a falcon punch or PK fire. anyway, the article was missing a whole heap of games that alter perception.

KingGeorge you are right! that happens to me too. When i bought my wii, i bought ocarina of time and majoras mask on the shop channel or whatever. When i started playing nothing happened but as time passed im started to think that navi (tha fairy) was moving around me and also sometimes i see myself in 3 person view and a see my life and all that stuff. i know its weird, but its true... anyway i just hope im not a mindfreak... am i navi?

All of these fit in this article.

i played cod4 4 like 3 hours straight and i went to get a glass of water and when i looked through the glass it wus like lookin through a scope creepy.....

there were times after i played the first fable where i felt REALLY evil.. i felt bad when i killed Thereasa and the Guildmaster lol..

soo right

That tetris thing used to happen me all the time its by far the most annoying thing i have ever experienced

For awhile after I finished portal I kept thinking of the best places to put portals. It even crept into my daydreams.

something wierd happened to me like that too. i bought ocarina of time and spent like a whole day playing it. Then i went to school the next day and i kept hearing navi saying "HEY!" "LISTEN!" and i got really anyoyed really quickly

In my member profile I'd mentioned how video games had helped me through a rough period in my life (my marriage was dying a slow and painful death). ACWW wasn't out back then, but Donkey Kong was, and my daughter and I must've spent hours, days, and weeks lost in the virtual Monkey Jungles.
When I finally crawled out of our three-month Monkey Marathon, I'd realised how great it was to just lose myself in an activity which really did let me forget all the turmoil roiling around my life for a while. My frustrations were duly taken out on the Big Boss guys at level's end... poor Bosses didn't stand a chance! And being able to vent somewhat in a game let me be a little more mellow when I had to turn the game off and go fix dinner or deal with an attorney.

When Nintendo brought out the DS, I got one of the first ones out. Now I have 2 DS systems, one for me and one for whomever but sometimes I hook 'em together so all the creatures in ACWW can visit and I get to advance to Nookington's instead of Tom's Terrible Treacle shop! And I finally caved and got the Xbox360, which is one of the best things ever.

Then I got a phone call from one of my dearest friends... she had just been diagnosed with a very vicious form of cancer. Knowing the road that lay before her with long hours of chemotherapy and all the other horrors of cancer treatment, I decided to introduce her to my little "magic machine", my DS. I started her out on ACWW, which she found as enchanting as I had. She also quickly realised that a really good game which let her beat the tar out of the bad guys gave her an emotional release and helped her cope with the day-to-day realities of her ongoing chemotherapy treatment.

Today, my friend has recovered, no remissions, and she is now into the Xbox as well as her Playstation and she's built up a pretty awesome game library.

The point of this little tale is this: Most of us play games, and video games in particular, just for the sheer fun of it. But sometimes (especially with the "go anywhere" convenience of the DS) being able to escape from whatever your reality may be at the moment, can be very therapeutic. Age doesn't matter, I was 48 when my life fell apart and my kid got me into gaming. My cancer-surviving friend was in her mid- fifties when I gave her her first DS.

So maybe the next time you see someone who is experiencing trauma in his or her life, consider giving them a video game and watch what happens, you may be surprised and they just may be thankful for a little escapism. It helps.

ps: if anyone reading this has had similar experiences, please share them with me? Thanks!

after i play Timeshift sometimes i try to stop time when playing another game say Half-life and i remember im not playing Timeshift

you guys are right about the Tony Hawk thing

After marathon sessions on COD WAW or even playing COD 2, I will go outside for a while and start to picture things that will mess me up. Like, thats a good sniper spot or man I could really get some good kills their. It doesnt seem healthy haha.