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Tetris Dreams

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I never really dreamt about Tetris, but I did start seeing it during my waking hours—I'd be driving along, and realize, "Hey! The negative space between those two cars would be perfect for a z-block."

It was very disorienting when several of those happened one after the other.

You probably did dream about it & just forgot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect

http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF206-Game_Boy.gif

I had a similar experience with the Rubik's cube, although it was worse. I would constantly imagine a rotating cube, to the point that it made me dizzy (and oddly enough the only thing that made the dizziness stop was playing with the Rubik's cube).

God, I remember those Tetris dreams when I first starting playing the game (all those years ago.) I really hated them-- found them oddly disconcerting, and not at all restful.

Off the top of my head, I'm failing to recall another computer game/activity that had a similar effect on me...

Nethack, for me.

Also, nightmares about C++ syntax. I'm not kidding.

I've dreamt Guitar Hero. And I dream in code sometimes, mostly when I've been working on language design. I only recall vague refactoring and syntax design alterations, but I probably have them all the time without my consciousness remembering.

That's pretty interesting. I often dream about problems related to my code (usually trying to solve some problem) but I've never had a dream about syntax or refactoring.

Try writing a (general purpose) language -- syntax and refactoring are the problem! :)

Took me a while to notice this is actually from October 2000. Nevertheless interesting, and here's the scientific article: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/290/5490/350

Heh, I hadn't noticed either, just picked it up in the cogsci subreddit.

I dreamed about tetris while working on a tetris ai project in school.

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/punkball/tetris/

Somewhat OT: I used to play a bit of puyo puyo (USA: puyo pop), a game somewhat like Tetris. I like it much more than Tetris but haven't met many people who play it. Are there any puyo fans here?

Now I want to play tetris, but I need to work............

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