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by ceedan 909 days ago
Do these players suffer from Tetris Syndrome? I played a bunch for a few weeks many years ago and had trouble sleeping because I couldn't stop seeing tetris pieces falling in place, every time I closed my eyes.
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I suffer from this with many things. After intense hiking, my brain still tries to move move limbs in my sleep.after writing unit tests all day, it tries to write.them for real life scenarios. Etc etc. It is pretty inconvenient to have such highly susceptible brain
Now I kinda want to see what one of those unit tests looks like
I remember having similar effects after long sessions of Lemmings. I saw the damn rodents when I was closing my eyes in bed, but it didn’t disturb my sleep (I guess they acted as sheeps to count).
It doesn’t normally cause sleep trouble. But I remember my brain trying to “parse” my surroundings into Tetris blocks, buildings in particular.
I had it with 2048 as well. I kept having urges to mush nearby objects together (cars, trashbins) to make a larger object.