{"id":50625,"date":"2016-09-12T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=50625"},"modified":"2018-01-04T15:54:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T20:54:15","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-can-get-sucked-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2016\/uncommon-knowledge-can-get-sucked-video-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Can You Get Sucked Into a Video Game?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/bloxels-video-game-design-kit?source=blog_uk_91216\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-50629\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/videogamedesignkit.jpg\" alt=\"Video Game Design Kit\" width=\"650\" height=\"650\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve found yourself crushing candy in your dreams or felt the urge to fling a Pok\u00e9 Ball at a whining air conditioner, you may have fallen victim to Tetris Syndrome. After a marathon session battling it out in front of a screen, your mind begins to project a game&#8217;s strategy onto the real world, warping the way you interact with objects and people. The phenomenon was first described in a 1994 <em>Wired<\/em> article, in which the author noticed some strange side effects to his non-stop Tetris playing: &#8220;At night, geometric shapes fell in the darkness as I lay on loaned tatami floor space\u2026 During rare jaunts from the house, I visually fit cars and trees and people together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Old-school gamers also describe the effect: Sodoku players start to see streets as vertical or horizontal numerical puzzles, and speedcubers mentally twist their surroundings like a Rubik&#8217;s Cube. Scientists hypothesize that the way we play is linked to our procedural memory, and the sensation felt after a game bender taps into our innate desire to organize and create. And while it may just be a harmless hallucination, if you start seeing the world scroll after hours of shredding on Guitar Hero, your mind might be telling you it&#8217;s time to take a break.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/bloxels-video-game-design-kit?source=blog_uk_91216\" target=\"_blank\">Bloxels Video Game Design Kit<\/a> | $49.95<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve found yourself crushing candy in your dreams or felt the urge to fling a Pok\u00e9 Ball at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":50638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[561,813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50625"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50640,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50625\/revisions\/50640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}