When I played Superhot. It's a slow motion shooter where enemies and bullets only move in real time when the player is moving.

I only played it a few minutes at a time, but each time I looked up from my desktop I was surprised that stuff was in motion even though I wasn't.

Very weird effect and it set in each time I played.

Portal 2. Finished it in a few days and for a day or two afterwards my brain found blank white/beige wall surfaces very attention-grabbing.

Fallout 4 had me noticing a lot of scrap for a bit. Seeing a roll of duct tape was like looking at a bar of gold.

I got hit really hard by 2048. I didn’t even play it that much but my brain started looking for groups of identical things and imagined how they slide into each other to create something new. Plates on the kitchen table, seats on the train to work, identical cars…

At periods when playing a lot of geoguessr I often catch myself looking at license plates and street signs when walking on the street, as if trying to figure out where I am.

Also years after I stopped playing assassin's creed, I still get a mental image of a red outline when I walk too close to a cop.

Thanks to Morrowind and Skyrim i still find myself absent-mindedly noticing “alchemy ingredients” when walking through the woods on hiking/camping trips, despite the fact that I haven’t played either game in a couple years at this point.

I got access to a really nice VR system through work and binged through Half Life Alyx. I was in a room that was large enough to walk around in, but for larger moves you use the controller to teleport a short distance. Also you can gravity attract items within a few yards with your gloves.

After playing the first time I went to cook dinner and got embarrassingly frustrated when I tried to summon a spoon with a hand gesture.

Played so much Assassin's Creed, I too wanted to jump off the top of a building.

When I caught myself planning exactly how I'd scale that building wall, AC style.

Back during the WoW days (the flying mount expansion), every time I would walk home from Uni I'd think: "This would be a lot faster if I turned into a crow and flew over these houses".

I played a Druid.

When I was reaaaaally playing too much Hitman I began to notice large containers that could fit human bodies inside.

I knew I'd been playing too much GTA (would have been around the VC/SA days probably) when I was out driving one day, heard sirens, and looked up in the corner of my windshield to see if I had any stars.

When writing on paper, I will sometimes think, "Ctrl + Z" to undo an errant pen stroke lol.

I've attempted to quicksave a couple of times before parallel parking my truck.

GTA. I was driving down the road and had the urge/intrusive thought to side swipe a motorcycle because hitting them is just what you do in the game.

I noted how it was weird the first time, then it occured again a week later. That was the last day I played GTA even though I enjoyed the game.

I get this all the time because I tend to binge games over weekends when I got nothing else going on. I'll give two examples that I remember the most.

One of the most prolific is Factorio. Seeing conveyor belts everywhere I go. Whether I'm awake or about to fall asleep I just constantly see conveyor belts as I solve non existent problems with the efficiency of said conveyor belts.

The weirdest was after Outer Wilds. I binged it for about 12 hours straight one day. You spend a lot of time orbiting around planets and landing on them. After I was done I was walking around my apartment and felt like I was "orbiting" a spaceship around my apartment. It felt super weird to walk. Felt like the floor was the surface of a planet and my head was a spaceship flying miles above it trying to land.

Half life alyx had me flicking my wrist to try and gravity glove small items I needed. I remember having a late night sesh of HL Alyx and in a sleep deprived state trying it multiple times and not understanding why it wasn't working.

I always feel like I should throw a turtle shell at the idiot driving in front of me

Factorio. I began seeing conveyor belts in my sleep.

Not exactly the same thing, but when I got my first VR HMD, for about two weeks afterwards I had to fight the urge that my real hands were the fake ones rather than the ones I would see in VR. Supposedly it's something like 25% of first time VR users who get a similar feeling, but it didn't make me feel any better about it. Never happened again, even with how rare I play VR games, but it was rather off-putting.

Oh just thought of another one: when I was playing WoW back in 2005, I got so into it that it was effecting everything. My social life died and it was effecting work enough that my boss had to have a long convo with me to get my shit together. But what really made me realize how bad it had gotten was having dreams where dialog with people I knew IRL was all in text and I would have to type responses to people when face to face with them.

Skyrim, keep seeing things to harvest. Neighbour grew leeks at one point.

I used to play multiplayer Agar.io a few years ago and got this badly, the game is about circles of various sizes attacking each other and there are circles everywhere irl.

During the pandemic I did essentially nothing but play Arma 3 like it was my job. 4k hours in like 2 years.

I went out for a walk towards the end and went to grab for binoculars I didn't have...

Best/worst game I've ever played for so many reasons.

Frogger, played a lot of that and had to stop myself before crossing roads for awhile after.

In my mind I was trying to optimize moving the same direction as the car and sneak in before the meeting car got there. I'm lucky to be alive.

Skyrim. I’m a Skyrim hoarder, grabbing every flower I run by. While driving to work I remember thinking, I need to get those. Thank goodness I remembered not to do that in real life.

Not a video game - after using OneNote on an iPad with a stylus for a lot of time, going back to using paper I tried to undo pencil strokes very often at first.

I had been playing Minecraft back in the Technic modding era, lots of item tubes and machine blocks, and I remember looking at my actual real life washing machine and thinking "I bet I could use a wooden pipe to extract that into the dryer"

I once messed up something I was writing by hand and instinctually wanted to press ctrl+z

I haven't but my kid playing Osu! Lives and breathes the game. Used birthday gift money to buy a special three-button keyboard. Walks around all the time, tapping fingers on every surface.

Played so much Minecraft, the trees outside looked all blocky when I was tired one time.

Also, after the first time I did VR, I was outside and my brain told me to stop walking every couple of steps because I thought I was going to walk into a wall.

Long, long ago, when HL2DM was a thing, I was jogging hone from work, past the edge of a park.

A kid kicked a football towards the fence just ahead of me, and I started sprinting... and then realised that no, this isn't the perfect gravgun kill, stop it.

I got so used to quickly leaving in minecraft from a server when falling or in lava to get the immunity frames, when climbing a mountain, i imagined leaving life if i fell

This is really embarrassing, but I played so much battlefield 3 once that I felt the urge to reflexively "spot" some people walking in the distance (IRL 💀) to see whether they were friend or foe.

I didn't have a keyboard, so there's nothing I could even do about it, but the fact that I felt the urge really made me pause.

Deep Rock Galactic. I kept wanting to toss a flare anytime I walked into a dark room.

Happened with Lone Echo for me. It's a VR game where you're in a space station, and you move around in zero g by just grabbing your surroundings and pulling yourself along or pushing yourself off of them. I started reflexively attempting to do that in real life for a bit after longer sessions

I will go on Football Manager binges, overhauling my favorite squads and seeing them to long-term success. Then I watch actual football matches and think, "Why isn't Dick Johnson starting at left back?" and have to remind myself that Dick Johnson doesn't really exist.

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