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Yeah the brain is a bit of an extrapolation machine isn't it. Try running on a treadmill for half an hour and quickly stop and see what happens with your vision :)
It seems like the visual cortex is especially quick at adapting to patterns and needs a second to "unlearn" again.
https://www.washington.edu/news/2011/09/19/gamers-succeed-wh...
Started seeing a chessboard overlayed everywhere, and thinking what the next move for me and other "game objects" would be.
This was after just getting into chess and playing it many times a day, almost every day.
It was a very weird feeling. Luckily, it passed after a while. I stopped playing chess after a while too, and kinda been avoiding it since.
I personally am a little afraid because I now look at nature as if it was a screenshot to be looked from afar and then uploaded. It's a weird sensation that I'm not fully immersed in reality anymore and everything is just to be seen, shared and commented whereas before the web, reality was all you had to exist in, you had to touch, feel, play there was nothing else.
I wonder if anybody else ever had that state of mind.
ps:I often consider spending a month without any screen at all to try reset my brain.
Ever felt the impulse to steal a car after playing GTA?
Also quit playing PUBG because after a few hours I find myself processing my real environment as if I'm in the game, feeling like my instincts trigger to things that remind me something from the game.
Maybe it's like the way how people get adjusted to modified bicycles that turn to the other direction instead of the expected one or like those vision modifiers that turn the world upside down or looking back and after some surprisingly short time people start seeing normal again despite the modified optics.
IMHO its not that different from how our reality is skewed when spending too much time online, so neural networks are neural network no matter what the process I guess.
My friend Dave Taylor (programmer on Doom / Doom 2 / Quake / Abuse) was famous for marathon gaming sessions when he was at id. He told me it almost killed him after a session because he was driving and saw what he thought was a Quake rocket ammo box and he instinctively swerved the car at speed to "pick it up", but it was in fact a concrete pylon securing a guardrail by a drop-off. He narrowly swerved back into the r…
Even closer to the mark—I used to play Carmageddon with some of the engineers at Apple when work was wrapping up for the day. Yeah, you had to come down from that very quickly when you got into your actual car then to begin the commute home.
This is one reason I no longer enjoy driving simulation games as much since I started driving real cars. It feels like re-learning driving as my physics engine in my head need to adjust to the new physics each time. Also quit playing PUBG because after a few hours I find myself processing my real environment as if I'm in the game, feeling like my instincts trigger to things that remind me something from the game. May…