What's wrong with YOUR brain after a game?

[Zak33]

Seriously. It's time to open up here How my brain works.

After a long ish VEF and dogfight session I normally can't sleep. So that's quite understandable. Takes a while to slow up. Lots of water and a bit of telly.

Through gaming history people have been affected a fair bit by games....and the more ya play, the more it can effect your brain. An example from my recent history...

Deckard and I played UT solidly on a LAN for nearly 5 hours.

That evening I went out for dinner with my family....while sat in a chinese restaurant, it occured that as people came into the room through a close-by archway, my right hand was moving "mouse style" toward them, all be it, on top of a serviette....and as I went to the buffet cart for a little more food, I felt my left hand, pushing imaginary arrow-keys to strafe and I actually found myself side stepping through a door way so I could see ahead.

lol ...its true....and it was a tad worrying...but this morning something a bit closer to home occured

I have the dubious pleasure this week of driving a Meriva, (a recent Vauxhall addition)
It has large, wide front winscreen pillars....("A" pillars) and a small amount of glass (a small quarter light window) and then a door pillar, and then the door window.

This morning, while negotiating a roundabout, I turned in quite tightly, as is my want, and as usual the car further around the roundabout, dissappeared from view behind one of the pillars....I continued my turn, and a split second later, his body shell emerged in my side window, and as is normal in a roundabout I began to think about unwinding the steering, to come off at the same exit as him.

Sadly, by now, my mind was in VEF

....and as his fuselage was going to dissappear for a short time behind my canopy frame, as long as he continued on that trajectory, I would be able to bring guns ...no ...canons at this range, to bear on him, just as he came back into view.....but it would be a snap shot as he would be there for a split second before going the other side of my air craft and out of view, the instant after.

This was about 2 seconds in total. I had discarded putting "lead " on him as he was close and out of view. A shower of lead in front of where he was about to appear was the best bet....and luckily I was in a bank, and not a climb, so I would not drop away before the split-second shot.

I therefore apologise to the entire row of people at the bus stop who got a very unfair blast of my car's horn, as I let loose several rounds into his exposed fuselage.....and I am sure he will be smoking even now as he pulls into his drive.

And to Vauxhall....sort out the visibilty you tarts.

[MA_Moby]

I can't see a light aeroplane, or better - a twin engine, pass overhead without thinking of what a sitting duck he is, and mentally planning an attack. Oh dear!

I know what you mean about VEFing. The near total immersion, full real settings, voice comms etc, plus the tense nature of some of the missions, can take a while to unwind from. A long mission 45 minutes plus, can really be a bit tiring. I need a break after one of those.

Seriously though. When you've spent a few hours with your eyes focused on a screen just 30 cms in front of you, getting into a car and driving, your eyes focusing on lots of real life objects moving at all different speeds and distances, can seem like a very weird experience.

After a long stint of playing Resident Evil II on playstation some years ago I went for a night time walk to my local 24 hour garage for late night snacks. I couldn't help but evaluate every passing person for their zombie potential

Hmmm..... maybe there is something in this 'video games corrupt our youth and make them violent' argument

[Dakaras]

LOL Im the same, got shot down last night My orginal plan as all vvs were on escort and the OKL were reconning the other side of the map was to take 100% fuel and a drop tank and go suprise the recon..Bloody wish I had now as all the vvs scatter to the 4 winds soon as the OKL turned up. Spent half hour lying in bed wishing Id followed my gut instinct

[Clingy]

Phew...thought I was the only nutter here . It can take me hours to get to sleep after a few VEF's.

We have a lot of USAF aircraft around here and I'm always trying to judge distances. So sad

[Zak33]

then we all need help

Pleased to hear it

[TiG]

You really don't want me to start on this subject as you'll find i'm worse than the lot of you. I don't have any problems sleeping after extensive gaming sessions, but If i'm stuck on a session I play the game in my sleep, I often find the next day I complete the section as I wake up - remember the dream and complete the level.

Never tried to think of my car as a plane tho Zak, new one on me there

TiG