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''All you ever hear is what it says''|[[Helloween]], ''The Game is On''}}
You've been playing a game for so long that you start seeing it everywhere outside the game.
The game follows you. Every time you stop playing, you feel like you still have some pending business. You're seeing passwords in your Alpha-Bits. You try to power-slide on the drive to class. Clouds are looking suspiciously like troop formations to you. You may even begin to dream about tetris blocks and playing cards. The game is the only thing you can think about, even, and especially when you should be concentrating on other things.
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=== Driving Game ===
* Try to avoid driving immediately after playing ''[[Mario Kart]]''. It's not just the temptation to shoot Koopa shells at passing cars that you should be worried about...
** Immediately, heck, if you've ever played ''Super Mario Kart'', when driving a motorized vehicle you need to keep in mind at all times that you don't actually have a jump button.
* ''[[F-Zero]] GX'' has your racer regularly going at speeds greater than 1000 km/h. And the game allows you to put it in a first-person perspective and is compatible with a gaming wheel and pedals. Any speed less than 70 mph is going to seem ridiculously slow if you just got done playing an hour or two of the game.
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** Snipers, similarly, will find themselves scanning roofs for others of their ilk.
** Beware of auditory hallucinations: spies decloaking, sentries beeping, dummkopfs bleating "MEDIIIC!"...
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** Not to mention imagining the outside as underwater on occasion.
* ''[[Half Life]]'' gives us the Barnacle, which not only has people looking for its long "tongues" in other games, but can and does make one paranoid when you see things-that-look-like-tongues hanging from ceilings.
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* ''Rodent's Revenge'' Good luck typing properly after a few HOURS of this game.
* FUCKING SOLITAIRE. 'Nuff said.
** Pretty much any game that's been part of a Windows game pack (Rattler Race; Rodent's Revenge; fucking solitaire; Galactic Pinball; etc...).
** Depending on whether you fought or embraced your addiction to these games, you're either pissed or relieved that most of them are not part of the more recent Windows gamepacks.
* Try getting a high score on any given [[Wario Ware]] microgame, especially the ones from Mega Micro Games$! Watch your score climb, and the beats just get faster and faster, and the "da da DA" sound get more frantic every time... then leave, do something calm, and the frantic pace STAYS with you.
* Playing [[Pong]] for long periods of time will often result in players trying to bounce small objects back and forth.
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* ''[[Irisu Syndrome]]'' will cause you to see shapes slowly fall down, collide in midair and disappear just behind your eyes. If this happens, do [[Irisu Syndrome (Darth Wiki)|NOT]] score under 20,000 points in your head.
* ''[[Angry Birds]]'' will often leave you with the uncomfortable need to hurl heavy objects through windows, metal beams, boards, and similar structures.
* ''[[Minesweeper]]'' will cause you to play game after game in your head while you try to fall asleep.
* ''[[VVVVVV]]'' may cause you to attempt to flip gravity when walking through a crowded hallway.
* After playing anagram-forming games such as ''Boggle'', ''Jumble'', or ''TextTwist'', don't be surprised if you get stuck at a stop sign trying to form anagrams out of it ("pot", "pots", "post", "tops", etc.).
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=== Roguelike ===
* ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' is notorious for causing people to start dreaming in ASCII.<ref>Although, technically, the game's standard display is [[CP 437]], not ASCII.</ref>
* After playing ''[[Diablo 2]]'' (especially with friends who quickly grab everything), you will start to hear the "ding" noise that happens whenever a jewel/rune drops.
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** ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'' players get jolly nervous when they hear the sound of a chainsaw...
** ''[[Silent Hill 2]]'': scrape...scrape...scrape...
*** ANY ''[[Silent Hill]]'' gamer would quiver in fear at the sound of a fire siren...
* ''[[Dead Space (video game)|Dead Space]]'' ... one word: Anus Cakes.
** If you take the time to learn the insane scrawls left all over the game (the cypher is hidden on a viewscreen of the Ishimura), you will eventually try to decypher spraypaint writings left by graffiti artists.
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** Similarly, after playing ''Grand Theft Auto'', many people find themselves identifying real life cars by their ''GTA'' counterparts.
*** After playing ''GTA'' for about 10 straight hours when I was sick, I found my self unconsciously eyeballing sports cars while walking down the road the next day, and calculating if I could make it to the door of the car before it sped away.
*** After San Andreas, [[Collection Sidequest|graffiti tags]] start setting off little lightbulbs in your head.
** Trying to enter the wanted level cheat when seeing a police car drive down the street after playing GTA for hours. This has happened more than once.
* Players of ''[[Minecraft]]'' have reported starting to see everything as cubes.
** Walk up behind a Minecraft player and make a hissing sound. Ideally you should be wearing a football helmet when you try this.
** Play or watch the game for half an hour. ''You will never take the real meaning of the word "creeper" seriously again, trust me''.
* Playing ''[[Infamous (video game series)|In Famous]]'' for extended periods of time may make one thirst for that extra boost, and start eyeballing power boxes, lamp posts, and even possibly cars.
* Specialise in Alchemy in [[The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion|Oblivion]] or [[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim|Skyrim]] and after awhile you'll find yourself staring speculatively at shrubs and flowers you see in real life, wondering if they're worth harvesting for their magical effects.
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=== Film ===
* ''[[Psycho]]''. Showers.
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* In the [[Psych]] novel ''Mind-Altering Murder'' this is why {{spoiler|Macklin Tanner went into hiding. He got so into his virtual-reality game ''Criminal Genius'' that he killed Walon O'Malley in a hit and run, trying to earn extra points. He immediately regretted it, destroyed the car he had used, and stayed among the homeless to punish himself.}}
* In [[Beverly Cleary]]'s book "Strider", Leigh, the narrator, has a job sweeping floors. He says he feels like he can see the floors' tile pattern in his sleep.
* In the first chapter of ''[[Don Quixote]]'', we see that Alonso Quixano, a [[Impoverished Patrician]] with way too much time at his hands, is a [[Fan Boy]] of [[Chivalric Romance]] books, then he evolutions as to be [[Fan Dumb]], then he wants to write a Fanfiction about ''The tale of Don Belianis of Greece:'', but he insteads decide to change drastically his life by [[Ascended Fanboy|becoming a]] [[Knight Errant]] changing his name to Don Quixote.
* The book ''Math Curse'' by Jon Scieszka has a teacher tell her class that almost anything can be thought of as a math problem. One girl in the class begins to see math problems in everything, even something as simple as a trip to the store.
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* The Tetris effect is so strong, that people with short-term memory loss can experience the effect, despite not remembering even playing the game.
** Better than that. It showed scientists that humans have a secondary type of memory. So Tetris actually helped advance science.
* Professional copyeditors and proofreaders are usually among the most thorough and unrelenting [[Grammar Nazi|Grammar Nazis]] in existence. Some have claimed to have actually proofread love notes sent to them out of sheer habit.
* There's a story, probably a legend, of a 40 year Marine Veteran with Alzheimer's who only responded to a few commands from the Marine Drill manual.
* Spend a few days on a [[LEGO]] project and try not to see the blocks on the insides of your eyelids.
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