Path: news.utdallas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ennfs.eas.asu.edu!nntp.dist.maricopa.edu!news.primenet.com!news.primenet.com!not-for-mail From: Daniel Ewing Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet Subject: [alt.folklore.urban] "words for snow"-type vector Date: 31 Jul 1997 14:54:00 -0700 Subject: Re: "words for snow"-type vector From: Harold Tessmann III Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Alice Faber wrote: > > bif@mv.mv.com (Bif) writes: > > >Simon Slavin (slavins@hearsay.demon.co.uk.NOJUNK) wrote: > > >: Is there anyone who plays Doom who /hasn't/ had Doom-like dreams ? > >: When I figured-out I was dreaming about the damn game I went cold > >: turkey for a month and played SimCity 2000 instead. Thank > >: I never got re-obsessed with it. > > >Never had dreams about Doom, but when I was seriously playing > >Civilization (by seriously, I mean 4+ hours a day), not only would I have > >very detailed Civ dreams, but sometimes (usually during a marathon Civ > >weekend) I would see a Civ game in progress if I merely shut my eyes. > >This was pretty disturbing, to say the least. > > Try playing Tetris in your sleep...of course it's much easier to control > the speed with which pieces fall, and you never hit the ceiling. > > Alice "and you never have to hear the damn music" Faber Once I was running in gym class and starting seeing Final Fantasy (an RPG for the original Nintendo (NES)) in front of my eyes. I was fighting a group of ogres and my black mage cast Ice2 on them. The first and third ones died, the other two were finished off by my other characters. Strangely enough, I hadn't played that game for about a week then. I also see Descent powerups rotating in front of my eyes when I play that for several hours at a time. I wonder if this is some sort of hypnotic suggestion implanted into our brains by the game manufacturers... Nah, probably the brain just keeps thinking about the game even when the body's doing something else.