How come f I look at porn for a long time, for the rest of the day when I close my eyes pornographic images appear in my vision? It’s scarey!
Um, for the same reason that if you’ve been driving a truck down the Interstate all day, when you close your eyes, you still see white lines?
Why does the brain do that, anyway? I have no clue. But wouldn’t it be nice if we could re-program the brain so that when we close our eyes after driving a truck down the Interstate all day, it shows us porn instead of white lines…
i used to play Bond so much (and quite shittily at first), that as i fell asleep, whatever images were before my closed eyes had bullets zipping around.
i dunno the name for this phenomenon, maybe Tetris Vision (i am dead serious), but i remember reading about it. seems this particular persistence of vision was first noticed in army pilots, which pilots would train on jet simulators all day, and then get into a statistically unlikely number of car accidents thereafter.
a peanut to whoever can refresh that memory-
jb
When I used to play freecell compulsively I used to walk around playing it with people. Male (black) on female (red) by height (card value).
God yeah I really suffered from Tetris vision at one point. Endless little blocks falling down in my head and before my eyes, with me sort of mentally arranging them into patterns. I get it a bit now with Reversi on my Nokia phone, but not nearly so badly.
man oh man. have you all heard of the building at MIT where some ingenious engineers connected the lighting to a computer, such that one (and i don’t mean a theoretical ‘one’, but an actual swear-to-god one-could-play-tetris-on-the-side-of-a-building-if-one-went-to-Boston ‘one’) can play Tetris using the room lights on the multiple stories?
had i randomly seen that in the midst of my own tetris visions (about five years ago; goddamn gameboy!), i surely would have flipped a krunky lid.
jb
I just had to chime in and say I use to play tetris so much that those damn shapes would stay in my head all day; along with how I would put them together!
I must confess that I didn’t believe that when I first read it, so I went a-googling.
Apparently it was not MIT but Brown university, where a library was turned into a tetris game for a week in 2000. (cite)
Dammit you guys, when I see a thread that has “pornography” in the title, I wanna read about PORNOGRAPHY, not Tetris!!
Anyway, to continue the discussion in the way it’s going…ever try playing a smash-em-up racing game (such as Carmageddon) and take a drive on the freeway immediately afterwards? It’s soooo tempting…
Have you ever had sex but Imagined you were playing Tetris
God, yes. Especially after a few rounds of Crazy Taxi…
So that when you fianlly go blind, you’ll remember how you got that way :D.