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The Tetris effect

fuckyeahcomputerscience:

clee:

The Tetris effect occurs when an activity to which people devote sufficient time and attention begins to overshadow their thoughts, mental images, and dreams.
Computer programmers and developers sometimes have similar experiences, and report dreaming about code when they sleep at night, and return to work the next day feeling like they had never left.
  1. kick-the-ghost reblogged this from fuckyeahcomputerscience and added:
    THIS IS SERIOUSLY MY ENTIRE LIFE. ^
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    THIS HAPPENS TO ME ALL THE TIME.
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    Interesting thought; the apocalypse has already happened and no one knows (i.e. The Matrix), or a writer’s imagination...
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    I sometimes imagine similar things. One cannot help but wonder if it is not imagination, but in fact a glimpse of...
  12. silenceispain reblogged this from augustthoughts and added:
    I find myself having very disturbing apocalyptic dreams. This is probably a result of the veritable flood of apocalyptic...
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    i totally picture myself playing tetris all the time.;;
  17. beautifulanddamned reblogged this from failed-test-subject and added:
    @_@ I literally get this for everything I do a large amount of. When I start a new job, I dream about it for weeks.
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    silahkan ke gedung Benny Subianto untuk melihat fenomena ini *ampun teman-temanku yang sedang asyik mengerjakan Progin
  21. zeroisme reblogged this from fuckyeahcomputerscience and added:
    This used to happen to me when I played tons of DDR. I also dream about 3d modeling and digital sculpting from time to...
  22. augustthoughts reblogged this from breefield and added:
    I play flipwords in my dreams. Oh, and I moderate Fluther, too. That is just sad.
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    I can confirm this. I had a dream about nodes and edges last night..
  27. d2fang reblogged this from fuckyeahcomputerscience and added:
    When I play video games for 6+ hours.
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    In first year at Queen’s I went through a period where I played a ton of Tetris on facebook. Got quite good at it. Must...
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