Gamers Who Play For Hours Are Prone To Hallucinations

I've never had hallucinations, but I have sometimes wished I could press escape and skip the dialog when speaking with some people. :)
 
Wow, really!

I think these ppl need to take LSD/Mushrooms/insert trippy drug/ before they say they saw something.
 
Sheckles P. Bingeworthy and I game for hours on end without problems. Sheckles is a plaid elephant, the most trustworthy type of elephant, he would tell me if there was something wrong.
 
I'm sorry guys, but its entirely true. After hour upon hour long marathon sessions of gaming, you might reach the point were you get so hungry -- you make the mistake of considering McDonalds food 'food'. That's a clear misinterpretation of of a real life object. You meant in hallucinate that it takes good or hallucinate a belief that the small amount of bread with an even smaller amount of flimsy meat inside somehow constitutes a 'burger'.
 
In high school, I almost always had a HUD. Everything was either cinematic or BF3/Halo 3-4/Half-Life OpFor/sci-fi mechanics. In PE, I had an imaginary drill sergeant constantly yelling and screaming at me motivating me to ignore the neurological signals of my body and push on like it was nothing (and successful I was), treating me like a soldier, programming my mind further into an emotionless machine. Volleyball was my first love, and that is where I fantasized about battlefields, combat, and more military training.

Nowadays I like to fantasize about humanoid mechs -- think anything but Gundam (I don't like those mechs) such as Zone of the Enders orbital frames, Eureka 7, Eureka Aio, all seasons of Full Metal Panic, Fafner in the Azure, Infinite Stratos, Heroic Age, Vandread, and a few others I can't remember off the top of my head -- and combine it with ultra-epic intense music like Brickwall Audio Last Stand 2k11 and the first 3-5 tracks in this 1-hour epic music video. I don't fantasize/dream/experience these things hardly even close to the amount and intensity I had during my high school years several years ago.

;-;

sometimes I feel really silly, pitiful, and like some wimp-nerd (stereotyping now) who has no friends and never had gf. Lately I fantasize about like being some super weapon of mass destruction by being some ultra experimental bio-integrated military asset permanently outfitted to a humanoid "mecha" (not really a mecha but takes the appearance of an orbital frame + Infinite Stratos anime). Sometimes a similar fantasy with the Gekko aircraft from Eureka 7 anime involved. At the end of the day I realize how stupid these fantasies of mine are .. how far and out of touch with reality they are .. how self-centered they are (maybe I'm lacking sufficient healthy attention?)

*shrugs*
 
I see colored images on the side of the road ever day. They tell me which exits are coming up. I also see a HUD on my windshield, because my car has a HUD on the windshield.
 
and here I thought it was the mushrooms I been buying off my mate :rolleyes:
 
LOL been playing games for almost 20yrs not not once has this happen.... damnit that would be cool tho :)
 
I actually have had mild auditory hallucinations after playing games for too many hours, but the game-playing was accompanied by not getting enough sleep and the hallucinations manifested as screams that had nothing to do with whatever game I was playing.

It was clearly my brain screaming at me to get some damn sleep.
 
A few weeks ago I was driving and some sun glinted off of a car window, and for a split second I looked to find the sniper.
 
I remember my first real life car crash at 60mph on the highway into a stopped vehicle. The whole thing was cinematic, like cutscenes from BF3 or Halo. Every. moment. was. CINEMATIC. It was cloudy with rain (but no fog). Man.. of all memories and experiences, it was one of the best, most thrilling, most enjoyable, and awesome! I couldn't help but to think that I was fully immersed in this awesome FPS computer game that had top-notch DX10/11 shaders and graphics.

It was like one of those moments where you're in a humvee in Arabia or something and then all of a sudden BOOM IED and you open your eyes to find the humvee flipped over and ur mates dead (I didn't have any passengers with me tho) and looking around 1 pass then try to open the door but can't with smoke and fog in all FOV and a spark somewhere else and sirens heard from the exterior environment, etc.

Then someone assists with opening door cuz u could only open it a handful of inches, and you sprawl out of the vehicle and prop hold you upperself up propped with your one of your hands and arms, and later have the lay down because you're drained of energy... and you notice the rain dropping and splashing on the pavement and the refraction and reflection shaders at work, weather physics, dynamic environmental skybox with moving clouds and huge LOD

<3

Yes, I am serious. :)
 
What a worthwhile use of grant funds from the Government over their. Those cancer research studies simply doesn't deserve such immediate attention compared to such a must know study like this :rolleyes:
 
PS. it was like a dream come true (not the crash part, but the cinematic immersive FPS computer game-like experience)
 
lol, someone who is struggling to find work wants a research grant.
Nice attempt, wrong topic.

I've never had hallucinations from gaming and I've not come across or heard of anyone having them either.
 
Who were they interviewing 12 year olds, "pop down menu during a conversation"?

I just ignore people I am not listening to, and I focus on what I'm doing.
 
The closest to this "study" I have come is a feeling of being things being a little "off" after playing an engrossing game or reading a particularly good book. I think that is more of a shifting gears away from putting myself into the story.
 
We can hallucinate from playing too many video games?
Those lucky twerps! Kids these days have it so easy!
When I was younger, we had to use DRUGS and those were expensive! Plus if we got caught there was jail time!
Where's the fun without the risk?
/joke
 
Kongar said:
Remember the first time you played Tetris? And then you went to bed, and you closed your eyes, and you saw little tetris pieces falling into place in your mind? Kind of how a bad tune gets stuck in your head?

They are probably talking about that - and choosing their words poorly. "hallucinations" ... Umm ok, I guess.
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Yeah, Tetris was a real mindworm, I found myself mentaly matching pieces even when I wasn't playing, almost like a 'picture in picture' in my peripheral vision, that was when I knew I should stop playing it.

I also agree that hallucinations is probably a poor choice of words. If they'd said "Gamers who play for hours are prone to having their in-game decision logic affecting their real world decisions" then fuck yeah, I've experienced that.
The driving lesson years ago that went badly immediately after playing a lot of Need For Speed 3.
Going to shift click someones name in an email to see where they are & if they're at their desk (WoW)
Thiking of the interval for taking medication as it's 'cooldown' (WoW again)

And many more...

I've never done something stupid IRL because I was under the delusion I could quickload if it didn't work out (as awesome as that would be) but games I've really got into have certainly influenced my decision making behaviour on a subtle level.

That probably says more about the way I'm wired than about games in general though.
 
BS.

I have had some epic gaming binges in my younger days. On more than one occasion I started playing in the afternoon and played until sunrise the next day. Burnt out, dog tired: Yes. Hallucinations: No.

What often did happen, is that I had a hard time sleeping after epic gaming sessions, because when I closed my eyes and was drifting off, I was back in the game...
 
Does the automatic instinct to reach out into the air to hit Ctrl+F to find something happen to anyone else? Sometimes it's such a powerful instinct it almost throws me back putting me in aweshock that such an attempt even happened.
 
There are too many political activists masquerading as scientists nowadays. Some fascist who thinks computer games are too violent, sucking on the governments teat via grant money, trying to impose their insipid values on everyone else, are publishing bogus studies to advance their nazi agenda.
 
I can honestly say I've experience something similar to what they report, I cannot deny it happened.

I had finished spending a couple of hours blowing through stop lights in Test Drive Unlimited and then headed off for work. I actually blew through a red light getting onto the highway without a second thought. As I left the onramp onto the highway, I realized in horror that I didn't even realize I had done it!
 
mavrocket said:
I can honestly say I've experience something similar to what they report, I cannot deny it happened.

I had finished spending a couple of hours blowing through stop lights in Test Drive Unlimited and then headed off for work. I actually blew through a red light getting onto the highway without a second thought. As I left the onramp onto the highway, I realized in horror that I didn't even realize I had done it!
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lol, the first question Police will ask you is "Have you been playing NFS Sir?".
 
its well known that gaming and more importantly close proximity to a computer monitor while gaming for long stretches increases dopamine. People prone to psychosis could easily hallucinate as a result. This phenomena is well known in psychiatry and is due in large part to the stimulating effects of gaming keeping people up late or all night. In cases of severe depression a psychiatrist will tell the patient to stay up all night ( only one night ) because of the powerful anti depressant effect. Obviously if one engages in this too much they get flung to the opposite end of the spectrum, psychosis.

Twenty years of bipolar. I cannot game in front of a computer monitor, period. If I'm 8-10 feet from a TV with a controller I'm good. I do find gaming a few hours a day significantly reduces my depression but if I game too much I end up anxious with racing thoughts.

Moderation.
 
The closest I have ever been to any of this was when I was fixing some PC issues at work during Christmas Eve (IT was the only dept open), and the whole building was empty and the lights flickered on in this office area that sorta looked like a scene in HL1. That is about it. I can see how it can happen to some people, but I doubt it happens to the majority of gamers..
 
TeeJayHoward said:
I'm not even a gamer and I've had this happen. I can't count the number of times I've left work after working in Photoshop, and my brain complains about the clouds not looking right, or trees being too two-dimensional.
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Just try looking at roof top edges...you will see aliasing in real life and think it sucks.
 
i have been playing games for hours on end since the 80's

and i only had a hallucination once, but was in the hospital and it was a medication that did not sit well with me but yea :p
 
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It seems like most people haven't experienced this, but I have.

If I spend more than 6 hours non-stop playing the same game (especially if I have been doing it for days), I will start to see distinctive elements from that game whenever my eyes are closed, this effect can last for hours after I stop playing the game.

With FPSes I see the cross-hair from the game, with RTSes I see blobs with health-bars above them, with games containing lots of quoick-time-events (like the new batman games) I start seeing unreadable text at the bottom of my vision, When I'm driving on the highway (in real life) I see the lines on the road

I think it has to do with the visual elements that I am most focused on, and when that stimulation is suddenly cut off, my brain starts creating its own visual stimulation.
 
sir-gold said:
It seems like most people haven't experienced this, but I have.

If I spend more than 6 hours non-stop playing the same game (especially if I have been doing it for days), I will start to see distinctive elements from that game whenever my eyes are closed...
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The article was talking about seeing things with their eyes open.

After epic gaming sessions, as I mentioned previous. I have a hard time sleeping, because pretty much as soon as a I close my eyes, I am visualizing being back in the game. But I wouldn't call that hallucinating.
 
Snowdog said:
The article was talking about seeing things with their eyes open.

After epic gaming sessions, as I mentioned previous. I have a hard time sleeping, because pretty much as soon as a I close my eyes, I am visualizing being back in the game. But I wouldn't call that hallucinating.
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From the article:
"Among the categories of experience recorded were "multisensorial", for example hearing video game music, and "retinal sensations" when players see "game elements intermittently or episodically in the back of the eyelids"."
 
Volume said:
When you start seeing red nameplates over strangers, that's when you should worry.
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At least it would solve the issues with forgetting people's names and possibly ID friends and foes.
 
WaltC said:
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