Tetris and visualization

[Z-Byte]

Wow, there's such a thing as the Tetris effect! Huh! I just thought I was crazy when I started playing Puzzle Quest so much that I saw the game board when I closed my eyes.

[Laurora]

Tetris helps visualization, but I notice Minecraft helps me with visualization even more. When mining, I listen to the sound of mobs and figure out where they are to figure out where to dig to get to the cavern. When building, you have to visualize where the rooms will be, how high the walls will be, how it will look in the environment etc... I actually started building our wonderland and it really helped.

[abcdefg]

I used to play tetris so much that i could play it in my mind and it automaticly happened when i became sleepy/hypnagogic and no it didnt help at all

[mouse]

For example you play dead space 3 in excess, would you eventually be able to emulate it in your wonderland and fight slashers with you tulpa? Or perhaps gears of war Lucust drones... anything that doesn't talk and has no chance of evolving into a tulpa. I personally think it'd work.

 

I think it could work pretty well with a first person shooter or such where information isn't really stored and refered back to later. I've had this effect pretty strongly twice before, once from playing lots and lots of go, and once from getting stuck in my cabin for nearly a week and just playing sudoku all day long. It doesn't work very well with those games, atleast for me, since it would go along fine, I'd work out a problem on one side of the board, use that to extrapolate the solution on a different side of the board, and then later when I came back to the first side find out it had changed from how I had played it out (pieces in different positions or different numbers). So I did some expirements. I tried drawing out he sudoku puzzles on paper and writting down the numbers either as I saw them or worked them out, and reached the conclusion that the biggest reason it wasn't working was because my mind simply couldn't come up with a complete and consistant sudoku puzzle before I worked it out, it was only visualising the numbers on the board and I was conciously using the rules to try and fill them in, and when I focused on a portion I'd set asside it re-made the numbers as consistant with what I had just focused on even if it wasn't consistant with what was previously there. It was very much like lucid dreaming, where you percieve details that aren't truely there until you focus on them, and then if you focus on something else and come back the details have changed, you know? It wasn't imposed though, just in my mind's eye. (Afterwords I tried making some sudoku puzzles on paper from scratch and found it extraordinarily difficult).

I'm prone to focusing too much on one section of the board in games like chess and go, probably someone who plays more holisticly would be able to do it.

 

Also, I haven't forgotten your other thread, Wrath! I gave up on the woodcut of Mt. Fuji, but I'm going make a couple drawings from different perspectives of an imposed 3d lotus flower I used to use at the monastery for practice, and a really odd looking 2d elephant image I made a long time ago.

[historical]

Here's an idea, If you spend enough time playing a game with AI and memorized their movement and behavior patterns, could you create an AI servitor?

 

Having modded Halo Combat Evolved for years as a hobby, I can honestly say sometimes I swear the characters live in my head and help me when I mod >.>

 

That and I can pretty much predict all the dialog for one of the levels in its entirety.

[Lacquer]

I'll definitely have to start playing Tetris.