The Tetris effect (also known as Tetris Syndrome) occurs when people devote sufficient time and attention to an activity that it begins to overshadow their thoughts, mental images, and dreams.
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People who play Tetris for a prolonged amount of time may then find themselves thinking about ways different shapes in the real world can fit together, such as the boxes on a supermarket shelf or the buildings on a street.
It happen to me to sometimes visualize myself using the mouse arrow to move things within the real world, or try to use ⎌ “Undo” on something that was cut wrong with the saw or with the knife.
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But today I read another one, which seems to be a better fit for us, developers:
If Tetris has taught me anything, is that errors pile up and accomplishments disappear.
Surprisingly I’ve never had this problem even though I spend enormous amount of time at the computer. Even in dreams very rarely. The closest I’ve ever got to it was seeing lines of code when I closed my eyes, but that would fade away fairly quickly and was probably more of a visual issue (my poor eyes). The minute I go away from the computer the whole thing just disappears from my mind.
I think I have this kind of syndrome, there are times that when I sleep I dreamed of tetris blocks and formed it somewhere. and honestly most of my time, I spend it playing tetris, is it bad?
I’m with daemon, I spend unhealthy amounts of time coding and it usually doesn’t effect me…immediately anyways.
When I code, I listen to music. The problem with that is that I’ll listen to the same 5 or 6 songs ALL EFFIN DAY! Sometimes I’ll listen to the same song over and over all day without break. Years later, if I hear that song again I have these extremely violent flashbacks of me coding. Like, literally I can see, smell, and taste everything that happened that day - it’s kind of trippy.
I can certainly recognize the “listen to one song/album all day” behavior! What I can say is that, for example, Vangelis and Jon Anderson always brings back Christmas nights for me.
But I can’t say the same about flashbacks of me coding…