(AFD) The invisible health issue of self-isolation.

Biting the first reply to seperate my own examples out. Less spam ;P

With self-isolation, I finally broke Mini Metro out of my steam backlog, and now being unable to sleep without being stuck in a white abyss full of shape outlines and brightly coloured strings to pin between them. I had a period in my life where for several years, I would get a L4D-themed dream at least once every two weeks. That's right. Several. Years. The zombie swarms and such didn't have any real nightmare fear quality to it, and they didn't cause the weird fever-dream effect of loss of rest, and some of them were even kinda entertaining. Though the most guaranteed tetris effect exposure I've ever had, was the bilge pump minigame on the ancient Puzzle Pirates MMO. How I miss that game. How I don't miss being forced to relive it every night when I tried to snooze. Chime and Droplitz tried to get me but didn't quite make it. Strangely enough Devil Daggers never effected me.

I never knew it had a name.

Many years ago back in school, working on a major project. I dreamed in code for a couple weeks. Everything in the dream was lines of code, nothing had actual shape but it all made sense in the dream. lol.

I few years ago I was leaning Photoshop and creating procedures to train others for a job we were creating. I starting fixing cracks in the sidewalk as I walked outside, then being surprised when reality did not bend to my will. :)

But nothing was long term. A couple weeks every night for the one. Once in a blue moon for the other.

I'm sure its happened lots of other times but nothing that stands out that I remember.

Funny stuff.

Haven’t been able to use my computers as my kids use for school now and their own gaming.

I have spent my time making models of brain neurons from marbles and balloons. Goofy but fun,

My dreams rarely have anything to do with recent events, even if I've been playing the same game for a few days. There were a couple times I dreamed of playing SMBX levels, but that took years of being part of the community for it to happen.

if you play games so simple they give you nightmares you've got just really bad taste. no cure for that.

i get tetris effect all the bloody time and either find it hilarious or hate it depending on what is haunting me. most recent case is from playing 4 hrs of Into The Breach yesterday cos i had nothing better to do between waiting for the unemployment website to (try to) load and my dreams were in turn troubled with the invasion of Zak and the eventual downfall of my improperly managed team of Mecha.

Nope, i game as normal. My gaming sessions are perhaps longer.

I think the last game that haunted me in dreams was Hollow Knight. +Before entering White Palace location I accidentally watched maybe 10 seconds from Path of Pain on youtube and thought the whole location would be like this. Horrible nightmare 😂

I'd say it's gotten better since quarantine actually but during most of February into March I had the tetris effect with... tetris. Besides playing the game inside my head for hours when trying to sleep and then waking up to it, I also had the school theme on loop all day long some days. I normally love the song but good grief it was starting to drive me bonkers.

More recently I've had it with Dead by Daylight, will hear the huntress' lullaby and see the skill checks over and over. It's not nearly as intense/frequent as tetris was though, just on nights I play too long and sleep soon after.

I get it sometimes, but usually not for more than a few minutes and then it's gone. (Unless getting songs stuck in your head counts--that happens all the time, and it can last for days.)

The worst gaming-related case I ever had was years ago. I got addicted to Flash Flash Revolution, and then I started seeing arrows floating in front of me even when I was out and about. I quit playing entirely for quite a while, haha. Took about a week for the arrows to stop appearing.

Ssssh, I need total concentration while I build code for EXAPUNKS. If I can get this tricky bit figured out, I might even load up the game to actually test it someday.

And now we are dealing with 1 billion people dying from Covid-19 lockdown.