How often have games made you do a double take in real life?

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How often have games made you do a double take in real life? - midwest.social

Maybe you see a plant you have to collect in game or a rock wall that looks different. What items have you caught out of the corner of your eye that you realized was just your brain so focused on looking for things in a game that you saw it IRL and made you double take?

Back when I was playing a bunch of Oblivion, I was doing the quest to find Nirnroot (Seeking Your Roots). I was spending so much time looking for them I started seeing them in real life out of the corner of my eye (it was usually actually thistle).
Well duh you just gotta use the explosive in your inventory
Played too much TOTK, saw a bird and thought of snapping a pic for the compendium
To be fair, that’s a real hobby. People spend a lot of their free time snapping pictures of birds.

Right when I was playing Horizon Forbidden West, I saw a wrapped up chair that had tape in a blue cross on it, so it looked exactly like the things you can use your pullcaster on in the game. My first thought upon glancing at it was “Oh, I can use my pullcaster on that!”

…No. No, I can not. It’s real life; I do not have a pullcaster and there are no robot dinosaurs.

No. No, I can not. It’s real life; I do not have a pullcaster and there are no robot dinosaurs.

That's unfortunate

When I play a lot of Rainbow 6 Siege I have the urge to shoot out security cameras IRL
I did that when playing Splinter Cell. That, and looking for pipes to climb.
@JaymesRS 10 years ago i had dreams where people have healthbars above their heads. I blame WoW for that.
When I first started modding Skyrim back in 2012, I spent a solid week solely on water mods looking for something I liked. One day near the end of the week I was walking to work, and I had to cross a bridge. I looked out over the water and had a momentary thought about checking what water mod "they" were using.
January 4, 2012 -had been playing skyrim like I needed the overtime for just about 2 weeks. Off on a ski trip, and someone was seated nearby, but facing away. My first thought was how I could pickpocket them...
I’m playing totk and now when I see an overhang something clicks in my brain.
I live at the top of a hill and keep thinking “oh it’ll take no time if I shield surf my way down”
Finally kicked the KoolAid

You guys all make me feel old.

I can remember seeing everything like tetris blocks or back when after playing guitar hero long enough, the table looked like it was growing.

You guys all make me feel old.

I can remember seeing everything like tetris blocks or back when after playing guitar hero long enough, the table looked like it was growing.

Every time I’ve had to move into a new place, I catch myself humming at least one of the 3 Tetris songs without realizing it. Usually it’s Music-1 or Music-2.
there’s a known psychological phenomenon that people who play lots of tetris sometimes see tetris when they close their eyes and dream about it in their sleep
I had some really weird VRish dreams when I first got VR and started using it. Especially if you use it before bed for VR Wikipedia or whatever.
I used to imagine using a portal gun on various buildings to get to school.

Playing The Sinking City and it’s all relatively themed appropriately… And then I come to the graveyard where I can look at headstones and see “<name> - 3, 2, 1, Respawning in ERROR: CONNECTION RESET”

lol

I fell into PUBG pretty hard when it hit early access a few years ago. To the point that one day, whilst at work I saw something on the floor and off in the distance. For a breif second I mistook it for a Vector submachine gun.

After playing Valheim, I started pointing out birch trees to one of my friends who also played.

“Ooh, look, a fine wood tree. And another. And another. Oh wow, is this the plains?”

I play rainbow6 siege quite a bit, and anytime I spot dome security cameras I get the intense urge to take them out.