Tetris Effect - Other Examples

Other Examples

The Tetris effect can occur with other video games, with any prolonged visual task (such as classifying cells on microscope slides, weeding, picking or sorting fruit, flipping burgers, driving long distances, or playing board games such as chess or go), and in other sensory modalities. In kinesthesis, a person newly on land after spending long periods at sea may move with an unbidden rocking motion, having become accustomed to the ship making such movements (known as sea legs or mal de debarquement). Computer programmers and developers sometimes have similar experiences, and report dreaming about code when they sleep. Similarly, students of mathematics may report dreaming of numbers or equations. People who play a certain game constantly for a long period of time will realize when they try to sleep their thoughts will be in a different fashion than usual.