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You can totally play Tetris in your head (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Realised it this morning

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[–] 33 points 3 years ago (2 children)

My brain would always just give me the shape I need to clear the line

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    • [–] 31 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    On long car rides, I would play mental Mario with the telephone poles and houses.

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    • [–] 25 points 3 years ago

    Im too stupid to remember the tiles I just placed

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    [–] 23 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I do it very often and I suck

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    • [–] 23 points 3 years ago

    I can certainly play the Tetris theme in my head!

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    [–] 18 points 3 years ago

    Aphantasia gang takes offense to this

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    [–] 14 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I did it often when I was really into it. I had Tetris dreams, it honestly was cool.

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    • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Unless you have aphantasia. People with aphantasia are unable to mentally visualize. I close my eyes and it's just blackness all the time.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I can't visualize a tetris block, much less a whole tetris game. I think I could draw all the tetris blocks if I tried so the information is there, just not stored as jpg. More like a zipped text file.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah I have the same thing. I can sort of visualize the concept, like foggy still images of tetris games I've played but I cannot imagine a game setup where a piece would fall and complete a line. That is too specific. I can just do like general concepts, not specifics.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    So how you for ex, do you orient yourself in space? I visualize a map, and then position myself accordingly

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Maps in my head are useless. I get lost everywhere. When I went to university I walked so much more than I had to because of orientation issues. I get lost so easily. Even when playing games, if there is no map I just draw one myself because I have 0 reliability on my orientation skills. GPS was such a life saver for me. I rely waaay too much on it. For when I do not have the tools (GPS, map or other) I use visual cues in the background such as tall buildings, mountains or the sun's position. I don't really think about it since I've been doing this since I can remember but I always feel amazed at how others around me can just know which direction to start walking after coming out of a door. Eventually I do memorize it but it takes a while.

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    • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    My favorite tetris fact is that it may help with PTSD flashbacks. Link for the curious.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Since learning about this, I have decided to keep the game installed on my phone in case something wild happens (I'm thinking after witnessing an accident or something). It is sort of comforting to have a scientifically backed up mental strategy that is easily accessible, even if it's not a lot. I gather that tetris keeps the part of your brain responsible for looping images occupied with, well, tetris.

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    • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    Horizontal I block all the way to the left... horizontal I block next to the previous one... square block on the right.

    horizontal I block on the left and horizontal I block next to that.

    voila, all clear. Now repeat.

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    [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    i only get squares, it's super easy

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    • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    I'm not very good, I forgot to clear a line I filled.

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    [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    In boring meetings, I play Arkanoid with things around me.

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