Playing Tetris Can Help Tame Traumatic Memories (2017)

Re:Playing Tetris Can Help Tame Traumatic Memories (2017) by elil17 on Friday October 08, 2021 @01:59PM (#28802147)

I had a friend who had a very traumatic childhood and he was constantly playing Tetris. He said he saw the bricks when he closed his eyes. Helped him get through things.

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Re:Playing Tetris Can Help Tame Traumatic Memories (2017) by DizzyDoo on Friday October 08, 2021 @02:23PM (#28802406)

The phenomenon of 'seeing' or imagining Tetris shapes and 'fitting' them around things is known as the 'tetris effect'[0] and is quite common. In my experience you don't need to play Tetris that long to experience it. It's so well known that the Tetris Company named one of their most recent games after it [1].

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_Effect

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Re:Playing Tetris Can Help Tame Traumatic Memories (2017) by Karawebnetwork on Friday October 08, 2021 @03:57PM (#28803475)

It's not exactly the same thing, but to this day I hear the Tetris theme whenever I have to do something very stressful (for example, fixing a broken website with the CEO on my back).

I adopted it and now hum it to relax.

Interestingly, I'm pretty high on the aphantasia scale, so maybe it's just my brain's way of playing the "tetris effect."

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