Realised it this morning
My brain would always just give me the shape I need to clear the line
Why is it always squares and straight lines?!
You don’t even know my real name
Leonardo
You re blessed, because i am bound to deal with whatever random BS is announced next. I ll take a call with developer
On long car rides, I would play mental Mario with the telephone poles and houses.
I still catch myself doing this on occasion!!
Im too stupid to remember the tiles I just placed
I can certainly play the Tetris theme in my head!
I do it very often and I suck
Yeah I didn’t go beyond 2 fulls lines
Aphantasia gang takes offense to this
I did it often when I was really into it. I had Tetris dreams, it honestly was cool.
Unless you have aphantasia. People with aphantasia are unable to mentally visualize. I close my eyes and it’s just blackness all the time.
Aphantasia is very intriguing for me. Everytime I try to think about it, I just can’t picture it.
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.
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.
So how you for ex, do you orient yourself in space? I visualize a map, and then position myself accordingly
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.
My favorite tetris fact is that it may help with PTSD flashbacks. Link for the curious.
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.
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.
I’m not very good, I forgot to clear a line I filled.
i only get squares, it’s super easy
Mine are always the shape of cheese doodles and I lose really quickly.
In boring meetings, I play Arkanoid with things around me.
