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Do you still experience yourself as a wolf with paws and wind in your fur?
by dr_kiszonka 6y ago
Do you still experience yourself as a wolf with paws and wind in your fur?
- kayodelycaon 6y agoNo, but I have developed a different issue with disassociation. If I’m outside under bright sunlight in an open area, I can sometimes see trees starting to become pixelated. I slowly find myself thinking in a character in a video game. This is somewhat dangerous. Actions in a video game generally has few meaningful little consequences. In the real world, death has a annoying tendency to be rather permanent.
- slazaro 6y agoThis will sound very stupid or like a joke, but I'm not joking: Maybe if you play (almost) exclusively games with permadeath, where the consequences of dying are bigger, could at least hard-wire some kind of survival instinct in your head in case you get lost in this surreal feeling? In the worst case scenario you played some good games.
- kayodelycaon 6y agoI don't think it's stupid or a joke. It's actually a pretty interesting suggestion that may work pretty well under different circumstances. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to focus on video games for a long time. What little energy left after work goes into the continuous maintenance that is life (showering, eating, cleaning). Sometimes I have enough focus left to sacrifice one of those to write stories.