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What research has been done on this?

When I played FPS games, I would have visualizations of walking around with a gun (in a game world). These continued for a few years after I stopped.

Now I don't have them.

I was never violent, nor had any urge to violence. But I had tons of violent images. That's an interesting effect. Did anyone else have anything similar, and is there any research on this?

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Reminds me of the well known "Tetris effect" where you see falling blocks long after you stop playing the game. I have experienced both sensations, but have neither shot nor dropped bricks on anyone.

Same thing happens with falling arrows and DDR

True story: I got DDR not long before the second time I took the SAT. The night before the test, I played until around 4 AM. On test day, this is what I saw every time I blinked: http://i.imgur.com/hTk7Q.png

I'm a heavy player, and unfortunately I've never had the joy of seeing arrows flying around me during the day.

Interesting. I figured it was something like that, since the images didn't match any though patterns I was having.

Research has not been done because it's stopped politically every time they try.

That was one of the executive orders issued today, to study the connection if any and it's already being attacked viciously. The results will certainly be ignored as well.

The research is pointless.

Suppose you do the research and it tells you with great certainty that mentally unstable people who play quake are more likely to visit their local mall with a grenade launcher. What do you do? The video game is still free speech, and there is no way in hell it meets the 'imminent lawless action' test even if it has such an effect.

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