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nAi.PrOtOsS
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Canada784 Posts
March 11 2008 17:26 GMT
#1
Somtimes when i play Starcraft and im in a very intense game, i go into a thing i like to call the void. Basically i cant hear anything other then the game, i completly ignore the music thats blasting in my ear and everything outside of the game. It's like i dont even excist, i have no consideration of time or place, just nothingness. Some on could come into the room (has happened before) and i wouldnt even notice, they could poke me and i still wouldnt notice. My entire concentration is on the game. Most times i cant even really remember what has happened in the game. Since i cant base any thing on personal expirience i wonder if this helps me play good or not. From what i kno of this i dont actual think in the void, so i imagine i play worse because im not THINKING. Does anyone else have any experience with this??

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Snet *
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States3573 Posts
March 11 2008 17:40 GMT
#2
Happens to me when I'm at class or work, I won't even remember the past 8 or so hours.
LastWish
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
2015 Posts
March 11 2008 17:41 GMT
#3
Well anything you do and repeat is being made automatic for you.
Automatic processes are in you subconsiousness, so you are no aware of them.
Sometimes if you do something in automatic mode and try to focus on what you do, you get frozen with no way to go on just start over.
This applies to really anything from shoe-laces to bicycling.
The advantage is you subconsious does everything faster and more precise if not interrupted.
- It's all just treason - They bring me down with their lies - Don't know the reason - My life is fire and ice -
Chill
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
Calgary25988 Posts
March 11 2008 17:43 GMT
#4
Dear God yes.

My subwoofer is under my desk, and I often put my feet on or near it. Often when I get in an intense game I'll subconsciously tense up, and as a result I jam my foot into the subwoofer, but I don't feel it. In really intense games, this goes on for over twenty minutes, numbing my foot.

So I'll finish the game, ease up, and then 2 seconds later have pain shoot up from my foot and I'll realize I've been jamming it into my subwoofer again. It happens less now, but in any game I'm concentrating really hard on that last awhile, I'll for sure do it.
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caution.slip
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States775 Posts
March 11 2008 17:48 GMT
#5
um...if i get a text message i wont hear it...

sounds like you're just concentrating really hard, you're probably playing ...faster....idk about "better."
Live, laugh, love
Pwntrucci[sR]
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada1519 Posts
March 11 2008 17:56 GMT
#6
Sounds like you are the dragon reborn. Gj
bg
CDRdude
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States5625 Posts
March 11 2008 18:18 GMT
#7
I sometimes can do something similar, but never for very long at a time. When I'm really concentrating, I can click faster, more accurately, and I'm better about my hotkeys (but my macro still sucks, lol) although this isn't quite what you described.
Force staff is the best item in the game.
zulu_nation8
Profile Blog Joined May 2005
China26351 Posts
March 11 2008 18:39 GMT
#8
youre always in a zone if you have to make millisecond reactions continuously for half an hour
ilj.psa
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Peru3081 Posts
March 11 2008 18:56 GMT
#9
i dont even notice when im hurting myself, like when im playing 1/1 and the game finishes i noticed i had my feet stuck and making pressure against the floor
Physician *
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
United States4146 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-03-11 19:08:25
March 11 2008 19:06 GMT
#10
I don't call it going into the void, I call it the engine taking control.. but yeah, happens to me too, and not only with StarCraft. I get this with Chess (blitz only) or running a code, in fact anything else in life that requires intense attention span.
"I have beheld the births of negative-suns and borne witness to the entropy of entire realities...."
Naib
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Hungary4843 Posts
March 11 2008 19:41 GMT
#11
Maybe this is the reason I can get nowhere near back to the "decent" level I once was on. I can't get into this state any more. In fact, this "state" pretty much happened to me only on matches with a high "stake" - LAN tourneys, Nation Wars, tournament games. Very rarely in ladder / practice games, sometimes it did when I knew my opponent was a big gun in the scene. Nowadays...I can't seem to focus that hard
Complete the cycle!
Mora
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
Canada5235 Posts
March 11 2008 20:05 GMT
#12
On March 12 2008 02:43 Chill wrote:
Dear God yes.

My subwoofer is under my desk, and I often put my feet on or near it. Often when I get in an intense game I'll subconsciously tense up, and as a result I jam my foot into the subwoofer, but I don't feel it. In really intense games, this goes on for over twenty minutes, numbing my foot.

So I'll finish the game, ease up, and then 2 seconds later have pain shoot up from my foot and I'll realize I've been jamming it into my subwoofer again. It happens less now, but in any game I'm concentrating really hard on that last awhile, I'll for sure do it.


muahahahaha

it gives me some sort of sick pleasure that i've caused your foot so much pain.

.....

i have.. haven't i?

*cry*
Happiness only real when shared.
drug_vict1m
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
844 Posts
March 11 2008 20:48 GMT
#13
On March 12 2008 03:39 zulu_nation8 wrote:
youre always in a zone if you have to make millisecond reactions continuously for half an hour

One must feel chaos within, to give birth to a dancing star.
IntoTheWow
Profile Blog Joined May 2004
is awesome32277 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-03-11 21:30:32
March 11 2008 21:30 GMT
#14
On March 12 2008 02:43 Chill wrote:
Dear God yes.

My subwoofer is under my desk, and I often put my feet on or near it. Often when I get in an intense game I'll subconsciously tense up, and as a result I jam my foot into the subwoofer, but I don't feel it. In really intense games, this goes on for over twenty minutes, numbing my foot.

So I'll finish the game, ease up, and then 2 seconds later have pain shoot up from my foot and I'll realize I've been jamming it into my subwoofer again. It happens less now, but in any game I'm concentrating really hard on that last awhile, I'll for sure do it.


I tap the ground with my feet like with a double bass. I get the something similar. All my feet tense and then sore.
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AcrossFiveJulys
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
United States3612 Posts
March 11 2008 21:53 GMT
#15
used to happen to me a lot when playing sc... happens all the time when playing super smash bros, and even when programming for school (like I code for 10 hours in a row and have no idea where the day went, etc). For me it's just an insane trance where all I care about is the task at hand. This feeling is intesified for me after I have a rockstar energy drink.
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24740 Posts
March 11 2008 22:02 GMT
#16
I didn't think it was serious until I read the replies... I don't think I've ever gone that far, but I'm probably just not good enough to get that into it haha.
ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
Phyre
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States1288 Posts
March 11 2008 22:10 GMT
#17
Something like this happened when I played fairly seriously awhile back. I'm not very good at all but when I focused a lot I would find myself going on auto-pilot for awhile which wasn't good because I wasn't thinking as much as I should have. Just macroing and going about the motions of sending units to attack.

Also, if I play long enough I seriously start holding my breath and end up with numb hands after matches.
"Oh no, I got you with your pants... on your face... That's not how you wear pants." - Nintu, catching 1 hatch lurks.
nAi.PrOtOsS
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Canada784 Posts
March 11 2008 23:13 GMT
#18
On March 12 2008 02:56 Pwntrucci[sR] wrote:
Sounds like you are the dragon reborn. Gj

hahahaha i kno thats were i got the name "the void" i thought it was a very good description. Those books very good lol.
ulszz
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
Jamaica1787 Posts
March 11 2008 23:20 GMT
#19
On March 12 2008 02:43 Chill wrote:
Dear God yes.

My subwoofer is under my desk, and I often put my feet on or near it. Often when I get in an intense game I'll subconsciously tense up, and as a result I jam my foot into the subwoofer, but I don't feel it. In really intense games, this goes on for over twenty minutes, numbing my foot.

So I'll finish the game, ease up, and then 2 seconds later have pain shoot up from my foot and I'll realize I've been jamming it into my subwoofer again. It happens less now, but in any game I'm concentrating really hard on that last awhile, I'll for sure do it.


I use my subwoofer as a foot rest also, it is srsly~ so good. Although I don't use it as a kicking bag .

"the void" I have gotten this for starcraft, will completely zone out my music. it's crazy.
everliving, everfaithful, eversure
xBTx
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
Canada542 Posts
March 12 2008 02:17 GMT
#20
Lol I thought you meant that you got banned from some channel and sent to 'The Void'.
stuffing feathers up your butt doesnt make you a chicken
Ilikestarcraft
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Korea (South)17731 Posts
March 12 2008 03:01 GMT
#21
me too

I get in the zone and like 4 hours pass and i never even notice.
"Nana is a goddess. Or at very least, Nana is my goddess." - KazeHydra
EmeraldSparks
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States1451 Posts
March 12 2008 05:20 GMT
#22
I read a story about how this one doctor was doing this many-hours super intense operation and when he finally finished he looked up and there was all this rubble in the corner of the building, because while he was operating a portion of the ceiling caved in but he didn't notice.
But why?
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