Het is weer eens tijd voor een uitslag van een bullshit onderzoek. Want Angelica Ortiz De Gortari claimt nu dat veel gamers na het uitzetten van de console of PC nog game geluiden in hun hoofd horen.... deze conclusie heeft ze getrokken door research te doen op FORUMS!! je weet wel internet en mensen die bullshit lullen en posten. Maar goed, hier is wat van deze poeppraat.

The research, published in the International Journal of Cyber Behaviour, Psychology and Learning proves, according to coauthor Angelica Ortiz De Gortari, that "video game playing can induce pseudo hallucinatory-like experiences".

The team, which works in the university's International Gaming Research Unit, focused on first-person accounts penned by 1,244 discussed on video game forums. They found that 12 percent of those people had at one point or another experienced auditory echoes of the games they played. The majority of those echoes were made up of sound effects, music and characters' voices, and did not need triggers to come to life.

Some of the 155 gamers in question heard them through the night, and others for two days in a row after playing for a longer stretch. But it didn't matter what the individual hearing them was doing -- it was not something tied to a dreamlike state before bed, but something they would hear during the day and while going about their usual lives and routines.

The gamers would complete phrases they heard in their minds, confuse real life sounds for those in the video game and sometimes hear music while involuntarily moving their fingers (presumably, as though playing the game). "Occasionally, the vividness of the sound evoked thoughts and emotions that resulted in behaviours and copying strategies," write the authors.