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You know when you've played the same level of a game a thousand times, and you can do it without thinking about it?
You'll get to the boss, and have absolutely no memory whatsoever of how you got that far?
That's because your brain is capable of working on auto-pilot for things it has done a million or so times. Like that car journey you make every single day.
So you can quite easily complete those early levels of games without engaging the conscious mind at all. It only kicks in when something out of the ordinary happens, or something you haven't come accross before, so no auto-pilot route would have been set.
The mind truely is a funny thing. (Or is that just mine?)
Anyway, more brain stuff what I learnt.
Positive thinking works wonders.
The unconscious mind cannot differentiate between something real, and something that has been vividly imagined.
That's a fact.
So if you visualize yourself achieving something in a game, such as taking down a huge boss, or making one of those huge jumps in old school platformers, if you really can see yourself doing it, then you can trick your mind into thinking you've done it before.
If you've done it before you can certainly do it again. This way you can build up real self belief in your ability (as a gamer) and go out there and go back to those games that defeated you. Visualize your goal, take down that enemy in your head, and soon enough the power of the mind and the fingers combined will ensure that victory is yours.
Anyway, more stuff.
The Dominant Thought Theory. This ties in with what i was saying earlier, about self belief, kind of.
The dominant thought theory suggests that you're more likely to get what you're thinking of.
If you're playinga racing game, for instance, and you want to take a corner really tight, if you think "I must not hit the tree on the corner" your dominant thought is of the tree, and that's probably what you'll hit. When you start to think "I must go for that open space just there" then that's your dominant though, and more often than not (skill-pending) you'll find that space, take that corner perfectly, and beat your best lap time.
It works in real life too. What's the betting that when Gareth Southgate took THAT penalty he was thinking "Mustn't miss!" rather than thinking "I'm going to blast this into the top corner" which is probably what Shearer was thinking during that same penalty shootout.
So there, read my words and go forth and be positive thinking gamers, believe in yourselves and you'll do better than ever before.
Go now and play games then report back to me with your findings. ;-)
You'll get to the boss, and have absolutely no memory whatsoever of how you got that far?
That's because your brain is capable of working on auto-pilot for things it has done a million or so times. Like that car journey you make every single day.
So you can quite easily complete those early levels of games without engaging the conscious mind at all. It only kicks in when something out of the ordinary happens, or something you haven't come accross before, so no auto-pilot route would have been set.
The mind truely is a funny thing. (Or is that just mine?)
Anyway, more brain stuff what I learnt.
Positive thinking works wonders.
The unconscious mind cannot differentiate between something real, and something that has been vividly imagined.
That's a fact.
So if you visualize yourself achieving something in a game, such as taking down a huge boss, or making one of those huge jumps in old school platformers, if you really can see yourself doing it, then you can trick your mind into thinking you've done it before.
If you've done it before you can certainly do it again. This way you can build up real self belief in your ability (as a gamer) and go out there and go back to those games that defeated you. Visualize your goal, take down that enemy in your head, and soon enough the power of the mind and the fingers combined will ensure that victory is yours.
Anyway, more stuff.
The Dominant Thought Theory. This ties in with what i was saying earlier, about self belief, kind of.
The dominant thought theory suggests that you're more likely to get what you're thinking of.
If you're playinga racing game, for instance, and you want to take a corner really tight, if you think "I must not hit the tree on the corner" your dominant thought is of the tree, and that's probably what you'll hit. When you start to think "I must go for that open space just there" then that's your dominant though, and more often than not (skill-pending) you'll find that space, take that corner perfectly, and beat your best lap time.
It works in real life too. What's the betting that when Gareth Southgate took THAT penalty he was thinking "Mustn't miss!" rather than thinking "I'm going to blast this into the top corner" which is probably what Shearer was thinking during that same penalty shootout.
So there, read my words and go forth and be positive thinking gamers, believe in yourselves and you'll do better than ever before.
Go now and play games then report back to me with your findings. ;-)
I agree with you there Meka, the mind does seem to run in autopilot when playing some of the easier levels in games.
In Super Mario Bros on the Super Nintendo (part of the Super Mario Allstart compilation), I can complete the first couple of levels very easily and very quickly with no trouble at all.
Also, when I had to have an operation, I was under a general anaesthetic. As soon as I was asleep, I had a dream that I was completing that first level, and when I finished it, I woke up. That was about an hour later (but only seconds in my mind)
I think it depends on how much you are interested in games. Those who are hardcore fans of movies may end up dreaming that they are taking part in the destruction of the Deathstar, or trying to survive on the Titanic; hardcore fans of reading books may dream about solving some of Sherlock Holmes' mysteries, or dream about being part of one of Stephen King's stories.
It effects everyone in similar ways. Afterall, isn't dreaming images brought up by the mind of things you have thought about or done?
In Super Mario Bros on the Super Nintendo (part of the Super Mario Allstart compilation), I can complete the first couple of levels very easily and very quickly with no trouble at all.
Also, when I had to have an operation, I was under a general anaesthetic. As soon as I was asleep, I had a dream that I was completing that first level, and when I finished it, I woke up. That was about an hour later (but only seconds in my mind)
I think it depends on how much you are interested in games. Those who are hardcore fans of movies may end up dreaming that they are taking part in the destruction of the Deathstar, or trying to survive on the Titanic; hardcore fans of reading books may dream about solving some of Sherlock Holmes' mysteries, or dream about being part of one of Stephen King's stories.
It effects everyone in similar ways. Afterall, isn't dreaming images brought up by the mind of things you have thought about or done?
locky1133 wrote:
> My mind does funny stuff. When in the car, instead of watchin the road, I
> imagine someone (say Tony Hawk) grinding the fence!!!
Oh my god. Thats plain silly. :o) And dangerous. very..
Imagine if Tony Hawk jumped over your car in a traffic jam. :-D
> My mind does funny stuff. When in the car, instead of watchin the road, I
> imagine someone (say Tony Hawk) grinding the fence!!!
Oh my god. Thats plain silly. :o) And dangerous. very..
Imagine if Tony Hawk jumped over your car in a traffic jam. :-D
My mind does funny stuff. When in the car, instead of watchin the road, I imagine someone (say Tony Hawk) grinding the fence!!!
SO that's why, you try beating a boss or tricky section for hours, learning and remembering your mistakes and get nowhere, but come back fresh the next day and beat it first go...
More or less makes sense...
More or less makes sense...
In the visualisation aspect, there is a problem........
If you imagine yourself defeating something which had previously defeated you beyond your ability, visuaising yourself winning, wont ultimately help..........
If you visualisie your win, it will be false, as your visualisation will not be limited to the reactions which you yourself contain. Hand eye co-ordination is achieved, not through visualisation, but thorugh the training and testing of the brain through many different situations, but people still have a natural limit. Most people also wouldn't be able to visualtise every possibiliy which a game could throw at them, and even if they could, they may not have the necessary reaction time for their conscious to avoid the attack.
Rather than a physical ability, what this can do is allow the player to build up a self-esteem and confidence to conquer a game. A confident person performs better than they would if they were negative about any given situation, they also think less about what they are doing, and act more on their instinct. This is possible because confidence goes hand in hand with self-belief and an increase in one, leads to an increase in the other, unless the confidence is aimed negatively in the first place.....
So, I agree, that for some people this is a good method of overcoming gaming problems, but for some, the tried and tested method of practise will lead to an increase in self-belief which will lead to an increase in performance, which will continue until that person reaches their ultimate ability.
If you imagine yourself defeating something which had previously defeated you beyond your ability, visuaising yourself winning, wont ultimately help..........
If you visualisie your win, it will be false, as your visualisation will not be limited to the reactions which you yourself contain. Hand eye co-ordination is achieved, not through visualisation, but thorugh the training and testing of the brain through many different situations, but people still have a natural limit. Most people also wouldn't be able to visualtise every possibiliy which a game could throw at them, and even if they could, they may not have the necessary reaction time for their conscious to avoid the attack.
Rather than a physical ability, what this can do is allow the player to build up a self-esteem and confidence to conquer a game. A confident person performs better than they would if they were negative about any given situation, they also think less about what they are doing, and act more on their instinct. This is possible because confidence goes hand in hand with self-belief and an increase in one, leads to an increase in the other, unless the confidence is aimed negatively in the first place.....
So, I agree, that for some people this is a good method of overcoming gaming problems, but for some, the tried and tested method of practise will lead to an increase in self-belief which will lead to an increase in performance, which will continue until that person reaches their ultimate ability.
You've been posting a few 'mind-related' gaming posts recently. It's interesting stuff. Are there more on the way? Where have you been getting the info from?
You know weird things happen when I visualise areas that are difficult in Zelda oracle of Seasons.
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You know when you've played the same level of a game a thousand times, and you can do it without thinking about it?
You'll get to the boss, and have absolutely no memory whatsoever of how you got that far?
That's because your brain is capable of working on auto-pilot for things it has done a million or so times. Like that car journey you make every single day.
So you can quite easily complete those early levels of games without engaging the conscious mind at all. It only kicks in when something out of the ordinary happens, or something you haven't come accross before, so no auto-pilot route would have been set.
The mind truely is a funny thing. (Or is that just mine?)
Anyway, more brain stuff what I learnt.
Positive thinking works wonders.
The unconscious mind cannot differentiate between something real, and something that has been vividly imagined.
That's a fact.
So if you visualize yourself achieving something in a game, such as taking down a huge boss, or making one of those huge jumps in old school platformers, if you really can see yourself doing it, then you can trick your mind into thinking you've done it before.
If you've done it before you can certainly do it again. This way you can build up real self belief in your ability (as a gamer) and go out there and go back to those games that defeated you. Visualize your goal, take down that enemy in your head, and soon enough the power of the mind and the fingers combined will ensure that victory is yours.
Anyway, more stuff.
The Dominant Thought Theory. This ties in with what i was saying earlier, about self belief, kind of.
The dominant thought theory suggests that you're more likely to get what you're thinking of.
If you're playinga racing game, for instance, and you want to take a corner really tight, if you think "I must not hit the tree on the corner" your dominant thought is of the tree, and that's probably what you'll hit. When you start to think "I must go for that open space just there" then that's your dominant though, and more often than not (skill-pending) you'll find that space, take that corner perfectly, and beat your best lap time.
It works in real life too. What's the betting that when Gareth Southgate took THAT penalty he was thinking "Mustn't miss!" rather than thinking "I'm going to blast this into the top corner" which is probably what Shearer was thinking during that same penalty shootout.
So there, read my words and go forth and be positive thinking gamers, believe in yourselves and you'll do better than ever before.
Go now and play games then report back to me with your findings. ;-)
You'll get to the boss, and have absolutely no memory whatsoever of how you got that far?
That's because your brain is capable of working on auto-pilot for things it has done a million or so times. Like that car journey you make every single day.
So you can quite easily complete those early levels of games without engaging the conscious mind at all. It only kicks in when something out of the ordinary happens, or something you haven't come accross before, so no auto-pilot route would have been set.
The mind truely is a funny thing. (Or is that just mine?)
Anyway, more brain stuff what I learnt.
Positive thinking works wonders.
The unconscious mind cannot differentiate between something real, and something that has been vividly imagined.
That's a fact.
So if you visualize yourself achieving something in a game, such as taking down a huge boss, or making one of those huge jumps in old school platformers, if you really can see yourself doing it, then you can trick your mind into thinking you've done it before.
If you've done it before you can certainly do it again. This way you can build up real self belief in your ability (as a gamer) and go out there and go back to those games that defeated you. Visualize your goal, take down that enemy in your head, and soon enough the power of the mind and the fingers combined will ensure that victory is yours.
Anyway, more stuff.
The Dominant Thought Theory. This ties in with what i was saying earlier, about self belief, kind of.
The dominant thought theory suggests that you're more likely to get what you're thinking of.
If you're playinga racing game, for instance, and you want to take a corner really tight, if you think "I must not hit the tree on the corner" your dominant thought is of the tree, and that's probably what you'll hit. When you start to think "I must go for that open space just there" then that's your dominant though, and more often than not (skill-pending) you'll find that space, take that corner perfectly, and beat your best lap time.
It works in real life too. What's the betting that when Gareth Southgate took THAT penalty he was thinking "Mustn't miss!" rather than thinking "I'm going to blast this into the top corner" which is probably what Shearer was thinking during that same penalty shootout.
So there, read my words and go forth and be positive thinking gamers, believe in yourselves and you'll do better than ever before.
Go now and play games then report back to me with your findings. ;-)