Slender: The Arrival Beta

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I dunno how games manage to make people lose sleep. I know you're probably joking with that post, I'm just talking about people who say they actually lose sleep over a videogame. With a movie or book or short story I can understand because you're being presented a story that you're not actively part of so when it ends it's easy to apply aspects of it to your own life, but with games I'm only really scared when I'm actually in the game.

Are you unaware of the contradictory nature of your post? Games can make you lose sleep exactly because you are an active part of them. Movies and books are all predetermined, in the sense that you are merely a spectator watching the story unfold. They can be scary too, but games are much scarier by default because you have to make all of the decisions. By extension, they are much easier to apply to your own life because everything in them does happen to you. The chemical imbalance due to epinephrine release and the stress involved with fear can easily cause loss of sleep. On top of that, after playing a game for a very long time (which is when I normally lose sleep because of games) causes certain images to be "burned" into your mind's eye (because the brain has been focusing on it for so long) which reminds you of the stress you went through, making you even more afraid. To be honest, I'm stunned how you can think books or movies have a more profound effect on you.