I agree with AQ. For example, a greedy person isn't greedy because they want to be evil. They're evil because they want to be greedy.

Back on the subject of the staining, I think it's because playing a game is closely related to having a dream. Dreaming is part of the learning process. Playing a game is a similar learning process, relying on much the same brain matter. There's bound to be crosstalk or leakage from one process into the other. Both deposit their results into the same accumulator. Both utilize imagination, experimentation, comparison and, consequentially, emotional modulation.

If there's a state, similar to the hypnogogic state, in which we are highly suggestive, occurring during game play, then let me coin a name for that state here. It is the hypnogaming state. It's neuro-linguistic implications are profound.

Peace.

Hey Brain Pickle,

You are talking my language now!

I think you are ABSOLUTELY correct. Ritual and trance have played integral roles in human societies for millennia. I believe gaming is, in some respects, filling in that same role today.

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