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Well video games can affect you a lot depending on how much you play them. They can boost your imagination or kill your creativity. The more into video games you are the more it will be on your mind instead of other things you normally would think about and it can completely steal all your daydreaming. Like if you play a lot of World of Warcraft you will generally daydream about epic items all day and waiting for when you can get back to the game. My experience with the gamer mind is that it kills my creativity as well as my productivity and makes me think mostly about events and stuff in the game instead of things I make up myself. Leading myself to have a boring repetitive way of thinking and it almost drove me insane at times with the same thoughts all the time.

You would think that your mind gets more creative when you have played a lot of games. You would think it would spice up your mind, but it doesn't. Your mind on video games can actually be really boring. And the more repetitive and addictive the game is the worse it is on your mind. In the time I was addicted to World of Warcraft all I thought about was well World of Warcraft. Always some item I wanted or some boss I wanted to kill. Never anything interesting in my mind, never, it was driving me insane, but I couldn't help thinking the same things over and over. Now that I am off World of Warcraft my mind is a lot more free. I actually doubt that any game can be good on your mind because there is not much to gain from games. You can learn some and you can have a bit of fun, but I doubt it is so good for your mind and creativity. There are several things that is better to your mind than video games that is for sure. However the reason it was so insane for me was the fact I was addicted to the game. I only did school, eating and the game. I don't think it has such an effect on you if you just take the game into moderation.

Being obsessed by a game not being able to put it down can kill your chain of thoughts as well of all the creativity in you. However if you just play for fun sometimes, but not too much then you will be fine. As long as you have the real reality as the main reality instead of the virtual reality you will be fine and so will your mind. Video games only have an effect on people if they are used too much. That goes for a lot of things. If you eat too much it affects you. If you train too much it will affect you and so on. Hence I will actually conclude that the games don't affect your thoughts as long as you ain't addicted to the game.

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