The BBC reports that playing Tetris during a traumatic event eliminates flashbacks.
Erm, I mean, flashbacks that would have resulted from a traumatic event, don't - if you played Tetris during it. It's kind of hard to wrap my head around that. The image is a little wild. I can imagine SNL having fun with it.
But the idea reminds me of something. I've been told that the military is big on keeping everybody busy *especially* during and/or after traumatic events. Is that true? Maybe science is catching up on why it's a good idea. I'm really guessing here - I'm a civilian. Dad served, but he didn't have much to say about it, except for a couple of funny stories. Oh yeah, and they kept him busy.
It reminds me of something else, too - the head games we all use for various reasons - counting backward, looking for things that are blue or red, and so on. Mine is memorizing a poem in bed and reciting it till I sleep. Every time I wake, I recite it again, and sleep again. In the morning, I don't know what the poem was. It doesn't matter. It did its job.
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Erm, I mean, flashbacks that would have resulted from a traumatic event, don't - if you played Tetris during it. It's kind of hard to wrap my head around that. The image is a little wild. I can imagine SNL having fun with it.
But the idea reminds me of something. I've been told that the military is big on keeping everybody busy *especially* during and/or after traumatic events. Is that true? Maybe science is catching up on why it's a good idea. I'm really guessing here - I'm a civilian. Dad served, but he didn't have much to say about it, except for a couple of funny stories. Oh yeah, and they kept him busy.
It reminds me of something else, too - the head games we all use for various reasons - counting backward, looking for things that are blue or red, and so on. Mine is memorizing a poem in bed and reciting it till I sleep. Every time I wake, I recite it again, and sleep again. In the morning, I don't know what the poem was. It doesn't matter. It did its job.
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