Odd Thought Popped into my head about PMO

I don't know if this is what P fog is, but that is an interesting thought.
I have that, too, and not just with electronic games. I have even played board games that have done this to me. I will be replaying stuff in my head or wanting to play it again. It is always weird for me when it does this.

 

This type of thing happens to me all the time. I never thought of it as it doesn’t feel like a fog though. For me it’s not games or computer software it’s job related. I have always worked physical jobs for the most part, even currently I’m building things with hardware. After I have done something repeatedly I’ll dream about.
Tetris was the only game I ever played In my younger years and I would close my eyes and see a replay of it.
Usually for me though it happens with my least favorite action so it’s super frustrating, I don’t want to think about those things when I don’t have to.

Interesting though is I was going to write something about what I think was betrayal trauma fog here shortly in my journal.

 

I’ve never had P-fog but i can relate to the video game thing. When i was younger i had a lot more time to spend on my playstation 2 (before kids) and i would spend an entire day off playing. I would dream about playing.
I really didn’t like it so i would limit myself more after that.

 

I play gummy drop to distraction and later in the night I could close my eyes and see the grids and shapes. Even at the height of my PMO this would not happen with P, probably because there were so many different images. P fog for me meant that I had dreadful short term memory and couldn't focus or concentrate on anything. My wife would give me a list of 3 things and by the time I walked around the corner to the shop I'd forgotten them, this drove her berserk (understandably). Fortunately, 48 days in, this fog is lifting.

 

This is a really interesting theory! I remember in my younger years playing hours of Minecraft and then going to work at a grocery store - in the back I would unpack boxes, and I would unconsciously imagine myself chopping them down with a pickaxe, or putting up torches on the walls to light up dim areas.

All this to say, I think there is something to be said for repeated exposure and what it does to your thought patterns. It is no secret that in some way, you become what you take in. You gave the example of videogames - you play lots of videogames, and then you start to see the world in videogame terms. Another example is learning an instrument - when you are first learning music theory and technique for playing an instrument, you start to think of everything in terms of music and music theory.

When you're looking at porn (in at least 99% of cases) you are looking habitually. This repeated exposure begins to turn you, in some ways, into what you're taking in - you think of the world in terms of porn. Relationships become transactional (a person is only worth what they can give to you). Women become objects for sex. Every effort in your life becomes centered around reaching some sort of orgasm or complete satisfaction.

These are just my thoughts, but I think the dichotomy between what one consumes in relation to what one produces is worth meditating on.