From Raphael Lee
Having used interactive digital media all my life, I can confirm the reality of game transfer phenomena (GTP), in which in-game behaviour seeps into everyday life (24/31 December 2011, p 76).
My first experience was more than 10 years ago. I spent lots of time and effort creating a detailed picture with Microsoft’s paint tool, continually adding minute detail, examining it and, in fits of artistic temperament, undoing it. For a while afterwards, every spelling mistake I made on paper, or mathematical error in my head, would be followed by my brain commanding “CTRL + Z”, the Windows keyboard shortcut for “undo”. Rather unnerved, I abandoned my new hobby.
Blandford Forum, Dorset, UK
