Gah! Surely, this does not bode well for me....

[Rhyfelwyr]

An amusing variant can occur if you've got two such intrusive games at once, and have to split your time between them. Once they start intermingling in your head, the result can be anything from laugh-out-loud ridiculous to seriously creepy.

This has happened to me before confusing M2TW with Red Alert 2, which my younger brother was playing a lot at the time. Basically, in my dream my longbowmen were on a hill, but with a modern city nearby, and were shooting GI's as the paradropped out their plane. I was winning, but then some attack dogs killed my longbowmen.

Apart from the above occasion, I tend to feel the tetris effect much more when I'm awake. When I'm walking around my house or if I'm at Uni, as soon as I start to daydream I just imagine moving my characters in whatever is my current campaign all over the place. Seriously, I get the whole green arrows as they walk across the campaign map, I get frustrated that they are walking too slowly, so I click to make them speed up! It sounds ridiculous, but I don't care, its better than thinking about anything else.

Sometime though when I regain full consciousness I get annoyed because I realise I didn't actually just take that city which has really been annoying me.