going crazy...

[OneArmed]

I was at the MBC yesterday and talking with someone about this.

Have you ever played so much billiards that you start to imagine balls on things you are looking at?

I was watching a tv screen yesterday, and my mind kept on drawing lines of how balls move across the corners. I'm not hallucinating it, but seeing the travel patterns on rectangular objects. Not sure if I'm explaining this correctly.

 

[Black-Balled]

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[zensteve]

You are not crazy. Actually it is quite common.

The mind is pattern oriented. When you focus on an endeaver for a length of time, your mind makes correlations between that endeaver and other stimuli.

Some people are more aware of the phenomenon than others.

 

[op.1]

Ya. I see it to!!

 

[gwjackal]

I have actually driven myself into a state hallucination over this game. I would be driving and all the sudden I was someplace else on a green pasture with 3 balls flying everywhere with so much precision and grace. Like they are dancing to there own sound yet I was the conductor and they reacted as such!





<----------its late I've lost me marbles!

 

[superminsoo]

I used to see ball patterns on the ceilings which kept me from falling asleep... couple hours a night for the first six months or so. Not so much these days because i havent been playing much but its pretty common. Its happened to my uncles and to everyone they know too. :thumbup:

 

[jimshovak]

I have 3-cushion dreams sometimes. I am hitting a ball with a bat (like baseball) and the ball caroms off objects such as telephone poles and other things and then comes back to hit the other 2 balls which are somewhere else, who knows where. Weird dreams.

It's kind of like the old Michael Jordan and Larry Bird commercials: off the building, then off the car, off the crack in the sidewalk, nothing but net. I know, I'm sick.

 

[3RAILKICK]

I have 3-cushion dreams sometimes. I am hitting a ball with a bat (like baseball) and the ball caroms off objects such as telephone poles and other things and then comes back to hit the other 2 balls which are somewhere else, who knows where. Weird dreams.

It's kind of like the old Michael Jordan and Larry Bird commercials: off the building, then off the car, off the crack in the sidewalk, nothing but net. I know, I'm sick.

Remember -bring enough to share with everybody. Pass that stuff around.

Semi seriously-I hope one day to be able to visualize these patterns you guys speak of. Awake or asleep.

The newest of new noobies to 3c.

I hit some balls on a heated Gabriel(sp?) last Saturday for about 3 hours. I pretty much killed my pressed Elkmaster tip and I dont think my 16 inch pro taper shaft is going to get it. But it was fun. I had to crank it up more than I thot to move those bigger balls around.