My friend tells me that he used to think various npcs/monsters from games he played alot where following him on his walks... hed acualy see them =x This is after staying up playing for 3 days then realiseing that he needed to go to the store...
The worst i can say is i sometimes would get game history mixed up with real world history... and sometimes i would wake up in a cold sweat in bed haveing the names of items and places and general knowledge from a few online games i used to play *some mmorpgs a few not* running through my head. I was never one for the level treadmill.. and while i liked items i never really felt like i needed to have them. What i did always feel like was that i needed to know as much about everything as i possibly could, all the places to hunt that noone does, what level who can do what, what level what classes get what, the stats of items that noone really cared about. How all the quests worked, all the little tricks that most people didint know.
I always viewed myself as a sort of lore-keeper type person.. just trying to get powerful always seemed boreing to me =x *altho i wanted it despratly, in a way i was able to replace charicter power with game knowlege and felt like i was powerful simply becaus i knew everything, it worked to.. i could get a group of people and becaus of all the time i spent learning and reading and whatnot i could organise them, if they listend, into a highly effective party, and then take them places noone even knew existed and all was fun and happy.. im braging here becaus it hurts that on average, i leveld about 6 times slower than everyone else=P*
Anyway now i dont mix real life and games up=x wich is kinda sad becaus it made life seem more interesting D=