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I got hyperfixated on Bugsnax over Joel's let's play of it. Now everytime I go to YouTube I search for that game. And so wrote this.

Hyperfixation
imprisoning me
all that I see
mental cognation

I cannot think
I cannot stop
Returning to it
liking it bit by bit

Does this rely on other peeps who experience hyperfixations?

@ZipperLocks Currently hyperfixating on Undertale after putting it off for years so I feel your pain
yes. Absolutely that is accurate. For me it's like no matter what I do I always have the topic in mind, if it has music it ALSO is stuck in my head, I usually obsess over a character and my life literally surrounds aforementioned character and their resident source
also. If I fixate on something long enough, a fictional introject goes poof into my headspace n yea. Waiting for Papyrus to exist rn

For me a hyperfixation is a bit like that, though also, sometimes, when I think I have my mind near cleared, it'll suddenly come into my thoughts again at full speed and I'll be unable to think of anything else. Been getting worse lately with the amount of hyperfixations I have being over five and so I have difficulty concentrating (not just from that, though it's partially why) sometimes on something that's not a hyperfixation.

i get it yeah!!! i'm currently hyperfixating on one of my ocs and just. yeah. your song matches REALLY well!!

That song is perfectly accurate omg

@ZipperLocks
When I get a new special interest, I enter a rambling phase where I want to constantly talk about it. I also think about it pretty non-stop. This lasts about 1-2 years, and then, the need to ramble dies down and the subject becomes just like the rest of my special interests. The last time I had a rambling interest was from 2009-2011. I miss the giddy feelings of happiness.

The way I feel during my rambling phases of special interests is really well-described by the following quote from Mean Girls:

"I was a woman possessed. I spent 80% of the time talking about Regina, and the other 20% of the time, I kept praying for somebody to bring her up, so I can talk about her more. I could hear people getting bored with me, but I couldn't stop. It just kept coming up, like word vomit."

^ Do any others relate? :P

I swear I'll close Skryim and 5 mintues later guess what I'm playing it again :|

Hyperfixating on editing my wishlist rn when I have other work I need to do... big oof

@ZipperLocks

BUNGER BUNGER BUNGER BUNGER