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Stickgold et al. (2000) have proposed that Tetris imagery is a separate form of memory, likely related to procedural memory. This is from their research in which they showed that people with anterograde amnesia, unable to form new declarative memories, reported dreaming of falling shapes after playing Tetris during the day, despite not being able to remember playing the game at all.

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   This might explain why I got better at playing Tetris during the several years I didn’t play it.

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   I have anecdotal evidence that this is totally real! We had to program Tetris as part of my freshman year Intro CS...

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