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Driving home after an almost-all-nighter LAN in the Quake 2 (maybe Quake 3) days, I nearly changed lines to line up a rail shot at a car up ahead.

The realisation of what I was doing snapped me back to proper conscious reality like smelling salts. Thankfully / Luckily.

This reminds me of driving home after seeing The Matrix in the theater in 1999. I was on the parkway wondering why everything was moving so slowly, not quite bullet time but definitely slow.

I look at the speedometer and I'm doing 95-100 mph on Southern State Parkway. I then had the "snap" and slowed back to normal. Everything felt even slower, the sensation lasted for about an hour after I got home.

Inception also had a strange drive home after, not speed, but the trees didn't seem real, the sky, everything was heightened, almost dreamlike. It had rained too, so there was some more similarity to the movie, minus the car chases and rollovers.

Apparently you should take the public transport it a taxi when going to the cinema :)

But I had similar sensations after Matrix, fortunately I was walking back home.

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