What is the feeling/psychological state called when your playing a game or virtual world & lose awareness of surroundings?

Living in the present (you’re).

I call it, Being in the Zone. Not dissimilar to an athlete being in the zone, or runners high, or even the thrilling gulp of a roller coaster dip. I’m totally immersed in the current moment.

@RealEyesRealizeRealLies I’m pretty sure that media studies people also refer to that as “the zone.”

Awesome. Just awesome.

Except for when you come back to real life and you get dizzy. That sucks.

I suppose it could also be considered as the possible prelude to an addiction.

(Depending upon the person and what’s happening, or not, in the rest of their everyday life.)

I think you could call that hypnosis, or meditation. Those are the effects of Psilocybin, Hypnosis, and Meditation. We go into a state of hypnosis, naturally all the time when we watch a movie and lose track of all the surroundings.

“in the zone”

A psychologist would generally refer to it as “suspension of disbelief” I believe.

It is called Flow

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)

I had to put a separate link because there are parentheses

@Axarraekji Ah yes. Game flow.

Immersion