I think what you are experiencing is known as the Tetris effect:
Tetris effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I get this a lot when Playing Medieval total war, Pokemon, and even texting my girlfriend. So far i have not been able to gain lucidity from this, as I am still half awake. I'm not sure how you could use this, maybe you could tell yourself the next time your playing Tetris you will Reality check, a from of MILD?