Author Topic: Why do I read scary shit before I go to sleep?  (Read 3953 times)

Offline idolminds

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Why do I read scary shit before I go to sleep?
« on: Sunday, December 17, 2006, 12:20:02 AM »
Damn it all. Theres no flashlight in here and the rest of the house is dark. I don't want to walk to my room now....

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Re: Why do I read scary shit before I go to sleep?
« Reply #1 on: Sunday, December 17, 2006, 12:43:13 AM »

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Re: Why do I read scary shit before I go to sleep?
« Reply #2 on: Sunday, December 17, 2006, 01:54:46 AM »
Are you reading "Goosebumps" books again?

tsk tsk tsk.

Haha, Goosebumps...

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Re: Why do I read scary shit before I go to sleep?
« Reply #3 on: Sunday, December 17, 2006, 01:58:49 AM »
haha I used to borrow those books for my sister from my library when I was in high school.

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Re: Why do I read scary shit before I go to sleep?
« Reply #4 on: Sunday, December 17, 2006, 02:07:09 AM »
Heh, I read those while I was in elementary.

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Re: Why do I read scary shit before I go to sleep?
« Reply #5 on: Sunday, December 17, 2006, 08:51:32 PM »
I only ever read one.  I was a little old for them when they first came out, they were all the rage there for a while though.

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Re: Why do I read scary shit before I go to sleep?
« Reply #6 on: Sunday, December 17, 2006, 08:59:41 PM »
I always thought they looked stupid when I was a kid so I never tried them.  I read Poe instead.

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Re: Why do I read scary shit before I go to sleep?
« Reply #7 on: Sunday, December 17, 2006, 09:36:40 PM »
I never read those either. Ok, well I read one that I found at a garage sale for a dime. It sucked.

No, I was reading the Barton Mansion page and watched the vid. Then doing a google search on it for more info got into some other freaky shit. Stupid me I had to read them anyway.

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Re: Why do I read scary shit before I go to sleep?
« Reply #8 on: Monday, December 18, 2006, 05:55:52 AM »
The only thing that really unsettles me anymore is playing a game like the Silent Hill series or F.E.A.R. home alone in the dark.  The Grudge kind of got me a little bit too.  But generally I don't become suddenly afraid of the dark or strange sounds in the house or anything like that after watching a scary movie or reading ghost stories.

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Re: Why do I read scary shit before I go to sleep?
« Reply #9 on: Monday, December 18, 2006, 02:12:59 PM »
I took a look at that site, I was starting to believe it but then I saw the photos of a "ghost" comeing out of the closet then I watched the video, not I'm not sure if the whole thing is a piss take or not becuase its clearly not real.
But I still get a kick out stuff like that, a year ago me and my mates were looking at going to an old mental hosptial out of town, there's heaps of stories about it. It's your classic old school mental home where they dished out electric shock treatments and people hung themselves etc etc. It doesn't appear on any maps but we figured out where it was but we never went  :(
I would have loved to have gone we more than likely wouldn't have seen anything and would have spent the whole time freaking ourselves out, man that would have been fun!

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Re: Why do I read scary shit before I go to sleep?
« Reply #10 on: Monday, December 18, 2006, 08:32:55 PM »
Silent Hill is pretty much the only thing that really gets me these days.  Other scary stuff only scares me if it reminds me of Silent Hill.  Those games have completely screwed me up forever.  They can be a little funny and not scary and wonky and odd... but then there are moments of just pure, unadulterated psychological horror, and this is mostly apparent in the art itself.  Silent Hill 4 moved away from some of this stuff, but there's this one part in a hospital where there's this long, long corridor with tons of doors on either side, and most of the rooms don't really contain anything other than a little "scene" of some kind.  The worst for me is one room with what looks like a corpse hanging from the ceiling, but its draped with a cloth that hangs down in a triangle pattern.  So it's small at the top and then fans out toward the bottom, where you can see the corpse's feet sticking out a bit.  And it just sways where with the light.  That image has stuck with me in ways I can't even begin to express in words.

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Re: Why do I read scary shit before I go to sleep?
« Reply #11 on: Monday, December 18, 2006, 08:46:38 PM »
I have an overactive imagination, esp when its later in the day. Just give me the weakest excuse to be frightened and my brain will fill in the really scary shit all on its own.

Like that site and video was lame as hell in the morning after I woke up.

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Re: Why do I read scary shit before I go to sleep?
« Reply #12 on: Monday, December 18, 2006, 11:27:49 PM »
Yea I watched the vid, it could be fake but it really didnt matter. It creeped me the fuck out.

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Re: Why do I read scary shit before I go to sleep?
« Reply #13 on: Monday, December 18, 2006, 11:47:32 PM »
Its the lantern, man. Who else but a demon would be carrying a lantern?

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Re: Why do I read scary shit before I go to sleep?
« Reply #14 on: Tuesday, December 19, 2006, 12:33:28 AM »
hahah

i used to scare myself like anything because of my crazy imagination.  I avoid anything horror now though.. since life is scarier than anything scary or fake.  And besides, people are scarier than spirits.
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