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I have to light up all the torches in Castle Grayskull just to get a glass of water after it’s dark! D:
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The darkness is always chasing me up the stairs
Justin Hawkins must have a real jones for you
OMG… and they got my age right too.
Even at 24 I do not let any body part of mine hang off the side of the bed (its the internal fear of the boogeyman dragging me off to hell). This fear is embedded in many of us since we were kids.
*gasp* I’m 18, but I thought I was the only one who did that!!!
It helps to have your box spring directly on the floor.
It never helps that my kitty will bite me if my hand dangles… I was just starting to recover too…
haha! I’m 24 and i’m exactly the same… also, i don’t go into a room if it’s dark… can’t help myself….
me too, I always run up because something might grab my legs and pull me back down… aaaaahahahaaaaaa!
And let’s not forget that creepy-ass clown that jumps out of the plumbing (curse you, Stephen King!!!!)
I saw “ass clown” and was thorougly entertained by your post ^_^
you read that xkcd strip, didn’t you?
Awesome!
You also forgot the Vashta Nerada
YIKES!!!! Thanks for reminding me about that… now I can’t go into the darkness…
don’t forget the weeping angels!
“Hey, who turned out the lights?”
Lawl, it take a mini angel statue and put next to my friend’s bed while she sleeps. She has a near psychotic meltdown when she wakes up.
I do the same thing, and when I have to turn the lights off I walk quickly back to my room. Those monsters don’t care how old you are. (I’m 20, 21 in two months)
That’s so true!
I have to light up all the torches in Castle Grayskull just to get a glaas of water after it’s dark! D:
I’ve always wanted to ask…when you drink water…where does it go? Since you lack an esophagus and all that….
Wait a minute…
When did Skeletor take over Castle Grayskull?!
No one tells me anything anymore!
…
Where’s He-Man when you need him?
When I have to go upstairs and turn off the basement lights, I always run up the stairs because the monsters chase me.
Ditto
This is why I’m glad our basement light switch is at the top of the stairs. Though occasionally when my husband goes upstairs and I’m still down there he forgets and switches it off… then I’m not so happy about it.
EXCELLENCE!!!!!! I’m 21 and I still gotta scare them monsters away! rofl
People do not fear the darkness, only what hides in it.
That’s exactly the reason I don’t do this. In my house, I’m the thing that goes bump in the night. I’m so comfortable in familiar buildings that I usually walk around with my eyes closed to avoid waking up any more than I have to in the middle of the night.
Outdoors however, is another thing entirely… every swaying tree branch is a vampire. Every too-dark shadow conceals a man eating creature no mortal mind can comprehend. When I turn around to go back inside I know a werewolf just came around that corner in the distance and I’m going to hear it sprinting after me any second. And there are no lights to flick on outside =(
I used to have to do that every time I got up to pee… my mom would yell at me for waking her up.
Funny thing is, I don’t feel the compulsion to turn on every light now that I don’t live in her house. Either apartments are less prone to monster infestation, or my cats are scaring them off!
I love pets. As long as they’re sitting around calmly you can be assured there’s nothing to worry about.
I also feel you on the parent’s house/my house thing. Occasionally The Things Under my Bed would freak me out when I still lived with my parents, but now that I’ve moved out I’m fine. It’s not childhood memories attached to a specific house because we moved every 2-4 years. It’s not that my new bed is inhospitable to The Things because I took my bed with me.
I’m considerably more comfortable in the house I moved into a few months ago than I was in the previous one, even though that wasn’t the house I grew up in, the bed and almost all the other furniture is the same, and I’m living with the same people. I think it’s just that this place is much newer and better maintained, so it doesn’t have that creepy vibe. I still like to have the lights on when I’m in the bathroom or the basement, but I’m fine in the dark in the other rooms, and even in those rooms I don’t freak out in the dark like I would have in the old place.
i so wish i wasnt allergic to cats…
i always wanted a cat but if i do something with something blah blah blah (doctor stuff) with cats, i get some bad thingy that makes me have a sad.
i want a cat!
This is about my fourth reason for carrying a high-powered LED flashlight everywhere I go, even when I’ve taken most of my pocket stuff out for the evening.
i dont take a torch, just blindly dash up the stairs eyes closed in the darkness cus im always afraid ill flash the light in a corner and see a scary face or something like that D:
Yep, nothing like forgetting you hung a mirror or a really shiny picture frame, seeing your own face and nearly wetting yourself.
Same here, 22. It’s a pain ’cause my OCD wants me to turn all the unused lights off, otherwise it just doesn’t feel clean.
Reasons I don’t: I’m more scared of my landlady coming at me wielding the electricity bill.
I can’t go out at night in the dark without my doggie. So he can let me know if we both need to run for our lives back into the house. We’re both cowards, he just has better hearing.
At my old house, scorpions would come in from somewhere. They only ever ended up on the bathroom floor.
That and that Darkness Falls movie still gives me the creeps.
I thought i was the only one who saw darkness falls. Im still scared of her and her messed up face.. But the pain lessened when i lost my last tooth and nothing happened.. Btw, i saw it in theaters (im 19)
Haha, I used to have to do this at my grandmother’s vacation house. It was 4 floors and the main living/kitchen area was on the top floor. The bottom was nothing but a small rec room and a closet and the second and third were just hallways leading off to creepy, dark, unused bedrooms. I remember everytime I was there I’d have to haul ass up 4 flights of stairs with the terrifying knowledge that ghosts or something were going to get me if I didn’t.
… Come to think of it, I had the same problem with grandma’s main house, too. Except it was because of the endless hallway of darkness and doom with all the open doors to blackened bedrooms that obviously held torturous and angry things that wanted to keep me for themselves.
Man, grandma’s houses were scary.
I can’t even face away from the wall when I wake up in the middle of the night, I’m always terrified I’m going to see something that’s not really there.
Oh…I HAVE to face away from the wall, just so I can see whether or not there is something there. I just can’t look off the edge of my bed into my room…I still use a loft bed (top bunk but no bottom)from when I was a kid, so I feel safe only waaaay up high (six feet or so) within the confines of the edges.
Gremlins…
Gremlins are funny.
Not scary!
i think he means the movie… in gremlins they sat under your bed… i hated that movie… i would have dreams that they would be under my bed and they would rip it open in the middle and drag me down to wherever they came from
omg this is amazing! i tought im the only one who turns the lights and runs upstairs very quickly becouse its like someone is behind your back:D and i always feel paranoid after a movie at night when i want to go to wc again
Am I the only adult here that doesn’t bother with lights at night unless necessary? Not criticising the ones who do, because hey, to each their own, just curious if I’m the only darkness-lover
Nope, I get grumpy if the lights are on when I need to get up in the middle of the night. I don’t want to wake up any more than I have to.
I turn on lights for 2 reasons, to scare off monsters(I hate hollywood) and everytime I enter a room with or without light I hit my toe on a wall or something really painful.
I do the same thing when I go to the washroom but I’m afraid something will pop up and attack me like those screamers or Katie from Paranormal activity. And I’m 16 years old
Paranormal Activity wasnt scary to me… I dont know why it was so scary to everybody else… OOoooooo the sheets moved!! Oohohohoohoooo, something ran across the screen… Oooooooo, oh mai gawd! Something just touched her!! Ahhh, who cares? Not scary.. Now, pulse, THAT was a scary movie! That makes my skin crawl when i think about it.
hah i do that
Actually, scaring the cockroaches away in order to not step over them half-asleep and barefoot (happened once to my roommate who screamed and woke everybody up).
yes, between the hours of 8pm and 4am the kitchen belongs to the roaches. They know it, I know it…it’s an equitable system…
OMG so true! except with me, it’s ghosts that I am afraid of, not monsters. although I am still afraid of monsters under my bed. and I refuse to look in the mirror if the lights are off because I think I’ll see Bloody Mary. and I’m 30! I know, I’m a little pathetic
what i do, is i think of flaws in the movies… take that bloody mary thing… i dont say it three times, she wont come after me… or there was a episode of supernatural(LOVE THAT SHOW!) where this family moved into a house and they got attacked by a chick and her brother that lived in the basement and got to the family by walking out of closets where there was a door in the back of it… my flaw for that is that a: ive been in my basement millions of times and there is nothing down there, and b: the only way the door could be in my closet, is for the other side of the door to be outside, or about 3 feet above the stairs…
idk… dont ask… that turned into a long and endless story… what i was meaning to say, is just try to find a flaw in any scary myth type things…
Yeah, some people commenting on the horror movie post were talking about the urban legend about the deaf girl who taught her dog to lick her hand when someone came in her house, but when she turned on the light after her hand was licked, the dog was dead and a message hinting that the person who killed it was licking her hand instead was written in blood on the wall. A lot of people there said that story freaked them out, but it’s never bothered me because
A) Dog tongues feel different from human tongues (seriously, dog tongues are much flatter and wider; if you were used to having a dog lick your hand on a regular basis and suddenly a human did it, you’d notice the difference);
B ) A random person breaking in wouldn’t know she’d trained her dog to do that;
C) If she turned on the light as soon as she felt her hand get licked, the intruder wouldn’t have had time to leave before she saw them, and
D) Anyone who trained their dog to let them know when someone is outside or inside their house isn’t going to wait until the signal that they’re inside the room before switching on the light. That would be like installing a burglar alarm and then ignoring it when it goes off until you hear someone open your bedroom door.
So, yeah, too many logical flaws for it to be really scary.
dude, i do the same thing, run up the stairs at night and turn lights on when getting water!
Holy s*** this is so accurate plus it’s the funniest graph i’ve ever seen well done
I’m probably younger than any of you, but I have a feeling that if I do this now I will probably do it when I grow older. I usually do it based on impulse and instinct, but if I think about where I am for a moment, two things can happen: 1. I will calm down and try to picture my surroundings, and succesfully walk around in the dark or 2. Instead of my surroundings, I will picture the scariest things and let my sub-conscious place them in the freakiest places. And then run around trying to reach the lights.
Right now, I dream of catching my Dad doing that.
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
I have constant fear that something’s always near
I’m 31, and I still wrap myself into my blanket until no body part apart from my head sticks out lest the monsters bite anything off.
And I have to say I’m glad that I’m not the only one who’s crazy like that XD