I'm going back to bed now, but I have the feeling that I'm going to end up lurking on this site for a long time, and eventually creating an account to see what I can put up. I'll be keeping a list of things interesting to write about and try to perfect the style before I even attempt to submit anything.
If nothing else, it will keep me from losing those literary skills I learned in college.
A creature that preys on you just before you fall asleep, it stays outside your room and all you hear is the sound of it dragging its fingers/nails across the walls in your house, slowly drawing closer and closer until it abruptly stops at your door. It never attacks because all it needs to stay fed is that initial fright and shock from the victim. Subjects who have fallen prey to this constantly have been recorded as becoming insomniacs.
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or an SCP that causes and feeds on bad dreams and nightmares and the negative emotions they cause, and prefers to hide in closets. but only closets that are juuuust slightly open.
I was always terrified of looking out windows at night
because something might be looking back at me
That totally happened to me, and I near shat my pants.
I was visiting my brothers home and at like 3 in the morning I glanced out his second story balcony window and saw someone leaning over the railing from the front door looking at me.
Turned out to be some drunk guy who thought the party was at this apartment instead of the one with the music down the row.
Still, nearly literally scared the crap out of me.
ok this thread has me seriously considering going out to my covered car and listening to an audiobook for a while instead of staying in an empty house with a fuckton of dark corners
now I really want to know, like from a psychological standpoint, what causes kids to be afraid of all this innocuous shit
i dunno. fear of the dark is near-universal in my experience, at a young age. maybe it's just some deeply buried human response to darkness. we're not that good in the dark, and there are lots of things out there with big teeth and sharp claws that only come out at night, and there always have been.
now I really want to know, like from a psychological standpoint, what causes kids to be afraid of all this innocuous shit
on a primal level it is probably a self-preservation instinct you keep until you're old enough (ie puberty) to "defend" yourself. as far as specifics like closets and bathroom curtains, no idea.
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My favorite is the calculator. Because its essential combining my two favorite things, Woody from Toy Story and Math.
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Incident 303-2: Agent ████████ was showering in her private quarters bathroom when she became aware of the presence of SCP-303 on the opposite side of the shower curtain. It was wheezing extremely loudly. Startled by the discovery, she accidentally struck the shower curtain, causing it to sway outwards. The curtain partially wrapped around SCP-303, revealing that it was standing less than 0.5m from the curtain, standing erect and facing the shower. Agent ████████ reports spending approximately the next 3 hours sobbing in the shower, quietly, as not to disturb SCP-303. Agent ████████ reported that the wheezing stopped very suddenly, at which point in time she was able to exit the shower.
My room at the family house is on the ground floor and right outside is a wooden patio
There have been a few nights where I swear I have heard footsteps on that wood
Not like, scratchy animal footsteps, but very firm ones, as if by boots or other solid shoes, slowly pacing across the patio
It has almost always been right on the verge of falling asleep so it was clearly my own mind creating it, but still
I was always terrified of looking out windows at night
because something might be looking back at me
That totally happened to me, and I near shat my pants.
I was visiting my brothers home and at like 3 in the morning I glanced out his second story balcony window and saw someone leaning over the railing from the front door looking at me.
Turned out to be some drunk guy who thought the party was at this apartment instead of the one with the music down the row.
Still, nearly literally scared the crap out of me.
I was sitting on my balcony a week ago and I get this feeling of being watched, I look at the building over and see this dark open window with an old lady staring at me.
I go inside cause it was kinda creepy.
A few days pass and we're having a BBQ outside and I tell my buddy what happened, as I point up to the window there was the lady again staring at us.
now I really want to know, like from a psychological standpoint, what causes kids to be afraid of all this innocuous shit
Kids don't have a fully formed grip on reality, so they can't really be sure there isn't a goblin living in the closet waiting for you to drift to sleep so it can harvest your eyeballs and toes.
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have you guys ever heard of exploding head syndrome?
basically it's this disorder that causes you to "hear" enormously loud explosions or noises in your head RIGHT before you fall asleep, and it's actually killed people by causing heart attacks and shit.
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Also the mask of hate thing that someone was shopping around earlier'? Its totem totally should be a pack of playing cards. And everyone who's holding the cards will eventually percieve the other players in the mask of hate.
Man what's worse is when you're falling asleep then you imagine feeling the weight shift in your bed like someone or something has just sat on it, right nearby your feet. You then either cover your face with a pillow or blanket and just try your best not to think about it.
Incident 303-2: Agent ████████ was showering in her private quarters bathroom when she became aware of the presence of SCP-303 on the opposite side of the shower curtain. It was wheezing extremely loudly. Startled by the discovery, she accidentally struck the shower curtain, causing it to sway outwards. The curtain partially wrapped around SCP-303, revealing that it was standing less than 0.5m from the curtain, standing erect and facing the shower. Agent ████████ reports spending approximately the next 3 hours sobbing in the shower, quietly, as not to disturb SCP-303. Agent ████████ reported that the wheezing stopped very suddenly, at which point in time she was able to exit the shower.
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This is exactly the kind of material I'd hoped Manny Er 303 would churn out when I proposed we make him the next Slenderman.
I'll never trust D&D again
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I was always terrified of looking out windows at night
because something might be looking back at me
That totally happened to me, and I near shat my pants.
I was visiting my brothers home and at like 3 in the morning I glanced out his second story balcony window and saw someone leaning over the railing from the front door looking at me.
Turned out to be some drunk guy who thought the party was at this apartment instead of the one with the music down the row.
Still, nearly literally scared the crap out of me.
I was sitting on my balcony a week ago and I get this feeling of being watched, I look at the building over and see this dark open window with an old lady staring at me.
I go inside cause it was kinda creepy.
A few days pass and we're having a BBQ outside and I tell my buddy what happened, as I point up to the window there was the lady again staring at us.
Then it happened again last night.
Creepy old lady neighbor
It's Baba Yaga waiting for you to drop your defenses.
Oh yeah I'm sure you all are. The general attitude you've had here is pretty impressive. Assuming you started lurking here based on a spike of applicants citing pennies arcade as how they found the site, your willingness to help bring in strangers is pretty dang awesome. Lots of places like this would try to keep everyone out, having an elitist attitude and eventually stagnate. (but yeah definitely ruining the whole asshole image you mention though)
It's just a thing.
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Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
edited June 2010
my cat fucking scared the shit out of me last night. i was going to sleep and rolled over groggily and BAM GIANT FUCKING FUZZY FACE AUUUUGH
You know whats awesome Koshian, when you're in the shower, and you turn it on and the shower curtain is all "I'm gonna give you a huuuuuuuug!" as it moves in.
They're like that one guy in an assignment group who is "totally working but is like swamped and shit with work and his dad just like grounded him so *shrug*"
Then you end up failing that course and working the deep fry at a KFC and oh look who's right next to you picking their nose and texting.
sometimes when I'm in pitch blackness I'll think to myself FUCK YOU, DARKNESS and throw a punch at nothing
I haven't knocked out a boogeyman yet, but one day
This was from a while back
I described a dream I had when I was like 9 or 10, and it's still my personal favorite dream I've ever had, and Beavotron drew it for me
Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
edited June 2010
i keep having this experience where i have a horrible nightmare (i have PLENTY of those) and then when i wake up i am absolutely paralyzed with fear. like, i'll want to roll over or get up and get a glass of water but i am one hundred percent certain that when i turn around the thing that's waiting behind me will tear me out of my bed and fucking eviscerate me on the floor. this hasn't happened YET but it's only a matter of time, mark my words!
you know, i have never had a dream where i wasn't in complete control of my actions. Nor have i ever been able to feel things in them. and normally i can't run. I dream weird.
Some of these things i can explain, like the no running, my legs get tangled in the blankets and so since i can't move my legs, i can't run, but i can hop pretty great.
Quest for Glory ruined any fright I may have gotten from Baba Yaga.
but the chicken leg house didn't help either.
Baba Yaga has always been one of my favorite folklore characters.
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i remember a lucid dream i had when i was like 13. i was getting chased around by freddy kruger and i just thought "wait, this is stupid" and then i just kind of told him to go away and spent the rest of the dream doing rad stuff like flying around and shit.
Think to date my worst nightmare has to be when I dreamed of an off-white, manequin like creature stalking me in a city. Its movements were like bad stop-motion animation and I could only catch glimpses of it around corners and behind walls. It also had these big unblinking, black eyes and a comedy mask style smile that was way too big for its face.
Then I remember at the very end it finally cornered me, leaned in close and whispered
you guys are lucky. It's nice if I remember more than 5% of a single dream every 7 to 10 days. And that 5% is always something boring right before waking up.
However, there was one dream that became zombies are killing everyone OH THE HUMANITY! And i shrugged, bored of it and got into my car and just drove around for hours. Zombies would appear at times but i would just drive by them.
Dream tried to evoke emotional response "oh look, your best friend is being killed!" Too bad dream, i am doing doughnuts in a corn field!
when I was like ten I had a chase dream
I was being chased by some kind of freakish lizard-cat-thing
after running for a while I thought "Wait! This is ridiculous, this can't be happening for real! This is a dream! I can control this!"
so I spin around, ready to confront this thing
and it pounces on me, pins me down, and is about to start dissecting me when I force myself awake
moral: dichotomy is not in control of his own dreams, even when he knows they are dreams.
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because something might be looking back at me
If nothing else, it will keep me from losing those literary skills I learned in college.
A creature that preys on you just before you fall asleep, it stays outside your room and all you hear is the sound of it dragging its fingers/nails across the walls in your house, slowly drawing closer and closer until it abruptly stops at your door. It never attacks because all it needs to stay fed is that initial fright and shock from the victim. Subjects who have fallen prey to this constantly have been recorded as becoming insomniacs.
I don't have a closet.
That totally happened to me, and I near shat my pants.
I was visiting my brothers home and at like 3 in the morning I glanced out his second story balcony window and saw someone leaning over the railing from the front door looking at me.
Turned out to be some drunk guy who thought the party was at this apartment instead of the one with the music down the row.
Still, nearly literally scared the crap out of me.
damn you people.
i dunno. fear of the dark is near-universal in my experience, at a young age. maybe it's just some deeply buried human response to darkness. we're not that good in the dark, and there are lots of things out there with big teeth and sharp claws that only come out at night, and there always have been.
on a primal level it is probably a self-preservation instinct you keep until you're old enough (ie puberty) to "defend" yourself. as far as specifics like closets and bathroom curtains, no idea.
Not a big fan of the movie Psycho?
There have been a few nights where I swear I have heard footsteps on that wood
Not like, scratchy animal footsteps, but very firm ones, as if by boots or other solid shoes, slowly pacing across the patio
It has almost always been right on the verge of falling asleep so it was clearly my own mind creating it, but still
That shit is brain tape from old times because humans ain't worth two shits in the dark
I was sitting on my balcony a week ago and I get this feeling of being watched, I look at the building over and see this dark open window with an old lady staring at me.
I go inside cause it was kinda creepy.
A few days pass and we're having a BBQ outside and I tell my buddy what happened, as I point up to the window there was the lady again staring at us.
Then it happened again last night.
Creepy old lady neighbor
Steam
Kids don't have a fully formed grip on reality, so they can't really be sure there isn't a goblin living in the closet waiting for you to drift to sleep so it can harvest your eyeballs and toes.
basically it's this disorder that causes you to "hear" enormously loud explosions or noises in your head RIGHT before you fall asleep, and it's actually killed people by causing heart attacks and shit.
Every hand that is dealt will be a Dead Man's Hand.
Edit: Or whenever the Dead Man's hand is dealt, [DATA EXPUNGED]
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This is exactly the kind of material I'd hoped Manny Er 303 would churn out when I proposed we make him the next Slenderman.
I'll never trust D&D again
I haven't knocked out a boogeyman yet, but one day
It's Baba Yaga waiting for you to drop your defenses.
Oh yeah I'm sure you all are. The general attitude you've had here is pretty impressive. Assuming you started lurking here based on a spike of applicants citing pennies arcade as how they found the site, your willingness to help bring in strangers is pretty dang awesome. Lots of places like this would try to keep everyone out, having an elitist attitude and eventually stagnate. (but yeah definitely ruining the whole asshole image you mention though)
It's just a thing.
They're like that one guy in an assignment group who is "totally working but is like swamped and shit with work and his dad just like grounded him so *shrug*"
Then you end up failing that course and working the deep fry at a KFC and oh look who's right next to you picking their nose and texting.
but the chicken leg house didn't help either.
This was from a while back
I described a dream I had when I was like 9 or 10, and it's still my personal favorite dream I've ever had, and Beavotron drew it for me
man I'd love a pet around right about now. nothing better in the world to negate creepy home alone syndrome than a cat plopping next to you.
plus it allows you to explain away weird noises much easier, 'cause bogeymen wish they could make noises as weird as a cat at night.
Some of these things i can explain, like the no running, my legs get tangled in the blankets and so since i can't move my legs, i can't run, but i can hop pretty great.
TRUE STORY
Baba Yaga has always been one of my favorite folklore characters.
Then I remember at the very end it finally cornered me, leaned in close and whispered
"This if fear."
Yeah that wasn't too fun.
However, there was one dream that became zombies are killing everyone OH THE HUMANITY! And i shrugged, bored of it and got into my car and just drove around for hours. Zombies would appear at times but i would just drive by them.
Dream tried to evoke emotional response "oh look, your best friend is being killed!" Too bad dream, i am doing doughnuts in a corn field!
I was being chased by some kind of freakish lizard-cat-thing
after running for a while I thought "Wait! This is ridiculous, this can't be happening for real! This is a dream! I can control this!"
so I spin around, ready to confront this thing
and it pounces on me, pins me down, and is about to start dissecting me when I force myself awake
moral: dichotomy is not in control of his own dreams, even when he knows they are dreams.
Get out of my head!
I will kick you out of my mind