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Gorrister

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Right so lately I'e been having a lot of trouble trying to sleep. A couple days ago I read a creepypasta called Candle Cove (if you haven't read it and are easily scared, do NOTlook it up) and, as scared as I was, I stupidly Youtube'd it and watched the video. (again, not advised). And again, in another rousing act of stupidity, I looked up Slenderman and what not. Creepypasta and everything.

And now, I am petrified of my own Goddamn shadow.

I've always been a bit of a fraidy cat. When I was 11, I watched the film adaptation of IT and I was so scared I couldn't sleep for weeks. A couple years before that, I snuck downstairs to watch Nightmare on Elm Street and I woke up with nightmares for months afterwards. But now, a somewhat cynical 19 year old lad is petrified of a story he knows is made up. Thing is, it's started to affect my health. I stay up till all hours awake in bed, jolting at every flipping thing that goes bump in the night. I can't be at my house on my own, even during the day.

Can The Escpaist offer anything that might help ease my touble? I know it sounds so stupid, but I could really do with som advise. I know it's ridiculous, believe me, I keep telling myself the very same thing.

And to all you other fraidy cats out there, have you ever been like this before? Did you find a way to deal with it? And if so, helpa brother out?

EDIT: Crap! Wrong area of discussion, coulda Mod move it for me?
 

sky14kemea

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Just imagine it again, but make it ridiculously silly in every way :D It's what I normally do.
That or get mind bleach by watching 7 hours of anime in a row or something

Also ninja'd by the OP D:, but still >>
 

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*Cough* On Topic: I used to be like that, but not to that extreme when I was about 8. I grew out of it. I still have an over active imagination but it is only caused by too much silence. I got out of it by sleeping with a fan on. The sound distracts me from my thoughts and makes me unaware of the creaking of the woods outside.
 

Gorrister

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Hail Fire 998 said:
*Cough* On Topic: I used to be like that, but not to that extreme when I was about 8. I grew out of it. I still have an over active imagination but it is only caused by too much silence. I got out of it by sleeping with a fan on. The sound distracts me from my thoughts and makes me unaware of the creaking of the woods outside.
Boy that makes me feel like a douche. I never even thought of that.

Seeing it written down on the computer like this makes me kinda feel kinda better, but I just keep having flashes of that horrible fake video. Goddamn, I ain't half a wimp haha.
 

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Hah, that's nothing. I'm fairly certain a UFO or something landed outside my house the other day. Completely defies logic but I know what I saw.
 

Aerodynamic

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OMGSLENDERMANISBEHINDYOU

But its okay to an extant, I still cant stand alone in the dark for more then 12 seconds before running to the nearest light switch
 

Cheery Lunatic

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Oh, I heard of Candle Cove. I found it more stupid than scary, tbh.

I remember reading this thread on a forum involving various creepypasta and pictures to go along with them. I didn't sleep for a week. I shit you not, they were that freaky.

I'm a pretty big coward. ;___;
 

aPod

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Yea... i picked the grow up option because, well yea.

I guess everyones different. My head tumbles over all sorts of crap and i often go to bed an hour earlier than i ought to just so i can sort through it all and still get some sleep. I've spent 6 hours awake in my bed trying to sleep but my f'ing brain never stfu... ever cursed your own brain... now thats not healthy.

I think you ought to avoid scary movies, pictures, games, stories, and houses... it will serve you well.
 

Daniel Cygnus

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It's OK. I'm 18, and that kind of stuff can get to me too (just not to the point where I can't sleep). Smiledog was the worst one for that...
 

Gorrister

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-Pod- said:
Yea... i picked the grow up option because, well yea.

I guess everyones different. My head tumbles over all sorts of crap and i often go to bed an hour earlier than i ought to just so i can sort through it all and still get some sleep. I've spent 6 hours awake in my bed trying to sleep but my f'ing brain never stfu... ever cursed your own brain... now thats not healthy.

I think you ought to avoid scary movies, pictures, games, stories, and houses... it will serve you well.
Would you guess my favourite genre is survival horror?

I can deal with zombie movies, blood and guts, alien movies, even ghost movies to an extent. My main weakness is suggestive horror. Psychological taunts that fuck me over in the head and leave me chilled for days.
 

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Whatever, just wash your hands.
if you want something really scary read some lovecraft, hes the best
 

JRCB

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Think of something happy? Quietly play music while you try to sleep? Think of other things?

I have been trying to scare myself for a while, but it hasn't worked. I enjoy fear sometimes.
 

Rednog

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Grow up, there are real threats to your life in the world like vampires and zombies and you're more worried about crap that goes bump in the night?!
 

sneeky033

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i have that problem, too. the only way to prevent it is to never watch things which are designed to scare you. too bad my family loves horror movies so much.
 

presidentjlh

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Imagine yourself beating the shit out of whatever it is that is bothering you.

Just pummeling the ever-loving shit out of it.

This "Slenderman"? Imagine yourself take a 9-iron and just clobbering him upside the nog with it.
 

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If you have a TV in your room, fall asleep watching that. If not, try reading a book in bed. That helps me when I can't sleep because I read too much creepypasta would to get scared way back when I was 6 years old. Because I never do that now. Ever.
 

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Holy shit I looked up Slenderman and watched the youtube series "Marbel Hornets", It freaked me out for a week.