Poll: I'm too scared to sleep!

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Ataxia

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hydroblitz said:
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ucciolord1 said:
This sounds really serious. My advice would be to talk to a counselor, and avoid pills.
That shit must be scary....
That's the thing man. It's mad. I know it's made up and everything, but I'm a proper weak sod when it comes to stuff that requires your mind to fill in the blanks. The unknown. The "catching-something-in-the-corner-of-your-eye-through-the-window" stuff makes my heart stop.
jesus, I know what your talking about. ive sworn off horror movies and creepypasta for good.
i couldnt sleep the night I SAW THE TRAILER FOR PARANORMAL ACTIVITY.

btw, to quell my curiosity and avoid MY sleepless nights, could you explain this "candle cove" and "slenderman"?
Candle Cove is obviously some tv show about static, it's just plain stupid. Slenderman is practically the symbolic representation of ghosts and the unknown (my opinion) Below is what Slenderman looks like.

In it?s place, there stood what she could only guess was once a man. The limbs were long and inhumanly awkward, with bulky joints branching off into several arms, not unlike the branches of a tree. The creature was drapped in a black suit, somehow manking the thing more nightmarish to her. The icing on the proverbial cake, however, was what passed as the hellish thing?s face. It was as though her mind blurred the ghastly visage to spare itself further shock and horror.

He's actually like a ghost. Terrifying enough to mindfuck you...but heres an interesting theory when you see something unknown heres what your brain does when it receives the eye's image when your eye sees the unknown object your brain must go WTF?! or something and shows you something famaliar that you can relate to say your old cat that died recently for example...Slenderman for example is a blurred face to spare yourself the shock or horror.
 

OmegaCheese

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Ataxia said:
Gorrister said:
ucciolord1 said:
This sounds really serious. My advice would be to talk to a counselor, and avoid pills.
That shit must be scary....
That's the thing man. It's mad. I know it's made up and everything, but I'm a proper weak sod when it comes to stuff that requires your mind to fill in the blanks. The unknown. The "catching-something-in-the-corner-of-your-eye-through-the-window" stuff makes my heart stop.


Exactly like the 'A fear of death' thread. Two reasons why people fear death. Because it's built in on a primal level and it's the unknown. I'm afraid of the dark but I'm also a bit claustrophobic if I'm in the dark in a huge say plains type area it's not all that scary but if I'm in my room in the dark I feel really scared because I have no area to move about it that or I can't really ...um I can't really explain it...
I suffered a bit from depression about this when I turned ten, not kill myself depression (That would destroy the point) but cry myself to sleep depression.
 

Z of the Na'vi

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What on Earth is this "Candle Cove" you speak of?

I've never heard of it.

I suppose just do something that takes your mind off of the story, it works for me whenever I get caught by screamers on Youtube.

.....damn those freak me out.
 

Loop Stricken

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Candle Cove? You asked for it, you got it [http://www.creepypasta.com/candle-cove/]!

Also, I find that bloody Avatar avatar far more distressing than anything mentioned previously.
 

OmegaCheese

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Z of the Na said:
What on Earth is this "Candle Cove" you speak of?

I've never heard of it.

I suppose just do something that takes your mind off of the story, it works for me whenever I get caught by screamers on Youtube.

.....damn those freak me out.
God damn screamers *mumble* mumble*
 

Erana

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Eukaryote said:
Erana said:
I used to have these bouts of completely random and irrational fear-
turns out it was a symptom of a seizure disorder. :(

At least, that's what the doctors are telling me now.
According to them, I've also had a brain tumor, not had a brain tumor and instead have polycystic ovaries (WTF? Even I could tell I didn't) had a brain tumor agian, and then be none of those and, in fact, be narcoleptic.
Wait, that bit confused me. Are you saying you have had ALL of that happen to you?!
I've been having a lot of weird symptoms for the past few years, and those were the (mis)diagnoses I've been given. Currently, they're explaining them by a seizure disorder that doesn't have any physical spasms or changes in consciousness.
So, yeah. I could be having a seizure at this very moment, if the neurologist is right.

Loop Stricken said:
Gods, Smiledog was just... rubbish.

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Just because I find it apt; some calming music to help you sleep:

[Ignore the name, it's got nothing to do with the content. Seriously. Would I lie to you?]
Is that what's supposed to be scary?
 

Z of the Na'vi

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Loop Stricken said:
Candle Cove? You asked for it, you got it [http://www.creepypasta.com/candle-cove/]!

Also, I find that bloody Avatar avatar far more distressing than anything mentioned previously.
I'm going avoid myself the terror and not read that, thanks for the link though.

It's around 11:20 at night where I am, and I would like to get to sleep tonight.

On the Avatar bit, I thank you for noticing!
 

geldonyetich

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The subconscious mind, though only deliberately directed by those with significant introspective training, is nonetheless a helpful little imp by default.

Go to work on a difficult problem and you may well have it solved in the morning (or at least be significantly closer) because it was hammering away at the solution for all that time you were sleeping.

However, it backfires if you occupy it with scary delusions. It regards it as a problem that needs to be solved, and so it's busily recalling and sorting out the details. Consequently, the fear will not subside quickly, it's still being processed. This is what makes sleep so difficult for you.

You need to redirect it process something else. The hard but direct solution is mindfulness meditation (it's especially hard when you're so distressed). An easier but less direct solution is simply to flood your mind with something mentally stimulating that isn't so scary. Like a new anime. A book. Whatever floats your boat.
 
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I frequently have trouble sleeping due to a constantly racing mind, just random bs and made up stress. So it is a little different than being spooked, but my technique that normally gets me to sleep pretty quickly is breaking my mind with crazy crap. Read (and try to get into) some of the stuff by Robert Anton Wilson, Aleister Crowley, Ezra Pound, Timothy Leary (especially his poetry), etc. Find weird paradoxical puzzles that don't have solutions and try to sort them out. Try to create elaborate mathematical proofs for random crap like why your friend does whatever they do at 3pm, for this one the less actual math you know the better off you are, it shouldn't work. Whatever you can get into to the point that your brain will not think another thought and you will sleep like the dead. Also if you want to do this AND freak yourself out, read house of leaves.
 

Loop Stricken

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Erana said:
Is that what's supposed to be scary?
Of course not, I said it was a piece of soothing music, did I not?

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Z of the Na said:
On the Avatar bit, I thank you for noticing!
It just goes round and round and round and round and doesn't stop! Make it stop!
 

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Gorrister said:
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?
You know if you think about it, if this "slenderman" or whatever comes after you, take some solace in that you'll be sleeping and if it kills/eats/rapes or whatever it does, you might not feel it. Other than that, man up if you know it can't hurt you and it isn't real there is no reason to fear it.
 

Ridonculous_Ninja

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Every time I watch a zombie movie I immediately become paranoid about zombies entering the house.

I really should make a zombie plan like everyone else on the Escapist, then I could sleep well at night...

Or I could just keep reminding myself that if a zombie did come back to life it would have to have been just recently deceased in order to actually move. Any older and the muscles wouldn't work anymore. Meh.
 

MONSTERheart

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wasn't scary. Just saying. The vid was a bit creepy, but mostly because I was expecting a jump scare at some point. Hate vids where you can see it coming but then it doesn't happen.
 

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I dont scare easely, that dread feeling has been replaced with a strange soothing mistery, similar to a david lynch movie. However, I remember being paralyzed by some ghost stories my grandfather told me. he has a lot of them, about his mother and brothers in a farmers house, north of portugal. The problem is, is that he was always a very rational, and brave man, i mean its not some ghost story from a internet site, he swears to me he saw some weird things. He just laughs at me after finishing them, and gets very confucian like saying " eu nao acredito em bruxas... mas que as há, há. I dont believe him witches, but that they exist, they exist, a very common portuguese\spanish proverb. maybe i should write them, its not the same tough...
 

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Grow a beard and get a haircut. Man it out. And yes, I also watched the Elm Nightmare when I was a little kid, I also watched Jason movies, Alien versus Predator, Final Destination. I had nightmares for two days, then it was fine.

I found things in Diablo 2 more scary than those movies, frankly.
 

NotAPie

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Gorrister said:
And to all you other fraidy cats out there, have you ever been like this before?
Well I watched Marble Hornets in the middle of the night.
Yeah, you can imagine how fucking scared I was.
 

OmegaCheese

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I got scared in Batman Arkham Asylum when your in Killer Crocs lair and he jumps up behind you and they expect you to throw a Batarang! When you've been scared by him you shouldn't expect us to be able to re-act in 15 seconds!
 

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Erana said:
I used to have these bouts of completely random and irrational fear-
turns out it was a symptom of a seizure disorder. :(

At least, that's what the doctors are telling me now.
According to them, I've also had a brain tumor, not had a brain tumor and instead have polycystic ovaries (WTF? Even I could tell I didn't) had a brain tumor agian, and then be none of those and, in fact, be narcoleptic.

I dealt with it by having someone keep me company. I know that's kinda an obvious answer, but there really is nothing else that could give you as much peace of mind. Someone who won't judge you, in particular.
Ian Caronia said:
If you want a real suggestion (aside from the hundred piling up), go to Youtube and look up a "Let's Play" videogame commentary. Then, put the headphones in your ears and listen to a random person ramble on nonsensically about the game they're playing. It gives a sense that you're with someone, and if it's a good game/funny commenter then it's twice as helpful.

Suggest: Vash12349 and HellFireComms (HellFireComms usually has 2 people doing commentary at the same time, so more the merrier I guess).

Vash12349: Infamous commentary, Metal Gear Solid (1,2,3,4) commentary
HellFireComs: Sonic 06, Kingdom Hearts 1

Sweet dreams, buddy!
I actually did that a few times...
Kirby64 [http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Kirby64/] was the least fear-conjuring, though its only above-average in actual Let's Play quality.
--What she said. You could also just keep monitoring this thread since it's stormed up so many responses. If it were me, I'd do both.

-Anyway, I'm glad my idea actually works for someone else. Also, I know the feeling of being constantly misdiagnosed. It's a wonder you don't resent psychiatrists after all that, Erana.