I always sleep with my shotgun next to me. What did you expect? I am the Mossberg Shotty!
But if I saw what she saw, I would probably assume it was just a delusion, and like her, decide that the particular light would always be on from now on. That's just a thing that light does now. But if it was something more subtle, like an unfamiliar sound, I would just investigate it. I'm too paranoid to go to sleep after anything disrupts my routine.
Thankfully, I sleep in a big open space with only one ingress/egress point, and several different options for lighting. I'd switch on the ol' battery powered floodlight, chamber a round in my .45 and issue a verbal challenge.
...I actually do that on a fairly regular basis in response to half-waking dreams. This is why I'm terrible at cohabitation.
My thoughts were the exact same as Zhukov's. Once you've verified it's not your imagination, get something bonky/slashy/stabby in hand, and call the cops. From the curb. Or the all-night coffee shop three blocks way.
I'd tell it to not be shy & come play some games with me, because by the time the creepy thing is stalking you it's already too late. Either kill me or lets be friends, I don't have the patience for all that spooky BS.
I'd go kick it's ass. Seriously the thing looks like it's four feet tall, maybe four and a half at best. Who do they think they are coming into my house and trying to scare me like that.
I would go play FTL (or whatever game I am currently wasting my time on) in a well lit room until I stop being freaked out by shadows (assuming the monster is not real) or the monster eats me (assuming it is real.)
I take a certain medication that can result in incredibly vivid dreams, so sometimes I can be on the edge of sleep and I will kind of start dreaming but I am still not fully asleep. This would not be the first time I have seen monsters in shadows or heard noises that are not there. The rational part of my brain can say "there are no monsters, this is stupid" but the emotional part is still freaked, so the best thing to do is go do something to override the freaked out feeling. Plus, my tool box is right next to my computer and I have a nice big claw hammer sitting right at the top.
I don't quite understand the "Hide under the covers and pretend it's not there mentality". I'm pretty sure it's always advantageous to be aware especially if you think something may be in your home and potentially dangerous. Sure, we can imagine that the creature just gets off on scaring people,and if you don't look at it,it will just go away disappointed but let's be real here.
With that being said, I would have flicked the lights on and off a couple times too. You can never be too careful. Then she leaves her door slightly open when she decides to go to sleep. OK, if that's how you normally sleep, fine. I don't even have a problem with her leaving her lamp on. Then comes the part where I differ. You hear a noise, the lights flick off, and you just hide in bed?
Oh, no no. As soon as I hear that same creepy noise from the hallway, I'm up, sprinting at my door and slamming it shut. Second, I'm reaching for something to defend myself with. Third, I'm either turning on more lights in the room or I'm aiming that lamp towards the door. Then, I'm waiting in the corner until the sun comes up.
To be honest, I would have been more afraid of a creature that didn't feel the need to hide or catch me by surprise. That is way to much confidence for me to handle. At least, if it's sneaking around and stalking me, I have a chance to outsmart it.
As soon as I saw the dark figure I would head straight for a gun and a knife, try shooting the outline, then open my window and flee to the car.
I wouldn't put up with that crap for a second. If it's my imagination, I'm severely delusional and need psychiatric help immediately. If it's not my imagination, let's hope a super-sonic slug can stop it.
I would have left. I am going to be honest. When I turned off the lights and saw that, I would have been like "nope rage quit, I'm done, just done" and walked straight out the door. I will not deal with that in my home.
Eck, horror movies don't often get me, I'm usually the one laughing at my friends reactions but I've had nightmares just like this shit.
Well I don't live by myself so I would likely go wake up the others. If I did live alone I'd probably still be thinking I was going mental (again I've had nightmares like this so it's a possibility I've just freaked myself out) which might prevent me from doing the rationale thing of grabbing a weapon, gtfo and call cops. I would probably grab something and walk down the hall to where the shape was to try and see if there was something that could making that shape in shadows (stupid but it would take a lot to convince me it's real). I would not go to bed with only the lamp on and I certainly wouldn't leave the door open. Freaking out about something being in the house so you put yourself in worst position possible by tangling yourself up in covers and going to sleep? I've always had a mild fear of being murdered in my bedroom (I think it because it's the room that connects to attic. I don't know. It's stupid.) and lying there is just going to make my head race so I would probably turn all the lights on and go into the lounge which is also close to kitchen where I could grab a kinfe and two exits.
Maybe go to the bedroom to get dressed first if I can convince myself its a delusion enough to do that. It wouldn't be a good idea, I have no exists in my room, can't even get out the window as they don't open that much and its on the second floor but worrying about being indecent in situations where that really isn't what I should be worried about is something I've done before. If I'm going to go to ED or be brutally murdered I at least want pants and clean underwear on!
I'd watch some tv to try and calm down. If I heard noises and the lights were turning off on their own that would probably be enough to get me to leave and the house, go to the neighbours and call the cops. This is all assuming the damn thing doesn't kill me before this point because I fucked around.
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I have to admit, I voted for "investigate the noise" because I'm fairly skeptical of just about everything.
See, this one time I got a call from a friend at 11PM on a random night. She said there was something outside her window. Every time she heard it, she went to her window and saw...nothing. "What does it sound like?" I asked. She said it was hard to describe, like maybe somebody throwing something, but there was nothing left on the ground. "Why don't you call the cops?" I asked. She didn't want to get caught up if it was something silly or benign. Anyway, I get in my car, drive 20 minutes, and I wait inside her apartment. Two adults, sitting quietly, waiting for--then I heard it. I went and stared out the window for a full minute until I saw it:
A pop-up sprinkler. Once every minute or so it would pop up and some water would hit the window.
So, just about a logical explanation for everything, right? My problem is that no movie or video has scared me more than my random thoughts at the worst possible moments. Like this time another friend was working in the attic space of his house (at night) and I had a question for him. There was no room up there, just space for a man to crawl, and so he crawled to the opening in the ceiling and popped his face over the hole to talk to me. Just then I imagined that something had grabbed his legs and I could see in my mind, my friend screaming and gripping onto the wood frame of the hole. Then, a near-comical moment as I imagined my friend losing his grip, and then the sound of his body hitting the 2X4 support beams all the way to the other side of the house, with me able to hear the thudding echoes from the ground.
I watched the first 37 seconds of that, then i had to get a change of pants and decided not to finish watching it
So the creature was a sprite?, it looked like a creepy naked woman to me, i kinda want to see what it's like, but i don't want to finish watching that
I hear strange noises at night all the time, usually something scratching my window, but sometimes its my door
Before i figured out it was my cats, i stayed in my bed hopelessly trying to sleep, it hasn't happened in a while, so i can't give a detailed summary of what i did back then
When i was little, and my aunt just died, the rest of my family went do do something related to her, i think they went to the church or something, i went and sleep in my other aunt's bed because it was really comfortable, i started hearing some weird noises and i basically freaked out, it happened a long time ago, but i think i started crying and telling whatever it was to come out, in the end it was nothing and i stayed in my other aunt's bed until the rest of my family arrived
If i heard a strange noise at night i would assume its my cats, if my cats were away it wouldn't surprise me as my house does strange noises sometimes, if i somehow figured out the house wasn't the cause of the noises, and i was not alone, i would shit myself very thoroughly.
In other words, i would be too scared to do anything
My mother has a katana in her room, but there's no way i would go out of my room after hearing that, but my door has a sort of hole you can look out of into the second floor and it's kinda hard to describe, but it's really small and i can get a look at outside my room trough it, if i saw nothing and i had a particularly large set of balls that day i would go pick up my mother's katana from her room, which is next to mine
Even having picked it up, i wouldn't be in the mental or physical stage to use it, it wouldn't work as a weapon and only as a hollow symbol of safety, i would go back to my room, lock myself up, and message my mother, or whoever i'm living with at the moment, then do something to pass the time until sunrise or until i'm too tired to stay awake
That is, if i was still alive by that point, i imagine i would be dead by the time i opened my door
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My pants would be too brown to be able to walk in, so i would stay in my room and start writing my testament
If I just heard a strange noise, I'd stop & listen carefully trying to analyse it. If it just sounded like something fell over or something then I'd turn on lights and go investigate. If it sounded like footsteps... hide probably :/ In my room with the lights on.
If I saw THAT thing from the video (in the hallway I mean) then grab the nearest blunt object so I can beat myself to death first - better than whatever the hell it has planned.
I don't quite understand the "Hide under the covers and pretend it's not there mentality". I'm pretty sure it's always advantageous to be aware especially if you think something may be in your home and potentially dangerous. Sure, we can imagine that the creature just gets off on scaring people,and if you don't look at it,it will just go away disappointed but let's be real here.
Someone else said it but I'll say it in my own way since I have a story
I 100% agree that we SHOULD be thinking rationally at that point (and seeing your potential opponent would be much better than hiding and hoping that it's friendly). However, as the Dr so brilliantly put...
DrOswald said:
The rational part of my brain can say "there are no monsters, this is stupid" but the emotional part is still freaked, so the best thing to do is go do something to override the freaked out feeling.
My brain is telling me that you need to get a move on to determine what the hell is going on but my body has decided that it's not happening. I basically freeze (Story Time!)
About a year ago, I assisted my grandparents in moving away but we couldn't get everything out of the house until a few days later (most everything is gone but a few appliances). We arrive a few days later to find that the door is open...
There's no reason to believe that anyone is in the house anymore. It's the middle of the day and there's no sign at all that anyone is still there. Whoever it was has come and gone by this point. Others have already been inside so unless the hide and seek champion of the world is hiding in a cabinet, I KNOW it's empty. However, it took me a few minutes to finally gain the courage just to enter the damn house knowing that whoever (or whatever...dun dun duuuun!) was there earlier to steal whatever the hell they stole. There's virtually no reason to be afraid going in there (I suppose there's the rare chance that the thief is hiding somewhere inside to stab me to death while ignoring the others that already entered) but it took a lot of mentally psyching myself up just to enter the place and even more to go down into that basement...
Too chicken to watch video. Read summary. Glad I didn't watch video. I wouldn't have been able to sleep.
Soo...I'd flick the lights too. Upon realizing something spooky is going on, I would leave the lights on and go to my room (I'm on the second floor, so escaping out the house is night impossible without getting past whatever it is. ;_ and play something on my 3DS on my bed while watching the light from under the door. If the lights go out again on their own, I'd immediately barricade my door (I have two wall units not too far from the door, so barricading it shouldn't take more than 2 minutes.).
Then, turn on all lights in the room, sit in bed with laptop (my desk faces away from the door, so I'm not sitting there), and either watch funny videos or play something bright and cheery all night. Oh, and I'd have my ornamental Dragon-shaped Dagger next to me the entire night just in case. (It's not designed for fighting. If I stab with it, I'd cut my own fingers on the dragon's wings x_x).
If I keep hearing creepy noises, I'd call the cops and tell them there's an intruder in my house and I've barricaded myself in my room.
If the cops come and see nothing, I'd still stay up all night.
If the ghost or whatever breaches my room, ask it what the hell it wants from me while keeping the dragon-dagger pointed at it.
If it becomes hostile, cry "!@#$, you mean I die a virgin?! REALLY?!". Hopefully, being in a horror scenario, that fact will be enough to save me. If not. Welp, GG. ;_; I did what I could.
Strange noises shouldn't rattle me too much, I've slept in old creaky houses and more then once peeps have tried to prank me by scaring me at night when I was younger (and failed).
The sight of that..thing though that only appears when lights are off? Different story, I'd go fucking mental and certainly would NOT be going to bed after that.
My immediate reaction would be to GTFO and arm myself with a knife or sword on the way (fencing sabre underneath my bed) and if that thing...startles me then it better not be someone alive playing a prank on me cos they just find a knife in their gut. If this is a horror movie though it's at this point the attack fails and the monster gets me
shootthebandit said:
Personally im pretty inquisitive. Id be thrilled that id discovered this intelligent creature and id probably see if it was friendly or not and study its activity
You're the dude who in horror movies follows the creepy little girl aren't ya? :/
catchpra: on a boat. That's even worst! Imagine you're on a small boat when that thing makes its appearance...Your only escape is to plunge into the water. Heck this reminds me a bit of the elevator ghost "prank" in that you're trapped in a a small space with something apparently supernatural:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N5OhNplEd4
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