What do you do when you just can't stop creeping yourself out?

[Doclector]

Y'know the feel. You've read too many creepypastas, watched too many horror movies, or maybe you're just insane, or overly creative, or both, and now you just can't stop imagining horrible, horrible things in every dark corner of the room in the middle of the night. Goes without saying, sleep's gonna be difficult. What do you do?

Usually, I watch films. Something light hearted, to get my mind off of whatever imaginary monstrosities I have thought up.

If that doesn't work, well, I might just give up on sleep for the night.

Just so you know, and perhaps so you can suffer with me, this is the particular article responsible for getting the very darkest parts of my creative abilities into overdrive.
Oh, it's just a logo, you think. Just watch it. That music is like the creepiest logo chime ever. Who on earth thought this was good for the channel? This went all the way from the early nineties to 1997. For seven years, this piece of abstract terror came attached to every BBC video. What the fuck?

 

[Jinxzy]

I like to turn on netflixs and watch a cartoon from my childhood. Like courage the cowardly dog or ed edd and eddie. Something that will make me laugh and forget about it.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Hey? I never found that scary.

Anyways, rubbish music, especially from the 80s, is good at getting you to forget whatever you were feeling.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Comics work wonders. I read Asterix whenever I'm having trouble sleeping.

 

[vv85]

When I saw the BBC logo and the title together I hoped you were going to show a clip from Garth Merenghi's Darkplace


(I dont know how to link to times in this little box thing so try this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wlj2DpfJnVg#t=1m34s

 

[ImmortalDrifter]

Ska music is my go to for when my lurid nightmares get the best of me

 

[Casual Shinji]

I hum showtunes.

I only creep myself out when I wake up in the middle of the night, so I try to recall silly songs to hold the boogies at bay till I fall asleep again.

 

[AidoZonkey]

I just think, "Hey it can't hurt me, its in my head, and if its in my head, I can destroy it with my infinite horde of Wookies on the back of T-Rexs". Or something like that

 

[FrankatronX]

I ask the dark to play. No I really do. I sit up open my eyes to the dark and look at the blackest dimmest shadow and ask it to play or tell it to stop trying to scare me. I then realize how totally impossible that is and laugh to myself and sleep again. That's if I'm alone if there is my partner then I snuggle which works just as good but is much faster.

 

[The Wykydtron]

I run through a few scenes of Katawa Shoujo and as a Hanako enthusiast, just half of her introductory scene puts me in such a good mood.

All power to Cuteness Drives:

[http://media.photobucket.com/user/woody938/media/Katawa%20Shoujo/Hanako/hanakob.jpg.html]

D'AWWWWWWWWWWWW!

That or I play more League. More League is always a good idea.

*Sees incoming tower dive on friendly bot lane*

*Locks Gold Card*

Surprise backup Twisted Fate incoming!

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

I don't know. Nothing, I guess, I don't get creeped out that long after I witness something creepy or something to be concerned about. Wait it out? Think of something else?

Here's one, listen to Bach's Chaconne, performed by none other than Heifetz.

 

[Lilani]

Oh, it's just a logo, you think. Just watch it. That music is like the creepiest logo chime ever. Who on earth thought this was good for the channel? This went all the way from the early nineties to 1997. For seven years, this piece of abstract terror came attached to every BBC video. What the fuck?

That chime definitely sounds like a sound that would play at the end of a 90s murder mystery show, in which they found the last victim just a moment too late.

Anyway, to get myself out of a creepy-funk, I try to watch something whimsical, like cat videos or a fun movie.

 

[Lilani]

All power to Cuteness Drives:

-picture snip-

I'm sorry, but you find a girl whose face is half-covered in grotesque scarring to be cute because...?

 

[CaptainThom]

See if there was anybody online on Facebook i could talk to (if this is late at night and everbody else is alseep), talking to people normally calms me down

 

[DugMachine]

When I've read a lot of creepy pastas and I can't fall asleep I'll just lay in bed looking at random wikipedia articles or reading a book until I fall asleep.

 

[KOMega]

Oh, it's just a logo, you think. Just watch it. That music is like the creepiest logo chime ever. Who on earth thought this was good for the channel? This went all the way from the early nineties to 1997. For seven years, this piece of abstract terror came attached to every BBC video. What the fuck?

I don't know...
I find the chime to be quite calming to me.

Anyways, if I feel like I'm getting creeped out by something, I will do one of these:
1. Turn off lights. Go to sleep. I probably can't think straight because I'm sleepy.
2. Try to forget about it and play something that will take my mind off it. I'm putting too much thought into it and need to divert power.
3. Get something good to eat. Om nom nom. I probably can't think straight because I'm hungry.
4. Furiously imagine myself beating the crap outta the scary thing while probably looking like a little kid watching and mimicing saturday morning cartoons if I did that in public.

 

[HardkorSB]

I actually wish that something would show up, no matter how terrifying it was because that would be the most exciting thing I've ever experienced (it would in fact be better if it was something really scary). Even if it would be a monster that was going to eat me or aliens wanting to perform horrible experiments on me, at least I would go out on a high note.
I often deliberately pick the darkest alleys to walk through, just to see what's around the "creepy" corner.
Sometimes, I even stop and say: "If you're out there, come out, I'm not afraid of you" but nothing ever comes out, sadly.

 

[Miss G.]

I think of harmless things, usually of the cute and fluffy variety or beat out the fear through a war of attrition. At some point I WILL be too tired to care about being scared and I'll get to sleep. Sucks if I have a related nightmare or creepy waking dream (hate those things) before the sun starts rising, though.

 

[WolfCross]

I just try and keep in mind that Saw made it to five films and that Mumford and Sons are a successful band and realise everyone's as messed up as me but some people are better at hiding and some cases even socially acceptable.

 

[Galletea]

I think of my favourite song, envisaging it complete with video and I try to focus on it. I'd go and watch it on the internets, but usually this sort of thing only happens because I've woken from a nightmare and my mind is full of whatever the offending image was.