hearing can be much more scary, for instance, if your in the dark, your mind can make up things to whatever your thinking about. that and the shear fact that some people arent wearing turtle beaches and cant tell were its comming from 
Which is scarier! Seeing or hearing?
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I don't know if it's possible to over power it actually, but I don't think it'd be impossible. I've been able to move my hand once or twice in some cases. :/rutger5000 said:
I think definitly hearing since, when you see something, true it can be really scary but at least you are seeing the danger and react acordingly, if you only hear, sure you can think "oh it's nothing just noises" but from my experience with just a sound if I'm willing I'm able to imagine something that really makes me scared. I did this a couple of times to test it out and to this day sometimes when I'm trying to fall asleep I'll do it to see how far my imagination runs.
For instance you hear a simple bump in the dark. Ok just something falling, something giving in to weight a simple crack from the computer whatever, you can dismiss it at that or, and if you want you can try it, if you let your imagination run wild you can simply think, that was an accidental noise by something that's standing right beside my bed.
Seriously hearing without seeing is scary as hell.
For instance you hear a simple bump in the dark. Ok just something falling, something giving in to weight a simple crack from the computer whatever, you can dismiss it at that or, and if you want you can try it, if you let your imagination run wild you can simply think, that was an accidental noise by something that's standing right beside my bed.
Seriously hearing without seeing is scary as hell.
It all sounds quite interesting.
To answer the question which is scarier seeing or hearing I guess it all comes down to the situation in a film or game sound works best because my mind is making me wander what the horror is and in my house a strange sound is always more scary than what it actually is...although lately a strange sound simply arises the question what are the ferrets doing now.
As for a dream state sounds are scary but with my mind making the visuals as it were it can be just as scary, I know what freaks me out and that can be depicted by my mind.
Both are scary but combined with the helplessness of the not being able to move the thought of there is something downstairs and oh crap there is something crawling up my body I will probably be more scared by the second.
To answer the question which is scarier seeing or hearing I guess it all comes down to the situation in a film or game sound works best because my mind is making me wander what the horror is and in my house a strange sound is always more scary than what it actually is...although lately a strange sound simply arises the question what are the ferrets doing now.
As for a dream state sounds are scary but with my mind making the visuals as it were it can be just as scary, I know what freaks me out and that can be depicted by my mind.
Both are scary but combined with the helplessness of the not being able to move the thought of there is something downstairs and oh crap there is something crawling up my body I will probably be more scared by the second.
Hearing things I can't see would be scarier. My imagination would fill in the blanks. Also, this sleep paralysis business makes me want to never fall asleep, just so that it won't happen to me.
xDsuperbatranger said:
Awww, don't worry about it dude. It usually only happens once to people, and they never even notice it most of the time! You're pretty much safe from it if it hasn't happened already!
Now I'm starting to get curious. If you manage to move, what kind of movements are they.I personally need several seconds to connect mind a body again and when the connection is strong enough I can make a big fast movement, usually an entire limb swinging around.sky14kemea said:
Guess you have a point there. My entire life and I only remember 2 dreams.sky14kemea said:xDsuperbatranger said:
Awww, don't worry about it dude. It usually only happens once to people, and they never even notice it most of the time! You're pretty much safe from it if it hasn't happened already!
I hate to use a game here, but "Condemned: Criminal Origins" proved to me that hearing what you can't see is much, MUCH scarier.
Very small movements at best, like tilting to the side of moving my hand up a bit to try and shield myself. xDrutger5000 said:
Then again if I am trying to move it means I'm panicking anyway >_> so I usually can't get my mind to connect back to my body. Dx
I really didn't mean to scare people with this thread. Whoops. xDbeliever258 said:I'm glad you said that. I have never actually hallucinated - not to my own knowledge, anyway - but the thought of seeing something like that has always horrified me. Then you made this thread, and I looked on the wikipedia page, and it said that almost everyone experiences this. Scared me shitless. So I continued on with reading this thread, and people's horror stories, scaring the shit out of myself, and you said that, and I just breathed, knowing that chances are I won't remember it.sky14kemea said:xDsuperbatranger said:
Awww, don't worry about it dude. It usually only happens once to people, and they never even notice it most of the time! You're pretty much safe from it if it hasn't happened already!
Actually, I do remember a dream or waking up once, I don't know, I just know that I didn't open my eyes and it felt like something very, very heavy was on my chest. I didn't hear or see anything at all. But I did wake up and immediately turn the lamp on and played Super Mario Sunshine for the rest of the night.
But yeah, really don't get paranoid about it happening to you! Heck I doubt most people even have the hallucinations. There's probably more people on the Escapist that do because we all play a lot of games and have huge imaginations on here >.> From what I've seen anyway. =P
