/nought/ - A scream in the dark

My bedroom was in the basement from about 13 to 18.

I'd run up the stairs after turning off the light because I was scared.

It got much worse after seeing Silent Hill the movie for the first time and imagining small figures rising from the basement floor in the dark.

I'm not sure why I went through a period during which I was truly scared and upset at images of death and war, after being perfectly fine with horror and violence in movies and books.

When I was in the shower I was afraid of closing my eyes because a Samara-style girl would be in there with me when I would open them.

Now I only get that fear sometimes when I'm trying to sleep. It's more of a pale creature I imagine.

>>23

>shower terror

I still get that sometimes.

>>4

I was never afraid of the dark, but rather of what might be hiding in it. This is going to sound edgy, but when I got into my teens I realized I was probably almost as scary as whatever could be hiding there.

You still have to be careful. It's a good idea to check places someone could be hiding, just in case. But there's a world of difference between an adult's deliberate paranoia and a child's unreasoning fear.

The world is just a scarier place for kids. They have little control in their own lives, minimal resources, and they're physically small.