Hearing. If I can see it at least I will know what is attacking me and maybe try to do something. If I cant, then well good game for me.
Which is scarier! Seeing or hearing?
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I think hearing is much scarier because you're imagination can be much more frightening than actually seeing something. If you just see it then you know what the horror is, but if you just hear it, you have no idea what's around the corner or what's in the dark.
Nanananana I've got a magic trick that prevents me from ever having to go though a nightmare, and you can't do it. Nanananana.sky14kemea said:
Seriously though. It took quiet some training. I can't really say anything except that I simply forced to move my body. But here's a how to guide (it's short).
First realize that you're dreaming / hallucinating, and that you can't willingly move your body anymore.
Then focus on a part of your body you're familiar with, like the arm you use for writing. It has to be able to make a big movement. Smaller muscles like those in your hand won't work.
Now comes the hard part. !!!Force it too move!!! Like I said this only takes me a few seconds, but when I started doing it it took me several minutes. Mostly the bad monster was already chewing on me by then.
do you ever have hallucinations about being somewhere else?sky14kemea said:
like in a different room from the one you sleep in?
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Damn yoooooou! *shakes fist angrily*rutger5000 said:
Thanks for the short guide though, I'll attempt it if it happens again! :0
Weird thing though, none of my hallucinations ever got that close to me, they'd just stand near the bed, or like reach out and sorta stop near my legs. :l It's the way they moved towards me that freaked me out more.
Nope, never actually had that. Probably because I am technically awake. xDJroo wuz heer said:
Although thanks to my lamp, my room glows a deep orange sometimes in the night, so one time it really looked like I was surrounded by flames and stuff. :/
You know what would be even scarier than either of the options? people have reported undergoing surgery in which the anesthetic doesn't make them go to sleep, just completely paralyzes them, so that they feel everything (pain!) but can't react or tell anyone to stopsky14kemea said:
Yeeee >.<Jroo wuz heer said:
Yeah that is definitely scarier then anything I've experienced. I'd never wish that on anyone. :l
This.katsumoto03 said:
Although I have to say, I've had sleep paralysis before (albeit, only in certain parts of my body), and it's a frightening experience altogether. I've been lucky enough to have a couple of them while it was light outside, that does take a certain edge off of the hallucinations. Still, seeing a humanoid creature standing in the corner of your room with a thousand eyes and claws never really becomes less scary, regardless of the level of light outside.
That got me out of it when I had it Sunday morning. That was an auditory one, though I didn't hear really anything disturbing, just random talking, like a crowd.JRCB said:
Normally I think auditory are the worst. You can't tell for sure weather it's real or not, while seeing a big scary monster you might think "This surely isn't real". Both are fucking terrifying, nonetheless.
For me hearing, because I can't see what's causing it.
If I hear a tapping noise, I'll start to get a bit anxious, but when i see that it's just my foot hitting a bedpost or whatever I'm fine.
I think in general hearing is scarier, because we tend to rely on our sight to identify everything, so if we hear a sound with no visible cause, we start to worry about it naturally.
If I hear a tapping noise, I'll start to get a bit anxious, but when i see that it's just my foot hitting a bedpost or whatever I'm fine.
I think in general hearing is scarier, because we tend to rely on our sight to identify everything, so if we hear a sound with no visible cause, we start to worry about it naturally.
I think those of us who've played Amnesia: The Dark Descent know.
Actually I guess not. My friends and I agree I have a twisted but very active imagination, and I'm not sure if my mind could better conjur some horrific hallucination based from my personal fears, some unknown even to me (which usually ends up happening if I attempt to purposefully write anything scary), or some image of something horrific based on a sound I've made myself hear.
Slightly off topic: I just downloaded the Dead Space 2 demo, and honestly I didn't jump once. The developers said they're going with new scares, but within the first few minutes of the demo I was greeted with a pile of dead bodies. I then used stasis on the pile and blasted the hell out of it. Sure enough, the necromorph at the bottom of the pile screamed and tried to crawl towards me missing both legs, and I simply performed a mediocre amputation of his arms. Dead Space isn't scary to me, but I like the story and it's ridiculously fun to stomp the limbs off enemies whose legs have just been shot off. I prefer the surreal anyways as far as horror goes.
Actually I guess not. My friends and I agree I have a twisted but very active imagination, and I'm not sure if my mind could better conjur some horrific hallucination based from my personal fears, some unknown even to me (which usually ends up happening if I attempt to purposefully write anything scary), or some image of something horrific based on a sound I've made myself hear.
Slightly off topic: I just downloaded the Dead Space 2 demo, and honestly I didn't jump once. The developers said they're going with new scares, but within the first few minutes of the demo I was greeted with a pile of dead bodies. I then used stasis on the pile and blasted the hell out of it. Sure enough, the necromorph at the bottom of the pile screamed and tried to crawl towards me missing both legs, and I simply performed a mediocre amputation of his arms. Dead Space isn't scary to me, but I like the story and it's ridiculously fun to stomp the limbs off enemies whose legs have just been shot off. I prefer the surreal anyways as far as horror goes.
It really depends on the atmosphere with both of these things to me. With seeing things, it may be within a dark corridor, though I'd currently be under a light source. I can usually see the proverbial things that go "bump in the night", before that bump makes a sound. It honestly freaks me out there.
As for hearing things, that can happen wherever for me. I could be in a well lit room, typing on my laptop(for an accurate example), but suddenly noises come out of nowhere, and I instantly jerk my head to where the noise was, with the telltale heightened heart rate of a scare.
Personally, I prefer seeing things better than hearing them, so I suppose to answer the question, I'd say that hearing things go bump in the night is much scarier to me than seeing them make the bump.
As for hearing things, that can happen wherever for me. I could be in a well lit room, typing on my laptop(for an accurate example), but suddenly noises come out of nowhere, and I instantly jerk my head to where the noise was, with the telltale heightened heart rate of a scare.
Personally, I prefer seeing things better than hearing them, so I suppose to answer the question, I'd say that hearing things go bump in the night is much scarier to me than seeing them make the bump.
NOTE: Do not listen to his post if you are alone in a dark room, especially if you are me. Now I have some interesting but strange new ideas...Quantum Roberts said:
I'd say hearing also. When I go to sleep (which I will after this post is typed up) it's scary to hear the footsteps in the hallway, the rustle of papers being blown on my fan, and not knowing about it.