Which is scarier! Seeing or hearing?
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HOLY SH*T! There's a name for that? because I remember a couple instances in my life where that happened.
One really good one was when I was falling (I could feel the air rushing by me), hear the rushing air, and and see things as if I was falling into them.
In my head I was just imagining my self just laying there unable to move.
Alot of times I just get really load ringing noises in my head and am unable to wake up or move. At first it was really scary but then it just got really loud for awhile and I had to just wait 'til it was over.
I think hearing things was pretty scary, I don't think seeing moving images would be as bad as that.
One really good one was when I was falling (I could feel the air rushing by me), hear the rushing air, and and see things as if I was falling into them.
In my head I was just imagining my self just laying there unable to move.
Alot of times I just get really load ringing noises in my head and am unable to wake up or move. At first it was really scary but then it just got really loud for awhile and I had to just wait 'til it was over.
I think hearing things was pretty scary, I don't think seeing moving images would be as bad as that.
Definitely hearing. Because, that way, the mind pretty much can go crazy with what the sound could be, instead of what it actually is. Once you see it, removes any doubt (even if the thing you see is scary as hell).
Which is why Silent Hill has always scared the crud out of me. ._. You tend to hear so many creepy noises.
Which is why Silent Hill has always scared the crud out of me. ._. You tend to hear so many creepy noises.
I have to go with seeing. Because then the shit is actually there with me as opposed to outside the room or down the hall.
Hearing. Like Yahtzee and the guys on EC say, your imagination can scare you a lot better than anything else.
I've always wanted to hallucinate...
I have a friend who suffers from the same thing, except it's always when he wakes up for the morning anyway. He just can't move for a few seconds, or minutes sometimes.
Anyway, I think hearing would be scarier. First, your imagination would fill in the blanks. If I was seeing things, I think I'd pretty quickly figure out I was hallucinating.
I have a friend who suffers from the same thing, except it's always when he wakes up for the morning anyway. He just can't move for a few seconds, or minutes sometimes.
Anyway, I think hearing would be scarier. First, your imagination would fill in the blanks. If I was seeing things, I think I'd pretty quickly figure out I was hallucinating.
I'd say hearing because your mind is making whatever you hear into the most frightining thing you are afraid of personally
Hearing for me is much worse.
Watch any horror movie with no sound and it's almost comedic, but try listening to the agonized screams of the victims without the visual effects. It's much worse, because my mind tends to fill in the blanks, and I always imagine much worse.
My favorite proof of sight over sound:
Listen to that with your eyes closed and it's downright terrifying. I can't stand it.
Watch any horror movie with no sound and it's almost comedic, but try listening to the agonized screams of the victims without the visual effects. It's much worse, because my mind tends to fill in the blanks, and I always imagine much worse.
My favorite proof of sight over sound:
Listen to that with your eyes closed and it's downright terrifying. I can't stand it.
hearing is scarier for me, and it makes logical sense considering most fear is produced by you "scaring yourself" because it is unknown. If you can hear something but can't see it, you know absolutely nothing about it other than the sounds it makes.
I couldn't imagine being in a situation like that. It must be unpleasant, to say the least. If I had to guess, I would say seeing would be worse than hearing. I could almost convince myself what I was hearing wasn't there, or at least that it wasn't an immediate threat. "Immediate" being the key word, it'd still be scary. However, with what you're describing, I would be horrified out of my skull if I saw (or worse felt) something dangerous on top of me. It would be many times worse if my muscles wouldn't do anything to fight or flee. 
My condolences if This happens often, for whatever it's worth.
My condolences if This happens often, for whatever it's worth.
Hearing. Even things that aren't scvary might get scary when you hear it. Like footsteps in the coridor. Even if it's your mom bringing you chocolate cake those creaking stairs will be creepy. Or the sound of a peacock. That sound scared me the first time I heard it, but seeing the peacock is quite pleasant.
Waling around in a scary game hearing an enemy, knowing it will soon be all over you = SCARY. Seeing the enemy might startle you, but then you know where it is, and it should be easy enough to kill it.
The unknown = Scary. Known = might be scary.
Waling around in a scary game hearing an enemy, knowing it will soon be all over you = SCARY. Seeing the enemy might startle you, but then you know where it is, and it should be easy enough to kill it.
The unknown = Scary. Known = might be scary.
Personally when I see something, I lose my general sense fo fear for it as, to an extent, I know what it is. When I only hear them though, or hear about them I generally have an increased heightened fear of it.
So I'd go with hearing in this situation.
So I'd go with hearing in this situation.
If I keep hearing what ever it is and I don't like what I'm hearing I defiantly don't want to see it.
In the end I will crap my self from fear one way or another.
In the end I will crap my self from fear one way or another.
I think hearing would be, since your imagination would be conjuring up all sorts of things while it occurred, ensuring that the seeing bit was almost filled too
In non sleep paralysis contexts, its definitely hearing but not seeing. Dunno about sleep paralysis though since I've never had it.