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Scaring Yourself With A Videogame

YoursTrulyYoursTruly
edited October 2012
Last night I played Zelda at night alone in my house and I was in a dungeon and I got actually scared and had to turn it off.

Is this dumb of me, or the dumbest of me??

I remember when John used to scare me by making me watch him play that zombie video game in the dark

I'm probably gonna do it again tonight

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  • LelandLeland
    edited October 2012
    Just for the record, this is certainly the most rational thing I have ever heard in my life.

    Why mess with Zombies and Dungeons? What happens if they become real and get you? Whose fault is that going to be?

    I just avoid the whole thing. I can't believe these things are still allowed.

    It just takes one zombie coming out of a video game to spread zombie plague.

    I don't get it.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    I KNOW!
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    edited October 2012
    I have a weird phobia where under water simulations give me the heebie jeebies. When I was a tiny kiddo I had recurring nightmares of falling into water or walking in back of a pet store with the aquariums and they would all break. I fell into a foetid pond for real as a tot, that explains the falling into water dreams but not the aquarium dreams. It morphed so that now if I play a game such as Ecco the Dolphin or Zelda: The Ocarina of Time I have to shut it off cuz my nervous system is psychotically afraid. There is this one world in Myst where you have to go into a dark room that is submerged and to beat the game I had to basically play it with my eyes closed and an intense walkthrough.

    Ralf is right. Let's stay safe and keep it reasonable.

    Was it Alone in the Dark? That shit is too scary
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    edited October 2012
    But also.... this phenomenon is an awesome testament to the power of our art, our eyes, and our nervous system. We believe what we see! YES! #enjoyit
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    edited October 2012
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  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    edited October 2012
    Water is supposed to represent the emotions, but I'm fairly sure mine is a terror of the primordial....

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  • flossy_log_ladyflossy_log_lady
    Wow. Epic dream last night (before I viewed this thread) wherein I was motor-boating down a narrow river/stream where all animals were dead and rotting. I was dodging overhanging dead birds and all the fishes were floating to the surface.

    I agree that deep ocean is some pretty crazy scary stuff.
  • LelandLeland
    edited October 2012
    I had a dream too! One that I remember the end of! And it was about water!

    I was hanging out with people. The dream was like a novel that went on for at least a day, maybe weeks. For some reason I was traveling with a lot of people. I think we were on a tour bus near the beach. In the course of conversations with this friendly bunch, I was compelled to explain my observations of force vectors in waves rolling and retreating on the beach (concatenations of micro-waves rolling across each other in a stack of parallel sheets with remarkably little friction, kind of like the sliced ingredients of a crazy sandwich going in different directions while maintaining their sequence from bottom to top.)

    I monologued for a sec, trying to think my description out loud. The young men and women around me were mostly talking happily among themselves as I verbalized. We were all very friendly. It was the sort of thing where you could be telling someone "Hello, I'm listening." silently across an aisle with your eyes while you are actually continuing a conversation with someone else seated next to you.

    At the end of my description of the roiling wave stack I stopped and asked, in a friendly, hopeful way, "Did anybody hear that?" They all paused their parallel conversations and smiled in a very friendly, actually quite loving way. Somebody spoke up, "No, Rich. Sorry, wasn't listening. What was that?"

    I said, "O nothing really." and smiled at my traveling friends as the group dynamic melted back into its pattern of disparate conversation and crosstalk.

    -wake-
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