Things that creep you out

[Dudel]

some ... vegetables...

notsure

Before I continue I do what notsure to know I'm NOT making fun of him.

Dudel actual has a slight fear of brussel sprouts and ocra. They taste so horrible that a flight switch is trigured in my brain and I actually slowly move away from the table kinda like piscator and the dead animal thing.

If the smell from them gets to obvious I can't eat and I may even become ill. Not so much a fear but I do understand what your talking about... maybe.

Also a note on the dead animal thing: I do avoid carcasus but not out of fear so much as knowalge. Down in Florida there are LOTS of DEADLY bugs/virus etc that reside in a rotting corpse. Funny thing; if the animal was killed recently I'll happily eat it. Less then a day and only if its FULLY cooked. Dudel is odd.

[Dust Puppy]

I´m scared of far too many things. Worst of all is the realization that, if I don´t do anything about it, I´ll probably live for another fifty years or longer. That creeps me the hell out.

[Nom Pop]

I can relate to the being alone in the dark. Not so much if it's not a big place, like just my room, I can handle that. But being in a house that's empty in darkness really creeps me out. I wanna just switch on every light in that place. Walking by rooms that are dark.. *shiver* Empty spaces in the dark. Like the gap between the sofa and the wall. Being aware of open closets in the dark.

[SekoETC]

When I put the lights on and it's dark outside, I realize that if someone is out in the darkness, they can see me but I can't see them. Then if it's windy outside and stuff is falling over, I wonder if it's a person pushing things over instead of the wind. And if the curtain is not covering the corner of the window because it's crumpled up, I fear that someone might peek in through the gap and stare at me.

[*Wiro]

Oh, yeah, I know what you mean, Seko. I have that a lot when I'm in the kitchen and the lights are on, but the lights outside aren't. Then I look outside and realize exactly that. We also have these annoying fences that anyone can see through if you duck. And when it's just bright enough outside to see everything, someone could still sit there and watch. :S

[Mr. Black]

I've got a top-floor apartment, so I don't have that as much. But I do have a balcony which has no light. Freaky, looking out there at night.

[Piscator]

I´m scared of far too many things. Worst of all is the realization that, if I don´t do anything about it, I´ll probably live for another fifty years or longer. That creeps me the hell out.

Living creeps you out? Why?

Anyway, I can't say that the dark frightens me. I guess, deep down I know that the only thing lurking in the dark is me. I can't stand it though when it's bright inside a room and dark outside, but that's not exactly fear.

[Rebma]

The dark doesn't creep me out, its whats on the other side of the dark that I can't see that creeps me out. Under couches or beds, in corners, under stairs, behind furniture, behind tree branches outside...But im more curious about if there's anything there.

Love needles. You get used to it once you're poked with them enough. Also love bugs, spiders, snakes, and everything else.

Except..I'm going to tell some of you to shut up in advance....I'm like afraid of ladybugs. Not when they're still, thats fine, its when they fly. Its all over the place and creepy looking and..bleck. I told wiro the following story:

Once when I was 18 I came home and there was a ladybug on the doorknob, and i didn't wanna knock it off(cuz then it'd do that creepy fly thing) so I waited outside until someone else came home and removed it.

[chase02]

Except..I'm going to tell some of you to shut up in advance....I'm like afraid of ladybugs. Not when they're still, thats fine, its when they fly.

Hehe

I once gathered hundreds of ladybugs in a jar (we went camping where there was a plague of them, odd!) then took them home and put them on the rose bushes. You should have seen the CARNAGE when they got a hold of the aphids.. my god! *CHOMP*.. there were half eaten still alive aphids everywhere! Cute little evil bugs.

[formerly known as hf]

People. Just. People.

All of us. Mostly it's disgust. We're an incredibly repulsive species. Our worst attributes come to the fore when we're acting in complex social systems, and as groups of various sizes. But, honestly, even as individuals most of us are vile, obnoxious, horrid, petty creatures.

Which, in itself, is fine. We are no more than, and there is nothing special which sets us apart from any other biological entity on this planet. We can't be expected to live up to nonsensical pedastalling notions of 'humanity', and that's not the reason for the disgust.

I am disgusted by our immense arrogance - arrogance that we are, somehow, special, and arrogance that we, somehow, can know the world better than any other creature, and that, somewhow, this makes our judgements more valid. This is what 'creeps me out' - this is the fear as the kernel of that disgust.

More often than not, that disgust is largely fear. We are the scariest thing we know. We have developed into the most dangerous creatures. Combined with how viscious and self-serving we are, as biologocial creatures, which translates into arrogance and self-righteousness. That is the scariest, creepiest, thing I know.





Also, I used to stay in an old farmhouse in France on some holidays as a kid. The bed I had was right next to some beams supporting the roof (I was on the top floor). Those beams has holes in them, where knots of wood had fallen out. In those holes, spiders used to stay. All you would see of them was 8, large, black furry legs, spread in a circle coming out of this hole. The spider deep inside. This was about 30cm from my pillow. This I did not like. So, one night, I found some masking tape. I knowcked on the wood to scare the spider inside the hole and taped it up.

All I could hear for the rest of the night was the sound of the spider's legs sticking to the masking tape and pulling off again. A slow scrrhtch scrrhtch. All night. I didn't sleep much.

[freiana]

I agree with you on that spider... Wouldn't sleep too much either...
But scared off people I think it's pretty hard that every time you look in the mirror, you're afraid of what you see...

And about those lights... When you're in the light, you at least know that you will see them before they reach you (doesn't make it less frightning, though ) I think it is scary when the lights inside are on, and you are outside... You never know who is creeping around there, because you can't see them, and they can see you

[Nom Pop]

*nods head in agreement* The worst thing is that a feeling of responsibility does not automatically come with intelligence. I agree totally with what you're saying. The scary part is that you can't change people. You can't make them think. If they wanted to, they'd all come to the same conclusions. (Ok this is me getting on thin ice with that last statement.) Either way, mankind doesn't neccessarily equal humanity, eh?! We have so much power but we don't have the right to use it the way we do. The way *they* do.

But what do you do? There's so many of us. And so few using their mind and logic

...the film A.I. comes to mind.

Also, Kant says that there's no way of leading a morally good life in a society. I wonder..

[Dust Puppy]

But what do you do? There's so many of us. And so few using their mind and logic

There are so many people deploring the lack of people who use their mind... couldn´t they unite, somehow, and take over the world? Please do.

Back on topic... I don´t mind darkness at all, because I know that there are no ghosts or murderers lurking anywhere (I should be so lucky). So why does my logical reasoning fail me every time I need to climb a ladder? I know that even if I fall off it probably won´t even hurt, but it doesn´t help... I´m scared of heights.

Living creeps you out? Why?

My body is alive, but that´s it. Everything else just happens in my imagination, and sadly I´m not mad enough not to know that none of it is real. The scary part is, it´s always been like that. I remember imagining to play as a child (because I didn´t have much time to actually play). I just don´t know how to make things happen in reality.

[tazer]

Burial process in general scares me meaning burial and cremation.
Eg. What if you can still use your senses when your dead, your just unable to move?

Cremation- Being burned has got to hurt.

Burial- im claustro phobic <- OH look, another one!)
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If i had to choose one i'd choose cremation at least it would be quick but id rather them just leave me laying in some field.

[DylPickle]

Well tazer, maybe they'll start dropping bodies off cliffs first, just to make sure.


... speaking of.... Heights. Rickety, off-balance ladders in particular.