Why do I sometimes get a strange sense of terror that a "monster" is close?

[Siam_Sam]

I don’t think “monsters” are near by, but I do sometimes get a sense of impending doom. Generally just shake it off.

[Lemur866]

No Dude, you are the monsters.

[Sunny_Daze]

@Riemann

Well, all except Mothra.

Great Now what. A ring of lights outside the tent and darkness inside? How do we stop them all?!?!?!:eek:

[cochrane]

@Daylate

OhMyGod, what if it turned out to be an evil blimp?? I’d run screaming from the house!

Then you might not want to read this.

[Riemann]

@Lemur866

No Dude, you are the monsters.

Futurama -The Scary Door compilation

[LSLGuy]

@Riemann

Well, all except Mothra.

You totally win the thread. Bravo!

As to our dear lil’ buddy dude: you really need to binge read the entire output of Stephen King. Once you’re scared of cars, dogs, and little girls, the dark will hold no special monsters for you.

[Count_Blucher]

Nah. Couldn’t be…

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

dude robert–post-concussion, I had that issue, for several months.
It went away.

Were you knocked out, or maybe take a strong smack to the head?

[elfkin477]

@Trinopus

I’m a full-grown adult, and I still get “haunts” in the darkness. I think it may be how our brains are hard-wired to be wary of threats.

Yep. I know that the horror novel I’m reading way too late at night is really scary if I start to worry about looking in the mirror because it might not be me in the reflection. When we get scared we think of silly stuff.

[LSLGuy]

@Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor

dude robert–post-concussion, I had that issue, for several months.
It went away.

Were you knocked out, or maybe take a strong smack to the head?

Naah. Just too much strong smack.

[Mijin]

I think I once had some anxiety like the OP, but having lived alone for many years it’s a distant memory.
So…you’ll get over it, I guess.

Nowadays I regularly watch horror movies with the lights out last thing before going to bed.
If I then hear a loud bang…“Meh, probably a photo frame fell off the wall”.
If I hear a voice whispering…“Jeez, I must have left my MP3 player on again”

Only thing that affects me is the buzz of a mosquito that I subsequently can’t find…hard to get to sleep after that…

[Thudlow_Boink]

There’s a monster at the end of this thread.

[Walken_After_Midnight]

That’s Godwin’s law in action.

[dude_robert]

@Mijin

I think I once had some anxiety like the OP, but having lived alone for many years it’s a distant memory.
So…you’ll get over it, I guess.

Nowadays I regularly watch horror movies with the lights out last thing before going to bed.
If I then hear a loud bang…“Meh, probably a photo frame fell off the wall”.
If I hear a voice whispering…“Jeez, I must have left my MP3 player on again”

Only thing that affects me is the buzz of a mosquito that I subsequently can’t find…hard to get to sleep after that…

Huh, I hear the mosquito buzzes all the time, usually after I turn the lights off and are about to fall asleep, I can hear them doing fly-bys. But then when I turn the lights back on, they’re still flying around so I chase them around the room and kill them, because there are no fly swatters, so I have to just crush them with my hand.

But a few times there have been constant loops of this. I hear them buzzing, I get up and kill 3 or 4 of them (this takes about 10-20 minutes), I go back to bed, then I hear the buzzing again! Once it just kept going and going and going so I eventually just covered myself completely and ignored them.

I think they sometimes come in through the ceiling air vents or something.

[kayaker]

@dude_robert

I think they sometimes come in through the ceiling air vents or something.

That’s where the pinhole cameras are.

[msmith537]

Because it’s IN THE HOUSE!!!
Also you might not be getting enough sleep and drinking too much caffeine.

[Alan_Smithee]

@dude_robert

Huh, I hear the mosquito buzzes all the time, usually after I turn the lights off and are about to fall asleep, I can hear them doing fly-bys. But then when I turn the lights back on, they’re still flying around so I chase them around the room and kill them, because there are no fly swatters, so I have to just crush them with my hand.

But a few times there have been constant loops of this. I hear them buzzing, I get up and kill 3 or 4 of them (this takes about 10-20 minutes), I go back to bed, then I hear the buzzing again! Once it just kept going and going and going so I eventually just covered myself completely and ignored them.

I think they sometimes come in through the ceiling air vents or something.

You know they sell flyswatters, right?

[snfaulkner]

@dude_robert

Huh, I hear the mosquito buzzes all the time, usually after I turn the lights off and are about to fall asleep, I can hear them doing fly-bys. But then when I turn the lights back on, they’re still flying around so I chase them around the room and kill them, because there are no fly swatters, so I have to just crush them with my hand.

But a few times there have been constant loops of this. I hear them buzzing, I get up and kill 3 or 4 of them (this takes about 10-20 minutes), I go back to bed, then I hear the buzzing again! Once it just kept going and going and going so I eventually just covered myself completely and ignored them.

I think they sometimes come in through the ceiling air vents or something.

The meth can also make you think bugs are on or around you.

[LSLGuy]

Whatever you do, don’t read up on Delusional parasitosis - Wikipedia late in the evening. The wee beasties are everywhere. Most are nocturnal. And you can’t defend yourself while sleeping.