"everyday surreality, haunted houses & things that go bump in the night"
feel free to share your weird domestic experiences here.
when i was young and wondering where noises came from, i had to learn the concept of a house settling. hearing indoor sounds in otherwise silence (and darkness) still trips me out a bit. sometimes i look to see if something fell somewhere. acute hearing.
this morning i saw a small brown puddle (piddle) on my kitchen counter. i soon realized that the old banana i had hanging excreted its juices. i had never seen or heard of this before, but it made sense, as odd as it looked. next time i will throw the banana away before that can happen again.
1. "RE: everyday surreality, haunted houses & things that go bump in the nig..." In response to Reply # 0
there's something deeply yet somewhat seductively unnerving about quietly listening to house music while chainsaws buzz loudly outside of my actual house courtesy of a group of treecutters
13. "my guess" In response to Reply # 11 Fri May-12-17 08:51 AM by howisya
someone was bleeding out the ass and flushed the toilet, but some blood splashed up from the flush and stayed neatly upside down in that one spot until i came along and disturbed it, and it disturbed me.
5. "RE: **depressed sigh**" In response to Reply # 0
The auditory hallucinations have returned. I've been alone in the house this past week because everyone is on vacation. This combination makes for a really difficult challenge when trying to sleep.
os·ti·na·to /ˌästəˈnädō/ noun a continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm
i've had some trouble falling and staying asleep lately, too, but what i'm hearing aren't hallucinations even if i don't know exactly what they are. this home is especially noisy. it's also been raining lately, and there are a lot of birds hanging out nearby that are very vocal. when i go outside sometimes i hear them start communicating with each other, so i try to give them a little acknowledgment after they collectively shat all over my car last fall.
I sleep heavily so don't tend to be bothered by this kind of thing.
The cats (back up to three now) make noise at night. lots, sometimes. I would be happier with 0. THey are cute though.
Last time Lisa spent a night in the house by herself (left vacation to go back to work a day or two early) she called me at like 10:45 to tell me she was sure something was going on in the house. She never did figure out the noise that woke her up/freaked her out.
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12. "I live in a really old building. Shit shifts and creaks all night." In response to Reply # 0
if it's windy out, I just sleep through the knows the window panes make.
and when I get up, in the morning, the floors creak like crazy. I guess that's a good thing. Nobody will ever sneak up on ya boy in the middle of the night.
16. "I got tramatized early in life" In response to Reply # 0
My family put me THROUGH it when I was younger.
I remember when I was around 8, my father recorded scary noises on his tape recorder. He was slick with it because he let ten minutes pass while recording before the noises start. I would get ready to lay down for the night and he would sneak it under my bed. Ten minutes later right around when I was starting to sleep this shit would start up from under my bed and I would be too shook to even hop out and run. Talk about terrified. He would be hysterical laughing at me. This nigga once got me a Freddy Kruger pillow case when I was a kid. Who does this shit?
My aunts at around the same age were into horror movies. This was around when Freddy, Jason, and Michael Myers were at their peak. Guess who was forced to watch it with them? I saw movies at that age that most kids couldn't handle. I would be scared as shit but couldn't turn away. Know what that does to you later when its time to lay down? Every noise in the house is something coming to kill you. Every single fucking noise!
I also had a bad case of sleep paralysis. If you don't know what that is then look it up. My grandmother used to say its means a witch is on your back. It's some old folks tale. Now that fucks with you because you're half asleep half awake trying to move your body or yell out but nothing happens.
I still have the sleep paralysis thing every now and then. I don't believe in that shit anymore since I educated myself about it but I'd be lying if I told you it isn't scary as shit knowing someone is right beside you in the bed and you try to move but you can't. Honestly feels like you're about to die.
My favorite type of film are horror movies now. Go figure.
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legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 79554 posts
Fri May-12-17 10:16 AM
19. "I have sleep paralysis as well" In response to Reply # 16
that shit is the worst. Always feels like someone is in the room/house or right next to you just watching.
It was all about moving that toe or finger just enough to break out of it.
Now I rarely get it unless I'm sleep deprived. I always wondered if that was what a coma felt like.
your dad tho, that abuse. Who does that? My ex had a mom who put alien heads outside her window. Why scare your kid like that?
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20. "I do the wiggle your toe thing all the time" In response to Reply # 19
>It was all about moving that toe or finger just enough to >break out of it.
That really does help if you focus on one thing and try to move it, usually what breaks me out of it. It honestly does make you wonder if that what a person in a coma feels like but all the time. If so then it must be pure torture because I can't even take it for a minute.
My fam was big on pulling pranks on each other. I don't go that far with my kid, but I will hide in a closet for 10 minutes just wait for the perfect moment to jump out and scare here. The little one can't handle scary movies at all. Guess I just grew up in a different era where kids were a bit more brave. We used to always want to watch horror joints back then. Now her little ass be walking upstairs trying to look back at the tv and shit. You know that slow ass walk where they try to be noisy and walk at the same time? Half her body be past the wall and neck still bent downstairs lookin through the rail trying to see the monster. Knowing damn well she bout to be scared later lol.
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21. "There's something about total darkness that scares me..." In response to Reply # 0
like. I can walk the streets alone but being in a dark house alone hell no! I'm definitely a morning person. im settling into my new place. I can't say I'm comfortable; however, I'm doing a lot better than I thought. Last night I slept with my bedroom door open lol
22. "total darkness is interesting" In response to Reply # 21
i usually keep all my lights off at night except one in the room i'm in. when i leave the room, i sometimes turn off that light, too, and walk in the dark just because i can (i've lived in this house for nearly 10 years so i navigate it well). i also like peering in the direction with the least light at night just to see that void. it's kinda trippy.
"silence" can be trippy, too, at least for me because i've filled so much of my life with sound, especially music. other sounds then come to the fore, whether it's the hum of a laptop or refrigerator or something going on outside. those are good to listen to, too. when i got a new car a couple years ago, i avoided using the stereo for the first few days so i could listen to the car and how it interacted with the road.
23. "My folks recently lost a tenant because they 'sensed an evil presence'" In response to Reply # 0
In the house. Guy claimed he was having nightmares every Night and felt a palpable evil. Said He woke up one night to find somebody by his bed.
It's an old house, and it makes some noise, so that I can see someone freak out there. I grew up there and never sent anything though, so I don't really get it.
legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 79554 posts
Sun May-14-17 01:28 PM
24. "It's callled rent. Dude was prolly seeing it every night in his dreams" In response to Reply # 23
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