Terror Induced Insomnia

[overlord_mordax]

Some of you who know me might already have a hunch that I'm a horror junkie. I love it- movies, shows, books, video games, web-videos, novels, short stories (and now creepypasta). As long as its supernatural, and not gore. I don't do the "Saw" stuff. So October is my month and I like to "kick it up a notch".

Last night I kicked it up a couple of notches too far and was unable to sleep.

1) I discovered "The Slenderman": a "new urban legend" being created, at first accidentally, by the internet. The first pictures of him: a distant figure in the background of photographs, inhumanly tall and thin, faceless, reaching out with limbs that aren't *quite* arms. Though he has his origins in may of this year, there's already a huge body of photographs, artwork and legendary surrounding him...it. What really got me into it (and terrified the pants off me) is the interactive serial movie/ARG that's being made around the mythos called "Marble Hornets" (after the movie a film student was making when he began to be effected by the Slenderman. You can search it on youtube or here's a link to where it's being discussed: http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/index.php?f=248&sid=963c671b0c9aa90f91784593c2b8159b

Like others who have gotten into the whole Slenderman thing, the Slenderman got into me. I couldn't shut my eyes last night without my mind providing some horrible new senario, with the slenderman lurking just in sight. And it's too late to run.

2)" The Dining Room/There is Nothing". I am *not* linking to this- if you really want to see it you can PM me; but I don't want anyone to be scarred the way I was out of idle curiousity. Don't get me wrong, there's no blood or gore, no swearing, no violence, no sex, and it's only 2 minutes long (sort of) but it is LITERALLY the most terrifying thing I will ever see in my life (dear gods I hope) and I never want to see it again. I wish I had never seen it.

You know how a lot of horror starts with things being 'subtly wrong', like the Slenderman, almost human to your eyes, but every sense modern life and skepticism has tried to bury is screaming at you ITS NOT HUMAN AND ITS TOO LATE TO RUN?

There is NOTHING subtle about "The Dining Room". Oh sure, at first you don't see what's so scary about the girl...woman...thing, in the Diningroom, and then it opens its mouth and starts.... making sound. And then it... falls down.... and then it happens in reverse. All the while its eyes are staring at you. Every time I think about it I start to tear up in Terror. It made me flat out cry last night. Nothing, nothing has ever scared me that bad before.

In Conclusion: I scared myself worse than I have in a LONG LONG time last night (purely my own choice, after all I was doing it right before bed) I slept fitfully and had nightmares until I woke up at 4:30 AM and then I lay in bed with my eyes wide open, sweating up a storm, waiting for the sun to rise before I could even try to go back to sleep.

I'm going to try to follow the Slenderman story because its the kind of terror I love (even if it keeps me up), but the Dining Room... I wish I could just forget it.

Comments

[violettsukino.livejournal.com]

The Slenderman sounds fascinating, but at the same time, I'm know I'm not psychologically prepared to see that Dining Room video. I'm truly grateful that you didn't link it. It obviously broke you pretty badly, and, given the tendency for me to blow things that seem only a little scary into something much worse, I think that seeing something truly terrifying like that would break me in an even worse way.

[overlord-mordax.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I didn't link it because I've done that myself (re: how I met the "lotus boob". DO NOT GOOGLE IT)

I doooo recommend looking up the Slenderman, however, if you're in a mind for new boogeymen here's a good start (purely factual, no creepy) http://x.datchan.org/index.php?title=Slenderman

[violettsukino.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link, looks informative!

Funny thing is, when I think of cryptids, I usually think of the Chupacabra first. This is because the idea of a creature running around sucking blood out of people's goats is hilarious to me in a juvenile sort of way. I guess it's sort of like cow tipping for me.

[mirrorvoid.livejournal.com]

See, now, if you tell me not to Google it, I probably will.

[mirrorvoid.livejournal.com]

...and that was quite a bit more dull than I expected. I'm disappointed.

[chocomookielove.livejournal.com]

Sweet. I shall look for this video.

But I doubt it will affect me.
Unless it has dead dogs. then I'll cry forever.

[violettsukino.livejournal.com]

Heh, I wish I could be as brave as you, Mookie!

[overlord-mordax.livejournal.com]

No dead dogs, promise. O_o

Let us know what you think, kay?

[chocomookielove.livejournal.com]

Right now I really didn't think much of it, but maybe it'll sink in later.

[nachtwundarzt.livejournal.com]

Well, definitely not looking into The Dining Room. The Ring and Grudge spooked us bad enough, so I think it'd do the same thing.

As for the Slenderman... so, wait. xD Is it something that actually happened, or is it some hoax thing people are just spreading around and playing off as an "actual" critter?

... Which is slightly amusing, because I'm of the opinion that even if it started out "fake", if enough people put energy into it, it MIGHT actually be able to 'form'. Which would actually be kinda cool in a creepy way.

Also, one of our peeps wants to comment that the Slenderman looks like those critters from Buffy the Vampire Slayer ("Hush") (http://x29.xanga.com/d6ed7a3410631139023306/s102285283.jpg).

[nightmare-mode.livejournal.com]

The Slenderman isn't too creepy to me since it just reminds me of Ledar from Mother 3.

I usually avoid stories like these anyway. Once I accidentally stumbled across something on that creepypasta site and couldn't sleep for a week.

The human mind sure is an easy thing to pump fear into.