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Strangers in the dark
16 years ago
We all get scared of one thing or another. It differs from person to person. Fear of the unknown, fear of the known. Something fill us up with such dread and intense horror, makes us feel so vulnerable, like a weak and helpless rabbit in the corner of a wolfpit. Other things just makes us uneasy in a couple of seconds and then we just shrug it off. There are many levels of horror, but they all grow in the same mould. And that means they can grow, evolve, mutate.
Strangers in the dark is one of my more heavy fears. Seeing the silhouettes of people coming towards me in the dark to cross my path feeds my terror and gives my imagination an electrical shock, images of all the horrible things these unknown, anonymous people can do to me is so wicked that only half of it is more than enough. Everyone knows how fucked up human nature is. Of what a human is capable of doing alone. Add a couple of more individuals then you get a symphony of grotesque horrors. Few things scare me as much as meeting unknown people in the dark.
Walking outside when it's dark I would prefer seeing the silhouette of something unknown rather than something known. Maybe a humanoid silhouette with four arms? Or something humongously big with horns? Something walking on all fours with a head big as an oil drum? Anything would be better than the familiar silhouette of a person.
I'm not going to lie and say that seeing silhouettes of someething big and unknown coming towards me wouldn't be intimidating and scary. But I would not only feel fear like I do with the known silhouettes. The feeling would be a mix of fright and delight. Walking toward this alien thing would definitely have been the highlight of the week, or year. Lifetime? The great thing about the unknown is that you'll never know what you may stumble over. It's something your mind haven't prepared, it's something it can't identify, it both fascinates and scares you. It can be something good or something bad. If it's bad then it's just another addition to the already macabre world. If it's good.. well, then you have hit jackpot. The beginning of something great, a new hope that proves this world isn't finished after all.
Most of the things we know about in this world is either dangerous or bad news. I embrace the unknown and hope that one day I will come over a strange silhouette in the night that isn't human. That is if the known and familiar silhouettes doesn't kill me first.
Fears is an necessary evil.
What's yours?
Strangers in the dark is one of my more heavy fears. Seeing the silhouettes of people coming towards me in the dark to cross my path feeds my terror and gives my imagination an electrical shock, images of all the horrible things these unknown, anonymous people can do to me is so wicked that only half of it is more than enough. Everyone knows how fucked up human nature is. Of what a human is capable of doing alone. Add a couple of more individuals then you get a symphony of grotesque horrors. Few things scare me as much as meeting unknown people in the dark.
Walking outside when it's dark I would prefer seeing the silhouette of something unknown rather than something known. Maybe a humanoid silhouette with four arms? Or something humongously big with horns? Something walking on all fours with a head big as an oil drum? Anything would be better than the familiar silhouette of a person.
I'm not going to lie and say that seeing silhouettes of someething big and unknown coming towards me wouldn't be intimidating and scary. But I would not only feel fear like I do with the known silhouettes. The feeling would be a mix of fright and delight. Walking toward this alien thing would definitely have been the highlight of the week, or year. Lifetime? The great thing about the unknown is that you'll never know what you may stumble over. It's something your mind haven't prepared, it's something it can't identify, it both fascinates and scares you. It can be something good or something bad. If it's bad then it's just another addition to the already macabre world. If it's good.. well, then you have hit jackpot. The beginning of something great, a new hope that proves this world isn't finished after all.
Most of the things we know about in this world is either dangerous or bad news. I embrace the unknown and hope that one day I will come over a strange silhouette in the night that isn't human. That is if the known and familiar silhouettes doesn't kill me first.
Fears is an necessary evil.
What's yours?
I suppose one of my greatest fears (that has any depth to it) is the prospect of sudden and unnatural change. What I'm referring to usually involves me staring at something, either in inspecting it or just deep in thought, only to have it "jump out and get me". Sometimes I'll be watching my husband sleep, and there is the overwhelming paranoia that his face will suddenly transform into a black, smoking pit from which horrible sounds are emanating.
Thankfully this has never happened, but on the same token it makes me wonder why I obsess over it like I do. It's hard for me to look at a single thing in peace for too long without shuddering and having to look away. Who knows when it will turn on me.
There are many things that upset and unnerve me that I've never understood. But I suppose that's why I find it so interesting.
Who knows? Maybe a small, grinning head will pop out of your husbands face one day?
Objects are something we have grown to know, we are told what they are, their shape and feel is proof enough that they are what we think they are. But we still have this primitive way of thinking deep inside our subconscious. It may be that one who get triggered when you stare at things, to make you aware that something may happen. Because when we were running naked around in those primitive days, everything could be a possible treath.
Or.. Maybe you're just a loonie like the rest of us?