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Why it helps to have a scientific mind come bedtime
15 years ago
I just finished watching Paranormal Activity. I'm not going to lie, I was un-nerved. I always mark how scared I am in a horror film by how often I have my hand on the volume knob/dial/button, and this time it was riding pretty low.
For the unaware PA is a film about a demon (worse then a ghost, apparently, meaner) haunting this woman, and does progressively more disturbing things throughout the film. It's good and frightening, but I admit the part where the invisible being dragged her out of bed and up the corridor by her ankle made me roar laughing.
Anyway, now I'm obviously a tad jumpy this night. Watching a few scenes from zombie land made me feel better. But I noticed that my computer is making a humming noise it's never done before. It rises and falls rythmically, like it's breathing.
vvvvvvvVVVVVvvvvmmm, vvvvvvvVVVVVvvvvmmm, vvvvvvvVVVVVvvvvmmm...
It's perfectly rythmic, so it probably isn't a worn bearing in any of the fans. Tilting the case off-axis makes no difference, so what's going on here? Demons? Creatures from beyond? The first sign of life from a machine slowly gaining conciousness?
Nnnnno. I just installed a new hard drive, Samsung 1.5 TB. I have it plugged into power, but there is no data cable connected, its turned on but not doing anything (I'm still using the old hard drive before I change over). Chances are it's confused; powering up in preperation for activity, then cycling down when it realises nothing is happening, and its getting trapped in this infinite loop. All I have to do to confirm this theory is unplug the hard drive, aaaaand... Yep! No more vaguely creepy inhaling and exhaling.
I can't help but wonder how other people deal with things like this. If I hear a noise in the night, I run through a list of all possible causes, starting with the most likely, until I'm satistfied or my theory is confirmed. Yet other people seem to leap towards ghosts and other explanations at the drop of a hat.
I always like to leave a moral with my journals, if I can. I guess what I'm shooting for here is that there is an explanation for everything that happens of the night when your imagination is at its most vulnerable. You may be too uninformed, too unimaginative, or too naive to think of the explanation, but that doesn't mean one doesn't exist. Sleep tight, for there are no ghosts.
For the unaware PA is a film about a demon (worse then a ghost, apparently, meaner) haunting this woman, and does progressively more disturbing things throughout the film. It's good and frightening, but I admit the part where the invisible being dragged her out of bed and up the corridor by her ankle made me roar laughing.
Anyway, now I'm obviously a tad jumpy this night. Watching a few scenes from zombie land made me feel better. But I noticed that my computer is making a humming noise it's never done before. It rises and falls rythmically, like it's breathing.
vvvvvvvVVVVVvvvvmmm, vvvvvvvVVVVVvvvvmmm, vvvvvvvVVVVVvvvvmmm...
It's perfectly rythmic, so it probably isn't a worn bearing in any of the fans. Tilting the case off-axis makes no difference, so what's going on here? Demons? Creatures from beyond? The first sign of life from a machine slowly gaining conciousness?
Nnnnno. I just installed a new hard drive, Samsung 1.5 TB. I have it plugged into power, but there is no data cable connected, its turned on but not doing anything (I'm still using the old hard drive before I change over). Chances are it's confused; powering up in preperation for activity, then cycling down when it realises nothing is happening, and its getting trapped in this infinite loop. All I have to do to confirm this theory is unplug the hard drive, aaaaand... Yep! No more vaguely creepy inhaling and exhaling.
I can't help but wonder how other people deal with things like this. If I hear a noise in the night, I run through a list of all possible causes, starting with the most likely, until I'm satistfied or my theory is confirmed. Yet other people seem to leap towards ghosts and other explanations at the drop of a hat.
I always like to leave a moral with my journals, if I can. I guess what I'm shooting for here is that there is an explanation for everything that happens of the night when your imagination is at its most vulnerable. You may be too uninformed, too unimaginative, or too naive to think of the explanation, but that doesn't mean one doesn't exist. Sleep tight, for there are no ghosts.
Ironically enough,I made a youtube video of that scene where the girl gets dragged out of the bed by her ankles while the Electric Slide song plays in the background...Why that song? I thought it fitted. ^~^
I still wanna see the second,though. Sounds much better than the first. :3
And I won't be seeing the second. I like my horror unrealistic, zombies aliens and monsters. I don't like the idea of an enemy that can't be defeated by the application of high exposives.
Well,that's not entirely true,it's at my dad's house. But I can count the amount of times I visit him on one hand. ^^;;