Things I imagine when I am home alone.
10 years ago
Sometimes when I watch a scary movie, and it's coming up to what I am expecting to be a jump scene, I picture there is another me, watching me. It's waiting for me to turn my head, to look away from the movie. There is something..slightly off about this other me, the limbs perhaps..too long, the head canted at a strange angle..a jangling irritation like chewing on foil..If I look at this other me it'll get me!
My imagination makes what may have been an okay movie much more terrifying.
My imagination makes what may have been an okay movie much more terrifying.
Sometimes when I'm laying in bed I imagine a dark presence in the room that will get me if it notices me by moving. So I spend a good 5 to 10 minutes convincing myself it's not real. The actual scary part is I'm not sure during these times whether I'm not moving because I can't or won't.
And watching slasher films alone, at night, is apart of that terror.
1) something to reach down and push my face into the water.
2) There's a large old fashioned fan vent in the middle of my bath room, so I expect to see a limb reflected in the mirror when I finish washing my face.
3) My reflection watching me.