Fraidy cat is fraid.

[ishyface]

The problem with having an overactive imagination is that you never know when it's going to get away from you.

Last night I was just about ready to go to bed when I clicked on an article about alien abduction. This was a stupid move on my part, since being abducted by aliens has been my biggest irrational fear since I was six. (That was when I woke up in the middle of the night and thought I saw an alien standing over my grandmother's bed.) I was up alone at this point, one light on in the whole house, and by the time I closed my laptop I was afraid to go to sleep.

I was sitting by the window and my brain was on overdrive, making up all these ridiculous scenarios and telling me that there could TOTALLY be aliens right outside, standing on the lawn! And they could definitely be down the hall, you never know, so better not go there! And hey, maybe they're under the couch as well, just waiting to grab you by the ankles! And since they're aliens and all and aliens can totally turn invisible, maybe there are THOUSANDS OF THEM STANDING RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU.

It took a while for me to stop thinking about that, because what's more terrifying than being potentially surrounded by invisible alien abductors?*

And then when I was in the bathroom brushing my teeth I thought what if there's one standing behind me? So of course I turned around and looked, and of course there wasn't anything there, but then I remembered that scene in The Grudge when that little girl was standing behind someone and just moved whenever they tried to look at her and the moral of the story is you're never too old to sleep with your bedside light on. :(((

I figured I'd have nightmares, and I did, but they were about my ex instead of aliens. Go figure.

In happier news, I spent most of this morning watching Queer As Folk my with little brother and sister (who were home "sick"). Little Brother likes Emmett the best.


* Well, probably a lot of things. IT WAS REALLY DARK OKAY.

Comments

[uncommon-crow.livejournal.com]

you're never too old to sleep with your bedside light on.

*nods* This is very true. In fact, I did just that last night.

[ishyface.livejournal.com]

Did it keep the nightmares out? It didn't for me. :(

[uncommon-crow.livejournal.com]

*snugs* I haven't had any nightmares in a while, but I think it's because I no longer sleep all the way through the night and can't get as far as REM sleep before I wake up. Drift off at one or two and I'm awake by four-thirty or five. When it starts getting light out, I can usually turn off the lamp and fall asleep for a few more hours.

[ishyface.livejournal.com]

*snugs and hugs* Maybe this is your body's way of switching you over to full-time daysleeping to make your impending vampirism less jarring!

(You'd be the cool kind of vampire. I'd make you a cape.)

[uncommon-crow.livejournal.com]

I didn't know how badly I needed a laugh until I read this, but the day looks better now.

[ishyface.livejournal.com]

:)

Love you, bean.

[uncommon-crow.livejournal.com]

Love you too, Gee.

[jenni-the-odd.livejournal.com]

OH GOD I DO THE SAME THING.

Which is why I am not allowed to watch the History channel (when they're doing their "OMG WE'RE GONNA DIIIIIE" end-of-the-world programming), or think about zombies, plague, or my mom dying before I go to sleep. It mostly works.

[ishyface.livejournal.com]

Zombies don't scare me that much, maybe because I never watched zombie movies as a kid. But my dad was really into UFOlogy, so I was spoon-fed all this information about different types of aliens and different types of abductions and the kinds of experiments they perform on humans and it's all stuck in my mind. The things you're afraid of when you're a kid tend to stay with you, I think. (Which is why I'm still afraid of Cookie Monster.)

[iamsupernova.livejournal.com]

Two nights ago I couldn't sleep because serial killers were gonna get me. FUCK YOU CRIMINAL MINDS!

[ishyface.livejournal.com]

I used to be TERRIFIED of serial killers. (Especially the one from I Know What You Did Last Summer because death-by-enormous-fish-hook is a fucking gruesome way to die.)

I was afraid of crocodiles, too- specifically the one from Peter Pan. I have no idea why, but I used to have nightmares about him swimming up my bedclothes and eating me. :(

[lazenby.livejournal.com]

I often have to sleep with the light on... because I am a giant scaredy cat. :(

My biggest irrational fear are dinosaurs. THEY COULD TOTALLY COME BACK INTO EXISTENCE. DID NO ONE ELSE SEE JURASSIC PARK AND ALL OF THE SEQUELS? BECAUSE I DID. I DID.

[ishyface.livejournal.com]

I used to do Emergency T-Rex drills when I was little! They mostly involved me standing really, really still so that if a T-Rex suddenly appeared outside my window it wouldn't be able to see me.

... I was a weird kid.

[redheaded-itch.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry about your nightmares, Ellie.

:(((

Can I call you and talk? Stuff needs to be said.

[ishyface.livejournal.com]

ilu

[constructedmind.livejournal.com]

if i watch csi, or anything else with dark scenes and suspenseful music before bed, i have trouble sleeping. i can't watch stuff like that in the middle of the day when there's no one home.

i am a wuss! and things are gonna GET me!

[ishyface.livejournal.com]

Ughhhhhh the creepy music is what gets me. :(

[escherzo.livejournal.com]

This is why I have sworn off my old movie-watching habits, which once included watching The Exorcism of Emily Rose at three AM with the lights off, alone. STUCK IN MY CHAIR LIKE D: trying not to think about the potential creepy.

[ishyface.livejournal.com]

OH CHRIS THAT IS A BAD IDEA. At least it wasn't the original exorcist, though?

[escherzo.livejournal.com]

True. Still, though. *shivers*

[bluelashoo.livejournal.com]

ALIENS ARE MY EXACT IRRATIONAL FEAR. Ever since I can remember...

I remember staying up "late" (until maybe 9:00) as a kid watching TV and then having to walk back to my room in the dark... only I usually watched the Discovery channel because I was really nerdy and for some reason it was ALWAYS about outer space. And then I'd be terrified of windows.

Some mornings (including this morning) I get paranoid that aliens will be in the bathroom when I get out of the shower. This happened in residence too. I don't have my glasses on, man! I'm BLIND and DEFENSELESS and NAKED.

I've sworn never to see War of the Worlds, and it's not just because of Tom Cruise. Caitlin's parents had this totally cheesy album of the musical or something... freaked me right out. I had to watch Signs for a class in first year and almost died. Oh God. Now I'm thinking about it...

Conclusion: you're deffffssss not alone on this one.

[ishyface.livejournal.com]

Oh mannnnn, I used to have this recurring nightmare about those aliens from Mars Attacks! The ones with the insta-fry rayguns that turned people into skeletons. I know that movie's supposed to be a sature, but when I was a kid it terrified me because they were aliens and I could see their brains and they were killings people. (I didn't get satire until much later in life.) In the nightmare I'd usually be in a house alone, hiding under a bed (or sometimes in a closet), and I'd hear the aliens outside in the hall. I'd hold my breath and stay very very still and after a minute their footsteps would fade away, and I'd exhale. And then I'd look down at myself and realize that I was a skeleton. They'd fried me without me even noticing. D:

I was afraid of E.T. too, which I felt kind of guilty about because he was a friendly alien. But! The scene in the beginning when he's in the shed and you can't see him but you know he's making noise? IT STILL SCARES ME. So does the part when all the guys in space suits invade the house. Ughhhhh, Spielberg has ruined my life.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

*grin* This is why I don't watch Doctor Who episodes written by Stephen Moffatt at night. The light stays ON.

There's a really cool and persuasive theory suggesting that alien abductions are the modern-day equivalent of faerie abductions. Seems humanity is always beset with some form of little creeps with big eyes.

[ishyface.livejournal.com]

I've heard that theory, and I love it like cake. Somebody should write a story about it.

(And since I'm lazy I think it should be you.)