Help overcoming a fear

my loft is dark too, so is my cellar. i wouldn't go in either without light and i'm far from supersticous, i've just seen to many dark movies!
 
I remember when I was little and went with my uncle family for a night out back in my native city.

It was an old part of the city with a narrow alley type road where we had some local ice-cream drinks (very tasty :D)

Apparently there was an old building in front of the restaurant. The building had small barrier/fence around it made out of brick. I just hoped up to the barrier to see what was on the other side.

Graves!!:eek::eek:

Later on we also visited toilets in the same place as they weren't anywhere else. These toilets were in a pretty big lawn type area.

To my dismay there were also 2-3 graves there !!:eek:

It was indeed a very strange place. Apparantly it used to be some sort of shrine
 
I love the mirrors trailer lol. When doing your rounds, just try and think about something else besides the creaking and other noises. By keep thinking about those things, your mind will properly work overtime. I have heard of a method called the flooding technique, this may help.

Best of luck
 
I think whenever we are in an unfamiliar environment which happens to look creepy, our mind starts to imagine various scenarios.

Just like with optical illusion, it tries to make sense of it.

I agree that our brain and mind are very complex entities

Edit: Actually I should have said our 'Neurological System' is very complex
 
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I don't really know how to overcome fear other than just doing the thing anyway becuase I want to. I still get really scared of going downstairs in the dark at night (I can't turn the lights on or my parents wake up and tell me off for being up so late), and I often have to stop still and stop breathing to listen and look around, and I get really scared, but I still go downstairs because I really like drinking milk before I go to sleep.

Facing your fear doesn't necessarily conquer the fear as others may suggest.
 
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Sleep tight.
 
I know what you are talking about, as a security guard I have to walk around dark, empty, old, creaky, freaky buildings at night. To begin with I used to walk around like I was in a horror film. But now I just stroll around with a decent album playing on my phone in my pocket and don't give a **** :D

I also found that when I took up Krav Maga and started lifting weights properly I felt more like I could handle "what ever was in the shaddows" lol.
 
I work evening shifts alone at a petrol station and have to lock up. I used to get a bit nervous because the sides and back of the building are in complete darkness and I used to get paranoid that someone may be waiting around the side for me but over time I got over it and don't tend to worry about it these days.

After reading the recent "creepiest thing to happen to you" thread, I had a whole new fear at work lol. For a few shifts I was so paranoid that something might be lurking in one of the rooms in the back. I found the best way to get through it was to focus my mind on something else. I think back to something really funny, and then my main task is not to embarrass myself by laughing to myself whilst serving the last few customers!

This is more effective if you are easily amused though. I'm one of those people who doesn't get over a joke for a while and is still laughing when everyone else has moved on.
 
When i was a teenager around christmas time when it actually snowed decently in the UK i used go for walks with my dad in the snow, one time we were walking back home and took a shortcut through a cemetary and we lived in a village at the time so there werent any street lights and i heared what i thought was a groaning sound and even though i knew it couldnt be i swear i thought it was zombies, turns out it was some **** head boy racer with one of them ridiculously loud exhausts but it still scared me so much i threw up.
 
big_white_dog84 said:
but I do have an intense fear of being in these remote areas on my own at night -
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dont worry I follow you EVERYWHERE you are never alone... whats more the doctor says I am totally cured now and safe.... he says that every time I feed him.... but I aint letting him out of my basement.....
 
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