Live on your own? Get scared?

DAvE18 said:
Ahaha nothing worse than when your going upstairs after the last light off and you get that horrible sensation someone is following you. You run up the last 3 stairs like woo they cant get me now :D
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I absolutely never do that.

Only on the last 2 stairs, not 3 :)

Being fleetingly serious: I've lived on my own for a long time and I'm no longer bothered by such things. Maybe I'm just used to it, maybe I'm just older, maybe it was a side effect of when I had a threat that was more real, maybe it was a result of me imposing a more rational response on myself. It's somewhat like a phobia - repeated exposure and repeatedly reminding yourself that it's a disproportionate response can sometimes help.

Scared? No. Nervous, sometimes. Unexpected darkness is a great one for that. Noises are good too. I left some shower gel right on the edge of the bath a little while ago and for whatever reason it was maybe half an hour later when it fell into the bath, by which time I was in another room, reading a book. It probably didn't help that it was a crime novel about a serial killer :)
 
Eric's collar said:
I've had sleep paralysis 3 times. When your lying face down in the bed it was ******* scary because I thought I was being raped. Had it another time but I was physically moved. My legs were slid off the bed. The other time I saw a shadowy figure. It is the most terrifying experience that any human can experience bar none. You can't move and can't shout mummy.
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I've had it once...before I knew what sleep paralysis was. Seriously unpleasant. I thought that I had suffered some dreadful medical problem during the night, a stroke or something. After all, I had awoken to find myself completely paralyzed. Obviously something very bad had happened. Since I couldn't breathe, I was obviously about to die. I tried so very hard to call for help, but I was only shouting in my mind.

Everyone should know about sleep paralysis. I was lucid. Right on the wavering edge of gibbering panic, but lucid. It would have been so much easier if I had known that the paralysis was temporary and that I wasn't going to suffocate because although I had no voluntary control over my muscles my autonomic system was carrying on just fine.
 
Been living on my own in a flat for just over 2 years now and I don't get scared really. The first week I got nervous sometimes, the flats are surrounded by parkland on three sides and some nights I swear there are werewolves roaming outside, there are certainly some strange beasty noises at night but I got used to it quite quickly.

The only time I got really scared was one night I was up at about 3 in the morning playing on the PS3, I'd popped through to the kitchen to make a brew, went back into the living room and I'd flicked the news on, a short while later there was an almighty racket from the kitchen, it sounded like scraping metal and I swear I thought it was Freddy Krueger breaking into the flat, I did a runner through to the other end of the flat but the noise stopped, just as I got enough courage to peek into the kitchen it started again and I nearly had a heart attack. Turns out I had left the PS3 pad on-top of the Microwave and left the PS3 game running, something in the game was causing the pad to rumble across the metal on the microwave top :D Such a silly thing once I realised what it was but it took about 30 minutes and a change of underwear before I'd calmed down.
 
DAvE18 said:
Ahaha nothing worse than when your going upstairs after the last light off and you get that horrible sensation someone is following you. You run up the last 3 stairs like woo they cant get me now :D
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Been doing that ever since I was about 6 :D
 
Eric's collar said:
What really is scary is when you have a thing called a night terror our something like that. Basically it's when you wake up consciously but your body is paralysed because it still thinks it's dreaming. (safety mechanism) You hallucinate when having these and you feel like someone is pinning you down. That is ducking fear and your helpless which is the worst thing.
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I had this as a kid, but then realised my mum had just tucked me in really tightly.
 
I was in a camper van in the outback of Australia a few years ago. Lots of spiders and snakes etc.
In the middle of the night something started to break in through the screening of the open skylight.
That made the hairs on my neck stand up I can tell you :eek: I gave it a thump and it fled, not sure who was more scared, me or it:o
 
Valentino said:
like a log :p I'm in my room though, nothing can get in here without me being aware giving me prior warning to tool up. Whereas somebody could easily be breaking into my kitchen right now without me knowing and then i go into the kitchen disturbing them and get beaten up :eek:
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Then tool up before you go in to a room if your that scared :D
 
i live on my own in a victorian house that i'm quite sure is haunted. over the winter, the timbers and pipes creak but there has been other noises that i cannot explain and there has been 3 occassions where i have got out of bed convinced that someone is downstairs.
i'm 31 and not really a believer of ghosts and stuff but i just can't explain or forget those 3 occassions. it wasn't a case of being scared, more extremely 'wtf?'
 
When I was younger and 'home alone' I was exactly the same :) After getting my own place I just got used to the quiet
 
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