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Am I childish for this?

Posting anon since I consider this embarrassing and would rather people I know not know it's me :redface:

Basically, I still get scared of the thought of ghosts and stuff. I've found myself waking up in the middle of the night dying to run to the toilet and can't because the thought of something scary has popped into my mind. I recently watched the Skeleton Key and for some reason the bit with the flashback back to the 2 black servants doing hoodoo and being in trances and then getting hung still like that has freaked me out and it has been coming into my head a lot and I actually feel petrified by it. :redface:

Also, I think I'm the only person ever to consider the Sixth Sense to be the scariest film they've ever seen. Even my little sister who is half my age doesn't think it is scary, but for me, whenever a scene from it comes to mind or if I even catch a glimpse of a scene (e.g if someone is watching it and I walk into the room) I have nightmares. :redface:

I feel so stupid admitting all this but I'm worried that it makes me really childish or if other people still get like this?

Reply 1

mc_hamster

1

We all have fears I suppose....

You have to logically think about it. Everytime you get that fear think, how many people have actually been killed/ hurt by a ghost. The answer will be none therefore the fear will dissappear.

Reply 2

herecomestrouble

14

I think its cute! Personally i dont get too scared... probably because ive been toughened up growing up with an older brother constantly trying to scare me! but i do have some friends that are very easily scared...but i dont think its anything to be ashamed of! Just erm....avoid scary films and find yourself a strapping lad to protect you from harm :smile:

Reply 3

Anonymous #2

Aww you're not the only one. I am mad scared of that stuff too. Especially cos I have my own room up in the loft!! That's why when I do watch scary films I just makesure someone's with me. Once I was sooo scared I just hid under my covers the whole night and it was so hot lol how embarassing.

Reply 4

Firearm

Don;t worry.

I can watch most gore films without flinching, but the psychological thrillers are the ones that get me paranoid.

I wouldn't worry about getting freaked out by films ..

Reply 5

Anonymous #1

OP

It isn't even the fact of being hurt by one. It's just the fact of even seeing one. :redface:

This stuff actually scares me and people think I'm just being silly when I tell them. Not that I tell people a lot lol But like my mum or my boyfriend or someone close.

Reply 6

sophisticated

17

I wouldnt call it childish.
Just try and put stuff like that out of your mind before sleeping....read a nice book, romance or something?
When we were 17, me and my mate watched 28 days later (she made me stop it halfway through though!)....she had nightmares for a week and slept on her parents bedroom floor for 3 or 4 nights!
I wouldnt say you're childish at all! :smile:

Reply 7

Viridis

10

Aw bless don't worry i have loads of mates that are like that so you're not the only one. Just remember it's okay to be scared, it's just like any other fear, you just have to face it :smile:

If you get scared when wanting to go to the toilet, dare yourself to go! You'll learn that it was nothing to be scared of =]

Reply 8

Firearm

I used to be scared of slugs..

Reply 9

figureeight

11

Firearm

I used to be scared of slugs..

Heh, you never know what they're gonna do! Will they...move a tiny little bit forward, or will you accidentally step on them? Nobody knowwwssss! :eek:

Yeah I used to be really scared of that whole *ghost/ crazy-poltergeist-killer-I-don't-even-know-what-I'm-scared-of-but-I'm-scared-of-it* stuff, but as someone said earlier, think to yourself:

"How many people have been in any way physically harmed by these things?"

The answer is clearly "None"

Alternatively, you could just do what I did and always say

"Whatever. If somethings going to get me then it will"

If you face these things in your mind, you won't have to worry about them again :p:

Try it

Reply 10

PlaystationStudies

8

I was like this up until the age of 18, but after reading some stuff on rationalism I was able to rationalise away my fear of ghosts.

I back up what mc_hamster has said. Quite a few people forever tell of 'weird stuff' that happened to them, but not one person in the world has a truly convincing ghost story.

Reply 11

AngelOfAges

For me it's aliens. I'm watching through all the xfiles at the moment, but can't watch them alone at night. Most embarrassing is the fact that if I watch the film Signs, I can't sleep alone for 3 nights. If there's no other option I sleep in my mum's bed rather than sleep alone and have nightmares.
As for dealing with it? I do the old fashioned action of sleeping with the light on if I'm having a bad night. I'm 22 and hoping one day I'll grow out of it.

Reply 12

avalanche

Sleep with a light on?

Reply 13

Firearm

AngelOfAges

As for dealing with it? I do the old fashioned action of sleeping with the light on if I'm having a bad night. I'm 22 and hoping one day I'll grow out of it.

I sleep with an uplighter on because I find the ambience soothing.

Shoulda probably posted this anon tho :rolleyes:

Reply 14

Dionysus

15

Very few films scare me in the least. Someone mentioned 28 Days Later, it's only thinking about it now that I realise it is even supposed to be scary - but different people react in different ways. Just don't overdo it with the horror films, they can mess with your mind.

Reply 15

Sidhe

How many people have been killed or seriously harmed by ghosts? None, I can tell you there are no recorded scientific accounts of ghosts causing harm to people; let's put it into perspective, with spiders or snakes as a phobia it's a concern in many countries that you could be seriously harmed by them, so the phobia is somewhat more rational, With ghosts? But then a phobia wouldn't be a phobia if it was totally rational.

OP your not strange but your fear is certainly not based in reason. Try the tested method of exposure to your fear, watch The Exorcist or The Thing, or the Ring, a few times, or force yourself into situations that make you fearful like walking around in the dark, it sounds like a real nightmare but I'm sure you'll much more quickly get over your fears by facing them, than by imagining them all the time.

Reply 16

pumpkin7

13

when i first had my playstation, and tomb raider 3, i had nightmares about it, and wouldn't play it because of the tiger that jumps out at you at the start. lol!

yeah i get scared sometimes, when i can hear funny noises or something doesn't look right in my room. i guess everyone is scared of something. woah silent hill the room.. damn that game!
yeah i'm scared of computer games.. i'm the childish one!

Aww.

I have similar fears at times but I doubt I should post them...though there was once a horrible Cyclops in Jonathan Creek that scared the living crap out of me. It stuck a sword up through one of those slotted wardrobe doors and all this blood trickled out from someone hiding inside - I couldn't sleep for like a year because we'd just moved into a new house with wardrobes like that lol! I was about 12 at the time, but I still get nervy around that sort of door and won't ever live somewhere with one!

I'm coming off well here. :p:

But yeah, sometimes something just strikes the right note and has me jumpy for ages.

Reply 19

yellow96

15

I've seen so many horror / thriller films. So many. And yet the only film that stopped me going upstairs in the dark at night, like I normally do, was The Green Mile. Honest to God, the scene where that guy gets fried really creeped me out. I don't know what I was expecting to find..

My point is OP, even if ghosts did exist, what are they going to do? Float at you? There's nothing in the dark that wasn't there in the light, so unless you're happy to spend your days huddled in bed, I suggest you remember that ghosts A) can't touch you, B) would have no interest in you, and C) don't exist.

Am I childish for this?

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