Comments on: Reasons I switch on as many lights as possible

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 06:19:46 +0000

I normally leave the lights off. (They make it so much harder to fall back asleep) But after i watch a horror movie i do this XD.

By: Sicarus

Sicarus — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:33:44 +0000

haha! I’m 24 and i’m exactly the same… also, i don’t go into a room if it’s dark… can’t help myself….

By: FoulMouthedChick

FoulMouthedChick — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:17:42 +0000

I’m 31, and I still wrap myself into my blanket until no body part apart from my head sticks out lest the monsters bite anything off.

And I have to say I’m glad that I’m not the only one who’s crazy like that XD

By: Smile Island

Smile Island — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 20:27:34 +0000

It never helps that my kitty will bite me if my hand dangles… I was just starting to recover too…

By: Cptn Falcon

Cptn Falcon — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:10:36 +0000

Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
I have constant fear that something’s always near

By: Wylizzle

Wylizzle — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 23:47:10 +0000

Awesome!

By: Hello :D

Hello :D — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 02:22:38 +0000

I’m probably younger than any of you, but I have a feeling that if I do this now I will probably do it when I grow older. I usually do it based on impulse and instinct, but if I think about where I am for a moment, two things can happen: 1. I will calm down and try to picture my surroundings, and succesfully walk around in the dark or 2. Instead of my surroundings, I will picture the scariest things and let my sub-conscious place them in the freakiest places. And then run around trying to reach the lights.
Right now, I dream of catching my Dad doing that.

By: Sofware

Sofware — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:18:05 +0000

Holy s*** this is so accurate plus it’s the funniest graph i’ve ever seen well done

By: Katie

Katie — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:09:37 +0000

Wait a minute…
When did Skeletor take over Castle Grayskull?!
No one tells me anything anymore!
…
Where’s He-Man when you need him?

By: O5c4R

O5c4R — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:26:25 +0000

dude, i do the same thing, run up the stairs at night and turn lights on when getting water!

By: Bri-Bri

Bri-Bri — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:53:48 +0000

“Hey, who turned out the lights?”

Lawl, it take a mini angel statue and put next to my friend’s bed while she sleeps. She has a near psychotic meltdown when she wakes up.

By: bionelly

bionelly — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:36:21 +0000

Yeah, some people commenting on the horror movie post were talking about the urban legend about the deaf girl who taught her dog to lick her hand when someone came in her house, but when she turned on the light after her hand was licked, the dog was dead and a message hinting that the person who killed it was licking her hand instead was written in blood on the wall. A lot of people there said that story freaked them out, but it’s never bothered me because

A) Dog tongues feel different from human tongues (seriously, dog tongues are much flatter and wider; if you were used to having a dog lick your hand on a regular basis and suddenly a human did it, you’d notice the difference);

B ) A random person breaking in wouldn’t know she’d trained her dog to do that;

C) If she turned on the light as soon as she felt her hand get licked, the intruder wouldn’t have had time to leave before she saw them, and

D) Anyone who trained their dog to let them know when someone is outside or inside their house isn’t going to wait until the signal that they’re inside the room before switching on the light. That would be like installing a burglar alarm and then ignoring it when it goes off until you hear someone open your bedroom door.

So, yeah, too many logical flaws for it to be really scary.

By: myreply

myreply — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:07:18 +0000

what i do, is i think of flaws in the movies… take that bloody mary thing… i dont say it three times, she wont come after me… or there was a episode of supernatural(LOVE THAT SHOW!) where this family moved into a house and they got attacked by a chick and her brother that lived in the basement and got to the family by walking out of closets where there was a door in the back of it… my flaw for that is that a: ive been in my basement millions of times and there is nothing down there, and b: the only way the door could be in my closet, is for the other side of the door to be outside, or about 3 feet above the stairs…

idk… dont ask… that turned into a long and endless story… what i was meaning to say, is just try to find a flaw in any scary myth type things…

By: myreply

myreply — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:00:22 +0000

i think he means the movie… in gremlins they sat under your bed… i hated that movie… i would have dreams that they would be under my bed and they would rip it open in the middle and drag me down to wherever they came from

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:39:41 +0000

Nope, I get grumpy if the lights are on when I need to get up in the middle of the night. I don’t want to wake up any more than I have to.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:36:59 +0000

Yep, nothing like forgetting you hung a mirror or a really shiny picture frame, seeing your own face and nearly wetting yourself.

By: I.O.U 1 Username

I.O.U 1 Username — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:20:33 +0000

i so wish i wasnt allergic to cats…
i always wanted a cat but if i do something with something blah blah blah (doctor stuff) with cats, i get some bad thingy that makes me have a sad.
i want a cat!

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:41:29 +0000

OMG so true! except with me, it’s ghosts that I am afraid of, not monsters. although I am still afraid of monsters under my bed. and I refuse to look in the mirror if the lights are off because I think I’ll see Bloody Mary. and I’m 30! I know, I’m a little pathetic

By: Rain

Rain — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:56:06 +0000

yes, between the hours of 8pm and 4am the kitchen belongs to the roaches. They know it, I know it…it’s an equitable system…

By: TGZ

TGZ — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:36:27 +0000

Actually, scaring the cockroaches away in order to not step over them half-asleep and barefoot (happened once to my roommate who screamed and woke everybody up).

By: lina inverse

lina inverse — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:04:33 +0000

hah i do that

By: Captain Pipcard

Captain Pipcard — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:42:49 +0000

don’t forget the weeping angels!

By: Captain Pipcard

Captain Pipcard — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:42:06 +0000

you read that xkcd strip, didn’t you?

By: the_strange_cat

the_strange_cat — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:51:25 +0000

Oh…I HAVE to face away from the wall, just so I can see whether or not there is something there. I just can’t look off the edge of my bed into my room…I still use a loft bed (top bunk but no bottom)from when I was a kid, so I feel safe only waaaay up high (six feet or so) within the confines of the edges.

By: JCh

JCh — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:34:45 +0000

YIKES!!!! Thanks for reminding me about that… now I can’t go into the darkness…

By: igottabomb

igottabomb — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:05:15 +0000

I thought i was the only one who saw darkness falls. Im still scared of her and her messed up face.. But the pain lessened when i lost my last tooth and nothing happened.. Btw, i saw it in theaters (im 19)

By: igottabomb

igottabomb — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:03:10 +0000

Paranormal Activity wasnt scary to me… I dont know why it was so scary to everybody else… OOoooooo the sheets moved!! Oohohohoohoooo, something ran across the screen… Oooooooo, oh mai gawd! Something just touched her!! Ahhh, who cares? Not scary.. Now, pulse, THAT was a scary movie! That makes my skin crawl when i think about it.

By: hannabeth

hannabeth — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:56:49 +0000

I do the same thing when I go to the washroom but I’m afraid something will pop up and attack me like those screamers or Katie from Paranormal activity. And I’m 16 years old

By: lolman

lolman — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:30:05 +0000

I turn on lights for 2 reasons, to scare off monsters(I hate hollywood) and everytime I enter a room with or without light I hit my toe on a wall or something really painful.

By: Fromage

Fromage — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:06:24 +0000

Gremlins are funny.
Not scary!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:59:32 +0000

Am I the only adult here that doesn’t bother with lights at night unless necessary? Not criticising the ones who do, because hey, to each their own, just curious if I’m the only darkness-lover

By: bionelly

bionelly — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:26:34 +0000

I’m considerably more comfortable in the house I moved into a few months ago than I was in the previous one, even though that wasn’t the house I grew up in, the bed and almost all the other furniture is the same, and I’m living with the same people. I think it’s just that this place is much newer and better maintained, so it doesn’t have that creepy vibe. I still like to have the lights on when I’m in the bathroom or the basement, but I’m fine in the dark in the other rooms, and even in those rooms I don’t freak out in the dark like I would have in the old place.

By: bionelly

bionelly — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:18:49 +0000

It helps to have your box spring directly on the floor.

By: bionelly

bionelly — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:08:51 +0000

This is why I’m glad our basement light switch is at the top of the stairs. Though occasionally when my husband goes upstairs and I’m still down there he forgets and switches it off… then I’m not so happy about it.

By: scaried krid

scaried krid — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:05:08 +0000

omg this is amazing! i tought im the only one who turns the lights and runs upstairs very quickly becouse its like someone is behind your back:D and i always feel paranoid after a movie at night when i want to go to wc again

By: Uncle Washy

Uncle Washy — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:10:10 +0000

Gremlins…

By: Joltz

Joltz — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:59:48 +0000

I love pets. As long as they’re sitting around calmly you can be assured there’s nothing to worry about.

I also feel you on the parent’s house/my house thing. Occasionally The Things Under my Bed would freak me out when I still lived with my parents, but now that I’ve moved out I’m fine. It’s not childhood memories attached to a specific house because we moved every 2-4 years. It’s not that my new bed is inhospitable to The Things because I took my bed with me.

By: Joltz

Joltz — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:50:47 +0000

That’s exactly the reason I don’t do this. In my house, I’m the thing that goes bump in the night. I’m so comfortable in familiar buildings that I usually walk around with my eyes closed to avoid waking up any more than I have to in the middle of the night.

Outdoors however, is another thing entirely… every swaying tree branch is a vampire. Every too-dark shadow conceals a man eating creature no mortal mind can comprehend. When I turn around to go back inside I know a werewolf just came around that corner in the distance and I’m going to hear it sprinting after me any second. And there are no lights to flick on outside =(

By: Jazzy the Man (who is actually a woman)

Jazzy the Man (who is actually a woman) — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:08:27 +0000

I can’t even face away from the wall when I wake up in the middle of the night, I’m always terrified I’m going to see something that’s not really there.

By: Onasariel

Onasariel — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:17:52 +0000

*gasp* I’m 18, but I thought I was the only one who did that!!!

By: Gangreless

Gangreless — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:06:50 +0000

Haha, I used to have to do this at my grandmother’s vacation house. It was 4 floors and the main living/kitchen area was on the top floor. The bottom was nothing but a small rec room and a closet and the second and third were just hallways leading off to creepy, dark, unused bedrooms. I remember everytime I was there I’d have to haul ass up 4 flights of stairs with the terrifying knowledge that ghosts or something were going to get me if I didn’t.

… Come to think of it, I had the same problem with grandma’s main house, too. Except it was because of the endless hallway of darkness and doom with all the open doors to blackened bedrooms that obviously held torturous and angry things that wanted to keep me for themselves.

Man, grandma’s houses were scary.

By: bigyellowdinosaur

bigyellowdinosaur — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:05:08 +0000

me too, I always run up because something might grab my legs and pull me back down… aaaaahahahaaaaaa!

By: Poochner

Poochner — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:52:57 +0000

At my old house, scorpions would come in from somewhere. They only ever ended up on the bathroom floor.

That and that Darkness Falls movie still gives me the creeps.

By: madlibs

madlibs — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:16:53 +0000

I can’t go out at night in the dark without my doggie. So he can let me know if we both need to run for our lives back into the house. We’re both cowards, he just has better hearing.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:49:24 +0000

Reasons I don’t: I’m more scared of my landlady coming at me wielding the electricity bill.

By: Kel

Kel — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:50:47 +0000

Even at 24 I do not let any body part of mine hang off the side of the bed (its the internal fear of the boogeyman dragging me off to hell). This fear is embedded in many of us since we were kids.

By: kaikkakaikkaCHA

kaikkakaikkaCHA — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:31:06 +0000

i dont take a torch, just blindly dash up the stairs eyes closed in the darkness cus im always afraid ill flash the light in a corner and see a scary face or something like that D:

By: Meme

Meme — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:05:35 +0000

Same here, 22. It’s a pain ’cause my OCD wants me to turn all the unused lights off, otherwise it just doesn’t feel clean.

By: Azkyroth

Azkyroth — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:03:20 +0000

This is about my fourth reason for carrying a high-powered LED flashlight everywhere I go, even when I’ve taken most of my pocket stuff out for the evening.

By: Tipsy_the_Drunken_Fairy

Tipsy_the_Drunken_Fairy — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:54:21 +0000

I used to have to do that every time I got up to pee… my mom would yell at me for waking her up. Funny thing is, I don’t feel the compulsion to turn on every light now that I don’t live in her house. Either apartments are less prone to monster infestation, or my cats are scaring them off!