Yeah my friend told me a bit about it, it has people sending messages that are are just things they've sent before but in weird orders and stuff, and asking people to come to theirs even though they haven't been seen for ages
I need to find it
I think I love horror because of how visceral it is, and how much something we know (or at least assume) is a fiction can still affect us so much
Originally posted by Quincy
Oh dude pursue that that's interesting
Originally posted by \W//Yeah, I should. It's a bit close to home though, 'cause I have this close friend who suffers from dissociative personality disorder. His story has really affected me. Dude had this imaginary friend, or more, an imaginary enemy, when he was a kid. Told him to do stuff to people, but everyone passed it off as him being a kid. This 'guy' disappeared for over a decade... until my friend got married and had a kid.
do it
Then he returned. I can't even speak or type the "other personality"'s name because my friend says that people saying his name is what makes him stronger. My mate had to get sick leave for nearly a year due to all of this, and he didn't allow himself to stay with his family because he was worried that one day, he would wake up as the other person and watch himself do things that he didn't want to do. I saw him when he was at his worst – shaking, always jumping at things only he could see. It really affected me. It was worst when he said "one day I woke up and I was the voice in the head, and he was me".
Now, it makes me think. Was it the stress of his life, bringing this dormant personality out?
Or did this "other personality" just sit tight and wait until he had everything to lose?
It's basically a creepy pasta in itself mmm
Just found Ted the Caver. Gonna give it a read now
Originally posted by Scribble
Yeah my friend told me a bit about it, it has people sending messages that are are just things they've sent before but in weird orders and stuff, and asking people to come to theirs even though they haven't been seen for agesI need to find it
I think I love horror because of how visceral it is, and how much something we know (or at least assume) is a fiction can still affect us so much
I think our capacity to create things in our mind is most palpable when it comes to fright.
Like you can write characters that a reader falls in love with but only if they are written well. That emotion can be really intense, but it's harder to get there because the character has to really feel real.
With scary stories, it's a little different. Even if it's written poorly or doesn't go into details (which sometimes even helps make things scarier) the reader will fill in the blanks in order to scare themselves.
Originally posted by Quincy100% agree! It's about what isn't shown just as much as what is. I kind of worked that ethos into the novel I wrote, which is basically a horror. You can show a big scary monster, and it won't scare anyone, because there's a distance between us and the thing we see. But the things we don't see... those things are always with us mhmm
I think our capacity to create things in our mind is most palpable when it comes to fright.Like you can write characters that a reader falls in love with but only if they are written well. That emotion can be really intense, but it's harder to get there because the character has to really feel real.
With scary stories, it's a little different. Even if it's written poorly or doesn't go into details (which sometimes even helps make things scarier) the reader will fill in the blanks in order to scare themselves.
Originally posted by Scribblewhoa shock
Yeah, I should. It's a bit close to home though, 'cause I have this close friend who suffers from dissociative personality disorder. His story has really affected me. Dude had this imaginary friend, or more, an imaginary enemy, when he was a kid. Told him to do stuff to people, but everyone passed it off as him being a kid. This 'guy' disappeared for over a decade... until my friend got married and had a kid.Then he returned. I can't even speak or type the "other personality"'s name because my friend says that people saying his name is what makes him stronger. My mate had to get sick leave for nearly a year due to all of this, and he didn't allow himself to stay with his family because he was worried that one day, he would wake up as the other person and watch himself do things that he didn't want to do. I saw him when he was at his worst – shaking, always jumping at things only he could see. It really affected me. It was worst when he said "one day I woke up and I was the voice in the head, and he was me".
Now, it makes me think. Was it the stress of his life, bringing this dormant personality out?
Or did this "other personality" just sit tight and wait until he had everything to lose?
It's basically a creepy pasta in itself mmm
Just found Ted the Caver. Gonna give it a read now
Originally posted by Scribblethats good then aw00t
Just so y'all know though, my mate's proper stuck it to the other personality, and he's a lot better now. Back in work, back with his family, etc. Back to his old, unshaken self. Seeing him back like that made me feel good about life.
Originally posted by QuincyIkr, when he said that on the phone I got a severe chill. I wanna do something with it, maybe a short story or series of short stories, or even just enhance the truth and make it a fake "real" creepypasta?
I got chills, dude.Write this into something, from your point of view. I'd watch or read the hell out of this movie/play/story