- when i choose poorly in a video game (being mean to beloved companions, accidentally blowing up a planet, dying stupidly, etc) i will get isekai'd into that universe and have to deal with the consequences of whatever i just did
- somehow i will get put in witness protection and will have to cultivate an entirely different personality so as to not be traceable, but because i am self-indulgent and hedonistic i've already been doing every possible thing i would want to do, so i will only be allowed to do things that bore me
- as a kid i had a nightmare about going into the pedestrian tunnels at the local university where my mom was a student. they were dismal, creepy, and hadn't been updated since maybe the 70s, all old piping and faded yellow paint. in my dream there was a giant snail at either end of the tunnel coming to kill me, and i could do nothing to escape, just stand there and wait as they slooooowly approached
- i am now finishing up my third stint as a student at that same university. those particular tunnels have still not been updated. i obviously still take them (because it beats waiting to cross an unsafe road or walking in bad weather) but i still feel a little creeped out in them
- my DM had us fight a giant flail snail in a tunnel at D&D one night and it was very therapeutic for me to kill that
- i watched the scary stories to tell in the dark movie on a whim recently and the red room scene REALLY got to me for this specific childhood terror reason, lmfao. the inescapability of the slowly oncoming danger no matter which way you turn
- another childhood nightmare: so at my grandfather's old cabin, my mom and i shared a room. one night sleeping up there i dreamed that i woke up after a nightmare and went to my mom's bed to wake her up for comfort, but she'd been replaced by a man made of trifle. like his body was cake and his facial features were made with whipped cream and cherries, and he was just oozing, dripping custard
- so i was literally scared of trifle for several years. i don't actually like trifle (texture issues) but i am at least no longer terrified when i see one
- when i was around 9 i was at the supermarket with my mom and there was a stand where they were doing a potato chip blind taste test to promote ruffles. my mom liked the ruffles better, to the point where she exclaimed something like "surely no one prefers the other brand!" which struck me as the kind of fake-sounding thing someone would say in a commercial, and ever since i have been vaguely haunted by the idea that i am just a background character from a ruffles potato chip ad
- they were in fact better though
- ice skates
- i am afraid they will slice me
- i am also just afraid of. ice. hate to touch ice
- i'm afraid it'll stick to me/i'll stick to it
jan 27 2023 ∞
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