Comment on Is it weird that I enjoy imagining being a witness/victim of various tragedies?

• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Morbid curiosity is different from enjoying the idea of witnessing a tragedy.

  Morbid curiosity is wanting to know the solution to a mystery that is morbid in nature. It doesn’t necessarily involve getting enjoyment from a tragic event occurring.

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  • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t get enjoyment from a tragic event occurring. And I disagree with your definition of morbid curiosity.

    If you actually read what I wrote, you’ll see that I’m saying I enjoy being scared, not watching people die. The whole point of the “Roy” thing is that nobody is ever actually in danger. What I’m wanting is an artificial way to experience things like that, which would satiate my curiosity, morbid and otherwise, and gives me the nightmare experience at the same time.

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    • die444die@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So I don’t have any curiosity about experiencing any of these things in person but I do definitely enjoy the adrenaline rush of being scared. I try to watch scary movies hoping it will bring back that fear I’d get as a kid where it felt like it took me 30 minutes to get down the dark hallway to my room because I was scared after staying up to watch scary movies.

      So I definitely chase that scared feeling, but not with real life events. This could be because I have witnessed a few horrifying things in real life and I know it’s not the same feeling - you get an adrenaline rush yes, but you’re left with a despair afterward, unlike watching a scary movie or something on tv.

      Still, some of the way you described this resonated with me in some way.

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