You Ever Watch A Scary Movie or Read A Book and Then Feel Spooked For A While?

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨squashkin@wolfballs.com⁩ to ⁨freeforum@wolfballs.com⁩

cross-posted from: https://wolfballs.com/post/12657

It's not the same as psychosis or schizophrenia but is this the taste of it that most people experience to give them some idea of how those mental illnesses are?

Unironically seems like a "micro mental illness episode"

I actually tested this intentionally and found I could get myself in a spooked mindset and then I just needed to take time to reset my brain by doing something not spooky to get my mind off the spooks

Kind of related, I remember reading Salvador Dali had this "paranoia-critical" method where he tried to get himself in a spooked mindset in order to paint this state of mind more accurately in some of his art (I forget how he tried to induce such a state)

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wigglehard@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
The 6th sense as s kid most def

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- squashkin@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  I don't even know if I watched it, that kind of stuff bothered me as a kid
  
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sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
For a while I lived in the middle of nowhere. Like a 45 minute drive to get to anything but bush. And then we'd watch Unsolved Mysteries on TV and it'd be about some axe murderer in the woods. That was spooky as hell.

Not sure it's mental illness, but instead it's your mind operating as it's supposed to but we've produced media that is extraordinarily effective at causing natural emotions

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- squashkin@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  lol that description of living in the middle of nowhere and then watching a film about a threat in the woods or middle of nowhere so it induces you in to a fear state... exactly what I had in mind.
  
  And as you say, the fears are somewhat rational - maybe there is a threat out there so you should be prepared. But then the fear is irrational too, either there's a threat you are or aren't prepared for (after you have put forth reasonable effort to protect yourself) or there's no threat, so the fear can be kind of useless.
  
  Also I think some mental illness is also just a normal response to an abnormal world.
  
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  - sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    In general, I think it's a recurring theme that our physiology and the psychology on top of that physiology isn't really evolved for modern society. That doesn't necessarily make modern society bad, but it does mean often we're doing things that don't really make sense. If you just ran from a bear and you think you got away, it makes sense not to just turn off the danger alert because maybe the bear shows up again, but I don't think we're tuned for fiction on the level we have it. We're just too good at it!
    
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- mayonesa@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  Try watching Forensic Files when you're in the burbs.
  
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mayonesa@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
No, but when I watch C-SPAN...

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