That's right, you read correctly. Not much truly upsets; I leave bugs be, clowns are alright, and the dark is actually pretty rad. However, for reasons not entirely identifiable by me, I'm scared of noises that just don't sound right. They send chills down my spine.
My earliest memory of this fear effecting me is from when I was about six. A few Christmases earlier I had received one of those large picture books with buttons on the side. The buttons played noises when pressed to supplement the picture book. I believe the book was about Sonic the Hedgehog. Anyway, after years of use, the battery powering the speaker in this book began to die. In my experience, a very low power battery in certain electronics can start to create undesired events. For example, when the battery on my surround sound remote in my basement starts to die, the remote will randomly decide to send signals to the receiver; consequently it sometimes turns on full blast IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. Well, this is what the picture books speaker decided to start doing while I tried to sleep many nights.
Now, this wouldn't be a problem if it wasn't for the fact that the sounds it played were entirely distorted, and unidentifiable. These demonic sounds coming from my closet haunted me for life. To this day, I have trouble listening to distorted sounds. Most recently I've lost sleep because I heard a lot of speech played in reverse on the television earlier. For whatever reason, this scares the hell out of me.
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I know exactly what your talking about. When I was just a little boy, I had this reoccocuring dream about my mother screaming to music played by a violin. It sent chills down my spine.
ReplyDeleteIt makes sense, I can see where you're coming from. My fears are weirder, don't worry. I get the same sort of creepy vibe from electronic things when they go completely nuts. It just isn't right.
ReplyDeleteThis makes me think of how I absolutely hate the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard, or when the dentists scrapes at your teeth with that metal thing...that sound is horrible. It sends chills down my spine. I hate it!
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