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dbingham · 4832 days ago · link · · parent · post: Innovative Korean horror comic: keep scrolling down
I have a very powerful and active imagination that is not entirely under my control. Give it a little food like this, and it sprints off. I spent two nights with my heart pumping adrenaline jumping at every little sound. No matter how much I rationalize that it's just a stupid internet cartoon, my mind can't resist replaying the image and then inserting it into my expectation for the future. The result: I start expecting to look out the window and see that face, or walk down a hallway and find myself facing the back of that head. No matter how much I tell myself that that won't happen, it's still what I expect.
It's always been this way. It's lucky my memory is as poor as it is, because I eventually forget the image, and the expectation wheres off. I usually just avoid everything horror.