The Halloween Contest

[geronimo_appleby]

and the mess those fondue pots must have made!

Oh no, cheese in the mooshtashio!

the money shot!

 

[lovecraft68]

the money shot!

I can see it now, the shag rugs, lava lamps, quadrophonic sound and big side burns

 

[TxRad]

I can see it now, the shag rugs, lava lamps, quadrophonic sound and big side burns

Shag carpet on your floor and on your girlfriend.

Not to mention the waterbeds sloshing. Ride the wave, baby!

 

[49greg]

That's exactly it. Well, one of the types of it, anyway.

As I say in the story, I've had it for years. It's only recently that the hallucinations have turned kinky though. Hence 'Erotic Horror'.

Some psychology undergraduate on Twitter asked me last night if I was sure it wasn't just a dream. Anyone who ever asks that has never had an episode.

I really cannot sufficiently describe how terrifying it is, though I've tried in the story. To be a prisoner of your own body, then have invisible hands feeling you up, while you try to move, scream, do anything to get away?

Those times are the most terrifying I've ever had. Interestingly, I read an article some time ago where someone was arguing that the victims of alien abduction had suffered from these hallucinations.

 

[lovecraft68]

Sleep paralysis - similar.

https://www.literotica.com/s/the-night-time-visitors

Your brain can be a very powerful thing.

EDIT: and I'm duly trolled.

The superstitious folk before science called these 'witch rides' I suffer from these episodes on occasion. They say mine is triggered as an extension of the nigh terrors that still hit me from my childhood at times of extreme stress.

If you've never had one, you can't really explain it. I equate it with how I imagine drowning would be, the water weighing you down, you can't swim, can't breathe. I come out of them choking for air, which is what actually snaps me out of it.

Scares the hell out of my wife

 

[jomar]

I shoulda submitted a story about the time a tornado hit my house Halloween night. It was 1973. Scary as a mutha fucka.

Work in some ambiguity about it being a demon or not and you might have a winner.

 

[redzinger]

The superstitious folk before science called these 'witch rides' I suffer from these episodes on occasion. They say mine is triggered as an extension of the nigh terrors that still hit me from my childhood at times of extreme stress.

If you've never had one, you can't really explain it. I equate it with how I imagine drowning would be, the water weighing you down, you can't swim, can't breathe. I come out of them choking for air, which is what actually snaps me out of it.

Scares the hell out of my wife

I wouldn't describe it as drowning, but there's different types of sleep paralysis. Parts of mine are slightly atypical - the big thing is that once you wake and can move, it shouldn't return. Mine does. I can even turn over in bed, and as soon as I relax and sleep begins to return, the sensations return - the heaviness and 'hands'. That's really, really not supposed to happen.

I've never had an episode/attack/whatever when someone else has been in the bed, but I wonder what my body does.

I wouldn't mind being a test subject, but I can't predict when it's going to happen, other than when my normal sleep pattern is disturbed, or when I go to bed early. (Lesson for self: never go to bed early.)

A friend has said I should watch The Nightmare, which is a docu-drama thing about it.

It takes interviews with eight different sufferers of sleep paralysis and they have produced reenactments of their experiences based on their narration.
It is creepy and if you are like you say with horror films, it may shit you right up.

I think I'll take a pass.

(I don't think my imagination needs any more fuel!)


My story about it isn't going down too well - at one stage, there were more favourites than votes, and there hasn't been a single comment. It could be as my exchange with the psychologist proves: if it's not happened to you, you've no idea how terrifying it is. Or the first-person narrative isn't up to it. I'm tending to assuming the latter. My plan was to rewrite it as a third-person fictional story - I even got 500 words in - but then I ran out of time.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Work in some ambiguity about it being a demon or not and you might have a winner.

Call me weird, but its real shit that scares the crap outta me.

 

[lovecraft68]

Call me weird, but its real shit that scares the crap outta me.

No, kidding, you want real terror, watch the news.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Just finished the first draft of a decent Halloween story. Too late to submit, of course, but its good. A professor escorts his wife to the Halloween Ball at his school, where he ignores the wife to flirt with one of his female students. The wife goes to the bar for a drink and meets Dracula.