Why I keep my closet door shut

[Mike_Yates]

I keep the door to my closet shut ever since an incident when I was a kid where I woke up late one night to see glowing red eyes leering back at me from the pitch darkness of inside my closet.

That was a truly traumatizing experience and I never slept in that room again.

 

[Que]

You slept in a castle??
http://www.popartdecoration.com/projects/chess-piece-rook-632-1591-2.jpg

 

[missgreekgeek]

You let your Furby sleep in the closet?

Poor thing.

 

[Noor]

No one gave you monster repellant?

 

[Mike_Yates]

I accidentally spelled "room" "rook".

I correct that.

 

[Littlefinger]

You're an adult, Mike. Just know that anything in your head can't really hurt you, it just wants to be acknowledged, not feared. And anything real can be hit with a baseball bat. You must learn to coexist with your shadow and to fuck up intruders when they get into your house.

 

[Jennifer]

You're an adult, Mike. Just know that anything in your head can't really hurt you, it just wants to be acknowledged, not feared. And anything real can be hit with a baseball bat. You must learn to coexist with your shadow and to fuck up intruders when they get into your house.

This is sound advice.

 

[CandiCame]

I used to hallucinate a lot when I was a kid. That's no secret, I've mentioned it before, and yet none of the trolls has jumped in to call me crazy, which is weird. But when I was little, one time my dad took a fit and threw me into the closet and locked me in there. I swear to god I had a Monster's Inc-esque experience where a monster in my closet played board games with me until somebody let me out. I remember him. And he wasn't like what you'd expect from a normal kid's imagination, in the sense that he wasn't a fluffy cute thing. I called him 'the pink man' because he had bright pink flesh, the kind that white people get when they have severe burns. And he had backwards knees and two elbows. One where his normal elbows would be and then one in the middle of his forearms. And he had glowing red eyes and no ears and he had a Voldermort-esque nose and he told me that he would kill my dad and I asked him not to.

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view5/2084577/spongebob-imagination-o.gif

 

[Garnate]

I used to hallucinate a lot when I was a kid. That's no secret, I've mentioned it before, and yet none of the trolls has jumped in to call me crazy, which is weird. But when I was little, one time my dad took a fit and threw me into the closet and locked me in there. I swear to god I had a Monster's Inc-esque experience where a monster in my closet played board games with me until somebody let me out. I remember him. And he wasn't like what you'd expect from a normal kid's imagination, in the sense that he wasn't a fluffy cute thing. I called him 'the pink man' because he had bright pink flesh, the kind that white people get when they have severe burns. And he had backwards knees and two elbows. One where his normal elbows would be and then one in the middle of his forearms. And he had glowing red eyes and no ears and he had a Voldermort-esque nose and he told me that he would kill my dad and I asked him not to.

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view5/2084577/spongebob-imagination-o.gif

Jesus. Christ.

 

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[4est_4est_Gump]

Dude...



It's still under your bed.

 

[CandiCame]

Jesus. Christ.

To be fair, I was like 4.

 

[Garnate]

To be fair, I was like 4.

That's terrifying. Have the hallucinations stopped? How old were you?

 

[CandiCame]

That's terrifying. Have the hallucinations stopped? How old were you?

It wasn't terrifying at all because I figured out that they weren't real pretty quick. It was just annoying. I kept telling my mom that I was hallucinating, but she said that I was a medium and refused to get me treatment. My grandma did the same thing. Said I had "the sight". I turned 18 and went to a doctor who sent me to a psychologist, who gave me some medicine that fixed it. Took like 3 days. My family is fucking stupid.

 

[parodyluvr75]

I was just trying to sleep in the closet.

 

[parodyluvr75]

It wasn't terrifying at all because I figured out that they weren't real pretty quick. It was just annoying. I kept telling my mom that I was hallucinating, but she said that I was a medium and refused to get me treatment. My grandma did the same thing. Said I had "the sight". I turned 18 and went to a doctor who sent me to a psychologist, who gave me some medicine that fixed it. Took like 3 days. My family is fucking stupid.

You poor thing.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I'm biting my tongue to keep it in the 'closet.'

 

[pointless]

i keep my closet door closed because otherwise i'd walk right into the fucker every time i got up to take a piss at night.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

i keep my closet door closed because otherwise i'd walk right into the fucker every time i got up to take a piss at night.

Ditto for our guest bedroom.

 

[CandiCame]

We can't close our closet because it's full of shit. We should clean the closet. There's a bunch of plastic tubs in the floor of it from when the gf moved in... almost 2 years ago, I'm realizing as I type this. Those have been there, unpacked for a year and a half... There's no monster in there. There is only the clutter. The clutter will consume us all.

 

[CandiCame]

You poor thing.

Yeah, when anybody tells me that they're psychic, I tell them that some saphris will clear that shit right up.

 

[CandiCame]

For Mike

 

[Mike_Yates]

I'm pretty sure that this was an actual and legitimate paranormal experience and not a hallucination.

 

[FGB]

I forget just who it was, but there is a story that early in the history of the USA a minister woke during the night and spied SATAN standing at the foot of his bed.

Not missing a beat he allegedly said, "Oh...It's just you." and rolled over on his side and went back to sleep.

That would have shaken me up a bit...

 

[Littlefinger]

I'm pretty sure that this was an actual and legitimate paranormal experience and not a hallucination.

So? Are monsters immune to baseball bats? Seriously, what's it gonna do if you start violently smacking shit in your closet with a titanium bat? What are you going to do? Go to sleep while it sits in there and stares? Confront that cocksucker! On your own terms.