I’m definitely not having any trouble sleeping. Sleep comes easily. There is absolutely no problem when I lay down and attempt to sleep. I feel peaceful and rested when I wake in the morning. I don’t know why you asked.
Under no circumstances do I wake up with a clenching feeling in my chest. There are no unexplained blood splatters on my sheets. Red lines are not tracing their way along my hands and I can’t tell their origins. The fridge isn’t frightening. Who would be scared of a fridge? There’s nothing terrifying about a fridge. You open the door and there’s food there, I’ve never seen it become a yawning abyss that I fear I might topple over and fall into at any moment. Everything is absolutely fine. I’m having restful sleep.
Let me know how great you’re sleeping in What Are You Playing! I am fine.
Bonus question: What’s your weirdest real-life experience that spooked you out?
​Andrew Ross (@dengarsw): Weirdly, I’ll be doing Super Mario Bros Wonder as the online play’s got me curious. That competes with Pokemon Go and Splatoon 3’s events though, oof. I’ve already powered up one of the new Halloween Splat masks and adjusted two of them. Might do the third too, but it’s such a busy season!
Okay, so, for the weirdest/scariest thing IRL, I remembered a good one for this site/season. My brother and I feel asleep on the couch once as kids, and something tinkled my nose until I woke up. It wasn’t my brother’s foot as I thought, but a giant, black rat. Except it wasn’t bitey or afraid of us. Little guy just kept looking directly at us, so I told my brother to check the cages. Apparently his pet rat had figured out how to open his cage so he came to hang out. Cute in retrospect, but at the time, it was pretty freaky!
Brianna Royce (@nbrianna, blog): Hoping I get to play MMOs this weekend, but I’m super busy. All good things! If I get into anything, it’ll be Lord of the Rings Online, and I’ve been toying with dipping back into Star Wars Galaxies Legends for a bit too.
I dunno that it’s the weirdest, but it definitely freaked me out: I was once out hiking when a huge tree fell over across the path right in front of us. If we’d been a few seconds slower, we’d be pancakes.
Chris Neal (@wolfyseyes, blog): I’m likely going to keep up with little chores in Final Fantasy XIV, but otherwise I’ve gotten the random itch to reinstall a modded form of Monster Hunter Rise that lets me more comfortably play by myself. Or I’ll just continue to sit and feel sad; that’s always an option.
I remember one time when I was younger and fighting a fever that I had some pretty vivid hallucinations while I was trying to sleep. One of them was this immense shadowy spider creature that just sat on my ceiling, unmoving, soundless, but staring at me. A fevered and wounded mind will do some crazy mess to you.
Eliot Lefebvre (@Eliot_Lefebvre, blog): Some FFXIV stuff and assembling a Halloween costume, mostly. That’ll do me.
There are a number of things that have freaked me out for legitimate reasons, but the weirdest one to me was one night in college, when I was walking across campus after a late-night hangout back to my dorm room. I was cutting down a darker area because it was a bit faster, but then I felt like something was watching me. So I looked behind me and saw a couple of glowing eyes, then saw a deer step into view… but part of me felt like I still saw something in the darkness. So I just said “nope,” turned toward the brighter parts of the street, and took the slightly longer route back.
Sam Kash (@thesamkash): You know I’m in that Harry Potter Magic Awakened still. The constant updates have really kept the game fresh. I know we’re largely working off the updates built over the last year while the game was still only accessible to SEA players but I really hope they can keep at least some of the cadence going.
Bonus: It took me a minute to dig it out of my photo banks, but when we had our first kid we were checking out the baby monitor before calling out a night and we saw the creepiest f thing. I had to literally pick it up and look closely because I swear there was a gremlin or some other crazy child watching my baby sleep. And I have the proof…
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