#125

Well I guess in that case Silent Running

#126

Now I’m just wondering how to quantify loads of deja vu. I definitely got it way more when I was younger

#127

when characters on kid shows would get like turned into an animal by a witch or something, i remember getting really fascinated thinking about what that would be like. getting turned into a duck or something and still having my own consciousness but being a duck.

#128

had the exact opposite effect on me, pure buzzed off spiderman having loads of arms

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#129

Mine was imagining sheep jumping the fence when I was trying to sleep. Never used to work cos the sheep would just start spinning in the air or freezing or the wall would move and I could never get my bastard brain to just allow the sheep over safely

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#130

last time i was in waterstones someone asked if they had any books about heartbeat, the cashier pointed them to the medical textbooks and the guy was just like no the tv show heartbeat that used to be on on sunday nights, you probably don’t remember it. proper #SentMeUnder, that

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#131

Those songs that were number one for fucking months, that was depressing. Meatloaf, Bryan Adams, Wet Wet Wet, Celine Dion twice. Horrifying.

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#132

totally used to get this, didn’t know it was a thing

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#133

ooh this is good spooky stuff. i had a really vivid dream that tony wilson died and no one gave a shit about a week before he died, so vivid that i got really bad deja vu when he actually died and also found it really weird that people treated it like a huge deal (even tho i’d found it weird that no one treated it like a big deal when he died in my dream)

#134

Yeah had it every now and then when younger. Now pretty much never, which makes me think it represents a decline of some sort.

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#135

This. I saw this aged 14, already in a constant state of mild panic about seemingly inevitable nuclear destruction and they put this on prime time BBC! I’ve just watched it again and it’s soo gratuitously bleak, partly lightened now by the 80s fashions and the Day Today style production (shot of sweet old lady, cut to pumpkin getting shredded by flying glass!).

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#136

So interesting in this thread to hear about so many people with the geometric shapes based night terrors. I have to be really careful when I’m putting music on at home if my wife is around to avoid anything where the beat stays the same but the tempo slows down cos it really freaks her out. Apparently when she was a kid she’d have proper night terrors that involved geometric shapes endlessly shifting and changing alongside music that was always the same and yet always slowing down. I thought it was just her but it seems like this sort of thing is a lot more common than I thought.

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#137

Visited the Kelvedon Hatch Nuclear Bunker last year and they were showing loads of creepy old public information films like that. They had one from the fifties about avoiding radiation poisoning when cooking after a nuclear bomb. Having watched Chernobyl I doubt the advice would have worked at all.

#138

There’s a bit in this that shows the type of bunker that was kind of a large metal framed rabbit hutch that you built in a basement or downstairs room (with all that plentiful warning of an attack in a week or so’s time!) and how if you were far enough away you would avoid getting cooked and you’d probably survive the blast, however as they point out, you’ve now got a collapsed house on top of you so you’ll likely suffocate as it’s unlikely anyone’s going to be digging you out!

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#139

Not sure if I can describe this very well, and it’s probably quite niche/abstract, but I’ll give it a go on the off chance that it has happened to at least one more person.

As a kid (and sometimes as an adolescent, but less frequently…and now never as an adult), my sense of perspective used to just get warped in this really odd fashion without any particular trigger, and it used to be pretty scary. Often happened when I was watching TV…and it was like my brain got confused by how there was a 3D dimension being portrayed by a flat screen…which translated into my eyes wondering if all 3D perception was a trick. I’d then start to focus intently on one thing in particular, but couldn’t look at the scene in general…a bit like when you think about breathing you can no longer do it naturally. Usually had to go into pitch darkness and forget about it completely for it to reset.

Not sure if this will make any sense to anyone…

#140

I used to be obsessed with this feeling I thought I could remember of gripping a weird hand rail. Every now and again as a youngster the feeling of that handrail would just be at edge of my imagination. Half teeth on edge, half a pleasurable feeling. Kind of like when you stroke a fabric for so long in a rhythmic way your fingers go kind of numb. Might be a weird half memory of visiting a hospital or something. This sounds mad as fuck when typed out like this.

#141

Just remembered this earlier. Something about the cartoon Victorian man really creeped me out as a kid

#142

these fuckers

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#143

Didn’t like this feller much either

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#144

Must have been a cartoon mutton chop thing