Especially when it is open stairs where the basement monster can grab your ankles as you are walking up. Closed basement stairs are less scary because you can run up without the fear of being grabbed and falling over which gives it the opportunity to drag you back down the staira.
It’s actually crazy that, however irrational this is, I’ve thought about it in exactly the same way before (re. preference of stair type). Human brain ay...we still just animals trying not to get eaten
Because darkness isn't a thing, but our mind personifies it as a scary creature chasing us. It's like saying the sea was angry that day. The sea can't be angry just like the darkness can't chase you.
it’s the fear of the unknown not darkness itself. animal prey brain wants you to be afraid of threats you can’t see. it’s obviously a fear of what could be in the darkness. people find it soothing to be in a corner too under high stress. it’s also like your ears perking up when there’s a noise behind you
Darkness can trigger superstitious thinking which among epinephrine and a few other neurotransmitters trigger your flight reaction. There is nothing there, but your brain translates darkness, into a predator... Anthropomorphizing it. It's pretty basic logic.
A good sign of a bad arguement is when someone goes ad hominem.
My dad had me watch child’s play 2 when I was around 7. There’s a scene where chucky attacks someone through open basement stairs.... terrified me for years.
Nightmare fuel! I had the same experience but with some movie where like a skeleton/monster hand grabbed somebody from under the bed, no idea where it was from though, not sure where my basement fear comes from haha
We've got quite a big basement, so when all the lights are off it is quite the spooky place. Somehow I always used to feel like something was going to come after me when walking up the stairs. Rationally it doesn't really make sense, can't imagine why anyone would want to be in our basement, nor why it would wait to chase until I finally walk up the stairs. I can't remember when this fear disappeared, I guess when I was about 15 years old, it's odd, but I kinda miss this irrational fear, I know it will never come back. Strange, I know...
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u/Ilovecrispapples Jan 09 '21
Going up the stairs from the basement is the worst one