Random thoughts on Nightmares and Fear.

So I was thinking about nightmares...not because I had one in which a midget clown was chasing me with two syringes of AIDS blood....but because it goes to show just how crazy we are.

Nightmares are scary movies our brains make for us. I am not a fan of scary movies. I can handle slasher flicks but supernatural shit is a big no no. I guess I was born in that day an age when the Exorcist came out and people believe if you saw the movie the devil would be sitting next to you. I have too much of an over active imagination to watch those movies. So I was watching 'Paranormal Investigations' on Syfy because I apparently felt that I don't like to sleep. This particular show was about a haunted music box. I watched this damn show at 2pm. That night I heard every damn creak and crack of the house. Why is water leaking out of the faucet? Does that mean Satan is coming for me?
What is extremely dumb about being afraid is the stupid things to calm ourselves. I'll sleep with the light on...as if a GE Soft white 60-watt light bulb somehow manages to keep back the Prince of Darkness...what does he do at a Ozzy concert with all that pyrotechnics and flashing lights? Yes I have this irrational fear that the devil is coming for me. But it's not just Satan.

Growing up in the 70's and 80's my saturday morning was full of cartoons. We didn't have any fan dangled Cartoon Network and cartoons didn't come on all the time. My Saturday schedule was cartoons, Soul Train at 11am and then Creature Double Feature. Creature Double Feature scarred my brother Dana and I badly. Dana didn't eat jelly for a week (our childhood lunch staple) because it was too much like the Blob. The movie that fucked me up was Tarantula. In the movie a scientist is working on growth hormones to increase food and so naturally he would inject his chemicals into nature's Charles Manson. Like why would you do that? Spiders alone are scary enough...making one big enough to get a zip code is the high level of stupidity. From this movie grew my fear of spiders. So on top of my fear of the devil I am also in fear of giant spiders. Like, no joke, when I enter a dark room and turn the lights on I look at the ceiling because that's where spiders live. The minute someone makes a movie about a satanic possessed giant spider I am fucked.

*Devil Spider now on SyFy*
Dammit.