Monsters Have Better Things To Do
June 1st, 2010 § 3 Comments
Picture the scene….it’s late at night, all is dark and quiet. You’re trying to get to sleep and have just started to drift when…
BUMP
A creepy noise comes from the other side of the room. Somewhere beyond the foot of the bed, in the corner, behind you. You’re suddenly wide awake, heart jolting, hairs on the back of your neck standing up. What do you do?
You force yourself to sit up in bed, turn around and CHECK FOR MONSTERS.
WTF?
Most of us when questioned would say that monsters don’t exist. So why when it’s dark or creepy and there’s an unexplained noise, do we have to MAKE SURE there’s not a supernatural being in the room?
My first thought is never “it could be a burglar”. It’s always “it could be a monster!”.
Of course, I bet most people think of a monster like something out of “Paranormal Activity” – kind of invisible but most likely an animal with a creepy man-face. Not like this guy, a claw-fingered naked bloke riding a winged dog-lizard with an angry snake-friend –>
Or maybe they do?
Zoe Piper is an Online Marketer and trainee Masseuse, currently residing in the pleasant village of Boston Spa.
Ironically ‘Claw-fingered naked bloke riding a winged dog-lizard with an angry snake-friend’ is the name of my next book.
lol. Indeed. Evolutionary biology suggests our fear of the dark is a survival trait. Most animals, when startled, appear bigger to scare their predators, so when we had hair all over our bodies, our hair would stand up (when you get goosebumps, that’s when your hair would stick straight up all over your body).
Before the stimuli of “monsters” and “demons” ever existed, we supposedly “thought” in terms of, “is that a predator in the bushes threatening my survival?” As we grow into adults in today’s day and age, the fear instinct and responses stay, but the images in our brains shift into… well, whatever scares you as an adult — like jumping automatically into, “what could be the worst thing I could possibly see when I look over there?”
Again, those are suggestions based on studies within evolutionary biology. Makes sense to me, but we’re all free to believe whatever we want — even if that means half-expecting to see something hideous behind you (I do it, too, lol).
-Stephen
Your childhood upbringing really does concern me, have you have thought about some regressive hypnois!?!?