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May. 28th, 2022 08:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatWoke up irritable, due to poor sleep (I keep getting hot and it wakes me up - my internal heating and cooling system is still on the fritz). Then discovered the next door neighbors decided to have their floor redone today of all days. Not a work day, but during Memorial Day Weekend.
And the current news cycle, along with well life in general had me a touch depressed.
I tried a walk. It was pretty, the sun came out, blue sky, puffy white clouds. Went to the health food store to pick up stuff - and stopped off at the ice cream place to get some homemade gelato (coffee), then out of nowhere - a storm popped up. And I ran smack dab into it. Walking. With two cloth bags. Cloth purse around my body. No umbrella. Sandals. KN95 mask, which I took off and put on, mainly because I was struggling with allergies. The pollen was blowing around me as the winds picked up.
I thought I could get past it - but no. By the time I was about two-three blocks from my building, with a major cross intersection in my path, it was pouring. I retreated under a tree, then dashed across the street, and got stuck waiting for the stupid cars to pass and the light to change, with no trees to shelter me. As a result? I get drenched. I cursed every damn car that passed.
Got inside, dripping wet.
And decided, after changing clothes, and trying to watch tv over the banging about next door - to put on the earphones and listen to music instead. The music had a calming effect. During which my phone rang informing me that Wales was calling - and we were able to discuss maybe doing something tomorrow.
But this occurred after about an hour or so of listening to music. It serves to sooth and calm me no matter what. I've used it to do this most of my life or ever since I can remember. Good thing too, because I was furious with Wales for being non-responsive about this weekend - to the point, I finally lost and called her on it. So she called to apologize and somehow we came up with a psuedo plan of sorts. We're both depressed with the world and life in general. But meditation has taught me it's temporary and liable to change.
There's also a lot of folks who feel exactly the same way. The subways had 27 people attempt suicide this year, 11 succeeded. So they are hunting ways to discourage it for well obvious reasons. Music is one of the options - they are experimenting with playing soothing music in various subways.
I'm listening to music now on my computer to drain out the noise around me, and to sooth.
Anyhow...I find myself craving a good ghost story movie. Or a movie that focuses on ghosts. You know of any? I've flirted with the Night House, Conjuring, An American Haunting, but nothing grabs me. I may go with Crimson Peak.
I am agnostic about ghosts. I have felt a presence that I might call a ghost in my lifetime, but I've never actually seen one. Maybe out of the corner of my eye. I can feel or sense energy disturbances or disruptions. It's why I hate storms, particularly thunder storms - they give me headaches and make me irritable. It's probably why I've been irritable the past two days - thunderstorms.
It's hard to explain the energy sensing or feeling thing. It's more like feeling your skin crawl or creep? Or just a feeling of unease? Or unsettled? I walked by a house once in my neighborhood and never went that way again - it made me feel uneasy. And in college - we did a Ouija one night and I felt disturbed all night long, and unsettled.
While family members have seen ghosts, including sis-in-law, I never have.
I don't tend to like a lot of horror - gore bothers me. And I've no patience for evil alien monsters from outer-space, possibly a reaction to being inundated with these movies as a child (one of my friends at the time, Debbie Dipeso, adored them, as did my paternal grandfather. My father doesn't like gore.)
But I do love horror novels (they aren't visual) and I love ghost stories. Also I've been known to read and watch a lot of vampire novels, movies, and television shows. Werewolves tend to annoy me - even though I've seen and read those too. Have no patience for Frankenstein (although have watched ten versions of that story). I tend to like supernatural horror better than realistic horror or "serial killer/slasher" horror. Although I read and watched a lot of that in the late 20th century and beginning of 21st, until I got burned out on it.
In short I think I have a love/hate relationship with horror. It works and it doesn't. I remember going to book stores in college and reading all the Stephen King novels in the book store. I'd skim them. They are very skimmable. I like his short stories best. And I collected ghost stories/urban legends in a folklore course, as well as ghost stories/myths in Wales.
Anyhow...what if any are your favorite horror films featuring ghosts? Any favorite books about ghosts? Or ghost stories?
And the current news cycle, along with well life in general had me a touch depressed.
I tried a walk. It was pretty, the sun came out, blue sky, puffy white clouds. Went to the health food store to pick up stuff - and stopped off at the ice cream place to get some homemade gelato (coffee), then out of nowhere - a storm popped up. And I ran smack dab into it. Walking. With two cloth bags. Cloth purse around my body. No umbrella. Sandals. KN95 mask, which I took off and put on, mainly because I was struggling with allergies. The pollen was blowing around me as the winds picked up.
I thought I could get past it - but no. By the time I was about two-three blocks from my building, with a major cross intersection in my path, it was pouring. I retreated under a tree, then dashed across the street, and got stuck waiting for the stupid cars to pass and the light to change, with no trees to shelter me. As a result? I get drenched. I cursed every damn car that passed.
Got inside, dripping wet.
And decided, after changing clothes, and trying to watch tv over the banging about next door - to put on the earphones and listen to music instead. The music had a calming effect. During which my phone rang informing me that Wales was calling - and we were able to discuss maybe doing something tomorrow.
But this occurred after about an hour or so of listening to music. It serves to sooth and calm me no matter what. I've used it to do this most of my life or ever since I can remember. Good thing too, because I was furious with Wales for being non-responsive about this weekend - to the point, I finally lost and called her on it. So she called to apologize and somehow we came up with a psuedo plan of sorts. We're both depressed with the world and life in general. But meditation has taught me it's temporary and liable to change.
There's also a lot of folks who feel exactly the same way. The subways had 27 people attempt suicide this year, 11 succeeded. So they are hunting ways to discourage it for well obvious reasons. Music is one of the options - they are experimenting with playing soothing music in various subways.
I'm listening to music now on my computer to drain out the noise around me, and to sooth.
Anyhow...I find myself craving a good ghost story movie. Or a movie that focuses on ghosts. You know of any? I've flirted with the Night House, Conjuring, An American Haunting, but nothing grabs me. I may go with Crimson Peak.
I am agnostic about ghosts. I have felt a presence that I might call a ghost in my lifetime, but I've never actually seen one. Maybe out of the corner of my eye. I can feel or sense energy disturbances or disruptions. It's why I hate storms, particularly thunder storms - they give me headaches and make me irritable. It's probably why I've been irritable the past two days - thunderstorms.
It's hard to explain the energy sensing or feeling thing. It's more like feeling your skin crawl or creep? Or just a feeling of unease? Or unsettled? I walked by a house once in my neighborhood and never went that way again - it made me feel uneasy. And in college - we did a Ouija one night and I felt disturbed all night long, and unsettled.
While family members have seen ghosts, including sis-in-law, I never have.
I don't tend to like a lot of horror - gore bothers me. And I've no patience for evil alien monsters from outer-space, possibly a reaction to being inundated with these movies as a child (one of my friends at the time, Debbie Dipeso, adored them, as did my paternal grandfather. My father doesn't like gore.)
But I do love horror novels (they aren't visual) and I love ghost stories. Also I've been known to read and watch a lot of vampire novels, movies, and television shows. Werewolves tend to annoy me - even though I've seen and read those too. Have no patience for Frankenstein (although have watched ten versions of that story). I tend to like supernatural horror better than realistic horror or "serial killer/slasher" horror. Although I read and watched a lot of that in the late 20th century and beginning of 21st, until I got burned out on it.
In short I think I have a love/hate relationship with horror. It works and it doesn't. I remember going to book stores in college and reading all the Stephen King novels in the book store. I'd skim them. They are very skimmable. I like his short stories best. And I collected ghost stories/urban legends in a folklore course, as well as ghost stories/myths in Wales.
Anyhow...what if any are your favorite horror films featuring ghosts? Any favorite books about ghosts? Or ghost stories?
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Date: 2022-05-30 12:23 am (UTC)I prefer psychological horror to anything else. Also, it's among the few that didn't fall into demonic possession or other cliches.