Well it is October the 31st and there is something I was supposed to remember on this date. I think it was Easter? :P No, I know it is Halloween. :P I also went to a Halloween party over the weekend which was also the first time I ever dressed up for a Halloween party, it was pretty cool. I wore an Einstein mask, and I know that Einstein isn't the least bit scary, however this mask is pretty dam creepy. I also wore sunglasses underneath the mask to try and make my eyes look black. Anyway, it looked cool but I could hardly see and when I got to the party, the place was already dark. I could hardly see the detail of the other costumes and that was without my sunglasses. So when I first arrived, for the first 5-10 minutes I was stumbling around with the mask on, and it creeped a lot of people out seeing this dude just show up, not saying a single word and just walking around aimlessly. :lol: Also me and a few mates decided to get pizza, and I thought it was funny at the time to stare at the workers with the mask on. :P

So yeah, that was my weekend, but that isn't what I was going to say in this blog. I just wanted to list some personal scary experiences I have had. This isn't really a formal list and I don't know where I am going with this, but I will see how I go. :P

Blackouts: Actually I love blackouts, it is sort of like a mini-apocalypse. Electricity goes out, no lights, no technology it was pretty awesome. It also forced my family to actually talk or do something different like play a board game or cards. I love those type of games but with a household full of technology, no one ever seems to be in the mood for either. :( Unfortunately though, a blackout wouldn't have the same effect nowadays with how advanced phones are. Even at parties, I swear people spend half their time facebooking on their phone posting what a great party it is than actually socialising at the party. But all rants aside, there is a creepy aspect of a blackout. Actually I failed trying to explain how scary blackouts are, lets start again. :P

Blackouts (Attempt 2): As I was saying, blackouts can be quite creepy if they happen during the night. When they first happen, I always get this (ok... wtf do I do?) feeling. I can't see a dam thing and I just hope that I know my house better than I think and I don't trip on something. But I always come around in the end and I finally have light! :P Now to light up the house, my family uses candles and carry around torches if we want to access rooms without light. Now here is where I have the problem, I am afraid of the dark (shut up :P). No it isn't the demon in the closet or the registered sex offender under my bed. What I am afraid of is my own imagination. I mean, everyone has had that "OMFG WHAT IS THAT! Oh wait is is just my shirt hanging on the hook" moment. The mind can play a lot of tricks on you when you least suspect it. With a dimly lit room, it is light enough to see, but dark enough to mistake objects for other things and it just creeps me out man. :P

The Figure: When I was a kid, I once was watching TV late one night. Suddenly I saw a figure just standing there in the middle of the room. I was REALLY freaked out, the most I have ever been in my life. I shut my eyes and was pushing against the lounge. My heart was pounding like mad! When I reopened my eyes, there was nothing of course. This was around the time I was really into the Buffy TV series so maybe that had some kind of influence on what I saw.

The Sleep Walk: Speaking of which, Buffy aired in my area pretty late for some reason so I had to stay up most of the night to watch it. Most times I made it, some of the time I just fell asleep before it got shown. One night, me and my sister decided to stay up to watch it and I didn't make it on this occasion. When I woke up, the episode was just about to end and I was disappoint! But what was more surprising is from the time I fell asleep to the time I woke up, I was sleep walking according to my sister. She said I suddenly got up and started going through the newspaper which was odd on its own because I never touched the newspaper at the time (I still don't :P). When my sister asked me what I was doing, I replied "Looking for guns". :?

The Old House: All my life, I have only ever lived in two houses. The one I live at now, and the one I grew up in. The one I grew up in, I refer to as the 'old house' and has this strange reputation of being haunted. I must admit, a lot of creepy things did happen in that house including the last two events on this list. There was a room in the house that nobody was game enough to sleep in apart from my little sister who didn't know any better at the time. :P Before the house was sold, my mum rented it out for a bit. The last person who was renting and living at that house reported to have seen a figure of a man, standing in their room and of course... nothing was there.

Sound Hallucinations: I may be wrong here as I don't really know what they are and this is all theory, but there is no other way I can think of to describe them. Sometimes when I am trying to sleep at night and I am just about close to falling asleep, I will hear a voice and it will startle me. It doesn't just happen once either, it happens a few times. It is hard to describe it, but the voice is always a recognisable voice like my mum or a mate. Sometimes I know what they say whether it be a popular phrase, or something they said earlier that day. Other times it is too obscure to make out. To try and describe it as best I can as to what it sounds like, it is like the voices you hear in your dreams (if you remember). Most of the time it is when I am trying to get to sleep and because I am half asleep anyway, they are more of an annoyance than scary if anything. It is rare, but every now and then I will get them during the day but if I do, it usually only happens once.

Other: This is just an extension of things that keep me up when I am trying to get to sleep. Every now and then, I will just get startled for no reason. You know that feeling you get when you feel like you are about to fall off the chair after rocking it a bit too far? It is pretty much like that, only I am not sitting on the chair at the time. :P Another thing that is really strange is when I am just about to fall asleep, I will see an image in my mind that has a little bit too much detail then my normal imagination/fantasies and I will get startled from it. Sometimes it is a legitimately scary image but other times it isn't, just as an example: a womans face. No wonder I am an insomniac. :P

Well that is all I got, hope you guys have a Happy Halloween and before I go I just want to say I finally got a new computer. :D Specs are below:

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 (6-Core) 3.2 GHz
RAM: 8 GB
Video Card: AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series
SSD (Solid State Drive): 160 GB
HDD: 2 TB
Case: Sharkoon T9 (Red)


Well that concludes my trilogy of Halloween related blogs. :) Catch Ya!