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Candace Newmaker. Ten year old adopted girl who wasn't getting on with her adoptive mother. Said mother brings her to some quack therapist who diagnoses her with "reactive attachment disorder". One of the treatments they tried on her was "rebirthing therapy" which is supposed to simulate being born. What this amounted to was being wrapped in a sheet in the foetal position while four grown adults pressed down on her with pillows while she tried to get out, supposedly to simulate "the struggle to be born". A few minutes into this Candace complains that she isn't able to breathe. Unfortunately, one of the supposed symptoms of "reactive attachment disorder" is the tendency to lie to manipulate others and get sympathy, so they completely ignore her. In fact they make fun of her, telling Candace she should just give up and die if she doesn't want to be born. Candace gets increasingly frightened, repeatedly pleads for air and kicks so hard she rips a hole in the sheet, but she still can't get out. She then vomits and soils herself in terror, which the fucking therapists again make fun of her for. All this time the mother is watching this and saying things like "My dear little baby, I can't wait for you to be born so I can hold you and love you". Said mother is a registered fucking nurse and she still can't see how dangerous this is. After more than an hour of this, they finally check to see if she's alright. She isn't. Her lips are blue, she's motionless and she's not breathing. The mother FINALLY starts acting like a medical professional and performs CPR while the paramedics are called, but it's too late. Candace Newmaker died aged 10 on April 18th 2000, a victim of adult stupidity and new age bullshit. Read this transcript of the therapy session and try not to punch your monitor.

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Even though it's hypothetical, I think the idea of a false vacuum is horrifying. The idea that reality could just instantaneously collapse at any given moment without us knowing or expecting it is overwhelming. It's not something I lose sleep over, but it's still a genuinely creepy thought that everything could literally just go poof and we wouldn't even see it coming.
 
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Said mother is a registered fucking nurse and she still can't see how dangerous this is. After more than an hour of this, they finally check to see if she's alright. She isn't. Her lips are blue, she's motionless and she's not breathing. The mother FINALLY starts acting like a medical professional and performs CPR while the paramedics are called, but it's too late. Candace Newmaker died aged 10 on April 18th 2000, a victim of adult stupidity and new age bullshit. Read this transcript of the therapy session and try not to punch your monitor.

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Nurses being into new age nonsense and pseudoscience is a definite phenomenon. I've heard differing explanations as to why, but huge numbers of nurses would rather believe in woo rather than the medical training they've had. So yeah, next time you're in hospital or otherwise under the care of an RN, they probably disagree with whatever the actual doctors have diagnosed you with and think that the real problem is the alignment of your chakras.
 
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Complete silence and pitch blackness.

Now I'm not scared of the dark; in fact I genuinely enjoy the dark more than when the light is on. But when I go to bed and I'm so used to the vent or some sort of semi white noise being on in the background, it's completely eerie to me.
 
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Complete silence and pitch blackness.

Now I'm not scared of the dark; in fact I genuinely enjoy the dark more than when the light is on. But when I go to bed and I'm so used to the vent or some sort of semi white noise being on in the background, it's completely eerie to me.
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I had that feeling while camping in the desert. Dead silence no light except for the canopy of stars. I did find the random winds winding though the canyon spooking at times it sounded like whistling other times a low moaning like a rasping gasp for air. The wind felt as a living spirit wanding and watching you
 
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NyQuilninja said:
I had that feeling while camping in the desert. Dead silence no light except for the canopy of stars. I did find the random winds winding though the canyon spooking at times it sounded like whistling other times a low moaning like a rasping gasp for air. The wind felt as a living spirit wanding and watching you
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I've experienced this too while trying to fall asleep in the desert. I kept wondering if something came out of the darkness would it be real or just a product of my senses. I often wonder if that's what being in a sensory deprivation tank would be like.
 
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I used to be afraid of windows but especially mirrors. I was always afraid whenever I looked into a mirror that the reflection would do something other than what I was doing, or would turn into a monster, or a demon, or something.

Oddly, it was an LSD experience that cured me of this phobia, when I spent several hours staring into my own face melting into a million different shapes in a mirror, that I realized the obvious fact that mirrors just reflect light, and the rest was all in my mind.
 
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I used to be afraid of windows but especially mirrors. I was always afraid whenever I looked into a mirror that the reflection would do something other than what I was doing, or would turn into a monster, or a demon, or something.

Oddly, it was an LSD experience that cured me of this phobia, when I spent several hours staring into my own face melting into a million different shapes in a mirror, that I realized the obvious fact that mirrors just reflect light, and the rest was all in my mind.
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You must've loved the movie Candyman. And lsd taught me well and good not to look at mirrors too long while on drugs, fuck that noise.
 
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Dark basements, jumpscreams, something spoopy right before I'm going to bed.
A murder case where the killer hid in the barn and then killed the family at night made me paranoid for weeks, and I don't even live near a barn.
 
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Years back I had this hyper-realistic dream that freaked me the fuck out and still gives me a bit of the willies thinking about it today.

in my dream I was getting ready to go to sleep. Snuggle under the covers, put on an audiobook to fall asleep to and start to drift off. Some time later I groggily wake up, the room is silent, my bedroom door is ajar. As I’m lying there in bed wondering if I had forgotten to shut my door, this figure in the hallway slowly looks out from behind the door and just stares at me. It’s completely silent and has no facial features. It’s a black void that resembles a large human form. The room and hallway are pitch black but this figure is such an absence of light it still stands out within the darkness. It radiates a feeling of pure malevolence, just silently staring at me. I’m paralyzed with fear and can’t do anything. After awhile it slowly pulls back behind the door. This is where I wake up, I’m completely drenched in sweat and shaking

might sound lame, but this was the creepiest dream I ever had. It felt so real
 
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