I recently bought Minecraft and found that I put 15 hours into it over the weekend. Luckily, I left time for my homework, but forgot about my birthday dinner (see the issue here?), so after a good 4 hours of homework it's 12:30 AM and I go to sleep. I have the scariest nightmare I could possibly imagine involving Minecraft and carrying over into real life.
I'm walking through the woods with a friend I'd been talking to from class. We're not close at all, but I like most things about how he is free spirited, calm, collected, and almost careless (not a good trait, but makes me feel better.) He's taking me to a place in the woods he described and we're kind of on a mini adventure. Slowly the world becomes pixelated and starts to look like a Minecraft generated world. We aren't freaked out like "Holy cow, reality is bending!" because it is a dream, but of course we are lost and disoriented.
Suddenly we are chased by those floating things from the Nether Realm, Ghasts? They try to eat my head, and are letting out horrifying screams of agony that still shake me now, two weeks later, in this dark bedroom. The voices were in many different kinds of agony, but the worst thing is that I could tell they were my own.
I think quickly and decide to bury myself, but the thing phases right through the dirt and lunges at my face, a near miss. I'm now very afraid for my life, and I figure the best thing is to run for it. I see my friend from class making his escape, and after I dodge two of those Nether monsters, lunging at my face, screaming, I catch up to him. I shout "Run!" but there is no use, my friend is now a Minecraft character, walking around like a stupid AI character. I spin him around by the shoulder and the blank, emotionless face of the original Minecraft avatar looks at me. Suddenly he becomes focused - his head follows me. "Speak to me! ****ing say something!" Of course he says nothing, and as I hear another scream from behind grow louder, I stand still and accept it. I'm eaten by the monster and of course, wake up, terrified by the sounds of my own screams that the Ghasts omitted.
That is why I can't play this awesome game, that is why i find fault in any videogame I enjoy and simply can't enjoy what I did about it before. Buried deep in my subconscious is now a fear of the loneliness that will consume my life following high school if I don't fix this problem. I haven't played Minecraft since but to decide that I don't like it anymore, a creeper blew the leaves off my treehouse.
If you know wtf you're doing and have the sense to ask a spotter for help, I'd suggest something like morning glory seeds or San Pedro (not mentioning more... effective things out loud >.> )to help you get to the bottom of this. It sounds like MC's the least of your worries. Or if you're worried about screwing with your body like that, at least take up meditation.
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Connect Four: Possibly the best idea in the history of Minecraft. Sand and gravel I assume?
If you know wtf you're doing and have the sense to ask a spotter for help, I'd suggest something like morning glory seeds or San Pedro (not mentioning more... effective things out loud >.> )to help you get to the bottom of this. It sounds like MC's the least of your worries. Or if you're worried about screwing with your body like that, at least take up meditation.
Excuse me, but what are you talking about?
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Eyes just kind of glaze over when you look at it - but once you start playing again you'll enjoy the game and forget all about it. If not, maybe play online on a busy social server and just hang out with people in the game in cities away from mobs.
Play a night marathon of F.E.A.R / Dead Space with your friends, sound up, lights off. You don't sleep for a day or so. Oh, and you shoot at shadows / movement after a while.
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After 10:30 PST, my IQ drops to around that of a shovel, please disregard anything I say after aforementioned time, it will likely not make any sense, and is best ignored.
I'm walking through the woods with a friend I'd been talking to from class. We're not close at all, but I like most things about how he is free spirited, calm, collected, and almost careless (not a good trait, but makes me feel better.) He's taking me to a place in the woods he described and we're kind of on a mini adventure. Slowly the world becomes pixelated and starts to look like a Minecraft generated world. We aren't freaked out like "Holy cow, reality is bending!" because it is a dream, but of course we are lost and disoriented.
Suddenly we are chased by those floating things from the Nether Realm, Ghasts? They try to eat my head, and are letting out horrifying screams of agony that still shake me now, two weeks later, in this dark bedroom. The voices were in many different kinds of agony, but the worst thing is that I could tell they were my own.
I think quickly and decide to bury myself, but the thing phases right through the dirt and lunges at my face, a near miss. I'm now very afraid for my life, and I figure the best thing is to run for it. I see my friend from class making his escape, and after I dodge two of those Nether monsters, lunging at my face, screaming, I catch up to him. I shout "Run!" but there is no use, my friend is now a Minecraft character, walking around like a stupid AI character. I spin him around by the shoulder and the blank, emotionless face of the original Minecraft avatar looks at me. Suddenly he becomes focused - his head follows me. "Speak to me! ****ing say something!" Of course he says nothing, and as I hear another scream from behind grow louder, I stand still and accept it. I'm eaten by the monster and of course, wake up, terrified by the sounds of my own screams that the Ghasts omitted.
That is why I can't play this awesome game, that is why i find fault in any videogame I enjoy and simply can't enjoy what I did about it before. Buried deep in my subconscious is now a fear of the loneliness that will consume my life following high school if I don't fix this problem. I haven't played Minecraft since but to decide that I don't like it anymore, a creeper blew the leaves off my treehouse.
It's Extvia!
R.I.P. thread, Killed by ez
"Replace Minecraft with the WoT," what do you even mean? It's a Nightmare story, I'm not going to make it a few sentences.
If you know wtf you're doing and have the sense to ask a spotter for help, I'd suggest something like morning glory seeds or San Pedro (not mentioning more... effective things out loud >.> )to help you get to the bottom of this. It sounds like MC's the least of your worries. Or if you're worried about screwing with your body like that, at least take up meditation.
Excuse me, but what are you talking about?
I'm not scared by the mob.
Play Amnesia.
No you can't join, stop asking.
There it was, a big,yellow, doom 3 hell-knight eske monster. Since I realized it was just a nightmare, I wished up a bfg and blew the monster to hell.
DooM is like crack, but better for you.
*holding up gun*
Alright which one of you mother****ers is next?
......................Brine (in a split-second, teleports to the nether)
DooM is like crack, but better for you.