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Originally Posted by tirsales

@Zelda: I know how you feel ... I totally hate horror-stories. My imagination is much too good - and I cannot turn it off.

yes exactly, you cannot turn it off !!!!

I think its hilarious to be afraid 'cause you have WRITTEN a horror story. I mean - I know there is not a single grain of truth in it. I didnt do any research, nothing. It was just plain imagination. Nevertheless: I was afraid.

i wonder if stephen king has this problem...

So I thought ... darn it to heck, my dog sleeps in my bad tonight and she will warn me of any monsters out there. That should be soothing, shouldnt it?

I guess I was wrong. I never knew what got into her that night, but she kept on grawling and snarling into the dark. Exactly as if she wanted to warn me of a monster in my room.
Always notifying me of danger in that direction. When I looked - or made light - she calmed down. After I settled - the danger was now over there.

i think your dog and my cat have an ongoing bet, to see which one of us they can drive completely mad, first.

Originally Posted by slayda

tirsales, don't you know that every story imagined, whether written or told or just thought, creates a new universe that is populated from imagination?

oh my, i did not want *that* thought in my mind...

Besides dogs (and cats) are psychic so she was probably picking up your thoughts and was scared by your imagination. Probably same with ZP's cat. I wonder if imagination broadcasts psychically. Just a thought.

that's a lovely explanation. of course, i *defy* you to find that credible, when you are actually experiencing one of these situations. it will seem ludicrous and delusional. wishful thinking, you know.

Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Oh lovely. I just watched a dramatization of a story by Stine, about a monster that doesn't exist -- unless you think about it.

And, of course, once you think about it ... it's really hard to stop.

that guy wrote that story about me and tirsales.

Originally Posted by tirsales

Hmm ... imagination creates new universes - I'm with you there. But - when my imagination moves me into that alternate universe now ... that could get creepy *shudder* on the other hand it could get ... interesting

heh... it all depends on what you are imagining, now doesn't it ?

IF we wanted to analyse this on a more rational base, one could say that animals are very good at sensing your emotions. So - as ZP was scared, and I was scared - the animals recognized that and got scared (or at least nervous) as well. Its the same when meeting new people - if you are afraid that your dog will misbehave, it will misbehave - simply because it spotted your nervousness and projects this onto the "incoming person", now seen as hostile.
But that is plain boring

the fatal flaw....