I just had the scariest experience I can remember ever having, yet it doesn't make any sense to me. I am literally in tears still, 30 minutes later, as I am typing this, and I don't understand why.
First of all, some basic info about tonight. I stayed up until about 3:30 am, which is pretty normal for me. Before bed, I watched 2 movies- Garden State, and Reign Over Me, in that order. Neither movie was horror or scary in any particular way. I live with my mother and younger brother, though I am 29. Tonight it has been storming outside, when I was getting ready for bed I noticed that the wind was blowing really hard and it sounded like if it was a little bit harder it could break a window.
After Reign Over Me, I went upstairs to my bedroom, noticed my PC was off. I always keep it on, but I realized it overheated while running memtest- a problem I have noticed in the past. I removed the memtest CD and let the computer boot into vista. Earlier this evening I was messing around with some custom settings in vista, of note I changed the power settings to run the cpu at 5% to 90% power (default was 100% min and max), and also enabled some advanced performance setting on my hard drive that sounded like a write cache (it was warning me that if the drive lost power with this setting enabled I could lose data). Anyway, it booted into vista fine. I read a few threads before bed, looked at some pr0n, and then started downloads for both the 64bit and 32bit versions of vista sp1. I already have sp1 installed from one of the "earlier releases", but I wanted to get a fresh copy of each to save incase of a fresh install. With both downloads going, I started playing garbage's CD 2.0 in .wma format on winamp, and went to sleep listening to it. I can remember hearing the second track and that is about it, so I must have fallen asleep pretty fast.
I have no memory of any dreams. I just remember waking up to my mom screaming. I don't even know what her words were. I woke up, and the music was still playing. My room was dark but instead of turning on the light I stumbled across the bed to the computer. Actually I tried to turn off my alarm clock first, having just woken up I was very confused and my mom's screaming made me nervous. I yelled back something like "whats wrong", but I could barely yell and my voice sounded very odd. She yelled back something about turn off the music. Anyway, after a moments confuse I realized it was my computer still playing the garbage CD, I moved the mouse to get it out of screen saver mode but nothing happened. At this point my mom is still yelling at me, the music is still going, so I don't bother investigating further and I just hold the power button in long enough to force a power-off. At this point I look at the clock, see it's 4:30am, and realize it wasn't anything unusual- just the last track of the CD I started an hour previous. Yet I was terrified. It took me 20 minutes to get up the courage to turn my computer back on to start writing this, in the hopes that putting this all into text would get me over it.
I don't get it. Nothing about what I went through should make me feel like this, yet here I am. I theorize that maybe I was having some kind of nightmare and my mom's screaming made it more real to me, but I have no memory of any dreams. When I first woke up I thought it was the house burning down or some horrible accident. When I couldn't simply turn off the music on my computer, it only added to my fright. Having written this, I am feeling a bit better, but I still don't feel like I can go back to sleep. As far as the computer not responding, I figured it had to be from the power setting changes I made, so I changed it back to 100%/100% for now until I can do further testing.
cliffs- I was awakened to mother screaming. For some reason this terrified me, and was made further worse because I had music playing on my computer that I couldn't use to turn it off properly. My theory is I was having some horrible nightmare and my mom's screaming interrupted the worst part of it, but I have no memory of any dreams.
First of all, some basic info about tonight. I stayed up until about 3:30 am, which is pretty normal for me. Before bed, I watched 2 movies- Garden State, and Reign Over Me, in that order. Neither movie was horror or scary in any particular way. I live with my mother and younger brother, though I am 29. Tonight it has been storming outside, when I was getting ready for bed I noticed that the wind was blowing really hard and it sounded like if it was a little bit harder it could break a window.
After Reign Over Me, I went upstairs to my bedroom, noticed my PC was off. I always keep it on, but I realized it overheated while running memtest- a problem I have noticed in the past. I removed the memtest CD and let the computer boot into vista. Earlier this evening I was messing around with some custom settings in vista, of note I changed the power settings to run the cpu at 5% to 90% power (default was 100% min and max), and also enabled some advanced performance setting on my hard drive that sounded like a write cache (it was warning me that if the drive lost power with this setting enabled I could lose data). Anyway, it booted into vista fine. I read a few threads before bed, looked at some pr0n, and then started downloads for both the 64bit and 32bit versions of vista sp1. I already have sp1 installed from one of the "earlier releases", but I wanted to get a fresh copy of each to save incase of a fresh install. With both downloads going, I started playing garbage's CD 2.0 in .wma format on winamp, and went to sleep listening to it. I can remember hearing the second track and that is about it, so I must have fallen asleep pretty fast.
I have no memory of any dreams. I just remember waking up to my mom screaming. I don't even know what her words were. I woke up, and the music was still playing. My room was dark but instead of turning on the light I stumbled across the bed to the computer. Actually I tried to turn off my alarm clock first, having just woken up I was very confused and my mom's screaming made me nervous. I yelled back something like "whats wrong", but I could barely yell and my voice sounded very odd. She yelled back something about turn off the music. Anyway, after a moments confuse I realized it was my computer still playing the garbage CD, I moved the mouse to get it out of screen saver mode but nothing happened. At this point my mom is still yelling at me, the music is still going, so I don't bother investigating further and I just hold the power button in long enough to force a power-off. At this point I look at the clock, see it's 4:30am, and realize it wasn't anything unusual- just the last track of the CD I started an hour previous. Yet I was terrified. It took me 20 minutes to get up the courage to turn my computer back on to start writing this, in the hopes that putting this all into text would get me over it.
I don't get it. Nothing about what I went through should make me feel like this, yet here I am. I theorize that maybe I was having some kind of nightmare and my mom's screaming made it more real to me, but I have no memory of any dreams. When I first woke up I thought it was the house burning down or some horrible accident. When I couldn't simply turn off the music on my computer, it only added to my fright. Having written this, I am feeling a bit better, but I still don't feel like I can go back to sleep. As far as the computer not responding, I figured it had to be from the power setting changes I made, so I changed it back to 100%/100% for now until I can do further testing.
cliffs- I was awakened to mother screaming. For some reason this terrified me, and was made further worse because I had music playing on my computer that I couldn't use to turn it off properly. My theory is I was having some horrible nightmare and my mom's screaming interrupted the worst part of it, but I have no memory of any dreams.
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