That's a reasonable question. Thing with me is, I can't just step away from something. I'm the type of person who freeze-frames on the truly horrific parts in horror movies to look at them for a long time, just so I can get the pictures out of my head. I have a very good memory and it especially works well with flashes.
I remember one of the most traumatizing events I had as a kid was when I walked in on American Werewolf and there was this scene where the wolf-guy changed on the hospital bed briefly. That scared the shit out of me and I kept seeing that image in my head over and over again for months until I got my parents to rent to movie for me. Then I sat through it, went "Oh, so THAT's what it was" and could move on.
So if I had just stopped reading I would have thought about it over and over again, wondering what else would happen, imagining worse scenarios. So I read on. Unfortunately, this time reality was worse than my own imagination >.<;. So yeah, in retrospect I should have stopped reading, but I thought it'd be easier this way.
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Date: 2008-01-12 12:41 pm (UTC)I remember one of the most traumatizing events I had as a kid was when I walked in on American Werewolf and there was this scene where the wolf-guy changed on the hospital bed briefly. That scared the shit out of me and I kept seeing that image in my head over and over again for months until I got my parents to rent to movie for me. Then I sat through it, went "Oh, so THAT's what it was" and could move on.
So if I had just stopped reading I would have thought about it over and over again, wondering what else would happen, imagining worse scenarios. So I read on. Unfortunately, this time reality was worse than my own imagination >.<;. So yeah, in retrospect I should have stopped reading, but I thought it'd be easier this way.