Fear of the Unknown

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Can you explain what terrifies you? Talk about it? If you had to, can you picture it at all?
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[@TheTaleFoundry]

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[@Vishakha_B897]

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[@zionleach3001]

@TheTaleFoundry have you any tips on writing urban fantasy where the "masquerade" is broken? Like Chainsaw man and Hellboy. Where humans must learn to coexist with paranormal creatures.

[@theundertaker2648]

I think the reason why it is so effective to not show the threat or to make it incomprehensible is because, what people find scary will differ from person to person, so letting the viewer wonder and think up the monster or the reasoning behind the place that they find themselves in will usualy be more effective then just revealing everything. It is a horror that can work for everyone, because it lets everyone make up a monster in their head that they find scary. Things like The Blair Witch Project, Skinamarink, Ted the Caver, Backrooms or MyHouse.Wad are such examples.

[@theundertaker2648]

@@zionleach3001I think it would depend on what kind of story you want to tell, what are the people coexisting with, if you want a suggestion then a cool concept would be that they don’t know they are coexisting with beings that are beyond comprehensiom and if a person realize what they are, then they will start to hunt said individual down, you don’t know who is real or not.

[@zionleach3001]

@theundertaker2648 Sort of like the examples I gave. In both worlds people know very little about the supernatural. I plan on writing a action-horror/paranormal investigation series*. Basically the conspiracies the government kept hidden get exposed. * Trese,Criminal Macabre,and wynonna earp

[@JacobGeller]

Very glad that the Nebula Squad can agree the scariest possible thing is a slightly open door

[@kam5551]

Hello jacob

[@meltingmug]

It’s spooky. Perhaps scary. Perchance skeletons.

[@varet-markushinfernalshade5904]

An open door is indeed uncanny, at least. What is the natural state of a door, open or closed?

[@meltingmug]

@@varet-markushinfernalshade5904 Closed, I think. Open implies passage, which implies disturbance; something must have opened the door. Closed doesn’t imply much of anything.

[@Гпник-д3ч]

As soon as I read the title of this video, your video about Geralt's choice came into my mind. This indeed is very scary.

[@redstoneactive6589]

I love the cows picture, it is a very accurate image of what cows will sometimes do when they see a window. And yes it is terrifying.

[@Sellesion]

I can't help but ask *why* they do that. Do they see the bright window with light coming from inside and get curious the way we are when we see a television? If they find us entertaining.. that's so.. human. In which case I cannot help but think about those horror stories that depict if humans lived the way we raise cattle. When humans are the food. In order for it not to be abject horror, the cows simply *must* be believed to not have the same sentience as us. They cannot know the nature of their own lives and inevitable death. But if they're watching us for fun.. are they really not sentient?

[@etrowi]

“It’s a cow farm. You’re gonna see cows outside.”

[@bentleym5014]

@@etrowiand the handprints around the window

[@redstoneactive6589]

@Sellesion cows are notoriously curious. And often have the intelligence of a dumb dog. So they like to try to learn things. Often getting themselves into weird situations.

[@redstoneactive6589]

@@etrowi only if the cows got out : ) . (Unless you left the gate open, this means they broke something. And you need to go fix it now)

[@MohammadAlbaqsami]

What’s behind the door is the dog’s greatest enemy… the mailman!

[@Meuhlandball_CB]

The barkest of today vs the mailest of history

[@Jacob-hr6bq]

😂😂😂BRUH. NAH!!😂😂

[@foggygray]

Someone opened food in the kitchen.

[@wyatt8315]

I believe the reason the unknown is so scary is that, by not seeing it, we imagine every conceivable nightmare all at once in its place, something impossible to depict in any form of media

[@Collisto2435]

Nothing is scarier than the thing you imagine in your head.

[@Abeo93]

More than that. Due to being unseen, whatever it is is limitless. Anything the mind conjures up, is nothing compared to what it could be.

[@eiran_o_ddwywent]

I think something to also note with the painting in the beginning, the dog’s tail is lowered. When a dog’s tail is lowered but their ears are perked up, typically it shows fear or wariness. If you didn’t know this you might not have recognised it, but the body language is also likely enough to set alarm bells ringing in your head without you knowing why

[@zoebelle8970]

yeAH that picture messes me up...

[@cutealiens]

I think this went without saying

[@rascta]

Yes! And also the thought of, what if you go in there and turn on the light and see - nothing. But the dog is still whimpering outside, unwilling to come in. Like if you walked in and saw a rat or something, cool. But if not - then what?

[@averybend9397]

0:13 The fact that Jacob Geller just used this painting as a thumbnail is a beautiful bit of unexpected media symmetry, and it makes me happy

[@Edward_Murtinhhour_The_3rd]

I think the scariest thing about what's he building in there is that he has to have been in his house to see the poison and formaldehyde

[@therevenancy]

Tom Waits is great at this kind of unknown description. Another song of his, "Step Right Up" is a much lighter example.

[@EnderLord99]

..... ...oh.

[@racheljacobs5626]

As a person with an overactive imagination, my mother taught me at a very young age that the unknown is my friend so I shouldn't be afraid of it but still be cautious. So now as a 24 year old, I am cautious yet curious about the unknown. I loved this video and it made some very interesting notes. Keep it up :)

[@jayl5032]

The unkown is inherently neutral. You're right to be wary.

[@Dragonofthefrozeneclipse]

Surprisingly, you reminded me of a similar quote my own mother told me shortly after she discovered I had a knack for creative thought and imagination in my younger years... seemingly on a much grandeur level in comparison to my classmates around the time (this was when I was incredibly young mind you.): "The unknown can be terrifying, the unknown can be blissful, people fear the unknown because the concept itself is intangible. Respect the unknown and it can become your most greatest creative ally. Disrespect the unknown and it shall become your worst nightmare. Remember this." to this day, these words still echo within my head during the creative process of art.

[@DarthBrandybuck]

I love this little robot scholar. I've been working on my own video essay about HoL, and the "working thesis" if settled on it that if curiosity leads to obsession, obsession can lead to madness, and madness leads to tragedy.

[@BeyondtheHiggs]

so the question then becomes, is tragedy inevitable regardless of our efforts to monitor obsession? are humans just naturally obsessive creatures that will always experience tragedy?

[@prosamis]

​@@BeyondtheHiggs sounds like the theme of Made in Abyss

[@watchfleabag]

this video unlocked a memory for me… when i was in 5th grade, my best friend and i, every once in a while, would huddle around an ipod and listen to “what’s he building.” we would laugh it off uncomfortably as being bizarre, both freaked out but trying to act nonchalant. we had an unspoken policy not to talk about it outside the moments of listening. it felt strangely forbidden, like just the act of hearing these descriptions was threatening. not to mention the hunched, gray figure of tom waits glaring at you over his shoulder on the album cover. looking back, i think its shaped my horror sensibilities now. i’ve rarely heard about the song since then, and though i’m a huge tom waits fan now, i rarely listen to mule variations (but now i totally will)… so great to hear what’s he building get a shout-out as the spooky atmospheric treasure it is!!! i recommend giving it a listen.

[@accordingtosophia]

Sounds like a fun memory! Loved talking about this little gem here. - Sophia, writer

[@aarocraft1244]

1:49 In the cow painting, there are hands in the wallpaper.

[@Zer0ne-Infinite]

Eww, didn't even notice that, and its worse, they're all left handed

[@jamieholmes6087]

How sinister.

[@DarcOne13]

Hands are another recurring motif in the series. They aren't in all of them, but, if you look closely, you can find others.

[@jeffmcdonald101]

Nice catch. Interestingly, they are done in the style of ancient rock art. Usually interpreted as being left by all who passed by or inhabited the same place. Whether they knew each other, or not. Are these reminders that we have all visited the unknown at some time or another? There is a kind of whimsy to them though, I don't get a creepy feeling from them, more a sense of shared experience.

[@jeffmcdonald101]

@@jamieholmes6087 The style of handprint is usually considered quite friendly. Take from that what you will.

[@BoatmanChoosy]

I think the "what's he building in there" is more about the narrator's own paranoia and possible schizophrenia than it is about the neighbor actually building anything

[@Idk-dude-tw7fw]

I love the cow picture because the fact that you might miss all the hand prints and how unnatural they look

[@jeffmcdonald101]

Yet they are done in the style of ancient rock art. Something that is usually considered friendly, and a sign of community or commonality.

[@TeeKing]

I read House of Leaves. I mean, got lost in its labyrinth. Seldom does a book require such mental acrobatics and/or calisthenics to read, but this one...this book changed me in the way a really good book can. Opened doors that weren't there before. Signed, a former Modern Lit teacher.

[@Daemonworks]

What's really interesting is how most horror is less spooky the second time around, because now you know.... and then there's the stuff that gets spooker the second time around. The Thing is like that for many people, as is a decent subset of Junji Ito's work. The things you learn the answers to just make you understand that the scope of the unknown (or unknowable) was much bigger than you thought it was the first time around. You know enough to ask yourself much more pressing questions about the things you saw the first time.

[@InkerTea]

I remember the Deimos painting being so haunting to me that it inspired me to paint my own series based on it. It made me more in tune with horror and the fear of the unknown. It motivates me to make a piece just as haunting for future projects.

[@ObservantPiratePlus]

The ending of the Night Gallery pilot episode "The Cemetery" was the most chilling thing I've ever seen. The combination of the music FX, and that stygian black opened doorway, allowed your imagination to conjure up whatever YOU thought the scariest thing to appear in that door way might be, instead of a guy in a costume or makeup, spoiling the suspense. Check it out, and you too will feel that primal horror.

[@Areku2021]

After a lot of reflecting on what emotions "really" are, I've "concluded" that fear is the brain's response to "the unknown" when it's presumed to be something negative (something likely to lead to some form of loss, or something inconvenient). The moment this presumably-negative unknown resolves/reveals itself such that the negative outcome is better understood/realized, the fear yields to either anger or disgust of various intensities (anger if it's something best to confront/aggress, disgust if it's something best to avoid/egress). So it's less "fear of the unknown" that "fear is the unknown", at least when the unknown is expected to be something negative.

[@zachbundy7026]

A few ideas as to what the dog sees in the closet: A phonograph sitting on the floor. A bird that flew in a window and is sitting on the tie rack The dog's master trying to change a lightbulb. Baby Finn the Human on a stool dancing in front of a mirror. An empty closet.

[@Dragonnerd75]

I wasn't expecting baby Finn to be on that list 😂

[@Glichyy]

The dog's owner with a dog suit on pretending to be a dog in order to scare it.

[@BeyondtheHiggs]

I feel like this video is very timely. The problem with opening a portal such as a door is that often you have to fight to close it again. And if you do manage to close and lock it again, now things both behind it and on our side know it can be done.

[@Immunity6988]

The connection to the painting as an introduction to a video about the fear of the unknown is PERFECT! I can remember moments in my life that reflect that painting. Looking at a dog, focused on a place that should be empty...I thought it was incredibly creative and just had to acknowledge it.

[@ladyofthedrgns]

The picture of the dog in front of a dark open door made me sad in a way because it reminded me of an old painting I had come across at a cafe once. It was similar in a way, but the only change was the door looked out into an ordinary unnamed crowded city street. The name on the small card under the painting was "Home Coming". Both this painting and the one I mentioned made me feel sad and a small bit concerned for the dog waiting, but not scared. The book House of Leaves felt like a story of a solitary old man slowly slipping into dementia. The danger he feels all around is those taking care of him, places around him he has known for years he can no longer remember. Memories coming back he can no longer connect with.

[@NorthernTigress]

This video reminds me of a "more profound than it first seems" phrases that I heard. "You aren't afraid of being alone in the dark. You are afraid of NOT being alone in the dark."

[@Raysonries]

13:41 Ignorance *is* bliss, but only if you are unaware of what you don’t know. All knowledge can be lost, especially if we don’t take proper care to make sure it never does. To care is to learn, willing or otherwise. In that sense, ignorance is not just a lack of knowledge, but a detachment and denial of possibilities

[@MayMoment_]

Ignorance is bliss, but knowledge is power. I guess it's a balancing act, knowing enough to flourish but not enough to lose your spark.

[@AlexHerrera-wk6lq]

"The most terrifying thing imaginable isn't." - Me, I said that.

[@TitularHeroine]

That IS really good.

[@abstract5249]

I dig it.

[@roberthiltz2741]

“What’s he building in there?” Has become a running joke/mantra of my household. Not only do we adore Waits’ music but I have struggled with paranoia, acute anxiety and hyper vigilance in my adult life. Not to worry, I have made progress and am comfortable and happy these days with the support of my loved ones! These themes of not knowing or rather, not wanting to know are always prevalent in an imaginative mind; just read up on the Chaos Gods and you’ll understand ❤ another fantastic video, thanks

[@Mythil]

Led through the mist By the milk-light of moon All that was lost is revealed Our long bygone burdens Mere echoes of the spring But where have we come? And where shall we end? If dreams can't come true Then why not pretend? How the gentle wind Beckons through the leaves As autumn colors fall Dancing in a swirl Of golden memories The loveliest lies of all

[@olakpasa6486]

Over the warden wall is incredible.

[@WickedWicka]

Oh, that's lovely. Who's it by?

[@olakpasa6486]

@WickedWicka check out Over the garden wall, its a small animated series produced by cartoon network, I can't say much, for I feel its better to go in blind and to see the whole thing in one sit. However what I will tell ya is that it has a certain allure. Its like hearing an old story, a fable that has been lost to time, yet, somehow it also feels very new. I'd say give it a watch, take your time, and do not jump to conclusions fast, the series may have some very light hearted comedy at times, but it changes its tone as fast as the autumn breeze.

[@jfangm]

I would argue that it is not the void or the unknown that is unsettling in Deimos. Rather it is the gulf between the known and the unknown. The line between the light of the room and the dark beyond the door is but an infinitesimal sliver, yet, in that moment, it might as well span the width of the known universe. THAT is what we fear - the line between known and unknown and all the infinite possibilities that may lie beyond that thin sliver where shadow and light interweave.

[@ThatShushi17-mc7ct]

ive had this idea that the fear of the unknown is the root of all fears running in the back of my mind for a while now, so this will be interesting to watch :D

[@wantsupontheneeds]

AAAAND I have another favorite painter. Thanks, Tale Foundry! You never know what's out there.

[@palpat8431]

As one author put it: "Modern man has lost the sense of wonder about the unknown and he treats it as an enemy." Which is an interesting refutation to Lovecraft's position on fear of the unknown being the most primal fear mankind has, going well back before any notion of modernity. Did we explore the unknown because the sense of wonder drew us into it; or because we feared it so much we wanted to dispel it completely by shining a light into every crack? It's one of those questions the response to which defines a person's entire outlook on life as such. Different author asserted that if you tell him your attitude towards pain (you seek to avoid or overcome it) he can immediately tell exactly what sort of person you are.

[@gigitheskeleton6202]

The question remains from the end, if the universe needs us as sentient beings for things to be known or unknown, does that make us the order or the chaos?

[@TGK-uk6op]

I'd say we can be both.

[@HatsoKiriga]

I saw this and knew I had to watch. I love your guy's content, and when I see you're covering my one genuine fear, then I gotta grab a snack and enjoy the show!

[@henrymccoy7171]

Astute & well-delivered... thank you.

[@dhruvsingh7215]

Knowledge is power and not knowing is feeling lack of it

[@ANormalBlockOfTNT]

0:48 this painting better be titled “the abyss stares back”

[@grim_the_Dork]

I think it’s actually called “Oddly Terrifying”

[@bia5141]

I was always scared of slightly open doors especially at my grandma's village where it was very dark during night...

[@geraldgambler7276]

Damn it tale you've sold me on nebula count me in

[@kaenryuuart543]

Tale foundry and curious archive, my two favourite channel, doing video on similliar topic??? This is a good time to be alive

[@MadameErebus]

What's He Building is fantastic and I'm so glad you mentioned it. Great episode!

[@guzax729]

The first painting makes me feel panic cause the room is empty and so brightly lit that there are no shadows to hide in yet it doesn’t leak through the door. Not to mention the dog reacting to something in the next room.

[@terence7025]

No, that painting makes me uncomfortable because How do you have a picture of my door? And my dog!? How?!

[@AlbiDartanan]

sometimes , the best horrors are where the "unknown thing" stay unknown ....

[@Sellesion]

This struck up an old memory for me. Like the painting with the darkness on the other side of the door; when I was a kid a friend of mine had an attic in her house that her and her mother swore was haunted. My friend was sure beyond all doubt that her grandmother's spirit remained in the house and would go up and down the stairs to the attic at night. We rarely went up there, as a result. But then one year, my friend was moving to a new home. The attic was empty and it was day time. We went up there; it was less scary now with the sun coming in and the dirt and cobwebs gone and all the old boxes moved out. But it was also pretty cool. The attic had these small doors lining two of the four walls- little cubbies that could open up like closets. Except, this one. One of the doors didnt have a handle, although it had seams. We had to work to open it. It was in the corner of the room and should, as far as we could tell, have lead directly into the outside facing wall of the house. There shouldn't have been much room for anything before hitting the exterior wall. We expected to see insulation or something.(My dad's a handyman that worked construction around this time so those were not foreign concepts). Instead, it was, for lack of any better way to say it, a void. We could not see how deep the room on the other side of this small door went. It was so black. We went and got a flashlight and shined it into the void- and nothing. It didn't help. We still could not see the wall of the house or any of the corners of that "tiny room" or any boxes of stuff maybe still left inside- nothing. We got too spooked to go inside the closet and find out how big it was or if anything was inside. We talked about it for years afterwards- wondering what the hell was up with that secret room, how deep it went, and how it was even possible. It was blackness like I've never seen before. But the very unknown nature of it- what our minds imagined *could* be in there- thats what made it scary.

[@agon7760]

Please do a review of "Slay the Princess"

[@ruthbennett7563]

The dog painting on the upper left of the initial display of the series appears to be a direct reference (homage?) to the famous ambiguous dog from Goya’s final works. Thank you for another beautifully contemplative video essay. ❤

[@eternalsummer8409]

We are in the box, the unknown is what’s outside it. Little bits of the unknown are sometimes put in the box, and some things that are known are removed

[@nehpets216]

Odd, that first painting just isn't scary to me while the rest fit perfectly with what you were saying. I'm going to have to think about this more later.

[@hajime_87]

there is a painting i seen online and never saved the image. its a painting of a hallway. on the left is a dark room with just a bit of light shining on the floor leading into the dark, further down the hallway is a room with the light on, i think it was a kitchen. if anyone knows about that painting i would like to see it again. it is very creepy, something about the dark room and having to walk past to get to the light.

[@greatazuredragon]

Nice episode, thanks for the update.

[@shooey-mcmoss]

oh, I remember Geller using this cover too, or similar

[@gamepro0167]

Looks like the same painting on the fear of dark video

[@shooey-mcmoss]

@@gamepro0167 Exactly

[@freescape08]

1:02 At first glance this is honestly relaxing to me. The dog's attitude looks calm and unafraid, and I don't feel the darkness behind me, only in front. I'm facing it, and whether or not it faces me back, I'm as ready as I can be. I'm at peace. Edit: after turning off captions, it feels less relaxing, I thought the dog was sitting. It's still not confused or aggressive though. Now, the running dog on the other hand, that concerns me. It feels like I need to act. But with the hand right there, I don't want to make a noise for fear of attracting the unknown.

[@4th3sis21]

I'm two minutes in and I'm gonna reckon a guess that this video isn't about things we can imagine, but how much we can imagine when faced with a mystery

[@noahthompson4690]

It is notable that the name of the art collection is Deimos. Deimos being the Greek deity of dread, the twin of fear, child of war and love.

[@olakpasa6486]

You may want to take a look into the all things wicked chapter for desd by daylight, it introduced the killer known as "the unknown" and its marketing camapaing was absolutly amazing, it captured this feeling in an incredible way.

[@butterknife1066]

Ugh, my dog often does that, stands looking at and sometimes barking into our guest room, which used to be my grandmother’s room before she died and which has her creepy china doll in it. Since it’s nobody’s room now, of course we don’t turn the lights on when it gets dark, so it’s almost always dim. My logical conclusion is that the dog is barking at the neighbors beyond the window, but it still creeps me out every time

[@AnjiThornton]

Normally I watch your videos on Nebula but this one popped up while I was washing dishes. Great video and so very true. Hitchcock used this frequently.

[@CCCM89]

1:45 you forgot about the faint imprint of a hand on the white, middle door in roughtly the same spot.

[@elliart7432]

I've never seen any of the other paintings in that series, only the dog looking at the doorway. I wish they got more attention cause holy shit the atmosphere is incredible

[@totalredeem44]

With my strange high, this was delightful, deeply unsettling and so personnal at the same time.

[@MikhailLobo]

the spiral versus the eye

[@AbsurdlyGeeky]

I like the spiral and don't mind the eye. The stranger fucks me up.

[@talesofacrookedmouth]

more like every fears

[@seandpizzle]

I think the real reason you fear the Nothing so is because as a young robot you watched the Neverending Story and it traumatized you just like the rest of us

[@Voidling-l7i]

Tom Waits is way too underrated!

[@X3n0nLP]

Like jacob geller said. The unknown reduces reality to two possibilities. Either nothing is there or *something* is there.

[@kaioxys]

Is the unknown really scary? Isn’t it like an exciting adventure? It’s far better than being bored by all the repetition that you would have otherwise.

[@CoalOres]

I find the cow picture cute. Look at those guys, curious about what I'm doing in here, awww.

[@MintBunHunter]

FINALLY Dragan Bibin’s work is getting more recognition 🔥

[@caffein3]

simple yet thought provoking is my favorite kinda art

[@GrateGuardian]

Couldn’t be better timed lol. I’m sleeping off some major injuries in DayZ rn so this will make the wait much, much, better

[@shantaezon3618]

the three cow painting has dingy handprints all over the wallpaper... super creepy

[@shada0]

Weird thoughts I've been having on this subject. Humans have a very weird response to well known dangers. People will mess with dangerous Zoo animals or pointless Daredevil actions, like walking on a railing next to a cliff.

[@irishbug4744]

If you haven't read or heard of it, Bill Watterson and John Kascht recently put out a picture book called The Mysteries that reads like a fable about this topic

[@TitularHeroine]

That's an incredible book that few seem to know about. I'm glad I saw your mention of it here!

[@remc0s]

The movie poster for the horror movie Night Swim also falls into this category. Technically you are seeing an empty swimming pool, but the shadow at the bottom implies there's something hiding below.

[@mistere.9534]

The hand prints around the window in the Cows painting I find strangely off putting as well

[@jeffmcdonald101]

Perhaps a sign of all who have passed that place. They are done in the style of ancient rock art. Something that is usually considered friendly, and a sign of community or commonality though.

[@thedudefromrobloxx]

13:50 Finding things out can be scary and shake you, but you have a healthy relationship with yourself and your emotions that all it is, scary

[@josan14basket]

Is this a Jacob Geller reference ?

[@Ikirus]

fear of the dark

[@kricku]

​@Ikirus I have a constant fear that something's always near

[@accordingtosophia]

Pure coincidence! This video was in development for a few months before the Geller video released.

[@JamesFerguson-e4o]

Who else played it went to sleep and is now rewatching it Try not to go to sleep on it again p

[@xXBeary_BearaXx]

0:42 its ears are perked- * squints * "Its ears are not perked."

[@FieldofYarrows]

I think the scariest thing imagine would be the total contradictory of the unknown. It's the fear of the Known, imagine knowing something that's going to happen but being able to do something about it

[@blindbrailleable]

It makes me happy, ITS A PUPPY! His owner is coming from the darkness and he's very excited to see him.

[@PloverTechOfficial]

I feel that one thing I would unlearn, are the secrets of Outer wilds. Its mysteries would be best explored again blind.

[@brandond.7768]

A stranger is a friend you have yet to meet. The unknown is just the known waiting to to be met.

[@byteahandofmine]

I always thought that the dog heard the footsteps of it's master and smelled his scent. For me it was just a doggo who was excited and happy to see his master again, and still... is...

[@user-if3os9sd6z]

SCP-6274, There is NOTHING to fear in the dark.

[@scottlife1697]

2:03 the handprints around the window might have something to do with it.

[@thenoteworthy1298]

“Mankind, despite all our accomplishments, owes its existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.”

[@mrkshply]

The one with the cows feels very homey to me. I can imagine being a farmer and seeing your cows poke their heads into your windows at night. "Eustace! You forgot to close the barn door!"

[@Lemoninacup-b9f]

My closet in my room has a sliding door, and it won’t close all the way, so I’m looking into it every night and waking up from a nightmare or dream is very unsettling.

[@James-ep2bx]

On the portrayal of discovery as a fearless task, consider how we portray warriors/heros yet are their roles in society not also a response to fear. I put forward the idea that it's portrayed as fearless precisely because we fear what they face

[@ogopogoagogo]

Weirdly enough, I don't find the painting of the half-opened door frightening because the dog is there. When I try to picture myself in that scenario, I have the knowledge that I at least have some form of familiar comfort with the dog at my side.

[@intrariftcomsnet]

0:19 the lach on the door looks industrial, why woade that door need it

[@TitularHeroine]

Pretty heavy deadbolt, yeah

[@Cryptic.Cryptid.Writes]

1. Love the videos, long time fan! 2. I'm working on a project and I'd love to study the paintings from 2:55 in greater detail. Who was the artist?

[@accordingtosophia]

The artist for the paintings in the intro is Dragan Bibin.

[@CapitanBreakfast]

Oh man... I held my own for a whole 25 seconds before my brain started screaming RUN RUN RUN TURN IT OFF NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW! Keep up the good work!

[@sidmmvv]

"Well, what I'm saying is that there are known knowns and that there are known unknowns. But there are also unknown unknowns; things we don't know that we don't know."

[@LanceTheAutobot]

im going to vent a bit but im so sick and tiered of all the ads on youtube i had 8 unscipeble ads interupting the flow of the essay and ofcourse there is self promotion in there aswel because the crafters of this video need food on the table but this bullying to get either youtube premium or an adblocker that works is realy pissing me off

[@pieterfaes6263]

On a related note, I'm not sure what's more unnerving in Made in Abyss. The stuff we saw already play out, or knowing that it's only more eldritch unknowns further down and the ignorance about the mom's state and whereabouts at the 'bottom'.

[@Beryllahawk]

Gotta say - definitely I'm familiar with what's in the dark. I've been myopic most of my life, and when you're near-sighted AND it's dark? Your brain will claim all sorts of things are lurking. Even when you're a grownup. Some of it is the biological response - there's not really anything TO see, but your brain will reach for anything, even faint retinal echoes from just before you turned the lights off. Sometimes if you close your eyes in the dark there's actually more to "see" because you become weirdly aware of your own body, of the very personal darkness inside your own skull. Sometimes it's comforting, familiar, the unknown that's always been there. Sometimes, not so much. What bothers me about the unknown isn't so much that I don't know: I'm pretty much OK with not fully understanding anything, there's far more out there TO know than I personally am ever going to learn. What bothers me is that I can't leave it. That half open door is ALWAYS THERE. It's that "we have always lived in the castle" kind of vibe. You try to leave and you end up right back where you started, with that mystery still hovering in the corner. You can ignore it for moments at a time, but not for hours. Like a potted plant that's never QUITE in the same spot twice and you know YOU didn't move it, you know? Does it matter that it's strange, does it threaten you directly? No, not really, but it's gonna bother you eventually. But the potted plant - you might get rid of it, or just not go in the room with it, right? This kind of unknowable shadowy strangeness is more like the little "floaters" in your eyeball. They're IN you and can't be removed.

[@DoomMomDot]

the best horror movies keep the monster in the shadows as long as possible. the more unknown it can be, the scarier it is.

[@filthymcnasty7960]

The internet has ruined me: all I can think when I see the dogs in Deimos is "what the dog doin'?"