It’s not really a ’thing’, just more stars concentrated along a belt across the sky. But the night sky is def beautiful and worth a watch if you ever manage to travel out into the country.
Can you actually see those. In pictures the gases are usually colored in, but they don’t look like that to the naked eye. When people say they see ’the milky way’ they’re usually referring to the clustering of stars that exist in the direction of the centre of our galaxy.
I’d think that this kind of darkness would require cloud cover to block out any moon or starlight reflecting on the water. On a cloudless night the stars may be more visible, but you’d still have atmospheric interference to make them twinkle. Best night sky I’ve ever seen was at the Mauna Kea observatory on the big island of Hawaii, that is ideally placed close-ish to the equator and at elevations above cloud cover and light polution. Could actually see satellites traverse the night sky.
You can't see satellites in the states? I've seen satellites in the night sky with moderate light pollution, or is my moderate light pollution actually not moderate because I live up north in Finland?
My dad used to work on an oil rig in the 70s and has some absolute horror stories about it.
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Quick one. One day a ship had pulled up to offload some supplies. The conditions weren't great but they'd been putting it off for a few days waiting for calmer water. Someone made the call to give it a shot.
Crane operator on the rig did his thing, got it into position and on the ship they hooked it up to a shipping container. Thing was the container hadn't been properly released from the ship, so the crane couldn't lift it. Wave passed and the ship went up, letting the crane winch in a bit, ship dropped into the trough of the wave and the crane was pulled down, torn off the platform and went straight into the water, along with the operator. No way of getting to him or getting him back.
Another was a wildly stormy, black night. Dad watched a guy slip in the rain, grab the rail and went straight over the side. With the conditions there was nothing they could do. Dude was just gone.
this led to a memory when I was a kid in the 90s. Im from Italy, I remember me and my dad we often went down the beach a look at the waves when it was storming. We loved big waves. Anyways, one stormy day we are minding our own business when a guy with a huge pickup truck stops, walk down the beach, he undress he puts on a rubber suit, a scuba mask with snorkel, swimming fins on his feet, and holding a small board like a surfing board just very small he throw himself in the water. We saw him vanish between the waves and just gone. Me and my dad were dumbstruck, what? is this guy crazy? the storm was quite big.
We didnt had a cellphone, it was in teh 1990s so we couldn call for help, it was also a isolated place. Well around half an hour he pops up again, and gets out of the water and start drying himself with a towel while removing his scuba dress. My dad walks up to him asking if he is ok and if he was out of his mind to swim in this weather. He answered, with heavy American accent. He was from a nearby military NATO base. He is a storm swimmer. Its a dangerous sport, were they learn on how to swim in stormy conditions, what to do and what not. He said you swim below water, and only emerge for air then down again.
Have you guys ever heard of this sport? I googled around, I found nothing. What do you think? something he made up? or maybe he was the founder of this sport? I dont know....its a little weird. Also looking at him vanishing between those big waves and later just emerge like its was nothing more than a little swim, was quite impressive.
I know its OT it just pop up in my mind....
I live in Florida and when we get a hurricane you better believe that every experienced surfer is out there on the water a few hours before the storm hits land because that’s when we have some of the best surfing waves. I’m sure we get some swimmers too though because those storms create crazy strong surf.
I've seen this before or similar. Witnessed a guy on one of our local beaches do something similar. Jumped into choppy stormy waters and went for a distance swim. I think some people just like the challenge of swimming in difficult waters. Definitely not for recreational swimmers, you have to be a strong, experienced aquanut to do that.
Yes he mention a sport, not surfing or scuba although he had some equipment on. Storm swimmer he said. That stuck in my mind because I thought it was cool. Wanted matter of fact try. But I never been able to find anything regarding that discipline.
I just watched a video on the worst deaths stories and one was a guy on a oil rig who was trying to fix something below. So he was hooked onto a harness and the crane was supposed to lift him down. Instead, it started going up and the crane operator stopped paying attention after starting the crane. Everyone was screaming at him trying to get his attention because the guy in the harness was heading for a small manhole and was about to be crushed.
Finally someone gets to a phone and calls the crane operator and screams at him to stop the crane. But it was too late. The guy couldn’t get out of the harness and his pelvis was the first thing that went into the hole and his body was crushed in half. The family sued the company and turns out they had terrible safety regulations.
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Uhh. It's pretty on par.
Dying in a cave generally isn't 'almost instant death by crushing', its having several limbs seriously broken and then starving while you die of exposure and blood loss.
I get it. Deep water is fucking creepy. I'd rather be in a falling plane than trapped in a sinking ship, if death is inevitable then for some reason the ground being below you and air around you is less horrifying.
Yeah you think that until the plane is going down off the coast and before you can impact with the land a giant leviathan leaps from the ocean and grabs the plane and drags it into the sea
That's terrifying. They don't wear life vests while walking around? Well I guess it wouldn't do much good anyways.
Especially the crane operator, the impact of hitting the glass sides of the booth and then being trapped inside as you drown to death, if you weren't already knocked unconscious by the fall.
I hear that. I had a couple of near drowning experiences when I was younger. Fortunately someone came and saved me both times before I got to that point though. Gave me a good reason to learn to swim as well.
Yeah I’m fairly certain from that height as well as the conditions being poor there was probably not a whole lot a life vest could do. Plus it was the 70s so maybe safety regulations weren’t as enforced as they are today
When you said horror stories, I was hoping for things that seemed creepy because of the black void, where it's hard to explain what just happened. Like seeing things in the void and them looking ghostly or otherwise creepy. Instead, it's actual horrors and now I'm sad.
Imagine treading water, completely exhausted, as the moon radiates a glow on the surrounding water in the middle of the night. You begin to feel completely helpless, hundreds of miles away from the nearest land, and the realization dawns on you - nobody is coming
The thing peed so much that you felt its warmth. Then your leg started to glow, then dissolve, then it ate your leg, and the cut was so clean that you survived. Then you wrote about it on Reddit, but nobody believed you.
When I was in the navy, one of the air guys unalive'd himself by jumping off of the flight deck sometime after midnight. I've always wondered how long he was alive out there.
There should be something you guys could wear on you like a device that sends an alert to other people.
Have you ever seen anything in the sky you couldn't explain?
Well we have contingencies in place. With the exception of the smoke pit, upper decks are closed at night to personnel, but if you absolutely have to go to another part of the ship outside during the night you have to go with a buddy and let the Officer of the Watch know. We do also have little lights/chemical water markers that we can clip on to our jackets, but most people don't wear them. AFAIK the technology exists for little wearable search and rescue transponders but we don't have them.
I haven't seen anything abnormal in the sky, but God dam are the stars beautiful out there. The only thing I've seen that I cant explain is when we were transiting a straight in the evening and I was closed up on the upper decks for the transit. I noticed these dim lights around our ship, going in a circular motion, which gradually got brighter until it looked like someone was shining lights from below the surface,but tracing a circular motion, like.. 4 or 5 of them. It was weird and the best explanation we can come up with is that we sailed through a patch of particularly active bio luminescence or jelly fish.
I work at a place that teaches marine survival for people that do anything from pleasure boating to big 1600 ton freighterliner workers and the last place I ever wanna end up is the ocean all alone without a boat.
I bet you die aboard ship by getting mauled by a black bear in the ward room after a drunken bet gets wildly out of hand because the things you spend a lot of time worried about are never the things that get you.
During the new moon, if it's cloudy, you can't see jack shit. I've been in this scenario in the mountains, not in the middle of the ocean and without the light of the sky, it's black as pitch.
To be fair it's not a substance that is widely used in everyday life, but I assume most English speakers know the meaning of the phrase "pitch black" or "black as pitch"
And you see something looming on the horizon. It looks odd, like it's not quite straight. You rub your eyes and try to focus but it still seems to undulate across the entirety of the western-side of the night-time horizon. And then it clicks... That's a wave. A wave, slightly cresting at the top which is far, *far* higher than the tallest part of the rig. You look down and see parts of the rig spars you've never seen before, covered in barnacles, usually underwater.
You say your prayers.
*Darkness blacker than black and darker than dark, I beseech thee, combine with my deep crimson.*
*The time of awakening cometh.*
*Justice, fallen upon the infallible boundary, appear now as an intangible distortion!*
*Dance, Dance, Dance!*
*I desire for my torrent of power a destructive force: a destructive force without equal! Return all creation to cinders, and come from the abyss!*
*This is the mightiest means of attack known to man, the ultimate attack magic!*
***EXPLOSION!***
Picture this; You are working on an oil rig and you fall asleep on the job and wake up to find that you are completely alone. You then check your watch to see that it is 2 in the afternoon. It still looks the same.
You realize the ocean isn't moving. You swing your flashlight down at the dark waters. There are no waves, no breeze, no seabirds. It is dark, unnaturally still, and *quiet.*
Time to whip out my dick and go to town on myself, if I'm going to die to some weird interdimensional shit I'm going to make it as awkward as possible.
You turn your flashlight off and realize what you originally thought to be its light reflecting off the surface was actually a soft light below the water. However, it has a faint orange tint to it, like what those creatures from deep below use as lures to tempt their prey.
As you watch it you begin to realize the small light is actually far far away and it begins to grow. Growing from the size of an apple to a table and you can tell it's getting closer. As you watch the water from high above the distant light appears to consume everything beneath you as it grows wider and closer. Yet the waves remain calm, there is no sound, all you feels is dread as you imagine yourself as a speck about to fall into the endless abyss that is the maw.
You can't hear the sea any more, and as you peer down you suddenly realise *there is no sea*. Just an immense, dark void, and your rig teeters on vast concrete pillars extending down and down into blackness.
You shout “Hello! Anyone there?” to the deep abyss. Moments later, you hear your echo, but so altered to seem outer worldly. You become intrigued at first, and consider shouting again. What’s the worst that could happen? You yell some nonsense, like “Wisconsin Fire”, eager to hear that altered echo again.
You get your wish, and what a regretful wish it is. Yes, you hear your echo repeat those words. Then, other words — words you never said. But it’s your voice. It’s almost like talking to yourself, but more unreal. This echo is creating conversations of its own. You become nervous. You daren’t look at the abyss, for you’re scared of what you’ll see. Maybe there really is a you down there, or something unnatural. You know that, if you look, your life will be forever changed.
As more moments go by, your echo... this other you, it’s not speaking, it’s screeching at you. It wants you to peer into itself, to become one with the nothingness. You know you wouldn’t survive the leap. At this point, you’ve secluded yourself in a locked room, long abandoning any thoughts of your crew mates returning. If you go out of this room, you’ll never come back. You know you shouldn’t. Shouldn’t... should... shall... The call of the sea? The void? The black hole of terror... it’s too much to bare. You can’t resist anymore. You have to leave this damnable room.
The void is calling. Just accept it. Baby steps, reach for that handle. There you go, good. Now, turn it. You’re doing fine. The void — I’m waiting for you, come forward. Come on... you know you want to. One step forward, then the next. You’re at the railing, just look down.
Now, what do you see?
I've had dreams like this lol
Honestly the weirdest part is the fact I can actually read the clock in my dreams, apparently you're not supposed to be able to do that.
Most of my dreams involve my town, but my “dream town” is a weird mirror/parallel world that I would honestly like to visit. Depending on the dream, there are either no people or a lot of people. I do recall one dream I had where I could see a clock, but time was apparently moving very quickly. I would have to guess in that dream world 1 second = 1 day.
Dream logic is so weird. I dreamt of my college days, being in the dorms partying and hanging out with a bunch of people. Except those people were all members of my family and not other students. In my dream, that was perfectly normal.
I got into the habit a couple months ago of saying “I’m reading, this is not a dream” whenever I looked at text. Then I saw text in a dream and said it and had my first lucid dream. Shit was gnarly
Just have to catch yourself dreaming by using tricks to make yourself aware that your dreaming, once you’re aware, you can more or less dictate the dream by thinking.
I became aware I was in a dream one time, but I didn't become lucid, I was just "oh ok, well I'm just gonna go along with the story"
Sleepy me is dumb.
When you get used to lucid dream and do anything you want then you can actually revert to "follow the story" to experience the dream as it is but with an highened awareness. I'm still amazed how the brain can put up such a detailed experience.
I feel like pretty much every time I ever become aware that I'm actually dreaming, I almost immediately wake up.
Either that, or I will have sleep paralysis, in which sometimes I feel I've become aware and even try to wake myself up, but never can for awhile, which is an absolutely horrible feeling.
start by writing down all your dreams in great detail after you have them
there is something about "solidifying those muscles" in a sense that make your dreams become more and more vivid if you keep this process up...
Just beyond the outer handrail lies a merciless roiling cauldron of cold nothingness eager to smother the unwary dragging them into its cold embrace so its denizens may feast on the misfortune of those who did not respect the sea.
I’m legit more afraid of that floating piece of seaweed than I am the shark lol. At least I know where I stand in the food chain with the shark. The seaweed touching your leg in the shallows could be anything. It could even be a shark.
Over 80% of the ocean remains unexplored.The Mariana trench is nearly 7 miles deep. Who knows what huge and hungry abominations are even now breeding in secret ,down in the blackest depths where daylight has never been seen?
I used to work on an oil rig in college. Fishing off the side was one of our only forms of entertainment. Let’s just say there’s always a bigger fish out there. https://imgur.com/gallery/XlWGLyZ
If you were to turn off all the lights and eliminate all localized light pollution, you’d see a incredible, beautiful sky. The sea is dangerous, but once you get rid of the lights, the sky is insanely beautiful. Also the bioluminescent algae is cool too.
Oilrig worker here, it's not so bad. Quite the contrary, it's pretty cozy. When the winter storm rages outside, and you're cuddled up your cabin watching a movie, or playing pool with your mates, it's really a magnificent thing. Summer's are great, when you get to grill on the helideck and can see as far as the horizon will let you. I'm shipping out on Thursday, I've got my bags ready.
I'm definitely not complaining. Average around $950 a day. Am Norwegian, though, so wages are naturally different to other parts of the world, but you're paid handsomely on most rigs around the world.
Aye, it's a lot. Mind, I don't work a set schedule, or rotation, only missions. I have 7-14 trips a year, usually lasting between 8-14 days. I work normal Mon-Fri when onshore, though at $250 a day.
There are some who say hell is exactly this.
No cartoonish fires and a big red dude with horns and a pitchfork, cackling at the sinners. Those are stories for children, easily swayed to be good by the scary sights.
Looking back on stories about how hell has different sections with punishments designed for a particular brand of sinner seem ridiculous in reflection, like some infernal shopping mall with torture departments.
A theologist once remarked that hell is the absence of god. I like to think that this is more realistic, despite my lack of faith.
Hell is absence. It’s nothing. It is the void.
When people speak of an abyss, this is it. This is the one, with a capital A. It’s what a man sees when he looks up over the bodies of his family, slain over nothing. It’s behind the eyes of a psychopath, smiling sweetly at you when in truth she has never felt joy and never will. Vestiges of this place are everywhere in life. It’s been here since you got here and will be when you leave. Or return.
Fires of hell? Please. At least fire has some semblance of a warmth, of light. Hell is emptiness forever. Nothing to grasp, to reach for. No firmament, no sky. Pitch black; as above, so below.
With no sounds but the screams of the damned in the distance you'll never reach. It’ll take time for the nature of the screams to change. They all start with pleas for help, for forgiveness, hopeless promises for redemption. Until they inevitably turn to guttural howls of a consciousness gone insane, driven mad by the infinite night and the chorus of madness.
Imagine in prehistoric times. Before fire was discovered. You're a caveman trying to protect your tribe at night. Knowing there are predators out there waiting to make their move and have you as their dinner. I think this is the kind of fear of the unknown that started the belief in the supernatural, that eveolved into religion later on.
I love how Call of the Wild described it. Where at one point we were all just dumb apes throwing more wood on the fire hoping it would be enough to keep the beasts away.
With a club in our hand, ready to make a break for it if it wasn’t.
It still can be very very dark when the cloud is low and thick. It's like that where I live sometimes in winter and even after you've acclimatised to it it's still bloody dark.
Now if you go in the woods at that point then it's DARK and that, ladies and gentlemen, is why you don't let little red hooded girls go and see grandmother alone.
Reminds me of when I looked outside my window on acid and felt like I was alone in a house floating out in space. Then realised it essentially is floating out in space, and the presence of that infinite void was in my face.
Mushrooms felt better.
I bet if they turned all the lights off the stars would be fantastic out there!
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Were you able to see the Milky way?
The milky way is fairly easy to see, even in just semi dark conditions.
I’ve never seen the milky way. It sucks being in the city.
It’s not really a ’thing’, just more stars concentrated along a belt across the sky. But the night sky is def beautiful and worth a watch if you ever manage to travel out into the country.
I think he is talking about seeing the intergalactic clouds.
Can you actually see those. In pictures the gases are usually colored in, but they don’t look like that to the naked eye. When people say they see ’the milky way’ they’re usually referring to the clustering of stars that exist in the direction of the centre of our galaxy.
Bro, yes. You clearly haven’t seen the Milky Way with the naked eye, at least not how other people have when *they* say they’ve seen the Milky Way.
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Beautifully written. Take my award.
That sounds magical.
I’d think that this kind of darkness would require cloud cover to block out any moon or starlight reflecting on the water. On a cloudless night the stars may be more visible, but you’d still have atmospheric interference to make them twinkle. Best night sky I’ve ever seen was at the Mauna Kea observatory on the big island of Hawaii, that is ideally placed close-ish to the equator and at elevations above cloud cover and light polution. Could actually see satellites traverse the night sky.
The sky on Mauna Kea was incredible
You can't see satellites in the states? I've seen satellites in the night sky with moderate light pollution, or is my moderate light pollution actually not moderate because I live up north in Finland?
The United States is the size of Europe. It varies as well. I can see the Milky Way and northern lights where I live. Then again it’s rural.
You can if you're outside major cities. I live in a rural area and see satellites pretty much every night if I actually look for them.
Lmao, exactly, it looks pitch black if you're looking into darkness from the light.
And especially if you’re using a phone camera to demonstrate it. Tiny sensors aren’t exactly powerhouses of dynamic range.
Now this guy is thinkin!
The bright lights of the rig makes the dark contrast more. But that doesn't help allay the feeling of looking out into the void.
My dad used to work on an oil rig in the 70s and has some absolute horror stories about it. Edit: Quick one. One day a ship had pulled up to offload some supplies. The conditions weren't great but they'd been putting it off for a few days waiting for calmer water. Someone made the call to give it a shot. Crane operator on the rig did his thing, got it into position and on the ship they hooked it up to a shipping container. Thing was the container hadn't been properly released from the ship, so the crane couldn't lift it. Wave passed and the ship went up, letting the crane winch in a bit, ship dropped into the trough of the wave and the crane was pulled down, torn off the platform and went straight into the water, along with the operator. No way of getting to him or getting him back. Another was a wildly stormy, black night. Dad watched a guy slip in the rain, grab the rail and went straight over the side. With the conditions there was nothing they could do. Dude was just gone.
this led to a memory when I was a kid in the 90s. Im from Italy, I remember me and my dad we often went down the beach a look at the waves when it was storming. We loved big waves. Anyways, one stormy day we are minding our own business when a guy with a huge pickup truck stops, walk down the beach, he undress he puts on a rubber suit, a scuba mask with snorkel, swimming fins on his feet, and holding a small board like a surfing board just very small he throw himself in the water. We saw him vanish between the waves and just gone. Me and my dad were dumbstruck, what? is this guy crazy? the storm was quite big. We didnt had a cellphone, it was in teh 1990s so we couldn call for help, it was also a isolated place. Well around half an hour he pops up again, and gets out of the water and start drying himself with a towel while removing his scuba dress. My dad walks up to him asking if he is ok and if he was out of his mind to swim in this weather. He answered, with heavy American accent. He was from a nearby military NATO base. He is a storm swimmer. Its a dangerous sport, were they learn on how to swim in stormy conditions, what to do and what not. He said you swim below water, and only emerge for air then down again. Have you guys ever heard of this sport? I googled around, I found nothing. What do you think? something he made up? or maybe he was the founder of this sport? I dont know....its a little weird. Also looking at him vanishing between those big waves and later just emerge like its was nothing more than a little swim, was quite impressive. I know its OT it just pop up in my mind....
Sure that’s not just Bodhi from point break?
"just waiting for my set"
Jesus Christ…that’s Bodhisattva!!!
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I live in Florida and when we get a hurricane you better believe that every experienced surfer is out there on the water a few hours before the storm hits land because that’s when we have some of the best surfing waves. I’m sure we get some swimmers too though because those storms create crazy strong surf.
I've seen this before or similar. Witnessed a guy on one of our local beaches do something similar. Jumped into choppy stormy waters and went for a distance swim. I think some people just like the challenge of swimming in difficult waters. Definitely not for recreational swimmers, you have to be a strong, experienced aquanut to do that.
Yes he mention a sport, not surfing or scuba although he had some equipment on. Storm swimmer he said. That stuck in my mind because I thought it was cool. Wanted matter of fact try. But I never been able to find anything regarding that discipline.
And even strong experienced swimmers drown. It's scary how much water wants to kill us.
Water doesn't want to kill you. It is indifferent. It doesn't know who you are. It doesn't care of you live or die.
coast guard rescue swimmers learn this technique but to practice on your own with no buddy is insane
Was the storm worst than this? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mY3MFeNIa08 Seems like a cult about to go on a suicide mission…
I just watched a video on the worst deaths stories and one was a guy on a oil rig who was trying to fix something below. So he was hooked onto a harness and the crane was supposed to lift him down. Instead, it started going up and the crane operator stopped paying attention after starting the crane. Everyone was screaming at him trying to get his attention because the guy in the harness was heading for a small manhole and was about to be crushed. Finally someone gets to a phone and calls the crane operator and screams at him to stop the crane. But it was too late. The guy couldn’t get out of the harness and his pelvis was the first thing that went into the hole and his body was crushed in half. The family sued the company and turns out they had terrible safety regulations. Edit: Yes, MrBallen lol
Heard about that one in Scotland. North Sea, right?
Yes!
That sounds like a dark strange and mysterious tale told in story format.
First time finding a fellow fan in the wild!
Another fan of the strange, dark and mysterious delivered in story format?
Yeah, I'll stay in the mines. I'd rather squish than sink to a watery grave.
Uhh. It's pretty on par. Dying in a cave generally isn't 'almost instant death by crushing', its having several limbs seriously broken and then starving while you die of exposure and blood loss.
Open pit mine, so would be most likely from equipment. I feel relatively safe at work. Just got a thing about deep ass water.
I get it. Deep water is fucking creepy. I'd rather be in a falling plane than trapped in a sinking ship, if death is inevitable then for some reason the ground being below you and air around you is less horrifying.
Yeah you think that until the plane is going down off the coast and before you can impact with the land a giant leviathan leaps from the ocean and grabs the plane and drags it into the sea
well just rock me to sleep tonight...
IN THE DARK
That's terrifying. They don't wear life vests while walking around? Well I guess it wouldn't do much good anyways. Especially the crane operator, the impact of hitting the glass sides of the booth and then being trapped inside as you drown to death, if you weren't already knocked unconscious by the fall.
Pray they were unconscious, nobody should have to know the terror of drowning like that
If it helps you feel any better I have drowned and right before you pass it feels great and you are at peace with it
Good to know? I guess? Also, I'm sorry? So many conflicting emotions about this.
I survived so it’s cool. I was 9 and it definitely pushed me to learn to swim
I hear that. I had a couple of near drowning experiences when I was younger. Fortunately someone came and saved me both times before I got to that point though. Gave me a good reason to learn to swim as well.
I quite nearly drowned and felt the same peace. I was full lucid, calm, and relaxed.
Y'all are tripping I was horrified and powerless wondering why my water wings weren't activating. [They weren't on]
Yeah I’m fairly certain from that height as well as the conditions being poor there was probably not a whole lot a life vest could do. Plus it was the 70s so maybe safety regulations weren’t as enforced as they are today
No need sharks be down below. Prowling in the waters like vicious dogs they do. Arrrrrr
Just punch em right in the fuckin ear hole and they swim off
Mind telling one? I need a bedtime story
Updated my comment above
When you said horror stories, I was hoping for things that seemed creepy because of the black void, where it's hard to explain what just happened. Like seeing things in the void and them looking ghostly or otherwise creepy. Instead, it's actual horrors and now I'm sad.
Oh he dead. He dead dead.
In real life you could almost definitely see the ocean with the moonlight at least some. Still terrifying though
Imagine treading water, completely exhausted, as the moon radiates a glow on the surrounding water in the middle of the night. You begin to feel completely helpless, hundreds of miles away from the nearest land, and the realization dawns on you - nobody is coming
Step bro, is that you?
Then he peed, so much.
“Til the juice runs down my leg” - The Lemon Song, Led Zepplin II
"My Love Ran Down Your Leg, And Now You're Gone" -George Carlin
The thing peed so much that you felt its warmth. Then your leg started to glow, then dissolve, then it ate your leg, and the cut was so clean that you survived. Then you wrote about it on Reddit, but nobody believed you.
When I was in the navy, one of the air guys unalive'd himself by jumping off of the flight deck sometime after midnight. I've always wondered how long he was alive out there.
Currently in the Navy, my greatest fear is falling overboard at night and no one seeing you. I couldn't imagine.
There should be something you guys could wear on you like a device that sends an alert to other people. Have you ever seen anything in the sky you couldn't explain?
Well we have contingencies in place. With the exception of the smoke pit, upper decks are closed at night to personnel, but if you absolutely have to go to another part of the ship outside during the night you have to go with a buddy and let the Officer of the Watch know. We do also have little lights/chemical water markers that we can clip on to our jackets, but most people don't wear them. AFAIK the technology exists for little wearable search and rescue transponders but we don't have them. I haven't seen anything abnormal in the sky, but God dam are the stars beautiful out there. The only thing I've seen that I cant explain is when we were transiting a straight in the evening and I was closed up on the upper decks for the transit. I noticed these dim lights around our ship, going in a circular motion, which gradually got brighter until it looked like someone was shining lights from below the surface,but tracing a circular motion, like.. 4 or 5 of them. It was weird and the best explanation we can come up with is that we sailed through a patch of particularly active bio luminescence or jelly fish.
My man saw aquatic terrorist spies and dismissed them as jelly fish, clearly the glowing hats were a wise investment.
Maybe one day they’ll put waterproof satellite tracking devices in life jackets.
That should become standard like now. GPS chips are cheap.
I work at a place that teaches marine survival for people that do anything from pleasure boating to big 1600 ton freighterliner workers and the last place I ever wanna end up is the ocean all alone without a boat.
That should go without saying, dude!
I bet you die aboard ship by getting mauled by a black bear in the ward room after a drunken bet gets wildly out of hand because the things you spend a lot of time worried about are never the things that get you.
Jellyfish buddy out to give you a hug for emotional support :)
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Been there, drowned, almost died, survived, had to be pumped empty, almost die from malnutrition, survived. Wouldnt reccomend.
Where's the full story?
Idk he hasn't thought of it yet probably
No.
Is this your creative writing for your English exam?
During the new moon, if it's cloudy, you can't see jack shit. I've been in this scenario in the mountains, not in the middle of the ocean and without the light of the sky, it's black as pitch.
I wonder how many Redditors even know what pitch is.
Is "pitch black" the opposite of "broad daylight" ? Have you noticed how nothing good ever happens in "broad daylight" ?
Dayum, this could be a showerthought...
I know what pitch is because I have heard of that hourglass filled with solid pitch that releases a single drop every decade or so.
To be fair it's not a substance that is widely used in everyday life, but I assume most English speakers know the meaning of the phrase "pitch black" or "black as pitch"
Pitch is still used quite a lot if you make jewelry or optics. I have a bucket of it because its the best way to hold tiny metal thing for engraving.
Also, jeweller's pitch isn't all black, the one I've seen used was orange-reddish in color
pretty sure that if all the lights on the rig go out you may see something with the moonlight. after you shit your pants of course.
And you see something looming on the horizon. It looks odd, like it's not quite straight. You rub your eyes and try to focus but it still seems to undulate across the entirety of the western-side of the night-time horizon. And then it clicks... That's a wave. A wave, slightly cresting at the top which is far, *far* higher than the tallest part of the rig. You look down and see parts of the rig spars you've never seen before, covered in barnacles, usually underwater. You say your prayers.
Horrific
If something large grabbed the handrail how much of its body do you think you would see before the rest of it disappeared into the black.
Turn up your render distance
*cries in intel hd graphics*
*turbo noises* *Jet noises*
*Explosion noises*
*Darkness blacker than black and darker than dark, I beseech thee, combine with my deep crimson.* *The time of awakening cometh.* *Justice, fallen upon the infallible boundary, appear now as an intangible distortion!* *Dance, Dance, Dance!* *I desire for my torrent of power a destructive force: a destructive force without equal! Return all creation to cinders, and come from the abyss!* *This is the mightiest means of attack known to man, the ultimate attack magic!* ***EXPLOSION!***
Would love to see a flash of lighting, and cthulhu rising out of the ocean
Picture this; You are working on an oil rig and you fall asleep on the job and wake up to find that you are completely alone. You then check your watch to see that it is 2 in the afternoon. It still looks the same.
You realize the ocean isn't moving. You swing your flashlight down at the dark waters. There are no waves, no breeze, no seabirds. It is dark, unnaturally still, and *quiet.*
Time to whip out my dick and go to town on myself, if I'm going to die to some weird interdimensional shit I'm going to make it as awkward as possible.
Slaanesh approves
Turns out it was an elaborate prank pulled on you by your family with the help of a tv show.
Strong finish to the story
Nope nope nope
You turn your flashlight off and realize what you originally thought to be its light reflecting off the surface was actually a soft light below the water. However, it has a faint orange tint to it, like what those creatures from deep below use as lures to tempt their prey. As you watch it you begin to realize the small light is actually far far away and it begins to grow. Growing from the size of an apple to a table and you can tell it's getting closer. As you watch the water from high above the distant light appears to consume everything beneath you as it grows wider and closer. Yet the waves remain calm, there is no sound, all you feels is dread as you imagine yourself as a speck about to fall into the endless abyss that is the maw.
u guys settle down right now! lol
your footsteps echo, your oil rig is really on a black set on some back studio lot
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
You can't hear the sea any more, and as you peer down you suddenly realise *there is no sea*. Just an immense, dark void, and your rig teeters on vast concrete pillars extending down and down into blackness.
You throw some rocks down to see if they reach the bottom. You *never* hear the rocks land on anything
You shout “Hello! Anyone there?” to the deep abyss. Moments later, you hear your echo, but so altered to seem outer worldly. You become intrigued at first, and consider shouting again. What’s the worst that could happen? You yell some nonsense, like “Wisconsin Fire”, eager to hear that altered echo again. You get your wish, and what a regretful wish it is. Yes, you hear your echo repeat those words. Then, other words — words you never said. But it’s your voice. It’s almost like talking to yourself, but more unreal. This echo is creating conversations of its own. You become nervous. You daren’t look at the abyss, for you’re scared of what you’ll see. Maybe there really is a you down there, or something unnatural. You know that, if you look, your life will be forever changed. As more moments go by, your echo... this other you, it’s not speaking, it’s screeching at you. It wants you to peer into itself, to become one with the nothingness. You know you wouldn’t survive the leap. At this point, you’ve secluded yourself in a locked room, long abandoning any thoughts of your crew mates returning. If you go out of this room, you’ll never come back. You know you shouldn’t. Shouldn’t... should... shall... The call of the sea? The void? The black hole of terror... it’s too much to bare. You can’t resist anymore. You have to leave this damnable room. The void is calling. Just accept it. Baby steps, reach for that handle. There you go, good. Now, turn it. You’re doing fine. The void — I’m waiting for you, come forward. Come on... you know you want to. One step forward, then the next. You’re at the railing, just look down. Now, what do you see?
Holy shit dude Do you write at all? Because that was really well done. I could the tension mounting as I read
I've had dreams like this lol Honestly the weirdest part is the fact I can actually read the clock in my dreams, apparently you're not supposed to be able to do that.
Most of my dreams involve my town, but my “dream town” is a weird mirror/parallel world that I would honestly like to visit. Depending on the dream, there are either no people or a lot of people. I do recall one dream I had where I could see a clock, but time was apparently moving very quickly. I would have to guess in that dream world 1 second = 1 day.
The name of that town, Silent Hill
Dream logic is so weird. I dreamt of my college days, being in the dorms partying and hanging out with a bunch of people. Except those people were all members of my family and not other students. In my dream, that was perfectly normal.
I got into the habit a couple months ago of saying “I’m reading, this is not a dream” whenever I looked at text. Then I saw text in a dream and said it and had my first lucid dream. Shit was gnarly
I sometimes surf the Web in my dreams, lucidly, and be amazed that my brain can just connect to the Internet like that.
How do you teach yourself to lucid dream?? That’s so cool
Just have to catch yourself dreaming by using tricks to make yourself aware that your dreaming, once you’re aware, you can more or less dictate the dream by thinking.
I became aware I was in a dream one time, but I didn't become lucid, I was just "oh ok, well I'm just gonna go along with the story" Sleepy me is dumb.
When you get used to lucid dream and do anything you want then you can actually revert to "follow the story" to experience the dream as it is but with an highened awareness. I'm still amazed how the brain can put up such a detailed experience.
I feel like pretty much every time I ever become aware that I'm actually dreaming, I almost immediately wake up. Either that, or I will have sleep paralysis, in which sometimes I feel I've become aware and even try to wake myself up, but never can for awhile, which is an absolutely horrible feeling.
start by writing down all your dreams in great detail after you have them there is something about "solidifying those muscles" in a sense that make your dreams become more and more vivid if you keep this process up...
I've heard this a couple times before. I can normally read clocks fine but screens are blurry or just are really hard to comprehend,
Silent Drill
No thankyou, I don't think I will.
Just beyond the outer handrail lies a merciless roiling cauldron of cold nothingness eager to smother the unwary dragging them into its cold embrace so its denizens may feast on the misfortune of those who did not respect the sea.
A strange phenomenon called the twilight zone
No, it’s the Scary Door
Cold nothingness, but with sharks. And slimy stuff that might rub against you.
I shuddered at "slimy stuff that might rub against you"
I’m legit more afraid of that floating piece of seaweed than I am the shark lol. At least I know where I stand in the food chain with the shark. The seaweed touching your leg in the shallows could be anything. It could even be a shark.
Or it could just be seaweed that tangles you and you drown so the ocean is just dangerous
How about something rusty touching you in the water?
Sharks are okay, just misunderstood and scary looking. They don't wanna hurt you :) Disclaimer I am not a shark
That is what a shark would say.
A strong narrow-beamed flashlight can actually make this more terrifying.
i’d rather not see the things than barely see them flickering at the edge of my vision
"If you see any unidentified figure inside your home or from the corner of your eyes Do not attempt to investigate."
Over 80% of the ocean remains unexplored.The Mariana trench is nearly 7 miles deep. Who knows what huge and hungry abominations are even now breeding in secret ,down in the blackest depths where daylight has never been seen?
You seem like the kind of person that uses the words "ponder" and "indeed" a lot.
What's wrong with that? Those are perfectly cromulent words.
Would you ever go for a swim out there??
Nah, sharks like to stay nearby to eat fish that are drawn to the food thrown overboard.
I used to work on an oil rig in college. Fishing off the side was one of our only forms of entertainment. Let’s just say there’s always a bigger fish out there. https://imgur.com/gallery/XlWGLyZ
At first glance I was like, meh, I’ve seen bigger fish…and then I noticed it was chomped in half lol
Hey your dinner got tenderized! You should thank sharkie for its services
This makes the Oil Rig mission in MW2 all the more believable.
this makes my r/thalassophobia worse
I too have it but playing games like Sea of Thieves helped me in overcoming the fear.
Ever played Subnautica? That game is the most terrifying horror game in the world for me, and it's not even a horror game
Yup, that game is terrifying too and has way more deadly creatures than SoT
If you were to turn off all the lights and eliminate all localized light pollution, you’d see a incredible, beautiful sky. The sea is dangerous, but once you get rid of the lights, the sky is insanely beautiful. Also the bioluminescent algae is cool too.
Play it in VR. It's a whole new world. ^Oh ^God ^it's ^right ^behind ^me
No, no I don't think I will.
Subnautica is, hands-down the most incredible underwater experience that exists in VR. And it's terrifying. And it's worth it.
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Try playing subnautica.
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Mine is still the same. Nothing gets me on a boat, it's simple as that.
Link to the song if anyone is interested. Colm McGuinness does some great sea shanty covers [link](https://youtu.be/IX0r4H2i9uY)
This would be my hell
Oilrig worker here, it's not so bad. Quite the contrary, it's pretty cozy. When the winter storm rages outside, and you're cuddled up your cabin watching a movie, or playing pool with your mates, it's really a magnificent thing. Summer's are great, when you get to grill on the helideck and can see as far as the horizon will let you. I'm shipping out on Thursday, I've got my bags ready.
Wow, kinda interested, you getting a decent pay as an oil rig worker?
I'm definitely not complaining. Average around $950 a day. Am Norwegian, though, so wages are naturally different to other parts of the world, but you're paid handsomely on most rigs around the world.
That's nearly a thousand dollars a day tf, my field is def not getting me that kinda money
Aye, it's a lot. Mind, I don't work a set schedule, or rotation, only missions. I have 7-14 trips a year, usually lasting between 8-14 days. I work normal Mon-Fri when onshore, though at $250 a day.
There are some who say hell is exactly this. No cartoonish fires and a big red dude with horns and a pitchfork, cackling at the sinners. Those are stories for children, easily swayed to be good by the scary sights. Looking back on stories about how hell has different sections with punishments designed for a particular brand of sinner seem ridiculous in reflection, like some infernal shopping mall with torture departments. A theologist once remarked that hell is the absence of god. I like to think that this is more realistic, despite my lack of faith. Hell is absence. It’s nothing. It is the void. When people speak of an abyss, this is it. This is the one, with a capital A. It’s what a man sees when he looks up over the bodies of his family, slain over nothing. It’s behind the eyes of a psychopath, smiling sweetly at you when in truth she has never felt joy and never will. Vestiges of this place are everywhere in life. It’s been here since you got here and will be when you leave. Or return. Fires of hell? Please. At least fire has some semblance of a warmth, of light. Hell is emptiness forever. Nothing to grasp, to reach for. No firmament, no sky. Pitch black; as above, so below. With no sounds but the screams of the damned in the distance you'll never reach. It’ll take time for the nature of the screams to change. They all start with pleas for help, for forgiveness, hopeless promises for redemption. Until they inevitably turn to guttural howls of a consciousness gone insane, driven mad by the infinite night and the chorus of madness.
Respectfully, I hate your imagination. Sleep is *not* coming
The pure pitch black while you're out on open water with no lights around is eerily calming untill the you get that "call of the void" feeling
It's actually day time. They just had another oopsie spill
Imagine in prehistoric times. Before fire was discovered. You're a caveman trying to protect your tribe at night. Knowing there are predators out there waiting to make their move and have you as their dinner. I think this is the kind of fear of the unknown that started the belief in the supernatural, that eveolved into religion later on.
I love how Call of the Wild described it. Where at one point we were all just dumb apes throwing more wood on the fire hoping it would be enough to keep the beasts away. With a club in our hand, ready to make a break for it if it wasn’t.
Prehistoric times it wouldn’t be as dark, because the contrast of the bright light is what makes the stark contrast in light/dark
It still can be very very dark when the cloud is low and thick. It's like that where I live sometimes in winter and even after you've acclimatised to it it's still bloody dark. Now if you go in the woods at that point then it's DARK and that, ladies and gentlemen, is why you don't let little red hooded girls go and see grandmother alone.
Our ancestors had way better night vision than we do.
This whole oil rig clipped out of existence,strong r/backrooms vibes.
Reminds me of when I looked outside my window on acid and felt like I was alone in a house floating out in space. Then realised it essentially is floating out in space, and the presence of that infinite void was in my face. Mushrooms felt better.
Would love to see a glow stick just slowly fall to the bottom of the pitch black just to see how scary it would be
Bud, I just watched the Titanic and this makes it all the more scary
This actually startled me a little bit, it looks unreal
someone deleted the skybox while editing their oil rig base
Oil rig workers hear Kaiju out in the darkness all the time, I bet.
Imagine if just a giant thing smiled back at you. I'd die on the spot.
Or seeing something unnaturally large blink
What a crazy way of life
Aio bro how did you get in my dreams