[merylsilverburg]

Originally Posted by Qjij_jijQ

Come on now meryl, don't be like that. As a matter of fact, I welcome your point of view and/or your way of understanding things... how could I take it the wrong way?

Hehe, I was just afraid you might mistaken my words since some people can get so defensive about certain things.

Originally Posted by Qjij_jijQ

You see, I guess it has a lot to do with the environment you're raised in... In psychology, there's a thing called the availability heuristic, which basically reffers to the fact that people tend to associate events, stories, situations to information that is more 'fresh' or more present in their mind. My mother had always been a horror movie junky, which means that I ended up watching a lot when I was young... and you know what that can do to kids, right? At the time, it then seemed more 'logical' for me to associate those situations with monsters and ghosts than robbers... heck, it's even quite possible that on an unconscious level, I 'changed' the way it actually really happened, just to fit the scheme I had of something like this. ( not saying it's not true, just that my point of view of the moment could be biased ) You're probably seeing things from your own angle, which is different than mine and that's quite alright.

Oh yeah, that makes a lot more sense, I never thought of that before. Yeah, unlike your mother, my mother is completely anti-horror; it's not that she absolutely refuses to watch any horror movies, but they scare her very much, so she avoids them. And because I somewhat resemble her in that regard, I tried and try to avoid horror movies as well...so growing up, it was more psychologically on that whole "thieves" paranoia than "supernatural" paranoia.

Originally Posted by Qjij_jijQ

As for the way wy house is made... it's probably a bad choice of words on my part. I used the term 'second' floor because I saw my basement as being the 'first' one. You see, I didn't really want to call it a basement, as there is a door in the back of the first floor that leads outside. The Terrain is made in a way that allows us to enter on the 'second' floor from the front and exit either on the second or first floor in the back. I don't know if you understand... I'll try making drawings of it on Paint, to try to explain it better.

Ah, I see now. Don't worry, you don't have to draw it on Paint (it'll be difficult to do with that cheap-o program ). My current house is actually like that too...we have a "basement" (it's not truly a basement as it's quite livable, though the air is somewhat stuffy) and there's a door that leads outside and on the second/first floor (or the "main floor") there is also a door leading outside. Hehe, I guess if I were in your shoes, I would've bolted outside too.