The Worst Thing you've Ever Seen

[skull_bearer]

I don't mean something bad, but something that is so unbearable, so horrific, so unspeakable that it takes you quite some time to be able to coherently articulate the sheer WRONG of it. The thing in question took me a year, and 'coherent' would not be the word I'd use.

Now firstly, you have to know that I hate the very concept of talking food. Anything that personifies food to the point where you can identify with it is sheer unbearable horror to me. I literally cannot stand it, so please don't send me any links. At all. Or get friendsbanned. Seriously, I cannot stand this. I don't know why, but it made me cry as a kid, and makes me crawl against Paramour when I see it now.

The worst thing I ever saw was the murals in the camp kitchens of Sachenhausen concentration camp, which were pretty much exactly that. Verious kinds of personified foods all looking very happy about being eaten, like, carrots smiling while they were being grated, that sort of thing.
Now, beside the fact that this was the very fucking last thing I was expecting to see, and I had slept very badly the night before, this was a concentration camp kitchen and probably had been painted by people starving to death, which added so many now layers of just plain wrong that I all but ran screaming from the room. I've been to about ten concentration camps, but that one? My own personal nightmare moment.

So, what about you friendlist? Any personal nightmare moments you want to share?

Comments

[red-pill.livejournal.com]

well i have none, i will say my sister shares yours, in some ways. she hates it if you give food a face (in that realy stupid, i made your brakfast look like a face thing, witch i dont understand people doing, its food, dont be stupid and make it in to stupid things, unless its a soup pile) or a name.

but ive never had anything like that so far.

also, the sachenhousen seen you described is fucking creepy, by any standered.

[skull-bearer.livejournal.com]

All the camps are fucking creepy, but that one? Tailor made nightmare.

[almightyspaz.livejournal.com]

Pretty much all the stuff I see on CringeVision on youtube. Its all these old public access shows and seriously, some of that stuff could cause nightmares. As for the personification of food, now thinking about it, its disgusting. And its gotta mess with kids heads. "If I eat this, Mortimer the daring Broccoli will die." Oh crap, I just realized I'm doing an animation in class that involves personifying vegetables. Crap. If I ever post the thing, I'll put up a warning for you on my page.

[skull-bearer.livejournal.com]

Would be very grateful.

[edsigma.livejournal.com]

One moment that still haunts my nightmares to this day was something I saw in a gallery of modern art in Washington DC when I was twelve. It was this display of "video dolls" they were called, little cloth dolls that had faces projected onto them, that were just plain macabre, creatures from the darkest depths of the uncanny valley. The sort of terrifying expressions they had, and the vaguely emo stuff they were saying did not help one bit! That's not art, it's pure bottled terror!

Oh yeah, and then there's this thing that turned up on an episode of MST3K!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB8gYMfeREI

[shadowvalkyrie.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is horrible! (Reminds me of the talking cow at Milliways in HGttG -- that creeped me out to no end as well the first time I read it.)

My own visceral horror is a very specific kind of cheerful doctor. (Not if they're cheerful in general, say, about their new car or sunshine, or whatever, just if they're cheerful about the medical procedures they're about to perform. -- I mentioned my basic hatred of medical procedures, right?) There has to be a sense of wrongness there, for it to be horrifying, rather than just annoying and inappropriate. I think it has something to do with inherent sadism shining through, if that makes sense.

I vividly remember little me cowering under the hospital bed (I was in hospital for half my childhood) whenever it was time for another blood taking, while the doctor found it funny and made jokes. I was so fucking creeped out by that guy! Just... this sense of helplessness, of being unable to escape something you hate and fear would be bad enough in itself, but to have someone who obviously enjoys doing this to you? *shudders*

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

To me, the worst thing that I'd ever encountered was this: http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aah/rosewood-massacre-1923

Americans have no idea how bad our past really could get. To think this happened but was all but forgotten....*shudders.*

[johnnash.livejournal.com]

I've had a personal nightmare moment, although it wasn't something I saw so much as something I had to hear/converse about/listen to in law school.

Things I've learned in law school: Torture is funny to people who will be able to try cases in two years. Describing the indignities, the pain, and the trauma makes it funnier, apparently.

[skull-bearer.livejournal.com]

Whaaaa...

[(Anonymous)]

Out of curiosity, try cases as in prosecute or as in be an attorney?