Anyone else get a bit scared in the house by themselves?

[ShirleyPhallus]

Or am I a total wuss?! Newish area and new home which has more room than we had before, but my mind is doing mental gymnastics. In my head, every time I look out the window there will be an axe wielding maniac grinning back at me.

I’m a reasonably competent adult with a perfectly rational brain, so why do I do this?!

Gawd no! I'm in a remote cottage with other houses in (theoretical) screaming distance but I LOVE having the house to myself. Can eat ice cream naked in the kitchen and starfish, snoring, in bed. Does help to have 7 dogs - 3 in the house and 4 outside - who howl whenever a butterfly farts!!

@HeronLanyon
Apologies accepted! It wasn't on here though.
It's in real life- people saying 'Ooooh we're worried about you, up there....all alone!'

Doggo is lovely 😊 and I'm sure she's very brave ( in her doggy head). She very vocal which I'm sure would see any maniac off!

I'm almost never nervous in my terraced inner city house, if DP happens to be away, but I think if I lived somewhere without close neighbours I might well be. At home I know I am very safe, no alarms, cameras or dogs!

I'm alright actually. Surprising as I've actually seen a ghost (well, shadow demon) in this very house. But i walk about fine now, even with the lights out.

Tbf it is because i know it is gone (as I know why it was there in the first place). Or I'd be fkn shittin myself lol.

If I watch a horror before bed or if I was in a new home I'd be a bit freaked though.

It's natural to get a bit spooked sometimes. Now I know those things exist (and apparently like the dark) I think that might be part of the reason we are all subconsciously a little frightened of the dark.

You never really know what might be lurking in it.

I probably wouldn’t like it if I lived somewhere remote. But I’m in a terrace house and have lived alone for donkey’s years, no probs at all.

I was in a shared hous e before and it's so different being by yourself usually put radio on go on my phone talk to people really and it's not so bad

I used to be but somehow as I got older I rarely feel like this.
I do have a big dog but I often take myself to bed and forget to lock doors etc. .
I just love the peace and quiet.
And as for what's in the dark...There's nowt in the dark that isn't there in the day!!

I'm exactly the same. Landing light on. Overactive imagination

I was like this when I was younger and the DCs were little.
Left an abusive marriage and would jump at the slightest thing
I went through dozens of light bulbs as needed to sleep with the stairs light on.
I even took the legs off my bed so there was no gap under the bed as I kept checking under the bed every night. As soon as the divan base was on the floor I was fine after that.
Anyway fast forward a good few years and I had a cottage that backed onto a big open space so it was pitch black especially in winter.
So I got an electrician to put an outside light both front and back not really bright but enough so I could see quite a distance,
They were on timers so came on and went off for the dark hours.
also had lamps in living room, hallway, bedroom and on landing that came on on timers in winter so always came home to lights as I hated walking into a dark house.
I now live in an apartment complex that has only one entrance and lots of lights outside.
It's the first place I have actually felt totally safe in and I can't really put a finger on why I had what seems an irrational fear of not being in the house on my own all those years ago.

No. Lived on my own quite happily for a long time and even though I live with DH now I’m not bothered about being alone.
I happily wander about in the pitch black here with the bats and owls, it is very safe here.