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Have you ever screamed?

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Righteouspuppy · 13/10/2024 21:40

Like out of fear proper screamed? Was thinking today whilst watching a film that it feels unlikely I ever would. I might shout or exclaim, but a proper scream? Does anyone outside of films?

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TiffanyIceberg · 13/10/2024 21:41

Yes, in a car crash. Also when ex used to beat me up.

Octavia64 · 13/10/2024 21:42

Yes when I was in a really bad accident and my foot was badly smashed up.

comedycentral · 13/10/2024 21:43

Yes I have during a physical assault from a stranger. It's actually quite hard to scream at first, I sort of froze mentally.

UpUpUpU · 13/10/2024 21:43

I woke myself up once full on screaming.

Other than a roller coaster, I don’t think so

Songbird54321 · 13/10/2024 21:45

Not that I can recall as an adult.
I did as a child/teenager with a very bad phobia but although I still have the phobia, I no longer scream with fear

Righteouspuppy · 13/10/2024 21:46

I just feel that screaming is a concerted act. Not shouting in pain or fear but actually high pitched screaming. Don’t you have to concentrate?

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xxSideshowAuntSallyxx · 13/10/2024 21:46

Yes when I see a spider but that's a special kind of scream.

When I was in a serious car accident, I didn't even have time to scream. I don't think it even crossed my mind, all I knew was we weren't going to stop in time and wham. Even afterward I didn't scream. Shock does funny things.

TheGoddessMinerva · 13/10/2024 21:47

No. Never.

HedgehogB · 13/10/2024 21:48

Twice, for full on proper screaming. I’ve ’shrieked’ briefly hundreds of times . Once when my mum scared me in the garden in the dark when I was about 12. She’d sent me to lock the shed and I took a long time so she came to look for me in a white tracksuit (it was the 80’s) and I thought she was a ghost. The second time was when they tried to reset my dislocated hand in A & E without pain relief. I ended up having an operation and it was pinned. Anyway after the unsuccessful reset attempt they sent me back into the waiting room , tear stained, and everyone was looking at me with their mouths open (probably wondering if they would be next) so I was like , ‘sorry guys that was me I’m ok now’ lol

SuperLoudPoppingAction · 13/10/2024 21:49

I do. It is completely involuntary for me. No concentration necessary.

Devilsmommy · 13/10/2024 21:51

Righteouspuppy · 13/10/2024 21:46

I just feel that screaming is a concerted act. Not shouting in pain or fear but actually high pitched screaming. Don’t you have to concentrate?

I'm going to assume you have never been beaten by a man who's much bigger than you and angry as fuck. Believe me, screaming is instinctual in that situation, no concentration needed at all

WispasAreNicerThanFlakes · 13/10/2024 21:52

Yes, when I went through a spell of sleep paralysis. As soon as I could draw breath I screamed and screamed. —much to DH’s delight—

GoodVibesHere · 13/10/2024 21:52

I scream quite often I assumed this happens to others? E.g. when someone (DH or DC) walks quietly into the kitchen and I turn around and get the fright of my life I let out an involuntary scream.

Weverunoutofteabags · 13/10/2024 21:54

I have once in my life, about 7 years ago. I was walking home from the late shift at work, mid winter so it was pitch black outside. A German shepherd appeared out of nowhere, no owner nearby and it ran up to me barking, showing its teeth. Absolutely shat myself, thought it was going to attack me, bite me or maul me to death, i was backed into a corner by it, 6ft fence behind me and the dog in front of me.

I wasn't aware I could scream like that but in that moment all I thought was either I'm going to be seriously injured or I'm going to have to seriously injure an animal to protect myself, I've never known fear like it.

Thankfully within seconds of me screaming someone maybe a street or two away shouted and the dog went running off, I literally ran home shaking and crying.

Mcginty57 · 13/10/2024 21:55

No, my kids like to give me jump scares hiding behind doors I'm walking round and I usually shout arghhh but don't scream in fright. I can't remember screaming as an adult excluding my first daughters birth which happened so fast and the pain was so much worse than the other two, which I didn't make a noise for. Only lasted seconds tho thankfully, as she was born so quick.

LaurieFairyCake · 13/10/2024 21:56

Yes, all the time - involuntarily

A raccoon got run over on the tv tonight, yelped/screamed with shock

username3678 · 13/10/2024 21:58

No.

TiffanyIceberg · 13/10/2024 22:00

Righteouspuppy · 13/10/2024 21:46

I just feel that screaming is a concerted act. Not shouting in pain or fear but actually high pitched screaming. Don’t you have to concentrate?

Totally involuntary, no concentration. Instinct, I guess.

MagicianMoth · 13/10/2024 22:01

When I came face to face with a burglar in my hallway at 3am, I screamed but it wouldn’t come out I was so terrified.
When I went to see The Shining by myself because the guy I was seeing had cancelled on me, and someone tapped me on the shoulder during a particularly scary bit because they wanted to get past me, I definitely screamed then, to the amusement of the cinema.
When a stranger tried to push his way into my house as I went in, again at about 3am, I screamed very loudly but that was more calculated as I wanted to wake up the neighbours/ draw attention as to what was going on.
I am sure I have screamed at other times as well.

LaMarschallin · 13/10/2024 22:02

I've sort of yelped/shrieked if I get startled, but never screamed.
During nightmares I've tried to scream, but can't make a sound come out. DH says I whimper a bit during those times, so wakes me up because he knows it means I'm having a bad dream.
From reading MN though it seems that people scream every time they disagree with a MNetter.

username3678 · 13/10/2024 22:04

LaMarschallin · 13/10/2024 22:02

I've sort of yelped/shrieked if I get startled, but never screamed.
During nightmares I've tried to scream, but can't make a sound come out. DH says I whimper a bit during those times, so wakes me up because he knows it means I'm having a bad dream.
From reading MN though it seems that people scream every time they disagree with a MNetter.

From reading MN though it seems that people scream every time they disagree with a MNetter

I've noticed that as well, people are always screaming.

NeverDropYourMooncup · 13/10/2024 22:05

Yup.

My boyfriend was driving along a National Speed Limit road bordering woods (and a big drop) at night and some teenagers on the top desk of the bus travelling in the opposite direction threw a kilner jar full of bolts out of the window directly at the windscreen for shits and giggles.

The windscreen shattered, he veered off the road and as there wasn't any power assisted steering in his vehicle, the only reason we didn't end up upside down/embedded in a tree trunk or three/slowly drowning in a muddy ditch was through his sheer strength in hauling the wheel back and stopping just before we went over the side.

The reason we knew it was a jar was that once we realised we weren't actually going to die after all, he found the remains of it and the bolts all over the front seat and footwell where it had gone straight through and bounced off his chest (he had a large bruise just below where his collarbone met his shoulder).

Police were no help at all, they said 'Oh, yeah, we've had a few reports tonight, thanks'.

I hadn't consciously screamed, but I sort of heard something which turned out to be me, as he did whilst dragging the wheel round.

outdamnedspots · 13/10/2024 22:06

When I have a bad dream, I quite often wake up screaming.

SoNiceToComeHomeTo · 13/10/2024 22:07

Yes, when a mugger hit me on the back on the head when I was walking home one night. Before even realising what had happened, I saw stars and thought 'What is that high-pitched noise?' Me screaming was the answer. It was very very loud and oddly freeing.

Righteouspuppy · 13/10/2024 22:08

I scream quite often I assumed this happens to others? E.g. when someone (DH or DC) walks quietly into the kitchen and I turn around and get the fright of my life I let out an involuntary scream.

are you sure it’s not a loud exclamation but an actual proper scream?

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