Have you ever screamed?

[Righteouspuppy]

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?

Yes, I scream really easily, even for daft things like people making me jump

🤣🤣🤣 memory unlocked

My upstairs neighbours said i did when someone tried to break in at 1 am. I actually thought I had been shouting.

Random theory, I wonder if women who scream did it as part of play when they were little, and kind of trained/unlocked that part of their voice?

I was woken up my Lurcher growling softly at 3:15 am.

Got out of bed and heard a scraping , scratching sound, like someone trying to remove bricks.

I bawled out ''WHO'S THERE!!! and it stopped.

Then it began again. My heart was hammering.

I picked up a hoover tube and went downstairs...the noise was my bloody selfish neighbour scraping off wallpaper at that time of night. {Party wall}

I swore and hit the wall with the Hoover nozzle, breaking it. {£20!} as I was so adrenalinized.

I'm with those who say they've screamed but don't actually remember themselves doing it.

I was in a high dependency unit following a long operation. I recall the nurse telling me she was going to get me out of the operating gown and into my own PJs. I remember her telling me to lean over her arm as she undid my hospital gown. The next thing I recall is wondering who the Vick a was screaming like a banshee? It was me.

My son as a teenager could certainly scream - a loud bellow if he was 'frightened'.

Like when a large garden spider was on his shoulder, or when chased by an angry hornet the size of a small bird.

That's scream the city down worthy.
That was so lucky. Jeez.

I screamed when my house got broken into when I was at home. I was in the living room watching tv, when a group of men smashed the window in to gain entry. The noise of the double glazing going made an almighty bang, and I didn't realise what was happening for a few seconds, so I let out a proper scream. Luckily, I was able to lock myself inside a room and call the police.

DIY accident . Drilled into my palm with a power tool. Didn't scream at the time ( curled my body over the hand and made a noise like an animal). Have never felt pain like it. Went to minor injuries and they injected local anaesthetic into the wound before stitching. It was as if someone had poured neat acid into it. I wasn't expecting it and screamed ( very loudly) at the pain.

Snap. Still can't remember the dream but I was screaming at the top
Of my lungs. Woke to sh shaking me to wake up. Horrible experience for both of us

The only time I can recall screaming was as a child when I electrocuted myself on an exposed wire which I had grabbed, and it was the weirdest thing because I had no control over it, it just happened instantaneously before I'd even registered the pain. It was quite unreal, I heard myself scream first and it was an alien noise to me.

Well yes, while giving birth. I didn't know I could scream like that. I knew I was screaming but I couldn't stop it. It was kind of terrifying!

I had a collapsed lung and the doctor who fixed it went all in with the anaesthethic. I told him to because the first one was a junior doctor and felt like being poked inside the chest with a wire coat hanger.

The anaesthetic started to wear off and I have no idea what happened but I had some kind of reaction in my nerve endings. They became more and more sensitive across my chest until I felt like I was literally being crushed by a bus. I was moaning increasingly in discomfort while pulling my bell and waiting for nurses.

They were all on breaks and the pain kept going up. I was literally screaming off my bed in pain. A couple then came running and said they heard me down a corridor. I was a very quiet patient until this point. They handed me a cocktail of pain killers which I gratefully had then threw up about an hour later.

Not my favourite memory.

Twice that I can recall as an adult.

Once when I was having the surgical drain removed after my c section, scared the poor woman in the bed next to me. I was shaking so much afterwards that the midwife sat with me for most of the night.

Second time was last week when I was told I cannot have a life changing operation as it wouldn't improve my life, but make it worse. Poor dogs legged it out the room when I put the phone down and screamed.

The only time I ever remember full on screaming was when someone broke into our house and was attacking my mum. I screamed and screamed and screamed until help came I was around 14 years old at the time.

I don't think this is true though. Plenty of men scream but it often comes out as a deeper shout because of their vocal chords.

@Righteouspuppy I can't sneeze when asked to do so - that happens spontaneously and is a natural bodily reaction.

I think screaming might be similar.

Shriek, definitely. Yelp, squeal, exclaim, absolutely.

I’ve screamed as a drama exercise, in rage, in pain, in frustration, and for help. I’ve never screamed in fear.

First time I had sleep paralysis.

When I saw my wonderful DH thrown off a horse and his hip and leg get trampled. I thought he was going to die, I'll never forget it and had to get therapy. We still ride horses and I love them but every time I see him mount one, I get a spasm in my chest like a scream ready to start. Then it goes away.

I had a night terror as I was semi awake but fully convinced that someone had broken into our hotel room and kidnapped our daughter. I could hear DH trying to calm me down but could not stop screaming for over a minute. Dh said it was the most blood curdling horrible noise. Dd was freaked out but afterwards quite happy that I must really love her to get that upset in a dream!
Next day we heard other people from the hotel discussing the screaming and that they were expecting a kidnapping to be on the local news... we kept quiet that it was me.

I sort of screamed once when my sister scared me very badly with a horrible scary mask on. I mean, I did scream but it was not high pitched like in movies, it was quite a deep sort of bellow.
I also screamed in labour towards the end. The pain was overwhelming.
It can definitely be reflexive and not a concerted thing. It makes total sense as an involuntary response, it’s to alert others to the fact that you’re in danger obviously.

Yes when a squirrel raced past me into the house.

And took up residence behind the radiator.

And again when it freaked out behind the radiator while i was in an online meeting. Explaining that one to my colleagues was fun.

Yes, seeing my 2yr old child being pulled lifeless from a pond

I literally thought about this last week. I was sitting in the garden with a friend, we saw one of the biggest spiders, and it was fat and furry…and not being entirely sober I decided to spray everything with peppermint oil to repel them. However. Massive spider fell onto my toe. I screamed. And then that scream made me realise I’ve not screamed before.
I gasp, or…sort of clenched teeth scream out of frustration.
i do scream in the car sometimes. I am grieving and ill suddenly start crying then ill kinda scream.