Skyrim and weird fear.

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So i have been playing Skyrim for the past days and already had to start over because of bugs(but i don't wanna waste even more time on that)

I have been experiencing a strange fear whenever i play the game, i have chills and cold all the time like a constant panic attack..
I know that i'm afraid of wide open spaces(only in video games though?) but.. it's also when i'm in caves, houses, towers..
It just feels like it's draining all my energy in sort of a way.

Does anyone else experience this and got any advice for me cause i feel like a p****

Thanks everyone.

have a nice day

This may sound silly, but you could try changing the display resolution or refresh rate of your screen.

When I was a bit younger and I first started playing Morrowind I remember feeling a fear sort of like that. I don't think it was that intense though. I would look around each corner super slowly before I walked around it and my heart would be beating at double or triple speed. Now that I've had more experience I don't feel that anymore. There was a time when I would never walk into a fort or a cave but now it's just another part of the game.

I think I had some fear similar in Oblivion when in an Oblivion gate, it might have come from that though it was so wide I could not really see an enemy or threat before it was set on me, or similar when I was in a dark dungeon. I helped myself by choosing to be stealthier, and putting myself through paces of what I should do if something attacks me, just running onto some rocks means enemies cannot follow.

Perhaps if you are feeling vulnerble in the open areas of Skyrim look for some uneven rocks, enemies can have a hard time following you, so you can have a little sanctuary. I tend to keep some things that can get me a little time to think through a mess that might pop up, either paralisis poisons, or invisibility potions where no one can see me .

I have my own little discomfert from water, I get slight headaches around water that get worst if I am risk of having my character drowning or being attacked while vulnerble. I helped that by wearing an item that allowed water breathing, actavating a little glitch removes the filter of water blur, and running like crazy from Slaughterfish because you can't defend yourself in water .

It may have to do with the sounds.

Scientists have discovered that a frequency between 8-20 Hz (infrasound) can cause agitation and fear in people. Hence, why pipe organs (lowest note being 8.18 Hz) can have a very dreading, ominous feeling to them and why they're often used in movies to generate fear. Likewise, frequencies of this nature have also been used by the US military to affect enemy morale. Some even believe that ghost sightings and/or spiritual presences are linked with infrasound. The reason might have to do with the human threshold of feeling being around 16-32 Hz, meaning that because low frequencies aren't heard but rather felt, it generates a kind of irrational fear and/or awe particularly since the mind doesn't know what to make of it.

Now, Bethesda is particularly good at this. The low, creepy ambient sounds combined with the dark and mysterious atmosphere of the dungeons (Fallout 3, New Vegas, Skyrim) can create an unpleasant feeling while exploring. Though, I don't know if being Aspergerian makes us more or less sensitive.


Just my thoughts.

Sounds normal to me.

You are in an environment where you anticipate you might run into an enemy at any time. Your survival instincts get you amped up in anticipation.

If you are prone to panic attacks, the constant stimulation is a problem.

I doubt you have this problem if you go back into a dungeon you know you've cleared and has no bad guys in it, right?

I've had the same sensation. I attribute it to the game's occult themes.

I used to play these types of games. I can say from experience that playing something that is rife with occult themes basically gives demons carte blanche to do things to your mind. As a result you will feel things like you describe. You may also feel intense hatred, depression, or suicidal thoughts; feelings that don't make sense. Or you might even go to the extreme and desire to kill people. Basically a video game like Skyrim is the same as a ouija board.

Lol, but then....

Warning: Borderline troll-post to follow.

What? Seriously? That's the biggest load of BS I've come across all year, I think. Demons affecting your mind just because you play a game with some occult themes in it? Give me a break. And I suppose the whole Bloody Mary thing is real, too, then right?

End troll-post.

As for the fear, I don't have it myself at all, but I figure it's a combination of agoraphobia coupled with the game's ambiance. Bethesda's good at setting a mood with ambient sounds and music, and Skyrim's no exception.

I don't see people being affected by "demons" from just playing.

The Daedric princes are even some of my favourite characters, and I am completly normal. Hail Azura

The music is not fear or panic-inducing. It's the kind of neo-Baroque/neo-Wagerian score you hear in movies.

I know, I was just proposing a possible reason. The ambience in dungeons is different from the rest of the game, though. The lower frequencies could conceivably invoke a stronger reaction from more sensitive people. I'm not one of them, though.

Although, the only games that have made me paranoid like that are Dead Space and F.E.A.R. on high difficulties, and that was because of the gameplay difficulty, not the ambient soundtrack or anything. And those games are totally different from Skyrim.

Kxmode is wrong, you called him on it.

Anyhoo, Skyrim is not rife with occult themes. I've encountered only one significant reference to real-world occult stuff (Boethiah goes all do-what-thou-wilt, and you'll only hit that one if you've committed your character to behaving in a thoroughly unpleasant fashion for points and prizes *ahem* like I did) Skyrim is rife with references to real-world but utterly non-occult mythology like the draugr, it's rife with formulaic RPG-standard pseudo-magic* and it's positively infested with references to GRRM's canon and a hundred other pop-culture fantasies... but it ain't big on the occult.

The only game that's seriously affected my composure (apart from the occasional fit of screaming rage) is EvE, because there's some very tense moments (like completely different to any other online PvP I've tried) when trying to avoid angry gangs with big death-rays while zooming from dull featureless expanse A to dull featureless expanse B desperately searching for something interesting to look at.





*"Are these magic cloaks?" asked Pippin, looking at them with wonder.
"I do not know what you mean by that. They are fair garments... oh, heck, who am I trying to kid. Yeah, they're cloaks of +15 to Sneak, dude. Magic." said the Elf.

(Mind you, I've got suspicions about that Tolkien guy. I heard he belonged to a worryingly widespread death-cult which practised ritual vampirism and cannibalism of an undead God every Sundas, and that he sneaked references to it into his books. )

i don't get that from the game in general.

the thing that gets my adrenaline pumping in a game is usually the build up before a major boss, or an event like the death of a in game character. that kind of thing.

like when i took out my rage on kessler in infamous, or the ominous presence glados turned out to be. after the first playthrough i am almost no longer effected. i still cry at the end of crisis core though.

but i don't think that is normal, could it be the camera's movement? my mom gets sick just watching me play one of my games because of the camera movement, doesn't effect me unless i just came out of surgery or something. in other words i have to go through something that severe.

if it is the sounds and atmosphere, you probably shouldn't play half life 2, the scripted sequences in that game make me jumpy if i am caught by surprise. and just the sounds that happen in episode 3 when the bridge turns into a giant seesaw, makes me jump a bit. but i like that feeling. *shruggs*

maybe its your body telling you you should be doing something else.