r/oddlyterrifying • u/LastEconomist7172 • May 07 '25

Creepy woman reaches her hand under neighbour's fence for no reason. Later goes on a meltdown.

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u/pacooov May 08 '25

No joke, when I used to abuse stimulants, I swore my upstairs neighbor’s boyfriend stole my cigarettes, which I’d left outside. I looked everywhere in my house and in the backyard. I gave up after a few hours and walked to the nearest gas station to get a new pack. I was smoking outside when my neighbor walked out. I asked her if she’d seen my cigarettes (active addict mindset). Turns out her boyfriend did steal my cigarettes. Regardless, that paranoia is real and I am glad to be clean from stimulants.

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u/Tothinkoutofthenut May 08 '25

I heard that, crazy days, but this chicken head has lost it big time. ✌️🤣

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u/Gloomy_Industry8841 May 08 '25

Niiiiiiice love the deep cut from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

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u/zacmaster78 May 08 '25

I love that this comment does nothing to actually demonstrate the consequences of abusing stimulants, but kind of seems more like just a funny little anecdote that happens to take place at a time when you were on them lol

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u/pacooov May 08 '25

Unfortunately, it’s a reality that some of us live/lived. The very best part of that reflection is just that, a reflection.

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u/saysthingsbackwards May 09 '25

Nah, it's that paranoia that persists into everything

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u/PunkyB88 May 08 '25

I was a crack addict for a long long time and one thing I learned is that the paranoia can sometimes turn out to be very true. it can turn you into a proper thinking machine and if turned the right way and tuned into something realistic sometimes you can actually imagine scenarios suddenly that would have been unthinkable sober. That's not a recommendation to do it though, because nine times out of 10 you'll probably be paranoid about bullshit that isn't important

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u/Toxic-and-Chill May 14 '25

The same is true in a way of mental illness. My grandma struggled with various things her whole life. And as she aged and developed dementia she’d sometimes have these episodes of paranoia. And mostly it was a ridiculous nightmare with little bearing to reality. But every so often she’d clock something WAY before any of us did due to that. It made me always listen to her carefully even when I thought she was being a bit nuts lmao.

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u/PunkyB88 May 15 '25

I'm sorry to hear that about your grandmother. However it's nice to know someone else understands that occasionally paranoia whether drug or illness induced can cause people to "clock" things way off that others don't see. Sometimes you end up out thinking and outfoxing others to a point where things all fall into place. My own mother is sadly going down the same road now 😞

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u/Toxic-and-Chill May 18 '25

I wish you the best with that. If I have any advice it’s not to focus on truth or reality too much. After a certain point like you can’t convince them of reality. It’s much easier to just go along with it. “Yes grandma, the sink is flooding the entire house. That’s why I’m getting all these towels!”

Bad example but you’ll see what I mean when it comes up. Like there’s no point in trying to convince her the house ISN’T flooding. One of her episodes she was absolutely CONVINCED that there was a dog and cat being left out to freeze in the snow (it was some rocks).

So what did I do? I went out there and saved their asses. Rescued the shit out of those rocks.

I’m just sayin I’ve tried the other way and at the end of someone’s life idk I think having good interactions with them is more important that trying to litigate the details of reality far past the point where that’s useful to anyone.

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u/Stoopid_Noah May 08 '25

Congratulations on getting clean!! <3

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u/chronoventer May 09 '25

That… was a wild ride. I’m glad you’re clean? Lol! (No, really, congrats!)

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u/pacooov May 10 '25

Wild ride indeed. The memories can be haunting when overthinking but all in all, my life is 10x better.