Not rlly an is it normal but

Is it possible that you just didn’t understand how creepy they were when you were younger?

Its not a video game but I recently re-watched Girl Interrupted and found it much more disturbing than I remembered it. When I was younger I viewed the mental hospital as a sort of boarding school setting but now I realise it’s effectively a prison.

It sounds like these eerie feelings are from your mind fixing itself. It is normal and healthy to feel empathy for people. You’re just developing it late, and your memory is conflicting with your more mature personality.

Try to think kind thoughts and be helpful to people. It may take a few years to slowly get over this.

Yeah, you play some weird games, to get rid of the feeling of eeriness is to stop consuming weird/strange things, and yourself should just be normal, that's my answer, the ordinary, usual, traditional, orthodox, as against the novel, deviant, unexpected and heterodox. 🙂

If you think of it fondly then you wouldn’t want to get rid of the feeling I n the first place.

Mainly agreed with everyone else, but it was different for me. I got over that kind of thing with more exposure rather than less. I would suggest going back and actually playing those games yourself now rather than just watching them.

It also sounds to me like you don't know exactly where that feeling of dread is stemming from, and revisiting the genre may help unveil that.

All kids have a morbid curiosity. Poking that dead squirrel with a stick that was pancaked on the road.

Children really do not develop the understanding of the concept of death until 7 years. Takes longer for them to apply the "death = all = you too one day".

You could just like macabre topics as a younger kid, and now its catching up on you with the "what was I doing" foresight.

As long as you weren't killing animals and skinning em alive as a child you are a normal person.

As for it not being IIN. Dont worry iin isnt just for iin topics. It's a cheap cathartic therapy for some. To me it's like Facebook but picking people's brains rather than cat photos. #references

Lol when I was a kid I watched South park, Happy tree friends, and Salad fingers and I had a crush on Salad fingers when I was about 11 or 12. Now I re-watched it again at 25, and I have a crush on him all over again. It's a sort of eerie, unsettling uneasiness, mixed with familiarity, nostalgia, comfort, and also a resonance, like I relate to him and feel empathy towards him. I guess this is part of the reason. Salad fingers gives me the same feeling as liminal spaces and the Spongebob outro song (which I am also in love with), a feeling which I am addicted to.

I'm not entirely sure I understand. I'm not sure what those other games are but FNAF isn't Gorey is it?

I'm not sure if I can relate really because I had the opposite experience. When I was a kid I loved watching Animal Planets lost tapes, zombie movies, the thing, lots of creepy stuff.

Watching that scary stuff made me want to hide under my blanket with only an eye exposed so I could hide but I could still watch. It would stick with me for days and make me afraid of the dark. It was scary but it was also fun for some reason my child brain didn't understand.

But now that I'm an adult all the uneasiness and fear isn't there even when I watch the stuff that scared me the most as a kid.

It's just fun to rewatch the stuff I thought was super scary back then and think about how much of a little wuss I was at the time.

I'm not sure I really have any advice for you other than if you don't think you can handle scary stuff anymore then don't force yourself to watch or play it just because you have fond memories.

Do you mind if i ask why before i say?