The Ring......*insert ghostly noise here*....spoiler alert

The Ring, it turns out, did not suck my soul. Nor did the young woman in it (I now know her as Samara...because that is her name) try to stalk me down and kill me in my sleep. I can safely say I survived my first, albeit somewhat weak, challenge which took me the whole two weeks to work up to. I think I am the first person to suffer pre-film watching nightmares. Although I can still manage to scare myself into believing that someone will crawl in my window and attack me....although I'm not sure if it's the attack I am scared of or just the concept of someone being there that horrifies me. When I'm having my frequent nightmarish situations I never get to what the ghostly horror actually does to one, just the sheer fact that they are there!

I have to admit to being excited that I got through this little task, but I also have to admit that I was a little bit disappointed in myself for being so scared in the first place. I think in future I will face the fear rather than dwelling in it and hiding from it. It's kind of like the concept of being afraid of the dark (a fact I can often commiserate with!) it's just the same only darker but actually making yourself believe it is another thing entirely.

It made me question what exactly we fear. I mean if you think about it, the absolute worst that can happen is death, but thats really just another ending really isn't it? I don't imagine actually being dead hurts, the pain leading towards death might, but the actual being dead might be kind of ok...I don't know, I've never been dead, so don't quote me on that. Now I think about it, I'm kind of more scared of having everyone around me dead rather than dying..uuuugh, now that is horror making stuff. Also have you ever noticed in the movie it's never the ghost who can never rest we fear for, but the human being? I don't understand that at all. You would think that it would be far worse to be the one who couldn't just chill out and be at peace already....I might be missing something here. Still though, I will be petrified next time I'm told a ghost story, my only calm is that it'll have to be a really good ghost story to claim my sleep.