Anyone Scare Themselves With Their Dolls

my dolls haven't been able to scare me with their life-like appearance, I guess their size just breaks the illusion? they have, however, caused me some near-heart attacks with randomly kicking up an arm or leg (due to the tension caused by being strung with elastics) when in the outer edges of my field of vision ^^;

 

well i recently got some new eyes for my boy and they have crystals smack dab in the middle of them and i still can't tell whether they creepy or not (they are very pretty though) but sometimes they sparkle in the light out corner of my eye and spook me a bit

 

For some reason my girl keeps spooking me. She is just a floating head, but something about her eyes, they make me jump a little. Eh, I'll get used to it.

 

Well one time I got spooked because it was dark and I can't see at all without my glasses, so I wasn't able to tell if my doll was there and I thought it fell over my dresser. So not really the doll itself scaring me but still caused me to panic a little xD

 

I can't say any of my dolls have startled me yet, but I do admit they have made my heart pound with fright whenever they have toppled over while I'm taking photos.

 

The only time they have ever scared me is when their legs suddenly buckle and they try to dive head first off a table... I really don't like that... Luckily I'm always close by so the few times that has happened I've been there to catch them.

I can't say their appearance has ever made me jump though... I think if I had one of those ones that was closer to life size I would likely jump, but I only have an MSD and yoSD so they just look like dolls. They seem to scare a lot of people not in the hobby, but I don't really get it? They are too cute to be scary!

 

So far they haven't but can imagine when I finally display they properly they will for the first few days they are on display if I have them standing at anytime hahah xD

 

Before my girl got her own room I made her a bed on a shelf above my bed. I honestly felt like she was watching me when her face wasn't turned to the wall.
Sometimes it was so bad I had to put her back in her box.

 

I am not scared at all but my girlfriend is :/ my new boy sits on the couch with us because he is to big for your shelfs. So when she is home alone she always put's a blanket over his head :/ she says he is creepy when he looks at her :/ .... and with my first doll she always wanted me to put it into her Box , cause she was afraid that they would wake up at night .... kind of weird right ???!!

 

Nope, after years of having them I'm no longer scared. First year I had them I guess it was off-setting because they were so lifelike but now they're just pretty pieces of art. They scare my brother's girlfriend though lol.

 

My boy isn't realistic enough to scare me luckily, but I know if I had a super realistic sculpt I'd be easily spooked.

 

I've never been scared by my dolls, but sometimes I do feel like they are watching me.

 

I've only been scared of my dolls twice and then again it was something they did rather than the doll itself!

The first time was when my JID, back when I had her, fell over in the night, causing a rather loud thump.
The second was when I was cleaning under where I store my dolls (on top of some drawers which are around 120cm high) and my SD boy from my profile pic, without warning, fell onto my head! Now I don't keep my dolls so close to the edge of the drawers and when I gave my JID to my friend, I gave her a stand for the doll. My SD boy also spends the majority of his time sitting aesthetically.

 

Sometimes I scare myself with what I will pay...or how much time I spend in the hobby. I can get a little lost in it some days.

 

Yes! I never realised how shiny a pair of eyes I had were until they were shimmering just barely in the dark one night. I was spooked.

 

My dolls haven't ever scared me since I don't have a fear of my dolls and I always know where I put them. They used to creep out my friend when she would spend the night.

 

Yes they can be creepy of you leave them out at night lol

 

When I first got my Vampire boy, he made me jump. I had forgotten I had put glow in the dark eyes in him. Red glowing eyes on your way back from the bathroom in the dark... Not Cool!

 

I'm a huge weirdo, I've been into/watching horror since I was a small baby, and though they are rare, my favorite video game genre is (Japanese) survival horror. I've have been desensitized to pretty much all "scary" things in life, and love creepy things; I've never felt the "uncanny valley" feeling a lot of people seem to get when they see something that's obviously inanimate, but looks realistic enough to pass for a living being, be it human or other kinds of animals. Like sculptures, manikins, dolls/toys, whatever it may be. I've never felt afraid of any of my own toys, nor of my most realistic dolls.

I keep my resins in my closet for many reasons (for my cats, and to lessen the speed of yellowing), but when I'm modifying some of them I keep their heads around on my desk or near my bed, wherever I can keep an eye on them during my sleeping hours (I'm an insomniac so I don't really sleep deeply enough to be completely unaware of life around me). I'm a weirdo, so I find it really interesting whenever I read about people being afraid of dolls, because I've loved dolls all my life (except for baby ones, because they creep me out in a very different way). I'm afraid of any and all bugs though, and I prefer them as far away as possible from me (I'm vegan, so I'm not okay with killing them, and it's a huge pain in the gut having to call on someone else to take them out for me). So yes, creepy, ugly, freaky, realistic etc. dolls are okay with me, but tiny things with multiple legs and exoskeletons are kind of nightmare inducing for me. DX

 

I’ve dabbled in writing horror, and horror movies. I’m the kind of person who loves small enclosed spaces, heights, public speaking and bugs, reptiles, and any number of other slimy generally not as appreciated animals. Also had a fascination with mannequins for years. I sleep surrounded by my dolls (I have blackout curtains) and that doesn’t bother me at all, except when my new twigling girl fell into my bed, and instead of waking me up, I woke up hiding her and I had to worry about her faceup.

the only time I was ever afraid of a doll was at a very weird time in my life. I wasn’t aware that living off of grapefruit juice was deactivating my anxiety meds, and it was my first time ever living alone. I got these really nice eyes. 10mm light ice blue enchanted doll eyes. I have them in my Twigling Kahlo, whose head is right beside my bed now, and she doesn’t bother me at all.

but life in my first year of uni was weirder than that. I put them in my iple carina, and suddenly, I felt like she was watching me, always. Not a rational response, but I felt like her eyes followed me. She was there, and staring. I had read a short story about a game in which the player basically summons a demon into a cloth doll and then ends up having to stab it... hide and seek for one, if anyone is wondering.

it was not great to think about with my now very animated doll looking at me. So I put her, sitting in the closet, and I talk to her. I tell her what I’m doing, say goodnight and all, and then I shut the door. Well, the problem was, the other closet doll wasn’t the best at sitting, and caused a chain reaction that ended in her falling into the closet door.

At 4am. So I just didn’t go back to sleep. And she went back into the default brown eyes iple shipped her with, because those didn’t seem so animated. I joke that those are my cursed eyes, but the doll I have wearing them now is still great. Probably because I’m under less stress, and not deactivating my meds. Ironically, I’m about to buy a couple sets of 10mm form enchanted doll again soon.

 

A wile back I bought my first second hand doll and had him laying out on a counter while I was working on a wig for him, I guess I either placed him down funny or his joints shifted but when I turn't around and looked back at him we made direct eye contact 0/10

I haven't really bonded with him and this might have been one of the reasons lmao

 

Last night was the first time I ever got jumpscared by my dolls!

I was doing a photoshoot of two dolls on the floor in the corridor, when I finished taking pics I just left them there in the doll stands, still in an action pose, in case I wanted to take more pics later. I then went into my office and shut the door ... then completely forgot that my dolls were right outside the door. I came out of the office hours later and they gave me a fright I think it's because I usually don't leave my dolls posed all over a passageway, and certainly not right in front of a door!

Otherwise, my dolls have never scared me, they're friendly sorts

 

I have a tendency to get the creeps when my dolls aren’t wearing any eyes. That’s one of the reasons why I usually just make my own doll eyes.

 

The only time dolls have creeped me out was when one of my aunts had a guest room with porcelain doll on a ledge running all around the top of the room, so they were all facing the center. I think that the set up creeped me out more than the dolls themselves though.

 

Yes. I fully admit that every so often I will have something that creeps me out to the point that it makes me feel very uncomfortable being in its presence. It was never a sort of jumpscare though, more a malevolent sensation.

I’ve only had one BJD that unsettled me and there’s no logical reason for it at all. She just always made me feel very nervous and I couldn’t wait to rehome her.

I’ve also had a few off topic dolls/toys that have given me the wiggins too.

Like most people a doll faceplanting scares me in a way but that’s more of a concerned scare than a spooky scare.

 

I took Asuna out at the weekend and we went shopping for Halloween stuff. We decided to buy a cat skeleton from Flying Tiger. It's really creepy and it's freaked me out a number of times already. It's going to totally slay on Insta when we make some Halloween reels.

I'm less freaked out by my dolls. My first Dollfie (Towa) really scared the living daylights out of my sister though!

Also at the weekend my doll scared the hell out of a guy in central London. To be fair our choice of outfit probably didn't help...