My experience that I remember was being anxious and worried, while I was awake, that my parents weren't coming back home.  I was only 17 when that happened.

I find it disgraceful to comment such childish replies by some people here, but yea i'll say being 17 isn't technically considered an adult in most countries.

@tired™ Just for clarification, I said that I had anxiety and worries that I had lost them.  Fortunately, I have not lost my parents, but that was the closest I had ever been to feeling that I had really lost them.

@Spitfire your ego and your comebacks are both so weak this is how you decide to respond to criticism.<br>Borderline omega male behavior

@Spitfire your ego and your comebacks are both so weak this is how you decide to respond to criticism.
Borderline omega male behavior

@appuzgaming™ Pretty sure he lost his parents, maybe dont start an argument on this comment?

@Choco Candy Playz he’s playing you, and it’s working.

@Spitfire you deserve it for rejecting an opinion cuz of a pfp 🙃

@Spitfire dead meme pfp, opinions rejected

@Spitfire dead meme pfp, opinions rejected

@Myself 2 wdym dead meme, since when people make memes with my pfp image? Even if it's dead better than your Twitter comment

@Eris I am greatly insulted by your comment, i shall proceed with taking a bath and crying. Thank you!

@Spitfire Reddit/Discord enthusiast, poop bucket detected

One time when I was 8 I couldn’t find my parents. And when I was 9. And 4.

@Spitfire dead meme pfp, normie detected, redditor detected, opinion invalid, your mancard has expired.

@appuzgaming™ you must not have a father

@appuzgaming™ you must not have a father

@jakubHDsiemanko2 you know in different countries the age where someone becomes an adult is different

@SciClonic I am not saying like adult I am saying like how mature he is and stuff like that

@Hydrosen I consider 16 as a grown man age it's just my opinion

@appuzgaming™ but that doesn't have to do with caring about your parents

@Spitfire<br>You breathe oxygen, opinion rejected 🗿

@Spitfire
You breathe oxygen, opinion rejected 🗿

I'm assuming this means you lost your parents? I'm so sorry that happened and my condolences, especially sorry for all of the insensitive jerks in the replies pretending that being 17 automatically means you're 60 years old and have to pretend like emotional pain isn't a real thing. Hope you feel better :)  Have a good day! <3

@Pooper i May be unbased, but i am uncringe 🗿

@Pooper i May be unbased, but i am uncringe 🗿

@appuzgaming™ According to 100% of sources, a person becomes an adult at the age of 18.<br>Also according to different sources, you are a man when you are 18.

@appuzgaming™ According to 100% of sources, a person becomes an adult at the age of 18.
Also according to different sources, you are a man when you are 18.

@Spitfire Anime pfp opinion get accept if they touch grass

@goatrilla Another generic insult. If you're gonna insult me at least do it creatively you're all boring saying the same thing over and over lol.

@Spitfire Don't need your validation. Thank you!

me when i immediately discard peoples' opinions just because of a goddamn pfp

Independent and sovereign state of Nicaragua

yall they literally lost their parents when they were 17<br>that might not seem that young but damn

yall they literally lost their parents when they were 17
that might not seem that young but damn

@Spitfire you cannot reject my opinion.. YOU ARE UNBASED

@Choco Candy Playz gacha Youtuber, another opinion rejected 🗿

@appuzgaming™ 17 is the sign of growing to be a fucking man 18 is where you get the 3rd ball

@Spitfire just cuz of the pfp? I can't with you right now-

@Eris maybe hes fatherless. or maybe his dad is just sonless

BRUHHHH THIS DUDE SAID "I was ONLY 17" 😂😂😂 so now we're acting as if having a normal ass child hood is traumatic? Y'all are some loser ass dudes, just looking for a reason to play the victim card. You were a grown ass man at 17, every person was. "I was ONLY 17" lmao, get bent.

@appuzgaming™ Commenting this is a sign that you are wasting your life.

@appuzgaming™ so he shouldn't worry about his parents then?

17 is a sign that you are a grown ass man

17 is a sign that you are a grown ass man


I remember having to get off the top bunk in my room down to the kitchen (which was next to the lounge room) to grab my computer on charge at like 12:00 am while my dad was sleeping in the lounge room. I did this 12 times and only got caught once.


I used to do this all the time. But mine was more riskier, in my old house we only have few rooms so we would share it with my parents. I use to have a contraption under my bed so I would pull it every night  under the bed and have the arnis (stick) as a support whenever it gets stuck or the jumping rope is too short. That was my sort of a rebellious phase, and I don't do it anymore because my contraption are gone (it wasn't burned or anything like that) and we moved to a different house.

2/23/23


I do this all the time, now with a laptop instead of a ds.

But man did it get harder each time I moved house, carpeted floors, a window above my door.

But yet I still manage to (almost) never get caught


I would also wear earphones and play music and then every once in a while I would look to see if my parents are there and if one of them walk past I would feel my stomach sink and my heart begin to race. It was scary


The thing that makes everyone misinterpret this whole scenario is the eerie music and sounds along with the background. It's all very odd, and ominous. I think the portraying scale of this was not so great, even though the production scale of it was good

I understood it straight away I’ve experienced it so much

to a kid this is actually pretty accurate when it comes to how it feels

I thought there was some intruder in the house until I read the comments.

@Alohee~ <br>I also thought the same. Like it had to do with parental abuse or something like that because of the odd music

@Alohee~
I also thought the same. Like it had to do with parental abuse or something like that because of the odd music

Yeah i didnt understand until i read the comments but it was still VERY SCARY i thought someone was in the house or something 😰

When i first saw this I thought it would be something a jumpscare or something creepy so I read the comments first to make sure 😂

I had to read the comments to figure it iut

@RoseaBee ohhh I get it, I thought it was something deeper like your parents fighting and you as a kid just trying to ignore it by playing games and sleeping

@Alohee~ being a kid and gaming when you're suppose to be in bed asleep.

@Donut -Toast i don't think so! its some sorta core

@miraboo i do get the aesthetic. However, the aesthetic is executed poorly

It was noises taken straight from fnaf 4

This shit madr my heart skip a beat to honest 😅

@fkdqqho qdph by the aesthetics of the place I even thought someone was in captivation

I was watching this in mute expecting some jumpscare shit and thought there would be some horrific event implied offscreen when I turned on the sound. Like someone getting electrocuted offscreen causing the light to go out

Great and respectful criticism is hard to come by nowadays! I totally feel the same way

@fkdqqho qdph I was thinking about some kind of horrific event

Yeah I'm thinking there was a demon or something til I read the comments


I still remember all those moments of getting caught because my reflexes were too slow🤣🤣


The funny thing is as am watching this am under the blanket with my earphones ,my heart skips a bit everytime I hear any sound.<br>The timing of this video is very surprising to me

The funny thing is as am watching this am under the blanket with my earphones ,my heart skips a bit everytime I hear any sound.
The timing of this video is very surprising to me


I would be awake instead of sleeping at 1:20 AM and I was just punching my fists and playing with my hands by throwing them in the air as I slowly throw them back down. My mother, she used to sleep early, but this day honestly, I thought she was asleep so I literally punched the air 4-8 times harder than ever and it made a thud. My mother literally was staring/glancing at me with wide eyes, I could sense it and once I looked, I kind of screamed and yeah good old days.


I used to do this all the time with my Nintendo Switch Lite but now my parents turn off the router before going to sleep so we can’t be on our devices at night. 😂

@OdieTheBee I don’t do it anymore because I actually need sleep. I learned that from my mistakes, but my older brothers still continue to turn the router on when my parents are asleep, and somehow in the morning it is still left on 💀

Dude just turn the router back on while they are asleep<br>just BE CAREFUL

Dude just turn the router back on while they are asleep
just BE CAREFUL

@BlueFoxGalaxy me causally staying up until 4 am and waking up refreshed at 8 am

@Dynacrown well, yes but I stopped doing it also because it actually makes me feel terrible in the morning

i mean.. you could also just play offline games?


The first picture is enough to give me goosebumps


I remember having nightmares about this. It’s peacefulness is enticing but I always felt like I was being watched.

I still do sometimes. the feeling literally is so scary because you could never actually know because you do know what’s hidden in the dark so

Yeah I sleep with the lights off and sometimes I get something creepy recommend on YT. I just don't worry much about it lol

Yeah, pretending to be asleep so your mother nor father will thought you're sleeping then you have a feeling they're watching you

Maybe that comes from feeling like you wouldn't be able to do anything if someone barged in.


Wow, this brought back memories of me doing this while playing Mario Party DS. You always must be prepared whenever you’re hearing footsteps near your bedroom door


I love how the date and time is written as "October 1, 2005-10:01 pm"<br>I was born on 17 Oct 2005 and these sounds in background were a bit scary I thought some incident might have happened that time.  😳

I love how the date and time is written as "October 1, 2005-10:01 pm"
I was born on 17 Oct 2005 and these sounds in background were a bit scary I thought some incident might have happened that time.  😳


Frfr I used to close my eyes so I would fall asleep but even though my parents would turn the lights off, the whole night I would be looking at the ceiling, listening to some sounds that were very creepy like the trees bustling and the doors creaking from the neighbours.


fun fact: the reason you can feel someone standing behind you is because the air pressure slightly changed and your body and brain can sense that!


I must be the only kid that almost never did this. I tried to get into it since my brother was doing it, like, every single night and it was really annoying hearing the sounds of the DS buttons above me (we had a bunk bed) while I was trying to sleep, AND he got away with it a lot because my parents were tired of catching him with his DS so many times that they just stopped trying, so I figured that I should do it too. The first or second time I got caught, I just stopped.


Can we all agree with how nostalgic and creepy this is?

@Robbie 2710 not only for english, even me in indonesia do that every time

@Robbie 2710 well the reason it's not nostalgic for you is because you didn't have a DS and didn't experience this. Not that you're from Germany...

@Cerovi i never had a ds growing up either so

@Robbie 2710 wdym i grew up in germany too and experienced this everyday with my nintendo ds lite

it is nostalgic but that is just english nostalgia, i grew up in germany and i didn’t ever experience that.


I was born in 2006 and still had this experience, loved my DS so much


I have a few advantages in comparison to other people. Firstly my door is always locked and only i have the key. But the light still creeps below the door so a poten light source like the tv is obvious sign i'm playing. Even when i'm only using my phone, i always have the fear to talk because i can't hear footsteps while i do, so i don't know if mom is camping the door, waiting for me to say something and boow my cover, i usually just wait 15 minutes to make sure she's gone.


literally happened to me last night and i’m 17, some things never change ig


I was playing and it was 3 am, the time my dad left for work. He opened the door of my room to check on me and I barely turned it off and hit it under my blanket before he opened the door. He left but he left the door open, I was terrified for about 20 minutes when I heard the front door opening and closing, showing he left for work. I closed the door of my room and went to sleep, my heart was still beating fast even though I knew I wasn't caught.


Yes, it’s just like FNAF unlocks your new hearing ability and actually use that in daily life, relatable.


my parents one time came in and said to me "I know your faking... get up right now" and my heart was going so fast but I kept laying there. then my mom began to tickle me and I use every fiber of my being to not laugh or move and I kept laying there. She stopped and said "hmm... I guess she really is asleep" and my parents left.

Bro how do you not laugh bro teach me your ways

How can you survive tickling. Please teach me your ways Master...

Nah once someone starts tickling me, it’s over

I'm really ticklish and my dad always tickles me so I can't even stop myself from laughing. Usually only a small chuckle and a large smile on my face when I try to resist. Needless to say, I didn't stay up that much after that

Had a similiar incident, my dad knew I had my devices under my pillow so this time I pulled it down to my chest and into my shirt. But one time he tried looking for it while I was asleep. I had to move a little like I was wakeing up cus he was so close to feeling it through my shirt. If I was awake it was either my 2ds or rping on blockheads with my small tablet. Had an xbox but never live so most if my childhood came from those moments.


Ah yet another thing perfected but never needed as an adult. <br>Got ahold of a book on self hypnosis and meditation. I learned how to completely relax every muscle especially  the little muscles on the skull scalp area. Sometimes i would actually snore be i started hovering around unconsciousness. But as soon as i heard that door i would pop back up. Of course I never used my gifts for good. LOL

Ah yet another thing perfected but never needed as an adult.
Got ahold of a book on self hypnosis and meditation. I learned how to completely relax every muscle especially  the little muscles on the skull scalp area. Sometimes i would actually snore be i started hovering around unconsciousness. But as soon as i heard that door i would pop back up. Of course I never used my gifts for good. LOL


It’s been incorporated into my mind, I now have the power to know if my dads coming to wake me up even if I’m still asleep


I can't relate to this so much because at night I left my DS in my parents' room where the charger was and wasn't committed enough to bother playing during bedtime. Now that I think about it, this could've been because of a smart set up plan from my parents. Since the DSes are expected to be in their room, I guess it would have been too conspicuous if one was missing.


Once my mother caught me watching tv at 12am...it was hell of a memory😅


For all their faults, checking to see if I was asleep in the middle of the night is one thing my parents never did.


For a while, I actually had recurring nightmares of my mother seeing the light of my phone and barging in the room and shredding me to pieces. Weird stuff.

i still do, sometimes at night ill hear my parents voices in my head like really loud. its totally freaky.


Lol when I was younger I would play on my DS at night, but my little brother was a baby that cried like. A lot. Including at night. So I would pretend to be asleep when I would hear my parents check on me to see if I hadn't woken up because of my brother. Pretty fond memory of mine tbh


I always watched anime as kid and thats exactly how i would watch them because my parents fell asleep really quickly


My trick was I'd use a pair of earbuds and only put one earbud in. Then I'd lay with my earphone side facing the pillow so I could listen for footsteps with my other ear. If I suspected someone was gonna check on me I just closed my DS and slipped it under my pillow in a quick motion and I was already laying on my side looking asleep under the covers.

Worked every time.


Since most of the commenters tell about their stealth games lemme tell mine<br>The worst setup I had was my big headphones with my tab. I always layed on the bed with one hand on my headphones and second on the tab so I could slide it ASAP under the pillow or sheet and pull up the sheet/quilt. Sometimes I would move a little to hide it better cuz sometimes mom removes the sheet to check for the devices. I would have to put this plan into action even on the slightest noise. It's been almost 5y and I have now almost mastered this trickery.

Since most of the commenters tell about their stealth games lemme tell mine
The worst setup I had was my big headphones with my tab. I always layed on the bed with one hand on my headphones and second on the tab so I could slide it ASAP under the pillow or sheet and pull up the sheet/quilt. Sometimes I would move a little to hide it better cuz sometimes mom removes the sheet to check for the devices. I would have to put this plan into action even on the slightest noise. It's been almost 5y and I have now almost mastered this trickery.


Man i wish i was born in the late 90’s to experience this


This happened to me once! My mom found my headphones under my cover and wanted to take them but she was pulling on them very hard and she broke them. Unfortunately I couldn’t say anything because I was "asleep" 👀

Unfortunately I hadn't used headphones after 8 years of having a device

Then she sees the tears running from your "closed" eyes and think: "Aww, so sweet! My little pumpkin is getting a nice dream" 😂😂😂

I can feel the pain of your heart!<br>Sorry but I'm laughing😂😂

I can feel the pain of your heart!
Sorry but I'm laughing😂😂

This happened to me but instead i freaked out and got caught 😭

The worst part is when they wait for you to laugh

Exactly same happend to me😂... I coundn't react because i was asleep😂how terrifying this is

Happened with me too but mother didn't bought one:(

Mom: That's karma for you, lier!<br>Karma: Hey, don't bring me into this!

Mom: That's karma for you, lier!
Karma: Hey, don't bring me into this!

She definitely know that you weren't sleeping.


It feel wrong and kinda sad knowing that the coming generations will not go through this and will never share this same feeling for real...

Don't worry, I don't think there will ever be a generation that doesn't know how terrifying of an experience this is


my grandma once opened the door, came in, waited and closed the door so i'd think she left. she was still standing there and got me faking sleeping. ive been more careful since then


I had this but I never had a handheld console, instead, it was books. I was a really dedicated book-reader and I would hide a book (Diary of A Wimpy Kid or Roald Dahl or something) and one of those flashlights that looked like LEGO Minifigures (the Star Wars ones) underneath my pillow and wait for my parents to go away.


Bruh I used to stay up at 3 am to secretly watch anime on the living room tv and I would have that shit set to 2% volume while sitting 3 inches from the screen so I could hear anything cause I needed to be able to hear even the slightest shuffle from my parents room so I could quickly turn it off and quietly sprint back to my bedroom 😂have no idea how I even enjoyed watching the anime sitting with my adrenaline on high every time 😂😂


It was not hard for me it was actually pretty easy I just kept my lights off and had the door a little open (i could not hear them if it was closed) so as soon as I heard a couple footsteps I turned off my device and jump on my bed


the terror, when they walk by, is indescribable, that cold fear that makes you freeze immediately, the fear of an impending punishment of unknown harshness by loved ones, I truly understand this video, I'm sorry you went through this my dear <3

@m. still, that ain't obvious. I thought it was a video about abuse until i read the comments.

@Angie Still, in the end it’s about playing video games 💀

I’m lucky I have chances when caught! They just say to sleep lol,  but when they are mad that’s true horror

I change my name because i easily get bored

@Klara L it didnt give off abusive vibes but ok

@Thousandth Moon It took a moment to realise that, since the video really seemd creepy and gives off abuse vibes... glad it wasn´t about that.

@Thousandth Moon understandable considering the context and circumstances surrounding this video, and the internet itself

@Angie I'm not being insensitive, people misinterpreted a meme and started trauma dumping

@Thousandth Moon watching it triggered memories for many abused ppl (myself included). don't be insensitive. many ppl saw this and thought of abuse.

bro this is about staying up late to play video games


My hearing sense just enhances in these situations. It's like I can hear even the slightest noise


Took me 5 mins to understand but still so much relatable lol. And i actually somehow have that Peter Tingle and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one lol 😂


This has happened to me before. It was yesterday. I was playing on my phone when mom walked in i went into a realistic sleep position and i was safe


My heart starts beating so loud. Everything i hear is my heart beating


what's worse is that my mom would poke my face to see if I was asleep or not. At first, I gave a smile or some sort of facial expression. Then I learned how to adapt. I adapted to fool my mom that I was, in fact, asleep.


Gen Z parents really aren't going to be fooled when checking up on their kids at night lol


My bedroom was right at the top of the stairs and whenever one of my parents would come up to use the bathroom they'd turn on the light right above my door. So I'd always make sure to have the upstairs lights off so I could see the light shine in from under my door if I was playing with headphones.


My mom did this to me all the time, but she wouldn't actually leave. She would come in and stand there for a few mins until she was certain that I wasn't doing anything and then leave.


I experienced this alot of times tbh... And I still do, if anyone else relates to this I am truly sorry..


This has happened to me sometimes and it's terrifying. But instead of a DS, I used a phone.


This happened to me so many times, I even got caught twice lmao


@Cheems pretty sure that you have 2 braincells left

@Usuario Desconocido same but I was on October 14 🗿

Goofy ahh quandale dingle, with his goofy ahh friend bonqueque

@Shrimps are sea roaches Ooooh lmao!!! Get burrrrrned bro!!!!!

@eguo asdf its making him money unlike yo ahh lmao

God bless you and whoever reads this, Jesus loves you

Not really. Lives can be really different

@The DOOM Slayer [Satire Filmz] I wasn't even conceived! ☠

@The DOOM Slayer [Satire Filmz] stalker x stalker?1!1!1!1!1!?!!!??!1!1!1?11

Used to be a Game Boy with a Worm Light.

@SimpleQuantum the first level is getting a drink from the refrigerator without waking up your parents

@The DOOM Slayer [Satire Filmz] LMAO me too

@tripy hiding your handheld gaming device under the pillow, this is waht is about

of course the tutorial level is the same for everyone

@tripy it’s staying up on ur ds when ur supposed to be sleeping. The ds disappears bc there is moving. Once the sound is gone he brings it out.

Basically ur on ds when not supposed to

I was just a brainless newborn on October 1st 2005 💀


I did this with books, I used to read under the covers with a flashlight and sweated buckets lmao


Sometimes I would fear that i would blush while pretending to sleep from being so nervous. It was terrifying.


Onetime I literally almost cried because of how scared I was because of a noise that I thought was my parents knocking


I understand the absolute fear going through someone when their parents are coming over to their bedroom and your playing games when you arent supposed to


Definitely scary, especially when you "sleep" with your door open😂


one of the scariest things for me about it was when i stayed up for too long my brain would start to play tricks on me with noises like footsteps or muffled talking from my parents room

@bempler even without paranoia i experience hallucinations, i may have exploding head syndrome which could be part of it, but i also feel hands grabbing onto my leg or shoulder

@the sith of earth sometimes when you're paranoid, you can have light hallucinations and you may hear things that arent there

Wait, I thought that happens after 3 days straight with no sleep (optical and auditory hallucinations)


This is some of the scariest shit, especially if your parents are the extremely strict/culty kind and have a lot of rules you shouldnt break that are actually normal for people, even young people like teens, to do. Like, even just casual texting with someone that was my friend that wasnt in my familys religion could get me in big trouble, but the only time i could be relatively free and safe to be on devices with less fear of getting caught is when everyone else is asleep. Even in the day sometimes id sneak some stuff and the stressful game of “are footsteps coming” happens 24/7 for me


this feeling is probably the most dreadful feeling ever


my friend told me that she once faked sleeping and her mother knew that she was faking to sleep and her mother stared at her until my friend really went to sleep. so terrifying goodness


once i was on my little laptop when i was supposed to be asleep and my mom came in, i was able to hide it and pretend to be asleep thank god, and she apologized to me (we'd had a fight earlier) and then she actually got in the bed and layed next to me for apology cuddles, i wasn't too worried cause i hid my laptop under pillow on the other side of the bed that she was on, but then she swung her arm over to hug me and almost touched it, i feared for my life but thank god she never found it 💀


its scary, but i also find it kinda fun, you have to use your reflexes to hide the device as fast as possible, failing to do so and you lose it for at least a week.


Usually, blankets keeps you safe from anything. But it seems like parents are starting to overpower


I couldn’t pull it off, my mom and dad were too smart. They could tell I was faking it and really playing my  Nintendo DS. <br>This happened especially with my dad, he was really good at keeping us in check. I would talk with my brother a lot before going to bed because we shared a room. One time my dad was wise to it and he ended up tricking me. He came in instead of leaving and I started talking again. I look over to the doorway and see the outline of him in the dark. Oh god.

I couldn’t pull it off, my mom and dad were too smart. They could tell I was faking it and really playing my  Nintendo DS.
This happened especially with my dad, he was really good at keeping us in check. I would talk with my brother a lot before going to bed because we shared a room. One time my dad was wise to it and he ended up tricking me. He came in instead of leaving and I started talking again. I look over to the doorway and see the outline of him in the dark. Oh god.


This used to happen to me a lot but one time I had my headphones in and my dad came in and tapped my shoulder and I almost had a heart attack I didn’t even realize the door had opened


I feel like my senses sharpened exactly because of this


I understand this all too way. I have adapted to which footsteps belong to each person💀.


I remember being so immersed on the game I sat on the bed, but heard my mom coming to my room from theirs, which was right beside mine, I didn't even have the time to fake being asleep (as in, lying under the blanket with eyes closed and hide the console), so in my desperation I just went like Woody when Andy's home, a terrible awkward position where I obviously wasn't asleep in, and hid the console under my body, my mom obviously didn't buy the act, but years later it's worth as a good memory lol

ye def worth a good memory to remember tho lol

Oh lol, something like this happened to me too, but my mom actually bought my act. I had less than a second to fake being asleep because she walked in. I thought I was for sure dead, but apparently she just left.


This just brought back the traumas I've gotten for years 🥲


I literally got anxiety and nostalgia all at once..

I literally got *anxiety* and *nostalgia* all at once..


Oh god. I remeber. This was very common and so i mostly got caught. When she was trying to find my phone my heart was beating so fast as i was pretending to sleep. It was pure horror


Literally me except it was whenever I was playing with the turds in my poo box🤣 I'd have to stuff a turd under my pillow the second my parent came in to check on me! Truly scary af!


I do this every night,

Quick bg info: my parents dont let me have my phone or computer at night, I have this white noise machine cuz I have trouble sleeping.

I usually watch tv for about 30 minutes every night (as far as my parents know) and I never wont stop this routine; get ready for bed, watch tv in bed, etc. After the 30 min I turn my mashine on, and watch more tv untill I feel tired (mostly 12AM or 1 AM 😭) and I have my bedroom right next to the bathroom and my parents room, so when someone is using the bathroom, or my mom going to bed at 1 or 2 am, I will fling up and mute my tv quickly, only been caught 1 or 2 times tho.

Sorry if this was too long or badly built lol


Definitely terrifying.

I remember when I was lying in bed, playing games on my tablet at 4 am, my dad walks outside of my door (and I didn't even hear him because I had earbuds in) so he opened my door making sure I was alseep but he caught me playing games.

He yelled at me for days because of it.

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@Corona Lisa thats the fkin worst lmao. had both happen to me tho 😭😭😭

Bro I used to do this with my brother and now our parents can't trust putting our phones in our room 😑

I relate to this a lot, but instead of yelling at me for days they would be calm, and always looked at me like I was gonna do it again, and worst of all, mention it in public.


I love how you can feel that your parents are coming around the corner.


when you open back your DS thinking that everything is fine and the ¨IT'S-A ME, MARIO¨ plays loudly and resonates in your bedroom, you know that you're dead as you hear the footsteps coming back to your door...


and one of the scariest parts is that even the slightest noise sounds like a footstep. take now for example. it's 3:30 am, and my fan sounded like my parents footsteps. i never know whether i should fake sleep or keep my screen on. my phone and tablet are basically drugs. im addicted...


used to watch youtube past past my bedtime with my phone. because of this, my hearing became much sharper plus my acting skills became much much convincing and i try remember every pattern my parents do so i wont get caught lol.


This is how I learned how to hear incoming footsteps from far away.


Pretending to sleep is probably the scariest thing back then because you never know when your family is gonna adapt to your anguish


I wasn’t even around in 2005, and I still feel this a lot, especially when I’m supposed to be doing homework and I’m just on coolmathgames or on my phone and my mom walks in 😭


Can't relate i slept with a bed beside my parents

Being a genius kid
I Used a double layered blanket and experimented the best form to enable some sort of ventilation and muffle sound but enough to hear, everytime we went to the supermarket i would check the blankets thicness and length preferably long so in the event where a double is unfeasible i would be able to fold it

I used to be able to use my brain when i was younger.....


It used to be comics books and a flashlight under the covers. Nice to see things haven’t really changed all that much.


I used to have a Wii U and played breath of the wild when my parents went to bed, they were right above me since it was downstairs. Their room is super squeaky so I had a few seconds before I was caught. My room though only has one or two easily avoidable squeaky spots before they get there, that part is natural sense


It’s cool and crazy how everyone can relate to this on some degree, even if it doesn’t involve games past bedtime

Lmao calling your teenage bf/gf in middle of the night and you’re not allowed to date. That too using a landline your parents can pick up and hear on other side because you don’t have your own cell yet. Plus when you dial the phone makes noise. Scary days…

Andrew Johnson you started living by yourself at 17?How bro?


I am not even born in 2005 and below but I still understand the vibes.


my dad has this thing where in order to find out if I'm awake of not he tickles me. it is the scariest thing ever. i had to learn how to endure it and not move a single muscle or not make a single sound, and that is HARD.


Oh god. The scariest part was when they reached down to see if there was anything under my pillow.


I also know how how it is.. :)) <br>I used to just download random games from the Google play store and play them under my pillow, and hide the phone under myself whenever my mom came to check on me :))) the surprise element was the scariest thing. Cuz she was pretty quiet when she came

I also know how how it is.. :))
I used to just download random games from the Google play store and play them under my pillow, and hide the phone under myself whenever my mom came to check on me :))) the surprise element was the scariest thing. Cuz she was pretty quiet when she came


Once I was alone in my house, my mother had gone for shopping and I heard running footsteps from the stairs and my mother didn't get home until an hour after that.


People would always ask me: "what's your worst fear?"

And I would always reply: "my mother."

@Felix Błocki nah just playing with you :)

or am I?

@Felix Błocki nah just playing with you :)

*or am I?*

@Felix Błocki based on your comment: <b>wow you're a allowed on YouTube? Thats insane!</b>

@Felix Błocki based on your comment: *wow you're a allowed on YouTube? Thats insane!*

As an Asian, its not my mother, <b>its both of them.</b>

As an Asian, its not my mother, *its both of them.*

Based on your profile picture: wow, you have a parent?! That's insane.

@RoseaBee  I joke about being scared of my mom at times, but I wouldn't run away from her if you told me she was behind me

@RoseaBee fear not, we're Asians, we'll be okay :D

I can't tell if this is teenage angst or y'all seriously need to get CPS in your contacts....

I always say the same thing!!!! Yet I call my mother "The Warden"


As an Asian with strict parents I remember how sneaky I was back when I was 10. I was so good at fake sleeping and was always so slick and made sure to cover the evidence. But atlas, I was eventually caught. I remember the time I was caught, my mom came home late and I was in my room watching YouTube. I could hear her foot steps so I immediately put my phone down and covered it with the blanket. Now that’s the time I fucked up. She went to kiss me good night and I didn’t expect her to go so near, and she felt my phone. (I was not allowed to have is beside me and if I had it beside me I was obviously probably using it late at night.) and yeah I was caught in 4k.<br>My heartbeat skipped a beat when she felt the phone it was so nerve wracking help 💀

As an Asian with strict parents I remember how sneaky I was back when I was 10. I was so good at fake sleeping and was always so slick and made sure to cover the evidence. But atlas, I was eventually caught. I remember the time I was caught, my mom came home late and I was in my room watching YouTube. I could hear her foot steps so I immediately put my phone down and covered it with the blanket. Now that’s the time I fucked up. She went to kiss me good night and I didn’t expect her to go so near, and she felt my phone. (I was not allowed to have is beside me and if I had it beside me I was obviously probably using it late at night.) and yeah I was caught in 4k.
My heartbeat skipped a beat when she felt the phone it was so nerve wracking help 💀


This is probably the most nerve racking thing that happened at night to me when I was a kid but I never got caught and I had a fire tablet and not a DS


This is the fear you felt when you can sense that your parent is coming home on the same day and time, one year after they met an accident.


I remember hearing something and pretending to sleep for about 30-45 minutes just for no one to be there


Idk if it’s just me that gets a nostalgic feeling when I hear a car passing or a motorcycle

That happen because some people at night are still awake and you're sleeping

All of these noises happen in my neighborhood

For me, it's mourning doves. They all have the same exact cooing sound and it reminds me of afternoons in my backyard.


Lol I didn’t know everyone had controlling parents like that.


Now I think about it, the DS was the scariest handheld device I ever owned 😭


I think I'm really clever. I do this since fourth grade. My parents have caught me several times, but not anymore. At some points I lay low and pretend I quit, but I still sleep with the blanket fully draped over me. In time, I knew they would grow to get used to that particular sleeping habit of mind so the next time I stay up with a screen, they would suspect nothing. Plus, it's known around the family that I'm a very still sleeper, which has nothing to do with my staying up late and not something I developed to support this bad habit. It's a natural part of me, so I took that ability to my advantage too, haha.


I used to sneak to be up all night on my DS all the time as a kid! Problem for me, my parents didn't allow closed bedroom doors. So I couldn't use headphones. I had to keep my ears sharp.


this happened literally last night, I thought my mom left but she was actually in the room 😭


I would always be so scared because I was like, "I DON'T KNOW HOW I SLEEP." So I would just take long, loud (louder than normal) breaths and make a few mumbles here and there. Apparently it worked. I got caught twice though, once because my younger brother is a snitch, and I wouldn't let him play Roblox on my laptop, and twice because my Grandma passed by and my younger brother was on my older brother's laptop while I was on mine. I put mine away fast enough, but my younger brother, being an idiot, hid under the blanket, still playing. (We shared a room.) My grandma saw this lump in the bed, and pulled the covers off. Good times.

i mean grandmas are cool pretty sure they wouldnt mind seeing u play at night

i would like to imagine the second time granma thought she caught sight of a glowing spirit or smn like that n goes into stealth mode pulls the cover to save her grankid n catches her grankid in 4k instead... XD


Nothing like a few extra hours of school night Castlevania.


dad's footsteps: Loud, slow<br>mom's footsteps: fast, quiet

dad's footsteps: Loud, slow
mom's footsteps: fast, quiet


ah yes the pretend to sleep technique used by many ppl to avoid getting caught playing late


I still remember how I was playing Angry Birds on my ipad and I was caught. I didn't think my mom would yell that loud at night...


I remember doing this with my tablet, but my sister was in my room (when we shared) and it had to be charged, so I would go to the kitchen and hide under a blanket behind a table, while my dad would be in the room right over and if I moved 3 feet he would be able to see me. If my brother wasn't playing with me he would try to get my dad to stop me. Me and my brother would also go out late at night and watch tv and my sister would go to my mums computer and we would watch youtube. When I was 11 I got a phone and I was on the upper side of a bunk bed so I hung up curtains. I should probably put those back up.


Yep, this is accurate. Everytime I hear those damn creaking noises, my heartbeat goes up to the stars

@Luc1d_Inut I made my pfp when I didn't know EddsWorld existed


This fear is the reason I used to randomly wake up at 5 am just to put dad's phone in his room after i have used it and slept without putting it back 💀


every single kid has done this at one point or another, i still do it to this day even if i don't have a bedtime


This doesn't happen to me anymore, since my parents stopped caring, but I still out of habit hide my phone when someone is coming


I kept on getting caught because the silence would make me laugh because I felt so nervous and even a little scared because I wanted to keep playing my game/watching YouTube while I talked to my friends<br>It was just so quiet

I kept on getting caught because the silence would make me laugh because I felt so nervous and even a little scared because I wanted to keep playing my game/watching YouTube while I talked to my friends
It was just so quiet


That creep literally goes away when you feels someone's voice, doors and other sounds... whoa


I would do this with videogames all the time, and books as well! I’d always hear the footsteps too late to turn the lamp off in time, I knew my parents would notice the <b>click</b> of the switch, so I got really good at pretending I had just fallen asleep while reading. You just gotta freeze in whatever position you’re in, take long, deep breaths, and stir just a little if your parents start talking to make them believe they’re disturbing your 100% very real truthful slumber.

I would do this with videogames all the time, and books as well! I’d always hear the footsteps too late to turn the lamp off in time, I knew my parents would notice the *click* of the switch, so I got really good at pretending I had just fallen asleep while reading. You just gotta freeze in whatever position you’re in, take long, deep breaths, and stir just a little if your parents start talking to make them believe they’re disturbing your 100% very real truthful slumber.


I thought it was a video about how terrifying sounds are at night.


I did this until 3 years ago, now after highschool I just sleep on time cause days get busier than they used to 😂🔥


and i remember when i would sneak my computer into my room, i would put it up there after dinner and hide it and it’s charger under my bed. i would keep the light on and have a book by me to pretend i was reading late bc i couldn’t sleep. i never got caught in the act, but my sister caught me bringing my computer into my bedroom right before bedtime


I had the curiosity to go outside when I felt this, mind was playing tricks on me because I saw shadow people 😂


Damn, this happened to me when I was 8. So, let me explain.<br>I was in bed, happily grinding jtoh towers for ≈3hr. It was 11:25pm. I started gaming at ≈8:25pm. Waiting, waiting, I remember when the lights flickered, and my Wi-Fi disconnected; and then, surprise surprise, THE LIGHTS COMPLETELY TURNED OFF. I was on Floor 9 of ToPZ at the time, and really pissed off at that fact, but also pissed the bed as well.

Damn, this happened to me when I was 8. So, let me explain.
I was in bed, happily grinding jtoh towers for ≈3hr. It was 11:25pm. I started gaming at ≈8:25pm. Waiting, waiting, I remember when the lights flickered, and my Wi-Fi disconnected; and then, surprise surprise, THE LIGHTS COMPLETELY TURNED OFF. I was on Floor 9 of ToPZ at the time, and really pissed off at that fact, but also pissed the bed as well.


Mom: SLEEP
Me: ok (sleeps)
Mom: closes door
Me: it's gaming tim-
Mom: opens door
Me: sleeps
Also me: *sweats nervously*

Mom: SLEEP
Me: ok (sleeps)
Mom: *closes door*
Me: it's gaming tim-
Mom: *opens door*
Me: *sleeps*
Also me: **sweats nervously**


Oh I always had my parents run into my door not walk past it. The horror that feeling has is insane


Ah yes. Playing Midway Arcade Treasures on the PSP while I was supposed to be sleeping and putting it on sleep mode when I heard them footsteps getting closer.


I remember I successfully did this once but then I forgot about my alarm and got my phone taken off me lol


It kind of reminds me of when i was able to know who's coming to my room only by hearing footsteps and then i would stop playing so i wouldn't be grounded... I miss the old times but i forgot the footsteps hearing thing 😢


i did this and i still do, so when my parents hear me gaming late at night (around 12 AM - 1 AM), they bust open the door extremely loudly and so i hide my ipad under a pillow and fake sleep as believe as possible, sometimes this works, sometimes it doesnt.


Damn, this was me. And I wasn't even a teenager back in 2005. This hits home. The single bed with a lack of furniture and cream walls. Too true!

An Iced Matcha Latte, with a splash of semen for u

Cream walls with the flowery bedsheets. Hits home

I was born in 2004. I can't remember much in 2005.

Same bro I was just a little kid back then but I'd always try to stay up with my DS


I remember back in like 2017. One time I stayed up and played minecraft factions with my bestie all night. We were on a discord call and everything 😂 and I didnt get any suspicion at all that night. That was the scariest thing. Cause every other night I'd have to hide. I kept closing my laptop and hiding it under me every 30 mins cause somthing would make a noise but nobody came in and bothered me. I even ended up yelling after getting killed on the game and still nothing


A lot of times when I'm staying up and my parents walk through the hallway leading to my room I always get goosebumps because I always think there walking toward my room to check on me and make sure I'm not staying up


Bro I still deal with this especially last night I swore I was freaking out bc my mom told me she might come upstairs to check if I was sleeping and I heard footsteps a few times


Could someone PLEASE give me a longer version of the ambience in this video


I can relate to lol everytime my parents tell me to go to bed i go to my room but instead play or watch youtube and when i hear footsteps im scared af💀


I remember doing this with my brother, sadly on this day my dad appeared to have gained max level stealth and my brother ended up getting caught. Fortunately, I reacted with supersonic speed and was saved from the punishment of my devices being stolen...though it is safe to say that my brother saw that as the ultimate betrayal and I haven't heard from him since.

@Mr Incognito YT I am honestly not too sure... We have moved houses since then. It is my personal belief that he has turned into some sort of paranormal entity, a curse some may call it. He has already taken one parent and scared away the other...the unmanned footsteps I now hear may mean that I am next...I leave offerings outside the door from which the footsteps are heard which tends to keep them calm and at bay, I am not sure how long that will protect me though, only time will tell.

You haven't heard from your brother since? <br>May I ask, was he disowned or smth?

You haven't heard from your brother since?
May I ask, was he disowned or smth?

BRO SAME BUT I ENDED UP GETTING CAUGHT TOO


I used to mash out Pokémon Platinum on my DS whilst in bed n my mama would be “posted” outside my bedroom sometimes walking past like patrol n other times just standing outside my door, feet visible from the bottom gap between the door and the doorframe, coming she’s ready to burst in n catch my ass red handed. I had my neck on the line every night playing that thing.<br>Good memories 🥲

I used to mash out Pokémon Platinum on my DS whilst in bed n my mama would be “posted” outside my bedroom sometimes walking past like patrol n other times just standing outside my door, feet visible from the bottom gap between the door and the doorframe, coming she’s ready to burst in n catch my ass red handed. I had my neck on the line every night playing that thing.
Good memories 🥲


I used to do this with my phone. I'd just watch youtube, praying no one would notice. I only got caught twice, and both times were because I forgot to take my earbuds out.


nobody is talking about the first image that was scary as hell especially when I was outside at night when guests from my house were leaving and I was looking everywhere to look for danger


Never in my life have my heart raced when this happens


i wish i was able to have that feeling at least once


absolutely terrifying times of my childhood

@TypicalGhost i heard of sleep paralisys (idk how to spell lmao) and i thought it was just an actual monster so i would start to cry when i was 9 and heard it

Anyone else more scared that it was a ghost instead of your parents

I kept a secret compartment in my pillow, which was my pillowcase for my 3Ds, worked like a charm

Shound when slleel dcary 😨ghost ooooh 👻 👽 😱 👻 👽 😱 👻 👽 😱

cant let mom see you on the 3ds or she gonna BEAT-


To be in a liminal space means to be on the precipice of something new but not quite there yet. You can be in a liminal space physically, emotionally, or metaphorically. Being in a liminal space can be incredibly uncomfortable for most people.


My Nan used to shine a flashlight in my eyes when she thought I was faking, worked almost every time


I know that. That’s worse than today, and the whole school (two floors of brick) was vibrating. Like shaking, really badly. It scared the hell out of everyone and since I’m (really, sensitive to touch, I could feel even the slightest tremors and it was terrifying. The whole school (excluding the babies that were being babysat there) were in the the gym and that’s where you could feel the vibrations the easiest. That’s around 150 students aging from 4-17 in one gym, nervous.

At the end of the day, they told us that they were replacing the heating/cooling system and were taking out the boiler room.

the video is about a kid sneaking on games at night and his parents opening the door to see if hes sleep


I was once caught with my laptop on my laps in the bed. My eyes were awake as posible and my mother was looking at me. It was like 2 am and really dark, so she didn t see me. I almost had a heart attack.


I understand this fear, as I have used my laptop past bedtime a few times and let me tell you, every sound you hear, even the tiniest whisper and every light you see is a warning to close the laptop, unplug your mouse (If it uses lights) and make your way to bed within a very tiny time frame and making as little noise as possible.


I wasn't even trying to do this. My mom opened the door and my eyes were almost closed so I just pretend to be asleep. She walked up to me to see if I was asleep. The mini heart attack I had that day!!💀


i think i finally figured it out. (i was born in 2009 so i never experienced this)

does it mean that your parents come into your bedroom, check if you’re playing, then pretend to leave?


this happend to me as a kid everytime i stayed up playing on my laptop my dad would open the doors to come inside in the house after work [job] THE DOORS WOULD SQUEEK AND SCARE ME SO MUCH AS THIS HAPPENS I RAN UPSTAIRS MY HEART WAS BEEPING SO HARD THAT I CRIED SO I SLEPT WITH MY MOM AND GET A BIG NIGHTMARE


lol i did this so much i bassicly knew all their nightly routines, footsteps and even  how they open a flipin door


More scary than any horror movie in the world


The first time I ever did this was when I was roughly 12, playing luigi's mansion 2 on my 2DS (it was cheaper than the 3DS) and the vibe playing at night as a kid is incomparable, because it was the sort of summer night smell  from the window plus the feeling of acting all sneaky because you're playing games when you're supposed to be sleeping. It's a feeling you can't get anymore and I'll be honest I miss it

Best use of the Wii U gamepad was making this exact situation a game mode in Game & Wario.

I have the same feeling when I am playing offline games(old story/shooter games) in my phone.

@jae jae Lived on the breadline till I was like 10-11, couldn't afford most things so the most I had was a gameboy colour but my mum only let me play it during the day and would take it before I went to bed. she was still under the whole impression of games rotting your brain so you know how it is.

12??? i thought we did this at like 6-7😳


Not a console gamer, but I used to listen to music to help me sleep at night and every little sound that i heard that was not coming from the music i would stop the music, hide my earphones, Sit up, check my surroundings, and if all was clear I got my ear buds and continued the music. And sometimes when i would hide my ear buds i would accidentally turn them on again and i would absolutely freak.


I remember doing this, playing Pokémon on my Gameboy Color hiding under the blankets with a little the light attachment. I would peek out every so often, I had learned to play with the sound off too XD


I was absolutely terrified when this happened to me


Imagine somehow even a little bit understanding this while you never had an console...


I got confused because I wasn’t sure if he was sleeping the entire time but I totally agree


The real fear was the time my mom caught me with my pants down. Even scarier was when she tried to explain it was normal the next day.

Let's hope this story is in the US and not a commonwealth country

also almost got caught with pants down but i heard the footsteps and i was like sonic up in this bitch like gaw dam i was speed

Lmfao, give this fallen soldier a respect.

thats scrarier than getting caught while bunkin school

I could have never dwelled on it again......😂 Its scariest for me

same happened to me but my mom couldn't see it because ot was sp dark

Still it's kinda weird to think about it

@Kaos One it's good that your mum bother to talk about it, my mum caught me once and she just acted like nothing happened ever since which make me feel worse

@Isabelle K you're a girl its different when guys get caught watching h3ntq1

@ZipprablTows hell yeah because my mom said it's okay lol

Did you feel embarassed or never did it again?

Damn That's scarier than Being Caught with a game

This comment made me laugh the most I’ve had in a while

Damn u took the biggest L anybody could've ever taken


this was a pretty common thing for you when you have suffered major addictions to technology

endoskeleton eating kfc, on an island in space.


I may not have been born in 2005 but this is terrifying


The first image kinda throws us off, but I get it. <br>It's just sneaking video games when you're supposed to be going to bed, the person opening the door and turning off the light is the parent(s).

The first image kinda throws us off, but I get it.
It's just sneaking video games when you're supposed to be going to bed, the person opening the door and turning off the light is the parent(s).


The tension in your muscles when you try your best not to move and at the same time look relaxed


The same thing happened to me last night, there was a big thud from the mostly empty part of my closet, the only place where someone could hide in my room


Props to the people that understand how scary this is. It's beyond horror.<br>Have fun trying to figure out if I'm joking, or serious.

Props to the people that understand how scary this is. It's beyond horror.
Have fun trying to figure out if I'm joking, or serious.

Yeah its scary but getting tasked to turn off all of the lights while you were young though is a different level of spookiness

@Mᴇᴅɪᴄᴀʟ It doesn't always have to be about sneaking around with games at 3 AM. Could also apply to other things as well.

@MSR It doesn't just have to be hiding that you're playing games at 3 AM. It could also fit with other things as well.

@MSR you must never even had a good childhood

Bro when my dad turns off the ac… that mf prob running like foxy to my room gotta turn off my shit real quick

@Mᴇᴅɪᴄᴀʟ it’s the closest thing to a horror game anyone in their childhood usually has most commonly. It’s just realistic

@Jermaine? Cole? that’s not scary I’m so used to that

@MSR it’s scary because you don’t want to get caught playing games when you’re supposed to be asleep.

So your parents checking on you at night is scary? Or after they were gone for a long time I’m confused?

@Manuel Chaden bro when your parents come and you hide your gaming stuff and pretend to sleep and be anxious whole time playing if your parent coming to your room or not


I remember when i was ten I had this odd feeling like something was up while gaming in bed, I was so close to finishing my Mario kart 7 game but the feeling got worse and worse, so I closed the ds and about 10 seconds later my dad comes into the room


The scary thing is that, you feel like when.. You even hear a SOUND, like a footstep or door opening, and your using the phone, you feel scared and rush to sleep.


Im literally watchin this while inside of a blanket, while my mom is literally awake doing work


I'm actually making a game based off of this childhood memory.


Once you hear anything freaky after you took your headphones off, you know it’s going to be bad..


Funnily enough, I did this while watching Markiplier play FNAF. I would have to stifle my laughter and my squeals of fear, and I memorized all the best spots to put my iPad if my dad came into the room. I would occasionally get caught, but eventually they would hesitantly give me permissions again, and I would be back to it.


my heart sinks when i hear any type of sound 😭


when i witness this i just close my eyes because i believe the "you'are invisible if your eyes are closed" magic is real 😂


The worst that would happen is when my dad would put a flashlight over me when i was faking, got me 70% of the time


I'm almost 100% sure they can feel me not sleeping...


I can feel my spine tingling from this video


This is the peak level of terrifying. One can only imagine hearing creaking sounds that wake you up in the middle of the night and feeling scared.

I already experience that at 12:00-00:32 i cannot sleep because of the whisper saying "Sleep"

its about pretending to sleep so u dont get caught on the gaming device bro

@MSR Same. Is everyone pretending to be scared about this or something?

Bro it’s not that scary I don’t get this shit

I misunderstood at first too because I thought the DS only showed up at the end until I realized it actually just went away temporarily in the middle.

I am pretty sure this video was about a kid pretending to sleep, because they want to continue playing their Nintendo DS.


The scariest thing about this is while  listening to music highvolume it can ruin your eardrums that will result to hearing problems and you thought someone is whispering to you even thou you are alone in your room


The worst part is when the person standing beside you is not your parent checking on you but a serial killer making sure you're asleep


ok i didnt understand at first but now i understand and this is always terrifying


Once I decided to use headphones and I wasn't paying attention to shadow's, light switches and footsteps but then my mom came and she didn't notice me because instead of hiding under my bed sheets I was behind the door.

Most traumatising 30seconds of my life


My door is a bit ajar meaning a lot of light and sounds comes through it was always quite easy for me to tell when my parents started leaving the living room.


I remember staying up all night on my gameboy but I somehow left the charger in my parents room. Waited until I heard snoring. I turned the sink on downstairs to make some noise and waited to distract my parents. Nothing so I turned the sink back off, peeked their door slowly and the snoring was still going. I literally army crawled in there got my charger and got back out.

I remember I used to sleep on my grandmother's bed and every night she'd take my cellphone away. Thing is: I couldn't sleep. So I quite literally devised an entire master plan choreography and did the best I could to move without getting caught, incredibly hard task noticing she was a light-sleeper and the bed made creaking sounds. Got busted three times 'till I perfected it.

I literally tip toe and army crawl too LOL! I had to literally tip toe down the stairs to get a snack and get my charger fr

@han.quokka.8 just take long breath when u pretend to be sleep coz a human really take long and deep breath  whenever he/she is sleeping

@HOTSHOT GAMING that works i think but my parents would caught me smtimes im not good at pretending to be asleep

@han.quokka.8 most of the time i get caught and only excuse i make is that i was turning off the music coz i was listening to it and fell asleep

@HOTSHOT GAMING yes smthing like that but mostly i would know that when my dad comes bc of his loud foot steps he makes, but my mom foot steps is very quiet,  im scared of it tho bc i dont know when she can come in anytime

@han.quokka.8 u mean that squeaky door nice like that in some horror movies???

Great job
I would probably be making noise while coming out bc my parents' door make noises
Like when it opens it make kwaaaaaaaackkkkkkkk

Yesterday my phone switched off and i couldn't get charger coz it was in my parents room so i couldn't turn on lights to find it....so instead of finding charger i army crawled on parent's bed and picked up dad's phone and crawled back to my room


I often just unplugged the screens as I had wall sockets nearby, taped the areas that gave off the lights from my computer like the power button, and used a Bluetooth controller which was expensive af, cost me 3 months of selling my pirated CDs, literally like 450 or so CDs. And GTA SA and NFS Most Wanted used to be my true love.

It took my father 2 minutes to break my controller, crush all the gaming CDs and with it my hopes of ever becoming a gamer...


Lol... Me reading the comments and being happy I was grown as hell in 2005 😂 y'all stories are cute tho


For me, it was listening to late-night talk back radio in the 80s with one ear in and one ear out.


The hardest part was having to remove the mini light from the game boy colour and then stuffing the whole thing under your pillow in time…


I used to be so scared that my parents would “unalive” me when I was sleeping, my parents would walk around a lot.. I once got so scared that I wouldn’t talk or go near them. Biggest regret. I couldn’t even sleep at night


I remember 2005, my room was small and had wood walls. I would play half life mods on my computer and go on gaming forums every morning. Listening to slipknot with my freinds. Going skating after school. 2005 take me back!!


When they stay over you waiting for you to laugh now that's the scariest part 😂😂


The worst part is when you close the ds while playing New Super Mario Bros to "sleep," and the "Bye Bye" just gives it all away. Happened to me once and I couldn't touch my ds for 2 weeks.


Trying to be one my phone at night is absolutely horrifying, especially (like me) WHEN YOURE IN A BUNKBED!!<br>My mom knows my tricks, so sometimes through the holes of the railings, she feels for my phone UNDER MY PILLOW to make sure I’m actually asleep. I WAS SO FROZEN LIKE A DEER IN THE HEADLIGHTS. I COULDNT EVEN MOVE BECAUSE I FELT LIKE I COULD GET CAUGHT WITH THE SLIGHTEST WRONG MOVE. 😭🔪

Trying to be one my phone at night is absolutely horrifying, especially (like me) WHEN YOURE IN A BUNKBED!!
My mom knows my tricks, so sometimes through the holes of the railings, she feels for my phone UNDER MY PILLOW to make sure I’m actually asleep. I WAS SO FROZEN LIKE A DEER IN THE HEADLIGHTS. I COULDNT EVEN MOVE BECAUSE I FELT LIKE I COULD GET CAUGHT WITH THE SLIGHTEST WRONG MOVE. 😭🔪


I used to watch yt every night in bed. And I was sharing a room with my diabetic sister so my mom would come to check on her from time to time. It was STRESSFUL and ofc the door was always open. I don't think I was ever caught tho


I was so confused until I saw the comments. Then I was like "Oh yeahhh, that thing" and got an adrenaline rush just thinking about it.


I used to confuse the sound of my own blood rushing through with footsteps, so I'd stop whatever I was doing at very random times


I feel like EVERY SINGLE kid has done this AT LEAST once 🤣


For anyone wondering, the music is “White Noiz” by Akira Yamaoka, it’s a Silent Hill 2 OST.


And no matter how perfect you think your plan to hide your device is, you still get caught at least once.


Happens to me basically every night it literally became a daily night routine


Tbh I’ve never experienced this, but I imagine that it is like playing a game in school and the teacher walks over and you don’t realize it so u switch to the other tab so fast and they don’t catch u.


The noises of the door opening is something that I fear of at night, even to this day. I don’t think I really understood most of this, but it reminds me of one thing.

its not about scary stuff its about being caught playing games past your bedtime so you have to fake sleep brooo

It’s about playing on a device or reading or something at night and pretending to be asleep when your parents barge in, then going back to it when they leave.


Everytime my mom do this I'm trying hard not to laugh or sometimes I can literally hear my heartbeat like my heart is in my ears because of the nervousness of getting caught. 🙈


One day I was playing on my laptop it was 6:00 am until my dad suddenly woke up and the door was opened he saw me but he didn't notice that it was me cuz he was so dizzy so I closed the laptop quietly and went to sleep.

I will never forget that day lmao


My mom grounded me for playing my favorite game for no reason and would punish me without explaining. So Ive been playing it secretly for the past 6 yrs<br>I became a lot more anxious and surprisingly good at lying and hiding things lmao

My mom grounded me for playing my favorite game for no reason and would punish me without explaining. So Ive been playing it secretly for the past 6 yrs
I became a lot more anxious and surprisingly good at lying and hiding things lmao


when my parents checked if I was still on my phone I had to turn into flash for a second.bc I'm wearing glasses so first I gotta put my phone away and then quickly but quietly put my glasses away too. my heart stopped beating everytime.<br>and sometimes my dad would stand beside my bed, waiting a few seconds to see if I reacted to him any way (to figure out if I'm awake or not)

when my parents checked if I was still on my phone I had to turn into flash for a second.bc I'm wearing glasses so first I gotta put my phone away and then quickly but quietly put my glasses away too. my heart stopped beating everytime.
and sometimes my dad would stand beside my bed, waiting a few seconds to see if I reacted to him any way (to figure out if I'm awake or not)


Not as scary for me cause this was every night, I learned everybody's footsteps so I could know how much time I have to turn it off


When i was little, I memorized the different steps my parents took. My mother’s steps were more lighter, and my father had loud steps, cuz he’s bigger. If it was my mom, I remained calm since she lets me stay up. If it was my dad, i threw my tablet under my pillow, tossed over, and prayed that he just took a glance in and then left. He wouldn’t have been mad, now that i look back, he would’ve just told me to go to bed. But its the fact that my tiny brain at the time could recall this as a “oh my god I’m in so much trouble god help me” situation

@Devitus I'm at an in-between with you and the original commenter, my mom was really chill but my dad would get mad, but not be as strict as I'm guessing yours was, but he would probably yell at me the next day (or as he calls it "raising his voice). I had a TV in my room, and me and my mom would watch cooking shows but when we would hear my dad, we would pretend to be asleep with the TV on. He <b>does not</b> like it when i stay up past my bed time. One time I went the basement to say goodnight to my mom, and he literally dragged me upstairs claiming I was "disobeying and disrespecting him" (he did that in front of guests too). He did the same but with our upstairs floor, and my mom said I could finish whatever we were watching, but my dad got mad and forced me to go to bed even after my mom said it was OK (I'm pretty sure he yelled at her that time too, which he does a lot)

@Devitus I'm at an in-between with you and the original commenter, my mom was really chill but my dad would get mad, but not be as strict as I'm guessing yours was, but he would probably yell at me the next day (or as he calls it "raising his voice). I had a TV in my room, and me and my mom would watch cooking shows but when we would hear my dad, we would pretend to be asleep with the TV on. He *does not* like it when i stay up past my bed time. One time I went the basement to say goodnight to my mom, and he literally dragged me upstairs claiming I was "disobeying and disrespecting him" (he did that in front of guests too). He did the same but with our upstairs floor, and my mom said I could finish whatever we were watching, but my dad got mad and forced me to go to bed even after my mom said it was OK (I'm pretty sure he yelled at her that time too, which he does a lot)

fr except i would b in big fuckin trouble 😭😭

Lol our lil brain always saying we're in trouble when we're not.


It was like a terrifying dream like feeling.


Been doing this for years now, there’s been some VERY close calls but somehow I have never been caught 😌

I’ve jinxed myself haven’t I


this one time i was on my phone at 1 am in the morning, and my mom walked in and she said im sleepin here, i couldnt sleep in the other room, since we had a guest over and he was a loud snorer lol, she also had coffee which she never drinks. anyways VERY SUBTLY HID MY PHONE UNDER MY HUGE TEDDY BEAR ON THE BED, i said i had to get a pillow since she took one of mine, i grabbed the phone and put it in my bro's room and thats how i got away with it :D


this only reminded me of a time where i was watching cartoon network alone in my grandparents' room at night and the power went out


I really love that Silent Hill's famously hauntingly beautiful music is entering viral media


The trick is to relax your throat so you lightly snore, then breathe really deep and slow. When you're unconscious, you're not holding your throat open completely.


The absolute fear this reminded me of back in 5th grade when I played my 3ds when I wasn't supposed to and then me accidentally dropping my 3ds on the floor


I did not do this when my parents were walking by, but when ghosts where close. I would pretend to sleep so they wouldn't see me as a witness.


There was this one time back when I was maybe 11 or 12 and it was really early (like still dark outside) and I was laying in the couch watching videos on my little ipod touch. I didnt have headphones on but I made sure it was loud enough where I could just barely hear it. But MY DAD comes down stairs all of sudden and I quickly turned it off and hid it from view. And the freakiest part was when he came over to see if I was actually asleep but I didnt think to close my eyes so he came up pretty close to my face, my eyes bulging because I didnt want him to notice me closing my eyes, and him looking really closely in the dark. But I guess it was too dark for him to see that my eyes were open, stating right at him. It was so freakyyyyy. He eventually walked away and I never got caught.


This fr got me looking at my bedroom door😂


I got my DSi back in 2009, and I still remember being in my room playing and hiding when hearing my parents come to check if I was asleep. I'm older now and do the same for my niece and nephew when they come and visit. Truly amazing how time flies.


I used to do this while playing Bakugan, you could scream into the mic to affect the game, bruh tell me how I never got caught under the covers while yelling my ass off to make the little ball go hop, good memories


I know our parents were really scary when they’d catch us on our gameboy but we really should’ve been asleep to be fair 😗


oh god the anxiety i feel myself getting that uncomfortable cold warm feeling of guilt


I did this alot, but sometimes my mom would come up and crouch right next to my face, so when I tried to peak she'd be right there to scare the crap outta me

She also would stand there, close the door so I thought she'd left, and when I popped up she'd catch me

goddamn, i'm sorry you went through that, just the description of it gave me chills.
i was always terrified of even just the possibility of my dad doing something like that, so a lot of times i would be laying there with my eyes closed, unable to sleep but unwilling to peek and check if he was gone or not, basically paralyzed by fear until sunrise. bit counterproductive on his part if he thought he could scare me into sleeping when he wanted me to lmao.
and this was when i was 17-21, to say i was in an overly controlling home situation would be an understatement 💀

my mom did that too 😭 literally traumatizing

Yo wtf.. Jesus Christ that's fucking terrifying

I’m so sorry you has such a terrifying childhood


When you realize your parents are the true nightmare of every child when night falls.


God the racing heartbeat, the absolute adrenaline and fear kicking in goddd


bro i swear at night im never alone, whenever i come off my phone i feel like im being watched from outside of my window or theres someone in my room that i cant see just staring right at me


I never had a GBA (DS probably would be more common) because I grew up poor. So I would read ghost stories in the dark at night. I'm talk like Annabelle and Robert. So if I started getting scared I would start reading a Lego encyclopedia I had to calm myself down.


I had a stuffed toy with a secret pocket that I would stuff my DS into to hide it.<br>This was of course only after the pillow was found out & no longer safe

I had a stuffed toy with a secret pocket that I would stuff my DS into to hide it.
This was of course only after the pillow was found out & no longer safe


This was more difficult to pull off when I was a kid, because all we had was the non-backlit Gameboys. I resorted to balancing a small flashlight on my chest pointed towards the gameboy with my covers over me. If I heard the door open I would turn over onto the flashlight and smother the light. It was actually quicker than trying to turn it off lol. I was caught many times...


It is even more scary when you are not listening songs or playing games  and your parents come in and you pretend to sleep but after a while you realise that you are alone at home and your parents are not home


One of my biggest fears as a kid istg. Luckily I don't fear my parents anymore lol.


Did this many times but one time, my dad checked, saw me "sleeping" and pretended to go back to bed while actually standing right infront of my door peeping through the crack. Seconds later he caught me and i got a good night beating xD


I don't even know if i snore while sleeping so i just make my breathing pretty loud so it's like an intermediate between snoring and not snoring and can work for either of them


Damn, I’m lucky to not have experienced this. Everyone in the comments had some hella creepy/strict parents lol.


I remember in middle school, we had a mega sleep over with like 3-4 families from church coming to stay at my house (we had a pretty sizeable house at the time).
Me and all the boys had our nintendo DS and iPads and other such handhelds, and we stayed up all bight gaming. Our sleeping bags were situated in the living room, and grown ups would pass by now and then, and we would all go into stealth mode.
It was a fun summer.


I mean, I pretended to sleep otherwise my dad would come in and beat me if I wasn't sleeping after my bedtime. As if hitting me and yelling at me would somehow make me miraculously sleepy.


The horror of your parents walking in on you gaming at night


the scariest part is that they might hear the noise coming from the phone


my mind took this in a much darker direction


dude i thought i was the only one! I used to use this pretty small almost phone-like tablet and one time when my grandma was passing by, instead of turning the volume down, i turned it all the way up! Luckily, i didnt get caught.


I remember being 5-7, in 2014-2016 playing on my 2DS and hearing the master bedroom door open, then hearing my door knob twist. Nothing was more scary than that


Is this supposed to be representing the moments when we're staying up later than we should and we're constantly trying to monitor the sound of sounds around the house so you could prepare in case your parents walk through the door?


That feeling where you break your device in the process of hiding it but can't react as if u make a noise the jig is up


Scariest thing is when you don't turn off the lights and made someone in your house do it for you so they don't use a lot of electricity.


I remember I stayed up till 7:00 am  playing on my old computer and my parents were sleeping on the couch I got up from the chair and I was about to walk to my room to pretend I was sleeping the entire time, and then my parents woke up from the couch and that scared the living out of me, and then I got grounded.


the trick was to let them catch you faking like one or two times that way they convince themselves that they "can always tell" ;)


Pretty weird that u know who's is specifically coming up the stairs based in the tone and weight of the creaks

You already know your Dad be shaking the whole house with those footsteps

Well i have concrete stairs so i wont hear creaks but i know that my dad when he walks he walks and make a loud thud


The scarry thing is that time is paused, but still he can move to be  busy with his mobile


I’m 20 and I can confirm that I still do this


My hearing got super good cause I had to watch my adult swim anime at a super low volume so my parents wouldn’t hear it💀 both amazing and also traumatizing memories🙃


Strict parents are extremely scary holy cow-


I love how he can play video games without opening his eyes


Lol whenever my mom goes to my room to check on me, I don't even pretend I'm sleeping. I will just laugh while she's scolding me and I will answer her “okay, I'm sorry I will sleep now”(but of course I will not) then she'll leave after that.


im tucking my feet under the covers after just watching this 😭


I'm lucky. In our house, we have a motion detector to let people know if someone is moving in the hallways. An orange light will turn on and thats when I know I have to hide. The footsteps help too.


I used to do this with a book when I was reading too late at night


pro tip for anyone tryna not get caught!!
you could hide your device inside your pillow case then immediately pretend to fake sleep. throw ur body in an uncomfortable position, maybe a foot sticking out of the bed, slightly part your mouth and breathe slowly through it loud enough to hear, usually is the most believable way of fake sleeping

also if your house is bigger and you can hear someone approaching in advance, you could try putting your device somewhere on the opposite end of the room so they don't have any reason to believe u were just on it

strict parent kids stick together!!


and then Mario says <b>”Bye-Bye”</b> as soon as mom opens the door

and then Mario says *”Bye-Bye”* as soon as mom opens the door


Had to live with that until I turned 16. After that they stopped caring to check cause I'm old enough to manage my own sleep schedule. I'm gonna turn 20 soon and my sleep schedule is a mess :D .


I did this all the time when I was 5, staying up to insane times playing Plants Vs. Zombies


I would always try to put my phone away when I heard footsteps coming up the stairs but I would just freeze.


One night around 12 I was under my covers on my phone and since it was raining so heavily my hearing was a little off, so I was very defenceless, when all of a sudden I felt something touch my back, suddenly the covers are pulled away and towering over me was my dad, just sought of sat there and accepted my fate…


Wont go into detail but bedtime was the absolute scariest time in my life


I swear this would make my legs feel like fire when i would hear my parents come


I get this a lot and I do this even in this day💀


The absolute FEAR it is tho when your parent walks in, like my heart is pounding-


Bro I heard footsteps once getting close to my room but it was just my 2 cats chasing eachother 💀


It was truly terrifying, but as time passed by, they allowed me to sleep late, not like I was sleeping earlier before anyway


To me, it's more of my mother's scream rather than her footsteps


I used to hide my phone under the blanket, but changed to hiding it under my pillow.

been using this trick for 6 years now. I only ever used my phone to read fanfiction yeah


One time at 5:00am in the morning I heard rlly heavy breathing 😮💨 but in a kind of panting way and I went into camera in my iPad and saw a quick tall black figure laying next to me and then it disappeared and the thing is, is that I have a nightlight in all night and somehow after that weird stuff has been happening but I just try to ignore it lol


Didn’t help that Mario was yelling “Bye bye!” when I closed it.


I slept on the floor in my parents room when I was 13. I would play PSP under my comforter and it'd get very hot and sweaty, because my mother was on the bed right next to me and I couldn't take my head out of the comforter fearing she would see me.


I remember doing that- but like my parents were sleeping on the bed and I was on a mattress because we couldn't fit on the bed...Yeah, they didn't find out I've been using my earphones-


It’s even scarier when you do it with your door open because your parents don’t trust you…


this was scary when my brother and I played Sega console after his parents went to sleep, so we should be asleep too.


Scary asf, would happen all the time.<br>Never go caught with my DS.

Scary asf, would happen all the time.
Never go caught with my DS.


One time even though I managed to pretend to be sleeping before he entered, my dad was convinced I was playing Gameboy. He actually lifted my pillows to find it and take it. luckily, I accidentally managed to get it inside the pillow case and he didn't notice.

Ohhhh the pillow case thingy!!i think i can do it it!!thanks for the idea thooo


My mom would be the one screaming at my face whenever she caught me awake late at night. I always disobey and continue secretly.
Meanwhile my dad gently tells me that it's late and I look at the clock and do as he says and go to sleep

So if you're a parent out there, screaming will do nothing at all


I understand after reading comments. And i still having that problem with my family


That absolutely scared the shit out of me lmao


I thought I was a pro at this until I found out I snore when I’m actually asleep 💀


I remember me and my siblings would quietly verse each other in Mario cart while we were all in our own rooms through wifi, good times…


I dunno, it isn’t that scary to me, it has happened to me many times, but I just kinda relax to make the impression more believable.


I was 7 in 2005. I used to either play on my Gameboy Advance sp or watch TV with low volume. Pretending to be asleep worked every time they checked on me


The hardest thing of all.... trying not to smile when your parents are looking over you for 2.761 years


Sometimes I feel that I might get dementia or something when I'm fully grown up, cause sometimes when my mom catch me in the night I see her like a demon or some degenerated version of her, but soon after she scares me, she apologize it's like to wake up from a nightmare


I remember staying up until past 1am with my little sister, kicking her ass on smash bros on the nintendo ds, and every time we heard the slightest noise we rushed under the covers to pretend we were sleeping. Its all fun and games until you open it back up to soon and through the mic, Mario goes "ITS A ME" despite the volume being off 💀


The worst is when they start to talk to you then grab the stuff away for a week


I still live in fear of this. To this day. Unfortunately :')

Only with my phone instead of a gaming console


The closest I came to this was watching toonami midnight run along time ago.


I understand the terror perfectly and this is the perfect representation of my childhood horrors.<br>i got caught once too, it was terrifying. i was just playing my monster truck game :(((

I understand the terror perfectly and this is the perfect representation of my childhood horrors.
i got caught once too, it was terrifying. i was just playing my monster truck game :(((

@antgame11 while me like 0 because of sneaky and im still a kid

@antgame11 I was sneaky enough to get by most of the time and my parents didn't check in super often, so many monster trucks were raced before the parents caught on.

You got caught once? I’ve got caught over 100 times lol

@Astro-Naut yeah ik, i said "when people were kids" because the video said 2005 lol

@hayden a lot of Kids still do this tho btw.

@Jamersb _ basically, when many people were kids, they would play late at night on their device of choice, and often got caught. this sounds all well and good, but imagine being in your room, past lets say 11pm, and you hear a creak and a parent saying "hand me the device". wouldnt you be scared?

Wait can you explain? I don’t get this video?


the fear is real, though i believe i’ve become quite good at listening for the little sound cues of my parents moving around the house, because i do this every night. they send me to bed at 9:30pm🥲it doesn’t really help that their room is right beside mine though

@hannah:D by the time I was 10, my parents didn't really care if I stayed up late as long as I didn't make much noise, so I'd read like 100 pages of a book every night


I didnt understand at first but i went to the comments and i know how scary it is 💀💀


My breathing feels so loud and unnatural that i breathe slowly and my heart races and ears pick up every sound.


I was on my iPad at 12 am and I was watching YouTube. I had the gut feeling that my dad was home so I turned my iPad off and forgot to take my AirPods out. He saw my AirPods and then took my iPad and ever since he claims my iPad at night every day. Damn, it’s more scarier than you think lol.


Despite being a 2010's kid i can still understand perfectly


Before ,kids had to learn to hear for mammoths and sabre toothed cats

Now they must learn to hear for their parents footsteps


Broooooo I remember how I'd be late up playing on my PSP as a kid on the bed and as soon as my parents came I heard that and had no time to fake the act so I hid that under the pillow and went instant fake sleep,luckily I had time to get my position right and sleep peacefully when she went away from the room


It's like hiding in a locker in a Roblox horror game.


You should ALWAYS hide your device under the blanket because of the following reasons:
-you do not need to move your head AT ALL to do so
-it does not make your pillow suspiciously tall
-it can be done WAY faster


one time dad checked on me while i was texting my friend and i thought he was just staring me down for 14 minutes 😭 and i finally opened my eyes and he wasnt even there


The nostalgia is so real it's not even a joke. And I owned a Nintendo DSI XL for hells sakes. Imagine how much of a risk that is having that much screenlight cast off of you, the walls or whatever else is around you.


This was the type of shit that makes us so scared that we giggle


I live in an apartment, my room was right next door to the bathroom. So when my neighbours would flush, it sounded like it was coming from our bathroom. Making me think that my parents are about to barge in....


that first picture of the ball in the streat 😱that still scares me to this day


True sleep ninjas have mastered the skill of closing a nintendo DS in complete silence


Imagine stumbling upon this video when you're actually doing it irl right now-


I remember pulling an all nighter once when I was 10. I had just got to Kanto in Pokemon Soul Silver and really wanted a Pikachu, but they were pretty far off. I stayed awake all night to catch one and then fell asleep in class the next day for about 10 minutes. Luckily I sat out of the way of most people so nobody noticed. Once I woke up I told the teacher I felt sick so I went home and immediately started playing pokemon again, before falling asleep midway through a fight at the battle frontier.


It's like a horror game but if they catch you it's over forever (unless you somehow get it back)


fr man pretending to sleep is so scary but i've gotten good at it lmao


I usually lock my room and play, but if my father enters the room, I either pretend to sleep or if I get caught, my father turns the wifi off


Oh god I remember doing that kinda thing as a small kid lmao


truly one of the most accurate and putting you to think visual representations of a broken person's childhood.

Lmao this person was just playing DS past their bedtime and turned it off so as not to get caught

It's literally just a person on their DS past their bed time, it's not that deep.


Is this when you hear noises and sense a presence but you're way too scared to open your eyes so you lay there paralyzed with fear.


The situation is x10 times worse if you're facing their side, not the wall


i used to bamboozle my parents by leaving the case with the charger in the living room


If you never went through this experience, you are either a goody-two shoes or a lucky person.


After watching this for a few seconds now i don't want to go to poop alone


I’m sure for the lot, they’re speaking on the experience of the adrenaline rush of maybe a scolding or the snatching of their handheld. The true fear behind this, the ptsd… it wasn’t just a slap on the wrist once you were caught… unfortunately if anybody had it like myself, sometimes it didn’t matter even if I was sleeping. Honestly still jump to this day when I pass out on the couch and my girl or my little ones simply put there hand on my chest or grab my arm. It’s sad how long it sticks with you! Hope y’all can and have healed and/or grew from that part of your childhood.


It’s incredible to believe that we’ve developed a sixth sense to predict when th-

Im srry, parents entered the room 🙏💀


me after pulling of some off the quickest fake sleep clutches in my entire life


My trick that I used was to act like I had fallen asleep with it playing.


Oh dear bloody steamin Jesus. I remember this. I was 12 years old playing Robots on my phone at near 10:30. I heard footsteps coming so I put my phone under my pillow as quickly as possible and started fake sleeping in .2 seconds.


The immense feelings of sadness, fear ,wholesomeness, agony, and nostalgia all struck me at once when I saw this.


this song captures it perfectly and i think i would be if it from knowing it 🦈


Nah the scariest thing is when you leave the volume up to the max for whatever reason, come back to it at night and it blasts volume.


O my God this was scary af  I literally cried may God bless me


"Footsteps! They're soft. That's Mom... OH THOSE LOUD ASS SHOES. THAT'S DAD."


I understand it but what's scaring me the  most is the way this dude is positioned


It was so funny when i was a kid on my ds having to ever little noise just shove it under my bed. Memories…


This makes me want to go under the covers and dream about Jack Stauber and me singing with him for some reason..


The scariest part is when they keep checking


this is absolutely terrifying.<br>i have a fear of being watched and everytime when a door creaks i always freak out in my mind

this is absolutely terrifying.
i have a fear of being watched and everytime when a door creaks i always freak out in my mind

haha it's okay I can relate

they're living in your walls they're in your walls don't check for them you will not find them they're living in your walls

Oh, the video is actually playing videogames at night when you're not supposed to. And your parents get up to check on you and you try not to get caught. I got caught a few times lol.


I remember that I took my DS in at night to catch rare bugs in Animal Crossing WW. My mom caught me but I said: "Mom please, let me catch the tarantula!"

I am pleased to share that she did, in fact, let me catch that tarantula.


Breathing really deep has helped me so much omg


Anyone stay still with eyes closed so the ghosts would think you're asleep and mind their business?


I blocked these memories out of my mind. You brought them back


I once had a headache so my friend gave me some water. It was 12 o’clock. I choked on the water. Her father came upstairs as I was trying to fight for my live 💀


When we were living in a shed, people dropping by the house would come back there all the time. We couldn't keep anyone out, there weren't even proper doors really it was just open. Sometimes we woke up to lights being off that we'd left on. I agree it was scary and one of the many reasons we left.

I hope you're doing alright now.<br>That shed is probably haunted

I hope you're doing alright now.
That shed is probably haunted

Wow, I really hope you guys are doing better. I’m praying for you. Jesus loves you. God bless. 💯❤✝


This is me but instead of playing, I was reading. Yeah, I’m too attached to my books.


oh I definitely didn’t want to remember the terror when i was pretending to be asleep and my mom grabbed my phone, felt that it was still warm, and told me that she caught me.


one time I was gaming and I heard footsteps around my room I thought it was my mom so I hid my controller but then I remembered I live alone…


i swearto god, just yesterday. i heard a loud BANG when i was asleep. i literally hid under my blanket


i used to think it wasn’t pretending to be asleep to avoid the pain from the BELT until i saw the comments


This bring me so much memories from 2018-2019.

I remember playing on someone else 2DS a lot in the bedtime, every footsteps or light turning on outside of my room, I hide the 2DS and pretended to sleep. I find those moments very tense for me back then.


This is just a short explanation of this generation (depression, anxiety, stress , fear , alone , fake people , carrying fake smile)


The place give me the vibe 😌 I loved small room like that


I just hide my ds under my bed(or in the pillow case >:]) and my parents still do this lmao<br>Every time they walk in I would pretend to sleep,wait a few mins(hoping I won’t sleep)then when I hear door noise I start playing in mute so I won’t get caught >:))))

I just hide my ds under my bed(or in the pillow case >:]) and my parents still do this lmao
Every time they walk in I would pretend to sleep,wait a few mins(hoping I won’t sleep)then when I hear door noise I start playing in mute so I won’t get caught >:))))


It’s like fnaf but with these changes:
You can only use sound and light cues to figure out where your parents are
Assuming you are gaming, that makes it harder to be vigilant
School night = hardcore mode


I'm actually really good at pretending  like I'm asleep


it's all fun and games until you realize they're still in the room after the door closed


The new kids won’t know the rush of the heartbeat when you barley put away the ds in time and close your eyes.


This is something that I still have to put up with today.


the worst thing is when you hear footsteps and pretend to be asleep but you remember you live alone


I used to have an iPad and bro, I was so scared because it was plugged in the living room ,right? The thing is, the living room was like 6 yards away from my room, and I wanted to snatch the iPad so bad,  but the floor is so creaky and my dad always got up to use the bathroom, so I was afraid that if I took that iPad, my dad would go to the bathroom and see that my iPad is missing…..


"Nostalgia is a Hell of a drug, ain't it? Time's up."

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"Nostalgia is a Hell of a drug, ain't it? Time's up."

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Needing glasses adds an extra level of difficulty.

@Vecna_ Lol I have glasses too, I can also confirm


oh yes the scariest feeling known to kids


Reminds me of 2 months ago where my mom catches me using my phone at 4am <br>I was grounded and never allowed to use any electronic ecept the tv until next vacations, I am still grounded and using my brother's phone without her noticing :/

Reminds me of 2 months ago where my mom catches me using my phone at 4am
I was grounded and never allowed to use any electronic ecept the tv until next vacations, I am still grounded and using my brother's phone without her noticing :/


damn, this hits hard. I remember that at like 4 AM, I woke up, I had nothing to do so I went on my iPad. My mom heard sounds and was approaching my room, and I had to do the strategy. It worked, and it felt very weird considering it was 4 AM.


God, I’ve been doing this stuff for over 10 years now. My old DS still works so is till play old Pokémon games till 2AM. My parents haven’t caught me in a couple years so consider me a professional on this topic 💀


This hasn’t happened to me so when i tried to put it all together i thought someone broke into they’re house 💀


as a flipnote hatena user this hits hard bro even though it wasnt 2005


The fact that the ball was in the street was scary. If a car runs over it, you won't have the ball.


I mastered the art of pretending to sleep a long time ago. Since our family PC was downstairs, I'd have to run upstairs, turn on the AC then get into a position I know would say "Been asleep for a while and is fast asleep". I'd even drool a little just to make it extra believable. 🤣


Its all fun and games when ur mother hovers on you and u try to hold you're laughter to not blow ur cover specially when she says "Hey you still awake? Mf?"


Hehe i remembee being caught playing in the computer at like 1am a lot. After a while my parents stopped caring altogether so they didnt even got angry anymore, they only used to say "you're gonna regret this". After a while of getting back from school tired as heck due to playing late, i stopped doing it; i was getting tired of going tired to school. In a way, my parents taught me something without doing nothing lol.