What is it?

As a child your imagination is active enough to create situations that make you afraid. When you turn off the lights at night, do you ever run and jump on your bed and hide under the covers just so the man under the bed won’t grab your leg? Do you ever shut your closet door but keep the light on just because you know they won’t come out in the light?

There may be something in your closet or under your bed but as you grow older, those fears turn into fears of the real world. They may be something that you de test but for some reason, you are drawn to them and find them appealing. Horror films and bloody bodies are an attraction to the humane psyche. Even though there are not monsters hiding in your closet anymore, there is still a closet full of fears that keep reappearing in our lifetime. These fears range from death to social interaction. It may come across as amusing or terrifying.

Fear has many different aspects:

· Is it the amusement we find in scaring others?

· Is it the fear of interacting with people we don’t know?

· Is it the torturing and killing of humans that keep our eyes glued to the screen?

· Is it the social pressure we get from our friends?

We want to analyze all these different types of fears and answer the question “why we fear?” It may come from the monsters in your closet or under your bed but they may also come in different forms. Everyone has their own individual monster that makes them afraid to open their closet door. It may be a monster of social fear, a monster of social pressure, a monster of entertainment, or a monster of the morbid fascination of horror films. It is our goal to explore those different monsters hiding in our rooms and figure out what they want.