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* [[BrownNote Disturbing noises.]]

* NightmareFuel/LightNovels

* NightmareFuel/WesternAnimationTV
* NightmareFuel/WesternAnimationFilm

->''Pure nightmare fuel. I wish I could unhear that.''
-->--'''[[FalloutEquestria Littlepip]]''' channeling the audience

* [[HellIsThatNoise Disturbing]] [[BrownNote noises.]]

Experiences may vary from person to person. Some people, for example, may find the invasion of monstrosities which are treated as benign to be a far more terrifying prospect than things which we need to explicitly fear. Think the difference between the monster who lives under your bed when you're grown up versus the monster who lives under your bed and [[DidMomJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu fist-bumps your parents]] when you were a young child.

This is an AudienceReaction, so leave it on YMMV and NightmareFuel tabs and don't get too worked up about what specifically goes into it -- what's NightmareRetardant for one person may well be NightmareFuel for another.

* [[CosmicHorrorStory The]] [[NothingIsScarier unknown]].
* Swarms of fear-inducing animals such as [[SwarmOfRats rats]], [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent snakes]], spiders or [[TheSwarm insects]].
* Being [[BuriedAlive buried alive]]... or [[EatenAlive eaten alive]].
* Being [[RapeAsDrama raped]] - [[MarsNeedsWomen especially by something that isn't human]].
* [[KillItWithFire People being set on fire]], or fire endangering the lives of people while they struggle to escape.
* Being drowned, particularly if it's done very slowly...
* Being trapped without escape with a violent and/or unpredictable human/animal/thing that wants to harm you.

* [[HellIsThatNoise Disturbing]] [[BrownNote noises.]]
* [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Taxes]].

* [[SurrealHorror Surreal sequences]], usually [[DerangedAnimation animated]].
** Surreal due to the UncannyValley.

** NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. Seeing the poor victim get ''savaged'' in gory detail can have one cringing in fear.

** The dark.
** [[CosmicHorrorStory The]] [[NothingIsScarier unknown]].
** Swarms of fear-inducing animals such as [[SwarmOfRats rats]], [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent snakes]], spiders or [[TheSwarm insects]].
** Being [[BuriedAlive buried alive]]... or [[EatenAlive eaten alive]].
** Being [[RapeAsDrama raped]] - [[MarsNeedsWomen especially by something that isn't human]].
** [[KillItWithFire People being set on fire]], or fire endangering the lives of people while they struggle to escape.
** Being drowned, particularly if it's done very slowly...
** Being trapped without escape with a violent and/or unpredictable human/animal/thing that wants to harm you.

** NightmareFuel/TheUndertaker

** NightmareFuel/WesternAnimationTV
** NightmareFuel/WesternAnimationFilm

* [[DrivenToSuicide Suicide]], or even just the attempt at it.
* {{Game Breaking Bug}}s so bad that they corrupt the visuals or [[BrownNote the audio]], making the broken game look like some sort of [[EldritchAbomination incomprehensible abomination]].

* {{Game Breaking Bug}}s so bad that they corrupt the visuals or [[BrownNote the audio]], making the broken game look like some sort of [[EldritchAbomination incomprehensable abomination]].

* [[CrapsackWorld The]] [[SadistTeacher incredible]] [[WretchedHive depravity]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive and monstrosity]] [[AbusiveParents of]] [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters human beings]] [[KidsAreCruel at]] [[TeensAreMonsters their absolute worst]].

For many {{horror}} films, achieving this effect is the whole point (and many in-universe examples arise because KidsShouldntWatchHorrorFilms). For [[HollywoodPsych some reason]], many of us like to be scared on purpose. There may be a euphoria generated by surviving something that seems scary, or maybe we know that fiction can't hurt us and the idea of choosing to be scared without the danger is fun. Some think it's cathartic or therapeutic in some way to explore our fears from a position of relative safety. In any case, this is normal for the genre. Others are [[NightmareFetishist fascinated by the very things that most people avoid]]. Occasionally, it overlaps with {{Squick}}.

* NightmareFuel/VanityPlates

And in case you're planning on sleeping tonight...[[SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel here y'go]].

** Swarms of fear-inducing animals such as rats, [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent snakes]], spiders or [[TheSwarm insects]].