Am I wasting my time? God, I hope not. I enjoy the thrills and the ratcheting suspense. Ironically, I am not a believer in the paranormal. I don’t sense any impending danger by being enthralled by the frightening. As a psychologist, I am all too aware of things that frighten and disturb people (and, quite frankly, the things that disturb and frighten me) and none of them involve the supernatural. There are too many real life events that can send us into a panic. No need to manufacture the impossible.
Yet, there is that sense of embarrassment. But, at 59 years of age, I don’t see the need to change it at this stage of the game. Still…