It kind of feels like the island is mocking parts of animal crossing in a way? Like a favourite dreamy surrounded by all of the nook mile tickets And the dreamy being so happy to be living there with that big red painted on smile And the mention of how many stars islands have And literally giving them glowing stars And islanders being scientifically studied and turned into other islanders Like a twisted version of reality in this game
Aika ain't as scary as it was in new leaf. They added three more stories and its confusing. Hitokui is scarier and traumatizing. It was the inspiration for my own haunted island
You for sure do not need to keep your “nerd outs” to a minimum. They are always super fascinating! I also just love how excited you got about all the marine life in the game. Maybe you could give your thoughts on the bugs/fish and deep creatures in a future video??
YOU DESCRIBING THAT HORRIFYING CRAB AND SAYING IT CAN BE TBE SIZE OF A CAAAAAAR AS IF IT WERE A CUTE PUPPY 💀💀💀💀 "They can be as big as a caaaarrr, and they've been seen eating sailor's corpses, actually 😌🥰" GURL😭😭😭
I know this is an older video, but the "So if you're a dead sailor, guess what? They're gonna eat chya. But if you're a dead, whale, guess what they're also gonna eat chya" SLAYED me. Still makes me laugh.
Science behind sleep paralysis: Everyone has sleep paralysis every night, but you don’t know that because you are asleep. When you wake up too fast, especially from a dream you body is not awake from the paralysis yet. Your body simply didn’t catch up that fast with your consciousness. Why we have sleep paralysis in the first place? Because our body would move while we dream. It’s a blocker so you don’t do the things you do in your dreams in real life.
ohh yoo know what i thought: they cloned the frogs. like they grew them in the lab, or it's the lab where they make the villagers. They combine animals and humans together to create the villagers.
Honestly, you really have made me go back to marine biology. I was obsessed for years but I dropped it because everyone around me didn't see it as a suitable job. Now I'm going back to it and seeing my passion for marine biology. You've made me come back to my dream life, thank you so much.
Same. I used to LOVE sharks but I was mocked and berated by my family and "friends". heaing her talk about animals really has sparked something in me I thought had died
Most people: “human to frog scary” Amanda: “Y’all got a gofundme??” Also I’ve had sleep paralysis once or twice and I’ve seen the shadow man with the top hat before too so kinda freaky.
What’s freaky is that the first time I had sleep paralysis it was when I was wayyy younger, and there was an astronaut standing at the foot my bed- helmet completely blacked out. And it’s kinda freaky there’s all of those astronaut figures littered all over that island-it’s what triggered the memory 😰
@@BluebafoonBlueflame whoa that’s wild. I’ve never heard about an astronaut figure before. But it reminds of this picture where a guy and his daughter took a picture and there was an astronaut behind them that wasn’t there in real life.
Omg the gas mask part cracked me up 😭. I'm terrified of them too. It's probably because of the Doctor Who episode The Empty Child that I watched for the first time when I was 7 😭. Genuinely horrifying stuff.
I am also terrified of gas masks for the exact same reason. Me and my sister used to freak eachother out by saying "are you my mummy" when we were younger.
@@burnout2836 I used to do that with my friends too! The scene where the man at the hospital transformed was the scariest thing I'd ever seen on a TV show by that point 😭. Then of course Blink and Midnight came later. Moffat is really good at writing one-off, self-contained horror episodes for sure.
I saw you liked Reneigh the horse in your other video and I just need to vent because she was my starter villager and she was so nice in the beginning but she turned into such a mean girl by the time she left. She was literally gaslighting me and my villagers with her conversations. The thing that was the last straw though was when she told me how much she loved flowers and collecting them. Cut to a day later when she and another villager are in a fight because the villager said Reneigh smelled cute. Well, she did not like that one bit and was stomping around yelling 'how can something smell cute?!' I stepped in to try and diffuse the situation and the game gave me the option to say she smelled like flowers. I picked this thinking this would appease her and it my shock she flipped out even more and said that was so rude of me to say. Like girl you were the one who literally told me yesterday that you love collecting flower so excuse me. Anyway, I kicked her out for Goldie and we're all very happier.
@@urmothermia Oh no!! I can't stand trouble making, instigating villagers, rude villagers. Just got Reneigh and am so happy to have found her. Hoping for the best he he.
i had the same thing happen with reneigh! the day after i got her, she changed tangy AND pashminas catchphrases back to their original ones after i worked my friendship levels up with them to change it!! I was done with her after that and kicked her out asap because i didn't want my other villagers catchphrases changed back!
I’m a ravenclaw BUT the fact that I come off as a slytherin to you is actually one of the best compliments EVERRRR 😭 I wish I was technically a slytherin. and also the fact that you recognized the it follows music 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼
I used to get sleep paralysis every single time i slept on my back and it was truly horrifying. I could see like a demon or figure in the corner of my room and then next thing i know they’re floating above me choking me and i can’t breathe. The first time it happened i was so scared and took forever to wake up but im more used to it now so when i see the figure i just wiggle my fingers and toes and start moving around to wake up. Still really scary though.
I suffer from it too, it is horrifying. It used to be a lot more intense when I was a kid and in my mid teens, to the point that I would keep myself up for as long as possible, not realising that lack of sleep is one of the triggers. For ages I used to think I was experiencing something supernatural, until I found out what it actually was and then I was relieved to find out that it is actually quite common and there are ways to wake yourself up quicker. I get it probably once a month now and it's usually voices around my room I hear now (thankfully of people I know so it isn't as scary) rather than anything visual.
I get it commonly too, though not as often as every night, that sounds awful and I don’t know what I’d do. I remember my most vivid hallucination being one I had a few months ago, where a creature with long arms and stubby tentacle things for a head shoved my face into my pillow and forced its tentacles through my ears and straight into my brain. I suffocated for a few seconds then woke up. It still happens around 2-4 times a month but I don’t get many hallucinations because I start wiggling my toes to wake up before things get weird.
Sleep paralysis gets much less terrifying if you just flirt with the demon 🤷♀️ Edit: 100% seriously though, a way to deal with sleep paralysis is to mentally crack jokes. Remember that it's your own brain doing it, and that you ultimately have control over it!
im pretty sure the girl in the red fell in the well- thats why her picture was by it like a memorial and why she was floating in the water with all those fisherman and if spider crabs eat dead sailors, and the girl who died in water has a bunch of them in her house, then.....
Because of the axes near the girls outfit everywhere and her playroom, I'm inclined to think she was murdered and then her body dumped into the well. And then yeah, the crabs...
Yooo the tophat shadow dude is such a common thing, i guess? I mean a loooot of people have said that when they were having sleep paralysis they saw a big shadow man with a top hat. Wonder why that is
I love that you upload hour long videos! It's such a joy for me to watch this throughout a day; I'm already excited to pause this and have future me get to watch more😅
RIGHTTT omfg this anecdote is so real 😂 me and my brother were stuck on that shit for MONTHS because it was so damn traumatizing I think one of our older cousins had to get us through it or something
@@theamandafiles YES, LOOK IT UP (or don’t cause it’ll ruin your whole day and make you paranoid ). The top hat and I guess he has abnormally long fingers that people claim to see wrap around corners? 🤢 I can’t
i think the room with the toilets was insinuating that the statues without arms had been amputated and the blenders were blending up the arms to be served at the tables... spooky
Omg are you serious. I’m actually a good dreamer too!! Wtf Amanda. Other than liking scary shit we are so similar in so many ways. Everyone looks at me crazy when I tell them I’m really good at lucid dreaming. Such a fun and actually pretty introspective talent. Sometimes I fully control the dream other times I just stay lucid and kind of let the dream play out. A year after my dad died I “woke up” in a dream, and for some reason I knew I was going somewhere to see my dad. I was in this neighborhood that I’ve never seen before but felt so familiar. Until I got to this one house I knew my dad was inside. I went in the house and it was like a maze every turn led me to a new door and I knew exactly where to go until I came to the last door. I took a second to collect my feelings because if you want to stay lucid you need to keep your emotions in check so you don’t wake up. I opened the door and my dad was standing there in his prime (he died after battling cancer for 10 years, so the last I saw him was him at his most sick) and I’m thinking to myself ok chill kassy don’t start crying just yet. And he comes gives me a hug and whispers in my ear and and that point I’m bawling my eyes out and woke up crying and to this day I still don’t know what he said. Don’t let me get started on sleep paralysis. I’ve had that multiple times in my life. The first time I was terrified so I did a lot of research. Then I realized you could use it to get into my lucid dreams. It’s so crazy how your mind can hallucinate like that while you’re half awake. Anyways it’s called the Wake Induced Lucid Dreaming where you kind of meditate into sleep while still being conscious. Because sleep paralysis happens when your physical body goes to “sleep” and it produces the chemical in your body that paralyzes you while you sleep as a safety precaution so you don’t act out your dreams, like people who suffer from sleep disorders like sleep walking their brain doesnt make that chemical, anyway, so you get sleep paralysis when your mind is actually still awake but your body is sleeping. In the most simple way I can put it. And your mind thinks your sleeping so it produces dreams but since your eyes are open and you are aware they are kind of dreams that are overlay your reality, which are hallucinations. And when you add fear to the mix that’s when your brain starts creating scarier and scarier hallucinations. So I haven’t heard what your sleep paralysis was yet other than you mentioning the being paralyzed part. But your motor functions like muscle movements are paralyzed but obviously your heart is still beating and your lungs are still breathing, but because the rest of your body has zero sensation you are hyper aware of the weight of your body on your lungs and that’s why most people state they felt like someone or something is holding them down or sitting on them lol or just feel super heavy and hearing your heart beat can be interpreted as footsteps in the room. I personally had a fan over my head and my hair was hitting my face it felt like someone was breathing on me. Etc. and when you start thinking all these things that’s when your brain goes deeper into hallucinations fueled by fear. But how you use this seemingly terrifying experience to go into a lucid dream is pretty simple. If you understand what’s going on and control your emotions you can control the “hallucinations”, really dreams, into something more pleasant and since your already lucid you just need to guide it in the right directions. And then you’re flying in the air, bending the clouds into shapes and eating fireworks all the fun stuff you can imagine.
I saw Aika in another person's AC stream and it had me very confused and afraid. The streamer visited a comfy island afterwards though, so it was all good. Also, some small tips in case you ever want to visit dream islands again: - Players will sometimes leave items for you to use or outfits to dress in, since you can't take anything with you to dream islands. Usually they'll leave them near Resident Services. - You can dream from ANY bed in your home, not just Luna's Bed. Also, sleep paralysis sucks. Also, Wart Jr. can choke on a landmine.
I got tested positive for covid 19 three days ago and your videos have been getting me through it, I've been rewatching and rebinging them all and I was excited to see this, thank you so much for these video, you genuinely have no idea how much impact you have on so many peoples lives right now, including mine
i used to struggle a lot with sleep paralysis! sometimes the "sleep paralysis demon" would look really distinct. It was usually the vague shadowy figure, but once it was straight up just a sheet ghost and it just starting having a little rave right next to my bed. it had glow sticks. btw, wearing a blindfold to bed really helped me with my sleep paralysis, so protip.
Ohh, if you want a REALLY good horror town, I’d recommend Hitokui! I actually enjoyed it more than I did Aika tbh!! There’s more sort of...outright(??) horror in Hitokui and there’s some really creative uses of the camera function in some of the houses!!! Excited for your next video 😊
I've had proper sleep paralysis once, I thought I became paralysed in my sleep. I managed to rip myself out of it but it was really anxiety inducing! More commonly, my body falls asleep before my brain but I catch it as it's beginning to happen and I can pull myself out of it before it begins.
Started watching your videos because Angry Coconut said he loved your Molokai episodes. Now I just can't stop watching your videos because I learn so much from you, especially when you nerd out hehe. Thank you so much!
Literally found your channel a few days ago from the tier list of drama xD I have been working on,my island and I just got zucker to move to my island last night
How would someone go about getting you to tour their island, Amanda? I’ve got a horror island too, (though it’s a lot differently executed) and your reactions absolutely kill me.
I had sleep paralysis once too! I didn’t hallucinate anything, but for some reason I was convinced that there was somebody in my room watching me. Real freaky. Love your videos!
Ok so I’m sure that you’ve already learned the science behind sleep paralysis, nighttime hallucinations, “the hat man,” etc. since this vid was posted two years ago, but just in case you haven’t, (and you would like to learn about how different cultures deal with and explain sleep paralysis) I would highly HIGHLY recommend the episode 106- “The Worst Toy Story…” of podcast And That’s Why We Drink, and the Sleep Paralysis episode (no. 118) of the podcast Morbid for more info. (And yes, yes I am working my way through your back catalogue and also commenting for algorithm purposes, whilst not knowing if it will do anything whatsoever lol.)
I’ve visited this island before and it’s one of the coolest ones like the way she manipulates terraforming and the items out on her island is so creative!
popping in four months after you posted this because i’ve just realized you had a youtube after following you on tiktok all this time so i am now bingeing all of your videos just to say: if you haven’t played until dawn, you should totally play until dawn. i would love to hear your thoughts on the choices you make throughout the game and it’s very butterfly effect-centric. and your commentary on everything? iconic!!!! additionally, life is strange. girl. and oxenfree? GIRLLLLL. basically, i’d just love to watch you play all the things. you have quickly climbed the ranks of my favorite youtubers. we’re basically best friends now and you just don’t know it and it’s fine! anyway BYE.
I had sleep paralysis one time, and it was extremely short because I managed to force myself out of it somehow. But when I had it, I hallucinated that there was this giant black cow in the middle of my room just watching me and slowly blinking (looked just like the cows my neighbors own and kill for meat during the winter). I’m not afraid of cows in the slightest, but this one was literally like seven feet tall, so it just made me feel really nervous for some reason. I told my mom about it when I woke up, and she said she thinks that it was the spirit of one of the cows that was killed next door! Looking back, it was way more weird than it was creepy, but still scary in the moment, especially since it was the one and only time I had ever had sleep paralysis.
So the science behind sleep paralysis is when you sleep, your body shuts down all your muscles so you don't physically react to your dreams. But sometimes, your brain wakes up before you your body does and your dream pool out into consciousness.
My best friend suffers from sleep paralysis pretty often. She went to a doctor and they explained it to her. So when we sleep, our bodies are mostly paralysed to make sure we don't do stuff while we are sleeping. Movement (such as sleepwalking) is the body breaking through it. Sleep paralysis is kinda the opposite, you are half awake, half asleep and the paralysis is in effect until you fully wake up. That's also why people are still dreaming at that point.
Here’s a story of my sleep paralysis. When I was younger I always heard sirens as I went to sleep. I was always having nightmares and it eventually lead to sleep paralysis. I was stuck to my bed and there was a shadowy figure looking over me. At first it was scary but it happened so often that I got used to it. I’d be stuck to my bed struggling to breathe and I was so calm, like “oh it’s happening again”. I used to think sleep paralysis, struggling to breathe and hearing sirens while drifting of to sleep was normal but when I told people about this they were VERY confused and concerned. When I asked if it was normal for them aswell they said “no... are you okay?”. I went through some scary shit as a kid and I’m honestly so suprised I haven’t turned into a cereal killer after this experience,
I've been lucid dreaming since as long as I can remember. I started to wake myself up from bad dreams and that caused sleep paralysis and I swear I had it about 5 times within 2 days (between actually sleeping and naps) I still get it once in a while but I haven't had enough things happen in life recently to have bad dreams But yeah, at this point every time I have sleep paralysis I just think to myself "oh for fuck sakes, not again"
It pains me that she didnt check the upstairs or basement of the first house she went WARNING The red shoes mean s-cide in Japanese culture, And it's about a little girl who looks trapped and that in the other game version, the new horizons one is for people without the old game I think, I forgot the name of it, I think it's new leaf
Hi Amanda!! Alex again 💆♀️ so girl listen. What if you tried to find biome themed islands (safari, jungle, stuff like that) and do a dedicated vid every so often just going over the coolest kinds of wildlife you find there? Most themed islands like that try to match the villagers to the theme. Just popped in my head and thought it’d be somethin 🧐 luv u and the vids girl keep em coming nerd queen
I had sleep paralysis once as a teen. It lasted about 15 min. I was in the hospital anyway and thought I was just having a weird dream. I didn’t realize I was awake and paralyzed until about 10 min in and I started freaking out (as much as I could, just hyperventilating and crying). Luckily my mom was in the room, my noises woke her and she woke me up. Tbh it was horrible, the nurse just said I was too warm and had had a bad dream. The sleep paralysis wasn’t a symptom of my illness, and thankfully I’ve never had it again. I’d actually never even heard of sleep paralysis until years later.
i actually know why sleep paralysis happens! basically sleep paralysis only happens when you're already having a nightmare, whether you remember it or not. when your body jolts awake it takes your brain a little bit to actually understand what's going on so you're still paralyzed (when you're in like deep deep rem dream sleep your body gets basically paralyzed to prevent you from like... rolling yourself off a cliff or whatever) so basically half of your brain is telling you you're awake and you gotta go while the other half is still sending out the nightmare and keeping it paralyzed... it's really scary stuff man
im super prone to sleep paralysis, to the point where i experience it at its worst most days. i used to be soooo terrified that when i was finally able to wake up i'd have cold sweats and my heart would be pounding out my chest. did a lot of research in to it to teach myself techniques to 'escape' as such - ugh worst bit is i bloody love a good cat nap
I just wanna say that you inspire me and always make me laugh. I'm just a kid but your inspiring me to make a youtube channel and I have watched your videos at least 10 times each.
I'm not sure if you like horror games, but I feel like we feel the same way about horror movies, haunted houses, and thinking sleep paralysis would be cool. You should try out Visage. Its a game that is similar to PT that was made from Silent Hill. Girl, things don't really scare me, but I have screamed so many times playing it and I genuinely enjoy being scared!
Amy Lee who? Damn girl, you got a great voice. Love the horror island tours. I think the best island I’ve ever seen is from the dude that works for Disney. I forget the island name but he’s got the two big reindeer looking fossils up high outside the museum and the poison apple forest. Please tour that one😁✌🏻👻🎃
It kind of feels like the island is mocking parts of animal crossing in a way?
Like a favourite dreamy surrounded by all of the nook mile tickets
And the dreamy being so happy to be living there with that big red painted on smile
And the mention of how many stars islands have
And literally giving them glowing stars
And islanders being scientifically studied and turned into other islanders
Like a twisted version of reality in this game
another "twisted version of reality" is that the villager herself looks to be some weird combination of like judy's face on merry's body... odd
@@memethystAPPLEBLOOM PFP!
Aika ain't as scary as it was in new leaf. They added three more stories and its confusing. Hitokui is scarier and traumatizing.
It was the inspiration for my own haunted island
Omfg new leaf one HAD ME MESSSEDD UPP
@@Hannah-iz6pf The New Leaf one sparked my appreciation for psychological horror!
@@jstarstudios7110 me too!! i owe a ton of my horror appreciation to aika
Oh, and presents in dream addresses are usually outfits for you to wear during the dream! It's cute. Or scary. It depends 😂😂
I went to the purgatory island, it had those freaky goggles and a hazmat suit
Those were just nose drops, all of them
You for sure do not need to keep your “nerd outs” to a minimum. They are always super fascinating! I also just love how excited you got about all the marine life in the game. Maybe you could give your thoughts on the bugs/fish and deep creatures in a future video??
I agree! Love nerdy Amanda , love all Amanda's colors! Tell us more beautiful!
YOU DESCRIBING THAT HORRIFYING CRAB AND SAYING IT CAN BE TBE SIZE OF A CAAAAAAR AS IF IT WERE A CUTE PUPPY 💀💀💀💀 "They can be as big as a caaaarrr, and they've been seen eating sailor's corpses, actually 😌🥰" GURL😭😭😭
I know this is an older video, but the "So if you're a dead sailor, guess what? They're gonna eat chya. But if you're a dead, whale, guess what they're also gonna eat chya" SLAYED me. Still makes me laugh.
Science behind sleep paralysis: Everyone has sleep paralysis every night, but you don’t know that because you are asleep. When you wake up too fast, especially from a dream you body is not awake from the paralysis yet. Your body simply didn’t catch up that fast with your consciousness. Why we have sleep paralysis in the first place? Because our body would move while we dream. It’s a blocker so you don’t do the things you do in your dreams in real life.
Ur pretty smart my dude
“this is the dollar store how good could it be” WHAT A PHENOMENAL UNDERGROUND VINE REFERENCE
ohh yoo know what i thought: they cloned the frogs. like they grew them in the lab, or it's the lab where they make the villagers. They combine animals and humans together to create the villagers.
The fact that you have YET to find Ankha after travelling to hundreds of islands......its upsetting me and my homegirls
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You and your homegirls won’t be sad for much longer ✨y’all are the real ones tho 💗
Honestly, you really have made me go back to marine biology. I was obsessed for years but I dropped it because everyone around me didn't see it as a suitable job. Now I'm going back to it and seeing my passion for marine biology. You've made me come back to my dream life, thank you so much.
You have NO idea how much this means to me!!! The ocean needs people like you now more than ever. If you ever need any advice lemme know!!
@@theamandafiles Definitely!! I'm becoming a patron soon, so I'll ask for any advice if something strikes me! Thank you again!! 😂
Same. I used to LOVE sharks but I was mocked and berated by my family and "friends". heaing her talk about animals really has sparked something in me I thought had died
Most people: “human to frog scary”
Amanda: “Y’all got a gofundme??”
Also I’ve had sleep paralysis once or twice and I’ve seen the shadow man with the top hat before too so kinda freaky.
@Not a 12 year old oh, to be a frog in Aika Village
if you get freaked out by paranormal stuff then don’t look up the hat man
@@barbarahill2133 oh I’ve heard the stories already lol. Surprisingly hearing them didn’t trigger anymore experiences.
What’s freaky is that the first time I had sleep paralysis it was when I was wayyy younger, and there was an astronaut standing at the foot my bed- helmet completely blacked out. And it’s kinda freaky there’s all of those astronaut figures littered all over that island-it’s what triggered the memory 😰
@@BluebafoonBlueflame whoa that’s wild. I’ve never heard about an astronaut figure before. But it reminds of this picture where a guy and his daughter took a picture and there was an astronaut behind them that wasn’t there in real life.
“what is that. what is that? what is that?! what is that?”
Well???? What IS that????
I think all the alarm clocks, the cannon and the bed on the first island was meant to portray anxiety
I keep waiting for Wart Jr. to show up. He’s honestly the scariest boy out there
I KNOOOOW how did they manage to keep his relentless ass off their froggy island
@@theamandafiles because they have good taste in froggos
I put an octopus tank outside Zuckers house and every once in a while he’ll be like “it smells like me out here...hehe” he’s freaked out.
Omg the gas mask part cracked me up 😭. I'm terrified of them too. It's probably because of the Doctor Who episode The Empty Child that I watched for the first time when I was 7 😭. Genuinely horrifying stuff.
I am also terrified of gas masks for the exact same reason. Me and my sister used to freak eachother out by saying "are you my mummy" when we were younger.
@@burnout2836 I used to do that with my friends too! The scene where the man at the hospital transformed was the scariest thing I'd ever seen on a TV show by that point 😭. Then of course Blink and Midnight came later. Moffat is really good at writing one-off, self-contained horror episodes for sure.
I love how you always make hour long videos it makes me feel really excited when I'm waiting for the week
I have Zucker on my island and he will be treated like a king.
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I saw you liked Reneigh the horse in your other video and I just need to vent because she was my starter villager and she was so nice in the beginning but she turned into such a mean girl by the time she left. She was literally gaslighting me and my villagers with her conversations. The thing that was the last straw though was when she told me how much she loved flowers and collecting them. Cut to a day later when she and another villager are in a fight because the villager said Reneigh smelled cute. Well, she did not like that one bit and was stomping around yelling 'how can something smell cute?!' I stepped in to try and diffuse the situation and the game gave me the option to say she smelled like flowers. I picked this thinking this would appease her and it my shock she flipped out even more and said that was so rude of me to say. Like girl you were the one who literally told me yesterday that you love collecting flower so excuse me. Anyway, I kicked her out for Goldie and we're all very happier.
Good story.
@@urmothermia Oh no!! I can't stand trouble making, instigating villagers, rude villagers. Just got Reneigh and am so happy to have found her. Hoping for the best he he.
i had the same thing happen with reneigh! the day after i got her, she changed tangy AND pashminas catchphrases back to their original ones after i worked my friendship levels up with them to change it!! I was done with her after that and kicked her out asap because i didn't want my other villagers catchphrases changed back!
Omg 2 videos within 4 days of each other, what did we do to deserve this, I never clicked so fast
Listen. It’s not scary without Pietro.
Another video from my favorite Slytherin ❤️ nice choice on the “It Follows” music
I’m a ravenclaw BUT the fact that I come off as a slytherin to you is actually one of the best compliments EVERRRR 😭 I wish I was technically a slytherin. and also the fact that you recognized the it follows music 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼
"you're telling me that's my ex? sounds about right" I SCREAMED.
LOL ME TOO.
You didn't have to put the Hannibal Lector mask on Klaus. He's scary as is.
I used to get sleep paralysis every single time i slept on my back and it was truly horrifying. I could see like a demon or figure in the corner of my room and then next thing i know they’re floating above me choking me and i can’t breathe. The first time it happened i was so scared and took forever to wake up but im more used to it now so when i see the figure i just wiggle my fingers and toes and start moving around to wake up. Still really scary though.
I suffer from it too, it is horrifying. It used to be a lot more intense when I was a kid and in my mid teens, to the point that I would keep myself up for as long as possible, not realising that lack of sleep is one of the triggers. For ages I used to think I was experiencing something supernatural, until I found out what it actually was and then I was relieved to find out that it is actually quite common and there are ways to wake yourself up quicker. I get it probably once a month now and it's usually voices around my room I hear now (thankfully of people I know so it isn't as scary) rather than anything visual.
I get it commonly too, though not as often as every night, that sounds awful and I don’t know what I’d do. I remember my most vivid hallucination being one I had a few months ago, where a creature with long arms and stubby tentacle things for a head shoved my face into my pillow and forced its tentacles through my ears and straight into my brain. I suffocated for a few seconds then woke up. It still happens around 2-4 times a month but I don’t get many hallucinations because I start wiggling my toes to wake up before things get weird.
Sleep paralysis gets much less terrifying if you just flirt with the demon 🤷♀️
Edit: 100% seriously though, a way to deal with sleep paralysis is to mentally crack jokes. Remember that it's your own brain doing it, and that you ultimately have control over it!
Once saw a creature attack me from the ceiling and I got dragged under the bed I think these were the 2 times I had it
im pretty sure the girl in the red fell in the well- thats why her picture was by it like a memorial and why she was floating in the water with all those fisherman
and if spider crabs eat dead sailors, and the girl who died in water has a bunch of them in her house, then.....
Because of the axes near the girls outfit everywhere and her playroom, I'm inclined to think she was murdered and then her body dumped into the well. And then yeah, the crabs...
Yooo the tophat shadow dude is such a common thing, i guess? I mean a loooot of people have said that when they were having sleep paralysis they saw a big shadow man with a top hat. Wonder why that is
I just found that out!! That is SO terrifying! It’s like a weird thing that makes it seem that much more real!
If you ever watched Sam and Colby’s vlogs, their friend Corey also refers to him! He calls him the shadowman. That’s hella weird
i’ve heard it’s a sign of childhood trauma
In the new horizons version of this town when I first visited, it was the random eyes and the dried, dead, and creepy sunfish in one of the basements.
I love that you upload hour long videos! It's such a joy for me to watch this throughout a day; I'm already excited to pause this and have future me get to watch more😅
I'm pretty sure Huck's house was some... drug producing lab
HONESTLY? Please do more scary islands you're so amazinf and I love how in depth you go
I was just craving one of your videos but I’d already watched them all, yay! You lift my mood every time I watch you!
You are the reason I love Zucker and I found him on an island yesterday and he moved to my island ❤❤❤
I want a full book on the lore of this island
WHEN I WENT TO THE AKIA VILLAGE I COULD LITERALLY COULD NIT SLEEP 😭😭
We had to make our dad do the sneaking in the Harry Potter game because the music when you got caught was too scary
RIGHTTT omfg this anecdote is so real 😂 me and my brother were stuck on that shit for MONTHS because it was so damn traumatizing I think one of our older cousins had to get us through it or something
oh my god the luna voice is giving me SUCH VIBES! ADFHHAGB
amanda: it’s very long- ITS TOO DAMN LONG
me: amanda do you know what you’ve done
Okay but that shadow man with a top hat is a phenomenon 😳 So many people claim to see him, especially during sleep paralysis.
REALLY OMG my heart dropped when I read this. That is SO scary holy shirt
@@theamandafiles YES, LOOK IT UP (or don’t cause it’ll ruin your whole day and make you paranoid ). The top hat and I guess he has abnormally long fingers that people claim to see wrap around corners? 🤢 I can’t
I visited recently and in the house one of the doors that was blocked is now open and it’s super creepy…
i think the room with the toilets was insinuating that the statues without arms had been amputated and the blenders were blending up the arms to be served at the tables... spooky
Actually the shoes by the beach is when someone takes own life in Japan, people take their shoes off before taking their own life
you’re legitimately one of my favorite youtubers, you’re so funny and i always get such a huge serotonin boost when you post :’)
Everyone: *im so early!*
Me, an intellectual: *your on time cheif*
my fav ac youtuber back at it!!
Omg are you serious. I’m actually a good dreamer too!! Wtf Amanda. Other than liking scary shit we are so similar in so many ways. Everyone looks at me crazy when I tell them I’m really good at lucid dreaming. Such a fun and actually pretty introspective talent. Sometimes I fully control the dream other times I just stay lucid and kind of let the dream play out. A year after my dad died I “woke up” in a dream, and for some reason I knew I was going somewhere to see my dad. I was in this neighborhood that I’ve never seen before but felt so familiar. Until I got to this one house I knew my dad was inside. I went in the house and it was like a maze every turn led me to a new door and I knew exactly where to go until I came to the last door. I took a second to collect my feelings because if you want to stay lucid you need to keep your emotions in check so you don’t wake up. I opened the door and my dad was standing there in his prime (he died after battling cancer for 10 years, so the last I saw him was him at his most sick) and I’m thinking to myself ok chill kassy don’t start crying just yet. And he comes gives me a hug and whispers in my ear and and that point I’m bawling my eyes out and woke up crying and to this day I still don’t know what he said. Don’t let me get started on sleep paralysis. I’ve had that multiple times in my life. The first time I was terrified so I did a lot of research. Then I realized you could use it to get into my lucid dreams. It’s so crazy how your mind can hallucinate like that while you’re half awake. Anyways it’s called the Wake Induced Lucid Dreaming where you kind of meditate into sleep while still being conscious. Because sleep paralysis happens when your physical body goes to “sleep” and it produces the chemical in your body that paralyzes you while you sleep as a safety precaution so you don’t act out your dreams, like people who suffer from sleep disorders like sleep walking their brain doesnt make that chemical, anyway, so you get sleep paralysis when your mind is actually still awake but your body is sleeping. In the most simple way I can put it. And your mind thinks your sleeping so it produces dreams but since your eyes are open and you are aware they are kind of dreams that are overlay your reality, which are hallucinations. And when you add fear to the mix that’s when your brain starts creating scarier and scarier hallucinations. So I haven’t heard what your sleep paralysis was yet other than you mentioning the being paralyzed part. But your motor functions like muscle movements are paralyzed but obviously your heart is still beating and your lungs are still breathing, but because the rest of your body has zero sensation you are hyper aware of the weight of your body on your lungs and that’s why most people state they felt like someone or something is holding them down or sitting on them lol or just feel super heavy and hearing your heart beat can be interpreted as footsteps in the room. I personally had a fan over my head and my hair was hitting my face it felt like someone was breathing on me. Etc. and when you start thinking all these things that’s when your brain goes deeper into hallucinations fueled by fear. But how you use this seemingly terrifying experience to go into a lucid dream is pretty simple. If you understand what’s going on and control your emotions you can control the “hallucinations”, really dreams, into something more pleasant and since your already lucid you just need to guide it in the right directions. And then you’re flying in the air, bending the clouds into shapes and eating fireworks all the fun stuff you can imagine.
Ok go off, spitting really cool facts rn
I saw Aika in another person's AC stream and it had me very confused and afraid. The streamer visited a comfy island afterwards though, so it was all good.
Also, some small tips in case you ever want to visit dream islands again:
- Players will sometimes leave items for you to use or outfits to dress in, since you can't take anything with you to dream islands. Usually they'll leave them near Resident Services.
- You can dream from ANY bed in your home, not just Luna's Bed.
Also, sleep paralysis sucks.
Also, Wart Jr. can choke on a landmine.
I got tested positive for covid 19 three days ago and your videos have been getting me through it, I've been rewatching and rebinging them all and I was excited to see this, thank you so much for these video, you genuinely have no idea how much impact you have on so many peoples lives right now, including mine
I remember visiting this village in New Leaf. It scared me so bad lmao
i used to struggle a lot with sleep paralysis! sometimes the "sleep paralysis demon" would look really distinct. It was usually the vague shadowy figure, but once it was straight up just a sheet ghost and it just starting having a little rave right next to my bed. it had glow sticks.
btw, wearing a blindfold to bed really helped me with my sleep paralysis, so protip.
Ohh, if you want a REALLY good horror town, I’d recommend Hitokui! I actually enjoyed it more than I did Aika tbh!! There’s more sort of...outright(??) horror in Hitokui and there’s some really creative uses of the camera function in some of the houses!!! Excited for your next video 😊
I've had proper sleep paralysis once, I thought I became paralysed in my sleep. I managed to rip myself out of it but it was really anxiety inducing! More commonly, my body falls asleep before my brain but I catch it as it's beginning to happen and I can pull myself out of it before it begins.
Glad to see a true horror fan acknowledge Uzumaki
YESSS! It’s a masterpiece!! I can’t get enough of Junji Ito.
Another joyful hour with my girl can’t wait to hear the goods today! Spill the tea girl!
Started watching your videos because Angry Coconut said he loved your Molokai episodes. Now I just can't stop watching your videos because I learn so much from you, especially when you nerd out hehe. Thank you so much!
I was just hoping you’d upload today while i was reading my visual novel this morning
I really needed this. Thank you ❤️
I would love a video about your dreams!! Or a full vid about your book!! I am ready to buy!!❤️❤️
Literally found your channel a few days ago from the tier list of drama xD I have been working on,my island and I just got zucker to move to my island last night
How would someone go about getting you to tour their island, Amanda? I’ve got a horror island too, (though it’s a lot differently executed) and your reactions absolutely kill me.
I think if I knew the reasoning behind their "decor" it might be scary but as I'm watching its just kind of... meh. A big mess.
Your videos honestly make me feel so genuinely happy and motivated to play animal crossing 🥺
I just got out of school and I'm so glad this was the top in my recommended. I needed this 😂😂
pin this if you'd commit a sin against wart jr.
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I had sleep paralysis once too! I didn’t hallucinate anything, but for some reason I was convinced that there was somebody in my room watching me. Real freaky. Love your videos!
Love you so much, Amanda! Thanks for spoiling us on a Wednesday
Ok so I’m sure that you’ve already learned the science behind sleep paralysis, nighttime hallucinations, “the hat man,” etc. since this vid was posted two years ago, but just in case you haven’t, (and you would like to learn about how different cultures deal with and explain sleep paralysis) I would highly HIGHLY recommend the episode 106- “The Worst Toy Story…” of podcast And That’s Why We Drink, and the Sleep Paralysis episode (no. 118) of the podcast Morbid for more info.
(And yes, yes I am working my way through your back catalogue and also commenting for algorithm purposes, whilst not knowing if it will do anything whatsoever lol.)
I’ve visited this island before and it’s one of the coolest ones like the way she manipulates terraforming and the items out on her island is so creative!
popping in four months after you posted this because i’ve just realized you had a youtube after following you on tiktok all this time so i am now bingeing all of your videos just to say: if you haven’t played until dawn, you should totally play until dawn. i would love to hear your thoughts on the choices you make throughout the game and it’s very butterfly effect-centric. and your commentary on everything? iconic!!!!
additionally, life is strange. girl. and oxenfree? GIRLLLLL. basically, i’d just love to watch you play all the things. you have quickly climbed the ranks of my favorite youtubers. we’re basically best friends now and you just don’t know it and it’s fine! anyway BYE.
Amanda “ those are head wraps??”
Me” EYES THEY ARE EYES 😱
Wait but can someone actually explain the island? Like yeah it’s scary but I honestly don’t understand it enough to be creeped out like most people
I had sleep paralysis one time, and it was extremely short because I managed to force myself out of it somehow. But when I had it, I hallucinated that there was this giant black cow in the middle of my room just watching me and slowly blinking (looked just like the cows my neighbors own and kill for meat during the winter). I’m not afraid of cows in the slightest, but this one was literally like seven feet tall, so it just made me feel really nervous for some reason. I told my mom about it when I woke up, and she said she thinks that it was the spirit of one of the cows that was killed next door! Looking back, it was way more weird than it was creepy, but still scary in the moment, especially since it was the one and only time I had ever had sleep paralysis.
never closed among us so fast
honestly you bring me luck
I have found audie and bluebear on the same hunt
please help
perfect break from all the school work lol, love ur content
So the science behind sleep paralysis is when you sleep, your body shuts down all your muscles so you don't physically react to your dreams. But sometimes, your brain wakes up before you your body does and your dream pool out into consciousness.
My best friend suffers from sleep paralysis pretty often. She went to a doctor and they explained it to her. So when we sleep, our bodies are mostly paralysed to make sure we don't do stuff while we are sleeping. Movement (such as sleepwalking) is the body breaking through it. Sleep paralysis is kinda the opposite, you are half awake, half asleep and the paralysis is in effect until you fully wake up. That's also why people are still dreaming at that point.
Also, I'm pretty sure there's a link between sleep paralysis, lucid dreaming and a bunch of sleep disorders such as insomnia.
theyre either turning normal frogs into humans or humans into frog villagers
and then the pictures over the frog tanks are like the "goal"
Here’s a story of my sleep paralysis.
When I was younger I always heard sirens as I went to sleep. I was always having nightmares and it eventually lead to sleep paralysis. I was stuck to my bed and there was a shadowy figure looking over me. At first it was scary but it happened so often that I got used to it. I’d be stuck to my bed struggling to breathe and I was so calm, like “oh it’s happening again”. I used to think sleep paralysis, struggling to breathe and hearing sirens while drifting of to sleep was normal but when I told people about this they were VERY confused and concerned. When I asked if it was normal for them aswell they said “no... are you okay?”. I went through some scary shit as a kid and I’m honestly so suprised I haven’t turned into a cereal killer after this experience,
I've been lucid dreaming since as long as I can remember. I started to wake myself up from bad dreams and that caused sleep paralysis and I swear I had it about 5 times within 2 days (between actually sleeping and naps)
I still get it once in a while but I haven't had enough things happen in life recently to have bad dreams
But yeah, at this point every time I have sleep paralysis I just think to myself "oh for fuck sakes, not again"
11:31 i thought they were a pug and chihuahua wearing cool hats...uhhh hehehe probably not tho.
It pains me that she didnt check the upstairs or basement of the first house she went
WARNING
The red shoes mean s-cide in Japanese culture,
And it's about a little girl who looks trapped and that in the other game version, the new horizons one is for people without the old game I think, I forgot the name of it, I think it's new leaf
Omg that intro is everything 🙌🏻🎃
watching this alone @ night brings about a completely different vibe 🥶
Hi Amanda!! Alex again 💆♀️ so girl listen. What if you tried to find biome themed islands (safari, jungle, stuff like that) and do a dedicated vid every so often just going over the coolest kinds of wildlife you find there? Most themed islands like that try to match the villagers to the theme. Just popped in my head and thought it’d be somethin 🧐 luv u and the vids girl keep em coming nerd queen
Ahahahahha. Your videos are like the only thing I look forward to anymore😌🌷
You should drop your own dream island ID number so we can visit 👀
I had sleep paralysis once as a teen. It lasted about 15 min. I was in the hospital anyway and thought I was just having a weird dream. I didn’t realize I was awake and paralyzed until about 10 min in and I started freaking out (as much as I could, just hyperventilating and crying). Luckily my mom was in the room, my noises woke her and she woke me up. Tbh it was horrible, the nurse just said I was too warm and had had a bad dream. The sleep paralysis wasn’t a symptom of my illness, and thankfully I’ve never had it again. I’d actually never even heard of sleep paralysis until years later.
Amanda visiting a terrifying island
Ankha on some random island alone struggling to live and waiting for Amanda
Omg wasn't expecting it. ALSO THE INTRO I LOVE IT
YESSS Amanda with the spooky content !! Her editing is so great
Btw: would you ever consider twitch streaming?
" *drift is so cute!* "
Me who has Drift on there island: y e s
i actually know why sleep paralysis happens! basically sleep paralysis only happens when you're already having a nightmare, whether you remember it or not. when your body jolts awake it takes your brain a little bit to actually understand what's going on so you're still paralyzed (when you're in like deep deep rem dream sleep your body gets basically paralyzed to prevent you from like... rolling yourself off a cliff or whatever) so basically half of your brain is telling you you're awake and you gotta go while the other half is still sending out the nightmare and keeping it paralyzed... it's really scary stuff man
im super prone to sleep paralysis, to the point where i experience it at its worst most days. i used to be soooo terrified that when i was finally able to wake up i'd have cold sweats and my heart would be pounding out my chest. did a lot of research in to it to teach myself techniques to 'escape' as such - ugh worst bit is i bloody love a good cat nap
I just wanna say that you inspire me and always make me laugh. I'm just a kid but your inspiring me to make a youtube channel and I have watched your videos at least 10 times each.
I'm not sure if you like horror games, but I feel like we feel the same way about horror movies, haunted houses, and thinking sleep paralysis would be cool. You should try out Visage. Its a game that is similar to PT that was made from Silent Hill. Girl, things don't really scare me, but I have screamed so many times playing it and I genuinely enjoy being scared!
Yes! Another hour long video! I'm settling in. 😌
in LOVE with the opening intro
Amy Lee who? Damn girl, you got a great voice. Love the horror island tours. I think the best island I’ve ever seen is from the dude that works for Disney. I forget the island name but he’s got the two big reindeer looking fossils up high outside the museum and the poison apple forest. Please tour that one😁✌🏻👻🎃