I saw the shining at around that age too and I didn’t find it scary at all. Then I saw the ring and it was scary.
I was always afraid that the woman is coming from somewhere until I got annoyed of being scared and started pointing middlefinger to anywhere I thought she would appear from and I was no longer afraid.
Later when my little brother was having recurring nightmares I told him the power of middlefinger and next time he had it instead of running away from the boogieman he showed middlefinger to it and he no longer got those nightmares.
That was the best big brother moment I ever had :D
I saw the shining at around that age too and I didn’t find it scary at all. Then I saw the ring and it was scary. I was always afraid that the woman is coming from somewhere until I got annoyed of being scared and started pointing middlefinger to anywhere I thought she would appear from and I was no longer afraid. Later when my little brother was having recurring nightmares I told him the power of middlefinger and next time he had it instead of running away from the boogieman he showed middlefinger to it and he no longer got those nightmares.
That was the best big brother moment I ever had :D
What a cool technique!
Such a lovely memory. You truly come to cherish these moments in retrospect