It feels so dumb to say, and I have no way to prove I'm not exaggerating.
The image is one of a Giant Phantom Jellyfish. In the image, the jellyfish's main body is very close up, and its tendrils aren't very visible. The middle part of the head is glowing red in a way, maybe from camera light? The rest of the body is a greyish black.
This image terrifies me. Looking at it gives me literal nightmares and makes me so scared I have to hug my fiance to try and wash it out of my mind.
I'm confessing this today because my friends decided to do an experiment- to see how far we could push it until I was scared of it again. After looking at different images with various levels of editing, here's what I found:
- I am scared of other images of the same jellyfish.
- The head seems to be the scariest part- on all images of the jellyfish BESIDES the initial image, if the head is covered up completely it isn't scary anymore.
- drawings that aren't direct traces of other images of the jellyfish aren't scary.
- reducing the resolution of the original image makes it less scary, but only up to about 5% of the original size.
That being said, please do not send any images of this jellyfish under this post. This is not a joke post. I do not know why I'm so scared of this jellyfish.