u/lvfexr66

> Hey everyone! I'm an 18-year-old guy living in Portugal, and I'm looking to expand my social circle and find some genuine, long-term friends to talk to online or potentially meet up with if you happen to be local.

> To give you a bit of background about me, I'm currently studying communication and marketing, so I really enjoy brainstorming creative projects, discussing design, and talking about branding and business ideas. When I am not focused on my studies, I spend a lot of my free time trying to stay active. I really enjoy hitting the gym, working out consistently, and playing or watching football whenever I get the chance.

> On the digital side of things, I'm a pretty big mobile gamer. You can usually find me playing competitive matches on eFootball or dropping into squad games on PUBG Mobile. If you happen to play either of those, we should definitely team up for a few matches sometime!

> Aside from sports and gaming, I have a deep appreciation for art and specific music subgenres. My daily playlist is mostly filled with darker, atmospheric sounds like blackened darkwave, industrial metal, and haunting underground tracks. I also love the whole dark academia, vintage, and gothic aesthetic, and I am an avid reader and writer, particularly within the dark romance literary genre.

> I'm looking for chill, open-minded people around my age to vibe with, share music tracks, talk about games, or just text throughout the day about how life is going. If any of this resonates with you, feel free to drop a comment or send me a DM! Please introduce yourself a bit when you reach out.

The "Black-Eyed Children" is a psychological nightmare because it completely weaponizes your natural instinct to protect kids. The legend follows people who hear a soft, frantic knocking on their door or car window late at night, only to find two young children standing outside in outdated clothing begging to be let inside because they are lost or scared. The moment you look closely, your brain instantly triggers a deep, evolutionary panic response because their eyes are completely pitch black no whites, no irises, just hollow obsidian voids. They will use hypnotic, monotone voices to demand your permission to enter, and the urban myth says that if you give in to the psychological pressure and invite them over your threshold, your mind completely fractures from a sudden, overwhelming sense of dread before you mysteriously vanish without a trace.

Right after WWI, a mysterious disease called Encephalitis Lethargica swept the globe, striking millions of people. It attacked the brainstem in a way science still can’t fully explain. The most horrific cases resulted in a state called "akinetic mutism." Patients became entirely paralyzed, unable to move, speak, or blink on their own yet they were completely conscious and aware inside their bodies. They could hear everything happening around them, feel everything, and think perfectly clearly, but were entirely trapped in a frozen fleshy prison for decades until they died. Millions of people vanished into their own minds, and to this day, we still don't know exactly what caused it or if it could happen again.

Right after WWI, a mysterious disease called Encephalitis Lethargica swept the globe, striking millions of people. It attacked the brainstem in a way science still can’t fully explain. The most horrific cases resulted in a state called "akinetic mutism." Patients became entirely paralyzed, unable to move, speak, or blink on their own yet they were completely conscious and aware inside their bodies. They could hear everything happening around them, feel everything, and think perfectly clearly, but were entirely trapped in a frozen fleshy prison for decades until they died. Millions of people vanished into their own minds, and to this day, we still don't know exactly what caused it or if it could happen again.