Ninurta mentions an inherent risk he described as getting "sucked in" one way or the other. There is a strange uneasiness, a kind of instability and, I will add a feeling that you don't belong there, that you are the alien in that world no matter how natural it may appear.
I have had nightmares in which I was in a completely normal and non-threatening place with nothing around me that can be considered the slightest bit scary. It could be the most pleasant day in the most wonderful place you have ever seen, except that there is an evil terror in the atmosphere so thick it chokes and paralyzes you. Regardless of the happy scenery, the place is wrong, it is pure evil and it seems to want to harm you.
It may be an evil presence I suppose, but it is more like the place itself is the presence if that makes sense. I put this dream scenario in the realm of liminal spaces.
I have had nightmares in which I was in a completely normal and non-threatening place with nothing around me that can be considered the slightest bit scary. It could be the most pleasant day in the most wonderful place you have ever seen, except that there is an evil terror in the atmosphere so thick it chokes and paralyzes you. Regardless of the happy scenery, the place is wrong, it is pure evil and it seems to want to harm you.
It may be an evil presence I suppose, but it is more like the place itself is the presence if that makes sense. I put this dream scenario in the realm of liminal spaces.
A trail goes two ways and looks different in each direction - There is no such thing as a timid woodland creature - Whatever does not kill you leaves you a survivor - Jesus is NOT a bad word - MSB