That’s actually kind of a good point, if a horror is far enough literally beyond our comprehension. Is it really a horror?
I’ve seen this image floating around for a while, which breaks down the reasoning - or lack thereof in certain media - pretty well.
The point regarding seeing the world from anothers view reminds me of ‘Story of your life’ by Ted Chiang, a brilliant short story that also has a movie based on it (Arrival) which is also my favourite movie despite the, imo, botched ending.
Spoiler alert:
As the lead character learns the aliens language and can now interpret time and generally the world they do, you get to a different kind of consciousness.
As I type this out I relaize its actually kind of off topic after all lol.
just have to let it sink in - it will eventually trigger the internal horror response
I played a one-shot of Call of Cthulhu where the DM had you roll an intelligence check if you saw a horror. If you rolled over your intelligence, you had no idea what you were looking at and were unaffected. If you rolled under your intelligence, you knew exactly what you were looking at and had to roll against your sanity to see if it drove you insane.
In other words, you could have no idea what you’re looking at, know what you’re looking at but handle it, or know what you’re looking at and not like it!
