I know this is probably a common topic. For me, I’m not sure if it’s a “trope” or just totally misinformed writing, but it’s how many authors approach alcoholism. Some examples are Girl on the Train and The House Across the Lake, among HUNDREDS. If anyone else here has struggled with alcoholism, you know it’s not just "i woke up after downing an entire bottle of whiskey but was able to shower, down a cup of coffee, and solve a murder. "
Someone hearing screaming and then realising it’s coming from themselves.
I would get more annoyed if it isn’t a thing that does happen in traumatic situations
LMAO
To be fair I did this once when I was in a really bad car accident where we rolled off a freeway embankment and I genuinely thought I was about to die. Once I realized it was me, I remember a random thought floating through my brain that as long as I could hear myself screaming at least I knew I was still alive. (Somehow I was actually ok except for whiplash and cuts on my hands, wear your seatbelts folks❤️).
Except my father had that experience in his car. Rough times.
I’m sorry.
I’ve done that it’s weird.
Okay, I didn’t think that was a real thing, but I did have it happen to me during the 1993 Northridge quake. So it’s overused, but it can actually happen.
I broke my leg really badly when I was a kid and I remember it like a bad novel: My friend sledded into me and we were screaming but all in good fun. I noticed that our feet were all tangled up. But then oh no that’s not her boot, that’s my boot. My leg is going the wrong way and the screaming isn’t stopping and the screaming is me!
It was actually used pretty well in the game Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havok which often features narrations from the main character. Considering that main character Makoto Naegi has just found the game’s first of many murder victims and >!it was the character set up as his main love interest throughout the early parts of the game!<, it actually does work well since he also mentions that he was screaming until he fainted.
They also changed it for the game’s anime adaptation where it turns into the ad break of the episode.
Also used well in the Agatha Christie story Cat Among The Pigeons which has the twist of it being seen from an outside perspective. As Poirot notes, >!Mrs Chadwick murdering Ms Vansittart!< was a mistake of impulsiveness and as he explains, the “mind rebels” causing them to let out a horrified scream.
a way you could play it up is the person screaming but not hearing it but later knowing it happened from like someone else saying it or a camera recording it or realising why they have a sore throat, i did that once out of shock
Overused but a metaphor for dissociation. It has it’s place but definitely not as often as I’ve seen it.
That happens in real life though. But yeah, it’s still really overused.