Where did i read this? Back seat feeling of weirdness

October 28, 2015 6:32 AM

Sometime in the last couple of years I read a great description of the feeling of dozing off in the back of your parents car on a journey at night. I cannot for the life of me remember where I read it. The part which really struck me concerned the description of the feeling being somewhat uncanny, possibly slightly evil. Does anyone know what it might have been? It might have been something by Stephen King.
posted by gnuhavenpier to Writing & Language (8 answers total)

I have also read this recently, and I suspect your hunch that it's Stephen King is accurate. From my reading list of the past few years, it would be The Dead Zone, Under the Dome, Different Seasons, or maybe Salem's Lot?
posted by telegraph at 6:34 AM on October 28, 2015

Is this it? (As featured on the blue)
posted by bismol at 6:37 AM on October 28, 2015 [16 favorites]

This sounds so very familiar to me. My immediate reaction was that it may have been Revival, which came out about a year ago.
posted by Flexagon at 11:18 AM on October 28, 2015

Definitely not it, but this is a great description of the feeling of dozing off in the back of your parents car on a journey at night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e-LF21yFWM
posted by wps98 at 2:19 PM on October 28, 2015 [1 favorite]

I immediately thought of that comic bismol linked. It's very evocative.
posted by Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell at 10:49 PM on October 28, 2015

Response by poster: That Boulet comic is lovely but not what i'm thinking of. I've not yet read Revival, and the others mentioned I read too long ago for them to be where I saw it. The last couple of King books I read were Duma Key, Doctor Sleep and 11/22/63.

I'll have a look to see if these have been handed to the charity shop yet and maybe spend a dark evening skimming through.
posted by gnuhavenpier at 7:31 AM on October 29, 2015

It's not in Doctor Sleep?
posted by sarcasticah at 2:54 PM on October 29, 2015

It's probably not this, because it's not a passage in a book (and it's not recent), but your question made me think of this Peanuts episode.
posted by Samarium at 6:33 PM on October 30, 2015