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I agree with Jake, who's basically describing a kind of Freudian uncanniness, yeah? The scare-factor of when the familiar suddenly becomes strange?
Under which Freud also categorized the eerieness of mental illness - the face of the person you think you know suddenly seems to hide something unknown and uncontrollable beneath the surface.
Maybe the more subtle, the more creepy, to begin with. I played that indie game 5 Days a Stranger Once and remember how a certain painting changed ever so slightly from day to day. That stuff really gets to me.
Anyway, I just thought of something and wanted to write it real quick: I think I once read about schizofrenics can have a time perception that's not really causal and I've been thinking: Could you try a dramaturgy that's not based an causality? And, as a result of a screwed-up perception of time, non-linear?
I think there's supposedly a link between the schizofrenic time perception and their delusions, but I'm clearly not an expert. Perhaps you came across this in your research?
Okay, less interfering with other people's projects, back to own work.
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