When I was a child, I went through a Digimon phase. One night me my brother were outside jumping on a trampoline or something and we saw some little floating lights swirling around us. There seemed to be more and more of them and I got terrified cause I thought I was getting sent to the Digimon realm or something, so he and I ran away screaming. So that was my first experience with fireflies.
I dont think its “st*pid” but silly. A mouse, because i am not afraid of mice – but they have an ability to jumpscare any living creature by scurrying as fast as they can down their racetrack. Very cool but annoying when you involuntarily scream and your heart races while their little claws scrape as fast as they can go across the linoleum.
mice can also rear up, jump pretty high, and scream like a motherfucker.
one mouse managed to startle me and actually scared my cat. but then, a tiny aggressive songbird also managed to intimidate my cat.