Why do people who watch the tape get nosebleeds and draw pictures?
One could argue that the closer one gets to the seven-day deadline, the more intense Samara’s presence becomes, to which the body reacts both physically (nosebleeds) and mentally (dreams). Another way to interpret this is that, like the seven-day deadline itself, this is another example of Samara wanting whomever watches the video to experience what she herself went through. If that were the case, the nosebleeds could represent any number of things, including electroshock, starvation, prolonged submersion in water, or physical injuries, any of which Samara had arguably experienced. As for the scribbling, this appears to be either a knee-jerk reaction to Samara’s growing presence, or the mind’s attempt to process information that had been “uploaded” when watching the video. In either case, Samara continues to “show things” to her victims, with the result that they begin to draw images that had appeared on the videotape (the exception to this being Aidan, who drew much more than appeared
