I was thinking of what it is that scares me, and I think most of it ties in to what sort of things terrified me as a child, so I'm curious- what sort of things were DDers afraid of in their youth?
Were they logical or completely bizarre? Are any of you still afraid now?
For me, it was Grey Aliens thanks to South Park and a short on abductions. They terrified me for years.
Also, the Groke from the Moomins, which has left me with a terrible aversion to hill-shaped objects.
Oh, and creepy doorways/cupboards that you just know somethings behind.
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Childhood fears
I was afraid of the dark. I was also afraid of the dark space under my bed at night…I was afraid a hand would come out, grab me, and drag me under (specifically Bobcat Goldthwait…no thanks to 'Are you Afraid of the Dark'.)
I was also afraid of leaving my room early in the morning when my parents were asleep, so I'd put on a sheet and pretend I was a ghost so I could scare any other ghosts away…yeah, I don't know how I came to that conclusion…
Deep water, at least the idea of swimming in it. Didn't help that I nearly drowned in a public pool at day camp once and NO ONE helped despite being maybe 5 feet from me. (I got shoved in too far by a bully.) I didn't learn to swim until a couple years later, on my own terms. I'm like a fish now. Or a sexy octopus, whichever.
I guess ticks would be the other one. And was with good reason, I'd later find! Got infected with Lymes in my 19th year. Its ruined me ever since.
Big waves. They still scare me. :(
There's so much power in them, they're so high that they tower over your head and block the sun… they're very hard to escape from too, when you're in the water- which is when I'm afraid of them. They travel faster than you can swim, the water makes it too hard to run. If you swim into them you don't know for sure where they will break- sometimes it's far out, sometimes close. If you're lucky you can usually ride over them or swim under…
But if you get caught it's like a washing machine. You get pushed to the bottom into the sand and rocks and twisted about with no air to breathe.
I hate that. So I'm afraid of big waves.
Have been since I first got caught.
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Big dogs used to scare me as a child, because I was attacked once but then I got bigger myself. :)
1. Deep water - almost drowned as a kid right behind thethe swimming instructor's back, basically I slipped in the pool, went under, got scared, opened my mouth…
this leads to number two..
2. Chlorine smell - it makes me think of drowning…
3. Fear of falling I guess (not of heights by themselves) - since I had to jump off a garage once (these are luckily much lower over here so I was less than 2 meters above the ground) and ALMOST broke my foot… No permanent damage, but it did get swollen a bit and was hurting me until the end of summer… yay, ruined summer… since then I'm not going to climb a ladder unless I can hold onto something at all times and won't come near a barrier that's shorter than my waist…
4. gas explosions - as in explosions of bathrooom water boilers… I was almost wounded or even killed in one. Light up the flame in it, turn the hot water, the flame will get big, right? and when you turn it off it should go off and return to the small flame, right? Well, it didn't…
Bathroom and kitchen are at the opposite ends of our flat so you can see one form the other. I turn off the water, flame remains big so I shout to her "mom? It's still burning".. this very moment she drops everything she's doing, shouting to me to get out of there and runs in, pulls me out… and a second later BAM!
One of the pipes got torn and the steel plate that was covering it flew right through the spot I was standing at just a second before.
So yeah, that's the four I remember…
Haha….My fears as a kid were definitely in no way logical.:|
The only one I can really remember right now though, I remember at some point I thought there was a monster living behind the toilet. I don't know where I got this idea. Later on I even had a dream he looked like the guy from beetlejuice who smoked himself to death. I thought he would eat us all, so to stop that from happening I started shoving toilet paper behind the toilet because I thought that was his favorite snack.
Haha, I'm not afraid of that now, of course.:D
Spiders, Basketballs, getting locked in a room and having no way out, and Amnesia.
Wait- wait I'm still afraid of all of those things.
Oh no.
So if I clubbed you from behind with the right amount of force, then locked you inside an old gym and threw away the key then…
waitaminute… you'd forget that you had those fears in the first place. O_O
I was afraid of the dark. I was also afraid of the dark space under my bed at night…I was afraid a hand would come out, grab me, and drag me under (specifically Bobcat Goldthwait…no thanks to 'Are you Afraid of the Dark'.)
I was also afraid of leaving my room early in the morning when my parents were asleep, so I'd put on a sheet and pretend I was a ghost so I could scare any other ghosts away…yeah, I don't know how I came to that conclusion…
Oh, yeah. I used to have dreams that I'd fallen under the bed and was looking out, and it would just fade to black like I was suffocating. I still don't like going under the bed, but its probably because its like a spider cemetry under there. I should hoover more.
Spiders used to scare me SO much. I still don't like them, but at least I don't start screaming anymore whenever I see one. XD Actually, there are usually at least two or three spiders in my room, it's pretty common here. In fact I can see one right now and it doesn't bother me at all. Though when I was younger, seeing a spider always resulted in me telling my parents to kill the poor thing.
Same with insects, especially bees. I reeeally dislike them, but I'm not exactly scared of them anymore.
For some reason, I was terrified of this tiny toy statue of Rutherford B. Hayes (the 19th US president) that my parents had gotten for free in like, a bucket of chicken or somethin'.
That's a super random thing to have in the house… I don't even know what Rutherford B. Hayes looks like…
interestingly enough….. one of my childhood fears inspired this habit I still have to this day.
every time I turn off the light at night, I tend to run towards the bed and then leap into it before my feet get too close to the sides of the bed or something.
this was due to that classic "spooky dark place under the bed" that seems to disturb all kids at one point.
I was creeped out at the thought that anything could be under there that I couldn't see at all at night, etc. so I'd think that something from under there would crawl out to touch my feet and stuff if I just simply walked to my bed and climbed into there the normal way.
hence, the mad dash/jump towards my bed soon as I turn off the lights. I don't believe in that sort of thing anymore, of course… but I still do that anyway because I've gotten so used to doing it.
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