Your Childhood Fears Thread

[Vulgar`]

What were you scared of as a kid? Michael Jackson? The monster under your bed? In the closet? How did you overcome it as you grew older?

Reflect.

[Grief]

padded toilet seats.

[Ilaekae]

Being turned into a can of Spam...

[Justice Von Brandt]

being dismembered

[N A Johnson]

Being buried alive. Still.

[HunterKiller_]

Monsters, and being lost.

Now I know monsters don't exist.
The fear of being lost, well, I still don't think I've over come that one completely. I still feel uneasy in unfamiliar environments.

[B u r l]

- i used to see my deceased nans face fly at me
- eyes in the wall watching me as i tried to sleep
- being dunked under water
- turning gay from looking at a gay person (i read it in my Uncles Viz mag)
- my eyes going square

oh, and girls.

[Flake]

The floaty Vampire kid from "Salems Lot".

Do. Not. Want.

Seriously, fuck that.

[Psypomp]

Fear of the dark (I still am).
Fear of boys (not so much anymore).
Fear of having my body distorted/broken.
Fear of rejection (I still am).

[nickmarshallvfx]

Fear of death?

Um, i used to hear voices shouting at me in my head every time i went to bed, to the point that i would literally be lying awake in bed shaking and praying the voices would go away... weird...

Fear of losing all my immediate family in an accident.

Oh, and one major fear that i actually still havent gotten over is E.T.... Yes, the loveable family extra terrestrial. Scares the shit out of me. That one is actually rational tho; serious traumatic event surrounding E.T. when i was a kid, never grown out of it. He came on TV the other day during a Spielberg interview and immediately i was tense, tryin to look every way at once in case he was behind me. All i need is to hear the music, and im off! Fuck me, that sounds so lame at 20 years old... lol

Nick

[Jason Rainville]

The opening sequence for Pee Wee's Playhouse scared the living shit out of me. No lie.

[Psychotime]

The dark.

Loosing my arms and eyes.

[Equality72521]

home invasions, one of the deepest fears i have. Dont know why, maybe because my house was robbed when i was a kid, kinda scary walking in on the aftermath of a robbery, its weird.

[Junck]

The burnt, condemned hospital in the middle of our base in Germany it was pretty spooky when you're 8.

[Maidith]

Fear of fire.

I still have it, but it's not extreme anymore.

[c-hsu-run]

Spiders and... uh... I think that's pretty much it.

[chriskot]

I used to be afraid of heights, but now I really enjoy them.

Currently I just have a little problem with a combination of height and uncontrollable speed. Basically, I don't like really big rollercoasters or other huge thrill rides.

[TASmith]

1. the dark
2. some scary, angry old witch/ghost, her wrinkly head emerging from the foot of my bed
3. Freddy
4. Any and all bugs and arachnids, minus butterlies and fiddler crabs
5. hights - I still hate them with a passion. The worst nightmares I ever had were of falling (off a bridge into the Hudson, or off some desert cliff in the Mideast). Those were the only times I ever woke up with my arms and legs in the air, screaming.

[Diphallia]

I'm still in my childhood, so:
Fear of not knowing.

[stoph]

Um, i used to hear voices shouting at me in my head every time i went to bed, to the point that i would literally be lying awake in bed shaking and praying the voices would go away... weird...

i was the very same, and i still get it now and then (though not as severe or "voices in head" like). i've worked out now (in my case anyway) its not so much voices, but a combination of lack of sleep, and often stressful/high intensity situations that bring on the episodes. its like you hear your pulse in your ears, everything is amplified, but reverberates in your skull, as if its lagging/semi-slow motion, and you get a little unnerved by it all. weird..

i always thought there was demons around our clothesline as a kid. it was a creepy corner of the garden to go to, especially at sundown. i found out only recently that my sister shared that very same idea.

[Grafguy]

i always had this dream where some kind of demon copied the look of my mother and walked throught the house pretending to me my mother.
So when i saw the 2 togheter, i didnt knew iwch was the real one, so i had to kill em both, but each time i killed one of them (hoping that one was the fake one), the other appeared to be the demon and he'd eat me up!

kinda fucked up childhood i had :p

[MyOrangeHat]

-Loosing my family

-Willy Wonka the movie. The original. I wasn't crazy enough to go see the remake! o.O This movie still scares me especially the boat scene.

-Alice in Wonderland, yes the Disney movie. The trippyness just totally freaked me out when I was little. Haven't seen it since so I don't know if it still would.

[algenpfleger]

Dentists o_o And spiders. Still not over any of these two.

[Farvus]

I was afraid of E.T. by Steven Spielberg too.

[JL.Alfaro]

theres a couple:

1. ghosts. I dont care what any of you say, believe or disbelieve, when you are 7 years old, and you wake up in the middle of the night for no apparent reason and without having any other influence over you(eg no horror movies, no ghost stories, no friends scaring you etc) you see a little girl semi-transparent with dark holes where the eyes go, standing there at the foot of your bed, looks like shes talking and pointing at the corner of the room...yeah it has an impression on you.

2. My father's brutality. His physical abuse followed me for many years, but his psychological abuse is unfortunately still present with me. Those "you are a failure" sessions he used to have with us kids was enough to keep me from placing an order at a restaurant...let alone live a normal life. One of the reasons I started doing art so late in life was exactly that. my greatest fear was that I would become him, still is.

[CaNiBaLe]

wow JL.Alfaro that's tough, but it's a good thing that you're aware of it and everything...

My childhood fears,

- Insects (mostly all insects beside ants, flies and butterflies , even ladybugs, and specially moths )
- Parents splitting out/dying/abandoning me
- MRI/med scanner machines, gore and lab/sci fi stuff (like mutant embryos in a tank with wires and all... used to fear it, now I love it )

but I realize that I'm more fearful now than when I was a kid hehehe

[Psychotime]

Oh yeah, I forgot!

High Heat

Becoming a vegetable. (Not literal)

[James Wolf]

I was fearless as a kid but now that I'm aallllllll grown up my greatest fear is....skeksis!! from the dark crystal...uuhhhhgg O_O so EFFING FREAKY!!! I think I have skeksiphobia actually, with their murmuring and feet shuffling, why Jim Henson why!!

[stoph]

High Heat 100F

i grew up in 120 degree summers. it isnt really all that bad

[LORD M]

The darkness.