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What was your worst illogical childhood fear?

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JaiyneFortune

by JaiyneFortune on December 31st, 2006

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  • bowlinggreen
    bowlinggreen Dec 31st, 2006 That my mother would suddenly die. She hasn't yet. She's right here with me over 30 years later, in good health and spirits.

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  • tpt123
    tpt123 Jan 1st, 2007 There were monsters under my bed that would reach out and grab my ankles if I was too slow getting out of bed, so I had to jump down and run!

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  • glamorgirli
    glamorgirli Jan 1st, 2007 I was always to afraid to get out of my bed and go to the bathroom at night because I thought something in the hallway would attack me so I would either end up holding it all night or wetting the bed.

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  • Mirage V2.0 AWOL
    Mirage V2.0 AWOL Dec 31st, 2006 That I might grow up to be just like my parents!

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  • ...
    ... Jan 1st, 2007 That something under the bed would get me soon after my parents closed the door to my bedroom. I used to jump into the bed instead of walk up and climb in so "the thing" wouldn't grab my ankle and pull me under. Now I know there are scarier things under my bed like junk, spiderwebs and dust!

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  • TaoZen
    TaoZen Jan 5th, 2007 Getting sucked down the toilet if it happened to flush while i was on it.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Dec 31st, 2006 That I would drown in the bathtub. Maybe it had something to do with my father putting my head under trying to teach me "How to swim." ???

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  • jangobean
    jangobean Jan 1st, 2007 That my parents would leave me.

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  • onzanzabarsands
    onzanzabarsands Dec 31st, 2006 Zombies, they are all gooey and stinky and gross! Actually, I still have that fear. I wake up often from terrifying dreams about them. It sounds crazy but true. The dark is a close second, but considering the first one, I think they go hand in hand.

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  • Azraff
    Azraff Dec 31st, 2006 Fear of the dark and spirits. If I had to go in the basement or into a dark room, I was terrified "something" would get me. A hand would come out from the dark annndddd? I don't even know what it would do.

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  • fyrespryte
    fyrespryte Jan 5th, 2007 my sister used to tell me michael jackson was hiding under my bed. I used to have to get changed in the bathroom

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  • tjcool4121
    tjcool4121 Jan 3rd, 2007 there were aligators and crocidiles under my bed and they would hide if i turned my lights off so I alwased used my toy sword to turn the lights on when i ever got out of bed

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  • Nom de guerre
    Nom de guerre Jan 3rd, 2007 That people in photographs (on posters, books, magazines, etc.) could see me.

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  • Sunblynd 5.0
    Sunblynd 5.0 Jan 1st, 2007 The fear of the consuming, of the dreaded spinach, yuk.

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  • Firebrand
    Firebrand Jan 1st, 2007 FAILURE, My parents were the kind with very high expectations and the fact when I was young I was quite bright and good at sports I was expected to do well at everything.
    I used to have terrible nightmares about reaching out for things and never quite being able to reach them. I never slept for days before examinations just learning my work parrot fashion .
    I was even afraid of failing eye tests and I think this is why I have a phobia about opticians to this day.

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  • Valparaiso
    Valparaiso Jan 1st, 2007 Either washing my hair or that someone would slip a dead fish under my the blankets of my bed. (I'm afraid of fish)

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  • romelang1
    romelang1 Jan 6th, 2007 That if I kept sucking my thumb the roof of my mouth would cave in and my brains would fall out. My dear daddy told me that. For some strange reason my mother had be believe that if you had too much vinegar it would dry up all your blood.

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  • dhervin
    dhervin Jan 6th, 2007 I used to think there was a wolf-like monster in the upstairs of my house. My parent's usually called him the "upstairs monster". I wouldn't go up there by myself at night. I still think about when I'm going up at night.

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  • xxxxxxxxxx
    xxxxxxxxxx Jan 3rd, 2007 mine was like most kids i think. i didnt think there were monsters under my bed. but there was a bad person under my bed. waiting for me to walk by and grab my feet and kill me. so when i would go to bed at night i would run as fast i could and jump onto my bed from the door so there was no way that they could grab my feet.

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  • JUSTNORMAL
    JUSTNORMAL Jan 1st, 2007 I had a fear that if I went to school or anywhere for that matter, that something bad would happen to my Mom. Not sure why I was so protective of her when I was very young. I used to think of excuses not to go to school, even tho I liked it, I was scared of leaving her alone

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  • dreamtxhim sends love to the dance floor
    dreamtxhim sends love to the dance floor Dec 31st, 2006 That cannibals would come and eat me. I don't even know how I came up with that, but I've been afraid of cannibals since 1st grade. And I didn't see any Hannibal Lector movies until 6th grade, so...

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  • Namaste formerly future_health_educator
    Namaste formerly future_health_educator Dec 31st, 2006 Escalators. I don't know why but I was extremly afraid of them.

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  • Empress of Everything Ever
    Empress of Everything Ever Jan 6th, 2007 That I would fall off a bridge or pier into the water, this extended even onto the diving board as well - even though I was a competent swimmer and jumped off piers and bridges and diving boards to get into the water...but I was still fearful to the point that even today I cannot walk over a bridge near the edge or a pier, I must walk down the centre or as near the centre as I can manage.

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  • Carmella
    Carmella Jan 6th, 2007 Letters being posted through the letterbox.

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  • sssherri
    sssherri Jan 6th, 2007 When I was small my cousin told me a tale about a maniac that broke into a girls home. This girl's dog always slept under her bed. She heard noises during the night & would put her hand down under the bed to pet her dog, to make sure everything was alright. The dog would lick her hand. In the morning she got up & called the dog. He didn't come out. She looked under the bed & there was the maniac. He'd eaten the dog & had been licking her hand all night.
    I never can sleep with my hand over the edge of the bed!

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  • redb_ball is away
    redb_ball is away Jan 5th, 2007 I used to think that some aliens were at the end of my bed and if I looked at them they might get embarressed- so I would look away.
    I was scared of "them" though.

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  • Halskiisaklink
    Halskiisaklink Jan 5th, 2007 Snails.

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  • fyrespryte
    fyrespryte Jan 5th, 2007 feather dusters

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  • Mrs.mezzo is a Wagnerian soprano
    Mrs.mezzo is a Wagnerian soprano Jan 5th, 2007 That the robots from the Transformers cartoons were going to come to my house at night and kill me unless I laid very still and held my breath so they couldn't 'detect' me.

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  • Sandor
    Sandor Jan 3rd, 2007 Do you mean what was my most illogical fear, or what was by greatest fear that would fall into the illogical category?

    My most illogical fear was that doors would eat me. I looked at doors head on, and the knobs on each side looked like eyes and the metal thing that forms the closing/locking mechanism looked like a tongue.

    A close second was the fear that there was a camera in the shower head.

    But those weren't really fears, they were fantasies that I didn't really take seriously, I guess. I didn't really have any irrational fears. All my fears were all too reasonable. Well, death and mutilation were pretty much it actually.

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  • Volt
    Volt Jan 2nd, 2007 purple twisting thread/wool.

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  • da_boggles
    da_boggles Jan 27th, 2007 When I was four I slept with my mom in a Queen sized bed. Her feet were a lot closer to the bottom than mine were so I was afraid that a monster would grab her and pull her under.

    When I went the the baby sitter and played in the playroom by myself I was afraid "the blue man" would come out of the closet. I don't know what I thought he was going to do but it was a freaky thought anyway.

    Both of these fears consisted of a "blue man" I saw in a cartoon. Isn't that strange?

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Jan 9th, 2007 I was so scared that people might be waiting behind my shower curtain ... actually I still hold my shampoo out and poke all along the curtain before yanking it open. Also I was scared I would be posessed... I sunck under my livingroom table while my parents watched the Exorcist!

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  • disciple
    disciple Jan 6th, 2007 i always dreamt of evil moneys under my bed trying to eat me,and there was a certain smell i would smell before they came out (in my dreams)...it was a burning/musty (kinda like a wet rat) type of smell. very scary...had the dreams up until i was about 12 and once about 2 months ago. very trippy

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  • eddie1
    eddie1 Jan 5th, 2007 Someone was in the closet watching me in my bedroom.

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  • The_straight_kid
    The_straight_kid Jan 5th, 2007 arachnaphobia

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  • kitty loves you
    kitty loves you Jan 5th, 2007 That I would be bitten on the bum by a crocodile coming up the plug hole when I was having a bath. In fact it still worries me... Oh and I I do actually know someone who was bitten onb the bum by a rat who came up the toilet.

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  • BrokeDog
    BrokeDog Jan 3rd, 2007 The only thing I can remember was when I was in about 5th grade, there was a rapist running around grabbing boys and throwing them into his backseat and raping them. It was the first time I had even been told that boys could be raped, and it scared me to death. Not sure if it was illogical, but it scared me.

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  • kyannie72
    kyannie72 Jan 3rd, 2007 My parents stored the emergency fire ladder under my bed when I was little. And every night I would dream that the house would catch on fire and nobody could get to my room to use the ladder so they (my parents and baby brothers) would all die. Also, for the longest time I hated the color of red because that was the color of the flame on the box. Ironically, red is now one of my fav colors.

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  • muguet
    muguet Jan 1st, 2007 Tasmanian devils. I heard a series of ghost stories about them at camp, and then had dreams that they were coming to get me. Not that I live anywhere near Tasmania, but I figured they'd swim or something.

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  • tmahn642
    tmahn642 Dec 31st, 2006 Being stabbed by a pork chop bone, they're very sharp you know.

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  • Yeux
    Yeux May 2nd, 2007 Loosing my mum.

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  • -Ben 10-
    -Ben 10- Apr 27th, 2007 Crackers.I won't touch crackers at any time.OOh

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  • Dragongrace
    Dragongrace Mar 26th, 2007 That dolls were alive

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  • Stephette
    Stephette Feb 17th, 2007 I was scared of the dark corners in my bedroom.

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  • Snooch
    Snooch Feb 16th, 2007 That my feet could not hang off of the bed or something would snatch them and drag me off the bed and under it.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Feb 16th, 2007 That my stuffed animals and toys would come to life while I was sleeping.

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  • bootlace
    bootlace Feb 12th, 2007 Sharks. I think I watched Jaws too young and for about three years I couldn't swim in the sea. And swimming pools were also suspect, I would tell myself there couldn't be a shark in something so small but then I would get in and start to get scared.... Seems crazy now.

    But I still won't go diving, even though my boyfriend raves about it!

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  • Gideon
    Gideon Jan 31st, 2007 Apparently, I burst into tears once watching the sun set over the water because I thought it was never coming back.

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  • Grossman_8
    Grossman_8 Jan 28th, 2007 prabrobly going down the hill on a plastic bike and then falling off and having a large piece of glass stuck up my arm...or possibly a clown

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