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Tusko Member (Idle past 123 days) Posts: 615 From: London, UK Joined: |
Oh totally - they are seriously weird animals (in a good way). I just meant that it was unhealthy in the sense that of all the creatures to develop an intense distrust of, it took more effort than most because I was in the same place as it nearly all the time!
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roxrkool Member (Idle past 1010 days) Posts: 1497 From: Nevada Joined: |
The main ones I can still remember are:
Spontaneous human combustion - I just knew I was going to burst into flames as a kid. Exorcist - duh! The clown in the movie Poltergeist. Toys after dark - my mom used to tell my brothers and I that toys became the devil's after dark and if we played with them, the devil would be able to possess us. Dang Catholics!!! Screaming and fighting cats in the dead of night. Those sounds used to paralyze me with fear as a kid. Cats are really creepy. The 70s movie "Blood on Satan's Claw." I still have a clear vision of that young woman's clawed and hairy hand on the banister. ACK!! Evil little people like imps or goblins that live in people's homes. I saw a show (similar to Twilight Zone) about a family moving into a new house with a little door. The little door belonged to a mean imp or goblin that sucked the life energy from kids. Or something like that. I might be mixing up a few shows/movies about similar topics, but they all freak me out. I was also terrified of biscuit cans. Still am, in fact. Everytime I start unwrapping one, I think it's going to blow up in my face. The movie "The Ring" also scared me pretty good recently. This message has been edited by roxrkool, 04-06-2006 01:17 PM
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jar Member (Idle past 416 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
and being trapped in the basement under a roadside diner with no CO2 fire extinguishers but only dry powder ones.
Little singing plants. Dr. Frank-N-Furter. This message has been edited by jar, 04-06-2006 12:27 PM Aslan is not a Tame Lion
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iano Member (Idle past 1962 days) Posts: 6165 From: Co. Wicklow, Ireland. Joined: |
One of the earliest fears I can remember was the shape that items in my bedroom could take on when the evening light struggled through drawn curtains and the dimness cast new shadows in my bedroom. What transpired in the morning to be a pair of socks laid, just so, against a tee-shirt, transfixed me in fear because the form looked like a evil face. I wonder why I never called out to anyone.
In early school it was a very badly (facially) burned boy who used to deal with the rejection by frightening other children. If only I could have made friends with him. By 11 it was fear that my mother would leave my father. In her pain she came into my bedroom when I was about 11 and asked would I mind if she left home and us with it. She told me that my two sisters had said okay. I cried and begged her not too. She left my father when we had all left home and had gotten our start in life Then I turned fear into something to be conquered. I went looking for things that would cause fear for the thrill of facing it and overcoming it. It became a drug. Curious that so many (like me) dread deep sea beneath them. I love scuba diving. Even running out of air deep down didn't frightened me. Dangling my foot over the side of the boat between dives however gives me the feeling like I am dangling my foot over the Abyss. Comparable to a fear of heights I suppose. Curious too that the sea is a mechanism for conveying the imagery of turmoil and evil in the Bible.(Jesus calming the storm for example) There will be no sea in heaven. Whilst never really thinking about the actuality of death it was something I had in the back of my might as an unspoken fear. It was after I became a Christian and this peace of God which surpasses all understanding entered my life that I became aware that I had no fear of death anymore. Worries day to day: bike smashes, lung cancer. But no real fear. And I lost my addiction to it too.
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1.61803 Member (Idle past 1526 days) Posts: 2928 From: Lone Star State USA Joined: |
Why did you have to show me that freaken picture!!! I hate it!!!
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Brad McFall Member (Idle past 5054 days) Posts: 3428 From: Ithaca,NY, USA Joined: |
Well, Gladys Ward, my grandma died two weeks ago and rather than the death being on, of, a personal greiving and greif over the statistic that NY is one of the worst states for rescuing life from emergency procedures (she promximately died due to simple faliure of the doctors in Eire PA and Dunkirk/Fredonia NY to carry through her bowl softener meds, which I watched her take for years but was not even inquried about, but as she was probably going to die sometime later (anytime within a few years at max, she was 96) as a synthetic artery did not work and gangrine was grinning) it became the conflict once again that lead my grandfather (he passed a decade ago) to adapt to agnosticism and marry the unbeliever Gladys (with a baby from a first marriage)teaching normal school evolutionary theory to her and others rather than find any comfort in his 7th Day Adventist parents.
My grandmother had long roots, reaching back to the brother of the Ward who competed with George Washington for charge of the revolutionary force, and grew up moving from Batavia to Buffalo and then to Fredonia for a "finishing" of a music degree at a school(with orginal Masonic influence) started about the same time Cornell was begun. But rather than being about all this interesting stuff my Mother (who moved into Christianty in part to rebel from her mother) made a "deal" with her unbeliever brother (my uncle Roger) to retain this picture, I think, only to scare us kids (my two brothers and sister are all afraid of the thing) and our own kids. Well, I think she has a more removed reason for keeping the thing around but I would rather it suffer the fate the old mosquito repellant&ball jars. This message has been edited by Brad McFall, 04-06-2006 06:52 PM
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roxrkool Member (Idle past 1010 days) Posts: 1497 From: Nevada Joined: |
Who painted it?
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Brad McFall Member (Idle past 5054 days) Posts: 3428 From: Ithaca,NY, USA Joined: |
good question, I dont know. I'll inquire at the "secular service" to be held at SUNY Fredonia after Easter. The picture was emailed to me from my brother.
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ringo Member (Idle past 434 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
iano writes: Curious that so many (like me) dread deep sea beneath them. Yes, that is curious. I can't swim an inch - can't even float - but I love the water and I love boats. I've never worn a life-jacket in my life. (Fearless to the point of stupidity?) And like many of us prairie dogs (), I'm not capable of getting seasick.
There will be no sea in heaven. Then who the hell wants to go? Just bury me at sea. ------------- As for the OP: when I was 7 or 8 I used to have a recurring dream that the stair railings at my school had been taken to the shop for repairs. I had to hug the wall for fear of falling over the edge. Nowadays, of course, that sort of work is done in situ, so I've managed to overcome that fear. Help scientific research in your spare time. No cost. No obligation. Join the World Community Grid with Team EvC
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MangyTiger Member (Idle past 6375 days) Posts: 989 From: Leicester, UK Joined: |
Skulls.
There was a movie called The Skull about somebody buying the skull of the Maquis de Sade and much badness ensuing. If you watch it now it is just laughably bad but when I was a kid a disembodied skull floating around really freaked me out. It might not have been so bad if the TV quality of the day had allowed me to see the obvious wires it was dangling from The 'turning Mother round' bit towards the end of Psycho gave me the willies as well. I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then
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Phat Member Posts: 18310 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
I always remember that movie "Killer Clowns From Outer Space!"
Never see that with your kids!
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Larni Member Posts: 4000 From: Liverpool Joined: |
"Anxiety is an undefineable fear" - Phat
It's mainly a physiological reaction, the fear is the cognitive labling we give it. When you threw out the lamp (which could have been the 'flag' for the physiologial reaction) you stopped it triggering adrenaline/noradrenaline (which is part of what makes you feel distressed). The lamp may have been the 'flag' for you to act that way. If you are interested in anxiety states a good laymans text is "Overcoming Anxiety" by Helen Kennerley (pub Robinson 1997). It is one of the texts used by the National Health Service (UK) to be prescribed to patients suffuring from mild to moderate anxiety. Sorry to get on my soap box and go off topic.
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Larni Member Posts: 4000 From: Liverpool Joined: |
I and a simialr deal with books.
Being afraid of humanoid wolves as I was I would have to 'pay homage' to any book like The Three Little Pigs or Little Red Ridinghood to make sure the Wolf would not come out at night to get me. Ironically I would always have had a copy of these books so I would know that I had payed the propper respects to it. Crazy.
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Larni Member Posts: 4000 From: Liverpool Joined: |
I think that movie was called Cat's Eyes. the Gnome/Goblin gave me the creeps too. Glad the cat got him.
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U can call me Cookie Member (Idle past 4975 days) Posts: 228 From: jo'burg, RSA Joined: |
The Dark, for awhile.
And my dreams. For some reason i would have a nightmare almost every night during my early childhood. I can still remember some of them. Nowadays there is the fear of someone breaking into my home; of course I suspect that almost everyone who lives in Jo'burg has that fear "The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell." - St. Augustine
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