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Author | Topic: What were you afraid of when you were young? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Brad McFall Member (Idle past 5033 days) Posts: 3428 From: Ithaca,NY, USA Joined: |
I was very afraid of this:
What did you fear that you may or may not be afraid of any longer??This used to be visible next to a statue of a chimp sitting on a bunch of books(made the year before I was born), including one by "Darwin" looking at a Human skull.
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Dan Carroll Inactive Member |
Man, I still can't watch the blueberry scene in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory without fidgeting, and finally leaving the room. That scene terrified me as a kid.
"We had survived to turn on the History Channel And ask our esteemed panel, Why are we alive? And here's how they replied: You're what happens when two substances collide And by all accounts you really should have died." -Andrew Bird
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Brad McFall Member (Idle past 5033 days) Posts: 3428 From: Ithaca,NY, USA Joined: |
got me!!
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1.61803 Member (Idle past 1504 days) Posts: 2928 From: Lone Star State USA Joined: |
I remember being extremely afraid of the film: THE EXORCIST.
As a matter of fact, I still am bothered by it. |
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1.61803 Member (Idle past 1504 days) Posts: 2928 From: Lone Star State USA Joined: |
Brad, I too am scared of that picture. YIKES!!
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Brad McFall Member (Idle past 5033 days) Posts: 3428 From: Ithaca,NY, USA Joined: |
Somehow Pan
Pan (god) - Wikipedia was way scary for me. I had "bad" dreams even after I left my Grandparents house wherein it was hung. The exorcist movie just looked "odd" to me (in comparison?). This message has been edited by Brad McFall, 04-05-2006 04:55 PM
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Coragyps Member (Idle past 735 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: |
The rats with red glowing eyes in Lady and the Tramp. I was twenty or older before I broke myself of the habit of reaching around the doorjamb to turn on the light before I'd enter a dark room. I wasn't as scared of the rats as much as I was scared of their red eyes.....
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nator Member (Idle past 2170 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
The Wicked Witch of the West (had recurring nightmares about her)
Vampires, after watching a movie The Exorcist movie grizzlies, after watching a movie when I was very young, the lights from the cars outside traveling around the room.
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robinrohan Inactive Member |
Rats.
This message has been edited by robinrohan, 04-05-2006 04:35 PM "It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist. That discovery is called the Fall of Man."--Emerson |
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1.61803 Member (Idle past 1504 days) Posts: 2928 From: Lone Star State USA Joined: |
Hi Schrafinator...I read somewhere it is a sign of intelligence and possession of a vivid imagination to be a fraidy cat.
Think of all the dumb brutes who stood there and got eaten while the more intelligent critters beat feet.
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JustinC Member (Idle past 4844 days) Posts: 624 From: Pittsburgh, PA, USA Joined: |
I used to be terrified of going into the "deep waters" of the ocean. My family and friends would always egg me on to out to the point where it was like 15 feet deep. I once got stuck with 10 or so jelly fish, just floating helpless out there getting stung over and over. One time in Nags Head (or Hilton Head) a dorsal fin emerged about 5 feet from where I was floating and I think I shrieked like a little girl. It turned out to be a dolphin, but still terrifying nonetheless.
I think deep down I'm still deeply afraid when I go out that far, but I somehow manage to just repress it and think about something else.
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macaroniandcheese  Suspended Member (Idle past 3928 days) Posts: 4258 Joined: |
*shudders*
if i ever had a nightmare in a room, i was thenceforth afraid to be in that room. some houses just make me fool creepy (like the one i live in now). i have trouble with what i can't see and thus can't control. i was afraid of monsters but not the dinosaurs i sometimes had nightmares about... cause dinosaurs were extinct. that was real and concrete to me. and now that i'm an adult, i'm afraid of artificial heights. not cliffs, not canyons, but buildings and balconies and ferris wheels. especially if there's a banister. i refuse to use them because i have this irrational fear that they'll collapse on me. i can tell if i'm on a ground floor or not in a building. or at least i'm convinced i can. oh yes and deep water. even in a pool or lake. but only if i'm on the surface. scuba doesn't bother it. it's about not being able to see what's under me. it happened after i went off a slide into a lake at summer camp. i hit something hard on the bottom and everyone was all like omgs snapping turtles and i'd seen this weird movie about a giant sea turtle that turned into a woman every hundred years or something... anyways. ever since. This message has been edited by brennakimi, 04-05-2006 06:58 PM
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nator Member (Idle past 2170 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: You know how people talk about how dumb and fearless teenagers are and that they engage in a lot of risky behavior? They think that somehow, bad consequences will only happen to other people and that somehow they will be safe. I rarely thought like this. I ALWAYS figured "why wouldn't it happen to me?
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DBlevins Member (Idle past 3776 days) Posts: 652 From: Puyallup, WA. Joined: |
When I was about 8 or 9, I watched a show on the discovery of "King Tut's" tomb and "Tut's curse". I think it was "In Search of.." with Leonard Nimoy. Anways, they talked about the curse of King tut and how some of the discoverers of the tomb died. It was then that I couldn't get the name out of my mind, "Tutenkhamun..." and I thought "Oh no! He's going to get me now!" and for the longest time I was afraid to look out my window at night in case his mummy was out there.
That and the dark. My parents were mad at me because I was afraid of going outside when it was dark. Yeh, and how sorry they would be if that big T-rex came from behind that big Trash-container waiting for some stupid kid to wander outside in the dark. sheeesh...
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Brad McFall Member (Idle past 5033 days) Posts: 3428 From: Ithaca,NY, USA Joined: |
I think I saw that movie too. It was bizarre.
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