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Your biggest childhood fear(s)?

Posted on 03/29/2015 9:07:05 PM PDT by MNDude

Almost everyone had something that freaked them out or downright terrified them when they were kids-- a neighbor's big dog, sleestaks on TV, or the monster in the closet?

Tell your story of what most scared you as a kid.


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To: MNDude

My dad grew up in San Francisco in the 1930s. When we went back and visited family, he drove like a madman up and down the hilly streets. I remember being in the back seat of the car, positive we were going off the edge and would land in the ocean!


21 posted on 03/29/2015 9:24:36 PM PDT by CAluvdubya (<------- has now left CA for NV, where God and guns have not been outlawed! "The Miracle of America")
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To: MNDude

In High School, I had nightmares about the husband of My favourite teacher finding out about she and I, and deciding to physically abase Me about the relationship. :) What can I say. If you were a normal teenage male you would understand about the attraction.


22 posted on 03/29/2015 9:24:37 PM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzlims trying to kill them)
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To: MNDude
Those trash trucks with the forks that lift dumpsters. Used to cut thru a narrow supermarket alley to get home from school and it was about a 400' walk with walls on both sides. Every once in a while I'd be halfway thru when a big one came rumbling thru. With my back against the wall it was about 2 feet from the side of the truck. AAAAAhhhhh!


23 posted on 03/29/2015 9:27:53 PM PDT by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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To: MNDude

Bigfoot. I had a recurring dream that a group of them surrounded my house and would bang on the windows. I would always wake up when I heard a window break.


24 posted on 03/29/2015 9:28:20 PM PDT by toast
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To: Mastador1

Walking through the same park in 1986.


25 posted on 03/29/2015 9:31:03 PM PDT by enduserindy (A painted trash can is still a trash can.)
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To: MNDude

I have a an unnatural fear of Marxist Mulattos. Regular Mulattos are fine with me. You know, like Halle Berry.

Thank goodness they don’t exist.

Oh wait.


26 posted on 03/29/2015 9:32:24 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Advertising Space Available here.)
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To: MNDude

Growing up in the Sixties, in the flight path of Offutt Air Force base, aka Strategic Air Command Headquarters, aka one of the prime target areas on the face of the planet, my biggest fear was Soviet nuclear missiles.

I truly did not think I would live long enough to grow up.

There are some things it’s good to be wrong about...


27 posted on 03/29/2015 9:34:17 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: icwhatudo

You must have freaked out watching Soylent Green.


28 posted on 03/29/2015 9:34:54 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Advertising Space Available here.)
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To: MNDude
Saw this movie when I was three, scared the crap out of me. Thought the cyclops was going to come right out of the screen and gobble me up.

Doesn't scare me at all now. But this one does:


29 posted on 03/29/2015 9:36:20 PM PDT by HerrBlucher ("We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them." GK Chesterton)
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To: MNDude

Seeing photos of dead and dying Jews in Nazi death campus.


30 posted on 03/29/2015 9:42:01 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: MNDude

Being launched up into the air and falling from a great height

Being chased in the dark

School


31 posted on 03/29/2015 9:43:11 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: MNDude

Certain types of dolls. That they would come to life while I was sleeping. My Dad brought me a doll from Korea that scared the crap out of me. I’d put it in the closet at night so it wouldn’t watch me. Worrying about the closet door opening was preferable to the doll being visible. Wayyy before Chuckie.


32 posted on 03/29/2015 9:44:28 PM PDT by bluejean (The lunatics are running the asylum)
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To: MNDude

I had several, but there were 2 that stand out most:

1. Going to sleep. No, seriously, falling asleep scared me. I always had this sneaking feeling like I wasn’t going to wake up.

At the age of 26 I was diagnosed with a mild case of central sleep apnea, which might explain the fear. With central sleep anea, your body just stops breathing, but without the obstruction that comes with obstructive sleep apnea (the more common one).

I knew there were times I would realize, in my sleep, that I wasn’t breathing and I didn’t know why. It took a lot of effort sometimes to force myself awake enough to inhale. Scary enough when it happens now as a grown-up, but downright terrifying as a kid!
(And when I tried to tell my doctor as a kid, she said I was imagining things.)

2. “Something” in the dark. Not the dark itself, I was fine with that. But sometimes I’d get the feeling that there was something else in the room with me. Something evil. Something horrible. And there was nothing I could do to stop it.

Actually, this one followed me into adulthood. And Doctor Who certainly didn’t help! I sometimes have my stuffed animals “keeping watch” over the corners of the room I can’t see. Silly? Yes. But in the middle of the night, when instincts overpower reason, sometimes the silly solutions are the ones that work.


33 posted on 03/29/2015 9:48:59 PM PDT by Ellendra (People who kill without reason cannot be reasoned with.)
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I couldn’t stand next to my bed because I thought the monster would grab me by the ankles and pull me under. So I’d make a running jump into bed every night.


34 posted on 03/29/2015 9:51:21 PM PDT by Mygirlsmom (Scott Walker wins elections. In blue places. See Buckley Rule......)
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To: MNDude
abandonment.
35 posted on 03/29/2015 9:59:39 PM PDT by stylin19a (obama = Eddie Mush)
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To: MNDude

Being under water as in a swimming pool.I loved being in a pool,just not under the water. I would freak out when my older brother would grab me and take me under.


36 posted on 03/29/2015 10:00:55 PM PDT by jy8z (When push comes disguised as nudge, I do not budge.)
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To: MNDude
I crept down the hall to see what was on tv, that's when it started...
37 posted on 03/29/2015 10:04:01 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: MNDude
The Outer Limits (1963 TV series) episodes & The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)
38 posted on 03/29/2015 10:04:22 PM PDT by amorphous
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To: MNDude

My early life was perfect! Poor, happy, rancher, farmer, oil field worker, no problems till 1956 when a disaster hit our family when I was 9 years old. Then everything changed, it is like your life being placed on a billiard table, hit by the Q ball, and suddenly spun out of control!

My parents changed. They looked like my parents but were “different”. Alcoholism and religious fanaticism set in. We were no longer allowed to associate with anyone. No TV, no movies, if it was fun, “NO!” no associating with other school kids. We seemed to be on the run from something pursuing us.

We learned if we wanted to do something with neighbors the answer was “NO”. We grew up without friends as no sooner than we made them than we suddenly were moving to a new location.

I often had dreams of my mom being a different person who looked like my mom but was EVIL and had no right hand.

In the mornings I would greet my mom and make sure she had a right hand!
I later found out that my mom and dad had personal DEMONS ( I choose not to talk about) chasing them we kids knew nothing about, and no matter how far we ran it always caught up with us!

This feeling was so enforced in us so strong during our teen years even four years of the military for me could not purge them from me.
We always were looking over our shoulder to see if “something” was following us.
Then by 1973, with the help of a bible oriented preacher, I had managed to dump the last (I hope) of those fears.

I wish my brother and sister had found this freedom. After 59 years the demons of those days still haunt them.


39 posted on 03/29/2015 10:05:31 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: MNDude

Nuns. I had nightmares about them.


40 posted on 03/29/2015 10:06:16 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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