What were you scared of as a child?

[Night Shine 767]

I was afraid of fear.

 

I knew that, if I was afraid, I would completely lose my shit and become crazy-paranoid. SO, I tried to avoid all things scary--scary stories, scary movies, rollercoasters, etc.

 

Nowadays I'm fine though. I recently went to a theme park and I found the 'zero-G' part of the 'scariest' rollercoaster ride relaxing, thereby scaring the shit out of my friend who got a huge adrenaline rush from riding it. XD

[Appetite4Democracy 451]

Funny thing, though I was a wimp as a kid (and I still am), I never feared that there would be monsters under my bed. I think it was because my bed had too little space under it, and by the time I got a new bed I was old enough to realize that there wasn't a monster hiding under anyone's bed xD

Three things that scared the living daylight out of me:

 1. Clockwork-like decoration on red walls near stairs. DON'T JUDGE ME >:V I know it sounds weird and also quite specific, but as a child I had a series of nightmares involving those, and they were all so weird and reminded me of Alice in Wonderland and Spirited Away lel

 2. Clowns in empty circuses at night. Again, it was also my nightmares that mentally scarred me with this one ;_; Now, they still scare me but sometimes I like the feeling of being scared. So I don't mind Gamzee ohoho.

 3. Floods. I have never been a good swimmer, and I learned to swim when I was 9. So when I was like 7 and I didn't even know how to float by moving my arms around, I worried that if there was a flood at night, I would never make it to the surface alive. Or that I would get trapped in my room with all the water and I wouldn't notice that my house was getting flooded with water, if I were sleeping.

Something I fear is clicking the link in your signature. What is it? Is it some screamer-type shit? Or is it something like meatspin? I'm guessing it's the former, since pornographic content would probably get you banned.

 

Also, I've always been somewhat afraid of the dark, but in a weird way. If I'm sitting around in the dark and can't see, I'm fine. If I can see, but just barely, it scares the shit out of me. It's strange. I'm not really afraid of the dark, I'm afraid of dim lighting. I don't get it, either.

[Clover Heart 978]

Y'know that game "Operation?" You know the guy you operate on and if you touch the sides, there's a loud buzzing and the guy's nose lights up? I was afraid of that guy. I wasn't just afraid of the game, though. I was afraid he was going to get me in the night.

[MOX News 7]

I managed to freak myself out a lot by loosing my sense of porportion. This was the kind of thing that happened usually during some kind of fever dream, but it'd start with a simple object either becoming so massive it could not be comprehended (and by extention, I was too small to comprehend), or by a large object becoming small and brittle and razor sharp. This was all accompanied by an assault of high pitched noises and pinpricks that made me feel like I had hundreds of needles, just touching my skin, and if I put any weight on anything, they'd jab deep into me, as well has forcing upon me a feeling on incredible fear and desparation to escape. Last time this happened to me, I was begging to be knocked unconcious.

 

Weird shit.

[Castle Bleck 19,163]

The Velociraptors from Jurassic Park managed to take over the bulk of the nightmares of the first 10 years of my life.

 

The T-Rex, on the other hand, was always made of win.

[Otter 1,942]

I was terrfied of the dark. Actually, I'm still scared of the dark. And my fear of the dark now is even worse than when I was a child... ;~;

[Sugarcube 213]

I was scared of everything and still am sort of. Yay anxiety disorder. But seriously as a child I was terrified of everything and hated changes in my enviroment

[WarGrowlmon1990 94]

     I don't know what possessed my parents to do this, but they let me watch Gremlins when I was four years old. That movie gave me borderline night terrors for years during my childhood. I love that movie now, but to this day I CANNOT watch it alone in the dark. Even though Stripe was voiced by Frank Welker, who is famous for voicing Scooby Doo, he still creeps me out. My parents also tricked me into going on the Tower Of Terror with them at Disney World when I was five. They told me it was just a normal elevator.Thinking about some of the things they've done in the past just makes me facepalm nowadays.

     I was also terrified of monsters in general when I was little. 

[Keylise<3 488]

I was really scared of zombies a couple years ago, but the games were so great I ignored the fact that I was scared when I went to bed...

I was and I am still scared of darkness. It feels as if there are other people in there with me.

I could say a lot of different things, but that would take a very long time and I doubt people would even read it. These were probably the main things.

[Inngy 18]

Anyone remember those Fruit Gushers commercials, where the kids would eat the snack, and their heads would turn into a giant strawberry or watermelon? I wouldn't eat those until one day I came to a realization that my head wouldn't turn into a fruit if I ate them. That's back when I was really little though. Another thing that scared me as a child was the Mona Lisa. Not 100% sure why, but it just disturbed me.

[Tex 88]

Maybe it sounds a little odd, but I was always terrified that I would have been eaten by animals if I went to the zoo, or bothered the local spiders in our house.

 

To this day, spiders still terrify the hell out of me.

[Virulence 254]

My biggest fear as a kid was going into a closet, whether it would be day or night. I had that fear that everything would collapse on me, and I would die of suffocation. Of course now I'm over it... but now I hate going downstairs at nighttime   

[ManiacForPonies 27]

I am acrophobic so I have always been afraid of heights. And I never liked axes, mainly because I saw The Shining for the first time back when I was 6 or 7 years old.  

[HeavyRain 45]

When i was a kid threre was two things that scared me as a child one of those was my dad had this really cool black wolf picture and i swear the eyes would follow you as you moved passed it i swear i think that thing was possessed or something and the other thing was is i was scared of the dark what kid wasnt my ADD brain i would start to see things in the dark that i knew that werent there but my brain  made them seem like it was really there i had to sleep with a one of those night cap things that you would put over your eyes

[The Soldier 2,043]

When I watched Indiana Jones The Temple of Doom. I was scared shitless on that most famous scene. After watching that, I was a bit paranoid for a while that the same random dude will put his hand into my chest and say: "Kalee Mah!"

[Xievie 498]

As racist as it sounds, I was afraid of "black people". Something made me terrified of them.

I now tolerate African Americans and make friends with them quite commonly.

 

Though I had and still have a bit of fear for Russians.

 

I sound racist, but I am being honest.

Though, I think I was afraid of aliens. My dad watched these shows about aliens sometimes. Freaked me out.

[Lisa 5,551]

I had the classic fear of darkness. And I still do. 

 

If I am in a pitch black room, with absolutely NO light source getting into it, I'll start to freak out. I don't know what it is, but I'm just terrified of the darkness.

 

I also suffer from claustrophobia, if I'm in a small space, and I feel stuck or trapped, my heart rate will rise at an astonishing rate, and I'll begin to freak out. Whenever I'm in one of those water-slide tubes, I always get scared that I will become trapped inside them.

 

 

~Colgate

[Thrashy 2,798]

I don't remember ever being deathly afraid of anything in particular as a little kid, other than...uh, does anyone remember the movie Hook? The scene where the kids get sucked into their beds scared the crap out of me when I first saw it, so naturally, my older sisters saw fit to torture me some nights at bedtime (we all shared a room) by clicking their fingernails together and saying "Losssst boyyyyys..." over and over in a demonic growl. Bricks were verily shat.

 

Other than that, though, I wasn't really scared of much other than the usual paranoia of kidnappers (especially the "man in the brown station wagon" whom I was constantly told to watch out for). The only other things I can think of that really frightened me were my bad dreams, which I had quite a few of as a child. Usually involving monsters or ghosts.

 

I know this is a bit off-topic, but speaking of ghosts, something I find disturbing to this day is that my mom once told me how, as a young child of maybe 3 or 4, I would often report to her that I'd been talking to my grandpa - who died when I was 2 - through my bedroom window. To make things even creepier, a birthday candle he'd gotten me that whistles the "happy birthday" tune went off by itself on my birthday...not just once, but for a couple of years. I guess none of that bothered me as a kid, but thinking about it now raises the hairs on the back of my neck.

Edited April 20, 2013 by Lowline

[Onylex 2,836]

The things I was sacred of as a child still scare me today. Im mostly afraid of the the dark and the unknown, things that aren't explainable or supernatural things scare me the most. I dont know if that fear will ever change....

[Geminii 71]

When I was a young lad, my older brother and his friends were watching Pink Floyd's The Wall and there were two images from the film that turned into my boogey man. The first being the masks that the children wore on the train and when they were marching into the meat grinder. The second when the main character is going through some kind of metamorphosis in his limo on the way to the show. These images combined became what would be a recurring nightmare. The worst of which is when I am chased to a cliff by this thing who then tosses me over into a sea of maggots where I began to drown. I did learn that this is one of my triggers for lucid dreaming. I can fight it now and have much less fear of it. I used to be affraid of the dark and heights too.

[Smarts 1,620]

I was scared of many things. One being the dark. I had always felt that something someone would come out and get me. It was pretty silly to imagine that, but in this day and age it is true. I was also scared of dolls. Those things always freaked me out and there are some that still do today. It's just that they are always staring at you with those creepy smiles.

[repsol rave 2,963]

when i was about 6 years old i was afraid of mirrors.

i made the mistake of looking in a mirror at night with the lights turned off. and i was allready kinda scared of the dark, then i (thought) i saw something staring at me from that other side of that mirror. 2 red dots.

turns out later those where the little lights from a hairdryer and some other thing.

[Tual 152]

I'm scared of much, much more than when I was a kid...So...Yeah..

 

As a kid, I was bloody brave, man. The only thing that ever struck fear into me were spiders for about a month. (When I was six.) Mainly because I woke up one Easter morning, and there was a GIGANTIC spider on my face. 

...But now I ain't scared of spiders, and have a bunch of spider pals, actually. My room is full of 'em. I'm just scared of other things nowadays. So...Yeah. 

[Lunas Husband 2,777]

I was scared to death of moving clay... to this day I still am.. scared to death of that. Ah I had a fear that things that live in the bottom of the sea are going to show up in my bathtub and try and eat me.

 

ah I had a great fear of swimming in lakes because of fish eating me... or some crazy ass lake monster getting me

[Enemy Stand 446]

One of the things I remember that I was afraid of was the dark (I still kind of am). I used to have dreams about shadows attacking me, and I thought they were real.