Childhood Fears

[scottyrocks]

I had so many I dont know where to start. I wasnt a happy child.

 

[Diamondback]

Its a great book! It covers everything!

Almost... for tactics, you need the companion World War Z. lol

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[FinalVestige79]

Almost... for tactics, you need the companion World War Z. lol

I just ordered that on Amazon!!

 

[Diamondback]

I just ordered that on Amazon!!

Young Brasshopper, now you're scaring me--you remind me of a more-social version of myself at your age. (Which, believe me, is downright terrifying!)

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[FinalVestige79]

lol I'm not too far gone yet DB, don't worry. I'm just a product of my environment, which I will soon be leaving hopefully. Growing up surrounded by weapons, and my grandfather passing his paranoid tendencies to me in someway, but not in the biggest of ways. Him telling me one of the scariest things in this world is to wake up with someone in your face.

Young Brasshopper, now you're scaring me--you remind me of a more-social version of myself at your age. (Which, believe me, is downright terrifying!)

 

[Lincsong]

Riding in a car on the right lane of the Hayward-San Mateo Bridge.

 

[Diamondback]

fftopic: For the Zombiephobes, a book coming out soon y'all gotta read is Larry Correia's Monster Hunter International--I was hooked after the first few chapters of preview. (Full disclosure, it was written by a buddy from another board.)

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[Caity Lynn]

Its a great book! It covers everything! Night of the Living Dead is by far my biggest fear. I read somewhere there is actually a virus that is just like the one in Dawn of The Dead. All I have to say is...Praise The Lord and Pass The Ammunition!!

I've heard that before as well, Also, that there WAS a zombie outbreak but that the military managed to contain it, by trenching around the outbreak and setting the trenches on fire, and burning/headshooting all the zeds. [huh] But I don't choose to believe that...I have enough irrational fears as it is, same goes for aliens.

(Urban Dead is a fun game if you wanna try it)

So, if chivalry is a life choice, if the zombies are attacking, are you going to stop and help a lady out? lol

ON TOPIC: I try to overcome my fears, but a few non-childhood ones (ok, I know I'm only 16, but I'm not talking boogie man under the bed) I'm also afraid of certain ways of dieing. Not necessarily of death itself, But I'm deathly afraid I'm going to be mauled by something. Considering where I live, it's not out of the question. Also of having my throat slit (that just seriously freaks me out)

Did things you guys happen across in media or whatever as kids "scar you for life" I know some movies I watched as a kid scared the pants off me for years.

As a kid, and now, I'm afraid that a cockroach is going to climb into my throat while I sleep and lay eggs. As a result of something I watched on the telly as a kid, I just remember an experimental ciggy that had roach eggs in it. When they found the poor test people,they were dead and there were thousands of roaches coming out of their mouths. To this day I CAN NOT sleep if there is a roach in the room. Spiders I can kill, roaches, I call Daddy.

 

[FinalVestige79]

I've heard that before as well, Also, that there WAS a zombie outbreak but that the military managed to contain it, by trenching around the outbreak and setting the trenches on fire, and burning/headshooting all the zeds. [huh] But I don't choose to believe that...I have enough irrational fears as it is, same goes for aliens.

(Urban Dead is a fun game if you wanna try it)

So, if chivalry is a life choice, if the zombies are attacking, are you going to stop and help a lady out? lol

ON TOPIC: I try to overcome my fears, but a few non-childhood ones (ok, I know I'm only 16, but I'm not talking boogie man under the bed) I'm also afraid of certain ways of dieing. Not necessarily of death itself, But I'm deathly afraid I'm going to be mauled by something. Considering where I live, it's not out of the question. Also of having my throat slit (that just seriously freaks me out)

Did things you guys happen across in media or whatever as kids "scar you for life" I know some movies I watched as a kid scared the pants off me for years.

As a kid, and now, I'm afraid that a cockroach is going to climb into my throat while I sleep and lay eggs. As a result of something I watched on the telly as a kid, I just remember an experimental ciggy that had roach eggs in it. When they found the poor test people,they were dead and there were thousands of roaches coming out of their mouths. To this day I CAN NOT sleep if there is a roach in the room. Spiders I can kill, roaches, I call Daddy.

I heard the same mors out in the midwest somewhere. And yes of course, a gentleman always helps the girl. Knowing me I'd probably roll in on a column of WWII vintage tanks!

Overcoming your fears is like combat, you have to assess, adapt and overcome. You are never ever ever supposed to step on roaches, their eggs stick to the bottoms of your shoes and you track them home with you. I hate roaches too...I also have a phobia of chigger fleas and ticks / scabies. Getting that gross / spine tingling feeling just thinking about it.

 

[Canadian]

International communism. I grew up in a family which was both rich and in the Reserve Army. I grew up watching Red Dawn and running about with a water gun.

I figure now, I'm ready to take on the Red Chinese, but I'm not sure what I'll wear.

Thomas

 

[FinalVestige79]

Im with you there!

 

[Dr Doran]

Dismemberment. A constant obsession of mine. Not an erotic obsession (look up "apotemnophilia" if you want to see something unpleasant) but a fear obsession. I specifically was afraid of losing my hand -- even more specifically, my right hand. A grinning psychopath cutting it off just to watch my horror.

Seeing the protagonist's arm end at the elbow at the finale of Requiem for a Dream was pretty disturbing for me, and brought up lots of unpleasant old feelings.

The weird thing is (I've told this to a few people, so if you already know this about me, sorry) that seeing the horror film Hostel, which has this sort of thing as its theme, completely cured me of this horror.

Only now, after watching Hostel 5 times, do I know that life can go on after someone amputates your limb, and it isn't the most unfaceable fear, since they show such things in loving detail in that movie, and they make it truly horrible, frightening, and unpleasant. And I saw people dealing with it and, most satisfyingly, taking a lusciously disgusting revenge.

(The film Audition also had dismemberment, and also helped me with this fear.)

Who knew that truly disgusting horror films could be therapeutic for childhood fears?

 

[flat-top]

Speaking of movies, another thing that has stuck with me all these years was the final scene of an awful slasher movie called Sleepaway Camp. I won't link it here but it's currently on Youtube, and in fact, I tried to watch it the other day and I chickened out. I used to force myself to watch it as a kid as an attempt to overcome the fear, but clearly, I'm still troubled by it. When reading about it online I was glad to see that others also find it to be one of the most disturbing scenes ever.

 

[Shangas]

Interesting that Zombies showed up in this thread. Not sure what I'd do if I saw a zombie.

Having someone break into the house is another fear of mine. Fortunately, that's never happened.

A fear of the dark is the fear of the unknown, in my opinion. You can't see what's there and you don't know what might or might not be there...jumping out to GET YOU!!

Sadly this fear of mine once came to fruition a few years ago, when I was in my late teens. I woke up at 2:00am in the morning once, for absolutely no reason whatsoever. I turned on my bedside lamp and saw a HUUUUUUUGE SPIDER (I mean huge, maybe even tarantula huge) crawling up the blinds of my bedroom windows. I FREAKED OUT. I hate spiders! Ever since then, it's been a habit of mine to check corners and crevices in my room for creepy-crawlies before I go to bed each night.

 

[Caity Lynn]

Sadly this fear of mine once came to fruition a few years ago, when I was in my late teens. I woke up at 2:00am in the morning once, for absolutely no reason whatsoever. I turned on my bedside lamp and saw a HUUUUUUUGE SPIDER (I mean huge, maybe even tarantula huge) crawling up the blinds of my bedroom windows. I FREAKED OUT. I hate spiders! Ever since then, it's been a habit of mine to check corners and crevices in my room for creepy-crawlies before I go to bed each night.

I hate creepy crawlies too, Especially spiders. Always have, always will, but now I'm a "big girl" enough to *usually* kill them myself.
One night though, I was lying in bed with my arms behind my head and i felt a twitching on my arm, I thought it was my hair and turned my head...only to find a HUGE (3 inches) wolf spider crawling from my pillow onto my arm. Pillow was flung off bed, hit the banister, the spider flipped under the edge downstairs where i RACED down the stairs ( at 2 in the morning) and beat it to death (whacked it 20 times) with a shoe....yea...

 

[Shangas]

*Jaw-drop*

You're brave! I couldn't do that! To me, anything closer than six feet is too close, believe me! They may not look it, but spiders can run DAMN fast. And I want to have a head-start if it decides I look tasty. We most often find spiders in our kitchen and bathroom. Many's a time (at least four times, now), I've come into our kitchen at night, to get a drink or a *cough*...ehm...midnight snack...and seen a big spider crawling around on the ceiling. I gas the bastards with bug-spray and then scoop them up with a flyswat once they're dead and flush them down the sink.

 

[Brooksie]

When I was in grade school, I was affraid of BLOODY MARY - my best friend at the time told me if you go into the bathroom and turn off the lights and say bloody mary three times that this evil blood covered lady with wild looking hair jumps out at you in the dark and tries to get you and kill you... I told her to prove it so we were in the bathroom with the lights off (it was pitch black) and we were giving it a try of course nothing happend so my friend tells me it only works when you are alone...so needless to say I never did try it alone because I was too scared and after that even though nothing happened it just kind of creeped me out - I did not like having to go into the bathroom in the dark at night to much anymore.

Brooksie

 

[HoosierDaddy]

I was scared to death of the older little girl down the street...after she tried to seriously kiss me when I was in the second or third grade.

 

[Caity Lynn]

Brooksie

Don't feel bad, I never made it through Bloody Mary either. I also had a few bathrooms fears, including being killed in the shower (and I haven't even seen Psycho)

Shangas

Do NOT watch "The Mist" just don't. (may be a good idea to steer clear of Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings as well.) LotR took me like 2 years of watching it to be able to watch the shelob, and I still jump.

 

[Shangas]

HP & LOTR I've seen. I know what you're talking about. I'll be frank, that did scare me a bit. But I'm okay with it now.

Now...what's this "Mist" you speak of...?