at home

When I was about 4 or 5, I thought that little trolls lived inside my pillow. I even imagined that I could here them marching around in there (the marching noise I heard turned out to be the beating of my heart in my ear). I imagined them making intricate tunnels among the cotton, and carrying shovels over there shoulders. I knew they couldn't get me unless I put my hands under the pillow. Then they would bite the skin off my hand and I would wake up with two skeleton hands lying under the pillow.

When i was little my bedroom was the one right at the end of the hall way, i belived that a shark (yes a shark) lived underneath my bed and so i would go to the other end of the hallway, get a run-up, and run and jump onto my bed at night because i believed that if i didnt then when i was standing at my bed the shark would eat my feet.

When I was young, my father sat with me and watched the movie 'Poltergeist'. The movie convinced me that my closet was a portal that would suck me in randomly, so i used to tie my ankles to my bedposts. When my mom asked me why i did it, i told her i didnt want to die in the abyss. To this day i have never seen a more puzzled look on her face.

I remember that when i was three or 4 my parents told me we were going to move. I pictured us driving away with our house tied to the top of the car. To my surprise, the house stayed where it was when we left.

When I was about six I never wanted to flush the toilet because I believed that a giant octupus would grab me and suck me down. I also believed that one lived under my bed at night so I would never touch the rug at night I had to stand on a piece of clothing or a stuffed animal if I needed to get up.

I used to believe that when the drain of the bathtub sucked things up, it was really sending me a mini whirlpool that i had to feed with the dirt in the pool. I even talked toit

When I was little I always believed that bathtubs had spiders in the drain, because I saw the "legs" in the "whirlpool" of water rushing down the hole. I would always be afraid they would come out when I opened it, so I would open the drain and then quickly jump out of the tub and hope it couldn't climb out of the tub... how stupid. I'm not even scared of spiders anymore.

When I was little, i thought that there was a little man in the attic that turned a crank above your room to make the fan spin. I thought that when you flipped the switch, he knew how fast to turn it, so I turned my fan off alot to give him a rest!

I had a dream that I went into the bathroom in the middle of the night and my reflection was on my side of the mirror waiting for me. The reflection was just like me, but it seemed evil and told me I had to live in the mirror. I ran to my mom and found out she was really a reflection and she said everyone moved to the other side of the mirror. After that dream I could not look straight into a mirror for years.

I still have a fear of hidden cameras behind hotel mirrors. I cannont bring myself to undress in front of them (like, for a shower) and if I can't get around it, then I look straight into the mirror and say, "This isn't going to be pretty." as if to warn the sick people on the other side of an oncoming ugly naked person.

I used to believe that if your legs and arms stuck out of the duvet monsters would come to eat them. I also used to believe if you didnt keep your eyes shut tightly you would be taken away by Wee little Willy (An english rhyme) and put in cages where the elephants ruled.

i use to believe that as soon as i would turn off the light in my bedroom that the monsters would be able to come out and get me, so i use toquickly turn off the light and run and jump into the bed making sure no part of me came close to the edges

I convinced my little brother that Michael Jackson is under his bed. Now, the poor kid freaks out if he even sees Michael on TV. Well, Michael Jackson IS pretty creepy!

I used to believe that there was someone hiding in our house. I didn't know where or who, but I always pictured the person as my friend Alexa. I was freaked out to be the first to go to bed at night, because I thought the person would be sneaking around in the dark.

After watching the orginal movie The Blob. I used to to go sleep curled in a ball in the middle of the bed so that when the Blob came I would have an equal chance to get away no matter which side of the bed it came from.

one time when i was little i tryed sticking my finger in the outlet. my mom stoped me at once and said that little mice would bite my fingers off if i stuck my figer in any outlet agen...from then on i stayed away from them and put mouse traps by them.

I used to think that when the water went down the drain it filled a tank and eventually the tank would be full and the bath would fill with dirty water and overflow.

I panicked one day when they must have changed the plumbing or something, becuase no longer was the drain empty, from then on there was always a water level (like the toilet) and i thought "its finally happened, the bath is full"

I used to believe that in the shower, when you turn the knob to hot, little dwarf things pressed a button on some container, and hot water came out. The same happened with cold water.

I used to never be able go to the bathroom unless the shower curtain was wide open. I thought that people could use the shower drain as a portal to my bathroom, and that they might be trying to spy on me. Now that I think about it, it was really quite sad, and I still have to pee with the curtain open (even though I'm 14 now), but from looking at this site, it appears to be a common childhood fear.