at home

I used to believe the cracks in the ceiling were out to get you and that if you kept really still and didn't make a sound, they wouldn't be able to find you. I often fell asleep beneath the covers holding my breath when I was little because of this.

We used to have a really old, really loud tumble dryer. It used to shake violently when my mum turned it on and my sister and I used to think that it would shake itself free and start chasing after us. It was so loud and menacing we really did think it had a mind of it's own and wanted to 'get' us. We used to run and hide on the sofa every time it was on!

I was seven when my older sister took me to see Hellbound Hellraiser II. I remember being so terrified by that movie that I had nightmares for months. I used to think that Pinhead was under my bed at night waiting to take me to hell. To this day, I can't watch that movie without being a little frightened, and I've never forgiven my sister for making me watch it the first time.

When I was little, and I was very upset at times, I believed that if the walls could have feelings, they would laugh or mock me. But, when I wanted to escape them, I would look up--towards the cieling, because if it had feelings, it would like me and comfort me.

When I was around 5 years old, my parents went to the next door neighbors for the evening after putting me to bed. I snuck back out of bed and watched the "Trilogy of Terror" (Karen Black) in the television. The story with the little tiki doll so scared me, that until I was about 14 years old, I used to run and jump from the door onto my bed so it couldn't get me from under the bed. scary.

I've always hated looking into mirrors at night. I still can't bring myself to look into them; I have this feeling I can't shake that if I look into a mirror at night I will find something very evil waiting for me. Maybe in the mirror; maybe I will see it in the mirror and it will appear behind me in real life. It creeps me out.

I used to believe that sharks would swim round my bed at nite so I had to completly wrap myself up in the covers so no skin was showing.As if a blankets gonna save you!!!
I also couldnt sleep being near the window with it open or shut as i thought the giants from the bfg would steal and eat me.

When I stayed over at my grandparents' house and they gave me a bath, they said that if you stayed too long in the bath you would become scrunched and small like a raisin and fall down the drain. It seemed reasonable because if you stay in water too long, your fingers do start to look raisin-like.

I used to believe that a werewolf lived down the plughole of the bath! When I used to go to the toilet- I had to peer down the plughole to check it wasn't going to come up and bite me while I relieved myself. It was ok whilst using the bathtub though, as the plug blocked the werewolf down so it couldn't eat me

I used to think everytime you switch on or off the light, there was a little man somewhere who made the light come on or off

The neighbours and I were
surprised to discover that my
25 year old (ex)boyfriend
believed it was OK to wander
around naked, with an erection,
whilst the curtains were open
and the light was on because
"When you put the light on at
night the window goes all like
mirror so nobody can see in".

When I was little, I believed that any water that went down the drain without any soap in it, was recycled and came back through the faucet.

i used to believe that there was a monster under my bed and so i never went to bed without checking. I didn't stop doin this until my mum told me it wasn't true and she didn't tell me this until i fell outta bed and cracked my head open!

I used to believe that there were these hands that would extend out from underneath my bed and try to take the sheets or comforter off of me while I was trying to go to sleep. I had many sleepless nights.

I used to believe that when the water was going out of the bath and it made that awful noise that the room was goin got be sucked in if you didnt run upstairs and touch your bed be for the noise stopped!

I thought that if i took out the plug when in the bath i would be sucked down it! i also thought that spiders would come up it and eat me!