at home

When I was younger, I used to like to play & splash around in the tub and get water all over the place. My grandma used to tell me that if I got water on the side of the tub that it would flip over & I'd be stuck under the tub forever.

When I was very young, my mother once told me that as a child, she used to believe there was a creature resembling an alligator that lived under her bed. If she needed to get up in the night, she would stand on top of her bed and leap as far away from the edge as she could. When she told me this, I didn't believe that it was a monster or alligator. Instead I thought it was the Egyption God, Ammit, who ate unbalanced souls, and was described as having a crocodile's head. (I knew A LOT of weird ancient history as a child.) For many years, I too would leap onto and off my bed in fear of Ammit pulling me into the underworld & devouring my soul.

My brother told me when i was probably around 4 or 5 that if i touched the door stopper (the thing on the side of the wall so the door doesn't hit the wall; usually see them at doctors offices) the door would swing open and hit me. I finally got the courage when i was 11 to push it and run away.

When i was about 8 i got a cabin bed from my parents. It freaked me out having to climb up the stair because i thought there was someone behind the bed waiting to grab me by my ankles, and drag me away through the stairs.

When I was about 4 I used to believe that there were a wolf and the devil under my bed,ready to take my legs, so I jumped from a long distance in order not to be taken by them.. I know that this could sound strange, but still today I "jump" down of my bed if I wake up in the middle of the night...

I took the fear of getting sucked down the plughole to the extreme . . . My father convinced me that I would be sucked down the plughole when I was about 3 years old. Afterwards, I wouldn't sit down in the bathtub for a year . . . I was a very gullible child and my mother threatened to kill my father after the incident.

There was this old episode of Kate and Ally where Chip overflowed the toilet and tried to remedy the situation with a plunger. For some weird reason I developed a totally irrational fear of plungers and would make my mom or grandmother remove the plunger from beside the toilet before I would turn my back on it and sit on the toilet.

When my daughter was little she was afraid to go near the back door. We finally discovered it was because she was afraid the stopper wouldn't work and the 'giraffes' would get her. It was an old draughty house and we had a draught stopper in the doorway!

when i was little, i watched rugrats, and they showed tommy thinking that there was another world on the other side of the mirror. i beleived him. i didnt want to go in that world because it was creepy so i stayed away from mirrors for 2 weeks

When i was little i used to always think that my clothes come to life as the boogey man and if i keep my closet closed, vicious aliens will cause a second version of war of the worlds in my bedroom.

When I was very little, my sister told me that there were crocodiles under the deck next to our garage just to scare me. I believed her and decided to peek under the deck. The people who lived in the house before we did had a dog. There was a dog toy under the deck, so I thought that the dog got eaten by the crocodiles. I was scared half to death and quickly ran to the other side of the house in hiding.

Whenever I was little I had read a horror story about a girl who's head fell off and landed beside her bed. For atleast half a year, I would not go on that side of the bed because I thought that her head would be there.

when I was 5 I thought that whenever I looked in the mirror, I would see into a paralell world. The equivalent of me on the other side became one of my best friend in the following years.

When I was about 6 or 7 my aunty and uncle had a walk-in wardrobe. Whenever i heard them say it I thought they were talking about a 'walking' wardrobe and that it followed them around trying to catch them and get them to put more clothes on. i was always perplexed as to why I never saw it move.

When I woke up in the middle of the night with the moon light coming through my curtains I thought there was always a bear in my room. I was so scared to look at it so I would close my eyes tight and try to go to sleep. But it was only my long hair covering my face that looked like a bear.

At 3 or 4 years old, I believed that the walls of your house were hollow and served as massive water reservoirs. The taps literally opened a hole in the wall and let all the water just fall out. This strange belief system also held that if you forgot to turn the tap off, your house would flood, with the whole street following soon after, finally resulting in a Biblical Deluge which would basically destroy the world. A panicky "forgot which way to turn the tap off" incident, combined with a number of nightmares about small leaks in the walls of our home, saw me become the "Guardian of the Taps" at my kindergarten. When time came to wash up before our snack, I would man the sink and ensure the safety of our planet.