I used to believe I could put my hand under the hot tap and hold it there - of course I ran the water for a long time, dipping my hand quickly in and out till my hand 'got used to the heat' then I could hold my hand under.... I actually was running the hot water out- found that out early on when dad busted me doing my little experiment.
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I thought that I could be sucked into the drain if I stayed in the tub as the water drained out.
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I saw The Blob too young. I used to think that if I wore red to bed, the blob would come out from under the bed and eat me.
when i was younger i use to watch "chuckie".. and at night when i went to sleep i thought (we had bunk beds) if you slept on the bottom bunk chuckie would come under my bunk when my sister, who was on top, fell asleep and kill me. i would start crying and screaming begging my sister to let me sleep with her ontop but she said no. and started makin fun of me saying that he was going to come out and get me.. this only made me scream louder. *weird*
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My sibs and I thought that the screen door was called the "scream door" so Mom could yell at us through it.
When I was around 3-4 years old and I wanted my mom to read a book I would tell her to go get a book. She would make me go get it, but i was scared that the basket my books were in had a hippo that was going to eat me
i used to beleive that every night when i went to bed there were two mice that would come out and draw a diagram of my body. This was there science project and it took them two years to complete.
When I was younger, I used to believe that if I was in by bed with the covers on, no robbers or monsters could get me. Even today I'll turn off my light and run quickly to the bed and slide under the covers.
I went through a phase of paranoia, believing my parents had installed secret cameras behind my mirror and all around the house to watch me when they left me home alone. So, I would tend to stay in one room and not do very much. It kept me out of trouble anyway!
I was quite certain, that at all times there were two people living in my closet, on the right side. One was tall, skinny and very evil, his name was Irn. He wanted me dead. The second was short, fat, and quite sweet, Thomas. Whenever Irn wanted to kill me there was always an excuse from Thom to keep me alive. ie school picture, test, birthday, race etc. Irn was also the source of all my nightmares. One day Irn got fed up and left, and my nightmares stopped. Thom stayed on...but recently it's just been part time.
I used to believe that if i stuck my head out of the quilts, the shadow creatures would pull me out and tear me up into little peices.
When I was about 4, I believed that if I got out of bed between midnight and sunrise, the floor would become electrified and I would be electrocuted if my feet touched the floor. My sister, who is 8 years older, told me this. I found out years later that she only said that so I'd stay in bed and not disturb her by getting up to use the bathroom.
I used to believe that if my arm or leg hung over the side of the bed a monster would grab it and drag me under there to another place
When I was little...about 6 years...I thought that mirrors were diffrent dimensions and that my reflection was and evil me...just copying my every move so I wont know he was tryin to kill me...so one day I put some gum on the counter next to the bathroom mirror,looked in my closet and my gum was gone...so I cursed at my reflection for an hour...later I realised that my bro took it.
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I used to believe that whenever you looked in a mirror you were really looking at a person in a different world that looked just like you.
When I was little, I had a BIG fear of the dark and open spaces. I always thought that if I stayed there for too long a monster would pop out from a corner, I was always running everyywhere knowing that this turn could be my last......I still do this.....
I used to think that when i would go to bed, a portal would open up in my closet, and spew a neverending legion of undead soldiers. When i had a dream that was exactly like i explained it and i woke up, i realized it would only happen in my dreams and never in real life.
i use to belive that a man lived under my bed a night "the shadow man" and was scared to get out of bed although he was ment to protect me i was really scared!!!
after watching kikng kong with my dad (the old black and white one), i believed a gorilla lived in my closet. to this day, i still cannot sleep with my closet door open. i know- it's weird.
When I was little I was scared to look in the mirror, my older cousin had told me that Barney was watching me on the other side. And for the longest time even after finding out that Barney really wasn't there I still remembered him when I looked into a mirror