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in between the ages of 6-10, I always had to check the shower before going to the bathroom because I thought people pulled the curtains up to hide behind them.
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i grew up in a big house, and anytime i was alone at one end of the house i would begin singing as loud as i could.....not because i loved singing, but because i thought singing out loud would show the monsters that someone may come and save me if the suddenly appered to eat me and i stoped singing.
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i was convinced dwarfs came from under my bed at night to play with my toys without permission. that made me mad just thinking of it.
Being sucked down the bathtub... My Grandmother once told me when I was 4 or 5 that if I didn't finish all the food on my plate I would end up so thin I'd get sucked down the bathtub hole when someone pulled the plug. It didn't actually make me finish my food but I ended up being really scared of going down with the gurgling water at the end of my bath!
When I was about 8, a boy in my class told me that if you looked into the mirror at midnight you would see Satan. Ever since then I havent been able to look into a mirror in a dark room!
I can remember believing that bears were hiding in my closet, under my bed and in my dresser drawers. I used to rock the bed when trying to sleep. One night I must have rocked too hard and a glass figure got knocked off and broken. I was terrified, absolutely positive the bears did it and were waiting for me to get up so they could eat me.
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When I was 6 or 7 years old, I absolutely believed that if a thermometer broke--the world would end.
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I used to believe that books would get a headache if you put them back on the shelf upside down. I still can't bring myself to do it.
when my brother was little, my sister and i told him that if he didnt wear socks to bed that this man would come and eat off his toes. he believed us and wouldnt sleep without socks on...for...a good like 5 months
When I was about 5 years old, I saw an old movie called "Killer Slugs" about these slugs that would painfully murder you when you touched them. There was one scene where the killer slugs made their way up the bathtub drain of an unsuspecting female bather. After that, the thought of taking bubble baths (obstructing my view of the bathtub drain) horrified me. I still have a hard time taking bubble baths... who knows what might be on its way up that drain!
I used 2 think that Jack and Holloween Town(from the movie "nightmare before christmas") lived under my bed then have a party under there when i was asleep but that was when i was about 5-6 years old. Now i'm 13 but i still like 2 think that that might be true
When I would go to bed when I was little I thought if I put my hand the side of my bed little monsters would eat my hand.
Ahaha..
I use to believe from when i was a toddler, that every night whenever i'd sleep with either my parents or myself, that there'd be these weird skeleton things dancing around at the bottom of the bed in a ring around my bed.
I wasn't afraid of them or anything. I think I actually thought they'd either be protecting me or just..dancing for no reason.
I have no idea why i thought that until like..8 years ago or whatever.
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i'm 15.
In first grade, my friend told me at her grandma's house there was a cut off hand that lived in her closet and that it was her boyfriend. She continued to tell me that everybody had a hand that lived in their closet and soon it would be my boyfriend. I came home crying and telling my mom I didn't want a boyfriend to live in my closet!
When we got our first microwave back in the 70's we were always told you couldn't put metal in it. I thought that meant you couldn't even use a fork to reach in and get you food.
when i was 5 my bed was just an ordanary bed. it wasnt the sligtest bit high. still, for some strange reason, i used 2 think it was higher than the highest cliff ever.
when i got out of bed in the morning i used to hang on to the edge as if i was about to die despite the fact my knees were almost touching the floor.
sometimes i did a dramatic reascue with me hanging off the edge and my teddies pulling me up just in time.
i woke up one morning to find one of my beloved teddies had fallen off my bed during the night. i was deeply sad and held a little funeral.
i was always a freaky child.
When I was little and I sat on the toilet I always thought that Snap, Krackle and Pop(the rice krispy guys) were in the shower, so I would always hurry out of the bathroom before they peeked out at me.
I believed that the monsters under my bed just wanted company. I was afraid that they'd grab my legs and drag me under to live with them if they got bored or unhappy, so I would always make sure to leave extra blanket hanging over the bed for them, and I'd talk to them a few times a week to dissuade them from kidnapping me.
Ok, when I was little my parents called our garbage disposal "the monster". So when I was done eating my parents would say to go feed my scraps to the monster. I was kinda scared that one night he might actually get too hungry and come out of the sink and eat my family....
After watching just one part of a movie when I was about five where these cheap, scary troll thing-looking dolls come out of a vent in a bathroom, I would always open the door before I flushed when I went to the bathroom. Quicker when getting away.....