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    Quote Originally Posted by Lone Wolf Leonhart View Post
    Staring out of a window when it's dark outside. Thinking that if I stared for more than a few seconds I would see something come out of nowhere and stare back.
    I still get this now. Our flat has a big double panelled glass door leaving out onto our rather spacious balcony which goes around a corner. Late at night I sometimes keep expecting to look up and see something dart past it or jump up against the glass. It has such a horror movie vibe about it lol


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    pea-sized to quarter-sized spiders

    Chucky

    heights (when I could see the ground... I climbed a three-story tree when I was 7 or 8)

    the dead hitcher from Creepshow 2

    at 4 or 5, there was a kid on Halloween dressed like Freddy, so I refused to go out

    Jurassic Park, there was also a haunted house when I was 10 or 11
    Jack: How do you know?

    Will: It's more of a feeling really.

    Jack: Well, that's not scientific. Feeling isn't knowing. Feeling is believing. If you believe it, you can't know because there's no knowing what you believe. Then again, no one should believe what they know either. Once you know anything that anything becomes unbelievable if only by virtue of the fact you now... know it. You know?

    Will: No.

    If Demolition Man were remade today

    Huxley: What's wrong? You broke contact.
    Spartan: Contact? I didn't even touch you.
    Huxley: Don't you want to make love?
    Spartan: Is that what you call this? Why don't we just do it the old-fashioned way?
    Huxley: NO!
    Spartan: Whoa! Okay, calm down.
    Huxley: Don't tell me to calm down!
    Spartan: What's gotten into you? 'Cause it sure as hell wasn't me.
    Huxley: Physical relations in the way of intercourse are no longer acceptable John Spartan.
    Spartan: What? Why the hell not?
    Huxley: It's the law, John. And for your information, the very idea that you suggested it makes me feel personally violated.
    Spartan: Wait a minute... violated? Huxley what the hell are you accusing me of here?
    Huxley: You need to leave, John.
    Spartan: But Huxley.
    Huxley: Get out!
    Moments later Spartan is arrested for "violating" Huxley.

    By the way, that's called satire. Get over it.

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    You know I was probably braver/less afraid as a kid. Growing up sucks

    Spiders and snakes that are unknown entities are terrifying. If I know that it can kill me, somehow that's less frightening.

    They see me rolling. They hating, patrolling.
    Trying to catch me riding dirty.


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    I used to be terrified, and still am, of the following:

    Peacocks ( I got attacked by one when i was about 3 or 4)
    Clowns (IT was not a good idea as a kid)
    The dark
    Needles
    Thunder

    I'm a wuss
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    Ghost Trains. I had to hide inside my mother's jacket whenever we went on one during a family outing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mirage View Post
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    Vampires, demons, the devil, hell, going to hell, committing sins bad enough to go to hell, authoritative figures, getting in trouble, murderers, rapists, natural disasters.
    I don't think my parents (or anyone else around me, really) ever seriously talked about people going to hell. I'm kinda glad I didn't get such ideas put into me.
    The wording I was raised with wasn't necessarily that I would go to hell, it was "you won't make it to the celestial kingdom if you do/don't do this" and that terrified me at the time. Thanks, religion!

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    I have never understood why clowns are used to entertain children with. I have never met a single kid who wasn't a little bit scared of them.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Aulayna View Post
    I was like "look away from the mirrors, don't look at the mirrors!"
    LOL I did that all the time when I was a child. DDD:

    Actually... even now. If I go into a dark room to turn on a light, I make extra effort not to look where the mirror is.

    Starting on my left with one, your number comes up, you go.

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    I was afraid of my parents whenever I did something wrong or bad. My mom would beat me up with her slippers, which hurts like a bitch.

    Apparently, I have been declared banished.

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    Parents... yes. Also, my grandma... religious bi...

    Quote Originally Posted by Shorty View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Mirage View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Shorty View Post
    Vampires, demons, the devil, hell, going to hell, committing sins bad enough to go to hell, authoritative figures, getting in trouble, murderers, rapists, natural disasters.
    I don't think my parents (or anyone else around me, really) ever seriously talked about people going to hell. I'm kinda glad I didn't get such ideas put into me.
    The wording I was raised with wasn't necessarily that I would go to hell, it was "you won't make it to the celestial kingdom if you do/don't do this" and that terrified me at the time. Thanks, religion!
    The internet. Welcome to the Ethereal Kingdom.
    Jack: How do you know?

    Will: It's more of a feeling really.

    Jack: Well, that's not scientific. Feeling isn't knowing. Feeling is believing. If you believe it, you can't know because there's no knowing what you believe. Then again, no one should believe what they know either. Once you know anything that anything becomes unbelievable if only by virtue of the fact you now... know it. You know?

    Will: No.

    If Demolition Man were remade today

    Huxley: What's wrong? You broke contact.
    Spartan: Contact? I didn't even touch you.
    Huxley: Don't you want to make love?
    Spartan: Is that what you call this? Why don't we just do it the old-fashioned way?
    Huxley: NO!
    Spartan: Whoa! Okay, calm down.
    Huxley: Don't tell me to calm down!
    Spartan: What's gotten into you? 'Cause it sure as hell wasn't me.
    Huxley: Physical relations in the way of intercourse are no longer acceptable John Spartan.
    Spartan: What? Why the hell not?
    Huxley: It's the law, John. And for your information, the very idea that you suggested it makes me feel personally violated.
    Spartan: Wait a minute... violated? Huxley what the hell are you accusing me of here?
    Huxley: You need to leave, John.
    Spartan: But Huxley.
    Huxley: Get out!
    Moments later Spartan is arrested for "violating" Huxley.

    By the way, that's called satire. Get over it.

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    The dark, and by extension, the basement, and by extension, my room.

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    I had a picture of Donald Duck on my wall in which his eyes were all wide and his beak was agape. He was staring at me.

    I didn't go in my room much when I was 4.



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    Looking in mirrors at night (Thanks Bloody Mary!), the dark in general, and looking out the window at night especially when my dogs were barking at something I could not see in the woods.


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