Weirdest fear you had as a kid

[Kapri]

T-Rexes. That's what happens when you watch Jurassic Park when you're 5.

i was worse... in grade 7 i had a legitimate fear that a t-rex would randomly walk down my street (in the middle of nowhere) and eat me, having just seen jurassic park... i didn't sleep... granted it was only for about a night or two before i realised i was being completely stupid and got over it, but still...

I actually had reoccurring nightmares about being chased by a T-Rex and I'd always get myself cornered and the T-Rex would barge into the room and then I'd wake up. Man I was a cowardly kid.

 

[WhyBotherToTry]

Lifts. I wasnt't claustrophobic but unless I could see out of the lift I wouldn't get into it.

 

[StarsintheBlood]

I used think my closet was a door to other dimensions. To this day I'm afraid to stand inside it, in case I fall into another world or something. Stop looking at me like that.

 

[Rin Little]

I was actually afraid of cats when I was little. I think this was mostly because I was never really around them until I was about four and the first two I encountered were these huge mounds of fur that were almost half as big as me. Now I love them tho lol

 

[Creator002]

I was afraid that if a tap was left dripping that the entire country would flood. Never mind the, y'know, drain right there.

 

[Zergadooful]

I was scared of damn near everything as a kid, but that made me a strong person that isn't afraid of anything. Or maybe that was boot camp... Whatever. When I was 5 or 6, my bed was against the wall straight across from the door. I had to either face the door so a glowing skeleton didn't walk in or the wall so 2D robbers wouldn't slide up through the crack between my bed and the wall and pull me under. I had to make a tough decision every night, and kept switching sides until I fell asleep.

 

[doggie135]

Short and to the point: What was the weirdest thing that you were scared of as a kid?

Mine was "If I'm outside all alone to long, an eagle will come and carry me away from my house".
I have no Idea what made me afraid of this, and how it even popped into my head.

So, what was your weirdest fear as a kid?

Sorry if this is a bit late (6 pages!) but that sounds an awful lot like the Arcade-esque platformer (rip-off of Frogger) Zapper. Did you play that as a child, by any chance?

Anyway, for me it's always been the fear of suffocating inside a safe. Yup, child me was thinking about that.

I also saw the film CUBE at the age of 7. Nightmares for quite a few months there.

 

[Fenra]

When i was very young, plug holes/drains, always thought things were living down there and thats what made the gurgly noise as the water drained away

 

[Dunkerloop]

Short and to the point: What was the weirdest thing that you were scared of as a kid?

Mine was "If I'm outside all alone to long, an eagle will come and carry me away from my house".
I have no Idea what made me afraid of this, and how it even popped into my head.

So, what was your weirdest fear as a kid?

Sorry if this is a bit late (6 pages!) but that sounds an awful lot like the Arcade-esque platformer (rip-off of Frogger) Zapper. Did you play that as a child, by any chance?

Anyway, for me it's always been the fear of suffocating inside a safe. Yup, child me was thinking about that.

I also saw the film CUBE at the age of 7. Nightmares for quite a few months there.

Nah, I never played the game as a kid.

 

[ultrachicken]

Mirrors, TVs anything with a reflective surface in my room while I was trying to sleep.

It got to the point where I had to cover over the offending items with a blanket or towel or such.

Same. On top of that I had a fear of wind for a few years, as I was always paranoid that even the slightest breeze would become a hurricane at a moment's notice. I knew that this was impossible, and that there was no way that I would be hit by a hurricane without knowing about it beforehand, but for some reason that didn't deter me.

The way I cured that fear was the weird part... One day, when the wind was particularly strong, I stood in an Earthbending stance (as in from Avatar: The Last Airbender) and pretended that I had rooted my feet in the ground. I just did that every time I was frightened and eventually I wasn't scared.

I was a weird kid.

 

[hiks89]

E.T, and the evil witch lady from wizard of oz...so many nightmares i had

 

[Prismatic Baron]

Wolves. For some reason I KNEW there were wolves out to get me. I'm not sure I had ever even seen a dog when I was that age, so I'm not sure why I thought they would come after me on an American military base in Japan... But there were out there, hiding behind my school.

 

[FPSfanatic]

I had this weird, inexplicable fear of jaws. Not just in the water mind, but everywhere I went. See, in the movie there is a scene where a guy talks about sitting in a car with another car blocking him from leaving. or something like that, I can't remember but the part that terrified me was that he walked over to the guy in the car, and saw that he had been killed. Normally that would have scared me of burglars, because that was what he was talking about. But we only watched the part where he talked about finding the guy dead. I wasn't aware that was a burglary, and I had heard of jaws before. Obviously, said my young mind, Jaws could get on land, and had straight up murdered a dude.
Did it make sense? no. Did it still scare me senseless? yes.

 

[Blobpie]

Dogs, dogs scared the CRAP out of me.
Every time i dog would bark at me i would start to sob
But then my best friend got a dog, so i over came THAT fear...

Then it was water, i couldn't swim and almost drowned as a kid so i had this fear of water for the longest time.
Then i learned out to swim... and everything was alllll right.

 

[Cpu46]

Uncovered windows at night, especially large ones. Always expected to see something cryptozoological outside. Also open closet doors when I was trying to sleep, though that one was because I woke up in a panic as a child and went into my closet instead of the hall and couldn't find my way out. It was pitch black and I kinda just broke down crying until my parents woke up and found me. I was 4 or 5 so it kinda left an impression. Also everyone knows thats where the monsters are.

 

[jackpackage200]

I still have a crippling fear of clowns and mascots. Yahtzee's review of epic mickey brought back really bad memories

 

[Cpu46]

I had this weird, inexplicable fear of jaws. Not just in the water mind, but everywhere I went. See, in the movie there is a scene where a guy talks about sitting in a car with another car blocking him from leaving. or something like that, I can't remember but the part that terrified me was that he walked over to the guy in the car, and saw that he had been killed. Normally that would have scared me of burglars, because that was what he was talking about. But we only watched the part where he talked about finding the guy dead. I wasn't aware that was a burglary, and I had heard of jaws before. Obviously, said my young mind, Jaws could get on land, and had straight up murdered a dude.
Did it make sense? no. Did it still scare me senseless? yes.

I highly reccomend you stay away from the indie game Interstellar Marines then. They have quadrupedal sharks as an enemy... its kind of one of their selling points.

Spoiler: Where is your god now?

 

[AdamRBi]

I had this ca-razy fear that everyone I knew and loved were connected to me by some cosmic thread that if severed or disrupted would thrust me and the person into divergent dimensional timelines. It wouldn't be too scary if it wasn't for the though of the new version of them being a total jerk or evil lovecraftian horror.

I only thought about it though on and off and mostly when out in public. To this day I have no clue what caused it.

 

[Womplord]

When daniel morcombe was abducted, which was massive news in Australia, I developed a fear of being abducted. Was pretty bad, for a while I was terrified of riding to school and would have nightmares about being abducted. took a while to get over it actually.

And the dark, which sucked because I had to ride home from tennis practice in the dark and I was absolutely terrified. I was even afraid of putting the garbage out at night...

And another thing. When I went to bed I thought if I didn't put my head under the sheets for a while a ghost would come and get me, though I knew it was irrational...

 

[Ieyke]

In all honesty, I can't remember ever being actually afraid of anything as a kid, but I have a suspicion I must've been afraid of SOMETHING.

I know I had concerns about alien invasion, which I still think are a fairly reasonable concern for a kid, since it's not impossible. I'll blame the X-Files for that.

I had suspicions about shadowy things darting out of sight in the peripheral of my vision.

I don't think I actually feared either of those things though. They just made me uneasy.



Hell, a couple years ago I realized that I don't actually fear for my own safety now. Like, my fight or flight response instinct to get the hell out of the way of danger and fight back still exists, but the fear component of stuff like nearly getting shot, or nearly dying in a car wreck don't even get my heart pounding (which concerns me a bit...).
I far too frequently find that I've literally barely escaped a horrible death.

All my fear nowadays is in the form of concern for family, friends, and especially loved ones. .....and extremely high-powered radiation (which is what I work with...) because it's basically an unstoppable force of nature over which humans have little sway if something goes wrong.