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by JaiyneFortune on December 31st, 2006

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What was your worst illogical childhood fear?

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  • by bowlinggreen on December 31st, 2006

    bowlinggreen

    That my mother would suddenly die. She hasn't yet. She's right here with me over 30 years later, in good health and spirits.

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  • by tpt123 on January 1st, 2007

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    There were monsters under my bed that would reach out and grab my ankles if I was too slow getting out of bed, so I had to jump down and run!

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  • by glamorgirli on January 1st, 2007

    glamorgirli

    I was always to afraid to get out of my bed and go to the bathroom at night because I thought something in the hallway would attack me so I would either end up holding it all night or wetting the bed.

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  • by Mirage V2.0 AWOL on December 31st, 2006

    Mirage V2.0 AWOL

    That I might grow up to be just like my parents!

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  • by ... on January 1st, 2007

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    That something under the bed would get me soon after my parents closed the door to my bedroom. I used to jump into the bed instead of walk up and climb in so "the thing" wouldn't grab my ankle and pull me under. Now I know there are scarier things under my bed like junk, spiderwebs and dust!

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  • by TaoZen on January 5th, 2007

    TaoZen

    Getting sucked down the toilet if it happened to flush while i was on it.

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  • by Anonymous on December 31st, 2006

    Anonymous

    That I would drown in the bathtub. Maybe it had something to do with my father putting my head under trying to teach me "How to swim." ???

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  • by jangobean on January 1st, 2007

    jangobean

    That my parents would leave me.

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  • by onzanzabarsands on December 31st, 2006

    onzanzabarsands

    Zombies, they are all gooey and stinky and gross! Actually, I still have that fear. I wake up often from terrifying dreams about them. It sounds crazy but true. The dark is a close second, but considering the first one, I think they go hand in hand.

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  • by Batgirl on April 11th, 2007

    Batgirl

    That I'm going to be abandoned.

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  • by Azraff on December 31st, 2006

    Azraff

    Fear of the dark and spirits. If I had to go in the basement or into a dark room, I was terrified "something" would get me. A hand would come out from the dark annndddd? I don't even know what it would do.

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  • by fyrespryte on January 5th, 2007

    fyrespryte

    my sister used to tell me michael jackson was hiding under my bed. I used to have to get changed in the bathroom

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  • by tjcool4121 on January 3rd, 2007

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    there were aligators and crocidiles under my bed and they would hide if i turned my lights off so I alwased used my toy sword to turn the lights on when i ever got out of bed

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  • by Nom de guerre on January 3rd, 2007

    Nom de guerre

    That people in photographs (on posters, books, magazines, etc.) could see me.

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  • by Sunblynd 5.0 on January 1st, 2007

    Sunblynd 5.0

    The fear of the consuming, of the dreaded spinach, yuk.

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  • by Firebrand on January 1st, 2007

    Firebrand

    FAILURE, My parents were the kind with very high expectations and the fact when I was young I was quite bright and good at sports I was expected to do well at everything.
    I used to have terrible nightmares about reaching out for things and never quite being able to reach them. I never slept for days before examinations just learning my work parrot fashion .
    I was even afraid of failing eye tests and I think this is why I have a phobia about opticians to this day.

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  • by Valparaiso on January 1st, 2007

    Valparaiso

    Either washing my hair or that someone would slip a dead fish under my the blankets of my bed. (I'm afraid of fish)

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  • by romelang1 on January 6th, 2007

    romelang1

    That if I kept sucking my thumb the roof of my mouth would cave in and my brains would fall out. My dear daddy told me that. For some strange reason my mother had be believe that if you had too much vinegar it would dry up all your blood.

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  • by dhervin on January 6th, 2007

    dhervin

    I used to think there was a wolf-like monster in the upstairs of my house. My parent's usually called him the "upstairs monster". I wouldn't go up there by myself at night. I still think about when I'm going up at night.

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  • by xxxxxxxxxx on January 3rd, 2007

    xxxxxxxxxx

    mine was like most kids i think. i didnt think there were monsters under my bed. but there was a bad person under my bed. waiting for me to walk by and grab my feet and kill me. so when i would go to bed at night i would run as fast i could and jump onto my bed from the door so there was no way that they could grab my feet.

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  • by JUSTNORMAL on January 1st, 2007

    JUSTNORMAL

    I had a fear that if I went to school or anywhere for that matter, that something bad would happen to my Mom. Not sure why I was so protective of her when I was very young. I used to think of excuses not to go to school, even tho I liked it, I was scared of leaving her alone

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  • by dreamtxhim sends love to the dance floor on December 31st, 2006

    dreamtxhim sends love to the dance floor

    That cannibals would come and eat me. I don't even know how I came up with that, but I've been afraid of cannibals since 1st grade. And I didn't see any Hannibal Lector movies until 6th grade, so...

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  • by Namaste formerly future_health_educator on December 31st, 2006

    Namaste formerly future_health_educator

    Escalators. I don't know why but I was extremly afraid of them.

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  • by Kevisaurus is a Carnotaurus today on April 11th, 2007

    Kevisaurus is a Carnotaurus today

    Death, especially alone in the middle of the night.

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  • by Empress of Everything Ever on January 6th, 2007

    Empress of Everything Ever

    That I would fall off a bridge or pier into the water, this extended even onto the diving board as well - even though I was a competent swimmer and jumped off piers and bridges and diving boards to get into the water...but I was still fearful to the point that even today I cannot walk over a bridge near the edge or a pier, I must walk down the centre or as near the centre as I can manage.

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  • by Carmella on January 6th, 2007

    Carmella

    Letters being posted through the letterbox.

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  • by sssherri on January 6th, 2007

    sssherri

    When I was small my cousin told me a tale about a maniac that broke into a girls home. This girl's dog always slept under her bed. She heard noises during the night & would put her hand down under the bed to pet her dog, to make sure everything was alright. The dog would lick her hand. In the morning she got up & called the dog. He didn't come out. She looked under the bed & there was the maniac. He'd eaten the dog & had been licking her hand all night.
    I never can sleep with my hand over the edge of the bed!

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  • by redb_ball is away on January 5th, 2007

    redb_ball is away

    I used to think that some aliens were at the end of my bed and if I looked at them they might get embarressed- so I would look away.
    I was scared of "them" though.

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  • by Halskiisaklink on January 5th, 2007

    Halskiisaklink

    Snails.

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  • by fyrespryte on January 5th, 2007

    fyrespryte

    feather dusters

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  • by Mrs.mezzo is a Wagnerian soprano on January 5th, 2007

    Mrs.mezzo is a Wagnerian soprano

    That the robots from the Transformers cartoons were going to come to my house at night and kill me unless I laid very still and held my breath so they couldn't 'detect' me.

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  • by Sandor on January 3rd, 2007

    Sandor

    Do you mean what was my most illogical fear, or what was by greatest fear that would fall into the illogical category?

    My most illogical fear was that doors would eat me. I looked at doors head on, and the knobs on each side looked like eyes and the metal thing that forms the closing/locking mechanism looked like a tongue.

    A close second was the fear that there was a camera in the shower head.

    But those weren't really fears, they were fantasies that I didn't really take seriously, I guess. I didn't really have any irrational fears. All my fears were all too reasonable. Well, death and mutilation were pretty much it actually.

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  • by Volt on January 2nd, 2007

    Volt

    purple twisting thread/wool.

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  • by Tranny on April 10th, 2007

    Tranny

    Aliens.
    I think I'm still a child though, so I might not count.

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  • by confucious on April 10th, 2007

    confucious

    spiders ewww

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  • by Firebrand on April 10th, 2007

    Firebrand

    Opticians, it is a phobia

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  • by da_boggles on January 27th, 2007

    da_boggles

    When I was four I slept with my mom in a Queen sized bed. Her feet were a lot closer to the bottom than mine were so I was afraid that a monster would grab her and pull her under.

    When I went the the baby sitter and played in the playroom by myself I was afraid "the blue man" would come out of the closet. I don't know what I thought he was going to do but it was a freaky thought anyway.

    Both of these fears consisted of a "blue man" I saw in a cartoon. Isn't that strange?

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  • by Anonymous on January 9th, 2007

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    I was so scared that people might be waiting behind my shower curtain ... actually I still hold my shampoo out and poke all along the curtain before yanking it open. Also I was scared I would be posessed... I sunck under my livingroom table while my parents watched the Exorcist!

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  • by disciple on January 6th, 2007

    disciple

    i always dreamt of evil moneys under my bed trying to eat me,and there was a certain smell i would smell before they came out (in my dreams)...it was a burning/musty (kinda like a wet rat) type of smell. very scary...had the dreams up until i was about 12 and once about 2 months ago. very trippy

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  • by eddie1 on January 5th, 2007

    eddie1

    Someone was in the closet watching me in my bedroom.

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  • by sleepy kitty on January 5th, 2007

    sleepy kitty

    arachnaphobia

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  • by kitty loves you on January 5th, 2007

    kitty loves you

    That I would be bitten on the bum by a crocodile coming up the plug hole when I was having a bath. In fact it still worries me... Oh and I I do actually know someone who was bitten onb the bum by a rat who came up the toilet.

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  • by BrokeDog on January 3rd, 2007

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    The only thing I can remember was when I was in about 5th grade, there was a rapist running around grabbing boys and throwing them into his backseat and raping them. It was the first time I had even been told that boys could be raped, and it scared me to death. Not sure if it was illogical, but it scared me.

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  • by kyannie72 on January 3rd, 2007

    kyannie72

    My parents stored the emergency fire ladder under my bed when I was little. And every night I would dream that the house would catch on fire and nobody could get to my room to use the ladder so they (my parents and baby brothers) would all die. Also, for the longest time I hated the color of red because that was the color of the flame on the box. Ironically, red is now one of my fav colors.

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  • by muguet on January 1st, 2007

    muguet

    Tasmanian devils. I heard a series of ghost stories about them at camp, and then had dreams that they were coming to get me. Not that I live anywhere near Tasmania, but I figured they'd swim or something.

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  • by tmahn642 on December 31st, 2006

    tmahn642

    Being stabbed by a pork chop bone, they're very sharp you know.

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  • by Yeux on May 2nd, 2007

    Yeux

    Loosing my mum.

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  • by -Ben 10- on April 27th, 2007

    -Ben 10-

    Crackers.I won't touch crackers at any time.OOh

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  • by clarry on April 10th, 2007

    clarry

    Snakes in short form snakephobia

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  • by Dragongrace on March 26th, 2007

    Dragongrace

    That dolls were alive

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