Monsters in your room......
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i remember after seeing the Polaroid commercial with an alien under the bed, i thought he was under my bed and i would run and leap on my bed before he could grab my legs. lol.0
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When I was a child, I used to have to sleep on my stomach with my hands under the pillow because I thought a witch would come and cut them off in the night. I have no clue where that idea come from!0
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til this day, watch cartoons before i go to bed so i dont have "bad,scary" thoughts and cause me to have nightmares where i wake up crying.
thanks aunt rachel and uncle bart for scaring me for life! you guys rock! :noway:0 -
When my Dad would tuck me in the last thing I would always ask is that he close the closet door. He would walk over to it, reach out and then leap/jerk forward as if he was being pulled in and scream. It always scared me, LOL.
Edited to add: I realize it's not helpful, but when I'm scared in the middle of the night, I will still keep the covers over my head.
Scary movies will leave me with nightmares and/or too scared too sleep for weeks. Paranormal Activity (1) and "Signs" did this most recently (I am scared to death of aliens...)0 -
I allllways thought there was something under my bed when I was younger. It didn't help that sometimes the family dog and cat would sneak into my room and crawl under it making *scary* noises.
To this day, if the light is off and I'm alone, I'll do that little 'hop' into bed, just to make sure no one / nothing can get me.... because we all know that the moment your feet are off the floor, you're totally safe!
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Lol I'm so glad I'm not alone. I'm still somewhat scared of the dark: I can't fall asleep with any appendage off the bed at all, and I can't watch something scary before bed if I'm sleeping alone.0
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I absolutely thought there were ghosts in my house growing up. I remember running up the stairs at night really really fast!0
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To this day, if the light is off and I'm alone, I'll do that little 'hop' into bed, just to make sure no one / nothing can get me.... because we all know that the moment your feet are off the floor, you're totally safe!
Me too!!!0 -
I am a 35 year old scaredy cat. Nightlight,no open closet doors, husband sleeps by the closet, nothing even close to the edge of the bed. I must be covered all times and would never look on the mirror in the dark. My husband tolerates all of this insanity.0
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Isn't funny how much safer being under those blankies makes one feel? The ghosts and monsters can't hurt me if i'm under here, can't seeeee meeeee.....I'm just plain scared of the dark, and i have to be covered when i sleep, thinking a knife can't cut thru the sheets....makes me feel safe anyways...always slept with a light on until i got married. But still very scared of the dark...
Isn't it funny? I found this on Pinterest one day and had to repin it because its so true, lol!
I was never afraid of monsters in the closet, but absolutely certain that if my arms or legs dangeled over the edges of my bed a crazy psycho would chop them off with a chainsaw. I blame my dad who would let us watch all kinds of scary horror movies (he loved Friday the 13th movies). I also had intense nightmares for about 6 months after he let my sister & I watch Pet Cemetary when I was 10. My mom was ready to strangle him, lol.0 -
I was always afraid to sleep near windows because I didn't want the aliens to get me.0
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I was never worried about 'monsters'.
I watched toooo many crime shows with my dad as a kid, so growing up I was scared I was going to be murdered.
I didn't like sleeping near windows or with the blinds open.
The closet door also always had to be open so that no one could be hiding in there as I sleep.
And of course if I was completely under my blanket, nothing could happen to me.0 -
To all of you who have expressed on-going concerns about the monsters under the bed or lurking in wardrobes, may I commend to you the services of Brunus Edwardii., whose motto: "Protecting children from the monsters under the bed since 1902" echoes down through generations of successfully grown-up children.
http://begemott.deviantart.com/art/sweet-halloween-dreams-42197587 *
Who can read of the child protecting exploits of Sir Tristan and remain dry of eye or unlumped of throat
* NB I believe the picture is copyright0 -
Another "completly under the blanket" kid here. My philosophy was if I couldn't see them, they couldn't see me.0
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Another "completly under the blanket" kid here. My philosophy was if I couldn't see them, they couldn't see me.
That was totally my theory too. Also never leave the closet open.0 -
My parents would never let us watch scary movies. Now that I'm grown up I watch them, but no fear of monsters. As a child, my fear was that my parents were dead. I would have nightmares about it and would run to their room to make sure they were alive. I guess I was the creepy child that someone posted about. I stood there and just stared at my parents to make sure they were breathing. I did have nightmares about something chasing me through a maze as well, but never had a fear of anything while still awake. However, as an adult, I will admit that I watch too many crime dramas (I love Criminal Minds marathons) and do sometimes get freaked out thinking someone might come in and slaughter me and my family. It doesn't help that we live at the end of a country road. Once about midnight, I woke up and looked out our patio door and saw two lights in the woods behind our house. Turns out the neighbor let a couple of friends spot racoons and they wandered onto our property. I have to admit, I did consider getting a gun after that!0
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How many of you were afraid that there was a monster in your closet or under your bed? Would you make sure the closet door was closed or keep hands and feet on the bed at all times? Do you still do this?
I was more afraid of my mom walking in while busy .... under the covers!!!0 -
I was always afraid they were under my bed, so I would run and jump into bed so I didn't have to be near the sides haha.0
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The covers have magical powers of protection...and yes, they still do. Monsters still appear in my bedroom, they don't bother to hide under the bed anymore..but I do still hide under the covers, until they go away. It is what it is...you can't run, but yes, you can hide.0
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Isn't funny how much safer being under those blankies makes one feel? The ghosts and monsters can't hurt me if i'm under here, can't seeeee meeeee.....I'm just plain scared of the dark, and i have to be covered when i sleep, thinking a knife can't cut thru the sheets....makes me feel safe anyways...always slept with a light on until i got married. But still very scared of the dark...
Isn't it funny? I found this on Pinterest one day and had to repin it because its so true, lol!
But hiding under the blankets has worked for me for 33 years!!! I'm still kicking! :drinker:0 -
I was always afraid to have arms or legs outside of the covers. I thought something would come eat them. To this day, I sleep with blankets tucked up around my arms and legs.0
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Poltergeist was the movie that scared the $&!( out of me. I wouldn't even go into my room without reaching my arm around the wall to turn the light on first. The night time bathroom trip started with a jump from my bed into the hallway. Our basement was really spooky and I always felt like somebody was following me up the stairs... I never walked up them... I ran as fast as I could. I still don't like the basement, it is just creepy. My brother and I once heard somebody calling "mom" and my mom yelling "what??". We were the only two kids and it wasn't us. My brother is so nice.... he pushed me out of the way while he was hauling @ss out of the house.0
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Ok, so the other day I used one of those sleep apps. This app tracks everything while you sleep, when you move, how long you sleep, and noises.......... So after a couple of days my son comes into my bedroom in the middle of the night and starts talking. In the morning I check the app and can hear everything he said.
Now comes the freaky part.... After that I kept using it, but didn't check the sound everyday. Until one day when I was having a cigarette outside our house... I started listening and heard water droplets falling, I also heard a woman's voice saying 'Ahhhhhhh' and 'Ohhhhhhh'. It wasn't raining that night and I don't have any other woman in my household. It definately wasn't my voice or my son's... I played it to my bf who doesn't believe in ghosts and it freaked even him out!
From then on every time after I switch of the light in our bedroom I jump straight into the bed....0 -
come to think of it.. my brother was the "monster" that tormented me and scared the crap out of me....
I was terrified to sleep with my bedroom door closed. My brother, whose whole purpose in life was to torment me, crawled up the hall to my bedroom doorway. He had several baseballs and softballs, he started rolling them across the hardwood floor in my room. They rolled under my bed and banged into the walls. About the time I started screaming he slammed my door shut. I, of course, had no idea it was him and I thought my door had closed on its own. Good times...0 -
I never worried about monsters in the closet until someone in my house thought it would be funny to put a Furbie in there and let it scare the &^%& out of me. I still think those things are creepy, and now they are back in stores! I REALLY hope neither of my children asks for one.
All furbies should be drowned in the arctic or killed with fire. Only the elements can destroy those little demons.
i agree. they are demons!
i had like 10 furbies when i was a kid & they were perfect until one night they all started talking at the same time...
they sat on the window sill across from my bed & none of them had batteries in. if i ever hear another furby talk, i will shoot it. i never got talking toys again after that.
I'm positive that while speaking their weird little language to each other, they were really plotting a takeover. Also, "deep sleep" was a dirty lie0 -
I still make sure my closet door is shut. lol. I made myself paranoid; as a child I would watch all kinds of scary movies.0
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The closet never really bothered me because it was always to full for monsters. However I can not sleep nor could I ever with any part hanging off the bed or outside the covers, except my head. And I always had either a cat or dog in my room at bed time. I also would leap into my bed from a distance after the lights were turn out. I always had a nightlight. Growing up we didnt have tv to watch scary stuff but my stepbrothers had wild imaginations and Im easily scared. When I left he and moved out I didnt sleep for a week because I was so scared of murderers. What can I say? I moved from a small town to the big city. By the end of my first week I had a dog again. Even to this day with 2 roomates and my boyfriend, I still will not go to bed without one of my two dogs or my cat. Something about being totally alone creeps me out. And I always have some sort of light source. And Om almost 24!!!0
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i had an older brother to terrorize me when i was a kid. so yes, i thought there were monsters.. lol0
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How many of you were afraid that there was a monster in your closet or under your bed? Would you make sure the closet door was closed or keep hands and feet on the bed at all times? Do you still do this?
It wasn't the monster/s in the closet or under the bed that scared me. It was the grown up ones down stairs or down the hall. I was terrified of the dark, thought I'd gotten over that till I read some of the posts in this tread... I'll be sleeping with lights on tonight. (and yes, closet doors must be shut, a poltergeist lived in a closet where I kept my clothes in my first home in Texas, no joke)
I do remember going bathroom as a little girl (under age 8) then sitting in front of the B/W TV my mom fell asleep in front of...watched *lots* of Dracula, Frankenstein movies then...the end of "Rosemary's Baby." I Do NOT watch scary films, at all, ever. Never seen "Freddie" movies, or "The Exorcists" or "The Blair Witch Project" or any other scary/horror movie..."Fantasia" (a disney movie) scared the crap out of me as a kid I had nightmares for months.
Yeah, definitely sleeping with lights on, might even sleep on couch.0 -
Definitely! One night I HAD to shut off the fan because I was freezing, so after getting my courage up, finally got up, ran to the window, turned off the fan, ran back and jumped - only to find that the monster had STOLEN my bed in that 3 or 4 seconds. I screamed, and my parents came running, having heard the fan turn off and my scream. They thought I'd lost some fingers. They turned on my light found me on the floor and realized that in my fear, I'd jumped all the way over my bed.
Then there was the night - as an adult - that I slept on my stomach with both hands under the pillow. One hand fell asleep, so didn't feel the other hand feeling it. I woke up realizing that there was a hand under my pillow that didn't belong to me. I jumped out of bed and that stupid hand followed me....... I've been sleeping on my back ever since, no matter how uncomfortable it may be.0
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