Weird things you believed (or were frightened of) as a kid

Chula Vista · 06-14-2017, 10:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Exo

Ahhh, the way you worded it made it seem like you thought real life was in black and white because you saw it on TV that way. Like the present.

The Wizard of Oz didn't help things....

**Frownland** · 06-14-2017, 10:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Exo

Are you color blind or just retarded?

Do you know how ****ing embarrassing it is to find out that you're colourblind when everybody is taking a colour blindess test out loud in high school biology?

Chiomara · 06-15-2017, 12:20 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

I thought everyone except for me was an alien or robots and I was the center of some kind of elaborate experiment.

This was in my early 20's but I read something about prostitutes in Vietnam putting razor blades in their vaginas to slice up American cocks. And for a while I had this phobia that my girlfriend was going to do that to me. Finally, she came out and said, "I don't have a razor blade in my pussy." I guess she could see the terror on my face.

When I was like from 5-8 years old I used to hallucinate and hear voices. It was more weird than scary. I also pissed my pants a lot back then.

Starting at around ten I started obsessing that some kind of weird Nazi like ghost goon was following me and watching me through my window. Sometimes he would be like neon colored in outline but pitch black or invisible otherwise.

I also worried obsessively about running into a vicious dog pack even though I had never seen one.

These are all great; you're the winner so far.

I believed the alien/robot thing for a short time as well, but then I began believing the reverse-- that I was an alien cyborg. When I was feeling extra paranoid I sometimes thought that I had been abducted and slaughtered by aliens as a child-- aliens who then transferred my brain/consciousness to a cloned half-cyborg version of my self. I blame this on having been raised by The X-Files though. I thought EVERYTHING Mulder said was 110% true.

**Frownland** · 06-15-2017, 12:44 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

When I was like from 5-8 years old I used to hallucinate and hear voices. It was more weird than scary.

I feel like my whole childhood up to around 6 or 7 years old was like this. Being a child was like being in the throes of a crazy acid trip without any unprovoked sense of fear.

djchameleon · 06-15-2017, 07:46 AM

Horror movies ****ed me up so badly.

I only watched the very beginning of Halloween and I was afraid to walk past my mother's boudoir fear that he would pop up in the mirror.

CandyMan screwed me up but it was more the Bloody Mary story and all the kids at school were doing it. I could only get to the second Bloody Mary while switching the lights on and off before I freaked out.

After seeing IT, I could no longer go into the bathroom at night without making sure the light was and double checking the toilet because I swore Pennywise was hiding in there and would pop up while I am trying to take a carp.

Gremlins screwed me up and I was scared to look into kitchen cupboards because I thought a Gremlins would jump out at me.

Hellraiser gave me some crazy nightmares but nothing that affected me while I was awake.

I still have a slight fear of the devil/demonic possessions in horror movies because of being raised Christian and going to church every Sunday. I got away with watching so many horror movies I shouldn't have for my age and every time my mother caught me watching a demonic possession one she would turn it off and say don't bring those evil spirits in here. Making the fear even more real like just watching it was an invitation for evil spirits to come into our home. When I watched The Ring when I was older it freaked me out so much because of this growing up. I had to watch that movie during the day and it still scared the crap out of me.

OccultHawk · 06-15-2017, 10:48 AM

I feel like I should be able to sue for PTSD after young Jason jumped out of the water!

**Frownland** · 06-15-2017, 10:52 AM

Halloween ****ed with me pretty bad when I was six. I think it might have been Halloween IV. They asked me if I liked Michael Myers movies and I was thinking **** yes I do, Austin Powers is hilarious. It scared the **** out of me but I watched the whole thing because I wasn't no pussy. It was a good month before I could sleep with the lights off.

OccultHawk · 06-15-2017, 11:27 AM

A TV mini-series on the holocaust ****ed up my head. It showed all these naked Jews going to the gas chamber showers. And everyone agreed "IT COULD HAPPEN HERE"

But the nuclear holocaust films always comforted me somehow. Even when I've dreamt about it it's always like hell yes finally!!!

The Batlord · 06-15-2017, 11:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Chiomara

Yes, I guess that would include god/the devil but that's not really unusual enough to be mentioned here.

I recall thinking that sunflowers were sort of like telephones for the dead and that if you spoke into the center of them, they could hear you. (I'm definitely going to use that if I ever get around to writing my book of short children's' stories)

I thought that Michael Jackson and the Hamburglar were the same... entity..? for a really long time, and I believed that no one knew but me and he KNEW that I knew and would someday use this knowledge against me. (??) I feared the Hamburglar immensely. I remember sitting in the backseat of our car on the way back from JC Penny, and suddenly becoming terrified that Michael Jackson the Hamburglar was right behind us on the road, chasing us on all fours.

Oh, and until the age of 7 or so I believed that women and girls were only allowed to marry male family members-- I thought that once I was old enough I would be forced to marry the oldest man in my family, and once they died, I would have to marry the next oldest and son on. I have NO clue why I thought this but I remember abruptly dissolving into tears over it one day and my parents explaining to me that no, that's not how it worked.

AND I believed that Prince was my uncle. Like.. a magical, distant uncle/fairy godmother of sorts. It's a long story.

Kids are weirdos.

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

I thought everyone except for me was an alien or robots and I was the center of some kind of elaborate experiment.

This was in my early 20's but I read something about prostitutes in Vietnam putting razor blades in their vaginas to slice up American cocks. And for a while I had this phobia that my girlfriend was going to do that to me. Finally, she came out and said, "I don't have a razor blade in my pussy." I guess she could see the terror on my face.

When I was like from 5-8 years old I used to hallucinate and hear voices. It was more weird than scary. I also pissed my pants a lot back then.

Starting at around ten I started obsessing that some kind of weird Nazi like ghost goon was following me and watching me through my window. Sometimes he would be like neon colored in outline but pitch black or invisible otherwise.

I also worried obsessively about running into a vicious dog pack even though I had never seen one.

Well I guess we know who our resident paranoid schizophrenics are.

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

When I watched The Ring when I was older it freaked me out so much because of this growing up. I had to watch that movie during the day and it still scared the crap out of me.

I watched that movie at night in my room at military school about five minutes before a hurricane knocked out our power for a day. The movie didn't even scare me but the eerie timing ****ed with me that night.

~~Cuthbert~~ · 06-15-2017, 12:05 PM

Nothing really that weird but I was scared of being alone upstairs in the house.

06-15-2017, 10:48 AM	#16 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,033	I feel like I should be able to sue for PTSD after young Jason jumped out of the water! __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

06-15-2017, 10:52 AM	#17 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	Halloween **ed with me pretty bad when I was six. I think it might have been Halloween IV. They asked me if I liked Michael Myers movies and I was thinking yes I do, Austin Powers is hilarious. It scared the ** out of me but I watched the whole thing because I wasn't no pussy. It was a good month before I could sleep with the lights off. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

06-15-2017, 11:27 AM	#18 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,033	A TV mini-series on the holocaust ****ed up my head. It showed all these naked Jews going to the gas chamber showers. And everyone agreed "IT COULD HAPPEN HERE" But the nuclear holocaust films always comforted me somehow. Even when I've dreamt about it it's always like hell yes finally!!! __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

06-15-2017, 12:05 PM	#20 (permalink)
~~Cuthbert~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Black Country Posts: 8,827	Nothing really that weird but I was scared of being alone upstairs in the house.