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Cochise Great Old One Joined: 17 Jun 2011 Total posts: 1104 Location: Gwynedd, Wales Age: 58 Gender: Male |
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| XBergMann wrote: | For some reason I cannot explain I was absolutely terrified of sailing ships when I was young. I don't mean yachts like posh people have as I do enjoy sailing but big multi masted sailing ships.
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Can't recall if I've mentioned this before, but I'm scared of derelict ships/boats. I'm normally up for any exploration going, but you wouldn't catch me poking around inside an old beached boat or ship - part submerged or actually sunk would be worse. This goes right back to childhood when we stayed at a holiday chalet at Point Clear in Essex - there was an inlet with a couple of abandoned barges rotting in it - I hated even going past them in the car. Brrrrrr.... gives me shivers remembering. |
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| escargot1 Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Total posts: 17896 Location: Farkham Hall Age: 4 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 23-09-2013 07:59 Post subject: |
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| Yup, it's funny how, even when you know exactly how your fear came about and that what caused it is relatively harmless, it still scares you. What you learn as a child stays with you. |
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| Ademordna Grey Joined: 02 Aug 2013 Total posts: 16 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 23-09-2013 14:08 Post subject: |
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| gncxx wrote: | | Was it The Twilight Zone which had the story of the insect burrowing through a man's ear into his brain and out the other side? He's very relieved when it emerges, then gets the bad news: the insect was female and it's laid eggs in there. Or is that an urban myth? |
Not sure, I got the impression she meant a neighbour, but I was about 4 when she told it to me - and it stuck with me ever since, so I possibly embellished it as a child or just assumed the boy was local. This would have been around 1978 when I was 4 yrs old.
Not sure why I only got scared enough to wear earmuffs around the age of 10 though!
Maybe it had remained dormant and woke up as a new terror then. |
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| Ademordna Grey Joined: 02 Aug 2013 Total posts: 16 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 23-09-2013 14:11 Post subject: |
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I was also frightened of sitting on soft chairs for a while because I was convinced it would hurt them. I was about 5 when this happened, and people found it hilarious, but I took it very seriously indeed!
Sometimes I even felt guilty walking on tarmac, in case my weight hurt the ground.
It was as if I had this weird empathy for inanimate objects that began to frighten me due to all the possibilities of causing harm. I do seem to have grown out of it by age 6 though - however, I do still get the odd pang when walking on grass! |
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| chris138 Grey Joined: 12 Sep 2013 Total posts: 3 Location: County Antrim Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 24-09-2013 22:57 Post subject: |
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I remember also (someone else mentioned this on page 1) being scared at a young age to put my shoes on the floor at night for the fear of something crawling into them. But this was down to watching some Australian show about the dangers of scorpions. Not really an issue in N. Ireland but it spooked me pretty good.
I vividly remember waking one night by the screams of my sister who said that a gold hand had come out of the top of her bed and tried to grab her. My Dad rushed in, and found her bed had been moved also. To this day he is still convinced that there was no way she could have moved the bed herself as he had much trouble putting it back. She was 7 at the time. She still protests this happened. |
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