The Old Folks Home

[Wisher1000]

As a child, I was never afraid of monsters under my bed, but scared to look out the window at night. I had a dream as a child that I got up to look out the window, and a huge malformed bear was looking in at me. Still kinda freaks me out to look out a window or door late at night.

I admit, this bothers me now. Not too much, I guess, since I opted to have no window coverings in the main part of my house (only the bedrooms.) I can still get the willies if I think about it and avoid looking out into the darkness for a bit then make myself look. Silly. I can give myself these same willies while walking around in the woods or outside at night.

My nightmares are usually either about being the only one who realizes that aliens are about to attack the earth, or bigfoot-esque creatures, not unlike your malformed bear, who are lurking about outside just waiting for one of my loved ones to venture outside. In both dreams, my anxiety comes from trying to keep the doors and windows secured while not panicking everyone else, or, trying to find a place to hide that will not be discovered when the aggressors finally get in (and I know they eventually will.)

 

[bamadude]

Emus under my bed and in my closet

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Spooks Spectacular (Saturday nights) was a favorite of my sister and mine. We were so young and my parents rarely let us stay up for it.

Twilight Zone was a good one too.

 

[bamadude]

Alfred hitchcock

 

[chickadoodles]

Vampires and Frankenstein and Twilight Zone! Mom let me stay up once in awhile to watch them. But they scared the bejeesus out of me

 

[chickisoup]

Quote: thanks Ron, thought of that and already run 2 different scans and then a deep scan that even chks my rootkits. All clean. I also pay extra to my ISP for some advanced security software that does realtime scans on anything incoming.and a top scan every 1/2 hour or so. BTW-my smileys are back

 

[ronott1]

I admit, this bothers me now. Not too much, I guess, since I opted to have no window coverings in the main part of my house (only the bedrooms.) I can still get the willies if I think about it and avoid looking out into the darkness for a bit then make myself look. Silly. I can give myself these same willies while walking around in the woods or outside at night.

My nightmares are usually either about being the only one who realizes that aliens are about to attack the earth, or bigfoot-esque creatures, not unlike your malformed bear, who are lurking about outside just waiting for one of my loved ones to venture outside. In both dreams, my anxiety comes from trying to keep the doors and windows secured while not panicking everyone else, or, trying to find a place to hide that will not be discovered when the aggressors finally get in (and I know they eventually will.)

I was not scared about monsters under the bed. I was afraid of black widows and Snakes because well they really were under the bed sometimes.

 

[ronott1]

thanks Ron, thought of that and already run 2 different scans and then a deep scan that even chks my rootkits. All clean. I also pay extra to my ISP for some advanced security software that does realtime scans on anything incoming.and a top scan every 1/2 hour or so. BTW-my smileys are back

Check the wireless router too--They can be infected also.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Also liked the Frankenstein and Dracula movies.

Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre = creepy.

 

[vehve]

I never liked scary movies, Hitchcock has some nice ones though. What I can't stand at all, are modern horror movies. Usually very bad acting, flimsy scripts, and mostly they concentrate on gore. I'm sure the Saw franchise is a collection of cinematic masterpieces, but I have absolutely no desire to watch that kind of things.