What's your childish fear?

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Up until I was around 14 I was scared of the dark, since then it hasn't been so much of the dark issue but more of the lying in bed with my face visible, I was scared that if I opened my eyes I would see somebody infront of me and stuff like that so I still have my whole body underneath the quilt, is it ok to be like this seeing as I am now sixteen?

Maybe we can share our childish fears so that we don't feel so silly

I have the exact same fear.

I do this too and I am 22. The hiding face under the quilt started in my teens, which was a good way to keep warm in winter. These fears started recently and the things I'm scared of aren't quite human. I know it's just my over active imagination and love of mythological creatures but still...

I also have a fear of spiders, water and heights. I was bitten by a spider at 5, which triggered my fear of them. I never learned how to swim and my brother shoved my head under water when I was 7. I've also had a lot of drowning dreams and had other near death experiences with drowning. As for heights I think it was when I either fell out of a tree or had to jump off a roof because my mum was too busy talking to someone.

When I was a child we had a cat that used to jump out from beneath the book-case and stick its claws into my ankles. My mother explained that it just wanted to play, but I was scared to death of it. For years afterwards, I used to dream of having to hide out from vicious animals skulking our apartment.

Also, I used to have an irrational fear of drowning in a flood, even though we never got floods where I lived.

I don't think I've ever told anyone this before, but... I'm kind of afraid of time travel. It's not really a phobia or a source of panic, but it does make me very uncomfortable. I get uncomfortable going into thrift stores and watching movies/shows that are set before the 90s/00s, because I worry that if I become absorbed in things that are from the past, I will "wake up" and realize that I have actually been in that time period the entire time, and the life I'm living now is some sort of dream. I am not afraid of things from the 90s, because I lived through almost that entire decade and knowing I have memories of it makes it more "real" for me.

Sorry if I'm not making any sense; I'm having a difficult time conveying my thoughts.

That's actually a very cool fear. At ten, I used to have episodes of derealisation where I was afraid I would wake up and find my whole life had been a dream and I was really a monstrous being on some alien world.

The 1950s-80s were in many respects a more pleasant time than the present, so perhaps you ought to wish for your fear to come true...

A cool fear? Thanks! I think the thing that scares me the most is worrying about what obsession I would have had during that time period. I feel like I couldn't live without anime, and it bothers me trying to think of what else I could have possibly been obsessed with, if that hadn't turned out to be my passion. I'm not worried about my love of dance music, because the 70s had disco, which is one thing about the past that actually seems kind of cool. Not to mention the fashion during that time... Bell-bottom pants and platform shoes are cool; I always try to find bell-bottom jeans at the store and I walk on my toes when I listen to dance music because I like to pretend I'm wearing platform shoes. And I've always had a certain amount of curiosity as to the experience of smoking pot, which (I think) was legal back then?

...Okay, so maybe not everything about the past scares me. If I do somehow wind up in a different time period, it had better be the 70s.