Irrational Fears

SEE THE POST BELOW THIS. This is continued from that one. I guess that defeated the purpose of splitting the posts to create shorter posts, since you have to read both. Just skim the last one, maybe.

Either way, I had many irrational fears as a child. The circumstances of how I'd sleep not only applied to velociraptors, just mostly. I had other fears. Volcanoes, after seeing a movie about them. Tornadoes after Twister. Sinkholes, from the news. A sinkhole, overnight, was going to open up under my room overnight and I would fall into oblivion. Rabid animals. Roaches. Large Yellow grasshoppers. I was afraid the insects would get on my bed in my sleep, where I was defenseless to run and get my brother to kill them. Meteors. My house was going to be hit. Death. I was going to die one day, and I was scared of that. Dying in the shower--somebody would see me without clothes. The dark, because it masked alot of these things. I can't even remember most of my fears at this point, just basically anything I saw or heard could happen. Most of them lasted two weeks or so, then I discovered a new one. Raptors lasted years. Death returned last summer, when I realized again that it's inevitable and unknown, and spent many phone conversations with a good friend, crying. That faded by the end of the summer.

My childhood was years of being scared. By the time I was in sixth grade, I knew that I couldn't watch anything scary, because that night when I was tired, my brain wouldn't be able to rationalize the ridiculousness of whatever I had seen. I monitored what I watched, and eventually stopped giving myself material to be afraid of. That's about the time I became alot more afraid of what other people thought of me, and suddenly focused all of my fear energy into people...

Either way, one day I watched a scary movie and didn't lie in bed terrified. Eventually I got past it. I can still be a little paranoid, but much more rationally, and I can rationalize my way out of my fears much better now.

But seroiusly, velociraptors?

P.S. After reading this blog, comment. Tell me an irrational fear you had as a child.