| User | Comment |
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bill   | | posted 30-May-2007 8:30am |
Not "intruders" per se, but I think I had a couple times where I got spooked about the possibility of monsters coming to get me. Do monsters count as intruders? |
Enheduanna  | | posted 30-May-2007 9:18am |
As a child, I lay in bed worrying about all kinds of things. Intruders was something I worried about occasionally, but not all that often. |
| kitti723 | | posted 30-May-2007 10:11am |
Just monsters, now, as an adult, I lay awake worrying about intruders. |
paulyw   | | posted 30-May-2007 11:05am |
Once in s great while. |
| Amanda | | posted 30-May-2007 12:08pm |
I think I did sometimes. It's not something I worried about a lot, though. I always felt pretty safe in our home. I think I worry more about stuff like that now than I did back then. I'm totally paranoid these days.
I remember when I couldn't sleep, I'd pretend someone was breaking into the house and I had to pretend I was asleep so they wouldn't hurt me. I always fell asleep while pretending to be asleep to save me from the pretend intruders. Did that make sense? |
| krazykatlady | | posted 30-May-2007 1:41pm |
Not intruders, but something under my bed. |
| labjog | | posted 30-May-2007 1:58pm |
No, but I do now since I'v had kids. I dont know why but it has always been a big fear of mine that someone will sneak in at night and steal my child, thats why I have dogs, to warn me if someone is trying to get in. |
| cerealkiller | | posted 30-May-2007 2:58pm |
No, I just worried about the monsters in the closet and under the bed. |
| filiasan | | posted 30-May-2007 4:11pm |
Occasionally, I did. When we lived in the barrios. I might have worried more often, if I didn't have the "daydreaming disorder" autism. |
| ausfox | | posted 30-May-2007 4:40pm |
Nope |
gambler  | | posted 30-May-2007 4:41pm |
Not intruders, per se more things like the Boogeyman etc |
| romkey | | posted 30-May-2007 5:02pm |
I don't remember ever being worried about intruders. |
Melf  | | posted 30-May-2007 6:06pm |
Occasionally. When I was nine I took a knife and hid it in a chest of drawers. I found it a few years later thinking 'What the fudge?' |
| Melf | | (reply to bill) posted 30-May-2007 6:07pm |
Only if they can't pass through walls, breaking in is just rude. |
| llamamama | | posted 30-May-2007 7:10pm |
Oh gawd, I still do. I am very very very paranoid. |
| ultamate | | posted 30-May-2007 7:12pm |
I never worried about intruders...I worried about my crazy mother killing us while we slept. |
| bill | | (reply to Melf) posted 30-May-2007 7:23pm |
What about bats? I once thought I saw bats from my bed, but it was just some coat hangers in the moonlight. |
| Pomeranian | | (reply to bill) posted 31-May-2007 12:31am |
It was bats. |
Iseult  | | posted 31-May-2007 1:12am |
Would Count Dracula coming into my room and sucking my blood count as an intruder?
No really, I went through this period where I couldn't sleep because I was so afraid of Count Dracula. |
| Melf | | (reply to bill) posted 31-May-2007 1:20am |
Bats are just counted as reptilian sprites, but coat hangers must be destroyed. |
| bill |
What about trolls? I once thought I saw a troll on my website, but it was just some jerk on after midnight. |
| bill | | (reply to Melf) posted 31-May-2007 2:44am |
coat hangers have probably killed more people than bats |
| Melf | | (reply to bill) posted 31-May-2007 2:47am |
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTI...
'So, the next time a feminist tries to slide the myth of the coathanger past you, don't hesitate to ask her precisely how many women suffered a death-by-coathanger prior to 1973'
Remember that, Bill. Take it through life with you. |
| bill | | (reply to Melf) posted 31-May-2007 2:51am |
Take that, feminists! ...what's up with that dude's hair? It makes me want to stick a coat hanger up his urethra. |
| Melf | | (reply to bill) posted 31-May-2007 2:54am |
 His name makes up for it though. |
| bill | | (reply to Melf) posted 31-May-2007 2:58am |
I bet he got beat up a lot in school. ...now he takes it out on coat-hangers |
| Melf | | (reply to bill) posted 31-May-2007 3:05am |
It's such a shame, these guys are gonna put Ikea out of business. |
| mrmarm | | posted 31-May-2007 3:16am |
Yes after watching rocky horror pictureshow for the first time at about the age of four. |
| Pomeranian | | (reply to bill) posted 31-May-2007 3:19am |
You love me and you could no sooner deny A = A than deny your love for me. |
| mrmarm | | (reply to filiasan) posted 31-May-2007 3:24am |
If you don't mind me asking what exactly is the story with autism? |
| bill |
I love you more than bats. |
| Pomeranian | | posted 31-May-2007 3:45am |
it's reasonable to be afraid of how the world works as a child ... |
| EyesOfCharisma | | posted 31-May-2007 2:35pm |
I've never worried someone was going to break into my house |
| Enigma | | posted 31-May-2007 10:09pm |
Never.
My poor nephew worries about being abducted out of his bed ever since my crazy sister in law let him watch the news report of the little girl in Toronto that got taken. |
| LindaH | | posted 31-May-2007 10:21pm |
Not at all. It never crossed my mind. For one, our bedrooms were at the very very back of the house. Two, our windows could not be opened from the outside, no matter how much prying. It's the way they were made. Third, our room was always so messy strewn with various sharp and dangerous toys, that if an intruder managed to make it all the way back to us, the sound of loud cussing and tripping, banging and falling down would have been enough to wake the folks.
So, no. |
| SueBee |
Well, yes, if by intruders you mean monsters!  I never thought about axe-wielding murderers or that type of intruder, but more like the creatures I saw in cheesy old movies and episodes of Star Trek. To this day I can still get myself a little freaked out if I let my imagination run wild at night, but I don't do that very often. I also don't watch horror films anymore! |
| SueBee | | (reply to Iseult) posted 1-Jun-2007 6:49pm |
> Would Count Dracula coming into my room and sucking my blood count
> as an intruder?
>
> No really, I went through this period where I couldn't sleep because
> I was so afraid of Count Dracula.
I went through that after reading the Stephen King book 'Salem's Lot as a teenager. It was a great story, but it was absolutely terrifying! |
| SueBee | | (reply to jen) posted 1-Jun-2007 6:51pm |
> no, until there was one, then yes!
> I worry about it quite a bit as an adult...probably because of that
> incident in my childhood
Whoa! What happened? |
| RGirl |
More like the 'boogey man' than real life people. My cousins terrified me with the boogey man concept and it preyed on me when I was alone at night. Some times I was too terrified to leave my bed and wet myself because I had no other choice. I had a lot of night time issues. |
| RGirl | | (reply to filiasan) posted 1-Jun-2007 8:31pm |
What is the 'daydreaming disorder'? |
| SueBee | | (reply to jen) posted 1-Jun-2007 9:06pm |
Yikes! I imagine that must have been terrifying. |
| Iseult | | (reply to SueBee) posted 1-Jun-2007 10:22pm |
I haven't really read anything by Stephen King (I don't think I like his writing style too much). But I hear he's scary.
What's Salem's Lot about? |
| LindaH | | posted 1-Jun-2007 10:40pm |
...and as adults, we sometimes worry about computers. |
| SueBee | | (reply to Iseult) posted 2-Jun-2007 12:27am |
Vampires! REALLY CREEPY!!! I loved his early stuff, but don't care for his more recent stuff. |
| cabinfever | | posted 2-Jun-2007 12:51am |
I don't remember much of my childhood.... too many bad memories. When I was an older child the 'intruder' I was worried about was my mother's husband. |
| Iseult | | (reply to SueBee) posted 2-Jun-2007 9:35am |
I rather enjoyed the movie Shining, but that's mostly because of Jack Nicholson. |
| docgbrown | | posted 2-Jun-2007 11:01pm |
Sometimes |
| Zang |
No. We didn't have intruders yet, way back when I was a kid. Back then we had to make due with the monsters under the bed. Intruders! Scoff! Kids today are so soft! |
| JessicaWoman99 |
Monsters under my bed how creepy |
| JessicaWoman99 | | (reply to bill) posted 3-Jun-2007 2:53pm |
> Not "intruders" per se, but I think I had a couple times where I got
> spooked about the possibility of monsters coming to get me. Do monsters
> count as intruders?
Yes monsters count as intruders if under the bed and I had some under my bed so creepy |
| SueBee | | (reply to Iseult) posted 3-Jun-2007 8:02pm |
The movie screen really doesn't do justice to Stephen King's writing. There's so much stuff about the characters that just doesn't come through in a movie, and they tend to change the storyline, too. The books are WAY better. |
| babb001 |
What do you mean 'as a child'????!!!! I still do and I live in a secured building on the fifth floor!!! LOL |
| babb001 | | (reply to babb001) posted 3-Jun-2007 8:21pm |
I also worried about going to the bathroom and being nabbed by the pirates who lived under my bed, according to my older brother. Arrrrrrrrrrrr!!! Which reminds me: note on your calendar that September 19 is "Talk like a pirate" day. |
| they | | (reply to SueBee) posted 4-Jun-2007 7:51am |
> The books are WAY better.
The Shining is the exception to that rule, IMO. There wasn't even a shrub maze!
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| kazoo | | posted 5-Jun-2007 12:44am |
You mean did I LIE in bed...? Urgh. |
| they | | (reply to kazoo) posted 5-Jun-2007 7:43am |
Hey Kazoo, you're too new to give me crap.
If you have a problem, you can start helping to qualify surveys. Check the advanced stats: You're unoriginal. |
| SueBee | | (reply to they) posted 5-Jun-2007 8:33pm |
I agree. I actually liked that movie better than the book. I guess there's always an exception! |
| Biggles | | posted 5-Jun-2007 11:21pm |
I went through a couple of years where I stopped being scared of the dark and monsters, and instead was scared of burglars and fires. It was the same time that I was terrified of car crashes. I assume it was part of growing up and recognising the horror of things that really do happen, as opposed to the things we make up to scare ourselves. |
| RGirl | | (reply to SueBee) posted 7-Jun-2007 12:46am |
We watched that on tv and then one of my cousins went outside and started scratching on the window scaring the crap out of her sister. A friend was going to look and see what it was but she was being held back by my cousin screaming for her not to go to the window. It was pretty dramatic at the time but funny now. |
| darkshadowsseeker | | posted 7-Jun-2007 12:58am |
I didn't worry about intruders, in fact most people where I grew up didn't worry about intruders. Springfield was a fairly small town back when I was a child & the two other locations, Jasper/Fall Creek & Goshen were even smaller. People didn't even lock the doors of their homes unless they were going to be away for an extended period of time. The only thing I was frightened of was something under the bed grabbing me if I didn't stay in bed with the covers up to my neck. Thanks to my biological mother (the dog) for that fear. Even now I can't sleep unless I have a cover over me, even a sheet will do & it's got to be up to my neck or I can't freakin' fall asleep. This even in hot weather. |
| darkshadowsseeker |
That's one of the first books I read by Stephen King & one of my personal favorites too. |
| SueBee | | (reply to RGirl) posted 10-Jun-2007 7:05pm |
Yeah, I can relate! There was a wire hanging on the house outside my bedroom window that made scratching noises when the wind blew, and I lost more than one night's sleep because of my wild imagination! Seems pretty silly now. |
| thecomic22 | | posted 17-Jul-2007 2:57pm |
I always was afraid of the world ending actually when I was a small child. Now the thought of that doesint seem so scary. |
