When I was little (up to about 10-11) I was really freaked out by humanoid robots or humans being turned into robots.

I would always pass the Black Magic M-66 box in the video store and it would creep me out.

I imagined it to be a lot darker/bloodier/violent than it actually was. It's just a Terminator knock-off, not bad.

Another I remember was the Sega Time Traveler game. In one of the future locations a robot comes out and zaps you into a robot yourself. It gave me at least one nightmare. Here's a video to show how cheesy and not-scary it actually was: (skip to 41 seconds in)


Speaking of nightmares, I'm pretty sure this scene did lasting damage to my young self:

<---that's probably what I looked like when I first saw that scene.


I mostly grew out of it. The worst is still that Superman scene which to this day I find vaguely unsettling.

Anyone else have odd fears they grew out of (or still have )?

@om*d wrote:

I have a fear of the deep ocean. I can't go out into deep open water because I think the kraken or some other mythical sea beast will get me. This is strange because I otherwise love the ocean and have lived most of my life on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. It probably has something to do with the fact that I survived a boat sinking when I was around 4 or 5 years old.

I've only been to the ocean a couple times in my life (and flew over it once) so I never felt anything scary about it. Then I played Ecco the Dolphin, and the Open Ocean stage, with no sea floor just water and fish...kinda' drove home the idea of how vast and empty the watery abyss was. Sort of like being out in space, alone.

Cameron wrote:

To this day I still have nightmares about my teeth falling out/huge holes growing in my teeth, so I guess that's the biggest one. I also had a huge fear of bees, hornets, wasps, etc. as a kid, which mainly stemmed from the fact that I'd never been stung before (and still haven't).

I still occasionally get the tooth-falling-out dream. But I take good care of my teeth, so a quick check to make sure they're all still there and I'm good.

I've never been scared of bees/hornets, just cautious. This summer we had a whole mess of bees build near the house (usually they pick trees further away) and never had a problem. The bees started stealing the hummingbird's food so we put some of the sugar water in a livestock food dish further away for the bees, and the first few days it was completely covered with them; you couldn't see the bowl or the stand underneath the hundreds of bees. If you got near they just tended to fly over to see what's up and go back to what they were doing.

My brother is scared of bees, though. When he was little (8-ish?) he was stung by a bunch of them. His fault, though. He and a neighbor were throwing rocks at their nest...