To still be scared of being home alone?

[sepa]

DP is away with work for the next 4 maybe 5 nights depending on the booze consumption so it's just me and DC.
I'm 30 years old and can still probably do with this monster spray. thank good for DC's night light

Anyone else think that the boogie man is waiting round the corner and ready to get you when your home alone?

[sepa]

I love being at home during the day by myself. It's just the nights that give me the heeby geebies

[PirateFairy45]

No you're not. When I'm alone overnight I sleep with the doors and windows bolted shut and a weapon under my pillow.

[KamMum]

Last night before I went to sleep I was reading a post on here about ghostly happenings at someone's house - I had to stop reading as could imagine something grabbing me in the dark

[blitheringbuzzards1234]

I don't worry too much unless I wake up in the night and hear a strange noise ... then I feel very scared. I have modern double-glazed windows which I believe are difficult to break for the average burglar, I double-check that downstairs doors/windows are locked before going to bed and put the keys on the bedside table. A nightlight in the downstairs hall is handy as it gives a soft glow but not too bright. I feel a little nervous during thunderstorms though.

[yorkshapudding]

I had a horrible experience in my student days that made me really frightened of being 'home alone' for a while. My housemates were away so I was alone in the house and two men broke in during the night. They came upstairs and I had to barricade myself in my bedroom by pushing furniture up against the door and call the police, who took ages. It was bloody awful.

After that there was a period of about 18 months or so where I would avoid being alone in an empty house at all costs. When I moved in with my now DH whose job at the time involved him being away a lot, it forced me to face my fear and actually did me a huge favour. At first it was hard. I jumped at every strange noise and had to be very selective about what I read or watched on TV but it got easier and easier each time.

Now I really enjoy having the house to myself although admittedly we live in a very safe area so I might feel differently if we were somewhere with a higher crime rate.

[xandra588]

I adore being home alone but when the sun goes down, I'm scared as fuck. Worst thing is I love watching horror movies alone and during the day this is no problem and I'm like "it's just a movie, bitch, there's no need of useless fear" and that all ends in the evening. When being home alone in the evenings, I barely sleep because Freddy might smell my fear and kill me.

[EponasWildDaughter]

There's nothing rational about my fears at all

Sometimes i don't get the twitchyness and can go about the house with just a couple of low lights on without worrying at all. I can't even put my finger on what i fear.

I've lived in 5 different houses now, varying from basic London terrace house, flat on shitty London estate, ancient cottage in sleepy village, modern house in country and now currently in (creaky) big house in the middle of nowhere. Fields for miles. I'm always the same. It's not burglers i'm thinking of when the heebie jeebies hit. It's just ... something.

I won't let myself think about it at the time for fear of ramping up the nerves, so i've no idea exactly what it is i think is lurking in wait for me Like i say when i'm preg it doesn't happen. Bold as brass.

[Tiggywinkler]

Aah, I see them now... I'm blaming my phone resolution! Thank you.

I'm also glad that I have a small, annoyingly yappy dog. No one is getting past him without us knowing, as, the postman can attest.

[Ankleswingers]

Yes, me too. I hate being home alone with the DC. Every single noise and I'm on thorns, terrified what it could be.

I get really worked up, so just put the TV on softly in the bedroom to drown out noises and to help relax me.

I just make sure that it isn't Luther or Crimewatch though.....

[DancingHippo]

FFS I'm going to be checking under the sofa cushions for weeks now oyster!

Thank god we don't have any cabin beds!

I am terrible. DH started a job working nights when I was pregnant with twins. I used to fly down the stairs at night, massive belly 2 foot in front of me, to confront imagined intruders before they got to DD. Any slight creak/bump in the night and I'd be up and ready to fight, and probably get myself hurt!

It didn't help that we were burgled during the night, while asleep, while I was heavily pregnant with DD. They had forced the lounge window. Luckily with living in a not great area of North London, I'd got DH to put a bolt on our bedroom door when we'd moved in. Dread to think what may have happened if I hadn't.

When we lived abroad and DH worked away for weeks at a time, I'd have all the kids in with me, bedroom door locked, with an ironing board leaning against the door, so I'd hear it fall down if the lock was picked . DC would go to sleep in their own beds and I'd carry them in to mine when I finally went to bed. We had a huge super kingsize thankfully.

[Clarissa69]

Phew! 😂😂
Off to bed to think about the bogey man.

[Oysterbabe]

It's not real.

[Clarissa69]

Oh that picture...the eye....that's done me no favours with my ankle grabbing fear!!
It's not real though is it?

[Oysterbabe]

How about now?

[Tiggywinkler]

I don't see anything in that one either! Are my eyes broken?

[Oysterbabe]

It's like this one.

[Oysterbabe]

Look at the bed, or the gaps in the bed..

[Tiggywinkler]

Starry - what am I looking for in that picture?

[crapfatbanana]

I don't really get the heeby-jeebies about spooky stuff when home alone at night (well, not totally alone as I have four kids) but I do get anxious about stuff like protecting them if intruders got in, or if there was a house fire. I can't rest until I've secured the house properly, switched off anything that could cause a fire and left a clear route to the nearest way out, with no trip hazards. I usually do all this, go up to bed, start dozing off and then realise I've left my mobile phone downstairs so have to drag myself out of bed to get it, which wakes me up enough to start worrying again. I also wind myself up imaging the police knocking on the door to break bad news about my husband dying. I think it's just the being alone that makes my imagination go into overdrive.

[Clarissa69]

Oh my god - this is me! When DH goes away ALL the lights on, pepper spray (some sort of dye stuff from Amazon), a glass vase and I sometimes have been known to sleep in the inflatable mattress on the kids bedroom floor. I am 46 fgs!
Wish no one had mentioned the grabbing of ankles thing......😱

[Bringiton2016]

Sorry op but I can't get the image of the "boogie man" out of my head! . You should think of him when you get frightened!!!

[ReadyPlayerOne]

I used to be terrified of the dark as a child and a teen living at home. Overactive imagination and a thirst for the macabre...bad mix! I was totally fine at university in halls and then nervy again when I lived with DH who worked nights. Finally we had children and now that fear is gone completely. I still have that overactive imagination but I'm brave for them. When he works late I'm unfazed.
Or maybe I'm too knackered by three kids including a baby who wakes regularly throughout the night to care!

[leotwist]

We live in an old house full of creaks, which can get really spooky. I'm okay when hubby's home but when he's away, I avoid watching spooky TV before bed, especially anything about the supernatural. It doesn't help that, when we had a dog, he used to jump out of his skin for no apparent reason, as though he'd been touched or heard something, and a guest once claimed to see a shadow moving on the stairs. I figure it was one of the trees outside in the wind, as some of the windows don't have curtains. Having said that, when we slept in the original house, I did once wake up terrified and feeling there was something looming over the bed. We sleep in the new extension now, which I much prefer. But when I'm on my own, I always debate whether or not to leave the bedroom door open, whether to wear earplugs like I usually do, etc. I also hope we move before the baby has to have their own room, as it would need to be in the original part of the house...

[teafortoads]

My house is very unscary and I make sure I do't watch/read terrifying stuff (lone parent and DD2). Weirdly, the least scary place I ever lived was on a 70ft narrow boat - Very vulneable but could easily survey the whole of my domain in just 2 glances!

[SecretWitch]

Of course, that does not solve the issue of ghost that lives in the basement..or the DarkMan as my daughter calls him. When I must get up to pee in the night I close my eyes and run by the basement door without looking.