Monster under the bed.

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Middle of the night, lying in bed facing down, my arm falls to the side and swings freely for a couple of seconds. Feels lovely and freeing but I quickly lift it back up and back under the duvet. Close call I say to myself, lucky the boogeyman didn't grab it.

I'm late forties, reasonably well adjusted, honestly.

Also won't close eyes for too long when in the shower, I wash my face super quick then look around with a sense of, phew, made it!

What's your U for a grown up fear? Not genuine ones like spiders, and before someone says,
"they're more scared of you than you're of them", unless you've been a spider in a previous life, you can't know for sure.
They probably fake being scared so they can pounce when unawares.

Agree with not wanting feet hanging out the bottom of the duvet, or the duvet being too loose down by my feet. For my, it's the fear that a snake will slither up from the floor, come under the duvet at the bottom of the bed, and start biting me.

And (maybe this is TMI or going too far) sometimes I also get scared that a snake will come up through the toilet, while I'm on the toilet, and bite my bottom.

You know, all super rational and calm stuff.

I have boxes under my bed and still feel like he's under there 😅.

When you said TMI, I expected you to say you were scared it would go up your fanny!

Before I go to bed, I have to put away any sharp knives left out on the draining board. If a serial killer breaks in, they will find them, be tempted, and use them. But, they will never look in the knife drawer or dishwasher. Obviously.

You shouldn't ever watch The Blob then!

I watched Alien when I was probably too young and dark corners in enclosed spaces get my imagination racing.

IRL however, I DID wake up once in the middle of the night with a ma-hoo-ssive spider on. my. face! In a warm country... Not the best experience.

When I was you get, younger than today(!) in the 1970s, many of our relatives lived in old houses with high lavatory cisterns. I had a fear of one falling on my head whilst otherwise inconvenienced.
One never did, funny old thing.

Oh god this terrified me, honeymoon in South Africa and Zambia, I stupidly googled the spiders out there before we went … thankfully there were mosquito nets, which I figured would also be spider nets 😱
my mum also lived in Australia when she retired, she told me only to worry about the red backs, showed me some in the garage dark corners so I knew what they looked like and tole
not to worry about huntsmen as they were harmless …. Little did she consider if id see one I’d had a heart attack!! Thankfully I didn’t seee any, only saw how large they were after she died so no longer went to Oz!

toilet rats... I can't pee in the dark and I have to check down the loo b4 I go

I couldn’t walk down to the end of our garden, even if DH stood and watched from the house. We have a very overgrown area down at the end where the trees are. Who knows who or what might be lurking there 👀

BTK put the fear of god into me too!

There are no street lights on my road and I live in a cottage that is around 309 years old. I have never felt uncomfortable or slightly freaked out here (thankfully).

My fear factor kicks in when I’m driving. Same as other posters, I get a worried about looking in the rear view mirror. Quite a lot of roads round here don’t have street lights and, when fog or mist is rolling across the fields and roads,it can definitely feel quite spooky. Not helped by a thread on here, a few years ago now, regarding a “goat man” seen crossing a road at night. That pops into my head, involuntarily, every so often when I’m driving down a dark country road.

Mine is looking out of the living room window onto a pitch dark garden and expecting the Michael Myers ( fromHalloween) mask to appear at the window !
Reason enough to draw the curtains and check the doors and windows are locked !

I recently reached down the side of my bed to pick up my phone charger (I never like doing this) and promptly screamed bloody murder.

Our new kitten was hiding under my bed and decided to, well, bite the hand that fed it.

I have a fear of mirrors too and I can pinpoint the cause of it. In the 1960s there was an American sitcom called Green Acres and in one episode when a character was looking in the bathroom mirror, they could see a see a hideous witch standing behind them!!!! I watched that programme, maybe, 60 years ago but my terror is just as fresh each time I look in the bathroom mirror😱

Oh thinking of sharks in swimming pools, obviously they’re in this bit of a wave pool. I’d never swim at the deep end by this bit when the waves weren’t on.

If I go to the loo in the evening I have to make it back downstairs before the flush finishes or the monsters get me.

Stayed at an old cottage Airbnb last summer and the loft hatch was in the bedroom!! I had nightmares about it the whole week, paranoid I’d wake up in the night and see it open slightly or that someone (or something) might be up there. Would have been fine if the hatch had been on the landing instead 😂

I love this thread, and second the murky shark and the toe nibbling monster 🤣🤣

Oh that puts the heebie jeebies right up me!!

I'm terrified of zombies. Can't watch even the silliest zombie film, because i get nightmares.

Ive worked in high-security prisons for many years, with real monsters. I've walked the landings on my own at night. Its ridiculous that I'm terrified of zombies but not of real monsters.

Slenderman lurks around my bins at night and I have to take the rubbish bags out really quickly so that he doesn't notice me.

My DS (19) has to shower with his eyes open to ward off the monsters.

Used to love Green Acres, can't remember the scene, but would make sense. Hand mirrors are put face down overnight too, just in case.

I can happily walk barefoot in the house during daytime, but the moment it darkens, the slippers come on. Certainly wouldn't do a night time bathroom run barefoot.

Sleep with socks no matter what the weather, light cotton ones for summer, otherwise the boogeyman will grab me by the toes.
Socks seem to deter him 😅 .