under my bed

Long, long ago, sometime before I was in first grade, I'd occasionally watch the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon. There was one episode where a little boy got out of bed in the middle of the night. The floor around the bed started glowing, and he got sucked underneath and into whatever alternate dimension the cartoon took place in. For quite a while, I was afraid that if I stepped too close to my bed, the same thing would happen to me, so I'd jump on or off to avoid that 2-foot buffer of floor space. I can't remember what made me figure out that there was nothing unusual about my floor. I just stopped doing that one day, I guess.

Gillian

I thought a monster would "Come up my bed" (not lurk underneith) and I would be unprepared if I slept with my back to it. For years I could only sleep on one side, as I was sure that the monster wouldn't fit between the bed and the wall, so I could sleep with my back to that side.

Carrie

When I was young, I woke up in the middle of the night with an itching in my ear. I reached to touch it and out sprang what, to me, was the BIGGEST spider I had ever seen, which scurried across the bedclothes. For at least 10 years afterwards I always covered my ear with the sheets.
I still worry about it

harrypsauce

I, too, used to believe the things in my room (both in the closet and under the bed--mainly skeletons, 'cuz I was terrified of skeletons) would attack me in the dark. I had to cover every bit of me and I couldn't sleep on my back because I didn't want to see the terrors coming to get me!

EJH

There were alligators under my bed.

Diana

My sister once wanted help cleaning under her bed. She told me to do it, but I refused. She told me the easter bunny came early and left my brother's things under the bed. So to find my present, i had to dig everything under the bed out. She did that to me every month.

Jonas

i was (and still am; well, sort of :)) terribly scared of mummies, so guess who were hiding under my bed at night!

blueskin

I used to think that there were skeletons under my bed and if I went to get out of my bed at night, they would grab my ankles.

Anon

Growing up in Southern Louisiana my siblings, cousins, and I always heard stories about different types of animals that would come get you if you wouldn't go to sleep (mostly at my grandpas). well i have a cousin who is 6 months younger than me and we would always wake up the other one if we had to go to the bathrrom or somethin so that the "betiis" (pronounced bay-ties) wouldn't come get us!

scared silly

i used to believe that there was a big slimy monster under and on the top bunk of my bed and that if i got out of the covers it would grip me and eat me .

ACe Ventura

When I was younger, for some odd reason I thought that there was huge rats under my bed and only came out at night so for a long time I was afride to get out of bed to use the bathroom cause I thought they would bite my feet.

Tara

When i was 8, we went trick-or-treating, and my dad wore this mask that made me cry everytime i saw it and one night after my parents forgot to put it in the addic, i slept with my parents czuse i was afraid of that mask and i looked over the edge and saw it. so from 8 years old to 10 i thought that mask was alive and in my parents room...i stayed out of that room for 2 years...

Vixen

I used to be terrified that when i was asleep someone would come and sew my duvet to the mattress and i would be trapped forever.......

~*lisa*~

I used to believe that mice and monsters lived under my bed and would come out when I was sleeping and hurt me.

Anon

When I was younger I had my bed against the wall (at the side of the bed) with the rest of my room to the other side.
Being scared of the dark at the time, I used to sleep facing the wall just incase I woke up in the night and would be confronted by some 'thing' in the other side of my room...this became a slight habbit and still face the same wall when I sleep.

Matt T, UK

I had a very vivid imagination as a child. I used to see things.

Every night I would see giant crabs running around on my floor. I was terrified of them. So I would trhow down little wads of tissue that would turn into little people who would fight with the crabs to protect me. I actually would see these tissues move all over the room. Sometimes my tissue people would be grabbed by a crab and carried away under the dresser to whatever fate lied in store for them. Other tissue people would try to save the their friend. Sometimes I would throw down some more little tissue people for reinforcements. I was terrified for my feet to touch the floor or anything to hang over the bed because the crabs would get me. Eventually the tissue people became the characters from Gilligans Island and the crabs were rampant on the beach(my floor).

I did get over the whole crab thing, but not until the common "vampire" scare many kids have. The difference is that in the dark, I actually saw my tormentor. A beautiful younish girl who would stand at my window facing away from me until I stared at her, then she would turn around and show me her huge fangs. I would cover myself completely except for a tiny hole to breath from. I think I preferred the crabs...

Freya Moon

I used to believe that there were snakes under my bed and that if i didn't sleep in the middle of the bed they would get me!

Kitunae The Klot

i used to think that if my eyes were still open when the light was turned off to go to sleep, i would be able to see monsters. i always tried to fall asleep facing a wall, just in case, and i still do to this day!

Anon

I used to believe that there was an alligator under my bed and if your feet get close to the edge of the bed he will pull you in. This made me scared of the dark. Now I am ten and I am still scared of the dark.

Anon

i used to belive that there were evil things waiting for me every day before i used to go to bed. my mom told me that there are wicked mosters that will grab my legs and eat me alive. well that scared the crap out of me so everytime(till this day) before i go to bed, i jump into my bed and pray that nothin will ever come and get me =)

jboogie