Fri 15 Aug 2008
Did you have any particular boogeyman as a kid? A specific monster in the closet at one point? Any particularly traumatic nightmares? What sort of things left clawed footprints on your young, imaginative psyche?
Posted by Josh Millard4 answers so far!
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Gastown was quite hippy-dippy in the 70s, lots of incense and rattan and Buddha statues.
In my dream I would be on Water Street, and it would actually have water on it, an inch or two. There would be a deep winding stone staircase, leading underground.
“Uncle Hairy” lived down there, and he was a naked freak covered in thick thick hair. Only his feet and nose were visible poking from the huge bushy mane of hair.
He wasn’t malevolent, just really strange, and I didn’t like that I always had to go down there and be with him in the dark. As I would hear him move and catch a glimpse of him in the dim light I would wake up, completely freaked out.
This dream would come back to me much later in life, but I haven’t had it now for decades.
If I leave the closet door open, I can see him coming, and maybe I can make it out the window.
But leaving the closet door shut may delay him just long enough for me to make a break for it.
If I leave the light on, I can see him better — but he can see me, too.
If I leave the light off, he won’t know I’m here if I’m very, very quiet.
He can’t see in the dark, can he?
Starting when I was about 6, I was terrified of burglars. At age 14 this fear was intensified when I caught a guy (who was stalking girls from my high school, and calling homes pretending to be from the school) looking in my bedroom window. I was about 20 before I could get up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night without checking behind my bedroom and the bathroom doors.
Once after reading a ghost stories for kids book, I was terrified of zombies.
My older brother.
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Unless you mean something not so physically real. In that case, likely it would be Sasquatch. Or maybe the baby from the old shitty movie “It’s Alive”.