· Were you afraid of the dark as a child?

Answer 1

no

Answer 2

Only the darkness of the basement, or of the closet that's slightly open, or under the bed. It was all about the darkness that could hide something nasty, not so much a totally dark room. Nightlights cast more shadows than darkness so I didn't use one back then.

Answer 3

I shared a double bed with 3 brothers.
bombs were dropping it was WW2.
I was a small child' all lights were forbidden because or the blackout.
From that experience I used to go to bed with a torch on'.
deep inside the blankets. I was petrified of the dark.
not until I was a young man' did I return to normality, even now'' I have a small light on

Answer 4

Nope, my brothers were and they were older than me. They used to send me upstairs first to turn the hallway light on or in their rooms to turn the lights on for them. Hehehe. I liked the dark even though my mother always told me the dark holds something or hides something it didn't bother me at all.

Plus I know it's weird but I can see a lot better in the dark than I can in the daylight. I would and could find anything in the dark. Keys, phones whatever my brothers used to say I have cat eyes.

Answer 5

yes afraid outside if I had to walk pass grass and trees in the dark. In the house afraid of going upstairs alone used to thing someone or something was under my bed

Answer 6

The blank verse below explains well, how I felt about the dark as a small child.

I GOT TO GO

I got to go, I got to go,
Oh no! I got to go.
They're all asleep, can't be no help
with things that ain't of light-time.

All day it lurked, the little beast,
laired-up in ghoulish shadow.
Aslump amongst the weave and web,
of all the eight-legged squealies.

It stirs, it stirs. I know it stirs,
although it never moves.
It's slept the day, the wierdy thing,
and hungers into night-time.

Oh horror-fangs I must not see,
but taste their breathed-past air.
Slow razored claws I dare not hear,
but feel their scritchied shiver.

It's no quick walk of sun-bright time,
this cold stygian trek.
The hidey-blankets so far back,
through hallwayed caves of night.

The bathroom bulb's a fright away.
Oh terror! I'll never reach it.
So dead and dark, its switch unclicked,
no help--to light the Fears-It.

I swear by heart-crossed toads,
just let me pass-------this once.
I will be good--won't wait again.
Please, now-----I GOT TO GO.

Answer 7

YES! But it didn't help the fact that i experienced a lot of very strange things when i was growing up, especially at night. My mother was cruel and locked me in my room with a padlock. I wasn't allowed light at night. Allsorts of things happened to me and i couldn't do anything about it. I spent every single night under my covers with no air to breathe because i was far to scared to come out. Strangely enough, as an adult, i am still left with this dark thing. Stay under the covers and NEVER stick my feet out. After a bath, stay completely covered when i dry myself. Its a weird thing to admit to someone but my childhood was extremely active after dark.

Answer 8

Yes, I used to sleep with the light on. It's strange because as I grew older I came to love the dark and hate the light!

Answer 9

No, but I did develop a fear of the dark in my late 20's early 30's.
Over it now though.

Answer 10

Yes. But when I was 13, I gained night vision. Of course, back then I was experamenting with animal DNA syrams. I think I still have some cat DNA in me. I wonder how that would effect my kids. It defently would explaine my catgirl fedish.

Answer 11

yes but i think that was because my older brothers and sisters used to tell me scary stories - my own kids weren't afraid of the dark