All my life, I've been totally freaked out by porcelain dolls and old fashioned dummies. I don't know why they bother me so much; it might be the eyes but I'm not sure.
And before you ask, I had this fear long before the 1980s gore-fest movies, so it can't be a Chucky-phobia. Why do dolls scare me so much? Do other people share this fear?
2007-08-09 12:19:53 · 23 answers · asked by ALantain 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Sorry, I hate nut-crackers! My hubby chases me around stores with them at Christmas time. I was about 5 when Grandma, (rich Grandma) took me to see a ballet, The Nut Cracker Suite. All these huge guys in nut cracker costumes came down the isle, and one stopped next to me...while I was screaming bloody murder trying to get into Grandma's lap, the jerk knew he was frightening a little girl, and yet continued to chomp this huge mouth in my screaming face! I've always been afraid of them, ever since. you can not always explain our phobias, but they are real...and the best we can do is to cope!
2007-08-09 12:24:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Well - a doll is a living dead thing. It is easy to apply a personality to it, so it would be a living dead. Imagine looking at a doll of that sort, that suddenly jumped up and danced a rumba!!!
Ok - that even gave me the creeps, but seriously, fearing something depend on the associations that has been applied at some point.
It is normal - some have it with mice and spider and other stuff. What you can do is to change the asociation pattern by thinking differently about the dolls. Smile to them and talk to them as if they where your best friends, that would do anything in the world to support and help you. Little by little your brain will chance the association patterns and you will experience that the dolls are really not scary anymore.
PS. You don´t even need to psychoanalyse yourself and find what the cause of the fear was. It doesn´t matter at all, what the cause was. What matters is the change you do. Psycho analysis often just make the fears and fobias worse, than they where in the first place.
Fobias and fears are some of the most easy things to treat.
2007-08-09 12:27:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
When I was young(er) I could not stand clowns.
I believe my fear stemmed from the exaggeration of the facial features..When I look at a clown I can see a grinning skeleton.
Maybe you see tiny dead people when you see porcelain dolls.
They do look like tiny stuffed people that have been dead for a long time.
I wouldn't worry about it,unless you're going to start a collection or work in a porcelain doll factory.
2007-08-09 12:34:05 · answer #3 · answered by Robert J W 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have had this fear since i was a kid, my mom used to collect porcelain dolls and literally had about 20 or 30 around the house. I remember one being in my bedroom and i used to turn the doll around so it wasn't looking at me. Then it got to a point where i started to turn all the dolls around and then started hiding them in the garage. At this point my parents realized how much i hated them and they where all eventually sold off or given away but to this day i really don't know why i have always hated them and i still cannot be in the same room as a doll.
2007-08-09 12:28:31 · answer #4 · answered by GBMC 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
some dolls are creepy looking. i've got regarded at doll catalogs and magazines and there are some in there that are incredibly extraordinary and would supply Chucky a run for his funds. lol! Others are somewhat gorgeous and candy looking. i think of possibly in case you had a team of all of them coated up, it ought to freak somebody out, however. i think of having fairly some all of them watching you will make fairly some human beings sense somewhat weirded out. I do have some dolls myself yet they are very cuddly and harmless babies by using FayZah Spanos. that is humorous that becoming up, I wasn't that lots into dolls and now I even have 3 artist dolls.
2016-10-09 21:29:31 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some dolls have the eyes looking so real as well as the faces that you think a actual person is looking at you. Don't feel you are alone in this many others get the same feeling.
2007-08-09 12:32:29 · answer #6 · answered by painterlady 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know.... I agree they are creepy....especially clowns......we have no clowns or porcelain dolls in my house. When I was little my mom used to have these trajedy and comedy masks and a creepy clown on the wall and I used to have recurring nightmares that they came to life (and yes this was way before chucky)
2007-08-09 14:04:28 · answer #7 · answered by Freedspirit 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a fear of porcelain dolls and clowns. They both give me the fricking creeps and have bothered me since I was a little girl.
2007-08-09 15:39:30 · answer #8 · answered by LadyRazz 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe your grandmother or an older adult instilled a fear of dolls if she yelled at you that dolls were for girls and not for boys. Maybe you were afraid of going near a doll.
2007-08-09 12:43:59 · answer #9 · answered by ♥Celebrity Hotline♥ (Thumbs up!) 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They scare me too! I actually refused to sleep in my cousin's room one summer because of dolls she had on the wall. those freaking creepy eyes.
2007-08-09 21:08:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't like them either, the more real they look the harder it is to look.
I saw someone in their coffin before they were cremated, and the person looked just like a porcelain doll.
2007-08-09 12:45:07 · answer #11 · answered by Astro 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋