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Originally Posted by FuriousAvatar
I never really feared something happening or a specific object when I was a kid, but I suffered from AIWS (link to syndrome removed because apparently I need 15 posts) from when I was 5 to 16 years old. I've thankfully outgrown it, because it was always a terrifying experience.
Basically, I'd wake up and experience extreme distortion of my visual perception. The far wall of my room would look like it were 50 feet away, and the ceiling would look to be 30 feet tall. My hands and arms seemed to be bowed and elongated. The hallway outside my room was huge and loomed over me. My perception of time was often skewed, also-What felt like a half an hour was really only 5 minutes, and on rare occasions 20-30 minutes would go by in what felt like minutes.
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Wait... This is an actual documented childhood syndrome? Seriously? Holy crap that is awesome I am not crazy. Or at least I wasn't as a child.
My brother and I often discussed this horrible side effect of childhood, especially (though not exclusively) when we were sick. Things would appear far away and incredibly close. Time was eternal. Everything was painfully loud and painfully quiet at the same time. Urgh. Horrible. I also used to close my eyes and feel like the darkness was an eternal void that I was falling into forever.
Basically, I was fucked up. But it's a syndrome, so it's all good now, right? TOTALLY.
As for childhood fears, my worst one was Tim Curry in a clown suit hiding behind shower curtains. Peeing at night was a freaking adventure.
I also avoided mirrors for several years. Not because I feared my own reflection due to being hideous between the ages of 10 and 14 (though I was), but because I was terrified I'd one day look in the mirror and it WOULDN'T BE ME LOOKING BACK OH NO WHAT IF IT'S TIM CURRY INSTEAD.