Things we imagined as kids...

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Browsing through Stilly's "More Cowbell" thread and then seeing Catlynn's posting made me start thinking about a lot of things that as I kid I either did or imagined. One thing that I use to believe was that the pictures on the wall would try to talk to me at night. Of course they never said anything aloud, but it use to look like they were moving their mouths.

What about you, what are things you use to think or imagined about as a child?
 
Well my childhood memories are not so sweet. I had a medical condition that gave me bad dreams. I was being chased by a milk truck, night after night.
It's funny now.. but then..... :-(
 
I used to think that witches were real~ the Wizard of Oz was my favorite movie when I was a child, but I was terrified of the wicked witch. I would go running to my mom saying 'I scared, I scared!', terrified. She still brings it up lol. The movie made me believe that they were real. I remember we would always drive past this one black gothic-looking building and my big brother told me witches lived in it. I couldn't even look at the thing when we past it; afraid I would see one lol. I later found out that the building was an old Ukrainian Orthodox Catholic church. Kinda see the irony in it now.
 
I was four the first time I watched the Wizard of Oz. The flying monkeys made me cry. :(

I would sneak around and watch scary movies with my much older stepsibs and then shove my covers around my neck very tightly while I was sleeping so vampires couldn't bite me. And I would hold my pillow very tightly too so if a vampire tried to take me, he would have to take my pillow too.

I loved to pretend that I was Batgirl too. Oh. Wait. I am. :o:p
 
violakat said:
Browsing through Stilly's "More Cowbell" thread and then seeing Catlynn's posting made me start thinking about a lot of things that as I kid I either did or imagined. One thing that I use to believe was that the pictures on the wall would try to talk to me at night. Of course they never said anything aloud, but it use to look like they were moving their mouths.

What about you, what are things you use to think or imagined about as a child?
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I thought something similar when I was a kid. But it involved a really big cat poster. Those eyes must have scared me. At some point in my youth, my sister would watch Nightmare on Elm Street, Child's Play, and Friday The 13th. Now think of that killer trio to a child's mind. I couldn't look at my toys the same way, nor could I sleep. Running would be no help because I had a lot of toys, and a giant goalie masked wearing, machete wielding monster after me. Oh the those fun nights.
 
I dont know whose brilliant idea it was to let my 8 year old self watch Jaws, but i saw them and i refused to shower for weeks because i imagined Jaws was going to pop out of the bath tub drain.

I saw a barbie movie when i was 10 and it had barbie in a swimming pool, and sharks were released into the pool by a secret door she couldnt see. I didnt get into a pool for years, because i figured if it happened to barbie why couldn't it happen to me.

My dad told me a story once about a Roach who crawled into a mans ear and it got stuck in there, so i used to lay in bed at night and imagine roaches crawling into my ears... i slept with my hands over my ears for the longest time.

When i was a child i used to live with my nana sometimex. She was a ball room dancer and a swing dancer, so i would put on all her fancy clothes, line up my dolls and imagine i was the Queen of the world and they were my royal subjects. That was called Awesome hour.

I used to imagine myself being sucked out into space, or taken away to the water towers that were in our town. I did a lot of hiding :D
 
I have always been a bit scared of the dark when it's "too" dark and as a kid, I would see shadows and imagine they were doorways into the world of kid-eating monsters.

I figured if my toes or limbs stuck out from under my blankets and sheets at night, some kid-feasting monster would yank me out of bed by an exposed toe or arm and I'd be history!! BUT, the crazy thing is that if I had my sheets and blankets tucked under me all the way around (like a giant cocoon), no monster could get me because there would be nothing out there for him to grab!!

I sleep like that to this day--it just feels "cozy" to me. Even when I was married, I had to have "my" set of sheets and blankets that were loose (not tucked under the mattress at all.) My hubby and I might talk and cuddle for a while but before I went to sleep, I still tucked myself into my little cocoon. (I might make one exception by reaching out to hold his hand but I was cautious to only let my hand out into a "monster free" zone.)

Notice, I tucked my OWN self into my OWN little cocoon. He thought I was crazy of course, but if he wouldn't believe me, he was on his own.

I figured if he was naive enough to let his own toes and arms stick out, it wasn't MY fault if the monsters got him!!
 
My older second cousins scared me with the bloody Mary thing, so I was afraid to look at mirrors at night, or have any stuffed animals or dolls out in my room when it was dark.

I also thought babies came out of the belly button for the longest time as a kid.
 
I don't think I was really afraid of anything...I did dream alot but it was also extraordinary.
I imagined building stuff or forts or that kind of thing, space travel without need of a suit or spaceship, that anytime I was riding in a car there was a guy on a dirtbike who rode along the tops of the powerlines and jumped every pole...
 
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Finding my true prince that would never hurt me but cherish me and take care of me and be the best friend I have ever had. ha...yet to find him :D
 
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Finding my true prince that would never hurt me but cherish me and take care of me and be the best friend I have ever had. ha...yet to find him :D
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Disney was playing the original Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast tonight. I must have listened to my Cinderella original long playing record a million times. I still have every word memorized. Remember hoping. Then in college identified more with Beauty and the Beast feeling like I didn't fit in. Now I still don't seem to fit in and the Beast never turned into a prince. I have to believe that God has a plan for me. With God all things are possible.

Blooming_Violet
 
I used to think Jesus was the Prince of Peas.

I would go in my backyard and thought I was discovering news species of insects never before seen by man.

I loved the stars and all manner of space bodies.

The trouble is that I really have not changed very much in terms of my imagination. As a child I had a pretty decent grasp on what was real or currently in existence and what wasn't, but everything seemed to come together more seamlessly and magically than it does now. Everything had its own mythology or symbolic meaning.

That said there are certain impressions and very vivid memories that I look back and wonder if they were reality or something I dreamt. In fact, when I revisited my childhood home recently I drove around and did a fact check of things I thought were real that possibly were not. Most of them were, but I attached significance to them that didn't belong and they were integrated into a larger framework, a different world almost.

That is something I have missed and, thanks to someone special not long ago, I have been able to regain. There is another part to the TE Lawrence quote that is my signature that speaks of men who dream with their eyes open. I put it up because I can relate to it. My imagination is very active and has not, itself really dulled since I was a child.

I can see those ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I can create characters with a life story in an alternative timeline and have them quite real to me. I know they are not real, but they are special to me. It's also why I have trouble being an actor.

Playing someone like, say, Roskolnikov would be difficult for me, because Roskolnikov is a pseudo-being in and of himself.

To answer the question more succinctly, my imagination was not chastened so much as it was refined and streamlined. My flashes of insane creativity were like stars in an imaginative constellation or nebula. Part a greater picture I have been filling in and enjoying to this day with some dark periods.
 
I used to imagine alternative methods of transportation a lot, especially ones that were highly illogical. A lot of my dreams were about them. Things like the green goblin's glider. Jets that could hover, personal spacecraft, ultra-maneuverable yet extremely fast bombers, etc.

One of the earliest and least practical memories I can remember was the idea that cars, instead of travelling on roads, would turn the world with their wheels. :rolleyes: Kids.
 
When I was a kid my friends and I sometimes played with a ouija board and sometimes strange things would occur, although you had to be there to appreciate them. We would ask the spirit to make someone's arm or neck itchy and it happened and one time we asked the spirit to make a burnt out light bulb come back on and when we looked the light was on! I still believe in this stuff but now I know its dangerous to mess with so I don't do it anymore.
 
arwen83 said:
I used to think that witches were real~ the Wizard of Oz was my favorite movie when I was a child, but I was terrified of the wicked witch. I would go running to my mom saying 'I scared, I scared!', terrified. She still brings it up lol. The movie made me believe that they were real. I remember we would always drive past this one black gothic-looking building and my big brother told me witches lived in it. I couldn't even look at the thing when we past it; afraid I would see one lol. I later found out that the building was an old Ukrainian Orthodox Catholic church. Kinda see the irony in it now.
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they are real, it's called wiccan, they are workers of the enemey, they dont appear scary but as cool people in order to attract young girls into witchcraft. Thats their target ,young girls looking for meaning in their lives. All the shows on TV about witchcraft, such as charmed, buffy the vampire slayer etc, are aimed at making young girls think that all that garbage is ok. They are very real and are very active.
 
zeroturbulence said:
When I was a kid my friends and I sometimes played with a ouija board and sometimes strange things would occur, although you had to be there to appreciate them. We would ask the spirit to make someone's arm or neck itchy and it happened and one time we asked the spirit to make a burnt out light bulb come back on and when we looked the light was on! I still believe in this stuff but now I know its dangerous to mess with so I don't do it anymore.
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another one of things disguised as a kids toy, it's real, and part of the occult, kids tried to get me to play with one as a kid, and I someknow knew it was evil and stayed away. You can get demonic attachments from those things that can follow you for years. They can be called off my prayer though and invoking the name of Jesus to make them flee, they have no choice when his name is spoken
 
lost1972 said:
another one of things disguised as a kids toy, it's real, and part of the occult, kids tried to get me to play with one as a kid, and I someknow knew it was evil and stayed away. You can get demonic attachments from those things that can follow you for years. They can be called off my prayer though and invoking the name of Jesus to make them flee, they have no choice when his name is spoken
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My sister pretty told me the same thing. I think I was in high school or maybe last year of junior high. Anyway, she told me to stay away from that kind of stuff because of her own personal experience, and that the demon apparently never went away until they called the pastor of her church to come and pray for them. I decided I didn't ever want to mess with that stuff.
 
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