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25 Apr 2008, 4:41 pm

As a kid I would get what I called "imaginations" (shadowy figures running across the walls that seemed to come really close) that would scare the bejeesus out of me. I would put my blanket over head in those moments.

Luckily it's been years since I've gotten anything as scary.

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25 Apr 2008, 5:01 pm

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usua have my nose sticking out though, haha

haha, how adorable :D

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25 Apr 2008, 5:02 pm

SilverProteus wrote:

yes, the blankets always stopped the monsters! :D

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25 Apr 2008, 5:06 pm

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yes, the blankets always stopped the monsters!

When you're eight and your parents get pissed off at you if you if you wake them up in the middle of the night because of nightmares they do.

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25 Apr 2008, 5:08 pm

Wow, what a revelation! I used to do this all the time.

I wouldn't sleep with the blanket over my face, but when I got up I'd put the blanket over my head to leave my room. I don't know, I guess I thought I was invisible. I also used it to protect myself against bad smells like when Dad cooked eggs with onion (though it didn't work). I did this consistenly until I was about seven or so, though I still do put a blanket over my head sometimes now when I just want a barrier between me and the outside world.

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25 Apr 2008, 5:08 pm

this is true. *nods*

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25 Apr 2008, 5:15 pm

Ryn wrote:

I don't know, I guess I thought I was invisible.

That's why I started it.

I can't see them - they can't see me.

I had a scary room back as toddler.

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25 Apr 2008, 6:26 pm

When I sleep, yes. I have a blanket folded up like a pillow and put it over my head. I don't necessarily need to have a blanket covering my body but I do need it folded up and over my head to shut out the distractions.

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25 Apr 2008, 7:08 pm

I like to sleep with a pillow over my forehead and eyes, but must avoid "used air". My dad used to wrap sheets around his head while he slept. He looked like "the Mummy"! So it must be hereditary.

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25 Apr 2008, 11:55 pm

SilverProteus wrote:

As a kid I would get what I called "imaginations" (shadowy figures running across the walls that seemed to come really close) that would scare the bejeesus out of me.

Wow, I had that happen to me twice

Once when I was...I must've been 2 or 3, and another time when I was a little bit older. The first time, we had stayed up "late" to watch Mr. Boogedy on TV, and I had a nightmare that I was climbing this bright white square spiral staircase, going up counter-clockwise, and on each bannistar there was a pure white skull...I got the impression that it was the stairway to Heaven, and I just kept climbing, and calling for mommy...I woke up, and I was looking at the walls, and my imagination was making the baseball pennants move around on the wall like rocket ships, things like that...I was watching this for a while (very comforting after the nightmare), and then I heard, plain as day, "Boogedy, boogedy!"

Sorry, didn't mean to get carried away, I just love that story (and I should probably keep the ghost stories down a bit, this late at night

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The other time, I was sleeping in the livingroom for whatever reason, and I was looking at the...uh...one of those picture frames that holds a lot of little photos...and I was looking at each photo, and they were moving...one aunt would get up and laugh a bit...another would get up and get her husband another beer...photo of me sitting on a bed would wiggle my legs a bit...it was really cool, I could never get it to do that ever again =/

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25 Apr 2008, 11:57 pm

zghost wrote:

Never. I can't stand breathing "used" air, my own or someone else's. (yep, can't sleep facing someone either.)

It's not bad if they have really nice breath =)

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26 Apr 2008, 12:01 am

Beckula wrote:

Does anyone else put blankets over their head? I have done that since I was a kid...I also always HAVE to have a blanket to get to sleep at night!

I did it until my mother told me it causes headaches. Then I stopped.

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26 Apr 2008, 1:07 am

Sora wrote:

Ryn wrote:

I don't know, I guess I thought I was invisible.

That's why I started it.

I can't see them - they can't see me.

I had a scary room back as toddler.

I would love to be invisible.

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26 Apr 2008, 5:02 am

zghost wrote:

Never. I can't stand breathing "used" air, my own or someone else's. (yep, can't sleep facing someone either.)

Actually, saying that, although I sleep with my head under the covers I can't 'hide' under the covers. Up until I was about 14 I used to, when I was bored, sometimes go off and and mess up a blanket and crumple up my body and just lie there, looking like a heap of blanket. No one would know I was there because I would take half an hour or more perfecting it so that it looked just right. However if I did it in a bed I had to have a gap to breathe. I can only sleep undercovers, nothing more.

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26 Apr 2008, 8:04 am

i do it because when my sister was little she woke up and found a huge spider on her chest and she flicked it away apparently and got our mum but when she came in to check they had a fun time trying to move it

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26 Apr 2008, 11:05 am

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I remember once having a huge spider (the size of a tarantula)in my room. :lol:

My mother wanted to kill it with a broom, but my father shot it (he just got a leg, the thing scrambled under my bed). :roll:

I wouldn't put a balnket over my eyes in that case, when the threat is real.

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