What is the silliest thing you were scared of as a child?

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tobynshorty · 51-55, F

My grandmother had a coat with a real fur collar and and she would hang it on the back of my bedroom door and i would watch it until I fell asleep. I thought it would get me.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@tobynshorty I've occasionally had something similar, as an adult: hypnagogic nightmares triggered by ordinary objects seen while in only partial awakening, in very low light, in the bedroom.