[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Irrational childhood fears

[Iggy McSnurd]

Iggy here:

All of this actually recently reminded me of my most irrational fear:
Orangutans.

When I was 10, I slept in my own bedroom in the top bunk of an old set of
bunkbeds.  (I got to chose which one I wanted to sleep in on any given
night.)  I used to have these images of an orangutan peeking up from the
below the foot of my bed, grinning at me in a friendly way, then dropping
back down.  He would do this two or three times, then he would jump all the
way up onto the foot of my bed, bare his teeth in rage, and reach out with
this immensely long arms to attack me.

I had these visions when I was awake and as nightmares as well.  For three
entire months this lasted... I still don't know exactly how I got them to go
away...


How's THAT for an irrational fear?  (Especially considering I lived in the
Sierra Nevada foothills in California at the time, and was nowhere near
Borneo.. *grin*)

Iggy McSnurd