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Nov. 8th, 2010 04:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nnyToday I am singing a song about smelly feet.
A question, if you're comfortable answering: What scares you? I ask because writing these drabbles has really made me think about what genuinely freaks me out, what gives me a quick shiver, what makes me laugh. I ended up terrified in bed last night because of thinking about drowning slowly, pressed against the upper surface of whatever you happened to be trapped in that was below water level. That's the thing that scares me most, and it'll probably appear sooner or later; it interests me that it involves water which feels so much like home to me, to the extent that I felt homesick for the sea while still in England, which is frankly entirely too small for such feelings. XD
I think it came from reading The Beach, a passage where he swims through an underwater passage but manages to leave the well-explored route, running out of air and knowing that he's passed the point where he can return the way he came...
*shudders*
So yeah, flist. What scares you?
(Promise not to write too many drabbles about your fears. *whistles innocently*)
A question, if you're comfortable answering: What scares you? I ask because writing these drabbles has really made me think about what genuinely freaks me out, what gives me a quick shiver, what makes me laugh. I ended up terrified in bed last night because of thinking about drowning slowly, pressed against the upper surface of whatever you happened to be trapped in that was below water level. That's the thing that scares me most, and it'll probably appear sooner or later; it interests me that it involves water which feels so much like home to me, to the extent that I felt homesick for the sea while still in England, which is frankly entirely too small for such feelings. XD
I think it came from reading The Beach, a passage where he swims through an underwater passage but manages to leave the well-explored route, running out of air and knowing that he's passed the point where he can return the way he came...
*shudders*
So yeah, flist. What scares you?
(Promise not to write too many drabbles about your fears. *whistles innocently*)
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Date: 2010-11-08 10:56 pm (UTC)What scares me the most is losing my family -- my little girls especially. That's the one thing that absolutely HAUNTS me.
Otherwise -- when I was four or five, my mum took me to see Sleeping Beauty, the Disney version, at a cinema in East Germany. Close to the end of the movie, Prince Charming walks into a room and the evil witch's demon jump him and tie him up.
I screamed so hard they had to carry me out of the cinema -- my grandma was mad at me, because there was only one cinema in her tiny East German town and we'd lined up for a long time to see the movie, and now we hadn't even seen the end!
About 5 years ago, the movie came out of the Disney Movie Vault again and we bought it on DVD. When we got to the scene that had scared me so much... I recognised it instantly. I hadn't forgotten ANYTHING. It was EXACTLY as I remembered from about 35 years ago).
My heart was pounding, and my hands felt all clammy, but I didn't close my eyes, and I didn't look away. And so I finally got to see the movie to the end, for the very first time. I was 40 years old.