Cartoon is Farside. My all time favorite!

Hopefully I didn't trigger anyone with this.. 'cause there are some real monsters many if us encountered 😬

So I'm going out on a limb here with mine.
Still respect me in the AM?🙏

A few pen pals & I end our conversations with a question or two. That was the latest one.

So,

I was TERRIFIED of was Mork's boss from the show Mork & Mindy from the US. It was about these humanoid aliens that and it was kind of a dumb show. Totally G rated (like ALF).
I think I walked in on one my parents were watching and it both scarred and Scared me.

Mork would get orders from his boss on Ork in the toilet bowl.

I was also CONVINCED there were a Plethora of monsters in the dark.. And I implemented The Farside concept of a monster snorkel as a counter measure.

I should say I created a monster mystifying tunnel for fresh air out of my covers so that they couldn't see me.
(Because if you can't see them, they can't see you)

My father had convinced me that there was an octopus living under my bed and I swear I could feel my bed move from the octopus every night. **

So this combined to a Very Big Problem when I had to pee during the middle of the night!!

I would leap off at the end of my bed because my bathroom door was about 5 ft from the edge of the bed (octopus avoidance).

Then I would hover over the toilet so Mork's boss couldn't get me. Also, I was especially concerned that the the head was most dangerous when I flushed.

So I would stand there with one arm out stretch towards the toilet lever, and one towards the light switch. I would try, as close to simultaneously as possible, to flush the toilet & switch off the light.

Then I would run and take a flying leap about 3 ft from the edge of the bed (to avoid being snatched by the octopus) onto my bed pull the covers over my head and create a monster snorkel so that all the monsters in the dark wouldn't be able to see me.

I had a Very vivid imagination as a child (said very dryly)

**(My dad also convinced me that an alien would creep in. One time he crawled in with a green Afgan over him making alien noises. I ripped the brass lamp out of the wall & brained him with it. To this day I haven't told him I knew it was him..but that stopped alien visitation). I'm convinced he had no idea how traumatic his stories were. Our family just has a very warped sense of humor...)

On a mundane level:
Well I spent about 2 years being terrified of vampires and would sleep with this little stuffed t-shirt pillow that I made at summer camp across my neck so that it vampire couldn't bite me in the night. I love vampire stuff by the way, now.

Silliest monster I created Lemonquist Sockworth. He ruled his reality from a top a pile of mismatched socks. FYI, Clothes dryers are a portal to a parallel dimension that sucks one member of a sock pair to his realm.
He was a benevolent monster & had no scare the children or world domination ambition

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