January 25, 1965
I did fine - I think, on the mid-years in English and not as good in History. The extra credit question in English we had five words to unscramble. 3 I got - grammar, Shakespeare and conspirators. The other two were tributes and tributaries. For "tribunes" I put done "rinse tub". It fit. I hope I get credit for it. We watched a special about ghosts and I am scared stiff. They showed one film of what they said was a ghost. I guess it was.
January 25, 2006
For most of my childhood, I was terrified of the supernatural and anything to do with death. When I was four, my family drove to California from Nebraska to visit my grandparents. We stopped to tour a ghost town somewhere in Nevada, and I had to be dragged out of the car. In California, we saw a Martin & Lewis movie called "Scared Stiff" and "Jack and the Beanstalk" with Abbot and Costello, both of which gave me nightmares. Our drive home took us past some robber baron's castle, which reminded me of the giant's castle in "Jack and the Beanstalk". I not only refused to get out of the car, but huddled on the floor in the backseat while my family looked at the castle. By the time they came back to the car, I was in tears, convinced they had been eaten by a giant. Small wonder that at 15 I was still fearful of TV ghosts (not to mention the skeleton hanging next to me in Biology class).
And to think they teach four-year-olds about the Rapture.
January 25, 2023
I don’t watch trauma in any form. Not any more. Back in in the 1970s, when film violence became much more graphic, I went to movies that got good reviews, despite their disturbing content. The Godfather. Deliverance. But eventually I realized that I am constitutionally inclined to transform those film images into nightmares. Reading is not as bad. I read all the Game of Thrones books, but did not watch the TV series. I have never seen a Tarantino movie, and have avoided Guillermo de Toro since I accidentally saw Pan's Labyrinth. I am sure they are brilliant, but also positive they are not for me. Think of it as emotional cilantro.
I’m with you, Jo. I even tried being able to tolerate movie violence in a hypnotherapy training class. Nope. I finally made peace with my peaceable nature and vivid imagination (and dreams).
I don’t think I was scared of ghosts, but I was terrified of the brooms in Fantasia and Michael hums the music to tease me.