I had a stage as a pretty young kid where I am SURE that I was going to get shot walking by windows at night. I remember seeing some show where a kid shot a gun and it killed someone across the street or something. Then it morphed into some "bad guy" creeping at the window and pointing a gun in. I would even think I saw gun barrels pointing in the windows. I would run as fast as I could past windows at night. It scared the absolute shit out of me.
I also became convinced there were aliens invading, and loud noises would kill them. One day I was at my cousin's house, and I saw a shadow going towards my dog and I shot at it with a cap gun and it stopped and disappeared. Somehow I then created this whole scenario where I thought aliens that looked like heat distortion patches were invading through my basement. My mom didn't let me have gun toys, so I found whatever I could to make loud noises and I made it my mission in life to stop the alien invaders. I somehow really believed it was real. I would see these shimmering distortions in the shape of humanoids and I would make loud noises at them. I thought I was being attacked everywhere, even at school sometimes. My best friend played along for a while until one day he was like dude, you know this is pretend, right? I stopped to think about it and realized I had invented the whole thing.
I was a strange child
I also became convinced there were aliens invading, and loud noises would kill them. One day I was at my cousin's house, and I saw a shadow going towards my dog and I shot at it with a cap gun and it stopped and disappeared. Somehow I then created this whole scenario where I thought aliens that looked like heat distortion patches were invading through my basement. My mom didn't let me have gun toys, so I found whatever I could to make loud noises and I made it my mission in life to stop the alien invaders. I somehow really believed it was real. I would see these shimmering distortions in the shape of humanoids and I would make loud noises at them. I thought I was being attacked everywhere, even at school sometimes. My best friend played along for a while until one day he was like dude, you know this is pretend, right? I stopped to think about it and realized I had invented the whole thing.
I was a strange child