Seeing the first Nightmare on Elm Street at 10 legitimately fucked me up for years
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First film I remember watching multiple times (on Betamax) was Barbarella. Must have been 5 or 6. Watched it back recently and it definitely not appropriate for a child. Ah well.
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Haha, yeah not really a kids film, orgasmatron etc.
I think parents just used to regard any film with spaceships or other fantastical elements as probably being for kids.
My mum hired Robocop when I was 9.
Sat and watched it with my parents.
At the point where Ed209 first does his thing, my dad paused the tape and said to my mum āGill, what is this film rated?ā
Bear in mind weād seen boobs and there had been a ton of swearing at this point alreadyā¦
My mum replied āGod knows. Itās called āRobocopā so it has to be for kids, right?ā
We watched the lot.
One of my favourite films of all time.
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Was my favourite but yeah it did mess me up a bit when I hallucinated my mum standing at the bottom of the stairs in a clear bodybag. I used to hallucinate alot when I felt poorly. Lots of reoccurring ones I can still pisture in my mind today.
Distinctly remember watching Halloween at the minimum volume on my bedroom tv sat about 2 inches away from it so my parents couldnāt hear. Maybe 12/13 ish. Loved it 
Iāve never seen Robocop.
Wholesome family entertainment
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the 4 hour robocop documentary is a must see.
unless you havenāt even been bothered to watch the film.
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Still have this 45.
Same, and same.
Iām off work today feeling poorly. Wonder if my mind can magic up some massive budgies or eels swimming up my bedroom walls?
Was it Amoxicyllin in the 80ās that used to bring on the hallucinations? I remember not being well and hallucinating giant letters and voices in my head. One night I fell asleep with Spitting Image on the telly, Paul Daniels freaking me the fuck out with his mad eyes and spinning wig
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Same. I used to get up and talk when I had a fever despite still being asleep. I distinctly remember this one time I was about 8 or 9, was unwell but had spent about 10 hours straight playing Lylat Wars on the n64, then went to be bed only to āwake upā in the night absolutely tripping balls.
I was dreaming that the whole world was covered in technology and I was on the moon with a laser and had to destroy it before it took over the whole earth. Had to be put into a cold bath to be woken up.
This isnāt normal. I think your parents were all experimenting on you with psychedelics or something.
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OOF, yeah some gooduns here. Continually updated childhood hallucinations!
Brief rundown of my main ones that I had over and over.
Stuck in an undulating wireframe world that I think started from the drunk scene in Dumbo.
Being locked in my old school which was a scary old building and hearing this hum and being drawn to the attic. The sound got louder and it was physically dragging me up some wooden spiral stairs. I get to the top and it was a bedroom with a giant four poster bed with heavy curtains drawn around it. I never found out what was waiting there but it was terrifying.
Similar to the above but there was a tree in the middle of a field at the end of our cul de sac and it was drawing me to it. I could see eyes coming from underneath it. This must have been born from a foil etched picture we had on the wall of Hans Christian Andersonās stories.
I remember one time I woke up and my dad came in and said itās all ok and I said āif itās all ok then why is that man on his motorbike?ā My door was behind me to my left and all I could see was the front wheel through the door and it kept moving as it revved as though on starting blocks. It was deafening.
I remember reading that it is common for children to hallucinate when they have a high temperature but canāt back that up with anything.
Also, donāt remember my Son hallucinating when he was younger so you could be on to somethingā¦
I found recently that a medicine gave to kids in the 80ās had an ingredient that would bring on hallucination, but for the life of me I canāt find the story I read. It was something that they would never get away with now
I wouldnāt be surprised!
I was also prone to something called āAlice in wonderland syndromeā so called because apparently Lewis Carrollās had it and it inspired the rabbit hole/Alice being really tall.
Basically when unwell, if I was to lay in bed facing the wall, the wall would look like it was 2 miles high, or really far away. Really hard to describe. I also used to get this feeling like a huge mass, like a ball, was fitting into a really small space - incredibly difficult to describe. I got that again when I had Covid actually. Odd.
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Watching Jaws, aged 6, has meant I canāt go in the sea (including those with no sharks in them) above my waist. Watching Childs Play also fucked me up, I was terrified of going into a bedroom with dolls/toys in for years after that.
Yeah, I can still get it from time to time.
Like the TV or someone you were talking to would seem so far away.
Did you ever get the weird feeling that a part of your body, usually hands felt abnormally big? Such a weird feeling, itās a bit like the uncomfortable feeling when your legs feel agitated and mixed with arms waking up from being dead from bloodflow but it somehow feels like itās 10 times the size.
