Semiotics Final - Childhood fears ( 23/06/2015 )
When I was about seven years old, I was afraid of mirrors, especially which were located in the bathroom. I have experience that could be the reason of it. When I was little, I watched a movie called the ring with my sister and my mother at a movie theater, and it was a kind of horror movie. I really want to emphasize that I was still six or seven years old at that time. The main scene of that movie was one goast, maybe female, wearing white clothes and with so long hairs came out of television. No one could know her face, but I think it made the movie more scary. I have not watched that movie since then, but I have clear memory of it even now. In the past, I wached some programs about horror on TV, but now I think that experience has the biggest influence on my childhood fears. The reason why I was scared at mirrors especially which were located in the bathroom is I wondered if there would be a goast with long hair in the mirror when I raise my head after finishing shampoo. I still have this feelings now. In addition, I am living alone now, so there are many things which I feel scary.
I was also afraid of doors that closed naturally. In my pareants' house, there is a room that has such a door. I do not know why I was so scared of it, but I felt like I was locked in by someome. Therefore, I could not stay at the room for long time. As I grew up, I had less opportunity to go to the room, and gradually my feeling like that disdppeared. I think it was solved as time passed.
Through these my experiences, I have been influenced by media such as movies, TV programs and so on. I think if I had had no chance to watch these things, I guess I did not have such my first fear. I also think these specific kind of movies and TV programs have unique back ground music. When I hear such music, I still become scary. I think I connected these kind of music with my bad memories. I think it is like index. If all things surrounding me were different, my imagination to such a kind of music would be totally different.
On the other hand, I am probably most scared of insects now, but in the past, I liked them. I do not know but actually I could touch them easily when I was in kindergarten. However, now, I cannot touch in any ways. I do not know reasons. I guess when I was young, I was interested in anything. I have nothing that was scary to me. Then, the older I became, the more I was getting scared of them, because I gradually came to know what they were like by media. In conclusion, we all have been influenced by media for decades, and younger generations will be more influenced because of development of media. We need to get media literacy.
I was also afraid of doors that closed naturally. In my pareants' house, there is a room that has such a door. I do not know why I was so scared of it, but I felt like I was locked in by someome. Therefore, I could not stay at the room for long time. As I grew up, I had less opportunity to go to the room, and gradually my feeling like that disdppeared. I think it was solved as time passed.
Through these my experiences, I have been influenced by media such as movies, TV programs and so on. I think if I had had no chance to watch these things, I guess I did not have such my first fear. I also think these specific kind of movies and TV programs have unique back ground music. When I hear such music, I still become scary. I think I connected these kind of music with my bad memories. I think it is like index. If all things surrounding me were different, my imagination to such a kind of music would be totally different.
On the other hand, I am probably most scared of insects now, but in the past, I liked them. I do not know but actually I could touch them easily when I was in kindergarten. However, now, I cannot touch in any ways. I do not know reasons. I guess when I was young, I was interested in anything. I have nothing that was scary to me. Then, the older I became, the more I was getting scared of them, because I gradually came to know what they were like by media. In conclusion, we all have been influenced by media for decades, and younger generations will be more influenced because of development of media. We need to get media literacy.