[Sighting] Childhood Memories (or lack thereof)

[MajoNoTakkyubin]

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DATE OF ENCOUNTER: June 12-20, 1984
TIME: N/A
SUSPECTED ENTITY: Missing Time
APPLICABLE MYTHOS: Unknown
LOCATION: Disneyland

So after being on this forum for a while, I've been thinking back on my life and if there were any other weird occurrences, and I'm realizing there was one that I had kind of forgotten (which is ironic when you see what it actually is) until recently.

When I was a kid (in the single digits), my family decided to take us on a trip to Disneyland. We were always kind of poor so it was meant to be one of those once-in-a-lifetime trips, and it was pretty rad at first!

However, I have multiple periods during the first day of that trip where I have complete blanks in my memory. I don't mean that things get vague and I can't really remember. I mean that there's a hard line from remembering, to forgetting, to remembering, and every instance was accompanied by an overwhelming sense of fear right beforehand.

The first specific instance I remember was when we were getting on Space Mountain. We were inside the building, standing in line together, in the area where all the lighting is blue, with the metal railings, and all that. We were on the raised path overlooking where the rollercoaster comes in. I can remember the visuals super clearly, and was totally fine going in. However, all of a sudden, I just started feeling more and more scared. It eventually got to the point where I was shaking, crying, and begging to get out. I specifically remember an employee noticing me...and then it's just blank. The next thing I know, I'm sitting on a bench outside of the restrooms, with my mom beside me, and my dad and brother apparently having gone on the ride without us. I'm suddenly completely calm again, just feeling a bit of an upset stomach, and nobody ever brought it up again. Also, weirdly, I don't remember my dad and brother coming back, only that they were there the next time we were going to go on a ride.

The second instance was going into the Haunted Mansion. It's really not particularly scary, but if anyone remembers that room that's kind of like an elevator, where the walls suddenly start "stretching"? I got the exact same feeling then as well. A rapid buildup of fear, shaking, crying, begging to get out...then when the "stretching" stops, an employee enters and poof, blank space, and then I'm outside on a bench with my mom. Same upset stomach feeling, dad and brother went on without us.

Had that been all, I would've just assumed I blacked out in fear because of scary rides and never think anything of it. However, by that point, I'd decided "okay, no more scary rides", thinking I was just too scared of the rides even though I hadn't been scared when I first entered. Instead, we were going to go watch Country Bear Jamboree, of all things. Then, of course, same thing. Lineup, in the room where several characters' heads are mounted in the wall (which is really weird and creepy, now that I'm thinking back on it), and bam. Fear, shaking, crying, employee, blank, outside on a bench with mom. Dad and brother went on without us.

To this day, I can't recall literally ANYTHING from those blank periods. I don't remember the faces of the employees, I don't remember anything that was said to me, I don't remember what paths we were taken on in order to leave, nothing. And it was all only on the first day. We were there for a week, went back to Disneyland multiple days, went to Universal Studios, went on some pretty scary rides otherwise, but never had that happen again.

I'd probably just chalk it all up to being a little kid and getting so scared I blacked out, but I apparently never fainted, and all the circumstances were the same. I just completely blanked. So it's probably just coincidence, but...what if, you know?