Dear all,
I just remembered this: The first 5 years of my life we lived in an appartment building with central heating. Then we moved into our own house, which has its own oil heating in the basement.
Now, its a bit difficult to explain. When getting active The "burner" of this thing did some kind of a pre-glowing or pre-heating before the actual burning of oil started, similiar to old diesel engines.
When getting activated, this thing made a high whirring, whining sound for about 10-20 seconds, then followed by the dark booming sound of the actual heating. And this totally freaked me out at the age of 5. I was literally panicking. As far as I can remember I was not an overly anxious kid, not easily frightened. I had no problem to go into the basement, I had to fear of darkness. And I had no problem when the heating was running. It's just that when it didn't I was scared to death that it might start as described above.
For once my parents were understanding and caring. But when they asked me what exactly the problem about it was, I just didn't have any answer. And even at that young age I was normally able to name and reason any fears I had, just this one was to me absolutely not explainable. It went away later and I have never thought about it again. Just when I read in Carol's book about this boy having no problem to be in the tub in the water, but panicking when the water was running in, then I remembered my story.
So, my question: can anybody relate or does anybody have any idea, what I possibly could have remembered he, just under the assumption.
Best regards
Frank
I just remembered this: The first 5 years of my life we lived in an appartment building with central heating. Then we moved into our own house, which has its own oil heating in the basement.
Now, its a bit difficult to explain. When getting active The "burner" of this thing did some kind of a pre-glowing or pre-heating before the actual burning of oil started, similiar to old diesel engines.
When getting activated, this thing made a high whirring, whining sound for about 10-20 seconds, then followed by the dark booming sound of the actual heating. And this totally freaked me out at the age of 5. I was literally panicking. As far as I can remember I was not an overly anxious kid, not easily frightened. I had no problem to go into the basement, I had to fear of darkness. And I had no problem when the heating was running. It's just that when it didn't I was scared to death that it might start as described above.
For once my parents were understanding and caring. But when they asked me what exactly the problem about it was, I just didn't have any answer. And even at that young age I was normally able to name and reason any fears I had, just this one was to me absolutely not explainable. It went away later and I have never thought about it again. Just when I read in Carol's book about this boy having no problem to be in the tub in the water, but panicking when the water was running in, then I remembered my story.
So, my question: can anybody relate or does anybody have any idea, what I possibly could have remembered he, just under the assumption.
Best regards
Frank