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Monsters, Inc. Child Scared in Bed is a reaction image macro of an unnamed child from the 2001 animated Pixar film Monsters, Inc. The image has been used to express relaxation interrupted by sudden panic while in bed.

Origin

On November 2nd, 2001, the film Monsters, Inc was released in the United States.^[1] In the film's opening, a monster scares a boy in his bed. Just before seeing the monster, the boy awakens staring with his eyes wide. Just over 10 years later, YouTuber StewartHope uploaded the clip, received more than 111,000 views in less than nine years (shown below).

On February 26th, 2014, Twitter ^[2] user @yungsnakee posted a zoomed-in image of the boy with the caption "When you're going to sleep and you remember you had homework." The tweet received more than 560 retweets and 300 likes in less than six years (shown below).

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On February 21st, 2017, Facebook ^[3] account endmylife2 published a meme with the image and the caption "My depression: die My anxiety: WHAT IF I DO DIE?? My paranoia: death is everywhere My narcissism: you're too perfect to die Me." The post received more than 13,000 reactions, 47,000 shares and 4,800 comments in less than three years (shown below, left).

Two years later, on July 29th, 2019, Twitter^[4] user @jbknockout tweeted the image with the caption, "When she spelled your homies name instead of coconut." The tweet received more than 76,000 likes and 12,000 retweets in less than one year (shown below, center).

Later that year, on November 21st, Instagram ^[5] user @grapejuiceboys posted the image with the caption, "me watching my sleep paralysis demon doing the Macarena." The post received more than 67,000 likes in less than 24 hours (shown below, right).

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