(Cover) - EN Showbiz - Helena Bonham Carter used to have nightmares about being eaten by a crab.

The actress can vividly remember the dream and how afraid it made her feel. She once spoke to her mother about it, who tried to explain its meaning.

"As a child I had a reoccurring nightmare of being eaten by a crab. I'd be walking through a forest and out came a crab that pursued me. Then, between me and the house, which was my safe haven, there would be a carpet of lobsters. My mum, who's a psychotherapist, says it's my internal critic having a field day," she laughed.

Helena isn't scared of many things.

She has a friend who has a highly unusual phobia though one Helena struggles to comprehend.

"I friend of mine has a fear of buttons. How did that happen a button attacked you at an early age? Most of my fears are rational, like death," she told Harper's Bazaar. (C) Cover Media