What frightens you more than anything else?
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OJdaKiller
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Lampreys, bees/wasps, sharks.
Worst Scenario: Being framed in a foreign country, wrongly convicted of a crime, and then sentenced to a life in prison. You simply disappear.
Worst Scenario: Being framed in a foreign country, wrongly convicted of a crime, and then sentenced to a life in prison. You simply disappear.
GillianSeed79
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I feel you OP. Fire in the sky scared the shit out of me.
Mainly heights though. I hate heights.
Mainly heights though. I hate heights.
Black-Wind
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The Skater said:
Pretty much this.
Crash Station
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Me
Close second.
Edit: Minus the degree. I have a B.A. but I'm not doing anything with it yet.
The Skater said:
Close second.
Edit: Minus the degree. I have a B.A. but I'm not doing anything with it yet.
brandonh83
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viciouskillersquirrel said:
Well, sure. Tall structures, man-made or not, awe me. Being on top of them though is a different story. :lol
EraldoCoil
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there are only 2 things in this world that scare me, and one is nuclear war.
the second, carnies, circus folk, nomads. Smell like cabbage. Small hands.
the second, carnies, circus folk, nomads. Smell like cabbage. Small hands.
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
OJdaKiller said:
One of my friends currently faces up to 15 years in a Korean jail. He'll find out in two months what's going to happen (he's in jail right now awaiting sentencing) and the most important thing me and his other friends can do right now is remind him that he's not alone. :/
OJdaKiller
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industrian said:
Damn. This would be a nightmare come true. At least he has people pulling for him, knowing what is going on.
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wadsworth said:
Drugs related but completely blown out of proportion by the Korean authorities.
MattKeil said:
Well in those few minutes/seconds in which I know my time on this Earth is coming to an end, I'd like to think that there'd be someone there to listen to my last words and/or for someone to help me take my mind off whatever pain I'm experiencing/about to experience. That's why I'm never afraid of death whenever I'm sitting on a plane next to an attractive woman - if the plane's going down then at least I know I can kiss someone goodbye.
OJdaKiller said:
Yeah. They literally just snatched him from his apartment one day and nobody knew nothing about it. He didn't get his phonecall for about five days, and before that I only knew shit because I asked around the apartment building and watched the elevator CCTV videos.
EraldoCoil
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y2dvd said:
so, like dying right?
Costanza said:i've had a (sorta) traumatic experience with roaches
When I lived in the tropics, I would keep a 1litre glass coke bottle filled with water beside my bed from which I would sip through the night, without opening my eyes or properly waking up. (It helped ease the inevitable rum hang over the next day). I'll tell you, 3 inches of live cockroach flapping in your throat wakes you up sharpish! The thing must have crawled into the bottle looking for a drink itself. I no longer ever take hang over precautions.
Being alone.
Fear of failure.
Fear of success.
Getting accused of a crime I did not commit.
Getting killed and no-one else was around (to help me fight them off or die with me) and the murderer getting away.
Used to be scared of: Roaches, fear of heights (or depths as viciouskillersquirrel said.)
Fear of failure.
Fear of success.
Getting accused of a crime I did not commit.
Getting killed and no-one else was around (to help me fight them off or die with me) and the murderer getting away.
Used to be scared of: Roaches, fear of heights (or depths as viciouskillersquirrel said.)
Price Dalton
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Medalion said:
For a significant part of my childhood, I had a recurring set of nightmares involving tickling. It was incredibly terrifying, and it went on for years.
Not an issue anymore, though.
The thought of one of my intermediate family members dying. I've had nightmares where I receive a call telling me my mother died. It's been this way ever since I got a call last year telling me she was hospitalized with pneumonia.
Also, seeing as I'm in California, I'm really scared that we'll receive "The Big One" in my lifetime and everyday I pray that we don't have it...at least while I'm here, lol!
Also, seeing as I'm in California, I'm really scared that we'll receive "The Big One" in my lifetime and everyday I pray that we don't have it...at least while I'm here, lol!
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mrkgoo said:
It's a sign of low self image iirc. I used to have it all the time about 6-8 years ago.
PflargBlarg
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Of somehow being completely paralyzed but still alive. You can see, but you can't move or talk at all. You can't even kill yourself in that situation. It would be terrible.
Although I worry about them, the chances of them actually happening are slim.
First and foremost - never getting into a serious relationship and eventually getting married.
Secondly, having a kid. Although I don't particularly like kids, it's more of a leaving a legacy and continuing the family sentiment.
Thirdly, fear of not being successful in my career. That I'll be stuck at some dead end job barely able to live comfortable and support myself. Currently this has been avoided so far, but I am only 24 and have only been part of the post-secondary schooling workforce for 3 years which I've been able to maintain the same job(more or less) at the same company.
First and foremost - never getting into a serious relationship and eventually getting married.
Secondly, having a kid. Although I don't particularly like kids, it's more of a leaving a legacy and continuing the family sentiment.
Thirdly, fear of not being successful in my career. That I'll be stuck at some dead end job barely able to live comfortable and support myself. Currently this has been avoided so far, but I am only 24 and have only been part of the post-secondary schooling workforce for 3 years which I've been able to maintain the same job(more or less) at the same company.
water_wendi
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Suffocating/choking/drowning. It really sucks.
AlternativeUlster
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Not even a fucking joke: D&D, MMORPGs, and hardware stores. Roaches are the only bug that freaks me out too but I would rather touch a roach than play D&D. Get that shit away from me. Or watch someone play World of Warcraft. I feel like I should just kill them now so they don't waste their entire lives away. Fucking christ.
ElPolloPeligro
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Trying to grasp the concept of infinity.
AlternativeUlster
Absolutely pathetic part deux
Feep said:
One time my dad accidentally hit a hammer (the pointy end) inside his eye and had to wear a patch for 2 weeks but it quickly healed. Eyes have the most amount of nerves in the body so they heal pretty fast.
Lampreys scared the everliving shit out of me when I was a kid. For some reason, some asshole decided to put the mouth/suction of a lamprey on a two page spread of a science book meant for elementary school kids.
Flukeman from the X-Files. The Host is the only episode I refuse to rewatch from that series. I was... well, around the same age I was when I saw the lamprey spread. The X-Files scared me a lot when I was a kid, but it was a good adrenaline rush. That episode was just too much though.
Heights. The idea that I might just jump. Like my brain will go on autopilot and tell me to step off a building. When I was snorkeling, even looking down 30-50 feet to the bottom of the ocean scared the shit out of me.
Oh, and propellers. When we went to see the Queen Mary when I was little, there's this room where you can see the propeller. It's this GIANT FUCKING THING and what really freaked me out was that they had this fake scuba diver for some reason- probably to show the size comparison between a human and the propeller. All I could think of was that thing whirring to life and chewing that guy up, and/or falling in the water with it. I was snorkeling once and saw the propeller of the boat we'd left from and it gave me such an uneasy feeling, like it would suck me in or something.
Flukeman from the X-Files. The Host is the only episode I refuse to rewatch from that series. I was... well, around the same age I was when I saw the lamprey spread. The X-Files scared me a lot when I was a kid, but it was a good adrenaline rush. That episode was just too much though.
Heights. The idea that I might just jump. Like my brain will go on autopilot and tell me to step off a building. When I was snorkeling, even looking down 30-50 feet to the bottom of the ocean scared the shit out of me.
Oh, and propellers. When we went to see the Queen Mary when I was little, there's this room where you can see the propeller. It's this GIANT FUCKING THING and what really freaked me out was that they had this fake scuba diver for some reason- probably to show the size comparison between a human and the propeller. All I could think of was that thing whirring to life and chewing that guy up, and/or falling in the water with it. I was snorkeling once and saw the propeller of the boat we'd left from and it gave me such an uneasy feeling, like it would suck me in or something.
Wormdundee said:
Similar, but I'd be more afraid of not being able to see, only hear. If you can see, you can at least communicate by blinking (I'm assuming if you can see, you still have eyelid function or something), but if you could do something but hear, and couldn't communicate at all...things would happen around you, and there was no way you could react. People would say things, do things, and you would just know it's happening...
I guess a complete lack of control, is what it is. Like being buried alive in a coffin. There ain't nothing you can do at that point. But sit there, and die. Even worse if you can't even move your arms very much. That's just freaky.
I remember a nightmare I once had, and it's a memory that always stuck with me just because of how strange it was.
I was lying on my back in some kind of grassy field looking up at the stars. There were no trees or anything, it was basically a completely unobstructed view. Some kind of strange creature entered my view from the left side; hard to explain, I guess it kind of looked like a luck dragon made out of metal or something. The actual shape or appearance of it was not frightening at all, really - it was the size. It was so large it almost occupied all viewable space, clearly out there in the sky beyond the atmosphere but so impossibly enormous that you could not look anywhere in the sky and not see a part of it shifting as it moved.
Something about that simple fact completely paralyzed me in that dream, as if just the presence and sight of it was pressing me against the ground. I don't know as I've ever had another dream in my life that left me so disturbed when I woke up. A very basic, animal fear that I've never really felt in my waking life.
I was lying on my back in some kind of grassy field looking up at the stars. There were no trees or anything, it was basically a completely unobstructed view. Some kind of strange creature entered my view from the left side; hard to explain, I guess it kind of looked like a luck dragon made out of metal or something. The actual shape or appearance of it was not frightening at all, really - it was the size. It was so large it almost occupied all viewable space, clearly out there in the sky beyond the atmosphere but so impossibly enormous that you could not look anywhere in the sky and not see a part of it shifting as it moved.
Something about that simple fact completely paralyzed me in that dream, as if just the presence and sight of it was pressing me against the ground. I don't know as I've ever had another dream in my life that left me so disturbed when I woke up. A very basic, animal fear that I've never really felt in my waking life.
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DR2K said:
Fear of failure dictates my day to day life, but since it's normally just an overreaction (due to my brain subconsciously knowing that it cannot fail in the task at hand) I do not consider it a proper fear.
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