What frightens you more than anything else?

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ScientificNinja said:
Situation: Being in proximity to sea creatures that are substantially larger than me and could easily kill me by accident scares the bejesus out of me. I prefer the idea of being on land and being able to get the fuck away.
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But if the creature is 'substantially larger', then your means of 'getting the fuck away' would do little.
 
The thought of death being the be all end all scares me the most, kind of like if we humans were batterys. I meen.. people expect to die, float of and live happily ever after with there loved ones but how is that possible!? A brain disease for example can completely destroy your life and wipe all your memorys of who you loved etc.. in the end your not even going to have a functional brain so whats the damn chances of that!? It scares the shit out of me.
 
It used to be drowning when I was younger. But then I nearly drowned and it wasn't quite that bad at all*.

Also when I was younger I was shit scared the IRA were going to come and plant a bomb in my house. They'd have no reason to but still the thought popped into my head and I couldn't shake it. The worst bit was I thought it was inevitable and there was nothing I could do about it.

Now I'm not sure what frightens me. Hmm.

*That sounds stupid but I was remarkably calm.
 
The thought that I probably will not exist 100 years from today.

ALSO,

The thought that someone in immediate family will die one day.

Scares the shit out of me.
 
Pretty much any situation where I know death is coming any moment. (Drowning, airplane falling, a fire) but I'm really terrified if this happened to me.
 
Self-dissolution or self-defeat. Or rather, allowing myself to be degraded by my experiences rather than positively changing through them, missing the plot, and then having my life pass me by.
 
The closest thing I've had to a phobia has always been sharks, but I've always been curious about them as well. I used to be afraid to even look at a picture of a great white - I had a book where the entire back cover was one of them jumping out of the water with its mouth open and I wouldn't even take it off the shelf for years - but I read books about them all the time. Know your enemy, I guess.

It's faded in recent years, though. I went scuba diving on the Great Barrier Reef in 2006 and saw smaller sharks (three feet or so) and wasn't too bothered, and since then I've kind of grown out of it to the point where sharks in books and movies don't affect me. I think that confronting a fear is the best way to get over it, which is why I'd jump at the chance to do a cage dive with great whites and get rid of that last flicker of fear.

I guess I have a thing about my eyes as well. I hate anything touching them and if I had to, say, push my way through a bush with a lot of exposed branches, I'd have to scrunch my eyes closed really tightly to do it. I'm imagining doing it right now and it's making the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
 
The terror right before a sudden death. That paralyzing fear that rises up right when something knows it's over. The powerlessness and the finality of those last few seconds.

Oh, lord, I need to have a good sit down now.

dasein said:
world filled with lotus boobs, fingers, faces, chests, bald heads, necks, back, arms, legs, all different sized holes and many of them---picture the whole world filled with lotus holes everywhere, including the tongues of people---picture them talking to you in that way, with spiky little things visible inside the holes.

*faints*
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And also this. I hate these images with a passion.
 
crowphoenix said:
The terror right before a sudden death. That paralyzing fear that rises up right when something knows it's over. The powerlessness and the finality of those last few seconds.

Oh, lord, I need to have a good sit down now.
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I don't really get this. If it's over, it's over, you may as well just relax and go with it if those are your last few moments. It's only terrifying when you have it in your power to change things, but once it's out of your hands, your own mortality is pretty much the one thing you can't do shit about, so why not try to enjoy the (one-way) trip? I can understand the regret, but regret is kind of a waste of your last moments imo.
 
It's hard to say really. Losing a family member would be terrible; I've lost all my grandparents but none of them was sudden (they were all old, got sick, lots of family visits in hospice, then death). I can't even imagine learning that my sister or mother was just killed in a car wreck or something, just makes me depressed thinking about that, but I'm not necessarily "scared" of it happening.

I guess I'm scared most with the way my life will turn out. Specifically in regards to love and marriage, having children, etc. I'm "seeing" a girl now but it's such an unorthodox, seemingly temporary, relationship. A relationship that I don't see evolving in my future into anything meaningful. The problem is when this "relationship" ends I don't have anything to fall back on and because of my current living/working situation my friends are in short supply these days. I have no idea how anything is going to turn out and that kind of scares me. Back when I was in school, even through college, everything seemed so dry-cut... now I'm just living day-to-day with no real plan except to "save up money".
 
swimming in a deep huge area of water (lake, ocean, sea, etc), not knowing what's in it right at the moment while im in it freaks me out.
 
I'm absolutely terrified of being trapped in a small and enclosed area. I think I fear prison moreso because of it being a tiny enclosed space rather then the eventual ass-mopping that would take place in my rectum.
 
500 errors when I have 7 hours of work to go

Oceans
Heights
Angry ghetto blax/Angry Burrio Mexicans
Relationships
Mom & Dad dying and being alone
 
I'm afraid of being upside down and/or constrained in any position for overlong periods of time.
Even the thought of the feeling bugs me.

That and roaches.
 
Drowning. If it's like any of the asthma attacks I had when I was a kid.. yikes.

Losing my parents. It's too early. They're too young. I hope we have a few more decades on this earth together.

Oil shortages is good, whoever said that. The widespread effects of high petro prices scare me.
 
Clowns and puppets freak me out big time and I often hae nightmares where I'm up somewhere high on the edge, terrifies me yet I'm not always too bad with heights but sometimes am.

Main fear is just of death no matter how inevitable, life just seems to be going way too fast but I'm as happy as I've ever been so no need to fret I suppose. I just fear it going by before I know it
 
Parasites. Especially ones that latch on to you like ticks and leaches. Though, not quite as bad as the ones that latch on to you internally like tapeworms. The king of them all though...The most horrifying thing i've ever heard was a guy who somehow got a colony of maggot like worms living in and feeding off of his brain.
 
Dogs. For some reason, dogs scare the shit out of me. For some reason, all of the barking and licking just makes me think they want to tear my throat out. Come to think of it, I don't really like animals in general, so I guess the worst scenario for me would involve being stuck in the wilderness somewhere, surrounded by hungry animals.
 
Dying with remorse would be my greatest fear. I hope I am content with what I've accomplished during my lifetime when it is time to pass on into the abyss.
 
The thought of being left to die locked in a car trunk or some other really tight space. Not sure how I got that idea but it makes me feel uneasy even posting about it. So... yeah.
 
Hell. I went to a Christian school from kindergarten through high school and they drilled that fear of Hell into my impressionable mind... Even though I'm now an atheist and I don't believe that there is an after life, the thought still scares me shitless.
 
SonicMegaDrive said:
Dying I'm not so much afraid of.

It's the people I care about dying that I fear more.
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This.

Also, permanently losing one of my senses (especially vision) or limbs.
Or realizing at the end of my life that I did it all wrong.
 
Pancho said:
I fear this too as it can so easily happen, it would be you against the country at that point so you're pretty much done for...
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You...you IMPOSTER!

On topic, cancer. The idea of a nearly incurable disease striking people at random just freaks me out. Sure, you can avoid skin cancer and lung cancer, but I've known two people who've fallen victim to leukemia in the past year. It's horrifying...
 
AnkitT said:
Ripping my pants.
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I've somehow already managed to do this twice, both times in school (7th grade and 10th grade) and both rips were very large around the crotch area :lol
Teaches me for doing high-kicks in jeans .... twice :lol
 
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