What's your greatest fear(s)?

[mollymae]

Mine are airplanes, sexual assault, and public speaking (although I'm slowly making progress with public speaking).

How about you?

[Adi Shankara]

Mine are airplanes, sexual assault, and public speaking (although I'm slowly making progress with public speaking).

How about you?

well I've already been through all three of those and only one was scary, lol so I'll say...

hrm, I'm afraid of being lonely. I'm not even kidding. more afraid of that shit than most people are of spiders. that, and I'm afraid of being told I can never do something I always wanted to do. that'd put a nail in my coffin.

[Chimurenga.]

Failing.

[ReDSC]

Well, I have a pet tarantula, so it's not arachnophobia lol. I do find clowns extremely unsettling though :p

[explosive toaster]

All of the above except airplanes and clowns. Plus an irrational fear of spiders and wasps.

[Invincible Summer]

Spiders fo sho. I kill all the smaller ones, but if they're "chunkier" or hairy at all, I nearly shit myself. If there's a spider on me, then I turn into the biggest baby it's ridiculous.

Heights make me pretty weak in the knees and I always imagine myself falling to my death.

I'm also scared of getting lost alone... no one to help me... that's a re-occuring nightmare that I usually have :crying:

[Jazzratt]

Spiders. Spiders and dying in agony.

[Il Medico]

Spiders are fucking bastards. I hate bugs in general though, but spiders especially.

Other than that I don't really have 'fears'.

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

I can't stand heights. I also have an unusual phobia of mushrooms.

[Invincible Summer]

Spiders. Spiders and dying in agony.

Those two can be correlated, which is why I hate spiders

[Chambered Word]

Heights. Definately. And asking girls out. Oh and getting stabbed doesn't sound too cool either, other than that nothing scares me that much.

[AK]

asking girls out
Fucking this.

And death, spiders and public speaking.

[Widerstand]

And asking girls out.


Fucking this.

I feel you guys =( Fear of rejection sits deep.

[Stand Your Ground]

Public speaking, spiders, heights, deep water, doing new things alone - I'm a very co-dependent person. Also getting my ass kicked, I've been in a couple fights but never got my ass kicked, still don't know or want to know what it feels like.

[leftace53]

I also have an unusual phobia of mushrooms.
Mushrooms are weird, this is completely understandable.

I have a fear of commitment, not knowing something, not living up to someone's expectations, lack of independence, plants, sanity, and a fear of fear itself. I'm also afraid of heights but I love them at the same time so it gets a bit confusing.

I have a general aversion to spiders and bugs, I remember this one time a spider crawled up my leg when I was taking a bath (it was in rural india, spiders grow like 3 times normal size), and I freaked the hell out. Other than that, I just find a shoe to squish them.

[Ovi]

I love spiders. They eat flies. I hate flies.
As for phobias, I hate being alone in dark places. I have no problem with darkness, nor being alone, but combined...

[piet11111]

Asking girls out and jellyfish.

[Comrade Wolfie's Very Nearly Banned Adventures]

Touching your eyeballs. That shit freaks me out.

And having a child at 19, oh wait...

[Vanguard1917]

I'm a bit squeamish about looking at a syringe needle going into a human vein, even on tv. I'd make a shit nurse or junkie.



Mine are airplanes


Aren't the odds of being involved in a plane accident something like 1 in 10 million? You should be fine (emphasis on should).

[empiredestoryer]

having no freedom or human rights which sadly is happening anyway in these modern times we live in

[mollymae]

Aren't the odds of being involved in a plane accident something like 1 in 10 million? You should be fine (emphasis on should).

I'm not afraid of plane crashes, I'm afraid of just being in an airplane on any normal day. It has something to do with the combination of the noise, the decor, the seats, and turbulence.

[gorillafuck]

Heights, not falling in love, and speaking to large groups.

[ContrarianLemming]

Infinity
The great void of infinity..

[Os Cangaceiros]

Infinity
The great void of infinity..

In the same general direction: Eternity.

People have looked at me weird when I've said that spending an eternity in Heaven is about as terrifying as spending an eternity in Hell. It gives me comfort to know that things have a finite existence.

I guess that's not really a fear of something real, though...it's just the thought that unnerves me.

[Jazzratt]

Oh, I forgot. One of my greatest fears is that this, who I am right now and where I am is it and that if I keel over tomorrow only a handful of people will only pretend to care. On the other hand I'm fine on planes so it's swings and roundabouts.

[Nwoye]

bugs/spiders being where I sleep, misunderstandings resulting in awkward social situations, people who I confide in talking-shit about me to other people, and spending my life working in a cubicle and living in the suburbs.

^^ srsly, fuck that.

[Iskalla]

When I'm in the shower and I wash my hair, the minute or so I can't open my eyes in case shampoo gets into them. I imagine something else being in the room with me, something standing right in front of me. I hate that.

[Comrade Wolfie's Very Nearly Banned Adventures]

Guys, you do realize we just gave the feds/nazi's a catalogue of our fears.

Great, room 101 here we all go.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Guys, you do realize we just gave the feds/nazi's a catalogue of our fears.

Great, room 101 here we all go.

It would be interesting to see how they'd make some of these fears materialize.

"Please, no more! Anything but more awkward social situations!"

[Jazzratt]

It would be interesting to see how they'd make some of these fears materialize.

"Please, no more! Anything but more awkward social situations!" It's very simple. They stick you in a room with a conveyor belt leading away from the door with a person (presumably one who is afraid of constantly walking in a slightly hurried manner) constantly walking in a slightly hurried manner toward the door and perpetually remaining at that awkward social cusp where closing the door will garuntee that it closes or almost closes before they arrive but necessitates the holder becoming stationary in order to hold the door. The really fiendish thing about this one is that, theoretically, the torturee could leave at any point (the whole idea of the room is that the door is held open) but can't because of the crippling social awkwardness.

Either that or they have a voice that repeats your every stupid, over-thought post (especially those pertaining to ludicrous tortures) in the deadpan manner that they were read in.

[piet11111]

Guys, you do realize we just gave the feds/nazi's a catalogue of our fears.

Great, room 101 here we all go.

Good sounds like an opportunity to overcome fear.

[The Red Next Door]

My fears are Death and Death of love ones,( almost got a bullet in the head one day) Adulthood, and spiders, all of them and people knowing some of my odd interested.

[Pretty Flaco]

Spiders, people who love spiders, and mutant-spider-fascists.

[Pretty Flaco]

When I'm in the shower and I wash my hair, the minute or so I can't open my eyes in case shampoo gets into them. I imagine something else being in the room with me, something standing right in front of me. I hate that.

I have a similar fear, except when I'm showering with cold water my mind imagines that I'm drowning in deep, dark, ocean water.

[Invincible Summer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpyrLTn1EaU

[Os Cangaceiros]

I have a similar fear, except when I'm showering with cold water my mind imagines that I'm drowning in deep, dark, ocean water.

Drowning is actually kind of a cool death. You stay (barely) alive for a pretty long time in cold water, so you get a crazy LSD-style brain freak out while you exit this world. The near death experiences for people who have almost drowned are wild.

[Ele'ill]

Subterranean yellow jackets.

Not finding what I've felt and been looking for since I was five years old.

[Il Medico]

Great, room 101 here we all go.
Speaking of which, having my face mulled by rats isn't on my to do list either.

[Leonid Brozhnev]

Drowning is actually kind of a cool death. You stay (barely) alive for a pretty long time in cold water, so you get a crazy LSD-style brain freak out while you exit this world. The near death experiences for people who have almost drowned are wild.

I met a guy who nearly drowned, told me it was the most peaceful experience he'd ever had. So much so, he got severely pissed off at the person who rescued/revived him.

[Aeval]

injections/catheters/IV drips - people always think I'm scared of needles when I say I freak out with injections but I've had plenty of piercings and they don't bother me at all, it's just the thought of some foreign liquid going into my body that makes come over all queasy and/or violent..

Oh, and wasps too, but I think that's a pretty logical phobia, they are literally the worst animal ever invented :lol:

[eyedrop]

Important phone calls, I got no problems having an important meeting face to face, but when it's on the phone I usually stay awake the night before I got to make the call.

[piet11111]

injections/catheters/IV drips - people always think I'm scared of needles when I say I freak out with injections but I've had plenty of piercings and they don't bother me at all, it's just the thought of some foreign liquid going into my body that makes come over all queasy and/or violent..

Oh, and wasps too, but I think that's a pretty logical phobia, they are literally the worst animal ever invented :lol:

Ticks and mosquito's are worse then wasps if you ask me.

[Jazzratt]

(WARNING incredibly lame pun incoming.)
I used to have pogonophobia but now facial hair is growing on me.

[piet11111]

(WARNING incredibly lame pun incoming.)
I used to have pogonophobia but now facial hair is growing on me.

Damn its so bad its good.

[danyboy27]

heizeimer and cancer.

that pretty much it.

[counterattack]

spiders. and drowning.

[Obs]

Fucking moths.

[Bright Banana Beard]

Cicada, they a fucking monster!!

[Lenina Rosenweg]

For me anything which disfigures the human body is scary. Dead people are scary. This is not so much from fear of the fact of death but from seeing a body in that condition. A corpse in a state of decay is very scary to me. Any medical procedure involving surgery is scary.

In the children's section of the library in the town I used to live in is a weird book.Its basically photos of deformed babies and human fetuses preserved in formaldehyde. According to the book there was a fad for collecting this stuff in the 19th century. To me this is disturbing and repulsive beyond words. It also weirds me out that something like this would be put in the children's section. Probably a lot of other people don't see this as disturbing, but I sure s hell do.

I once saw a photo of the half decayed bodies of nuns who had been dug up during the Spanish Civil War. Gross.

Bugs are scary.

I am scared by anything to do with money and finance. Doing taxes has always been a painful experience for, even when I know I'm getting money back.

[Lenina Rosenweg]

I am actually scared of moths. I don't have any problem with butterflies, just moths. In grade school I once went though a "mad scientist" stage. I'd have petri dishes and jars full of water laying around. A dead moth would always end up floating on the surface. Gross.

[eyedrop]

I am scared by anything to do with money and finance. Doing taxes has always been a painful experience for, even when I know I'm getting money back.

Poor folks living a place you actually have to do anything with your tax schemas, I always do my taxes by sms.

[Ele'ill]

Important phone calls, I got no problems having an important meeting face to face, but when it's on the phone I usually stay awake the night before I got to make the call.



I'm glad I'm not alone- I get anxiety regarding making important phone calls- stuff I have to do.

I procrastinate the shit out of it- In fact- I have to make a series of important calls right now but here I am.

Time to make it happen. :mad:


This was mainly when I was like 15 years old through my early- mid twenties and it gradually got easier.

I still don't like receiving calls from numbers I don't recognize and I refuse to have my ringer on.

[AK]

Cicada, they a fucking monster!!
http://www.photooutpost.com/wp-content/uploads/cicada.jpg
http://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/upclose02.jpg

[Blackscare]

I'm really afraid I won't be able to weasel myself into the future somehow. By this I mean, assuming socialism doesn't take root in time, "the future" ie body augmentation, life in space, consciousness uploading, and all the sweet sci-fi stuff I believe will be a reality, will be mostly the realm of the rich and those who can figure out how to get in on it anyway.

I figure I'll just volunteer to be a miner on the first ship out to the Keiper Belt, or something like that. I wanna be a space prole! In a mech!

[Garret]

Heights, enclosed and dark spaces, spiders, moths and drowning are my biggest ones...

[Obs]

horrible, terrifying pictures

oh god, god no

[AK]

oh god, god no
They're for 可愛い, quiet, you.

[Nwoye]

Drowning is actually kind of a cool death. You stay (barely) alive for a pretty long time in cold water, so you get a crazy LSD-style brain freak out while you exit this world. The near death experiences for people who have almost drowned are wild.
interesting. I know that some have linked those near-death experiences to the release of dimethyltriptamine by the pituitary gland, similar to during REM sleep, so I assume that this occurs when you drown and is augmented by the long time you're alive and the absence of oxygen being delivered to the brain?

[Uppercut]

Fear of failure in life, rejection, spiders, cancer, botflies, and parasitic diseases. I think the psychological trauma of hosting a parasite inside your body would be worse than the physical consequences. I probably wouldn't be able to sit still or sleep at night.

[Bright Banana Beard]

They're for 可愛い, quiet, you. Fuck you, those pictures are gross!!

[MortyMingledon]

I have a strange fear of owls. Their huge eyes, hissing and rotating heads. ARGH! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YvyXu7coXA
That shit made me poop my pants.

[Taikand]

I fear...fascists, nationalists, people with guns...and the thought of dieing without actually doing something really useful with my life (I mean it, I have nightmares.)

[RedStarOverChina]

I cant think of any thing that I have a irrational fear for, I'm quite comfortable around animals or insects.

But this one time I had to run for my life after poking at a hornet's nest. It was a huge swarm of them chasing after me. I ran around the house as fast as I could because I would surely have died if I was a little slower. Then I ran in a zig-zag pattern to avoid being stung head-on. That was pretty smart, I gotta say. So in the end I was only hit twice, neither of them were very serious because they didnt get a good shot. :P

My parents saw me running and were laughing uncontrollably because, get this, they've "never seen me so scared" and never seen me run so fast.

Now I'm very careful around hornets.

[Quail]

I'm terrified of wasps and have a weird phobia of mould. I can't bear to go near it, or even look at it.

[nip]

Getting possessed it keeps me up at night. Also it just happens I got the creepiest closet so its not fun going to sleep.

[Revolte_Wolf]

Heights (Somewhat got over this though from driving through mountains in dense fog, but sometimes I still get dizzy if I'm on top of a building looking down), guns, anything that is dead.

[Achara]

Looking back on my life with regret and disappointment and not a sense of fulfillment.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Heights

Same, to an extent. I don't consider it to be a phobia of mine, though, because I consider it to be an entirely rational fear. If I fall off the edge of a 40-story building, I'm probably going to die.

[Ele'ill]

My greatest fear is that I will never meet face-to-face again- the babysitters of my childhood, and once again calm through their advice, stories and understanding of who I am. Then my greatest fear is that I will never meet them in an afterlife. I want one more hug.

My greatest fear is probably never knowing the people I'm supposed to meet.

I'm not religious but I don't think mathematics needs religion to explain it.

How's that for a drunk post.

[Il Medico]

Same, to an extent. I don't consider it to be a phobia of mine, though, because I consider it to be an entirely rational fear. If I fall off the edge of a 40-story building, I'm probably going to die.
I feel kinda similar. It is not heights I fear, but falling from them.

[AK]

Fuck you, those pictures are gross!!
Are you kidding? They're adorable :wub:

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Dunno if it counts as a phobia or not, but maggots make my flesh crawl and my stomach heave. Euch.

[Thirsty Crow]

1) I'm borderline arachnophobic (not ANARCHOphobic :D). Although, I really enjoy wiping out these creatures out of existence, when they happen to be in proximity (I'm not really a nice person, am I :(). I've read somwhere that the average person eats 6-7 spiders while sleeping during their lifetime. I would get a heart attack if I woke up and felt a big hairy spider on my face.

2) One thing that cannot be considered a phobia...Depression/alienation/serious disillusionment with my principles and desires. I dread falling into a state of numbeness and lack of any activity outside the immediate one concerning day-to-day survival.

[Il Medico]

1) I'm borderline arachnophobic (not ANARCHOphobic :D). Although, I really enjoy wiping out these creatures out of existence, when they happen to be in proximity (I'm not really a nice person, am I :(). I've read somwhere that the average person eats 6-7 spiders while sleeping during their lifetime. I would get a heart attack if I woke up and felt a big hairy spider on my face.

2) One thing that cannot be considered a phobia...Depression/alienation/serious disillusionment with my principles and desires. I dread falling into a state of numbeness and lack of any activity outside the immediate one concerning day-to-day survival.
Oh what the fuck!

[Nwoye]

http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/spidermyth/myths/whileyousleep.html

[Thirsty Crow]

I guessed that would be really weird. However, somehow I just can't get the idea out of my head :blink:

[leftace53]

oh, spider webs. not so much the spiders themselves (unless they are massive), but spider webs. i absolutely hate it when I walk outside and through spider webs, I freak out like a 5 year old being chased by an iguana.