How easily do you scare?

[Jakub324]

A recent night out saw me and three close friends explore an abandoned house. My willingness to be the first inside, the first upstairs and the first into every room, loft included got me a reputation for being fearless, which is odd, as I'm the smallest, weakest of us - the kind who would cave in one punch. Adam is over six foot and built like a tank, and he wouldn't go inside until we'd swept the place.
So, what about you?

Dags: Not fearlessness, not recklessnes, but logic. If someone was up there, and if they were armed, I was just planning to apologise and leave. And what were the chances someone would be there, anyway?

 

[Daystar Clarion]

When monsters tell monster horror stories, they tell of the Call of the Clarion.

 

[Dags90]

Eh. When is it not fearlessness but recklessness?

That someone, perhaps armed in some fashion, might be squatting in an abandoned house is a reasonable concern.

Personally, not a fan of stinging insects. Or walking into spider webs.

 

[Ambitiousmould]

a dark house ia a massive hazard zone for tripping, falling and walking into walls. what were you thinking, jakub? you could've become mildly injured!

 

[Total LOLige]

a dark house ia a massive hazard zone for tripping, falling and walking into walls. what were you thinking, jakub? you could've become mildly injured!

Or fallen through the floor into the cellar where the previous owner kept the bodies of his victims.

I'm a fearless bastard I laugh in the face of danger.

EDIT: I am fear! (how awesome is that?)

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

Over the years, I've become more or less desensitized to a lot of horror-related hazards: jump scares, grotesque disfigurement, blood, guts, deep lacerations, decapitation, the list goes on. So it's going to take a really creative individual with a rather sick and creative sense of horror to really catch me off guard.

Also, I can't stand needles or slicing veins. Not sure why I can't kick this, but it always makes me cringe.

 

[Hazy992]

What if it was Monster House? You would be surely dead now

 

[rayen020]

i can overcome fear quickly if i don't expect it. oddly if i do expect to be scared it takes me a long time to get over it and go to sleep. I can't watch scary movies or go to haunted houses. i get scared by stuff i know is scary more than stuff i didn't expect to scared by. it's weird.

 

[FalloutJack]

Not so easily.

I don't have a real phobia of anything, per se. Surprise can happen, but I'm not really lacking in courage to do something. There is, mostly, only the question of whether or not a scary thing is also a stupid idea. For instance, it is never wise to confront a group of unarmed individuals like the Last Action Hero if...you are NOT. Ya follow?

 

[Ambitiousmould]

there is a question as to whether or not it is indeed a phobia. a phobia is an IRRATIONAL fear, like marshmallows, due to something in your brain or something. i don't know i'm not a doctor, but things like heights is a rational fear because you could fall. being scared of the dark is also sort of rational because you don't know what's in there. could be ninjas. my point is that i scare easily in a situation that has a potential threat, but i don't have any phobias, none that i know of yet.

 

[Mayhaps]

I'm exceptionally jumpy. I think I'm sort of a scarediepie

 

[Samantha Burt]

Easily terrified. I have a rather active imagination so even some kids' stories can scare me, briefly. Honestly if I was with someone that did what you did, I'd probably have crapped my pants just thinking about it.

 

[saoirse13]

Well I'm terrified of Clowns Dolls and Puppets. So generally avoid movies based around those kind of things. But in certain circumstances i can scare quite easily, the likes of going to an abandoned or haunted house and I'll syke myself up that much to be scared that I usually end up scaring myself because i seen a bloody shadow.
On the ohter hand I'm great at scaring other people. I live in a really old house (100 or so years old) and over the years there have been some stories where family members have had weird experiences thinking they have seen things or heard things, myself included. So when I have friends round it's become the norm to tell them all the "ghost" stories of my house. Scares the complete crap outta them to the point that they don't want to stay over and will probably stay awake all night.

 

[Agayek]

It depends entirely on the situation. If I'm out alone walking around in the dark, I start to get unnerved, but it never actually crosses the line into scared, if that makes any sense.

Beyond that, I don't really have any fears per se. In the situation the OP describes, I'd likely not be raring to be the first one through the door, but I wouldn't really have an objection to doing it if no one else was volunteering.

The only time I've really been flat out scared was in the very few times I've been attacked by multiple people. It was mostly kid stuff, and there was never any permanent damage, but I'll definitely cop to being scared when it happened.

 

[Jinxzy]

I'm exceptionally jumpy. I think I'm sort of a scarediepie

Me too, but mostly jumpy at loud noises.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

I'm exceptionally jumpy. I think I'm sort of a scarediepie

Me too, but mostly jumpy at loud noises.

How apt - for someone that has Fizzgig as their avatar.

OT: I have the reflexes of a snake on a hot tin roof. Jumpy, yes, but only to strike!

I almost managed to type that with a straight face.

 

[requisitename]

I'm easily startled (I jump when someone is closer to me than I thought they were - they touch me or speak from closer than I would've thought).. but, I'm hard to scare. I don't know why, I've just never really gotten scared over much of anything.

 

[Dark Link]

Jumpy when my situational awareness is low, like when I have my hood up, head down and headphones in, but normal otherwise. I don't tend to count jumpiness as scary, though - as Yahtzee said, a racoon jumping in the window can make you jump.

I consider true horror to be the stuff that affects on a psychological level - give me Silent Hill, Amnesia, Fallout 3 (to an extent), Bioshock (also to an extent), S.T.A.L.K.E.R., and the Slender Man Mythos over jump scares and gore any day of the week.

 

[Trippy Turtle]

I am terrified of everything that is even slightly paranormal (Only the bad things. Magic bunnies with unicorn steeds are fine.) which makes me feel pretty good when I actually face something. I probably wouldn't have explored the house if it looked haunted but if I thought it was just some house that might have someone in it I would be fine.
I still get nightmares from children 'horror' movies I watched years ago.