Not big on spiders, used to be so bad I'd see a shadow and think it was one. As I get older I find myself increasingly nervous of aspects of society I consider "trouble"... I incrasingly assume people will hurt me if I walk around at night on my own, for example.. its quite a strange sensation since I know full well that I've never actually been attacked or had any real trouble despite walking home alone at night on a regular basis.
I'm afraid, how about you?
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Death, falling and paralysis :/
Ther paralysis one used to be terrible, causing me to freak out in crowds and small spaces but it's getting better
Ther paralysis one used to be terrible, causing me to freak out in crowds and small spaces but it's getting better
I'm scared of walking up very wide stair cases. I feel like is I will fall over backwards, hit my head and die.
you know? you helped me realize exactly why it is that i fear heights. it is because whenever i am high up, i WANT to fall, but i know i will die if i do so i am scared shitless that i want to.Vern5 said:
anyway. besides that. really afraid of being cut (not like stabbed, shot or anything, punctured etc. just getting cut scares me shitless). afraid of being trapped. so i cant move. afraid of the dark (getting a bit better, but still scary). really damn afraid of being in a body of water, when i cant see or feel the bottom. like deep ocean or even a kinda deep lake. i keep imagining megashark will come outta nowhere and eat me. even if i am in a lake (but im on lake michigan, so its big as fuck and comparable to an ocean on a foggy day since it seems endless).
also damn afraid of bugs, but thats about it.
Rejection. I spent too much of my early life as a pariah, that I over-compensated. Now, a lot of people love me. But I'm damn near obsessive when they don't. I try to correct it when I can, but man, it's awful.
EDIT: And not really a fear, but hospitals really eek me out. I get vibes and general auras from places, and hospitals are really wonky places. They also reek of death. The last time I went to one to visit a relative, I had to spend a cozy elevator ride next to a guy in a bed who had some severe pulmonary disease. When I figured out that the machines attempting to suck the mucus from his lungs in short, wet bursts (like a straw in the bottom of a glass) were not working fast enough, that I realized the man was drowning inside his own body. And on that day, I think I discovered the worst way to die.
*shudder*
EDIT: And not really a fear, but hospitals really eek me out. I get vibes and general auras from places, and hospitals are really wonky places. They also reek of death. The last time I went to one to visit a relative, I had to spend a cozy elevator ride next to a guy in a bed who had some severe pulmonary disease. When I figured out that the machines attempting to suck the mucus from his lungs in short, wet bursts (like a straw in the bottom of a glass) were not working fast enough, that I realized the man was drowning inside his own body. And on that day, I think I discovered the worst way to die.
*shudder*
I have a conditional fear of needles. I fear the needle breaking in my arm (say a syringe).
However a solid needle like a sewing needle or safety pin. Fair game.
I have a fear of losing my sight. Always had eye problems and had a stint in the past where I was blind for some time. Despairing, truly.
I have another strangely conditional fear. Slipping off an edge. Like when I'm out rock climbing, if my hand starts to slip a hold, I go into a panic. The rope's presence makes no difference. But if I were to let go to repel down, or otherwise give up a difficult climb. No biggie. Its that slipping feeling specifically that gets me.
Drowning. Mainly because it is suffocation. I should say I fear Suffocating. I can't hold my breath very long because of that.
However a solid needle like a sewing needle or safety pin. Fair game.
I have a fear of losing my sight. Always had eye problems and had a stint in the past where I was blind for some time. Despairing, truly.
I have another strangely conditional fear. Slipping off an edge. Like when I'm out rock climbing, if my hand starts to slip a hold, I go into a panic. The rope's presence makes no difference. But if I were to let go to repel down, or otherwise give up a difficult climb. No biggie. Its that slipping feeling specifically that gets me.
Drowning. Mainly because it is suffocation. I should say I fear Suffocating. I can't hold my breath very long because of that.
Fear of heights, pretty much. We did some cliff scaling for the cadet thingy at our school last year. Going down a fifteen metre cliff in the middle of the country on the side of a mountain = shityourpantsscary. Well, not quite, but it was pretty damned intimidating.
Death. I guess that one is pretty obvious. It's not really the act of dying, but the idea of it. What happens after sort of thing.
Otherwise.
Needles. I start bawling my eyes out whenever I see them and avoid them at all costs.
Ants. Accident involving an anthill and firecracker when I was little.
Zombies.
Those are the only things I'm actually afraid of. Everything else is kind of common sense stuff.
Otherwise.
Needles. I start bawling my eyes out whenever I see them and avoid them at all costs.
Ants. Accident involving an anthill and firecracker when I was little.
Zombies.
Those are the only things I'm actually afraid of. Everything else is kind of common sense stuff.