Most Terrifying Sensation YOU Can Think Of

[AsurasEyes]

Recently, I've re-read The Inferno after I read an insanely good webcomic about Hell and it's inhabitants called Jack. Now, while I prefer Dante's ideal of Hell, with the ironic punishments and everything, I was slightly off-put by the lack of true torture and pain within it. The worst I can remember is the trees within the forest of Suicides, a bunch of thorny trees that a number of the damned get chased through by hellhounds, and every soul who has killed themselves is not only impaled within the trees, but also feels immense pain when their branches are broken by the pursued souls and the hounds. It wasn't there for very long and they didn't make much of it. For comparison, I remember Indiana Jones IV having a dude getting eaten alive by a living carpet of ants, and that movie was meant for kids.

In the interest of our collective sadism as film/game/novel/cloud/spider enthusiasts, what is the most horrific, nightmarish, and shudder-inducing death or sensation you can think of or have seen happen?

 

[piinyouri]

Every so often I tend to wake up half-dreaming, half awake thinking there are spiders all in my bed.
It usually causes me to spring from me bed screaming, usually tripping over something and injuring myself.

That is easily the worst feeling I've ever felt.

I also have an unnatural hidden fear of the world ending.
When I saw that video of the russia meteor, my bladder almost let go because I have seen that sort of thing in my mind and dreams hundreds of times before, so sure that THIS time it was real, every recurring time more real than the last, only to wake up sweating.

 

[Keoul]

Lathered in honey.
Tied to a table.
Covered in cockroaches plus one the size of a cat.

That would be absolutely horrifying. I'd drink myself to death just to forget the experience.

 

[NightmareExpress]

Having your sight, hearing and speech all fail at once alongside having your four limbs fall off.
Just imagine that, but perhaps remove the pain aspect from it. Imagine if you were an artist that specialized visually or in music (even both). You try to speak, but nothing comes out anymore. Secluded in blackness, aware of your physical form and the world around but being unable to really interact with it. Thoughts racing around but being unable to be expressed.
The horror. The horror.

Or perhaps the eventual degeneration of one's mind...it's truly a frightening (and tragic) thing to witness. I don't know if there's pain associated with it (there didn't seem to be), but I hate the thought of it. Everything you built yourself up to be, breaking down while you innocently blurt out disjointed thoughts and memories like a one hundred year old toddler.

I guess those would be the most terrifying sensations for me.
Falling apart and being entirely aware of it, and falling apart and being completely unaware.

 

[Esotera]

Probably getting a shiver in my spine, but one that kept going for several days non-stop. Or alternatively the current temperature of my house, it's like a Russian Winter.

 

[Froggy Slayer]

Or perhaps the eventual degeneration of one's mind...it's truly a frightening (and tragic) thing to witness. I don't know if there's pain associated with it (there didn't seem to be), but I hate the thought of it. Everything you built yourself up to be, breaking down while you innocently blurt out disjointed thoughts and memories like a one hundred year old toddler.

This one goes along with a personal one of mine; death by starvation. Not only because of the endless panging hunger, but that you have to realise how much we NEED food to survive. You have your loved ones and friends now, but once hunger takes over, everything that you ever loved doesn't matter anymore, worse than that, they're your ENEMY. All that you can think about is where to get the next meal from. Everything that was you is carved out and replaced with a mindless, selfish automaton concerned with only one thing; survival. You'll lie and cheat and kill just for a chance at getting a morsel of food. And, by the time that your death comes near, you're so exhausted that you can do nothing but lie there while the pain grows from your stomach...and you make one last wish for a bite to eat.

 

[Angie7F]

Nothingness.
I mean, pure darkness, no sound, no sensation. Just totally exisiting there with no stimuli.

Yeah, I had a really bad trip regarding this...(shudders)

 

[Relish in Chaos]

Well, I recently had a nightmare where my brother walked into the living room, threw a bucket of eels on the floor, then walked out and locked the door, leaving me alone with them. I'd fucking shit myself if that ever happened.

Or how about someone squirting onion juice directly into your eye, and you weren't allowed to blink or anything? You just had to sit there and let the searing pain of the onion burn onto your watery eyeball.

Or Sloth's death in the film Se7en.

 

[cennsor]

i guess.. being buried alive.

 

[Dave In A Cape]

The feeling of being alone is one that terrifies me. Unfortunately I'm having to deal with that feeling every day now.

 

[Powereaver]

After i had my appendectomy i had abcesses throughout my midsection... and the surgeon wanted to cut a slit into my abdomen in the bed i was in under local anesthetic and insert a tube into me while i was wide awake to help drain out the gunk inside.. it was like EWWWWWWW needless to say I just couldn't do it in the end.

 

[Mojo]

Sleeping on you arm funny to wake up in the middle of the night to find you are unable to move your arm at all.
I had this pretty bad twice. I was completely unable to move my arm at all and needed to use my other arm to pick it up and move it to a different position. I knew that arm was part of me and I should be able to move it, I could see my arm, but I felt nothing.

Or perhaps the eventual degeneration of one's mind...

This. I have witnessed two family members getting Alzheimer's and now I truly want to prevent this from happening to me when I get old.
Also, your name is quite fitting to the occasion, don't you think?

 

[Nickolai77]

Sleeping on you arm funny to wake up in the middle of the night to find you are unable to move your arm at all.
I had this pretty bad twice. I was completely unable to move my arm at all and needed to use my other arm to pick it up and move it to a different position. I knew that arm was part of me and I should be able to move it, I could see my arm, but I felt nothing.

That doesn't bother me really, so long as i know it's my arm. I once woke up in bed, and this arm flopped over my face. I had no awareness it was my own arm and thought it was someone else's!

 

[Lawnmooer]

Hmm...

This is annoying, I can't really think of anything...

I'm not a big fan of the degradation of my mind, as I like my mind, I like the feeling of having control over it (Caffeine and Alcohol both serve to numb that feeling) I don't particularly find the eventual loosening of grip over both my mind and reality as I turn either senile or insane.

There's the "Wake up with a massive spider on your face" which may be terrifying to others but has happened to me frequently enough to not even be a shock anymore.

I don't know...

Flaming Clown Spiders?

Edit:

Oooh, I think I've got one:

Having everyone you've ever cared about look at you with disgust for something you've done that you had no control over. To the point where they actively avoid making contact with you and thus leave you alone with all of your memories of good times with them.

 

[Wadders]

Taking a nice relaxing dump, finishing, reaching for the toilet paper only to discover, to your utter anguish, fear and despair, that you are clutching at thin air and the paper has in fact, all been used up.

Your blood runs cold, and your heart skips a beat, as you realize how helpless you truly are.

 

[Kevlar Eater]

Besides intimacy?

Joke aside, I think being rendered blind and deaf by someone you thought was a family member or friend.

 

[Doclector]

Hmmm...emotionally, I'd say the feeling when you've been lying about something major, and feel like you're about to be found out.

Physically? Well, if we're talking something real, then I'd probably say corrosion. Something eating away at you, like acid, or the severe internal hemourhaging involved in ebola.

Something fictional? Turning into a werewolf. I'm pretty sure there's no version of the fiction in which that's not incredibly painful. Parts of your body start to shrink, stretch, or expand, the fur starts coming in all over, which must at least be irritating, your mouth and nose stretch out in front of your eyes, literally, while teeth inexplicably grow sharper. If you're really unlucky, you're in one of the version where werewolves have tails. That can't be pleasant. At all. And the worst thing? This is impossible. Even if it were, the trauma should kill you. But it doesn't. It keeps you alive for the purposes of turning you into something else, and you have to feel every part of it.

Yeah, that's probably a pretty fuckin' raw deal right there.

 

[Evil Moo]

The feeling of realising you are directly but inadvertently responsible for something terrible, like the death of someone you care about. Or perhaps worse, knowing that this thing will happen as a result of your own apparently innocuous actions, but also that you have no power to stop it and must simply stand and watch as it happens, while you are crushed under the weight of your own failure.

 

[Jazoni89]

The feeling of being alone is one that terrifies me. Unfortunately I'm having to deal with that feeling every day now.

This pretty much...

Human beings are social creatures, so even if you do have some kind of social disorder you still can crave company.

Not having this is a painful way to live perhaps even more so than most other things.