Most Terrifying Sensation YOU Can Think Of

[Zealous]

For me it would have to be complete and total psychosis without realising that you are divorced from reality. You could think that you're having a quiet Friday night at home with a good book when you're actually shooting up a wedding or something equally disturbing.

Yeah, if I start developing dementia or something when I'm older, I'm going to either make sure Canada doesn't have any legislation against assisted suicide, move to some country that doesn't or just do it myself because the thought of not knowing what I'm doing is too terrifying for me to handle.

Edit: Eternal torture of any form would have been my top pick, but I think that after a couple decades (or possibly centuries) the monotony would set in and I'd just be constantly bored. Eternity is a long time after all. You never know though, I could be in excruciating pain forever I suppose...

 

[platinawolf]

The most horrific feeling I could imagine? The pitch-black pit of depression, so bad your looking for a way to end the emptiness... I don't think very much can beat that feeling of helplessness when you are your own worst enemy... Especially as you can feel the blade against your wrist. Slice. Blood flows. Pain, blessed pain, just to feel a little bit...

Nowadays I'm a much more cheerful person Something a little less horrifying would be any sort of mind-control that still leaves you in the back-seat without ability to influence anything that happens...

 

[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.

I have you beat. Try waking up in the paralyzed sleeping state after dreaming about being abducted by aliens, when there is a bright light currently shining through your window. I've had that happen twice...

Never had those nightmares, but if I'm honest, I've been frightened by thoughts that it might/could happen and I wouldn't remember it.
Fourth Kind had some hellacious imagery and atmosphere which probably didn't help.
Evergrey has an entire album on the subject that has a few really eerie songs that just capture the mood perfectly.
It's one of those things that fascinates and terrifies me.

 

[GodzillaGuy92]

Spoiler: Probably having to go through THIS, except that you're also restrained, and they then finish it off by slowly eating you alive.

 

[Atmos Duality]

Eh...sometimes reality is scarier than fiction.

Unknown expansion of the larynx from withing the throat cavity, resulting in asphyxiation.
Collapse of both lungs due to rapid consumption of oxygen produced by a high-incendiary device. ("breathing fire")
Slow death caused by a prolonged drip of water or hydrogen-peroxide applied to the ears or eyes.
Watching a venomous insect crawl up and around your fingers or lips, twitching anxiously.

...For the sake of my sleep, I'll stop for now.

 

[Dangit2019]

As always: FLAMING CLOWN SPI-

I don't know...

Flaming Clown Spiders?

...damn ninjas.

But seriously? Anything unpleasant happening to the urethra. I would elaborate further, but I rather not.

 

[AsurasEyes]

You seem to equate physical pain with deep anguish. This is just not the way terror works. Look at the way torturing by terrorist and the governments work (haha same thing? don't care).

True pain comes not from physical pain but from the fear of it, and from other things deep inside, memories, loss, fear, lack of control is the main thing.


To me I think the most terrifying thing is seeing yourself fall and become exactly what you despise and know you could be. There is nothing that can bring you back from that, and it's always there.

Wounds heal, aches go away, feelings and memories generally aren't so flighty.

My uncle has a still-weeping scar on his palm that oozes pus CONSTANTLY, and he's got a disease that's making his flesh rot while he's still alive. Both ensure that he's not gonna survive another month or so. I think that's worse than his first girlfriend dumping him.

 

[Dire Sloth]

Feeling of being watched or someone is right behind you. I guess that's a pretty commonish thing.

I used to house sit for these people that lived in the country, and their house had a wrap-around-porch, and there were windows all around, too. I hated it at night, because the blinds on the windows didn't actually close - they were just for show. I was always freaked out that anywhere around the house, someone could be watching me. Made me super paranoid!

 

[IllumInaTIma]

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.

I have you beat. Try waking up in the paralyzed sleeping state after dreaming about being abducted by aliens, when there is a bright light currently shining through your window. I've had that happen twice...

Never had those nightmares, but if I'm honest, I've been frightened by thoughts that it might/could happen and I wouldn't remember it.
Fourth Kind had some hellacious imagery and atmosphere which probably didn't help.
Evergrey has an entire album on the subject that has a few really eerie songs that just capture the mood perfectly.
It's one of those things that fascinates and terrifies me.

Well if we're on topic of waking up, there's nothing I'm more scared of than waking up in the coffin. Just imagine, darkness, stillness, lack of oxygen and sudden realization of your situation. Well, now i'm disturbed.
P.S. Pham FTW

 

[cerebreturns]

You seem to equate physical pain with deep anguish. This is just not the way terror works. Look at the way torturing by terrorist and the governments work (haha same thing? don't care).

True pain comes not from physical pain but from the fear of it, and from other things deep inside, memories, loss, fear, lack of control is the main thing.


To me I think the most terrifying thing is seeing yourself fall and become exactly what you despise and know you could be. There is nothing that can bring you back from that, and it's always there.

Wounds heal, aches go away, feelings and memories generally aren't so flighty.

My uncle has a still-weeping scar on his palm that oozes pus CONSTANTLY, and he's got a disease that's making his flesh rot while he's still alive. Both ensure that he's not gonna survive another month or so. I think that's worse than his first girlfriend dumping him.

I think that would depend on the person. I have known people who still aren't over the end of a relationship years later, and I know people with cancer who don't give a fuck. But you completely missed the point of what I was saying anyways so I doubt this will help you understand.

 

[Cpu46]

The sensation of drowning.. Well not exactly drowning, not the part where you are submerged and water is in your lungs but the instance before, where you are tired and know there is no way you can get to safety as water laps near your mouth and nose as if trying to get inside. I had this happen once, 21 years old in pretty good shape and I was nothing to the great Lake Superior. I am so grateful my dad was nearby to help me get back to shore. If I had to describe it I would say it is a heavy blend of terror and depression. I never want to feel it again so I now go out of my way to avoid anything that puts me in deep water without several things I can use as a floatation device.

However that isn't my most terrifying sensation, though it is almost the same. Try to imagine not existing. Not just being suspended in senseless limbo but actually not existing. Periodically I get stuck thinking about it and the sensation I get is a mixture of terror and depression similar to drowning but it is mixed with curiosity. Whenever I think of drowning I can always just shut it out but this sensation I can't ignore. Honestly the worst feeling I have ever felt, so much that I read through the other posts without more than a wince here and there for the more brutal sensations.
It is such a horrible feeling that I suppressed the fact I even had felt it a few times before I accepted the entire concept of eventually not existing a few weeks ago and rendered the entire feeling more or less void.
On the bright side I now feel very little terror for any other sensation since it is at least a sensation and proof that I still exist.

 

[dmase]

Not very creative but castration, every time you hear about it makes me wince.

probably the most historically terrifying death was crucifixion. Nailed to a cross to die of infection, blood loss, or heat stroke while being put on display to the world most likely while naked.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

Being paralyzed and having most of your senses not working. As in, you can only feel and maybe see, but nothing else.

 

[II2]

Dimenhydrinate overdose. Hydromorphone / Oxycodone / Diamorphine withdrawal. Accute psychotic episodes. Pneumonia. Taco bell.

 

[Khrowley]

1000 tiny papercuts in your bumhole. They are small, but they are numerous.

 

[VoidWanderer]

The most terrifying experience?

Being attacked by an invisible entity you cannot fight off. You know it can't be there, but you can physically feel fingers wrapped around your neck, and you cannot get a hold of them to get them off.

 

[Dfskelleton]

Agreed; the Wood of the Suicides is probably the most disturbing part of Dante's Hell. Being immobile for all eternity, in constant pain as you're new form is broken and torn and bent by harpies and rabid dogs, as well as by the sinners who are being chased by the rabid dogs.

OT:
Physical: Irreversible, visible damage being done to your body and being completely unable to do anything about it. Particularly with corrosive agents, like acid. Apparently, the pain stops once your nerve endings have dissolved, but everything leading up to that is unimaginably painful.
Emotional: Deep, inescapable lonliness. Thank God I've never experienced what it's like to be truly alone.

Not very creative but castration, every time you hear about it makes me wince.

Oh, I know what you mean. I did a biography for school once on a guy who castrated himself with a rusty pair of scissors because he didn't want to have sex with prostitutes. You should've seen the looks on some of my classmates faces when I came to that part in my powerpoint...

 

[Simon Pettersson]

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

This but even worse is being alone when you are in a company. I can usually deal with it if I choose to be alone, but not if others freeze me out...

 

[DkLnBr]

I would say being buried alive. Feeling alone, claustrophobic and helpless, in a perfectly dark box. The crushing blackness weighing down on your body, the hot stifling air, the restrictive box (im assuming you're in a coffin) forcing you to lie on your back and not allowing for your full range of motion, the complete panic as your survival instincts kick in and knowing that you're pretty much guaranteed to die and that no one will find you.

Captcha: Ham and Cheese.
Yes I suppose that that is pretty terrifying as well

 

[DaWaffledude]

Flaming clown spiders.