Strange things that you live in fear of.

[Danny Ocean]

I have this weird fear of one of these things coming along and swallowing up reality.

 

[MetaKnight670]

Falling from great heights and the bone crushing impact that would bring. Every time I am up high (no matter how safe I am) I can always see in my mind's eye myself plummeting down. I guess it is not really a strange fear, but it is a fear regardless!

It also makes me really really nervous when people seem to be following me. I'll be driving home from work and someone will just happen to make the same turns as me and I feel threatened. Sometimes I will drive a whole different block until they leave.

 

[norashepard]

It might not actually be that strange, but I'm absolutely terrified of being blamed for a crime committed against me, or like, self defense or something. Something along the lines of being mugged, but knocking the dude out in defense, and getting sued/jailed for it.

I know that's not likely to happen but still it's terrifying to me.

 

[Darken12]

Being in an accident that does not kill me, but leaves me paralysed. Being institutionalised. Growing old and being put in a home. Going to jail for life.

Basically any time my freedom to do as I will is taken from me. I have the irrational fear these things are bound to happen at some point, and that the wheel of fortune is just spinning and spinning and eventually it will land in one of these situations.

I believe what I feel is called learned helplessness.

 

[dfphetteplace]

I constantly worry about having major medical issues, like a STEMI or a stroke or something. I'm only in my twenties, but I am always worried about it. I am sure it is because I'm around patients all the time being a field and ER paramedic, and because of my jobs, I am always stressed out resulting in hypertension and tachycardia, as well as disrupted sleep. Of course, I don't exercise nearly as much as I should for all this though. I'm also as at an increased risk of PTSD.

 

[Dark Knifer]

I don't wanna die before I've accomplished something and don't want to leave people I care about behind to suffer. So not death itself per say just the time of it.

 

[Alex Graves]

I'm afraid of swimming in the ocean. My father, parent of the year that he is, took my brother and me to the beach for the first time without my mother. I was 6, my brother was 4. We drove from Atlanta to St. Petersburg, Florida, getting in after dark. Since we obviously couldn't go to the beach, we rented movies to watch in the hotel room. My father rented Jaws. The next day, I was about as interested in going in the water as I was in swallowing broken glass. My father finally talked me into going out into the water with him, floating on an inflatable tube so I wouldn't have to be in the water completely. Just as I was finally starting to calm down, a manta ray leapt from the water not a meter away from me, scaring me all over again. To this day, being in the ocean makes me nervous. I'm perfectly happy to be on a boat or skiing, but if I am actually in the water, there is a part of my brain that is 100% convinced that there is a shark/alligator/whatever coming to get me RIGHT NOW.

Not quite this, but a close relation is one of my biggest. When I was 4 me and my older brother got into a fight where he decided to comb my hair....with a rake. Needless to say I was rushed to the hospital, it took 10 doctors/nurses to hold me down for 6 hours to give me all the stitches...and for whatever reason this lead me to be horrified of needles...well shots. Sowing needles I have absolutely no problem with and even use every once in a while (and I will one day get good enough to make some cool clothes dammit), but the last time I had to get a shot 2 massive security guards (who looked like they could bench press a semi each) had to hold me down to get it. Though in a way it may not be highly irrational, though I also have the fear of things in the dark....but that is due to my "father" convincing me from a young age that both "satan and god can and will strike you down at any moment at any place and for any reason" fun times.

My favorite though is my fear of the future...well more fear of failure/wrong choices/actions (mostly due to anytime I do something bad things happen or bad things get worse but meh). I have a long list of things to do/finish that I am really just to afraid of what I "know" will happen (pessimism for the mothafuckinwin) ranging from not doing any knew artwork/games because they will turn out crap and not be worth the time I put into them. Also not wanting to meet new people because we won't have anything in common, or worse, they will find out/notice something about me that will get me in trouble/jail/cushioned room. So on and so on, just a bit of this and that to make life more difficult then it needs to be ya know?

 

[Quazimofo]

I'm scared of being charged at by a cow. (It happened once, true story).

I'm terrified of slipping over on ice, because I'm convinced that I'll immediately break both my legs or something.

Been charged by a bull once myself. Scary shit.
Ice fear is pretty legit, I haven't broken anything yet, but I've bruised myself pretty hard that way.
I also don't like being on frozen lakes. Always think it'll break and I'll drown to death.

As for wasps, I'm cool. Best solution is to find their nest and burn it.
They won't rebuild if you burn it.

Going blind would be awful. Or deaf, but I think I could cope better with losing my hearing.

I'm afraid of being crushed by trees on a windy day.
And cancer. From second hand smoke, chemicals, or genetics.

I have all of these (except I actually am scared shitless of wasps when I'm not wearing protective gear), but I am not afraid of being crushed by wind on a tree-ey day.
Wait, I said that backwards. Eh, whatever.

If I went blind, I just hope to god its the kind of blindness that could be treated by transplants, because bionic eyes are a thing, and I just could NOT live without sight. I read stuff on the internet all the time, I love videogames, I collect and paint miniatures, I enjoy walking from place to place instead of public transit on occasion just because it is nice to look around and really appreciate where you are, and see people going about their lives.

I love music too, but at least I am fairly certain in science's ability to fix my hearing nowadays.

As for other stuff, sometimes I am afraid that when I'm in a room alone, and it is dark, especially if the door is closed, that someone/something is going to open it, jump out, and kill/eat/maim me horribly.

And anything smaller than say a cat (fully grown) crawling on me just makes me... eeeaauggggh.
Especially fucking ants. Fucking ants man. Its worse now that I saw the most recent indana jones movie where the guy gets swarmed by them. Just... eeeaughh.

 

[TBman]

I'm afraid that a rouge wormhole will dump a colony of army ants on top of me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUWoI6vApPk

 

[Xdeser2]

Do you have a creeping paranoia that one day, Gary Busey will reveal that he has taken pictures of you masturbating for the majority of your life?

Shit, who told you?!?!

OT: No but seriously, I'm afraid of the day I become an absolute cynic, to the point where I can't enjoy everything because I always try to pinpoint where someones trying to trick me into something or squeeze some money from my wallet. To be fair, Im already a pretty big cynic, but I dont want it to be what defines me as a person.

 

[Cabisco]

I used to have a overwhelming fear of dogs. If they barked/growled/didn't make a big effort to look like I was their best friend in the world I was convinced that somehow they would jump up and rip out my throat while everyone stood around me doing nothing. I have repeatedly walked to the other side of streets if a dogs on the same side as me, not gone round to friends houses because they had a pet dog and I'm talking any dog here, I assume the little ones are just very good jumpers for throat related carnage.

THEN MY MOTHER GOES AND GETS A BLOODY DOG!

Thank god it was a puppy or I'd of ran away to go live with cats or something. Thanks to that Dog my mother got I'm not longer convinced all dogs want me dead though I still get nervous when they bark and such (but not nearly as badly, not like assuming any dog barking anywhere means it wants me dead).

Now I guess my biggest fear is work, I'm at the end of Uni and I need to start looking/getting a job and I just assume I'll be the worst employee in history and somehow manage to end up in jail for 'being shit at work'.