Strange things that you live in fear of.

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Doclector

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Fear's a strange thing. There's perfectly rational fears, like being afraid of heights, obviously, falling from tall things is bad, so it's practically natural instinct to be afraid of being on a tall thing from whence you may fall, or being afraid of getting run over by a car, after all, the people driving them are just normal, everyday people who, let's face it, are prone to acts of stupidity and downright insanity, or being afraid of spiders because THEY HAVE A PLAN.

But then there's other things that, when looked at logically, don't make sense. And yet, you can't help but be afraid of them, not just that, but you continue to live in fear of them.

TL:DR HERE'S THE TOPIC YA LAZY BASTARDS; What irrational things do you live in fear of? 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? Do you wake up and thank whatever god you worship that you haven't randomly transformed into an unnecessary sonic the hedgehog character?

Personally, I'm completely afraid of being accused of sexual harassment.

Yep. This might be rational if I was some kind of playboy, but I'm not. I'm really not. At all. I'm what may be described as a permavirgin, in fact. But for some reason, be it the media or simply my own lesser understanding of human beings, I'm still terrified that if I look at a woman who I'm not directly talking to for more than a second, I will be taken away and branded a pervert.

This doesn't make much sense. My main logic is that I kind of look creepy, so women might panic or something. But this still doesn't make sense. You need evidence, and the only evidence they might find is CCTV of me looking at or, god forbid, attempting to talk to a woman. Even considering that, if it were possible to prosecute people for such things, 99% of the male population would currently be serving some kind of sentence. And yet, still, I'm paranoid about it.
 

Bertylicious

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You're right to be afraid. If you look a girl in the eye then they can send you to prison for the rest of your life.

I'm terribly afraid of wasps. A few years ago a wasp got into my bedroom and I had to spend the next 3 nights on the sofa in the living room. I haven't opened my bedroom window since.
 

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Bertylicious said:
I'm terribly afraid of wasps. A few years ago a wasp got into my bedroom and I had to spend the next 3 nights on the sofa in the living room. I haven't opened my bedroom window since.
I feel your pain. If I even hear a slight buzzing in the summer time, I just bolt away in fear. I'm even scared of them after they're dead too! D:

OT: I'm scared of someone hiding beside my bed and standing over me in the middle of the night.

I'm also scared of wasps flying into my open coke cans in the summer. I always put something on top of it now.

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.

The list goes on~
 

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Well, there's the one where I spontaneously develop Tourette's Syndrome and start racially abusing strangers in public. Yeah, I know, doesn't work like that, but still.

Also, that I'm currently hallucinating, and I'm really somewhere where whatever I am currently doing is very inappropriate. This one tends to come up when I'm going to the toilet,
 

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Zeel said:
The amount of time you spent defending and being paranoid about sexual harassment charges, really does suggest you are this creepy guy and your afraid you'll be found out.


Hmm, an irrational fair that I have. Going blind, just, like randomly. I really could not live like that.
Perhaps going blind would help the OP with his problem. I can see it now:

"My, you have a pretty voice. May I, ah, may I touch your face to feel what you look like?"

"Well, that's weird. But then refusing a blind person something would be a massive faux pas so I am totally unable to refuse."

*feels* "Gosh, your ears are enormous!"

"You aren't touching my head."

They ain't never going to send a blind man to prison so you'd be fine.
 

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sky14kemea said:
Bertylicious said:
I'm terribly afraid of wasps. A few years ago a wasp got into my bedroom and I had to spend the next 3 nights on the sofa in the living room. I haven't opened my bedroom window since.
I'm terrified of slipping over on ice, because I'm convinced that I'll immediately break both my legs or something.

The list goes on~
You know I also have that fear when I'm walking up or down uncarpeted stairs. I'm worried I'll slip and I'll snap my shinbone like you see footballers or MMA fighters doing in those awful videos.

Weirdly enough it doesn't affect me if there is carpet on the stairs. Perhaps, on some subconcious level, I believe that if we covered the world in carpet that we would eliminate death.
 

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Giant sandworms. Seriously. I can't even play games that have them well.

sky14kemea said:
I'm terrified of slipping over on ice, because I'm convinced that I'll immediately break both my legs or something.
Eh, I only managed to break my wrist. Wait, that's not exactly encouraging, is it.

Bertylicious said:
Perhaps, on some subconcious level, I believe that if we covered the world in carpet that we would eliminate death.
But only if it's fuzzy enough, I tell you...
 

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Easily offended people. They're everywhere, and might start flaming for any reason. I never feel safe.
 

theincurabletragedy

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I'm absolutely terrified of bears, even pictures of them. The reason it's irrational is I live in Australia and there are no bears anywhere in the country.
 

Relish in Chaos

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I'm a major ophidiophobe, meaning that I'm scared of snakes. For some reason, late at night when it's really dark, I get paranoid thoughts about some snake suddenly coming out from under my bed to eat me, and I'm like, "WTF, that would never happen, not here. How would he break in? But then again, reality is scary..."

Then I feel asleep, wake up, and feel like a boss for not being killed by an imaginary serpent.
 

Darren Carrigan

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I'm really afraid of horses, everytime they get within 30 feet of me I get really uncomfortable
Any closer than about 10 and I just freak the fuck out and have to get away from the ASAP
 

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The Dark. Well not so much the dark as what might be in the dark. This expands to all forms of darkness. The dark that comes from the sun setting, the dark that forms simply from the absence of light, and (probably the worse of the three) the darkness of deep water. This usually kicks in after I watch a horror movie or read something. Or logging too many hour into the first Dead Space for some reason. I know there's nothing in the dark, I know what I think may be there truly isn't. but it doesn't stop my heart for racing and reaching for the nearest light switch.

The Deep water thing though........there's untold amount of sea life deep down that we don't know about.
 

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Bertylicious said:
You're right to be afraid. If you look a girl in the eye then they can send you to prison for the rest of your life.

I'm terribly afraid of wasps. A few years ago a wasp got into my bedroom and I had to spend the next 3 nights on the sofa in the living room. I haven't opened my bedroom window since.
I share your fears, brother. I get rather jittery and nervous if one so much as hovers around me. A wasp once found it's way under my blanket somehow, and I didn't realize until it stung my leg. >.<. So after several minutes of cursing to myself I grabbed my copy of "Darkly Dreaming Dexter" and smashed the wasp into oblivion! I'm fine with bees though, bees are cool.
 

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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.
 

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Singing and biting insects.
I can handle a spider with a good (thrown) shoe but I need bees and wasps to be twenty miles away at all times.
I've never been tested for allergies so as far as I know, if I get stung, I WILL DIE.
I don't think I will, BUT I COULD.
So, yeah, I'm with this guy.
Bertylicious said:
You're right to be afraid. If you look a girl in the eye then they can send you to prison for the rest of your life.

I'm terribly afraid of wasps. A few years ago a wasp got into my bedroom and I had to spend the next 3 nights on the sofa in the living room. I haven't opened my bedroom window since.
Similar story, I saw one in my kitchen and all my hunger just vanished.