Most Terrifying Sensation YOU Can Think Of

[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.

 

[Shraggler]

Scenario 1: A small, glass "straw" maybe a quarter of a millimeter in thickness, and about 10 centimeters long, is inserted through the urethra. After about 7cm has traversed the trigone region of the bladder, insertion is halted. The "straw" or tube is then shattered using high-frequency sonic emissions. The bladder is then filled by perpetually (forced) ingestion of fluids and the subject is made to micturate ad infinitum.

Scenario 2: A subject is forced to take high doses of LSD and placed in a dodecahedral room where each surface is a mirror. The only lights are small, oscillating lasers inserted in the corners of the room and a fog machine pumps clouds through four of the room's edges. Speakers emit sounds through the wall. The subject is placed in the room and the room is made to rotate like a gyroscope, producing forces of up to 6g upon the subject. The lasers are activated 25 seconds after the fog machines were activated. Hollow, ethereal sounds reminiscent of wind sweeping past cave openings are pumped through the speakers at high decibels. The speed at which the room rotates is constantly adjusted and randomized, as are the oscillation patterns and colors of the lasers. The (air) pressure and temperature of the room are also constantly being changed.

You're swimming in an endless ocean. It's calm, and you can see all the way to the horizon. No land in sight. Beneath you is so vast, all you can see is darkness. You know you can't keep swimming forever, and that you're going to end up making your descent downwards into the darkness at some point. Then you see something move in the water.

One of the most terrifying situations I can imagine, related somewhat to the above, is this: Floating in the middle of the ocean, at night, as a hurricane spins overhead while waterspouts are illuminated by random flashes of lightning and you're spinning around a giant, mile-wide whirlpool and a humongous, 100-foot, rogue wave is cresting on your right. That is scarier than any "serial killer"-type wussbitch who thinks they're all crazy cause they have a torture chamber with electrodes in their basement. Why? Because it's nature. It's the chaos of the entity we call "nature". GGMoney.

 

[jdogtwodolla]

Having my nails removed and then getting my finger chewed on in those exact spots.

 

[Gottesstrafe]

Honestly, I would think a better form of punishment in hell would be a combination of constantly reminding you about your faults while presenting you with a punishment that offers a glimmer of hope in the form of an escape from hell (which in the end is just an illusion as there would be no such thing, or the task given would be impossible to surmount). I would imagine the pain and suffering or ironic punishment bit would get old after a century or so.

Anyway, back on topic: Being in outer space while your life line is cut and you're slowly drifting away from your shuttle. You can see your oxygen gauge running low and start to feel the effects of asphyxiation while the coldness of space and the hopelessness of your situation begins to envelope you. Although you are given the freedom of movement, you can't interact usefully with your environment and are trapped within your own suit as you slowly drift away from salvation. No one knows you are out here, and no one will care. Your body will continue to drift out to space and will probably never be found again. Knowing this you will be forced to contemplate your entire life and the situation at hand while your life slowly seeps away amidst a cold, uncaring universe that you will have first hand experience of the enormity of, expiring not with a bang, but an inaudible whimper.

Or perhaps a Texas Funeral or the ocean's equivalent of it. Mayhaps even the same fate the protagonist from Johnny Got His Gun suffered?

 

[Shynobee]

Death by object up the ass.

 

[The Lugz]

i rode a bike till i collapsed once, you freeze all over then you get pins and needles everywhere and your body wont work sorta paralyzed twitching on the floor gargling your own drool
so.. yah.
kinda not fun.

 

[Thistlehart]

First thing that comes to mind for me...

Treading in deep water and feeling something brush my foot. I look down to see an unknown shadow pass under me, carry on a ways, and then turn back toward me.

I still have this nightmare on occasion.

My heart-rate is up just thinking about it.

I fear deep water. I really really do.