What are you afraid of?
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I go into utter paranoid mode at the slightest implication that there might be a bee, hornet or wasp nearby. I've only been stung once (maybe twice?), but I had that fear even before then. I'm also not terribly comfortable around small dogs. Big dogs (minus an obvious mean streak), I get along with just fine, but little dogs seem to realize I loathe them and they return the favor. There's exactly one exception to that rule.
I used to have a similar level of terror with regard to needles, but that's gradually been crushed by societal preasure.
The other one would be free fall. Not heights as such. If I feel secure from a high spot, no worries. It's explicitly the fear of falling with nothing to grab onto. If there is such a thing (a building, a cliff, what have you), the fear is almost gone.
I used to have a similar level of terror with regard to needles, but that's gradually been crushed by societal preasure.
The other one would be free fall. Not heights as such. If I feel secure from a high spot, no worries. It's explicitly the fear of falling with nothing to grab onto. If there is such a thing (a building, a cliff, what have you), the fear is almost gone.
I am terrified that I'm not as smart as I think I am, and that I'm going to leave school and end up a washed up loser, who probably might as well die. However, that's my other greatest fear: death. I can't comprehend death in any way, and it terrifies me that there can be at one minute a consciousness, and then the next minute the mind ceases to be, and the body slowly is destroyed, if it hasn't been already. I just feel like there would be only oblivion, and I also feel like I honestly shouldn't be able to die, because I've always considered things to exist only when I have experience of it, hence if I cease to be, the universe also does. In a way, this Berkeleyan idealism means that a small event can cause the instant non-existence of the thing containing it, which is so much larger. Hence, incomprehensibility.
I've plenty of things to be afraid of. For starters:
1. Not being strong enough to fight off an attacker in case the situation comes up (and it will)
2. Homelessness and the difficulties (or in my case, impossibilities) of recovering from that state
3. Dating (this one's a phobia, and I fear wasps far less than this)
4. Wasps (there's a hive right next to my window, and it's quite active. But I can open my window as long as there's an intact screen with no holes in it)
5. Driving on highways/freeways/really busy roads (too easy to screw up and cause a massive pileup, then I'd be uninsurable after that, assuming I live through it)
6. Dog attacks while I'm jogging/running
7. My computer no longer working and I can't find a solution
To some extent, I'm panophobic.
1. Not being strong enough to fight off an attacker in case the situation comes up (and it will)
2. Homelessness and the difficulties (or in my case, impossibilities) of recovering from that state
3. Dating (this one's a phobia, and I fear wasps far less than this)
4. Wasps (there's a hive right next to my window, and it's quite active. But I can open my window as long as there's an intact screen with no holes in it)
5. Driving on highways/freeways/really busy roads (too easy to screw up and cause a massive pileup, then I'd be uninsurable after that, assuming I live through it)
6. Dog attacks while I'm jogging/running
7. My computer no longer working and I can't find a solution
To some extent, I'm panophobic.
Snakes, and that´s not even a bad Indiana Jones reference, i´ve only been close to a snake once, but i freezed completely for 5 minutes and was in a complete state of panic. It´s not as bad as it used to be though, back in the day i couldn´t look at pictures of snakes and i couldn´t go to the terrarium in the zoo. I remember that, when i was a kid, i used to check under the bed to see if there were any snakes hiding.Luckily it isn´t as bad anymore, though i probably wouldn´t want to be near any real snakes, i think it´s the poision that frightens me because for a short time in my childhood i was terrified by pest rats...
Fire, I'm terrified of fire.
Other than that, anything with more than 4 legs, and generally people. Although with people it tends to be more dislike than fear.
Other than that, anything with more than 4 legs, and generally people. Although with people it tends to be more dislike than fear.
That picture made me freeze, scream and cry a little bit in that order. Please tell me thats fake.TizzytheTormentor said:What a load of poppycock! Spiders don't want to eat your soul, all they want is hugs!shrekfan246 said:
Also to be fair, you don't really find huge spiders commonly around most places.
Yes, spiders never forget...
OT: Spiders. I'm absolutely terrified of all spiders no matter their size, shape, coloring, actual deadliness or anything else. My reaction to small spiders is freeze, scream and smash. My reaction to big ones is freeze, scream and run away very quickly to get someone else to smash.
Biggest fear. Spiders.
Others include death and degenerative brain diseases.
Honestly, the biggest fear I can think of is intimacy. I've had a lot of relationships ruined by it, although, it didn't hurt that much when they ended because we never really got that close xP.
(yikes. That's woefully serious. I don't like being serious. Uhhh... This thread needs more pictures of spiders)
(yikes. That's woefully serious. I don't like being serious. Uhhh... This thread needs more pictures of spiders)
The Dark, Heights, Escalators (don't ask), Spiders, car crashes...
yeah I have a fear of alot/scared of things.
yeah I have a fear of alot/scared of things.
Im petrified of heights more then I am of spiders. But spiders... yeah ban them from the Earth anyways, one less fear to worry about.
Also the unexplored ocean. Goddamn darkness and monstrosities down there, and thats the worst part we always ALWAYS find some new abomination of the sea down there, if they had legs I'd shoot myself. Also mermaids... those CAN exist down there...same same
Also the unexplored ocean. Goddamn darkness and monstrosities down there, and thats the worst part we always ALWAYS find some new abomination of the sea down there, if they had legs I'd shoot myself. Also mermaids... those CAN exist down there...same same
Drowning.
Any body of water that rises above my hips [sub][sub](when I'm standing, inb4 smartasses saying LOL HOW DO U BATH)[/sub][/sub].
Being attacked while walking home alone at night.
Large groups which seem aggressive and rowdy from the outset.
Being approached by groups of men I don't know. 0_0
Any body of water that rises above my hips [sub][sub](when I'm standing, inb4 smartasses saying LOL HOW DO U BATH)[/sub][/sub].
Being attacked while walking home alone at night.
Large groups which seem aggressive and rowdy from the outset.
Being approached by groups of men I don't know. 0_0
My fear is sort of strange. I try to be kind and polite to people. At the same time, I know that there is a sick and twisted bastard lurking just beneath all my goodness, and just the right thing could let him out. And that's my biggest fear. I fear becoming the monster I know I could be, under just the right circumstances.
I thought that looked familiarMrMixelPixel said:Honestly, the biggest fear I can think of is intimacy. I've had a lot of relationships ruined by it, although, it didn't hurt that much when they ended because we never really got that close xP.
(yikes. That's woefully serious. I don't like being serious. Uhhh... This thread needs more pictures of spiders)
