What terrifies you?

[bluerocker]

I have lots of nightmares about being trapped in places, particularly by overly large spiders who spin webs to fence me in a room. Funnily enough, I like spiders! I guess the idea of being chased is also pretty scary, as well as hiding out and waiting for the horrifying thing to pass me by. That tension in those nightmares was the worse.

And finally, bees. Yes, I will acknowledge what a Bee does for the earth, but I'd rather stay well away from them and let them do their pollinating thing. With not being stung (as well as a great grandpa who was allergic to them), I'd rather stay away.

 

[Relish in Chaos]

Those damn scaly, legless, bastard half-brothers of lizards?snakes. For as long as I can remember, their image has tormented me, which is why Snakes on a Plane will remain the scariest fucking film I?ve ever seen. And also, why I will never travel to Australia, because of the stories I?ve heard of snakes slithering into people?s houses.

Also, I?m scared that, if I keep on watching so much porn with the same monkey-spanking method (seriously, no other method seems to be as good or convenient as the left-handed stroke), I?ll develop erectile dysfunction or some other erection- or semen-related problem that might negatively affect my sex life in the future.

And how about THE FUTURE, full-stop? The fact that I don?t know what?s going to happen is maddening for me, and scare-mongering stories in the news like ?people born after 1960 are going to be worse-off than their parents? or the government in my country seemingly doing their best to fuck over anyone who isn?t upper-class doesn?t help. I want control in my life, and it feels like I don?t as an 18-year-old staring into the void of the unknown in which my dreams will or will not materialise.

 

[concrete89]

The idea that I might not be who I think I am. There's a whole lot of delusional people out there. What's to say I'm not one of them. There is enough to suggest that I might be. Sometimes, I get surprised when I see myself in the mirror, because I look nothing like me. Whenever I hear a recording of my voice, I have a speech impediment, but when I bring it up, people claim not to notice it. A piece of clothing that fitted perfectly a week ago can be completely unwearable today.

Most of this might be because of fluctuating confidence, but there's still enough to make me doubt my own mind.

 

[EeveeElectro]

Creepy crawly things like spiders and cockroaches and bugs. Not as bad as I used to be, I used to not even go into a room if I had seen a spider but I still hate them.

Pain, and the thought of being in pain. I've put up with bad toothache before because I'm too scared to get teeth removed.
I don't want children either because the thought of carrying a child and giving birth terrifies me (also I'll be a shit mother). I'm such a wimp! haha.

I genuinely fear for my life when I'm in my city late at night. I was walking home from my friends house at half 4 in the morning last Sunday and I've never been so scared because he lives in a rough estate up the road from me.
I kept thinking "Oh fuck oh fuck I'm gonna get raped, someone's gonna jump out and grab me and I'm in heels so I can't run!"
I kept looking towards houses that has their lights on so I could run to them if someone went past. I actually stuffed my handbag and phone down my top because I knew I would have looked like a walking target with them both out.

Thankfully I didn't see a single person and got home safe. It's a terrible shame that I can't feel safe in my own city and how vulnerable a woman on her own is. /:

 

[piinyouri]

The concept of non existence.
Space, whether we are alone or not alone is equally terrifying to me.
Deep large bodies of water. I can't swim well. It's so bad I even get extremely nervous being on a boat.
Land invasion/nuclear attack. Given my country is the US, one of these may be a little outlandish, but I still have screaming wake up sweating nightmares about them.

Also tornadoes. But I live in tornadoes alley so that's a very real threat.

 

[JBGigas]

I have few.
Flowers. Yes flowers, not those cute smaller ones, but everything beyond a simple rose is simply terrifying, more obscure the more disgusting it gets.

Spider webs. Not spiders themselfs, well not all of them, but yeah, spiderwebs, I got this fobia when I was just a smallkid and I accidentaly ran into a really big one (it must have larger than me)and I got stuck in it, I paniced so hard that I can still remember that feeling of pure terror and the touch of the web in my face. After that experience I cant go near any webs.

Space.
Space is awesome and totally rad, but when you realize how friggin small and insignificant we are is scary. We are nothing more than an atom in a universe.

Mushrooms. Not those you can eat, but almost everything else is completely and utterly, disgutingly scary, its something that is not animal nor a plant and it can grow in you! Also, there are zombifying shrooms that turn ants into zombies!

EDIT! Oh yes! There was one more! A.I. Artificial Intelligence. I'm really scared that some day it will grow something too advanced and then they could easily take over the world. I would rather live in world with more work to do, than live in world with self-learning computers.

 

[DasDestroyer]

Forgetting things. And not particular details, of course I can't remember every little detail, but things I should be able to remember but don't. For example if I was completely sure that I hadn't done the dishes the day before, then went to the kitchen and saw they were already clean and remembered that I had actually done them.

 

[w9496]

The only thing I've encountered in my lifetime that really makes my palms sweat and give off a genuine feeling of fear is nighttime driving.

It might seem silly to some people, but I just can't drive over 45 MPH without getting worried and freaking out. I'm perfectly fine if I'm not the one driving unless the driver starts going wicked fast.

 

[Bertylicious]

OP: I'm frightened of winged insects because you can't see them because they're always behind your head and they crawl in your ear to sting your brain and you die.

I remember one day when I was a young lad I kept getting this odd scrabbling sound from within my ear. No matter how much I scratched or shook my head it wouldn't go away.

Later that day I was helping my mum in the garden when a beetle crawled out of my ear and just flew away.

If that had happened to me I'd never go outside again. I'd become a bubble boy, all homeschooled and getting visibly distressed whenever I saw a window without the curtains drawn.

It'd be much better if we just concreted over everything though, fecking nature.

 

[Boris Goodenough]

OP: I'm frightened of winged insects because you can't see them because they're always behind your head and they crawl in your ear to sting your brain and you die.

I remember one day when I was a young lad I kept getting this odd scrabbling sound from within my ear. No matter how much I scratched or shook my head it wouldn't go away.

Later that day I was helping my mum in the garden when a beetle crawled out of my ear and just flew away.

Twice! I have tried to have a wasp land in my nose and go exploring inside my head, pretty sure it ranks up there with the best of them.

 

[Riot3000]

Spiders, spiders, spiders, spiders, spiders spiders, spiders, spiders, spiders, spiders,spiders,spiders,spiders,spiders,spiders and did i mention spiders?

 

[Robert Marrs]

losing use of my upper body. i think i could manage if i was paralyzed from the waist down but not being able to talk or use your arms and hands would probably be the worst thing ever. being blind is right up there as well. literally everything i enjoy requires my eyesight and use of my upper body.

 

[ShockValue]

The idea of the New Orleans Saints winning another Super bowl, Oh god no.

 

[TheRiddler]

Needles. Just the idea of a thin, hollow, sharp metal tube piercing its way through your skin, into your flesh, and pushing its contents into your bloodstream. If that's not terrifying, I don't know what is.

 

[Shock and Awe]

The "Big Freeze" theory of how the universe ends. Essentially that everything will become so spread out that no stars or planets can be formed and all matter basically just drifts aimlessly off in all directions for all eternity in an infinitely dark and cold abyss.

That fucking scares and depresses me.

 

[scorptatious]

The thought of falling from a great height kinda makes me shudder a bit.

The thought of getting my throat cut also creeps me out. Not a good way to go at all.

Being trapped in a small space like a coffin would also freak me out a bit.

Black holes. The epitome of a cosmic abyss, of nothingness, of a completely and utterly terrfiying unknown. It's a lovecraftian horror made reality. Bending light and gravity in the most abhorrent ways.

The worst part is that they have to exist, at least according to current models.

Also, if you post a giant picture of a black hole after reading this, I'll find you, I'll fight you and I'll kill you.

I'll admit seeing Mario fall into black holes while playing Super Mario Galaxy sorta made me cringe a bit. At least you know what happens to him when he falls down a regular old pit, but who knows what happens when he enters one of those things? X(

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

Only a few things, actually.

First off, needles. No, I'm not deathly afraid of them and I don't have a panic attack when I need to get my shots at the doctor, but I just can't stand the sight of a tiny needle piercing through flesh or veins and either injecting or extracting something.

On that note, I also do not like anything that has to do with veins. Cutting, piercing them with needles, having them bleed out, etc. it's just not a good time.

Finally, bone snapping. The sound, sight, or even thought of bones snapping is pure horror. If that ever happened to me, I might just faint from sheer terror.

Ugh, I'm freaked out; I need to get my mind off of this.

Spoiler: Luckly, I know the remedy...

AHHH! Much better.

 

[Not Matt]

Horses! I am f***ing terrified of those long faced monstrosities. I am a true equinophob ladies and gentlemen. So isn't that fact that i am a semi brony living on a farm just perfect for me.

Spoiler: cruel irony

saw this while writing this, i suspect that someone put it there just to piss me off

 

[Barbas]

I don't like the thought of having an artery slashed or a limb wrenched out of position. Gives me the willies. Worst of all, though, is the thought of being caught in an attack involving white phosphorus or nerve gas. I wouldn't wish something that twisted and horrifying on my worst enemy.

 

[Johnny Impact]

Women. Seriously. I am socially retarded, overweight, and suffer from low self-esteem. Women have always reacted negatively to all those things. It's not the rejection that bothers me. It's the laughter and ridicule, confirming my own worst thoughts about myself. I suppose what I really fear is inadequacy, but it shows itself most dealing with women.

Losing my mind. My grandmother had Alzheimer's and eventually died of it. The reality is she died a long time before she stopped walking around. For years she was a ghost, a wisp of nothing, growing ever fainter, trapped in futile attempts to continue a life she couldn't remember with people and places she no longer knew. If I ever become a useless, empty shell, somebody please tip me into a coffin and nail it shut. Death is better.