Possibly part of it is due to the sheer overwhelmingness of it though, both size (though it’s <shudder> not even close to other gas giants that have been found), gravity, and how powerful it is (pretty sure it could quite literally obliterate Earth quite a few times over).
Although a black hole would be far, far worse in some ways (had a nightmare about one, and the Beast as well :P)
Also, Silent Hill series does have some parts that would really freak me out (one major example is the phone call scene in the alternate school area, easily can have a lasting impression with phones - there is a Midwich mp3 somewhere on the net, Silent hill fan-made mp3. /insert loud continual dead-phone-line sound here
Suffocating. But not drowning, for some odd reason.
I rather like spiders and snakes, I think snakes are pretty and the little 5-incher I had years ago was even kind of cute.
In my 7th grade class the teacher had a tarantula as a pet. Seeing the little critter run over my hands, from hand to hand, as fast as its little legs would take it totally took away all the fear I could have had.
I have a lot of these, feel free to borrow any of them!
Ditto on spiders/snakes/cockroaches/sharks/swimming in murky water.
My others:
The dark. I know, I know. I don’t remember ever being able to sleep without some sort of nightlight. To this day I can’t fall asleep in a completely dark room.
Being trapped in an enclosed space.
Extraterrestrials.
Recent one I’ve developed: The tests that the emergency broadcast system does. You know the one, the solid beep with the scroll at the top of the TV screen. It happened one night a couple of weeks back and freaked me the hell out. I have to mute the television whenever they do it now. It’s always bothered me a bit, but not nearly as much.
alright, my fears are really off the wall, but anyway…
Being eaten by dinosaurs, I can’t watch/read anything about them without having nightmares for months. I have no idea where this fear came from (have had it long before Jurassic Park). Needless to say my class in Evolution was a special sort of torture.
Fish, I will not put any part of my body into any water which contains fish… not even a goldfish bowl.
Having my hands eaten off by a bear while I sleep. Therefore I always have to have my hands covered at night. I have to thank my dad for this one. When I was 5 or 6 a bear got loose from the zoo and was captured behind our house, my dad, the wonderful father he is, told me it was a good thing they caught it before it ate my hands in my sleep. Sick bastard.
Drowning. You know those scenes in movies when a ship is sinking and the water is rising around the characters, the air pocket gets smaller and smaller - my worst fear ever.
Dying old and alone. Being so alone that the only way people find me is from the smell of my rotting corpse.
Lapsing into one of those “locked in” comas. The ones where you’re completely paralyzed but your mind is active and you have no way to communicate.
