What REALLY scares you?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Since Frankie got burned (scalded) almost 3 years ago, I am irrationally afraid of him getting burned again. I had to pass a cup of tea past my twin nephews, and I almost couldnt do it, I was scared stiff.

I am terrified someone will snatch Frankie. Ted is older and can handle himslef, he knows to yell stranger etc. But Frankie would go with anyone.

I am scared of fire or intruder being between my room and the kids rooms. I think about that alot.

I am scared of having any part of me touch and stick to ice/cold things.

I am afraid this list will be used against me.

Sesquipedalophobia --fear of long words

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I am afraid of home intruders, human AND alien. Before I was married, I was afraid of someone breaking into my house in the middle of the night. Now that I have a husband, a Mastiff, a .22, and live on the third floor, the ‘stranger in the night’ fear has lessened. I am still scared of those gray, big black-eyed aliens coming into my room and abducting me from my bed to do all sorts of nasty things to me, but I know that that is a silly thing to be afraid of, and will never happen (I hope) :slight_smile: I am glad to see from the earlier posts that I am not alone with that one.
When I was a kid, I used to have a recurring nightmare about a huge ladybug trying to climb into my bedroom window. In the dream, I would be in my bed, and the scratching and scrabbling of the ladybug’s legs on the floor would wake me. The bug was always too big to come in the window easily, and it would be struggling to squeeze in. I always made it into my mothers room, but I knew that the bug was right behind me.
I know ladybugs are harmless, and even beneficial, but I do not like them, and the thought of one touching me makes my skin crawl.
Rose

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Reaching the end of my life, knowing that I had been totally alone and never knowing true love for the entire length of it.

I know, sounds like some gothic angst poem, but it’s a thought that instantly turns any sunny day to gloom.

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  • Shadow of the Pigeon -
    Weirdo of the Night
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Bees, and all their stinging cousins. Even honey bees scare me half to death. I can watch the activity of a beehive, but only if I’m sure the bees won’t get me.

I drive with my windows open, because my A/C is busted. So, on my way to work today, a bee somehow flew in, and plopped onto the passenger seat. My worst fear was realized when the little freak flew over and landed on my right leg! I know, I sound like a baby, but it took all my mental strength to not freak and out and get into a car accident. Luckily, I came to a red light, put my left foot on the brake, stomped the bee onto the floor of the car, and proceeded to smash him into a pulp.

Did I mention I fear bees?

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I’ve noticed that this bee thing has come up a few times, and i am right there with you all on that one. There are only 2 things that i fear. One is bees/wasps/hornets/all stinging pieces of crap. I go to pieces if one starts buzzing around me. This is probably because i got stung a LOT as a child when i lived in Houston (lots of pine trees = LOTs of red wasps… cringe ). The other is fear of being attacked by snakes/jellyfish/sharks/whatever when i am in water (because after all, you are totally defenseless in water). This probably for several reasons… One, a cousin of mine died from a water moccassin attack (LOTS of em, he ran into a nest :frowning: )when he was skiing on a lake once. Two, an uncle of mine was at the beach and a man o’ war attached to his leg and was stinging the crap out of him. He managed to make it back to shore, and it just so happened a guy on the beach had a knife, and had to cut the thing off of his leg. As for the shark thing, i assume you all saw Jaws? cringe :eek:

“Through twilight, darkness and moonrise
My scarlet tears will run
As stolen blood and whispered love
Of fantasies undone”

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cows.

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SPIDERS. The thought of another baseball strike. And dark wooded areas when I’m walking at night. ‘The Blair Witch Project’
scrared the shit out of me. (but,apparently, I’m the only one).

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      • Dying alone: not single, but being fatally injured under circumstances where there’s nobody else around, and living long enough to realize that there will be no hand to hold on to, nobody to listen to or talk to, no face to see during the final moments. - MC
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I can’t believe nobody has mentioned this, but plane crashes scare me to death. I can get on a plane, but it terrifies me that it’s going to crash. I think if I was even on one that took one of those dips or had a sudden altitude loss because of weather or something, I’d have a heart attack. The worst was flying over the Pacific, because that’s another thing that scares me…the depths of the ocean. Being caught in the middle of the ocean, out in the water, with carnivorous ocean animals and 60 foot waves and miles and miles before the bottom…it’s making me nervous right now. Did any of you see that show on Discovery about the snow crab boats? They showed in detail what happens when one of those guys gets his foot caught in the rope attached to the trap as it’s getting thrown overboard.

Another thing that scares me is my husband getting in a car accident. If he’s even a few minutes late, the thought crosses my mind.

Elbows, don’t ever come to the Carolina coast during hurricane season! You’d think the world was coming to an end.
Spooje, Blair Witch scared me too (even though I knew it wasn’t real). The night I saw the movie, while my husband and I were lying in bed, he said, “So, it would be a bad thing if you woke up in the middle of the night and I was standing there with my nose in the corner, huh?” Luckily, he’s smart enough not to try something like that.

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Death by fire or drowning.

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I am a big horror movie freak, but the one movie I saw that actually scared the s**t out of me was Phantasm. I had nightmares for weeks. :eek:

Hand me that wrench. No, the one that looks like a hammer.
Sig Courtesy of Walley

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I used to have a complex about nuclear war. Some kid told me that the world would end on Sept 12th 1981, and I really believed him.

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Yeah oceanic depths scare me too. Such freakish living blackness. Hrrm, yick. That’s why I LOVE H.P. Lovecraft, he seemed to have had many of the fears I do.

Also, anyone remember that scene in Salem’s Lot where that kid sees his friend floating in the window, he had that green mist swirling around him, and he was grinning like he’d just eaten someone? And the kid had to walk by the window to get out the door? All the while that kid is staring at him. Oh God that fucked me pretty well up for a couple of years.

Also, we have this deck on our house which gives a would be murderer easy access to my room. Sometimes, when I was younger, I would have these waking nightmares where I’d see a shadow of a man standing there staring at me while I sleep. He never holds a weapon, he just stares. That always scared the living shit out of me. Thanks a whole fucking lot Steven!

Another thing, our woods are haunted. You can feel something watching you when you walk around. There’s this beautiful naturfal grove which seems to be the source there are fallen trees all around with no explanation as to what killed them. Creepy.

As always ETERNITY and after death

Examine the choices

Heaven: ETERNAL DRUGGED UP BLISS.
By far the best choice but still not great, not forEVER.

Hell: NEAR-ETERNAL PAIN BLACKNESS,TORMENT AND EVENTUAL NOTHINGNESS.
Uhh, no thanks!

Nothing: NOTHING, COMPLETE LACK OF EXISTENCE
Wow, sounds fun, that whole not-existing thing

Reincarnation: RETURNING MINDLESSLY TO A SHELL UNTIL THE RACE DIES OUT= EVENTUAL NOTHINGNESS
First of all, with no recollection of who you were it’s as though you never really existed. Eventually, you never will have!

Valhalla: ETERNAL BATTLE
That would be fun for the first ten minutes or so, but it’s get boring, then what?

Mental Drift: ELECTRICAL SIGNALS FROM YOUR MING ROAMING THE VOID AT LIGHT SPEED
Again cool for a few hundred years or so, but remember this is eternal!

Apparitional Form: BECOMING A GHOST
Fun for awhile, you could check out girls dorms and stuff, but eternally boring.

Beatlegeusing: DEATH AS REPRESENTED IN THE BEETLEJUICE MOVIE.
This is definitely the worst yet. Endless art deco suck!

Beetlejuicing: DEATH AS REPRESENTED IN THE BEETLEJUICE CARTOON SHOW.
Actually this one’s kinda cool. Death is one endless groovy psychedelic party. It would still get boring after awhile.

Ophanim
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Where’s my side of FUN!?
Kisses!
Ophy

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Well there are the fears that are normal and reasonaable–something happening to the kids, being old and poor.

And there are the ones that I know are irrational and I’m ashamed of–dogs (even little ones if they bark), runny eggs, roller coasters, crowds, small places.

And then there is stark raving terror and panic, mind numbing, stomach wrenching, palms clammy, knees knocking, oh god don’t make me have to kind of fear. Which can only be–meeting a group of new people, knowing my mind will go blank, I’ll forget their names, wondering will they like me, and if they don’t is it because I’m not “normal”, and oh God I didn’t really say that, and can’t I die right now, please? If you want to make it completely petrifying, then I’d have to give a speech, too.

::::crawling back into her nice safe cave now::::

inconceivable? i don’t think that word means what you think it does

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Well. Where to start. Bees too for sure. I just walk away. Lets see,being in a car or bus, having the driver get out, the brakes fail, and it starts rolling…over a cliff! ha ha.
Having an elevator suddenyl fall.
Being left behind… :wink:

I think I’d better walk places…

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Getting buried alive. Pretty scary to picture what it would be like.

If it ever happens to me, I will NOT take it well.

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(Hiya, first post, but nevermind that)

Two big ones come to mind. One: Crawling along a really long, cramped tunnel – I mean, a tunnel so small you can barely fit your shoulders in – and then getting stuck halfway through. Jesus, just thinking about it. You’re scrunching along, essentially crawling on your shoulders and hips, just barely making it, and then all of a sudden, you can’t quite move your shoulders or your hips, so you try to move your arms but they’re stuck… funny thing is I’ve never had a nightmare about it, maybe because I’ve imagined it so clearly in my mind without ever falling asleep…

(Like, you remember when Bishop had to crawl along that tube in Aliens and they actually welded the tube shut behind him? shiver)

Two: Goes back to childhood. Keep in mind I live in the suburbs, where the streets are only moderately well lit, and sometimes the lights don’t work… The idea of being alone in a well-lit room on a very dark night, looking out an open window onto a lighted yard, while beyond that tiny patch of light is nothing but blackness… and suddenly seeing a face inches from the window.

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Humiliation and/or embarassment. My nightmare scenario is something like being forced to sing in a kareoke bar.
I’m pretty scared of scorpions, but given the choice between picking one up and public humiliation, I’d scoop up the spikey little fella in a second.

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Um . . . Zion, not to freak you out even more, but it’s a really bad idea to squash bees. They put off a chemical signature when they’re smashed that attracts other bees. Mad bees. Bees that want vengeance. Bees that - ahem. Scuze me. Got a little carried away there.

Still, it’s a bad idea. Don’t smash the bee, just shoo it outside (yeah, I know. Easy for me to say).

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I can’t believe that nobody has said commitment. Of course it may be why I haven’t had a girlfriend in over a year.

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