# What's your deepest, most existential fear? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 4, 2011, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-deepest-most-existential-fear/577120 "2011-04-04T05:00:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![mac\_bolan00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@mac\_bolan00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mac_bolan00)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-deepest-most-existential-fear/577120/61 "2011-04-08T01:52:25Z")
i meet with an accident and the doctors and nurses in the ER will discover i have holes in my socks and briefs. ---
**Author:** ![LegsAkimbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f1d935/32.png) [@LegsAkimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LegsAkimbo)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-deepest-most-existential-fear/577120/62 "2011-04-08T02:24:03Z")
Wow, interesting topic! I am a worrier by nature, but number one with a bullet was always losing my husband (to death, or worse yet, severe disability). I can’t function worrying about this all the time, so I have tried to not dwell on it. As for me, I have a giant fear of being in a capture situation where my hands are bound behind me. Somehow that seems like the ultimate loss of control, and that would be my undoing. I think I can handle most things thrown at me but that might cause excessive freaking out. Terrible things come out of nowhere on a bright, sunny day (why is it that good things never come out of nowhere and body slam you? I know: good things happen slowly, bad things happen fast). I actually end every day lying in bed, lights out, observing that this was an entire day during which nothing bad happened. Kinda wish I had known that would be the case when I woke up that morning. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-deepest-most-existential-fear/577120/63 "2011-04-08T02:55:22Z")
Aliens, since I don’t know what the \*\*\*\* they are. (And yes, I am aware of incubus dreams.) Compared to that, terrorists, meth-heads, mobsters, tornadoes, flash floods, outbreaks of deadly diseases, and earthquakes are nothing. (Yes, I’ve been through all those and tend to lose my fear afteward.) ---
**Author:** ![IaMoDiNaRy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@IaMoDiNaRy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IaMoDiNaRy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2011, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-deepest-most-existential-fear/577120/64 "2011-04-09T07:00:53Z")
# 1 for me is being buried alive! I absolutely cannot watch anything like this in a movie or on TV. Don’t know why but especially if I couldn’t get my legs up into the fetal position, if I was stuck in a flat out position when buried alive. That really terrifies me … # 2 is whirlpools in water - When I was growing up, I lived near a creek that flooded a lot in the spring. These huge whirlpools would form and they would just suck everything down, down, down. It was so damn scary and I always kept my distance like it had some magical force that was gonna reach out from the water and pull me down into it. There was a HUGE one that formed out in the ocean after the earthquake in Japan. Oh my Lord!!! It was sickening and nauseating to watch. Sucking everything down… ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/XhporhNsWWI/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/XhporhNsWWI?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque ---
**Author:** ![Hennessy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hennessy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hennessy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2011, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-deepest-most-existential-fear/577120/65 "2011-04-09T12:02:42Z")
Losing the only thing I have, my mind… Turns out, it isn’t hard to do - > [@](#): > > **Warning** — This will cause you to lose your mind just try understanding what you can’t understand ---
**Author:** ![Hennessy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hennessy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hennessy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2011, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-deepest-most-existential-fear/577120/66 "2011-04-09T12:24:41Z")
I just wanted to add, watch Inception and think about being stuck in a dream, the wife couldn’t explain the unexplainable and lost her mind… Also, just because one person can make sense of something doesn’t mean you can. For things I can’t understand or refuse to understand, I like to “charge it to the game” [of life]… Like DiCaprio did in Inception … Just accept it For the people in fear of being in a tight dark scary situation, once your there the fear is over, those survival instincts will kick in and overtake the fear. Watch [127 Hours](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1542344/) There is also a movie with someone being [buried](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1462758/) alive, although I haven’t watch it… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-deepest-most-existential-fear/577120.md?page=3)