Tocky on 15/10/2006 at 03:00
Claustrophobia is my fear. It doesn't stop me from doing caving or anything else but half my mind is always telling me I will not be pinned where I cannot move, I can breathe, I can move, it will be over soon.
Must have been a difficult birth.
I also fear being unable to help while something bad is happening to loved ones. I hear glass break and crunch underfoot in my daughters room while I struggle to wake from the mud of sleep. An alligator is pulling my son under water while I claw my way down his leg and struggle as breath runs out to find its eyesocket with my knife. A boa constrictor is pulling my wife under a bridge and her plaintive whisper lets me know she has given up as I find my knife praying I can saw through the meat as thick as a thigh around her neck in time. I wake. It's three AM.
My mind hates me.
heretic on 15/10/2006 at 10:29
I used to be able to say that I feared nothing. Now that I am family guy incarnate I can think of several.
Foremost are the potential results of some unforeseen life changing events such as paralisis or blindness, basically anything resulting in me not being able to provide for my family. Also, any of the horrible and tragic accidents involving kids on the evening news every night becoming more personal.
LancerChronics on 15/10/2006 at 12:06
hmm. I know I have fears, I just don't know what they are. I've never been in any situation in which I've been TRULY scared. I would almost be curious to know what my Worst fear is, since I'm not really sure having never experienced it. I mean, I've had a heart condition that could've killed me, no fear. I've been only a few hundred yards from a tornado, no fear, in fact I was kinda enjoying it. Storms, hurricanes, I revel in. Death, not really, because if it's heaven, cool, if its oblivion, well I won't care much after right? hell, well I'd like to think I'd be such an annoyance, they'd chuck me back out. I suppose I may be a bit uncomfortable in extreme heights, but I'm able to deal, and if I'm secure, any potential hint of fear goes away.
I really am curious as to what my worse fear is. Is there a quiz I can take? I took one on how I was gonna die. It said "Dissapear-You will probably walk off into the woods and never be seen or heard from again." I kinda like the sound of that.
Edit: Ah, I did think of one... Fear of being unable to act if someone needs me. Don't really care about myself, but if someone's in trouble I am almost terrified that I won't be able to do something and they'll get hurt. Doesn't even have to be family, could be a stranger, really.
Edit2:Heh, just saw Tocky's, sorry if it sounds like I was copying but I didn't read the whole thread first. Oh and that 3 am has happened to me as well, immediately after i saw something bad and tried to shout a warning, I couldn't and woke up....open my eyes "3:00am on the dot". My family thinks it was just my subconcious knowing the time.
Thought of a second fear too, but I will enter it later, if I decide I want to share it.
BEAR on 15/10/2006 at 20:07
Quote Posted by Jeshibu
Falling. I haven't fallen down in forever, but when I'm up somewhere high or I'm on a bike I often go "oh god if I fall it'll hurt badly/I'll be dead" in my mind.
Oh, and porcelain.
Find yourself a nice jumping rock at a lake, the higher the better. Jump off until you're not scared anymore. You might not be able to make yourself do it, so just lean off until you fall.
Bjossi on 15/10/2006 at 20:26
I don't really have any fear, I'm nightblind as hell and not afraid of the dark. :p
Jack_Arrow_Of_Sutekh on 16/10/2006 at 04:06
Empty pools and things that look like empty pools, like that ski resort in Dubai before they filled it with snow.
Jeshibu on 16/10/2006 at 12:35
Quote Posted by BEAR
Find yourself a nice jumping rock at a lake, the higher the better. Jump off until you're not scared anymore. You might not be able to make yourself do it, so just lean off until you fall.
But what about the porcelain? :(
LancerChronics on 16/10/2006 at 13:20
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But what about the porcelain?
Go to Home Depot, get the biggest/heaviest sledgehammer you can wield. Go to some place selling porcelain on sale. Buy a TON. Empty out a room in ur home and put down plastic, lay the porcelain around, and Get to smashing!
How does anyone become afraid of porcelain? Is that one of those "irrational" fears, or are you allergic? If you are allergic, completely ignore my solution.
Turtle on 16/10/2006 at 17:29
Quote Posted by LancerChronics
Go to Home Depot, get the biggest/heaviest sledgehammer you can wield. Go to <strike>some place selling porcelain on sale</strike> <b>the Home Depot Kitchens & Bathrooms Department</b>. <strike>Buy a TON. Empty out a room in ur home and put down plastic, lay the porcelain around, and</strike> Get to smashing!
Fixed.
Scots Taffer on 16/10/2006 at 23:24
My biggest fear? A quiet moment if I'm having a dark turn. Honestly, I can picture horrible things happening so vividly in my mind that it makes me nervous and my palms sweaty.
For instance, my wife was late coming home from uni yesterday with our 7-month old girl and as I parked I had noticed that the usual crossing point of our road was really busy with cars in one direction, bumper-to-bumper busy. Suddenly I couldn't get the idea out my head that if my wife was passing between two of the cars on the busy lane she might not see another car coming fast down the other side - not that my wife is this stupid, I once was of course and that led to two broken arms which probably explains this particular irrational moment but anyway - that the pram would get totally taken out by these reckless, speeding Brisbane drivers. I couldn't get it out my head for a good minute or so. I kept seeing the pram wiping out and the baby inside getting thrown around. Made me very sick to my stomach and eventually I managed to get past it but sometimes I really fucking fear my imagination.
