What are your fears?

[Joker]

Dentists and spiders. xD But I'd say my main overriding fear is physical pain, which is probably where the whole dentistry phobia comes from. At least it's...kind of rational?

[Tam]

I've managed to muscle myself past a lot of things that used to terrify me — spiders, needles, tornadoes, gas leaks, electricity — and most of my irrational fears aren't particularly strong anymore, but I'd be nuts to say I'm not scared of anything. The rational fears are always the strongest: failure, helplessness, losing someone I love, but I mean... who doesn't hope beyond hope that things like that won't happen? They're always in the back of my mind, I guess, but I try not to fixate on them. They're not fears I can ever see myself conquering, and I don't really want to conquer them anyway. They're how I know I still care about life.

But as far as irrational fears go, I still haven't quite been able to cure myself of my aversion to centipedes and scorpions. I'm good with other arthropods (provided that there's no imminent danger of them biting me and that they don't surprise me by landing on my face or something), but not these ones yet. I'd probably be better if I lived somewhere where I had more frequent exposure to either of them. xD;

[Hannah Needle]

Fears eh? Hm... Neopets disappearing.

[Deleted]

I'm actually quite terrified of bridges. It's not the height or even the water that gets me, it's the feeling that what I'm standing on isn't strong enough to keep all these cars up and that sooner or later the cables will break or the legs will crumble and everything will collapse with me on it...

Bugs creep me out, although not spiders, surprisingly, not if they're small ones. I wouldn't really call it a fear, though, as much as it is just something that gets beneath my skin and bugs (haha) me.

Um. People, I guess? And what they think of me? I know it is completely irrational and unrealistic to want to be universally adored, but the fear of disapproval gets me like nothing else does. It's not like I want to be FRIENDS with EVERYBODY and HOLD HANDS FOREVER and stuff I just want them to... like me? Even if that like is just simple tolerance? I don't know. I am silly.

[Gelquie]

Hmm, I don't have a lot of irrational fears. I try not to have them.

I am afraid of bees, hornets, and wasps, though. It's not rational; its based on being stung when I was a child 3 times. In completely different times. I made it seem worse for myself than it actually was. I've been trying to get over it, but I still run away if I get in close proximity with one of those insects. I think I need to get myself stung sometime, just to prove to myself that it's not as bad as I think it is. But that's hard when you can't even stand to be near them. I'm working on tactics to get over the fear; it's just hard.

I used to have a fear of dogs, but I got over that. Mainly because it was caused by my dad's fear-mongering and all when I was a kid and I let myself believe him. It was a very stupid fear and I'm glad I'm over it. (Especially considering how my boyfriend loves dogs, so I have to be around them anyway.)

I don't really have any other irrational fears. Well, other than being around people too much. ( ) For rational ones...

I am afraid of my brain deteriorating. It's nothing to worry about too much now, but the possibility looms in old age. Alzheimer's is really scary to me. I think I'm mainly afraid of losing abilities.

And then... I'm afraid of death.

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To me, there's nothing after death. No sense of consciousness, not even your own thoughts, just nothing for the one who is dead. Obviously when dead, I won't even be able to care. But I am alive, and I do care now. I like things to happen. I like to at least watch them happen. But when you're dead, you're dead. (I guess at least my molecules are still recycled over time. Still.)

[Crystal]

I am mortally afraid of zombies. A lot of things in the Uncanny Valley absolutely terrify me. About ten years ago there was this thing going around where you listened to a video, and it played this really soft, soothing song with the lyrics shown in tiny font, so you naturally turned the sound up and got closer to the monitor to read it.. and then BAM A SCREAMING ZOMBIE WOMAN

I couldn't sleep for a week ;_;

[Pacmanite]

I used to fear that I would fall in deep crush with someone I could never be with.

Then I feared that that someone would feel the same about me.

Both of these things have now happened, but I'm OK, and the world's still turning. So... I don't know what to really fear any more.

[Breakingchains]

Dec 14, 2011 19:06:49 GMT -5 Crystal said:

I am mortally afraid of zombies. A lot of things in the Uncanny Valley absolutely terrify me. About ten years ago there was this thing going around where you listened to a video, and it played this really soft, soothing song with the lyrics shown in tiny font, so you naturally turned the sound up and got closer to the monitor to read it.. and then BAM A SCREAMING ZOMBIE WOMAN

I couldn't sleep for a week ;_;

THIS. Zombies scare the fudge out of me (I think it can be traced directly back to Zelda 64 in my case. xD)

Actually, I guess the very concept of undeath in general is horrifying to me, to the point where I sometimes can't enjoy fictional works that involve it. It just says something really nasty about the mechanics of that universe if all the characters could potentially (or will) end up shambling corpses or mindlessly-destructive ghosts. It's like the ultimate in fridge horror.

[The Doorbell]

*pops in*
*drops off this long story*

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So my Language Arts teacher, Mr. B, had a frightening experience on Sunday. It waas 2:45 in the morning and he woke to someone ringing the doorbell. Having been a police officer a long time ago, he thought it suspicious and went downstairs to look out the window. And guess what he saw!

A girl scout selling Thin Mints A guy in a hoodie wearing a Halloween mask, standing back from the door.

Mr. B kind of yelled, giving away his presence, but the guy just stood there for a long time while he called 911. Then, all of a sudden, hoodie-guy bolted. Mr. B realized that the back door was unlcoked and reached it just seconds before hoodie-guy did. So hoodie-guy and my teacher were just staring at each other for a while, since you can see clearly from both sides of the window. Then the guy took off, and Mr. B didn't see him ever again. So far, at least.

So right now I'm absolutely terrified of the doorbell, darkness, being home alone, and...Halloween masks. But I know for sure I'm not going outside when it's dark. In fact I can hardly even stand going throughout my house unless all the hallway lights are on.

*slinks out*

[Fang of the Dead]

I also fear that I'm undergoing a psychotic breakdown due to the stress SOPA and the NDAA are causing me. I fear I'm seeing my sanity slowly slip away; and there's nothing I can do.

[Dream]

Anything that involves being unable to breathe. This is probably due to having been asthmatic.

Daddies-long-legs. (The BritEng kind, not AmEng.) The flailing legs make me screech and run for cover.

Asking favours of strangers on the phone.

The idea of my most dear fandoms closing or finishing. I hope Neo will keep going for many years to come, but for the first time since childhood I'm now deeply invested in something that will come to an end one of these days, and I genuinely do not know what I'll do. It's like imagining one of my teenage crushes suddenly disappearing into thin air in front of me I really should have got into more current anime series and whatnot, so I would have practice for this!

Eyeballs, of the not-currently-in-someone's-eye-sockets variety. I do not know why eyeballs especially. My Beloved enjoys freaking me out with this in video games etc.

On a more angsty level, I'm afraid of never finding out what the important thing is I'm meant to do or be good at. I worry sometimes that my epitaph will be "Rainbow Daydreamer: She Was Kind Of Nice To People".

[Mel ♪]

Erm. Rats. So scared of them ;__;

And I'm also scared of failing or people thinking I'm not smart. I'm also scared of people hating me. I care a lot about what others think xD

I have an irrational fear of people lurking in the dark. Every night, when I turn off the light in the kitchen, I run out the door and shut it as fast as I can so anyone lurking in the dark won't be able to come out xD It's silly, but it makes me feel safer somehow.