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Peasant Phill
03-01-2010, 23:51
When I was a lot younger, I saw a TV-program that told scary fairy tales. The story I remember was one where a man came in contact with a flock of small devils. He fought them of and was even able to break off one of the legs of a devil. Years later he encountered the same devil and traded the devils foot for a glass of water that allowed him to fend off death for a while.
Long story just to say that I used to be quite scared of a plain window when there was darkness outside. I always imagined that that devil would come knocking on my window.

So what are/were you afraid? What doesn't sit well when you think of it?

Centurion1
03-01-2010, 23:56
serial killers.

i cant watch like shows that tell the true stories like on ID channel alone.

its a very paranoid fear.

that and going blind or being paralyzed.

Secura
03-02-2010, 00:16
The Saw film series.

I cannot watch those films fully, because I cannot fathom how any human being would want to inflict so much pain and suffering upon the lives of so many people. It isn't like he even kills many of them; they ultimately die in the process of trying to escape or 'win' his little games. Yes, yes, I am aware it's fictional, but it doesn't change my evaluation of the series.

There's psychopathy, and then there's those films. :<

Aemilius Paulus
03-02-2010, 00:40
Going blind is definitely on top of my list. And there had already been numerous times where I narrowly escaped the possibility of losing an eye. It is not a fear in a literal sense though, I do not dwell on it.

My real fear is not being accepted to a good Uni :sad:

gaelic cowboy
03-02-2010, 01:05
Losing my mental faculties and being told by a doctor six months beforehand it is going to happen the thought of ending up not being able to remember something I knew and half knowing I used to know it very scary

Csargo
03-02-2010, 01:12
Zombies

Secura
03-02-2010, 01:34
My real fear is not being accepted to a good Uni :sad:

Don't worry about it too much. I'm guessing you're American, so keep up your GPA, make sure you're doing your homework and study hard, and you will have no problems.

I wish you all the best.


Zombies

Awwwww. :P

Strike For The South
03-02-2010, 01:38
deafness, alzheimers, alcoholism.

Not particularly in that order

Aemilius Paulus
03-02-2010, 02:17
Don't worry about it too much. I'm guessing you're American, so keep up your GPA, make sure you're doing your homework and study hard, and you will have no problems.

I wish you all the best.

Thanks, I am a Russian living in the US.

The problem is, even with my 4.6 GPA and a load of other achievements, my non-citizen status prevents me from being eligible for about 95% of the scholarships, grants, etc. If I was an American, I could have chance with a scholarship from the lower-level Ivy League schools. But with my status and the economic situation, it will take plenty of things to get me into a good Uni. Of course, I can also go back to Russia, but the education system there is too rigorous and I fear I grew too soft to ever go back there. Mainly mathematics though. Calculus is taught in junior high back in my country :skull::no::thumbsdown: - and I loathe maths.

Secura
03-02-2010, 02:39
Thanks, I am a Russian living in the US.

The problem is, even with my 4.6 GPA and a load of other achievements, my non-citizen status prevents me from being eligible for about 95% of the scholarships, grants, etc. If I was an American, I could have chance with a scholarship from the lower-level Ivy League schools. But with my status and the economic situation, it will take plenty of things to get me into a good Uni. Of course, I can also go back to Russia, but the education system there is too rigorous and I fear I grew too soft to ever go back there. Mainly mathematics though. Calculus is taught in junior high back in my country :skull::no::thumbsdown: - and I loathe maths.

Have your family not tried for citizenship? It seems such a shame that the state would not give you dispensation based on your GPA; 4.6 is really, really admirable.

It's a shame that money makes the world go round; it's precisely the reason I've had to take a year out myself, because I just can't afford the fees at the moment.

Beskar
03-02-2010, 02:41
Being alone.

Hooahguy
03-02-2010, 02:48
zombies, ghosts, and anything else scary.

worst fear:
zombies in Crysis, controlled by the KPA and wont die. *shivers*

Samurai Waki
03-02-2010, 05:43
Velociraptors... I always feel as if they're watching me while I take a drink down at the watering hole.

seireikhaan
03-02-2010, 07:03
Greatest fear- finding the girl of my dreams, spending years getting to know her, marrying her, and then having it all crushed in an instant with a messy divorce.

Fragony
03-02-2010, 07:54
Water, lots of it. Sometimes I dream I am at the beach and the waves just keep getting bigger. I am also haunted by a T-Rex, never know when the bastard shows up.

naut
03-02-2010, 08:15
Walking home late at night. I always have that nagging fear that something bad is going to happen.

Azathoth
03-02-2010, 08:25
Pain.

miotas
03-02-2010, 08:26
My only irrational fear is a mild fear of the dark. I used to be scared of heights, but jumping off a waterfall cured that.

Beefy187
03-02-2010, 14:19
Had a zombie dream two nights ago.. Woke me up at 3 in the morning....
ATPG gets the credit for it.....

But my usual top fear is ghosts and shadows. Never seen ghosts so far and I'm very glad I havn't... But very occasionally I get weird moving shadows which isn't too bad..

naut
03-02-2010, 14:27
My only irrational fear is a mild fear of the dark. I used to be scared of heights, but jumping off a waterfall cured that.
Add me to the heights fear. Went absailing once, the hard part is going over the edge. I got half-way down, and there was a little ledge and I had to get over the edge again. I'd already overcome the fear once, but I couldn't handle the second time. I climbed back up the cliff face.

Scienter
03-02-2010, 14:42
Spiders. Pretty much anything with more than four legs. Alzheimers/dementia. Dentists.

Subotan
03-02-2010, 15:34
Wasps.


Water, lots of it. Sometimes I dream I am at the beach and the waves just keep getting bigger.
The natural fear of a Dutchman.

Ironside
03-02-2010, 19:54
Scalpels.

I'm simply seeing before me the slow cut through the skin, the minimal rise of the skin when it separates, the increasing wound when the scalpel moves and the start of blood pouring out...

Don't really know where that come from.

Peasant Phill
03-02-2010, 20:46
Walking home late at night. I always have that nagging fear that something bad is going to happen.

I can relate to that. Once I went camping with a few friends; drinks and pranks included. I went a bit away from the campsite to 'let nature run its course'. I walked back briskly because I was cold. I knew I was the one that made the leaves rustle (wind) but I couldn't help it but run faster and faster. A bit silly really.

Oh and don't watch IT with some people that are known pranksters. :wink:

ajaxfetish
03-02-2010, 22:09
Gravity reversing, and I just keep falling up into space.

Ajax

Ibn-Khaldun
03-02-2010, 22:27
Darkness..
Swimming/deep water.. When I was 8-9 years old I almost drowned and after that I never got over that fear.

Reverend Joe
03-02-2010, 23:22
Bugs. I've gotten better about it over time, but large bugs still scare the crap out of me. I'm pretty sure it's a fear that stems from growing up with Humpback crickets; (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_cricket) not only are they ugly as sin, but the article fails to mention that, when confronted with a moving object, they will rapidly hop towards it in an attempt to scare it away. Definitely works on a tender-minded three-year-old, especially since the ones that infest homes in North Carolina can often have bodies approaching 3/4 of an inch in size, not counting the legs.

Edit: oh, yeah, also ghosts, or aliens, or other bizarre disturbances in what I consider to be "normal." Don't ask me why.

Fragony
03-03-2010, 11:23
Swimming/deep water.. When I was 8-9 years old I almost drowned and after that I never got over that fear.

Big bodies of deep water scare me as well, in the same way as heights do. I can't shake the feeling that something is luring me towards the edge, some sort of magnetism it's like gravity.

bobbin
03-03-2010, 11:54
I get that too, only with standing at the edge of a big drop, I get completely un-nerved because I start thinking that all it takes is one tiny action like a gust of wind, tripping over or even just my body inexplicably spazzing out and i'm dead.

I also HATE being in very cramped places when there is no clear way out.


some sort of magnetism it's like gravity.
The scientist in me chuckled at that.

Fragony
03-03-2010, 12:03
Dear diary, today I said something really stupid

Myrddraal
03-03-2010, 14:36
I also HATE being in very cramped places when there is no clear way out.

For me movement is the critical factor. I can push myself through a very narrow tunnel so that the sides are practically pressing on me. So long as I can keep moving I won't be afraid at all. Even if I can only move backwards and forwards a bit. Once I can't move, I find it very difficult not to panic. I've been through tiny dark caves and not been afraid, but sometimes I flip out when I get stuck trying to take a tight jumper off.

Rhyfelwyr
03-03-2010, 17:00
Jesuits, they are everywhere...

Seriously though, for some reason I have a thing about losing an eye. Not about going blind, but just the thought of getting an eye plucked out. When you think about it, your eyeballs are pretty vulnerable... makes me cringe thinking about it.

Viking
03-03-2010, 22:29
Not a real fear, but I have a serious problem with swallowing pills. Takes a real comittment and a few attempts to get it done. Probably related to that I choked on some candy when I was really young.

bobbin
03-04-2010, 01:35
Thats always a bad one, if you don't get it right on the first try you can end up with an aspirin (or god forbid something less legal) stuck halfway down you throat.

Hooahguy
03-04-2010, 01:37
Not a real fear, but I have a serious problem with swallowing pills. Takes a real comittment and a few attempts to get it done. Probably related to that I choked on some candy when I was really young.

practice with mini M&Ms.
thats what i did.

Hax
03-04-2010, 01:56
Insanity.

Viking
03-04-2010, 18:02
practice with mini M&Ms.
thats what i did.

Yeah, I've noticed that when taking pills for a couple of weeks, it becomes much easier eventually; so makes sense. (though I think it'll get unlearnt relatively quickly)

Hooahguy
03-04-2010, 18:09
Yeah, I've noticed that when taking pills for a couple of weeks, it becomes much easier eventually; so makes sense. (though I think it'll get unlearnt relatively quickly)

what i also notice is that for me, taking pills with apple juice is easiest.

Zradha Pahlavan
03-11-2010, 19:46
I used to have a fear of large dogs, because I used to frequently have vivid dreams that I was being chased/mauled by large dogs. I've mostly gotten over that, fortunately.