Fears and nightmares

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?

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.

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. :<

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:

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

Zombies

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Originally Posted by Aemilius Paulus

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

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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.

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Originally Posted by Csargo

Zombies

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Awwwww. :P

deafness, alzheimers, alcoholism.

Not particularly in that order

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Originally Posted by Secura

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.

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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.

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Originally Posted by Aemilius Paulus

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.

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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.

Being alone.

zombies, ghosts, and anything else scary.

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

Velociraptors... I always feel as if they're watching me while I take a drink down at the watering hole.

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.

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.

Walking home late at night. I always have that nagging fear that something bad is going to happen.

Pain.

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.

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..

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Originally Posted by miotas

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.

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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.

Spiders. Pretty much anything with more than four legs. Alzheimers/dementia. Dentists.

Wasps.

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Originally Posted by Fragony

Water, lots of it. Sometimes I dream I am at the beach and the waves just keep getting bigger.

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The natural fear of a Dutchman.

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.

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Originally Posted by Psychonaut

Walking home late at night. I always have that nagging fear that something bad is going to happen.

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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:

Gravity reversing, and I just keep falling up into space.

Ajax

Darkness..
Swimming/deep water.. When I was 8-9 years old I almost drowned and after that I never got over that fear.

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; 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.

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Originally Posted by Ibn-Khaldun

Swimming/deep water.. When I was 8-9 years old I almost drowned and after that I never got over that fear.

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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.

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.

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Originally Posted by Fragony

some sort of magnetism it's like gravity.

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The scientist in me chuckled at that.

Dear diary, today I said something really stupid

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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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Originally Posted by Viking

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.

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

Insanity.

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Originally Posted by Hooahguy

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

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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)

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Originally Posted by Viking

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)

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

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.