Your biggest fear

The Big Red Button

I read a thread there about a boardsie's family member "rescuing" a victim from a traffic accident.

That is my fear. Yes, I know it seems so so silly. But I hate the thought of, well first of all, being involved in an accident. But secondly, of a well-meaning passer-by f*cking me up by attempting to move me from the car (which is, of course, about to spontaneously explode :rolleyes: As all cars do, soon after crashing ...)

I know it sounds silly, but that is my biggest fear. And it's a realistic one, seeing as I drive long distance quite a lot!

What's yours?

rebel10

Definately drowning.:eek:

Not the strongest swimmer and freaks me out everytime i think of what it would be like to drown and being completely aware of what was happening, struggeling and not being able to do anything.

The Big Red Button

rebel10 wrote: »

Definately drowning.:eek:

Not the strongest swimmer and freaks me out everytime i think of what it would be like to drown and being completely aware of what was happening, struggeling and not being able to do anything.

Oooh that's me too! The scary thing is, being able to swim a certain amount ... but imagine being stuck in deep waters, and just running out of perseverance! Horrible to think of!

Clare Bear

I never have fears about what happens to me really, it's always something happening to the people I love. I'm such a worrier, I get it from my mother. I hate it. Even if my boyfriend is 20 minutes late I'm freaking out in my head that something has happened to him. I'd never tell him that because it makes me sound like a crazy but the thought of losing any of them scares the life out of me.

I drive quite a lot too so I understand your fear of being in a bad accident. I've had a few scary moments while driving, it's definitely on my mind sometimes when I'm driving that I'll feck up or someone else will and something awful will happen. It's not a constant fear but it does cross my mind sometimes when I'm driving so I know why you feel that way. You can't let it take over your thoughts too much though.

MissFlitworth

getting trapped underground- I saw something on the news when I was a nipper about some people who went potholing and tried to wiggle through a particularly small passage or cave or whatever and died stuck in the bowels of the earth and a phobia was born. Whenever I watch a nature documentary and someone is diving in sunken caves or squeezing through tiny little holes in the ground I have mini-freakers. Dying in the dark underground is my absolute and utter nightmare

Lando Griffin

That the oil will keep spilling out of its hole in the Gulf until hurrican season, and a hugh hurrican will come and suck the deadly black liquid from the ocean and when over land spark and go on fire,spitting deadly balls of fire on the innocents below and hence signaling the start of the apocolisp, and the fact that I have a family holiday in Florida planned for that time haunts me more.

Misticles

Dying- that is my ultimate fear! I just don't wanna die.
Also stuff happening to people I care about, like Clarebear, I too can be a worrier.

I almost drowned before yet it hasnt deterred me from being in the water- I love it

Reku

That the pain I've caused others is lasting and that I will cause such pain in the future.

Giselle

chatterpillar wrote: »

Oooh that's me too! The scary thing is, being able to swim a certain amount ... but imagine being stuck in deep waters, and just running out of perseverance! Horrible to think of!

I saw a movie called 'Open Water', based on the true story of two scuba divers who are accidently left adrift after the staff on the charter boat they dive off fail to count the divers on the return journey. They were left stranded in shark infested waters, and remains were never found.

It terrified me so much that I won't swim in open sea.

Besides that, I've a horrible fear of dying in a house fire since it happened to a friends family.

Miss Lockhart

It's a close tie between being in a serious car crash and never having the opportunity to have my own child(ren).

Totally different fears - but they are the two I think about most!

Misticles

I'd have that fear too-- not being able to have my own children...

The_Morrigan

Miss Lockhart wrote: »

It's a close tie between being in a serious car crash and never having the opportunity to have my own child(ren).

Totally different fears - but they are the two I think about most!

I'm the same, but the never having the kids is a bigger fear than being in a car crash...

Clare Bear

Clare Bear wrote: »

I never have fears about what happens to me really, it's always something happening to the people I love. I'm such a worrier, I get it from my mother. I hate it. Even if my boyfriend is 20 minutes late I'm freaking out in my head that something has happened to him. I'd never tell him that because it makes me sound like a crazy but the thought of losing any of them scares the life out of me.

Ditto


I suppose mine would be the kind of paralysation where you're dead to all apperances, but you're actually trapped in your body unable to move a single muscle.

lost in my own head

My biggest fear is something happening to one of my children, having found one of them not breathing and greyish-green colour freaked me out for life (and the bloody ambulance got lost on the way) . Thankfully he has recovered, but I still see him the way he was then, even though it has happened over a year ago. Definitely my biggest fear.

Faith

Clare Bear wrote: »

I never have fears about what happens to me really, it's always something happening to the people I love. I'm such a worrier, I get it from my mother. I hate it. Even if my boyfriend is 20 minutes late I'm freaking out in my head that something has happened to him. I'd never tell him that because it makes me sound like a crazy but the thought of losing any of them scares the life out of me.

I'm the exact same. I'm so irrational. I worry all the time, about the smallest things. I automatically assume the worst. So something happening to someone I love would be one of my biggest fears.

bluewolf wrote: »

Ditto


I suppose mine would be the kind of paralysation where you're dead to all apperances, but you're actually trapped in your body unable to move a single muscle.

Ugh, that would be awful!

I've a lot of fears, but they're mostly small ones (mice, daddy long legs, wasps). I'm terrified of heights, so falling to my death would be up there. But honestly, I think being raped is my worst fear. Particularly (and this might sound odd) being anally raped. My throat constricts just thinking about it. I read a rape scene in a book recently where she was anally raped, and I honestly thought I'd have to get sick afterwards. I was in bed, and I couldn't get to sleep for hours. I rang my bf at the time nearly in tears, about to ask him to drive 70 miles to be with me. If he hadn't been in the pub, I probably would have.

Pembily

Falling!!! Have an irrational fear of falling due to shocking balance and broken leg twice, second time smashed the ankle Also bugs going into my ears / people / anything touching my ears, I freak out, even a boyfriend kissing me, just go nuts...

Not being able to have kids doesn't bother me cos I know its a possibility and I can't change it but I can adopt!! But alot of friends have that fear...

RacoonQueen

I have an irrational fear of having children/pregnancy. Other peoples children are fine but I have no desire to be saddled with some of my own. :pac:

okioffice84

Alien Abduction
*shudder*

rainbow kirby

Heights and falling in general. There is nothing I hate more than the sensation of falling, it creeps me out so much.

Ickle Magoo

I get chills thinking about something happening to someone I love, or having to watch them suffer in anyway and being powerless to help...

Other than that it's just spiders...eeeek!

Freefaller

I know you're probably all going to laugh at this, but I can't stand the dark I always sleep with the light on and I would move to Sweden in an instant (for the summer) just for the fact of the near total days of sunlight. I also fear really long periods of silence (hence always sleeping with radio/tv on) and ghosts. I guess its growing up in an area with no noise at all, no traffic just unending nights of deafening silence.

Although I am totally unafraid of dying, or drowning or falling. Actually I used to take a sleeping tablet that gave me the sensation of falling down and down and down and I used to take it just for that feeling. I also plan on bunjyjumping, skydiving and can do 360 degree turns in a two seater aircraft.

Novella

Oh, I am scared of all kinds of things. I'm scared that I'll never really be happy. I always wonder, "Is this the best there is?" and I think that maybe in the strive for some kind of perfection, I set my sights too high and will always end up being disappointed.

I'm scared when the phone rings late at night. My heart always starts to beat a little bit too fast, and I think that maybe if I just ignore the call, the news on the other end will go away too. I worry every night before I fall asleep that when I wake up in the morning, things won't be the same anymore.

I must be all sorts of irrational!

I'm not scared of death at all, like a lot of people, I'm terrified of having to live after death. The thoughts of not having certain people in my life... scary isn't the right word at all. Just unimaginable.

iguana

Plane crash. I don't like flying, I don't like it when people I love fly and I'm often half convinced that overhead planes are about to come down.

I used to be absolutely fine with flying until I broke my arm on the last night of a trip. After a night of no sleep, a sore arm and strong pain killers I got on a plane home just after sunset. As we gained altitude my arm started swelling like crazy and I got really lightheaded. I looked out the window and obviously because of our height the sun was back in view and the plane was tilting as it turned in the right direction. Somewhere in my head I was convinced the plane was sideways and I had a minor freak out. I was sobbing and kept repeating that I wanted to get off, it was really awful.

It was such a horrible, helpless feeling. Once you get on a plane and the door closes you have no more options. Your future is utterly out of your hands, you can't change your mind, you can't decide to get off, if something goes wrong it will be something you can't fix. I hate it.

Pythia

Being trapped in a sleeping bag or duvet with no way out. Claustrophobia I suppose. Random one!

Whispered

iguana wrote: »

It was such a horrible, helpless feeling. Once you get on a plane and the door closes you have no more options. Your future is utterly out of your hands, you can't change your mind, you can't decide to get off, if something goes wrong it will be something you can't fix. I hate it.

This, oh my god this. I don't even want to honeymoon because of this fear. Part of me thinks I should just get over it, another part is trying to convince me that I don't NEED to fly anywhere.

I also worry about nothing. I have given myself panic attacks over things that haven't happened. It's a truely terrible way to be. I often wonder if I will ever really enjoy anything or if I will always be worried about whats "next". I make up little scenarios in my head and then get really upset about them. This weekend my OH is in the UK on a business trip. He flew there and is currently out for drinks. He has to fly back tomorrow. I swear I have at least 6 different things that could happen between now and when he gets home in my head. Not going to sleep a wink!!!

DubMedic

Do you have a link to the mentioned thread OP?.

princess-lala

DubMedic wrote: »

Do you have a link to the mentioned thread OP?.

Think its my comment earlier! My dad came across an accident!

The Big Red Button

princess-lala wrote: »

Think its my comment earlier! My dad came across an accident!

Oh did he? I don't think that it was actually, coz it was a fairly old thread from like 2007 or something, I'm not even sure what forum it was in, don't know how I came across it!

Another one of mine is late night phone calls, like Novella said. Or when the doorbell rings at like three in the morning when I'm at home ... I'm the only one who sleeps downstairs, so I should really answer it, but I never do because I'm always certain it'll be the Gardai there with bad news about a family member. So I just leave it for one of my parents to come down and answer ... and, of course, it's always just one of my younger brothers or their friends completely hammered! :rolleyes:

Oh and I think this is the worst one - if I'm babysitting a small baby, I am terrified of SIDS! I make a point of checking them at least every hour, on the hour, just to make sure they're still breathing - and there's always just a second or two where my heart stops because it doesn't look like they are!!! :eek: In one way, I know it's complete paranoia, but at the same time imagine if the worst did happen and you had to tell the parents you hadn't checked on the child in hours! If I'm this bad now, imagine what I'll be like when/if I have my own!

Sephiroth_dude

rebel10 wrote: »

Definately drowning.:eek:

Not the strongest swimmer and freaks me out everytime i think of what it would be like to drown and being completely aware of what was happening, struggeling and not being able to do anything.

+1 on the drowning and being buried alive :eek:

StereoLove

bluewolf wrote: »

Ditto


I suppose mine would be the kind of paralysation where you're dead to all apperances, but you're actually trapped in your body unable to move a single muscle.

Yeah that would be mine too! That and being burried alive!

Wacker

A lighthearted one: calling my boss Dad. The idea terrifies me so much.

phasers

This one is quite precise, but I once saw a TV programme about this woman who was drugged and when she woke up she was in a coffin.

She was paralysed from the drugs and couldn't scream, and she also had a dead body on top of her. The coffin went into the incinerator and she was cremated :eek:

That sort of combines all my worst fears and I actually had nightmares about it for a while after I saw it...

On a weirder note, I am terrified of foxes thanks to The Mighty Boosh.

Vinta81

Failing to graduate from college. I still have no idea what I want to do with my life, I like my course but I've no idea what Iwant to do with it. I just hope the motivation of soon finding out my plan is motivation enough to finish.

iguana

Whispered wrote: »

This, oh my god this. I don't even want to honeymoon because of this fear. Part of me thinks I should just get over it, another part is trying to convince me that I don't NEED to fly anywhere.

I've trained myself with some dis-associative mental exercises for short trips which were fairly regular when I lived in London. For long-haul trips I chicken out and get a small dose of diazepam(valium) from my GP.

chocgirl

I've a really irrational fear of somebody attacking me in my car while I'm driving, I check a million times to make sure I'm locked in and make sure there is nobody hiding on the back seat:o. Even at this if its dark or I'm anywhere remotely rural I still think that somebody may jump out from under the seats or somewhere I can't see and attack me. I know it's pathetic and won't happen but I still can't seem to shake it off.

bigtuna

My mine is silly but people being able to read my mind. Especially customers I'm dealing with.
Imagine if everybody knew what you were thinking. Maybe it's just me?

Chinafoot

Being infertile. Scares the crap out of me. I'm always threatening to get myself tested and see. If I am unabe to have kids I think I'd rather try to deal with it now and not when I've been actively trying to get pregnant.

Claustrophobia is a big one for me too so being buried alive would be one of my worst nightmares.

Dudess

Being trapped in an enclosed space with a rat - I think the terror would cause me to pass out...

Ickle Magoo

Dudess wrote: »

Being trapped in an enclosed space with a rat - I think the terror would cause me to pass out...

I used to have an albino rat called Boris Karloff...he'd answer to name, run up my leg and sit on my shoulder...he'd roll over to get his belly tickled and used to push all his bedding into a heap under his cage door, jump up and pop the door and then go to sleep in my bed. He was the tamest rat I've ever seen, you could put your finger in his mouth and he'd just sit there looking at you with his big pink eyes....

jellie

Clare Bear wrote: »

I never have fears about what happens to me really, it's always something happening to the people I love. I'm such a worrier, I get it from my mother. I hate it. Even if my boyfriend is 20 minutes late I'm freaking out in my head that something has happened to him. I'd never tell him that because it makes me sound like a crazy but the thought of losing any of them scares the life out of me.

im the exact same. i thought i was just mental if someone is a few mins late i start imagining all the horrific things that could have happened. my sister wasnt home by 6 this morning & i had to text her to see where she was cause i wouldnt have been able to go asleep otherwise (she was just still in a friends :rolleyes:)

Whispered

iguana wrote: »

I've trained myself with some dis-associative mental exercises for short trips which were fairly regular when I lived in London. For long-haul trips I chicken out and get a small dose of diazepam(valium) from my GP.

I was in france last year, we got a ferry. I got sick in Cannes and had to either take a 5 hour train, then a 17 hour ferry home. We decided to fly. From the minute the flight was booked until I landed I was lightheaded, fainting, feeling sick and just very vague and out of my mind. I'd have to take something just on the run up to the flight. Actually, I was picking my OH up at the airport yesterday and felt ill just watching the planes taking off. Did somthing happen to cause you to fear flying?

chocgirl wrote: »

I've a really irrational fear of somebody attacking me in my car while I'm driving, I check a million times to make sure I'm locked in and make sure there is nobody hiding on the back seat:o. Even at this if its dark or I'm anywhere remotely rural I still think that somebody may jump out from under the seats or somewhere I can't see and attack me. I know it's pathetic and won't happen but I still can't seem to shake it off.

Ha, I was driving the road between Naas and Kilcullen a few weeks ago with my OH in the car. If anyone knows the road, it's main enough but no lights and very quiet in the middle of the night. There was nobody around and I thought I saw someone run across the road a bit in front of me and mentioned it to my OH. When we passed the spot he looked behind and said "NO WAY!!!" so I glanced in the rear view and the feck let a screamy/growly noise and grabbed me to scare me. It worked better than he hoped. I screamed, threw my hands over my eyes and slammed the breaks. I was a wreck for the rest of the journey. I still get nervous passing the spot. I've never been so scared in my life! (except for my really scary plane journey)

Scarinae

Ickle Magoo wrote: »

I used to have an albino rat called Boris Karloff...he'd answer to name, run up my leg and sit on my shoulder...he'd roll over to get his belly tickled and used to push all his bedding into a heap under his cage door, jump up and pop the door and then go to sleep in my bed. He was the tamest rat I've ever seen, you could put your finger in his mouth and he'd just sit there looking at you with his big pink eyes....

Awwww!

I think one of my biggest fears is definitely rape, the whole idea of it is terrifying *shudder*

I also have this fear of things crawling into my ears. What if a wasp crawled in and stung me, and made me deaf in that ear? Ugh! A few years ago I spent the summer in Honduras, and for a week I stayed with a local family. It was a mud house with a corrugated iron roof, meaning any bugs could crawl in - I would walk in and there would be cockroaches and stuff scuttling all over my bed. I would fall asleep with my sleeping bag pulled tightly around my face so that only my nose was sticking out (unfortunately it was necessary for breathing, or else I would have completely encased myself) Thank god for drawstrings or I would not have been able to sleep there! I stayed in another local house where rats would crawl across my bed, but weirdly I didn't mind that so much, maybe because they were too big to crawl into my ears? I don't know!

I Play Guitar What Have You Done

I HAVE HEARD (IF UNDER 8 DON'T WORRY WON'T HAPPEN) THE DADDY LONG LEGS HAS THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL VENOM! (THE CREEPY LUCKY BASTARDS :mad:)

BUT THEY HAVE NO TEETH TO INJECT THE DEADLY FLUID. (FWW, THAT'S A LIFE SAVER, QUITE LITERALLY)

I F.E.A.R THE UGLY NOVICE FLYERS (LET'S FACE IT) THAT LIVE FOR ONE DAY WILL ONE DAY GROW A PAIR OF BA.... OHH NO SORRY FANGS AND BITE THE **** OUT OF ALL THE CATS, DOGS, DADDY LONGLEGS AND FROGS AND ME AND YOU AND YOU AND WE'LL I WON'T CARE IF HE BITES YOU.:P

Ickle Magoo

MISCONCEPTIONS

There is an urban legend stating that daddy long-legs spiders have the most potent venom of any spider, but that their chelicerae (fangs) are either too small or too weak to puncture human skin; the same legend is also repeated of the harvestman and crane fly, also called "daddy long-legs" in some locales. Indeed, pholcid spiders do have a short fang structure (called uncate). However, brown recluse spiders also have uncate fang structure, but are able to deliver medically significant bites. Either pholcid venom is not toxic to humans or there is a musculature difference between the two arachnids, with recluses, being hunting spiders, possessing stronger muscles for fang penetration.[5]

In 2004, the Discovery Channel show MythBusters set out to test the daddy long-legs myth (Season 1, Episode 13 "Buried in Concrete"). After measuring the spider's fangs at approximately 0.25 mm (average human skin thickness varies from about 0.5mm to 4mm), the show's host was apparently bitten, although the bite produced little more than a mild short-lived burning sensation. This appears to confirm the suspicion that pholcids can penetrate human skin, but that their venom is practically harmless to humans. Additionally, recent research by Alan Van Dyke has shown that pholcid venom is actually relatively weak in its effects on insects as well.[6].

According to the University of California at Riverside, the daddy long-legs spider has never harmed a human and there is no evidence that they are dangerous to humans.[7]

The urban legend ostensibly stems from the fact that the daddy long-legs spider is known to prey upon deadly venomous spiders, such as the redback, a member of the black widow genus Latrodectus.[8] By extrapolation, it was thought that if the daddy long-legs spider could regularly kill a spider capable of delivering fatal bites to humans, then it must be more venomous, and the uncate fangs were accused of prohibiting it from killing people.[9] In reality, it is merely quicker than the redback.[10]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholcidae#Misconceptions

:P oh shouty one...

Scarinae

I Play Guitar What Have You Done wrote: »

I HAVE HEARD (IF UNDER 8 DON'T WORRY WON'T HAPPEN) THE DADDY LONG LEGS HAS THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL VENOM! (THE CREEPY LUCKY BASTARDS :mad:)

BUT THEY HAVE NO TEETH TO INJECT THE DEADLY FLUID. (FWW, THAT'S A LIFE SAVER, QUITE LITERALLY)

I F.E.A.R THE UGLY NOVICE FLYERS (LET'S FACE IT) THAT LIVE FOR ONE DAY WILL ONE DAY GROW A PAIR OF BA.... OHH NO SORRY FANGS AND BITE THE **** OUT OF ALL THE CATS, DOGS, DADDY LONGLEGS AND FROGS AND ME AND YOU AND YOU AND WE'LL I WON'T CARE IF HE BITES YOU.:P

Why are you typing in caps? Anyway, the daddy longlegs thing is a myth

Edit: Ickle Magoo got there first!

candy-gal1

Dying before being world famous - hate the thought of dying and being forgotton about. .


going down on escalators- makes me dizzy and freaks me out lol.


rats, mice, bees, ans wasps - hate hate hate them! theres no way in hell i ever want to touch them!

BumbleB

False expectation appearing real .

Losing my loved ones.

Orlee

My biggest fear is something I'm going to have to deal with some day (providing I don't go first!) but I just can't bare the thoughts of burying my close family .... It really hits home that I take so much for granted

Malari

Fishie wrote: »

I think one of my biggest fears is definitely rape, the whole idea of it is terrifying *shudder*

Me too. That's my worst personal fear.

For other people, I fear someone I love dying. I've never lost anyone I love to death yet, but what's worse is that I know it will happen one day.

metaoblivia

Suffering a catastrophic spinal cord injury that leaves me a quadriplegic. For some reason, I think that I could handle paralysis from the waist down. But not being able to move virtually any part of your body - I think that would be very, very hard to deal with. A similar affliction is when someone suffers a stroke and survives but can't move or speak; they can only blink their eyes. That would be really scary.