What scares you?

[Deleted User]DeadGirlWalking (deleted user)
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What scares you? I mean real, nerve-jangling terror?

For me it's body horror, whether in real life or horror movies. I am particularly bothered by creatures or people with disproportionate facial features, for example grossly oversized (or undersized) eyes or mouths.

I can only assume this is due to The Uncanny Valley.

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  • [Deleted User]creedhands (deleted user)

    Bees, hornets, wasps, etc. Part of my job involves invading their domain from time to time. And I sweat bullets every time. I didn't used to be allergic, but every time I get stung, I become more so.

  • MaullySterlingMaullySterling
    edited April 2021

    The only thing that scared me, only has access to me through divorce court, now.

    By comparison, anything else is a ghost story for children around a campfire.

    Anything that's real, and must be dealt with, is just another chore to be managed. You break it down into smaller jobs, and carefully make your way through it.

  • MandoManiaMandoMania

    My two teen daughters.’

  • pmvinespmvines

    Scared of falling and of drowning . Both are feelings of a total lack of control over the outcome. Oh and of tight spaces I'm very claustrophobic. The thought of being confined to a very small space sends me into a panic. Wow I'm actually pretty anxious now that I think about it ....

  • Maverick07Maverick07
    edited April 2021

    @MaullySterling I think I'll agree with you!
    Speaking of children and fears, I can't help to add the pic about Halloween...! Oh, Dylan...

  • MaullySterlingMaullySterling

    @Maverick07
    Oh, that Dylan.
    LOL

  • [Deleted User]Mmart (deleted user)

    I fear someone touching my belly button.

  • [Deleted User]Mmart (deleted user)

    Oh yah, and DarkLordChungus. lol

  • [Deleted User]DarkLordChungus (deleted user)
    edited April 2021

    You needn't be scared of me, @Mmart. Once you get past the layers of loathing, rage, despondency, and anti-human sentiment, I'm a pretty nice dude.

    Watch out for that @DarrenWalker guy, though. He gives me the heebie-jeebies.

    Edit: Given that I've been summoned, I'll go ahead and contribute to this thread.

    I dislike enclosed spaces, as they make me very uncomfortable. Deep water unnerves me, too. Forests instill a kind of terror in me, as they're an environ that I lack familiarity with; this unfamiliarity, coupled with my imagination, produces a nigh-endless amount of potential terrors—furtive eyes, shadowy shapes darting from behind one tree to another, the thought of sinewy limbs clinging to a branch and waiting to drop onto an unwitting passerby, etc. Logically, I'm aware that monsters don't lurk in the woods, but my mind puts them there all the same.

    Moths scare me, too.

  • [Deleted User]DarrenWalker (deleted user)

    That's just because you know me, @DarkLordChungus.

    So! What scares me for real? Hmmm.... I'd say I'm afraid of revealing my deepest and most easily weaponized weaknesses in public. Yeah.

    They're totally normal fears, though. Completely human.

  • TheFunCartelTheFunCartel

    Farting near a burning candle while cuddling. It would end my little spoon days forever.

  • SitaRoseeSitaRosee

    Spiders :(

  • MaullySterlingMaullySterling
    edited April 2021

    @DarkLordChungus
    fighting urge to post moth memes

    Seriously, though. Your word pictures are wasted here. I'd like to see them translated to screen; tv, film

  • TheFunCartelTheFunCartel

    Steven Segal making another movie

  • AmortentiaAmortentia
    edited April 2021

    Bugs primarily but even more than just bugs. Things like bees, hornets, spiders, roaches, ladybugs, butterflies, snakes, etc. I only like fake ladybugs, bees, and butterflies...like I've earrings of them so like that is fine. But real no...

  • TheFunCartelTheFunCartel

    Defective birth control

  • [Deleted User]squeakytoy (deleted user)

    If I ranked some of the things I'm most afraid of:

    1. Some of my exes
    2. Catcallers
    3. Being homeless
    4. Getting seriously injured or killed (I'm unreasonably vigilant)
    5. Moths

    That's two for moths. SO DON'T YOU DARE POST MOTH PICS @MaullySterling !

  • TheFunCartelTheFunCartel
    edited April 2021
    1. Zipper accidents like the one in Something About Mary
    2. Race riots (it is why I avoid speedways, horse tracks, and greyhound tracks)
    3. Cereal killers (I love my breakfast)
    4. Door-to-door Jehovahs Witnesses disguised as Mormons
    5. Mormons disguised as Jehovah’s Witnesses
    6. Hidden cameras inside toilets
    7. Ring doorbells that are silent
    8. Getting high off next day air deliveries (the oxygen molecules have not fully committed)
    9. Friends named Brutus with political aspirations
    10. Full frontal nudity because it sounds like the other side is half-assed.
    11. Jell-O shots (not convinced they work against the flu or Covid)
    12. Social media because I find reporters annoying
    13. Fears because I am afraid of them
    14. Religion because who recycled the ligion?
    15. Big Macs because I am not a cannibal and I don’t know how his family feels about it.
  • pmvinespmvines

    @FunCartel I'd rather see him busy making movies . A bored Segal is a dangerous Segal

  • TheFunCartelTheFunCartel

    @pmvines point taken

  • MaullySterlingMaullySterling
    edited April 2021

    @squeakytoy
    LAMP!

    @FunCartel
    giggling

  • [Deleted User]DeadGirlWalking (deleted user)
    edited April 2021

    @squeakytoy that's three for moths if you count @Amortentia 's generalised bug fear.

  • [Deleted User]DeadGirlWalking (deleted user)

    Am I the only one that is scared of body horror type stuff? I mean like Slenderman, Momo, Jeff The Killer etc.

  • SideonSideon

    @BuggleBear - I can't do horror shows. Nada. What I CAN do is read the movie wiki's plot and synopsis and know them that way, but I can't watch horror or I'm subjected to a week of nightmares and flashbacks, and sleeping with the light on.

    What scares me?

    • Ignorance, especially willful ignorance.
    • Agreeing with @FunCartel - zippers can be terrifying.
    • And agreeing with @pmvines re: falling and drowning, both being near-death experiences for me, plus, gravity hates me.
  • DarkDoula2021DarkDoula2021
    edited April 2021

    mean people scare me. I am dark, I used to be a big door mat and pushover,
    not no more,

    and I am a nice person. I am cute, clean and I just was a late bloomer, i am sweet and naive, but now, i am going thru a divorce from an abusive man, a cruel man, as dark as i am, iI am not cruel. i am humane. civil and kind , and loving. mean people scare me, they make nice sweet people like me turn into Reported and reviewed and edited for language. [-Sid]

  • MaullySterlingMaullySterling
    edited April 2021

    @DarkDoula2021
    Dark humour is a trauma response.
    You're in good company.
    My ex is a peach, too

  • [Deleted User]squeakytoy (deleted user)

    @Sideon Agreed on the horror movies! I can't do them, full stop. The last time I watched one was over 20 years ago. It gave me regular nightmares for almost two years, and my subconscious still holds onto pieces of it to spice up the occasional bad dream. Never again!

  • UKGuyUKGuy
    edited April 2021

    I'm not fond of dentists or needles. Looking over the edge of a high cliff that has no guard-rail. Rollercoasters. Wild animals with big claws or long sharp teeth.

  • [Deleted User]malogy (deleted user)

    The scariest thing I have experienced in my life was at around 11:30. It was close to the Fourth of July so it was a beautiful night! It was my bro, a great friend, and myself. We decided to just go for a stroll. We walked a couple miles up the road to a creepy as heck shed that could collapse at any time. Creepy things were happening that whole walk. But then something bizarre happened. Someone was driving towards us, and they put on their brights, crossed over to our lane and positioned their car to block us off! My brother and I froze! I was terrified! Thankfully my friend is a bigger guy, and he cranked his arm back as he walked right up to the driver side door. He was ready to knock the guy flat out!!! The guy drove off after that! I have never felt so threatened! It was the first time I really hated someone! It took me months to not get really angry when I would think about it! To this day I don’t know what that was about!

    Other than that, crocodiles and alligators freak me out!!!!! I don’t even like seeing them in the zoo!!!

  • [Deleted User]Rachelina (deleted user)

    Being alone

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