so what are you scared of..... - Page 3

ZTAMich · #31 07-06-2005, 04:16 PM

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Originally posted by MaMaBuddha
i am scared to death of falling on the subway tracks in NYC. people walk so close to the edge that it kills me. i swear they are gonna fall.

i am also scared of rodents and pigeons. the pigeons in NYC fly might low. i hit one one day driving to work and i was like "SCORE 10 points!!!!"

tell us what you are afraid of.

My NYC fear is falling thru those sidewalk basement hatches.
My other fears include super deep water, diving boards and pitch black darkness.

Dionysus · #32 07-06-2005, 04:22 PM

VOMITING

Death is second.

Yes, I'm that scared of vomiting - me doing it or anyone else. How am I going to have kids?

ms_gwyn · #33 07-06-2005, 04:52 PM

I know that I am not of afraid of death, now DYING that is a completely different issue, that may be my greatest fear, but I have to do some soul searching to really find out my greatest fear.

Spiders are just unnatural, anything with more 4 legs to me are unnatural and spiders, man YUCK! Funny thing, I really like the movie arachnaphobia, but someone has to be near me in order to watch it. Most bugs creep me out.

I am afraid of heights, I have a super sensitive stomach (it drops in elevators), but I MUST have a window seat on airplanes (in my mind its different).

On the foods, I don't like tomatos, but their by-products like sauce are good. It is getting to the point (and I noticed this today with my lunch, which I couldn't eat) cut-up tomatoes COMPLETELY freak me out, get them away from me, yuck!

kddani · #34 07-06-2005, 04:58 PM

people who use tOgGlEcAsE and netspeak... they scare me.

Also I have a weird fear of birds that developed at the 2001 KD convention when I was at Disney. I swear, the birds kept on flying out of the trees at my head and i've had this weird ass phobia ever since.

Also very claustrophobic when driving... I HATE having a truck on one side and a barrier on the other.

Susan_Renee · #35 07-06-2005, 06:04 PM

heights
and
spending the rest of my life alone

christiangirl · #36 07-06-2005, 06:16 PM

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Originally posted by ms_gwyn
Spides are just unnatural, anything with more 4 legs to me are unnatural and spiders, man YUCK!

I was just thinking about that yesterday! I can't even look at mounds of things with too many legs, seeing them all wiggling at once sends me straight over the edge (like ant hills)! If it doesn't look right, I can't take it, even if I'm not scared of that particular bug (and I'm not scared of bugs really).

Has anyone ever acquired a fear, like you weren't scared of it until you met someone who was? Like I was never scared of clowns till I got to college and all the girls in my dorms would tell me horror stories of the day they became scared of clowns, now you'd think I'm Chuckie from Rugrats the way I act around pictures of clowns! Same with spiders, they were never a big deal until I met my best friend, who's scared of them. Then, suddenly soooo much was wrong with them...

sageofages · #37 07-06-2005, 06:17 PM

I have some that kind of sneak up on me depending on the moment...

Like the inability to swim in deep open water following the viewing of Jaws.....(even lake water!)

BUT...for my consistent fears..

I CAN NOT sleep with the closet door open. It must be latched and the light inside MUST be off. I will make Mr Sageofages get up and close it if he leaves it open before coming to bed. I invariably have scary dreams when I sleep with the door open.

Being underground. I never really liked tunnels etc. Basements are borderline. When Mr Sageofages and I were dating he took me too a "wild cave" near Indiana University....I can simply say NEVER AGAIN AS LONG AS I LIVE. I dislike being underground so much, my family is instructed that I am to be cremated and scattered ABOVE ground. shudder!

Having to bury one of my children. (no embellishment necessary)

Having to bury Mr Sageofages (we can close enough to that in May that I know it is still a major fear...ptsd)

I really don't like heights very much as well.

AGDee · #38 07-06-2005, 08:14 PM

bats (since I had one in my house many years ago)

bridges (driving over them)

tornados .. this one is weird. I'm not as afraid of them as I used to be. I used to have recurrent tornado dreams that were absolutely terrifying. I used to have night terrors too about monsters that made me afraid of the basement and windows in my parents' house. In my own house now, those fears have gone away.

dying alone on a Friday night.. this one too is very strange and it started when I was really really sick with Crohn's but they didn't know what I was sick from yet. I was dizzy and weak all the time and was afraid I'd pass out and die while home alone on Friday night and nobody would know anything was wrong until I didn't show up to work on Monday. Cognitively, this makes no sense to me, because who cares what happens with my body after I'm dead? Emotionally though, this seems like a terrible thought. Which leads me to my last one...

Going to my mom's house and finding her dead. Twice in the last few months I've gotten phone calls from friends/family of my mom's saying that they haven't been able to reach her and I have had to try to track her down. Since she's homebound, she should always be there to answer the phone so people freak out if she doesn't answer right away. Anyway, that's probably my most rational fear because it's understandable to worry about a sick parent that way.

Dee

ETA: Often, like a few times a week, as I'm falling asleep, I have this dream like vision that I'm driving and the car in front of me stops really fast. I can barely stop in time and my eyes pop open instead of finding out whether I crash or not. It's always just as I'm drifting off to sleep and it wakes me up with a start so I have a hard time falling back to sleep again because I'm so alert then.

ADPi Conniebama · #39 07-06-2005, 08:36 PM

OK I am petrified of spiders - I blame my brother for my fear of bugs in general, because, we use to have a pool, and he use to shake the basket, that you use to skim the pool with, over my head if I was in the pool while he was skimming it. Little ones, big ones, furry ones, it doesnt make a difference they are all evil.

But, I think my most unusual, irrational fear is of a closed shower curtain. I alway, ALWAYs, look behind the curtain. Whether I am at home or at someone elses house. I am laughing as I type this because I didnt even get scared watching psycho. But, something must have happened to me at some point to install this fear in me.

cashmoney · #40 07-06-2005, 08:46 PM

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Originally posted by MaMaBuddha
tell us what you are afraid of.

Failing in life. Its what drives me to succeed.