Chitchat What frightens you the most?

[heartshapedsprinkles]

This is a tough one for me to answer, because I'm afraid of so many things, heh. Spiders, heights, dark places, small places, the horror genre in its entirety, the ocean, even my own dang shadow sometimes... My list is truly endless.

Being completely and utterly alone though. I think that frightens me the most.

 

[marshmarrow]

Being in a state where I'm conscious, but I can't move or feel myself moving. Just basically being in a vegetable state is my greatest fear. Otherwise, I'm not afraid of anything that's living or naturally-occurring.

 

[Abendrot]

One day, I'm going to die. That's a fact. Can’t be avoided. I don’t know when it will happen, but it will. Will I die in pain? Terrifying. Will I know i’m dying when it happens? Terrifying.

When I think of this it also spirals into thoughts of what happens next. Do we just not exist? That’s terrifying. Does heaven and hell exist instead? Also terrifying.

 

[heartshapedsprinkles]

Being in a state where I'm conscious, but I can't move or feel myself moving. Just basically being in a vegetable state is my greatest fear. Otherwise, I'm not afraid of anything that's living or naturally-occurring.

That is definitely terrifying to think about. I didn't even realize it was a thing until I saw an episode of House on it years ago and discovered a new fear.

 

[heartshapedsprinkles]

One day, I'm going to die. That's a fact. Can’t be avoided. I don’t know when it will happen, but it will. Will I die in pain? Terrifying. Will I know i’m dying when it happens? Terrifying.

When I think of this it also spirals into thoughts of what happens next. Do we just not exist? That’s terrifying. Does heaven and hell exist instead? Also terrifying.

Oh gosh, that spiral downwards when you're thinking about your own mortality is never fun. For me, I start to worry about everyone I'd be leaving behind, especially my partner. I'm scared for myself too, but... I don't really believe in an afterlife, so I just imagine it'll be like before I was born, which isn't so scary, objectively speaking.

 

[Unchosen]

The oldest and strongest human emotion is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is the fear of the unknown.

 

[MechanicalHeart]

I seem to have lost that feeling somewhere along the way. Most of my responses can be grouped as variations of the uninterested sigh nowadays.

 

[heartshapedsprinkles]

The oldest and strongest human emotion is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is the fear of the unknown.

This rings true to me in a lot of ways, too. Anxiety disorders make you conjur up and fear just 'bout every unknown possiblity in any given situation. The not knowing and the "what-ifs" are often worse than reality, in my experience.

 

[heartshapedsprinkles]

I seem to have lost that feeling somewhere along the way. Most of my responses can be grouped as variations of the uninterested sigh nowadays.

I'm so sorry that's happened. (Unless that's something that doesn't bother you, of course.)

Apathy can be its own type of painful. How are you?

 

[Jean Otus]

As a historian, I'm most afraid of people who try to bend history to a twisted political goal. I have to turn my brain off sometimes because you start to see it everywhere, in movies, in print, in RPs...

 

[MechanicalHeart]

I'm so sorry that's happened. (Unless that's something that doesn't bother you, of course.)

Apathy can be its own type of painful. How are you?

I'm neutral towards my disposition. I suppose that equates to being fine with it?

 

[Sinnama]

I'm frightened that a point in my life will come where I can't live it to the fullest.

 

[Daisie]

vegetable state

I'm afraid of becoming a broccoli

 

[marshmarrow]

I'm afraid of becoming a broccoli

That is equally frightening.

 

[duegxybus]

White horses, and only white horses. I feel nothing if I see a horse of any other color, but seeing a white horse makes me want to throw up and cry.

Other fears that make more sense than white horses but were at one point at the top of my list:
-Getting punched. I've been punched in the face before, and really hard too. It did make me realize I'm not untouchable just because I'm a girl, and that taking a hit is easier said than done. Even though it's been a while, I'd hate to have a repeat experience.
-Getting shot or stabbed. Not because it would hurt, but because recovery is a long and expensive road that sometimes isn't ever completed.
-Losing my ability to walk/talk/becoming a vegetable. I had a very shitty migraine a while ago and simply couldn't speak. I can't imagine living like that forever.
-Being burned alive.

UPDATE: I'm also afraid of becoming irrelevant or obsolete.

 

[Tove]

Being left behind.

 

[Chaishi]

Grasshoppers.

Let me give you a backstory for the setting.

Me being a mere child, just 12 years old and thinking of nothing important while running around, playing games, doing chores. One time my uncle in our summer house told me to hand out invitations for the apartment meeting and as a child I took the task as a game ofcourse. Well you see this is when everything started, there were a chinese family recently moved in for summer at the top floor and as tasked I have gone to their door, knocked a couple of times.

Then I noticed there, on the door, is a grasshopper. An enormous one. So big that at first I thought that was legit a toy and not real. Oh boy was I wrong. There is a certain stereotype that says most of the asian people, especially the Chinese eats all kinds of bugs. In that moment my childish mind remembered and I started to feel cold. Chill ran through my backbone and I stared that hella big bug with dead eyes.

When it moved one of it's legs, I was literally running for my life. I threw rest of the papers there, told lies to my uncle just to protect my pride. That is why I'm mostly disturbed and frightened by grasshoppers.

 

[TheSunVanished]

PewDiePie losing his throne on Number 1 most subscribed YouTube channel to T-Series. #SavePewds

 

[poison goth]

Grasshoppers.

Let me give you a backstory for the setting.

Me being a mere child, just 12 years old and thinking of nothing important while running around, playing games, doing chores. One time my uncle in our summer house told me to hand out invitations for the apartment meeting and as a child I took the task as a game ofcourse. Well you see this is when everything started, there were a chinese family recently moved in for summer at the top floor and as tasked I have gone to their door, knocked a couple of times.

Then I noticed there, on the door, is a grasshopper. An enormous one. So big that at first I thought that was legit a toy and not real. Oh boy was I wrong. There is a certain stereotype that says most of the asian people, especially the Chinese eats all kinds of bugs. In that moment my childish mind remembered and I started to feel cold. Chill ran through my backbone and I stared that hella big bug with dead eyes.

When it moved one of it's legs, I was literally running for my life. I threw rest of the papers there, told lies to my uncle just to protect my pride. That is why I'm mostly disturbed and frightened by grasshoppers.

Thestruggleisreal
I screamed really loudly when I was little because a grasshopper landed on my bike.
My fear would be........ Lemmie see.
I hate being in a room with a person I don't know. And huge dark rooms. And dying. And tooth crowns. And cavities. But probably huge dark rooms since you don't know what's inside- wait.
Nevermind, black holes. That's it.

 

[Windsock]

Food that's healthy for me.

 

[Yunalescaa]

I have a lot of fears that I know how to handle because I can just avoid them. I'm terrified of heights, so I just don't go on tall structures anymore.

But needles? Can't avoid them. I've been skipping around my blood panel work for two years now because the thought of someone poking me makes me wanna throw up. I can't stand the pain, can't stand looking at them, can't stand watching people get poked. Ugh, makes me nauseous just thinking about it.

 

[elextrified]

creepy crawlers & that “have you seen this man in your dreams?” thing. both have induced proper panic attacks, eugh.

 

[AnimeGenork]

I hate thinking about dying too much, because it spirals into panicking over nothing. So that scares me, I guess.

Most of all, though, I'm afraid of my friends forgetting about me and leaving me behind.

Also, rabid animals.

 

[The Mad Queen]

To quote Game of Thrones:
"Death is the enemy, the first enemy and the last."
"But we all die."
"The enemy always wins, and we still need to fight him."

I'm young, got at least another forty years left on this earth so I guess I'm not so much afraid of death but more afraid of dying before my time. I have so much I want to do, and even more I need to do before death comes knocking. Dying alone is a big fear too.
I'm frightened of the world changing in certain ways. The far-right is on the rise, and that's pretty worrisome for somebody like me given how a lot of them see me. That's not even mentioning parts of the left-wing who see me the same way, who are also on the rise.

This may be controversial, but given how my current job involves physical labour, and how the disabled are treated in my country a big fear of mine is being in an accident or getting an illness that means I can't do my job anymore. Due to the numerous amount of health problems in my family, I can only do my current job for another ten to fifteen years before my body just flat-out says no. Hopefully by that stage I'll be in the admin position for my line of work and won't have to worry about the physical side.
Controversial, I know but my country isn't kind to the disabled. To say they are treated poorly would be a massive understatement. My country already hates me for a good number of other reasons and I'd rather not add being physically disabled (already have multiple conditions that list me as disabled, but not physically) to the list.

Secrets getting out. That's a big one. I'm handling coming out like Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi in The Thick of It), putting the lid on it and making sure the process is done right. If it goes wrong I stand a chance at losing my job, multiple family members and losing out on a lot of money (being written out of wills) in the long run.

Very strong language in this clip:

 

[Idea]

I am a bit of a coward, so I tend to have very general fears- I am afraid of disease (especially Alzheimers) and pain mostly.

One of the things that frightens me the most though is my own imagination. I suffer from a phenomenon known as "call of the void" (yes, that is the actual name of the thing). Basically lapses where, for instance, if you're near a cliff you may feel the urge to jump or imagine what it would be like to jump. Or holding a knife and my brain pictures what it would be like if I cut myself on it. Or being on a bus and imaging it crashing into something.

The kicker here is that it happens randomly and it feels way too real to me. I have a strong imagination so I get really immersed for those two seconds spent imagining the scenario in question, without my control. So I don't feel like I just got stabbed, but I still end up scared shitless.