Your biggest fear?

[BloodRet]

Possums, ever since one jumped up onto me and clung onto my tee when I was young after stirring the poor thing up. Scared they'll launch themselves off a tree when I walk below one so I either have to re-route or sprint past with my hands covering my head, and I probably look like an utter ****** in that instance.

Few other cliches like drowning and snakes scare the shit out of me too.

 

[Roobs321]

Spiders - as per everybody sensible.

As I get older, I notice my fear of heights has really ramped up. Flying is fine - but standing anywhere near a cliff, charlifts are terrifying, but the worst, THE WORST - is watching other people around heights.. I think it's because I have no control over what they are doing, and I can only see bad things happening. Wife or kids standing near an edge is probably the most alarming.

I cannot watch those videos of people climbing the radio towers etc.

I'm like this when injury prone people I care about are chopping with large knives. Both my brothers have had serious injuries to their fingers when I was the only person around to help. They now use their proximity with knives as a way to frighten me, knowing what effect if has on me.

 

[peternorth]

Waking up to paralysis or locked-in syndrome would be absolutely spine-chilling, but you'd get over it eventually. Similarly, as someone who lives alone, if I woke up during the night and saw someone standing there, I'd just about have a heart attack. Same with in the shower. There is just something about that psychological vulnerability, and its the reason why horror films love the bedroom at night and the bathroom. When you live alone in an inaccessible, high rise apartment, the impossibility of the situation just amplifies the horror.

Also not a big fan of snakes (but not to the point where it would stop me going into thick grass or bush), and go through phases when public speaking is difficult (depending on the context).

But as a kid that did a lot of nippers and pool swimming, I had to work through it quickly. Would not bother me in the slightest nowadays, although I'm sure if I was alone in open water for an extended period of time (stranded at sea), that I would have to keep myself in check and stop my imagination from running wild.

 

[peternorth]

similar to what roobs eluded to - paralysis. specifically undergoing an operation, and under anesthetic, however being able to hear and feel everything. ugghh!!!!!!!

 

[BALKAN]

Once saw somebody post on Reddit - Sleep paralysis & cluster headaches at the same time. That is the stuff of nightmares.

 

[TheFreshBanana]

What are cluster headaches?

I get sleep paralysis probably once a month.

 

[BALKAN]

What are cluster headaches?
.

Meant to be among the most painful things you can experience.
There's a few videos out there of people experiencing them and they are very disturbing.
Check out this Reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/26fwnl/woman_films_herself_having_a_cluster_headache/

 

[Tiger Toffee]

1. Heights and falling from them, never had a problem until my then 4yo son decided to stand on the concrete holding onto the steel barriers on the top deck of the mcg, frightened the shit out of me to the point that I get real nervous being up high now, that was 5 years ago and I only take him to vfl games now.

2. Tight spaces and being trapped, hasn't happened to me but the thought horrifies me.

3. On a lighter note, the Mickey Mouse Fun Wheel at California Adventure Park, that ride can get ****ed, for those who haven't been, the carriage slides down a rail and rocks back and forth at different points of the ride, now couple that with my heights and falling fear.

 

[JHF1870]

Death
Needles
Dumb and I'm working on it: rejection, failure.

 

[mojito]

It's been said, but my biggest fear is my life coming to nowt.

 

[GROTTO]

The Power winning the flag in 2014.

 

[JHF1870]

The Power winning the flag in 2014.

You need to face your fears.

 

[Chris_1493]

My two worst fears, however silly it may sound, are needles and spiders. Even as an adult, needles still freak me out. I used to be a little afraid of heights as a kid, but I got past it before too long.

 

[Punchy Bassett]

Spiders **** em getting better with it but still hate em

Needles just something about the concept of having a metal spike shoved into me

Heights which means I don't like flying either oddly enough though I've been bungy jumping!

 

[GROTTO]

You need to face your fears.

Nah Im confident Freo will "tear you apart" in about 10 days time.

 

[GROTTO]

In all seriousness, floods and mice scare me. A toilet overflowing actually scares me. Not sure how I would handle a Tsunami. Yes I can swim and swim well too.

Mice and rats have always scared the f* out of me, when I was a young kid in my parents old house, we used to being trapping mice all the time and I think something from those days has led me to be fearful of them.

 

[JHF1870]

Nah Im confident Freo will "tear you apart" in about 10 days time.

I'm telling you now. Freo will beat Sydney. Freo are really good.

 

[4evablues]

 

[Freofalcon]

Not being able to provide for my children. Most other fears in life are just a case of mind over matter.

 

[The Coup]

Not being able to provide for my children. Most other fears in life are just a case of mind over matter.

So your fear is capitalism.

Mine too. Because I'm worried its going to literally make the world uninhabitable for us due to us overusing the place and treating it like a sewer just for money.

 

[Freofalcon]

So your fear is capitalism.

Mine too. Because I'm worried its going to literally make the world uninhabitable for us due to us overusing the place and treating it like a sewer just for money.

No. The fear that I may not be able to feed and clothe my kids for whatever reason is not a fear of capitalism. I may have an accident one day and that ability will be taken away from me.

Fair dinkum, people like you are just too much.

 

[The Coup]

No. The fear that I may not be able to feed and clothe my kids for whatever reason is not a fear of capitalism. I may have an accident one day and that ability will be taken away from me.

Fair dinkum, people like you are just too much.

That is a fear that only exists in capitalism though. In a society that lets people get injured and then starve, instead of being provided for.

You might not recognise it, but that is your only fear. And that fear exists precisely so you'll have the opinion you're presenting in this post.

 

[pekay-norwest]

Growing old, mainly, but mental illness, dementia, alzheimers.

I did a lot of stupid shit in my teens/20s, wasted my brain, coupled with numerous concussions from footy as well, then going out and hitting the tins/hong kongs afterwards.

Now doing TAFE and my learning capacity is a little slow, takes me a while to absorb new info, which is a worry. And my nan suffered from ALZ, watching that develop was awful.

And now, being alone. I can't be without the cheese for more than a day. Never thought that would happen.

 

[the bee sharps]

walking under bridges or freeway overpasses