I'm afraid of the usual things (spiders, clowns, Havoc cornering me in a dark alley, etc.)

But I do have this strange ability to be afraid of anything once I've heard of it.

For example, I'm not afraid of zombies, because common sense says they don't exist. But after reading the excellent World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks (author of The Zombie Survival Guide), I couldn't sleep all night. My mind was utterly convinced that any moment a member of the undead would slouch into my room (which, coincedentaly, is in my basement, only one exit, and no potentially deadly weapons in it) and kill me.

I'm probably being a pussy over nothing, but it just freaked me out.

I had the same problem with the horrible Doom movie, it kept me up all night.

I wish I had nerves of steel sometimes.

And for those who have paid attention to my post, "That's why I don't watch horror movies", ^ - walking proof

I'm now afraid of rats, thanks to the disection in biology.

I have issues about going to sleep in pitch-black darkness. I need a little light so I can see that there are no axe-murderers (or snakes) creeping up on me.

I also get worried if I'm going to sleep with earplugs in because I wouldn't be able to hear any threats approaching. In my old place, I used to lock the door if I had earplugs in.

I completely agree with you on the sleeping in pitch-blackness, mainly because I'm a wussie.

*sigh*

I guess the only reason I'm not afraid to sleep in pitch-black darkness and suspect axe-murderers (as you put it) lurking behind every corner is because I have this ability to come up with a logical reason for almost everything that happens. And, likewise, with logical reasons for why something can't possibly happen.

I'm the same way. My fears consist of things that just might happen. For example, I'm afraid that whatever plane I'm on will go down. Ever since I saw a news report of a plane crash when I was boy, I've had this fear. The fact that I'm scared of heights doesn't help with this either :p

Get an aisle seat then :p
Well, heights don't bother me at all, and I actually manage to keep my mind off the 0.000000000001% chance that the plane will explode by complaining about every little thing I find. Like the food being mostly salad. Or one of the toilets being out of order. Or the radio not reading my favourite radio station. Talking to the person next to you is good too :D

I've had an aisle seat before, and that didn't help at all. Plus, the last time I was on a plane, I was talking to my brother the entire time, and I still found myself terrified (thanks for the advice though :)). I really don't know what it is. I guess I might have just seen too many tragedies involving planes. If anything, I'd rather just not get on one at all for the rest of my life :p

That was unpleasant...

Ack, I can understand that completely. The most I've ever disected was a worm in marine biology.

One day, that'll be me.

They won't let us touch the smelly preserves.

Rats and worms? Pah! We disected cows eyes and hearts in my day!

...but that's nothing to be proud of. -_- Twas hidjuice.

Ewwww........

The most I ever dissected was a frog, a really long time ago, and it sucked cause mine was a female frog and it was full of eggs, and it was really hard to complete the packet we had to do on the dissection.
Oh, and unless you count cooking fish. That, too, involves removal of the viscera.

Eww! Well I was MADE to go to Science club once and it just happened to be the time when they were disecting rats, that freaky preservative thingy stung the eyes, mouth and nose like mad, I never went again...

dammit! The closest thing I got to dissecting anything was when I was poking one of my snails with a sewing needle, and I finally got the whole thing out of the shell. All the other times I split the head in half and the thing just melted like a slig! That's the last time I put the tank near the tv.

Wow, that's not too sadistic.

Which is why I believe and fear the fact that almost everyone around me is an idiot, a Flood parisite victim, about to have an alien pop thier chest, a believer in over commercialization, a microsoft victim, or one of those wolf demons who are stalking me. Not to metion the metroid hatchery that just planted itself in the backyard last summer. So, yeah, I can get a little sadistic with small, non vocal creatures. Okay, I admit, the mummy of the frog in the abandoned tank is my pet frog....was. I still hate spiders.

I am the cowardly lion when it comes to fears. Most of them are irrational fears and I shouldn't be scared. I don't know why I'm scared of most things. I will only list a few:

Fear of Dying and Death- I'm scared of dying slowly and I'm scared of what happens after you die and what happens to your soul and all that stuff.

Fear of the Dark- This fear has been with me since I was young. I've been trying to conquer it without success. I am such a baby but what can you do?

Fear of Ghosts- Well, not all ghosts. Just the thought of meeting an evil ghost or something like that.

The list goes on. But I'm not going to bore you with all of them.

Well, actually your fears are quite common and are fairly logical fears. Now if one were afraid of, say, empty soda cans, then I'd say their fear is a little irrational.

I'm not at all scared of dying for some reason. Or death too, for that matter. I guess one of the good things religion does is make you less afraid of death.

And I don't believe in ghosts. I'm not superstitious at all for some reason. And my secret weapon against irrational fears is logic. There's no real explanation about why 'ghosts' should appear, and I guess the people who claim to have seen them either:

a)would love the '15 minutes of fame'
b)were on some sort of hallucinogen or
c)were sleep-deprived for too long.

And I wonder why almost no one who is sane and doesn't believe in ghosts has ever claimed to have seen them...

I'm afraid of bein alone, in a house at night. I guess most people have that fear, if not, then... good for them. :p

Because if they saw something that had the slightest chance of being somewhat ghostlike, they'd simply prove it as something else. And if they said they saw a ghost, they wouldn't really be "un-believing" now would they? ;)

Something I am not really scared of, but paranoid about is the slamming of doors. I can't stand to have a door slam whilst I'm in the house. It annoys me and weirds me out if I don't know what slammed it.

I'm not scared of death either, for some odd reason. In my opinion, it'd be pointless to fear death, since we all have to face it someday.

I myself have just faced and conquered my fear of flying. Now I don't even know why I feared it in the first place :p.

I have 3 "phobias" that are unavoidibly (sp?) combined at night.I'm afraid of being alone, the dark, and silence.

My solution to this problem: A dim multicolor nightlight, my 4 cats sleeping in the room with me, my lovely spider pendant next to me on my nightstand, and a fan to break the silence with its constant..uhh...windy sound. :D

I like the dark because no one can see what I'm doing :p

I wonder... Skillya, what do you do in the dark? :D :p

You never want to know. :nonono:

I like the dark as well. It relaxes me :).

I'm terrified of deep water. I nearly drowned in a swimming pool and nobody helped me...well, the lifeguard obviously but you get the idea.

I also don't like clowns after watching that film 'It'. Lately, their general appearance and behaviour just scares the crap out of me.

I used to have a fear of beards, but I'm over that now thanks to puberty. And I am clean shaven ¬ ¬'