Fears and Phobias (V2)
 

Self-explanatory.

Just tell us what fears, phobias, or mental roughs you have.

Perfect for ABM to repeat his problem in the official thread.

Drowning, my number one fear of all time.

Heights, my second biggest fear of all time. Strangely enough I don't have this fear at all if there's some sort of enclosement, like a small fence or whatever. Put me on the roof of a tall building with a barrier around it and I'm fine and enjoying the view. Take away the barrier though and I'll be scared to death, even if there's 40 feet between where I'm standing and the edge. It's really weird.

I admit to being afraid of heights, although I don't show that in public. For some reason all my fears shut off.

Another thing I have a problem with is styroafoam - and that packaging popcorn. I HATE. That stuff. I can't touch it. I hate the sound it makes.

My cousin has a strange one - cotton. She hates cotton like I hate popcorn packaging. xD

I'm afraid of large, dangerous animals, knives, fire, and bugs.

Needles is about it for me.

Alcar...

Certain sounds and vibrations, like some heavy, particularly resonating metal objects scrapes across hard concrete slabs, or the abrasion of a charcoal pencil in my hand across a page. It's not a fear, it's an absolute revulsion, it's extremely unpleasant. These sounds and reverberations chill me to my bone and send me scampering, it's like my whole body screams "shit! let's get out of here!"

PROTIP: these are the secrets to an effective BM-Away! device.

The concept of something that can eat planets.

Greys.

That is rather chilling, isn't it? We have no defense against the destruction of our homeworld, and the Earth is the thing I care about most in the universe (along with our sun and moon, I suppose). It's horrifying.



Okay, here's a proper fear: the concept of the Other Gods and the Great Old Ones of the Cthulhu mythos. back when I first saw the original Cloverfield trailer, the idea that it might be Cthulhu (ridiculous, I know- he's sleeping in the Pacific, not the Atlantic) risen and returned to claim what is his from we pathetic mortals, made it genuinely chilling.

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/art/cthulhu02.jpg
CTHULHU FTAGHN

No, that does not scare me at all. Yet somehow, this does


Not really scared, but is so repulsive in every way, from the form to the artist's style, that I become fascinated by the concept and horrified by it as much as I was for vampires as a child. Though it doesn't keep me up at night like it might once have.

Death scares me, not just the act of dying but death itself, this is rather compounded by the fact that reason has turned me into a soulless agnostic D: I miss the good old happy days of ignorance.

Also pain, vomit and large crowds, or even small crowds, I generally dislike being with more than two other people.

Fat Cthulhu is fat. Plus, I wasn't trying to scare you, I just found an excuse to post a cthulhu pic on the forums.

Anonyman's avatar. (Cone-head pimp-lords FTL!!!)
Also, the admins and pretty much 'Employee Lounge' as a whole.

Actually pain is my big fear. Not at all concerned about dying but can't stand the thought of big-time pain. This results on me being unforgivably squeamish; I couldn't watch 'Shaun of the Dead' after that first zombie got impaled on the washing-line stand, and when we watched the opening scene of 'Saving Private Ryan' in school once I almost fainted (and got to go home for the rest of the day! Whee!!! :D)

I know, I was just expanding on my idea. Those other, sleek, cool Cthulhus look like they could actually exist, like functional organisms. This one is a horrible bloated monstrosity, that in my mind is a lot closer to the unimaginable horror of the true concept of Cthulhu as described by Lovecraft, oh which to look upo it is to lose one's mind, and that such beings are hidden from us is the one mercy we are afforded in this universe. So far.

It is quite impossible for the human mind to imagine death and the true end of consciousness. We can understand the concept, but the fact is entirely outside of our experience, for obvious reasons.

I dislike crowds as well. Usually I'm fine with it, but when the hordes seem to move as one, close in on me and prevent me from getting on my way, I just want to escape, and of course I can't, and I get very distressed.

My British stoicism keeps it all hidden from sight, however.

What scares me about it is that it is so completely unnatural it has wings. What possible use could a giant sea god have for wings like that. It's against nature, I say!!

CTHULHU reminds me of what would happen if a slig and a glukkon had babies and ... somehow stuck a dragon in there. I think he looks cute! :3 <333 I'd hug one of his uh. Tentacles before I was swallowed.

Greys fascinate me, as does all ideas of extra-terrestrial life. I fear them only in my dreams for some reason.

He's not really a sea God, though his associated element is indeed water. His great city Ry'leh is simply sunk beneath the waves like Atlantis, and he sleeps inside, dead, but only asleep. He'll awake when "the stars are right," much like a squirrel awakes when the season are right. His hibernation is an unavoidable part of what he is.

Dear lord. Now I actually am scared.

Greatest. Short. Story. Ever.

Thanks to the Internet, I know too much about stuff I needn't.

I'd say my real fear is a cage, or similar thing that restricts movement. I wouldn't like to cooped up in one area only big enough for me to be able to roll over once or stand up. I do beleive it would drive me mad.

Oh yeah, and the dark if I've watched a scary movie before hand.

The light is scarier, because my imagination compensates for light when I hallucinate in my edgy state. Thus, I see no monsters in the dark.

Windows. I always feel like something is looking at me, benevolent or malevolent, something is there and that tears my fragile human psych to bits.

So Chtulhu is the Cloverfield monster basically? I started reading the story but never finished.

I'm like WoF. I plunged pretty deep down earlier this year, which is part of the reason I wasn't on the forums until March.

I can't stand swarms of violent insects. That and giant monsters. I remember getting particularly shocked when I was playing LoTF: The Third Age, and I saw a Mumakil behind me that appeared to be just about thirty feet away. Evil spirits too, I guess. Apocalytpic scenarios too; the long, drawn out ones like nuclear winter or a world wide infection.

No, he's not Cloverfield, that was a rumour before the film came out, and one that I mentioned because I loved that concept.

Two of them.

1. Bees/Wasps/Stinging insects (but mainly bees) I used to freak out at the sight.

2. TV picture tubes. It's a strange one whose roots go back to something beyond the scope of mentioning here.... but picture tubes out of really old TV sets used to give me some kind of irrational creepy feeling. Like death. I don't expect anyone to know what these look like or what I'm talking about.

I actually think he used them to help swim in the story, or something?

Anyway, he's still awesome.

Screamers. They scare me even though I know what's coming.

Srsly my only phobia. I can look like they don't affect me at all but really inside I'm shitting my pants.

Spiders, small things that fly, and the fact that I will die.

Mould. It's wierd, I know. I've managed to get over most of my childhood germophobias but the sight of a mouldy object is enough to turn my stomach.

I'm less scared of death than of living with injury or loss of limb. There are a series of posters up in the main central train station in Melbourne this month about workplace injuries that show absolutely horrific photos. I have to scurry up the tunnel with my eyes pointed down.

Blech. I like the original better.

Sexy dances.... I can't do them... They scare me shitless. I'm serious.

My fears?
1. Sounds in an open area that I'm alone in. I hate being in a forest and hearing the crunching of a branch or something. Thereafter I begin to see things that aren't really there. For example if a bird moves I think it's a knife flying through the air about to kill me.
2. Assasination. No idea why but the thought scares the shit out of me. At times when I'm alone I find myself thinking Scaramanga or someone is going to shoot me with the golden gun or whatever.
3. Blinking. Sounds insane but sometimes when I blink I expect there to be like Scream or something behind me. This is especially true with places like bathrooms.
4. Going to the bathroom. Every now and again I have the feeling that while my back is turned then a withlike charactor is about to inject one of those injecty thingies. I think I got this from a picture film about rats or something. At one point it shows one being injected. I found this scene incredibley creepy.
5. Dark hallways. This is kinda obvious although it's more of a minor fear unless I've recently either seen a new movie or played a new game. The first time I played Doom (1 or 2 years ago.) I kept thinking a cyberdemon was waiting or something. Childish, maybe. Scary, yes!
6. Making mistakes. I hate doing this. That's why I usually sort of follow suit after people. But if it's opinion oriented I don't care. The end.
That's pretty much it. Except spiders. They're fine dead or far away but they just get a little too close for comfort at about 1 foot or so.

You need to stop watching TV, going to the movies and generally overstimulating yourself.

oh yea... This was worse in the past(I think I'm slowly getting over it), but I used to be really really scared of closing my eyes in the bathroom while showering...

That reminded me of an episode of Star Trek I watched when I was young, someone had delusions which kept kicking into effect when they walked through a door, I was morbidly afraid of closed doors for weeks afterwards even going so far as keeping the door open while I was on the toilet.

Nay... More like black, creepy samara-type person.