Fears and Phobias (V2)

Spirrow · #1 10-20-2008, 11:37 AM

Self-explanatory.

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

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

Havoc · #2 10-20-2008, 01:05 PM

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.

Lacy Hemsmire · #3 10-20-2008, 01:10 PM

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

Strike Witch · #4 10-20-2008, 01:12 PM

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

***Alcar*** · #5 10-20-2008, 01:21 PM

Needles is about it for me.

Alcar...

Bullet Magnet · #6 10-20-2008, 01:30 PM

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.

Mac Sirloin · #7 10-20-2008, 01:32 PM

The concept of something that can eat planets.

Greys.

Bullet Magnet · #8 10-20-2008, 01:35 PM

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The concept of something that can eat planets.

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.

Anonyman! · #9 10-20-2008, 01:43 PM

CTHULHU FTAGHN

Bullet Magnet · #10 10-20-2008, 01:46 PM

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.

Wings of Fire · #11 10-20-2008, 01:46 PM

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.

Anonyman! · #12 10-20-2008, 01:49 PM

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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.

Splat · #13 10-20-2008, 01:59 PM

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!!!

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Bullet Magnet · #14 10-20-2008, 02:00 PM

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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

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.

OANST · #15 10-20-2008, 02:01 PM

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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!!

Lacy Hemsmire · #16 10-20-2008, 02:04 PM

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.

Bullet Magnet · #17 10-20-2008, 02:04 PM

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.

OANST · #18 10-20-2008, 02:11 PM

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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.

Anonyman! · #19 10-20-2008, 02:17 PM

Greatest. Short. Story. Ever.

Bullet Magnet · #20 10-20-2008, 05:51 PM

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

mitsur · #21 10-20-2008, 06:17 PM

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.

Bullet Magnet · #22 10-20-2008, 06:19 PM

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.

Anonyman! · #23 10-20-2008, 06:26 PM

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.

used:) · #24 10-20-2008, 06:40 PM

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.

Bullet Magnet · #25 10-20-2008, 07:03 PM

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

Pilot · #26 10-20-2008, 07:16 PM

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.

mitsur · #27 10-20-2008, 07:54 PM

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Apocalytpic scenarios too; the long, drawn out ones like nuclear winter or a world wide infection.

Anonyman! · #28 10-20-2008, 07:58 PM

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Strike Witch · #29 10-20-2008, 09:20 PM

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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!!

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

Anyway, he's still awesome.

Leto · #30 10-20-2008, 09:29 PM

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.