Just state your worst fear... if you can. MUHUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Okay... now that that is over with. Mine is kinda odd. Have you ever woken up and been completely unable to move? Not even an inch? You try to move something anything, but in vain? No matter how much you try to move you just lie there, completely still, then all of a sudden you jerk up with the full ablity to move? Thats my greatest fear, its like torture to me, and it happens fairly often. I said it was odd.

Yeah I get really panicked when that happens, but I don't necessarily fear it. In fact, I'm not afraid of anything. Used to be afraid of darkness, spiders and death though. I used to be extremely thanatphobic actually. Not anymore though

I'm afraid of a war with North Korea and other such super powers.

I odn't know about the not being able to move hting but when i'm reading a book in my bed every once in a blue moon I all of a sudden twich or jump or something for no apparent reason...

My greatest fear?

Giant spiders of course. Normal ones are bad enough *shudders.

A war with England. I mean, I'm afraid for England. j/k

The fear of having nuclear weapons rain down on me is imprudent, who in the world would go around nuking the smallest cities they could find.

I'm trying to think of a fear . .ah yes.

Getting banned by Stargelman, supreme ruler of W4O

Vampires. 'Nuff said.

That happens to mee and i keep whacking my head on my brother bunk(myparents won't let me move down stairs) Soul seaker.

Fear. I'm not really afraid of anything. To be afraid you have to have emotion, and it's been a long time since I've had emotion.

That happens to me for some odd reason, once I was on the phone and my thume twitched, hitting the off butten, thankfully I was about to get off.

P.S. What does thanatphobic mean? I know it mean your afraid of something...

Well I used to be thanatophobic, afraid of death. Not to be confused with necrophobic, afraid of death things, but more like the psychological fear of dying, not as though I was afraid of being in a risky situation. The opposite, of I have a tendency to thrusdt myself into dangerous situations.

Ah, thanks for the info. Though it was far more then I asked for, well the more the better (Or what ever).

Spiders....evil evil spiders....

I'm not afraid of anything. I figured that when I get old and near death I'm going to be really happy becaue i finally get to see what's the deal with the whole 'death' thing.

Yeah konrad though the problem with me was I basically figured there was nothing. Eventually I realized it doesn't matter what happens when you die, everything after I die will be irrelevant in consequence to the situation right now, so no use worrying about it, I will simply cherish the situation right now and hopefully achieve some meaning on this planet. That's how I got over my fear of death.

Yeah. If there is something after death, then you'll be around so you can be happy about it. If there is nothing then you might as well be a water pistol or fargoth...you're just an impracticle inanimate object.

I think I used to be afraid of death, but it doesn't really bother me any more. The way I see it, being afraid of death doesn't make sense for two reasons. Firstly, it WILL happen and it's unavoidable (though I suppose that could be part of the fear) and secondly, when I'm dead there will be nothing to fear, becuase I'll be dead anyway. Naturally I fear the actual act of becoming dead (well, if it's not a nice old-age, death-while-sleeping-after-worthwhile-life kind of death) but I should think that's pretty normal seing as how it could involve anything from drive-by shootings to meteor strikes.

Personally I hate spinning, and moving at extremely fast speeds. At when I go to a carnival ride these two things are commonly mixed together creating quite a bit of mental stress in me when I ride them In all my life I have olny ridden two carnival rides.

Hmm...thought of something. Chavs. When its the two of you and you get harrassed by a group of like 10 of them....that's scary.

Ok, so getting cornered by a group of chavs that outnumber you might be scary, but they do provide a superb source of comic relief. Another interesting thing about chavs is that their size tends to be inversely proportional to how angry they are. Some of the biggest chavs can even take a joke, but the small ones are likely to get stabby if you say as much as "good morning".

my greatest fear? hm dunno if i ahve a ONE. let's see i absolutely hate roller coasters, dunno if that's really a fear, i just don't like the feeling/thrill as some call it.

umm spiders i dislike, especially when they crawl out of an crack or opening and you don't expect them too.

and i guess a real fear, which came from when my sister had her really bad car wreck and i didn;t find out till hours later. is that when mom or sis, or whomever that i know isn't back when they said they'd be back.

Brown recluses are truly a horror... the affects of their bites... just... oh goodness...

I won't show it on the board for obvious reasons but I will include a link for those brave enough to look...

The Bite

Intestinel Chaos, I've seen that group of photos (save the first one with the actual spider) half a dozen times to represent different species of spiders from black-widows to wolf-spiders, to cobras and three-steps. Anyway, I'd rather be afraid of a creature you can make a cool looking costume out of like batman did. Spiderman's costume is too flashy. Maybe I should be afraid of ghosts, and wear and invisible suit.

Ahh the brown recluse, or the "Arrow bite spider". I personnaly don't believe those bites are from a brown recluse though, when they bite they cause a dart board like group of circles that get bigger as the weeks go by. They do cause the plague however, though it doesn't make huge gnashes like that.

That's the most gruesome thing I've ever seen, and I've been to Rotten.com

God I hate spiders.

yep that bite looks nothng like a brown recluse(aka fiddleback spider). as red has pointed out it creates a sries of white and red rings. My grandmother was bit by one.

And in some cases, it makes huge red, purple, pink and white "dart board" marks. Anyways, I also fear another pornography virus. I let my friend download one thing that's "safe" and he downloads the one that's covered in sspyware and trojan horses.

And now I have a list of all your greatest fears! BWAHAHA! Now along with your pictures from the real pictures thread and the true locations that some of you put in your info I will engineer a clever doom trap! BWAHAHAAAAAAHAHAAA!

And about the spider. I had not known that... I suppose I was misinformed.. Still am I to belive a spider did that?

oh yes i'm just trembling with fear stomach ache.[/sarcasm]

*drinks pepto bysmol*

Oh yes you should fear! Did you not see my picture in the real pictures thread!?!? I'm a cross between a wrench and a very dastardly looking 1800's english gentleman!

And I was even at one point part organic peanut butter but I edited the picture out!!! MWAAA.. no.. fwaa... fufufu.. heh... HAHAHAHAAA!

Quote from Family Guy:

"You sure he can't see me?"

"Yes."

"Okay, that guy, number 4"

(Peter busts in) "Hey I'm looking for Chris Griffin, he's here fingering the guy that robbed that convenient store. Chris Griffin. Here's a picture of him. Yeah, you can go ahead and keep that one Chris screwed it up by writing his school schedule and a list of all his fears on the back."

spiders

i watched the movie aracnaphobia(sp?) when i was like 4.

and as for the being awake and not being able to move that happens to me all the time. i think its kinda cool.

That my children or my hubbie .....would be injured or die!!!

I'm afraid of heights and deep deep water ( can't see what's down there!

You want to hear a horror story? When my mon was like, five, she was playo=ing hide and go seek. She was hiding in a narrow alley way between two houses and walked into a spider web. Worse thing was, the eggs had just hatched. She had thousands of baby spiders in her hair and had to shower to get them out. She was pretty afraid of spiders, but now she is barely afraid of them. I think its because when you have children, you learn you can't really be deathly afraidd of small things like spiders. Personally, I find spiders increadibly fascinating. Silent, tricky, trap making arachnids. You know some spider webs are big enough to catch fish that are about 8 inches? And did you know that the bird eating spider of the South American rain forest can grow up to a foot high and wide? There, that probably stopped you all from sleeping.

*checks his sheets to make sure no 1 foot man-eating spiders are in them.*

lol Red. living in venezuela for the first 6 years of life, i quickly learnd about bird-eating spiders and what not, so it won't keep me from sleeping.

I must say despite fearing spiders, i do find them absolutely fascinating, i just make sure they are in a glass jar filled with ethanol or other preservatives, before i will examine one.

jumping spiders though i don't mind at all, i love watching them up close.


also nothing beats sitting down somewhere and talking to someone or in a rom full of people, only to glance down and find a scorpion sitting about 2-3" from your hand.

i have had this happen to me once, we were at our second farm (in venezuela) and we had just arrived and i was setting down my stuff in my room. well on the wall above my bed is a 2" scorpion just sitting there. my dad tries to catch it, but it jumped of the wall onto the bed and dissapeared into a crack in the wall.

then i have seen it happen two other times to friends(i was living in panama at this time). the first time was 6th grade year we were in homeroom, well our homeroom was in a teachers office and she had these giant pillows for us to sit on. well my friend jaime (spanish for james) took the corner pillow. so everything is normal right until about after 30 minutes when we see a small scorpion climb up the wall above jaime, so we tell him to move very slowly out of the way, and we all run out of the room. the second time, we were in Pedasi at a hotel for a beach trip, and my friend mark was sitting on a bed, there were about 10 people hanging out in the room, when suddenly Mark begins screaming and jump up from the bed,as a scorpion was sitting idly about 1" from his hand.

Another incident that my sister told me about was when a scorpion actually fell off the wall and into the back of someone's shirt >.<

fun times eh.

off-topic: wow i'm like writing novels today. lol

That exact thing came to mind when I said that.

I forgot I'm also terrified from spiders and bees, and I dislike the dark when I'm alone (with my dog is fine).

I didn't know you lived in Venezuela. I kinda think that Venazuela would be a good vacation destination for me. I love Scorpians and all other Arachnids and study them regularly. Hehe, I like mentioning the bird eating spider to my friends, they cringe with fear of the spider.

Wow that's amazing, I would be terrified of any spider bigger then a daddy-longlegger

Actually, "Daddy long legs" aren't spiders or even Arachnids. They are insects due to the fact they have six legs.

Sorry to bring up this old topic, but I am bored and decided to update my list of fears.



I hear you on the deep water thing, in the newest Zelda game there is a part where you have to sink down this really really deep room filled with water. My heart was going about a mile a minute, also oceans in games terrify me... Dunno why, they just do.

The before mentioned "sleep paralisis" still scares the crap out of me, thankfully it happens less often now.

My strangest fear that I never really told anyone before now is perhaps the weirdest one I have ever heard...

I am afraid of people knowing certain things. Like a friend of mine whom I have liked for almost a year and a half, I am mortally afraid of her finding out how I feel, not just for fear of rejection, I am just terrified that she will find out.

Told you it was weird.

I loathe spiders, but am not an arachnophob. Those things are just so wrong, nothing to keep me awake at night, but I certainly don't want to have one crawling all over me.
As for fear of dark, ready my signature, pure blackness is better than low-light, because very few things can see you when you can't see them.

I used to be able of spiders, the dark, the possibility of dolls coming to life...

All irrational fears have been replaced by one very, very rational one: The Police.

Yes, The Police were a very intimidating 80's rock band. And now that guy calling himself 'Sting' running around....Im mortified myself.

@ Zelda: That's a very common fear. Its called the fear of vulnerability. Everyone has it.

Never heard of that fear, but no one else here seems to have it. Just about everyone I meet is open and trusting. Talk about being a black sheep huh?

Well some people do better with vulnerability than others. On a side note it might be that the reason no one else has admitted that fear is because then they would appear... vulnerable. I used to be like that, now when I like a girl I can't stand the thought of not telling her.

There are very basic and underlying fears that everyone has, that no amount of words can convince me they dont have.

Fear of the Unknown= Prejudice, anxiety in new surroundings, etc.

Fear of Pain= being rejected, being harmed physically, being vulnerable.

Fear of Death =If you live with a terminal disease every day for three years, maybe you can overcome this fear..but otherwise, I beleive we are all scared of at least these things.

Im scared of Zombies even though I know they'll fall down and break there necks before they reach me ( Stupid Zombies ).