Your worst fears/phobias

[Sabre]

I've already talked about my only real fear in a previous topic. Due to the nature of the current rule situation, I won't repeat it here.

I will instead talk about my irrational... stressors.

Bisectophobia: the irrational fear of being cut in half down the middle.

Caused by my fainting in the third grade when my teacher told us about how "awesome college will be because you get to dissect frogs." After a particularly graphic joke on the subject, I remember waking up on the floor five minutes later and the whole class was looking at me. I had hit my head on my way to the floor. Some time after that, I began to grow extremely uneasy at the thought of being cut open, and I could not stand to have anyone touch the center of my chest or chin, and I was in agony whenever lines or wires pointed in that general direction (think the lines on the road as you switch lanes). I would even cross my arms and put pressure on my chest as if to hold myself together. Being a totally rational person, I had great difficulty with this, because I don't really fear anything about it and I know it's completely irrational, but it's as if my body reacts negatively to these triggers anyway. Desensitization failed to work, but over time the symptoms have been much more mild.

I have no fear of wasps/bees in the normal sense, but I will do everything I can to stay away from them. I mean, I have no problem getting right up next to them if I'm behind glass, but I have a history of them stinging me for no reason at all, even while others around me are unaffected. Whoever came up with "if you don't bother them, they won't bother you" was an idiot.

As for spiders, I actually like them. My apartment has lots of them, but I mostly leave them alone. They're the reason my apartment has no insects!

Not claustrophobic, love high places, love deep water.

You were stung as a child. It happens.

Also, if that freaked you out. You might not want to investigate this, or maybe you do to relise how bad it can get.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawing_%28torture%29

[Redeemer]

Eew Sabre, don't show him that. D:

[Sarita]

I'm TERRIFIED of open water. And fish. And whales.

Why am I terrified of whales? They're BIG. The bigger they are the more scared of them I am. I discovered this phobia while playing Ecco the Dolphin. Needless to say I never finished the game.

[Star Fox Runner]

Bisectophobia: the irrational fear of being cut in half down the middle.

Caused by my fainting in the third grade when my teacher told us about how "awesome college will be because you get to dissect frogs." After a particularly graphic joke on the subject, I remember waking up on the floor five minutes later and the whole class was looking at me. I had hit my head on my way to the floor. Some time after that, I began to grow extremely uneasy at the thought of being cut open, and I could not stand to have anyone touch the center of my chest or chin, and I was in agony whenever lines or wires pointed in that general direction (think the lines on the road as you switch lanes). I would even cross my arms and put pressure on my chest as if to hold myself together. Being a totally rational person, I had great difficulty with this, because I don't really fear anything about it and I know it's completely irrational, but it's as if my body reacts negatively to these triggers anyway. Desensitization failed to work, but over time the symptoms have been much more mild.

I have problems like that, but not long lasting phobias. Mainly a worst case scenario of an accident (such as falling and busting a tooth, accident with a knife, head taken off by sticking my head out the window of a car.) will flash through my head, and my OCD will act up and my body reacts and it feels like it is actually happening to me, makes me cringe or double over just on impulse. But it doesn't stay with me for a long time, just for a few seconds, but the feeling is excruciating.

As for actual phobias, I still have a small fear of the dark, though not as bad as it was as a little kid. It started it when I watched my brother play the first Doom for PC when I was 5, and the whole demons in the dark thing never left me. It doesn't happen on a bright starry night, but on nights when it is pitch black out, or when I'm in a large dark room or basement at night. I can never shake the feeling that something is watching me, and ready to come for me.

[Kursed]

I have problems like that, but not long lasting phobias. Mainly a worst case scenario of an accident (such as falling and busting a tooth, accident with a knife, head taken off by sticking my head out the window of a car.) will flash through my head, and my OCD will act up and my body reacts and it feels like it is actually happening to me, makes me cringe or double over just on impulse. But it doesn't stay with me for a long time, just for a few seconds, but the feeling is excruciating.

As for actual phobias, I still have a small fear of the dark, though not as bad as it was as a little kid. It started it when I watched my brother play the first Doom for PC when I was 5, and the whole demons in the dark thing never left me. It doesn't happen on a bright starry night, but on nights when it is pitch black out, or when I'm in a large dark room or basement at night. I can never shake the feeling that something is watching me, and ready to come for me.

*hugs Runner* My spirit is with you don't be afraid.

[EazyIN]

I have problems like that, but not long lasting phobias. Mainly a worst case scenario of an accident (such as falling and busting a tooth, accident with a knife, head taken off by sticking my head out the window of a car.) will flash through my head, and my OCD will act up and my body reacts and it feels like it is actually happening to me, makes me cringe or double over just on impulse. But it doesn't stay with me for a long time, just for a few seconds, but the feeling is excruciating.

As for actual phobias, I still have a small fear of the dark, though not as bad as it was as a little kid. It started it when I watched my brother play the first Doom for PC when I was 5, and the whole demons in the dark thing never left me. It doesn't happen on a bright starry night, but on nights when it is pitch black out, or when I'm in a large dark room or basement at night. I can never shake the feeling that something is watching me, and ready to come for me.

I had something like this, when I saw my first Iron Maiden on RE4 I never shook that off...

[EazyIN]

(Double post I know)

I have a fear of my electric guitar just suddenly shocking/killing me. And falling off the Sears Tower. Plus, being burned alive. Or when people think I'm dead and I'm unconscious in the ground in a coffin, I wake up and I'm stranded and I'm forced to die in agony...In fact that last one I posted, I wouldn't be surprised if some people did die like that...

[Vy'drach]

They did, they have found people that were buried early, and woke up inside their crypts.

[EazyIN]

Did they get them out?

[Vy'drach]

No, they were found long after the fact. This is back when science wasn't so good, and someone being unresponsive was considered dead, so they were buried in tombs inside of catacombs and such. Archaeologists and such came across the bodies much much later.

[Star Fox Runner]

*hugs Runner* My spirit is with you don't be afraid.

heh, thanks Kursed. :)

[Dublinthefox]

Wow, that's terrifying, I hope you weren't hurt too much! I'd rather you weren't hurt at all, but obviously if you weren't there would be no story.

Yeah it was pretty terrifying.

[Sabre]

I have problems like that, but not long lasting phobias. Mainly a worst case scenario of an accident (such as falling and busting a tooth, accident with a knife, head taken off by sticking my head out the window of a car.) will flash through my head, and my OCD will act up and my body reacts and it feels like it is actually happening to me, makes me cringe or double over just on impulse. But it doesn't stay with me for a long time, just for a few seconds, but the feeling is excruciating.

As for actual phobias, I still have a small fear of the dark, though not as bad as it was as a little kid. It started it when I watched my brother play the first Doom for PC when I was 5, and the whole demons in the dark thing never left me. It doesn't happen on a bright starry night, but on nights when it is pitch black out, or when I'm in a large dark room or basement at night. I can never shake the feeling that something is watching me, and ready to come for me.

Scared of the dark, so silly. It's the grues you have got to be scared of.

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3806237

Also nightmare before christmas. That bit with the monsters under the bed/stairs.

...I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight, thanks.

Seriously though. I was scared of the dark. A phrase gave me the power to get over it.

"There are 2 kinds of people. Those who feel safest in the light, and those who feel safest in the dark."

The gist being that in the dark, said monsters can't see you. It's quite empowering until you realise humans aren't that good in the dark.

Anyway, practice. Also, don't think about talking and read up on sleep paralisis. Will help alot.

[Vy'drach]

As for actual phobias, I still have a small fear of the dark, though not as bad as it was as a little kid. It started it when I watched my brother play the first Doom for PC when I was 5, and the whole demons in the dark thing never left me. It doesn't happen on a bright starry night, but on nights when it is pitch black out, or when I'm in a large dark room or basement at night. I can never shake the feeling that something is watching me, and ready to come for me.

Anyway, I always used to tell people, "I'm not afraid of the dark, it's whats in the dark that scares me."

I get that sense that something's there, too, so don't worry about it. Sometimes it gets my hard enough that I carry a knife with me as I go to get something to drink.

[Dublinthefox]

As for actual phobias, I still have a small fear of the dark, though not as bad as it was as a little kid. It started it when I watched my brother play the first Doom for PC when I was 5, and the whole demons in the dark thing never left me. It doesn't happen on a bright starry night, but on nights when it is pitch black out, or when I'm in a large dark room or basement at night. I can never shake the feeling that something is watching me, and ready to come for me.

So would this stuff freak you out?

[Sabre]

Anyway, I always used to tell people, "I'm not afraid of the dark, it's whats in the dark that scares me."

I get that sense that something's there, too, so don't worry about it. Sometimes it gets my hard enough that I carry a knife with me as I go to get something to drink.

Look, Ive been there too, but I never got to knife carrying. Sharp thing + tired = accident waiting to happen. Just read the facts, it will make you feel better.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

[Vy'drach]

Look, Ive been there too, but I never got to knife carrying. Sharp thing + tired = accident waiting to happen. Just read the facts, it will make you feel better.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

Mine isn't sleep paralysis, it happens even if I am wide awake and haven't been to sleep. I just have a very active imagination, and I sometimes carry a knife, when it is sheathed. The knife is mostly a "security blanket." It really only hits if I can't sleep because my mind wont turn off, or after I've read some scary stories (I usually read Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft, or Edgar Allan Poe when trying to sleep). Just my mind processing data and my imagination working in turn. As I said, the knife is sheathed, and not a danger to me.

[Sabre]

Mine isn't sleep paralysis, it happens even if I am wide awake and haven't been to sleep. I just have a very active imagination, and I sometimes carry a knife, when it is sheathed. The knife is mostly a "security blanket." It really only hits if I can't sleep because my mind wont turn off, or after I've read some scary stories (I usually read Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft, or Edgar Allan Poe when trying to sleep). Just my mind processing data and my imagination working in turn. As I said, the knife is sheathed, and not a danger to me.

Did you read any of it at all?

Let me spell it in ultra basic form. It's not monsters you're feeling. It's your brain not working right. The feeling of a dred and an onimous presence when you logically know nothing is there is a brain issue. Whatever 'things' are there are entirly cultural. You can change this by imerssing yourself in a certain media, suddenly grues turn to zombies and it's funny. Once you understand this point you will feel much better then carrying a knife.

[Vy'drach]

Did you read any of it at all?

Let me spell it in ultra basic form. It's not monsters you're feeling. It's your brain not working right. The feeling of a dred and an onimous presence when you logically know nothing is there is a brain issue. Whatever 'things' are there are entirly cultural. You can change this by imerssing yourself in a certain media, suddenly grues turn to zombies and it's funny. Once you understand this point you will feel much better then carrying a knife.

I read all of it, except I skipped some of the names from other countries, and that's not what I have. Mine has nothing to do with sleep. I can't really explain what mine is beyond that of an over-active imagination. I know my subconscious is intentionally doing it to give me the adrenaline rush.

[Sabre]

The sleep part is irrelivent, it's the same issue.

[Vy'drach]

The sleep part is irrelivent, it's the same issue.

Not really, no, it isn't. I know how my mind works, and I'd really appreciate of people would stop assuming they know more about my mental states and happenings than I do. That gets very old very fast.

[Sabre]

As does people who won't listen to reason, and carry knives to fight imagenary monsters.

[Vy'drach]

As does people who won't listen to reason, and carry knives to fight imagenary monsters.

I don't carry the knife to fight imaginary monsters, hell, sometimes I carry a knife on me just for the sake of carrying one. Why? Because I fucking want to. When it comes to carrying it because of the imaginary "boogey-men," it isn't to fight them. Sometimes I get the creeps when I have it, but I don't look over my shoulder or anything, I just keep on walking. What I am talking about is I can be sitting there, and that crap you usually get in your vision when you rub your eyes (Something I always have, but it's most obvious in the dark) will suddenly Rorschach itself into something. I've had it become this before.

I've even known that my subconscious was doing it, and mentally said, "Ah c'mon, don't do that now, that's just annoying," but then BAM, there's suddenly a Chupacabra in the corner of my room, then I facepalm, sometimes mentally, sometimes physically, and think, "Great, I hate Chupacabras." I've also had it become things I want and like.

As for it being based on sleep, that's what your wikipedia article claims it to be linked to, and I highly suggest not contradicting your "evidence."

Point is, Sabre, you know nothing about how I work mentally. When it comes to that, I am the deciding factor, and know more about me than you ever will. So please, back the fuck off because these two matters are not related, and you don't know everything.

[Guest Julius Quasar]

My worst fear would be if I were to turn into somebody like Dick Cheney, Michael Bloomberg, or any other rich ass**** like them.

[Sabre]

When it comes to that, I am the deciding factor, and know more about me than you ever will.

You dont though, that's my point. The human brain does alot of freaky stuff. You can get that phobia down to a level where it doesn't bother you, but you plug your ears and go "lalalalala!" My guess, you want this. The reason, now that's something I cant answer.