What scares the crap out of you?

[saskflames69]

Originally Posted by drhu22

The Bruce Springsteen version or the Manfred Mann version?
BS wrote that

Manfred Mann's version is the one that creeps me out. Springsteen's is okay for me. For some reason though I cannot listen to that song without getting the creeps.

[GP_Matt]

Originally Posted by Diverce

Same, thought I was the only one. Then I start judging myself wondering why I have this urge to want to push someone off, or jump off. Also get that fear that someone is going to run up behind me and push me.



This too. Not a fan of tight spaces.

I have heard for occupations where you will be exposed at high heights they make new hires take a psych evaluation to see if they think this way before sending them up.

[GP_Matt]

Originally Posted by ranchlandsselling

Well to be fair, I'd hardly recomend even good swimmers start messing around in fast (or slow for that matter) moving rivers unless you really understand the currents. Lakes during bad weather can be very unpredictable so to be in one during bad weather is a terrible idea. I'm very similar in Hawaii. More to do with sharks and second because of a fear of being swept away or just in danger. It makes me feel sick thinking about it. I can rationalize it away in large groups though. I've also been snorkling with a group when a few reef sharks starting swimming around underneath us. I managed to keep it together but the thought of something bigger like a Tiger or Bull shark sends me to the toilet

I love getting into fast and aggressive rivers. You stick yourself in a kayak, grab a paddle and spend the next few hours trying to survive. If you get in at the edge of your ability the whole process scares the crap out of me but it is so fun at the same time so when you get out all you want to do is try again. I am signed up for a swift water rescue course this weekend though so maybe that will remove some of the fear. Or maybe add to it due to a new respect for the dangers.

For fears, my biggest fear is dementia, or any of the other degenerative brain diseases.

[PYroMaNiaC]

Bears. Can't outrun them, can't out-climb them, can't out-swim them. If you piss one off, you have to take your punishment laying down. Cripes.

I have a dead one on my wall that doesn't bother me, though.

[Bertuzzied]

Whenever i'm at work and CP doesn't load. I keep thinking that my IT guys block it.

oh and Republicans.

[FiftyBelow]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

Whenever i'm at work and CP doesn't load. I keep thinking that my IT guys block it.

oh and Republicans.

Back in the day when we had the old server I used to get excited whenever CP didn't load because I always thought that something huge was going on with the Flames (trade, signing etc).

[BCGirl]

Originally Posted by Sainters7

I mentioned earlier in this thread I'm an arachnophobe, when I was living on the west coast a few years back we found one of those in my room on the edge of the bed, my knees nearly buckled when I saw the size of it, had never seen one before. Looked like a friggin tarantula, I actually thought it was at first.

The creepiest part is, my cousin (who had the other room in the basement) said he saw one down there like a month before. How long was I co-living with that thing??

Just togive you an idea of the experience's I've had with those nasty things:
1) laying in bed late a night, look down, one crawling on my sheets right beside my body
2) wake up another morning, go upstairs and put bread in the toaster, look down and have one sitting on my shirt smack between my boobs.
3) reached for a pair of shoes and one ran out of a shoe.
4) sitting on floor and had one come out if my closet an walk towards. So freaked out I actually managed to get off the ground and brace myself in a corner of my room screamin for someone to kill it!
5) go to step into the shower and there is one IN THE SHOWER!
6) getting stuck on the toilet cuz one crawls out of a towel that was left on the floor.
7) reaching for a skirt in my closet and one drops off of the skirt and runs away.

They are so creepy! The 8 little legs move freaking fast when they want to and they are just all round freaky and can make me burst into a panic if there is no one around to kill it!

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by BCGirl

Just togive you an idea of the experience's I've had with those nasty things:
1) laying in bed late a night, look down, one crawling on my sheets right beside my body
2) wake up another morning, go upstairs and put bread in the toaster, look down and have one sitting on my shirt smack between my boobs.
3) reached for a pair of shoes and one ran out of a shoe.
4) sitting on floor and had one come out if my closet an walk towards. So freaked out I actually managed to get off the ground and brace myself in a corner of my room screamin for someone to kill it!
5) go to step into the shower and there is one IN THE SHOWER!
6) getting stuck on the toilet cuz one crawls out of a towel that was left on the floor.
7) reaching for a skirt in my closet and one drops off of the skirt and runs away.

They are so creepy! The 8 little legs move freaking fast when they want to and they are just all round freaky and can make me burst into a panic if there is no one around to kill it!

I had to read all the way down to the "8 little legs" to realize that you were talking about spiders, and not children.

[Wormius]

Things that scare me:

1) Becoming destitute.
2) Being framed for or convicted of a crime I didn't commit.
3) Death by suffocation / burning.
4) Getting my hand or finger caught in a car door.
5) Animals big enough to kill me.
6) Bedbugs (especially with the stories of hotels having them, and the possibility of bringing them back to my home).
7) Losing my eyesight.
8) Having surgery and not being anaesthesized.

I also used to feel kind of panicky about puddles. It was like, there's water there, but how deep? Could I potentially fall into a manhole or something?

[cam_wmh]

Originally Posted by Red Slinger

Sharks.

Don't know why. I've never even seen one. It may be because I watched the movie Jaws when I was young. Even as a teenager swimming in an indoor pool frightened me because of the possibility of what was lurking below. Even lakes make me nervous.

Now I live in Perth, Australia where there have been 4 Great White fatalities in the last year. I swim in the ocean but I panic almost the entire time. What the fata was I thinking?

OH GOD THIS. I was not too far away in Busselton jetskiing and off the plate where the depths are forever and black. I fell off the jetski, and it was 80 feet away. I panicked and swam for my life.. im certain i peed a bit, then jumped on that jetski and beached it moments later. Oh man, looking down at that black is still buried in my psyche. <shiver>

[Sr. Mints]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

the one real fear i had as a kid was one or both of my parents dying. you'd hear those news stories about kids being orphaned when their parents were in a bad car accident and it terrified the hell out of me to think of that happening. and then when i was 18, my mom died and i was forced to confront my greatest fear head on. i've never felt as emotionally devastated as i was in the days/weeks/months after. after going through that any little fear i might have had before seemed pointless

I kind of had a similar fear. My dad died when I was 18, and for a few months, maybe years after that, I was positive something was going to happen to someone else in my family--almost always my mom. If she went to work or something, I had a nagging fear she was going to get in a car wreck on the way or way home. If I was not home at night, I was certain someone was going to break in and kill her. ~12 years later, that constant fear has pretty much subsided, but sometimes the paranoia and anxiety hits me out of nowhere.

[FiftyBelow]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

the one real fear i had as a kid was one or both of my parents dying. you'd hear those news stories about kids being orphaned when their parents were in a bad car accident and it terrified the hell out of me to think of that happening. and then when i was 18, my mom died and i was forced to confront my greatest fear head on. i've never felt as emotionally devastated as i was in the days/weeks/months after. after going through that any little fear i might have had before seemed pointless

I admit that I presently have this fear. Being the youngest of 5 in my family, apart of me still believes that I'm still the "baby" even though I'm in my early 20s. Despite the fact that I live far from them I still have this sense of dependency (kind of like what a young child feels for their parents). I always call my mother a few times a week and discuss with her everything that's going on in my life. Recently, my parents just became seniors in the eyes of the government and it's sort of hit me like a gust of wind. I started to realize that one of these days, they're going to have to go.

In February my grandmother passed away and it was the first time that my mom lost one of her parents. Seeing the heartbreak that my mom felt was probably the hardest thing I've had to witness as a son. Thinking about it also made me realize just how unprepared I am for something like that. I know people eventually adjust when it happens... but for me it just seems unfathomable and absolutely terrifying.

[To Be Quite Honest]

Sphincter tearing dumps.

[driveway]

I have no issues with open water; grew up spending my summers at a lake, would go out and swim in the middle of it, no problem. Ocean, also fine, swum in lake Nicaragua (only lake in the world with sharks, no issues), actually SWAM with sharks - 2-3 foot reef sharks - in the tropics once, all of that exactly zero issues.

But you can go soak your head if you think I'm going to get into a swimming pool when there's no one else in the room. Oh god that freaks me out. No idea why, it just ... geeuuhhhh... creepycreepycreepy.

[OffsideSpecialist]

I can't swim overtop of things. For instance, at my cousin's place on the lake near Sudbury, there is a school bus at the bottom of the lake directly in the route from their place to an island we swim to to pick berries. I will take a much longer route because swimming over top of the thing freaks me out.

[NBC]

This guy:

[Komskies]

This isn't something that scares me, but rather gives me the chills to think about.



Dixie cup spoons. Just thinking about the texture of those wooden spoons creeps me right the eff out.

[undercoverbrother]

Slurpee headaches.................scare the hell out of me. So much so I have not had a slurpee since grade 9.

[#22]

When I was growing up in Europe, I was terrified of the nuclear war and it's aftermath that I was certain would come. Always checking the sky for missiles, constantly straining for the sound of air-raid sirens, and dreaming of wandering around in a field surrounded by mushroom clouds with my skin falling off. When we moved the Calgary, which in my mind was in the middle of nowhere and not a likely target, the fear started to ease. Then I watched The Day After and all my fears and nightmares came back.

Nowadays my biggest fears are my kids dying before me, poverty, cancer, mental illness, and the fact that because most intelligent people tend to have either no kids or at most two while the stupid breed like freaking rabbits, humanity could be completely and utterly screwed.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by #22

When I was growing up in Europe, I was terrified of the nuclear war and it's aftermath that I was certain would come. Always checking the sky for missiles, constantly straining for the sound of air-raid sirens, and dreaming of wandering around in a field surrounded by mushroom clouds with my skin falling off. When we moved the Calgary, which in my mind was in the middle of nowhere and not a likely target, the fear started to ease. Then I watched The Day After and all my fears and nightmares came back.

Nowadays my biggest fears are my kids dying before me, poverty, cancer, mental illness, and the fact that because most intelligent people tend to have either no kids or at most two while the stupid breed like freaking rabbits, humanity could be completely and utterly screwed.

you probably don't want to watch Idiocracy then (though it's a fantastic movie)