So What Are You Afraid Of?

[Champiness]

I'm terrified of Ouija boards. My roomie during Freshman year of college thought it'd be a good idea to make one after seeing Paranormal Activity, and I promptly flipped out. That night, I had a very vivid dream that I was watching her mess with one, and it started landing on numbers in backwards order (9, 8, 7, etc.). Supposedly if that reaches 0, a "supernatural portal" is created and all heck breaks loose. In the dream, I ran out of the room to our hallmates' place, then blacked out and heard my roomie scream. I told her about the dream, and needless to say the board was never made.

#4 on this list may help you out with that.

[CherieD'Amoure]

Hmm, very neat! I never knew that. Thank you! Man, I love cracked.com.

[DJ_Sam_909]

I have an irrational fear of losing things. For some reason I subconsciously treat the inanimate objects I own as living things with emotions and feeling. So when I lose something I can't help but treating the situation as though a child is lonely and afraid, lost somewhere out there in this huge, huge world and at risk of starvation unless I find it soon. So I stay up for hours looking for things I've misplaced (otherwise I can't sleep). After a while I start to get worried and feel physically sick.

I think that fear developed when I lost stuff almost on a daily basis because my best friend - who came round my house nearly every day for 6 years - had been stealing stuff behind my back the whole time.

Another fear I have is sudden death. Not death itself but the fear that I could die in an instant, unable to say "goodbye" to my family, for example. I normally get that feeling when I'm standing beneath tall buildings that don't look well-supported, although strangely not when I'm IN them.

[Kromo]

I´m terrified of needles and that has forced me to bail out of a medical examination more that once.

[DJ_Sam_909]

I´m terrified of needles and that has forced me to bail out of a medical examination more that once.

That must suck! I used to know a guy from school that fainted in our science class because he saw someone getting an injection on a video presentation. After that, he had to leave the room whenever "needles" or "blood" came up in discussion. Poor guy

[Kromo]

That must suck! I used to know a guy from school that fainted in our science class because he saw someone getting an injection on a video presentation. After that, he had to leave the room whenever "needles" or "blood" came up in discussion. Poor guy

Fortunately i never fainted, just ran away like a little girl...

[CherieD'Amoure]

My family doctor decided to give me all 4 of my college vaccinations and draw blood in one go, and wouldn't you know it, I was allergic to one of the shots and had a seizure. Not fun. I get shaky around needles now, but they don't scare me too badly.

[DJ_Sam_909]

My arm got infected by a dodgy injection once. It ached for weeks and there was a large red patch down most of my arm. It's no wonder so many people are afraid of needles!

[zer0g]

So I have a terrible fear of death. Lately I've been getting into a deep thoughts of it, that it's gonna hit me one day. That I'll just turn off, and that's it. I believe in heaven and I'm still scared of it. So these little freak-outs have been hitting me, a couple of days ago I had one in my Biology class and literally shook in my seat.

The thing that makes this worse is the fact that I've found a growth inside me. Upon further research I found it could be some sort of blood clot, a cyst, or worse a tumor. The area where it's at is likely to get tumors that may sometimes be cancerous.

I know I'm jumping to conclusions, but that's still a possibility and it's pretty scary. I'm getting checked on Tuesday, and we'll go on from there.

[DJ_Sam_909]

So I have a terrible fear of death. Lately I've been getting into a deep thoughts of it, that it's gonna hit me one day. That I'll just turn off, and that's it. I believe in heaven and I'm still scared of it. So these little freak-outs have been hitting me, a couple of days ago I had one in my Biology class and literally shook in my seat.

The thing that makes this worse is the fact that I've found a growth inside me. Upon further research I found it could be some sort of blood clot, a cyst, or worse a tumor. The area where it's at is likely to get tumors that may sometimes be cancerous.

I know I'm jumping to conclusions, but that's still a possibility and it's pretty scary. I'm getting checked on Tuesday, and we'll go on from there.

I used to have a terrible fear of death when I was younger but I got over it when I was about eight. You've just got to teach yourself to be a positive thinker and remind yourself that you've got years and years ahead of you until you die and by then you'll have already lived your life so it won't even matter. I've heard hypnosis is good for treating fears. Have you considered it? It might help

It might also be good to note that most tumours are treatable early on; so even if it is a worst case scenario you've probably got nothing to worry about.


I've found out lately that I have a fear of very tall buildings that don't appear to have stable foundations. Like I'd see a building and think "if all the people inside that thing leant against one side of the building it'd fall over". This fear response also seems to apply to submarines and large cargo/cruise ships although I don't quite understand why. I just feel nervous whenever I'm near any of those things and the closer I get the more anxious I get. Oddly enough, I feel calm when I'm inside.