I crawled through a small to most people pipe that went under the hwy and got lost in a corn maze last year. But that makes sense now🙂 I get why that could be bothering
Parasites. They eat you from the inside out. With an animal you can fight and yeah, you'll probably lose but you can go down fighting, but parasites, their is no fight you just get infected and feel them eat away at you.
The Ocean. I've been to the ocean many times, swam in it, jet skied in it, boated and snorkled in it. But even then their is always apprehension because its deep and dark and you don't know what lurks in there. To put it into perspective, a navel military vessel went out on its maiden voyage just to test its systems. Only a short time out, a few days their sonar was acting up so they went back to port to find out what happened. When it was inspected they found a claw lodged in the rubber casing of the sonar. See giant squid, like the Humbolt squid has three teeth/claw like structures around its suckers, this was one of those. The thing that makes this disturbing is that not only did it come from a collosal squid, it was about four times larger then the previously estimated size that the squid could reach. We have never seen that size but 90% of the ocean lays unseen, we have no idea what is in their (we have even found fish that we thought where extinct in the ocean.).
In addition to that you cannot flee, you cannot put yourself in a corner to protect yourself or fight, your always completely exposed. So while its not debilitating fear, its a fear that is always in the back of my mind when I'm in or on the ocean.
Other then that I don't really have any other fears, and no fear that is debilitating or phobic.
I'm quite the adrenaline junkie so this is a pretty tough one for me. I sometimes think I even have some sort of neurological problem that makes me unable to register fear or process it properly.
Yet most of my dreads come from conscience, like accidentally doing something that ends up getting someone else killed or hurt. So, for example, I'm more afraid of driving a massive 8-wheeler than a motorcycle, since if I make a mistake with the former, I might end up hurting or killing someone else. The motorcycle isn't scary for me since chances are that any mistake I make will just get me injured or killed. So if I try to make a list:
1) Accidentally hurting or killing someone else. 2) Becoming senile or demented or so crippled that I become a burden to other people. 3) Not being there when someone I care about needs me the most.
Number 1 strikes a chord with me. I had two friends with me when I wrecked the '53 Ford. Number 2 will never happen. If I'm ever diagnosed with diminished mental capacity, I'll stick a hose in the tailpipe and run it into the cab of my truck. Fire it up and relax. Number 3 has already happened and is happening now. I WAS there for my wife as she was dying. My 104 year old mother needs me to do her shopping and run errands for her.
In my case, I tend to be so reckless with my own safety and well-being and have been injured so many times that this might be why I'm afraid of being responsible for other people's. It's like I can't trust myself to be smart and cautious with my own safety (I tend to be eager to gamble with it), so I especially don't trust myself with the safety of others. I would probably be paranoid if I ever had to be in a leadership position where I have to risk other people's lives. I'm perfectly fine and happy and even eager to risk my own, but not others.
@DaveToo The events that haunted me most were also in the #1 category. I was being reckless and stupid and I never minded as long as I'm the one paying for my own stupidity. But when other people pay for it, I feel so terribly guilty.
I'm tempted the same way if #2 happens to me, or just turn hermit and scare all people away if I have the facilities to do it and live alone in the woods or something.
#3 I've had in mild cases like just enjoying myself too much that I missed an urgent call (not the most extreme of emergencies, but I still ended up missing an urgent event where I was wanted and needed).
@DaveToo I sometimes wish I had a profession where I could direct these reckless tendencies I have to disregard my own safety towards a noble purpose like a firefighter rescuing people. I have almost no practical use for it whatsoever in my current profession. I wish I could grow old and be able to reflect back and say these tendencies caused more good than harm. I have had the rarest circumstances where it did allow me to help people in extreme situations, but those are few and far between. The vast majority of the time, I'm channeling it towards things people consider just plain foolish like extreme sports, and occasionally inadvertently hurting them (ex: slamming on a vert ramp and having my skateboard shoot out and fly into a spectator and hurt them which has happened multiple times in my life).
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Heights. I've had nightmares about heights, even at an early age. That's why I took up mountain climbing. Face the enemy and the enemy shrivels.
Enclosed spaces. My brother locked me in a tiny building once and left me there. I was very young. When I was sent to Vietnam, one of my S&R duties was retrieving wounded Marines from tunnels. Face the enemy and the enemy shrivels.
Dying. When I had the racing accident, I was found dead inside the wreck. I was revived twice. Face the enemy and the enemy shrivels.
Getting old I don't know how I will manage to bear pain, disability and diseases for years until I actually die with pain. The way this world works for your future 99% based on money. Not being able to find my true love who will bring the best in me. Marriage and love in general.
I don't like bugs/insects/spiders. I'm fine with everything else - heights, animals, the woods, the water - none of that bothers me. But I have no use or love for bugs.
Girls punishing me for what they perceive as my unavailability/lack of interest. The truth is far from it, just, for a myriad of almost-trivial reasons I have not been able to commit to anyone fully so far - right now, I go tentative to first get closure from another relationship (even if it was just an interest and nothing more) - and I get any girl that is new reprimanding me because she feels like I haven't liked her enough. It is especially hurting when you feel really good with someone, and even a few moments of absence ticks them off into revenge mode (and you like them being so sensitive).
I would love to help you. Lol I on the other hand am broken. Had bad experience with clowns when younger. Fucked me right up. "We all float down here "
Water, cause I can't swim, Spiders, cause one bit on my neck and it was a size of a golf ball had to seek medical treatment all they did was put me on Antibiotic by mouth and scared of Fire cause down at my old house, these guys used gasoline to put this old garage on fire and it was terrible
- Dangerous heights: By that, I mean situations where there is a good risk of falling e. g. I'd be terrified of walking a tightrope, but am perfectly fine in a airplane at cruising altitude) - Small closed spaces: Being locked in a wardrobe, coffin, etc., but not my bedroom. - Small poisonous creatures: Things that look easy to kill but can actually kill, or cause you a lot of pain e. g. snakes, spiders, wasps, bees, etc.
not exactly scared of these but still... hell to the no with them:
- any ship or boat out there in the open ocean, don't like that, I rather not
- germs and parasites, don't want any of that, so no shady lakes or lagoons for me, never public bathrooms
-porcelain dolls, or any doll that's a bit 'realistic" ... hell, no, they've always moved in my mind and even whisper to me, and I know it's not happening but still, fuck that
I have to admit that I am creeped out by spiders. I'm not exactly afraid of them and I often catch them and put them outside when they get in the house. But it sort of freaks me out when one climbs on me. LOL
Being confined like in a coffin, or MRI machine, or rolled up in a rug where I can't move.
Irrational fear: June bugs Semi irrational fear: serial killers Rational fear: something bad happening to my children (this one can keep me up at night)
Good for you , I tried snorkeling and ran out screaming in about 1 minute. I don't like how they flop. And ever time I catch a fish I think that it could be a river monster.
There are a lot of apocalyptic things that are high on my list. Nuclear holocaust, bio-terrorism, large meteorites hitting earth. You know the stuff you don't have much control over but would make for a very bad day.
Snakes, venomous spiders, scorpions, sharks, hearing 30 safety switches being moved from action to instant in the bushes around me during a night patrol, and allowing a woman into my heart again.
Good for you! I think every woman, of sounds mind, should carry a gun full time. All this 'I am woman hear me roar' crap goes right out the window when one perceives someone around them, a man, seems intent on doing harm. It better to be disposed for homicide than it is to get a rape kit. I really do wish more women carried, especially petite women. The basic fact is that most women will not be able to overpower a man intent on doing harm. The gun increases the chances of getting out unharmed, but you have to be willing to use it. But it's also not a catch all. There have been a whole ton of random attacks on people, especially in 'defund the police' areas, where they had no way of seeing it coming. And if you accidentally end up in gang territory, yeah, those guys won't flinch at a gun and they are all armed themselves. And there a few who are former military. There are gang members who go into the military to get trained for the streets, on purpose. I really need to stop watching documentaries...
Mainly, it was the riots that reawakened me from the slumber. They got a little too close last year. And what do you with 100 people who want to kill you for being the wrong race? And not even actually being the wrong race, but looking like the wrong race?
Certain illnesses scare me, as does Killing someone in a fatal accident eith my vehicle; but neither scares me so much as Getting involved with a bad woman.
I made it a point while I was in the military to find my fears and confront them. I had a note written on my meeting journal "become more powerful than your environment'. I'd change that now to "become one with your environment" because I'll never be more powerful than my environment. So, deep sea diving, skydiving, patrolling in swamps, dealing with snakes and spiders and scorpions, eating snakes, being inches from explosions, rock climbing, glacier traverse, rappelling 400' up with no belay, open sea kayaking, 40-100 mile hikes, deserts, cold weather camping, jumping out of helicopters into the water, roping out of helicopters, flying small fixed wing aircraft, sword fighting in full armor with dull swords but it was full impact and full speed not coreographed, having kids, teaching them to ride a bike and letting go, giving a concept brief to a couple generals, exiting a submarine through the escape hatch in the open ocean, teaching a bunch of arrogant officers operational planning and forecasting, lobstering in shark infested waters (dolphins saved us),... so there's nothing I can think of that I deal with daily that scares me. It's the one's I love that I fear for. I tell them "if I'm not scared there's reason for you to be scared". It's when I'm not with them that I'm apprehensive.
I am not afraid of dying... i am afraid of the pain and of making my family sad. I am afraid of getting F in school or to fail in life and not reaching my dreams and goals. I can swim.. but not in deeper water higher that my height.
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