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What are some of your greatest fears? I was thinking about this today because it's an artsy thing to do. I'm not sure.
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Permaban
Baldness
Dying alone
Declining health necessitating deprivation of foods I like
The Saints entering another era of being shitty
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Incurable illness.
Being shut in somewhere.
Loss of sight. ( Much rather be deaf - no question ).
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I have a fear of having some kind of mental disorder that my parents never told me about, so I'm thinking in retarded thoughts even though I don't know they're retarded.
On the same token, I fear being indoctrinated or "tricking" myself into thinking something just because I'd like it to be true. I fear mindgaming myself, basically.
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Spiders
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Being baldness.
Losing my beloveds.
Being useless.
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The open sea.
Tsunamis.
Deep water.
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^Started reading that as a haiku when "tsunami" was the first word I noticed. Then was disappointed that it wasn't. Then was disappointed in myself for caring about haikus in the first place.
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Why is it you care
about haikus anyway?
They are not that great.
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Eight legged devils
Place them all into a pit
Drop fire upon them
Yeah so I hate spiders, some other fears being:
Going deaf, if I could hear anything I'd probably lose the will to live.
I'd say dying alone, but I feel like a sob for saying that as it's really my fault if I can't pick up the courage to find a person to love.
Jellyfish.
Juggalos.
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Falling with my hands tied into an ant-hill! which is unlikely but still.....*shudders*
Probably losing my hearing.
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I can't post it here.
Just know that we fogeys/uber fogeys still have fears like you young folk.
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Emotional seperation and loss from others
Meeting new peeps
And bees, I FUCKING HATE BEES!!!!!
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Losing my teeth. (I'm fucking sereous, I have had a mini trauma involving losing my front teeth and I still get nightmares of teeth falling out)
Falling from a lethal height.
Not heing able to move / losing vital body parts.
Becoming lonely/useless for the rest my life.
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[Iron Maiden] FEAR OF THE DARK!!! [/Iron Maiden]
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I've got some minor claustrophobia, I think. Nothing too serious -- it doesn't impact my daily life in any way -- but it's noticeable in some particular situations. Example: in biology this year, we did a lab which required me to bike while wearing a face mask. It didn't affect my breathing in any significant way, but I was (irrationally) afraid that it would, and I freaked out a bit and nearly got sick.
As for fears that are less clinical in nature... I don't know, I'm not really a fearful person. I guess I'm rather afraid of not being successful in or after college.
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I pass out from blood. I can watch things on tv, but real life blood....ugh.
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Getting rejected by Adami
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My children suffering.
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Being outside of my comfort zone.
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waking up dead
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Never finding a significant other and being alone forever.
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Deep water.
Deep water.
and last but not least
DEEP F***ING WATER
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The open expanse of the ocean. That shit's hella cray.
Losing those that are close to me.
Spiders.
Not going anywhere with my life.
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And bees, I FUCKING HATE BEES!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1GadTfGFvU
I'm not afraid of the bees.
But I have a slight fear of the dark.
And being really freaking awkward in public (although it doesn't happen a lot).
House fires.
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Losing my teeth. (I'm fucking serious, I have had a mini trauma involving losing my front teeth and I still get nightmares of teeth falling out)
This :eek
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Loneliness
Not waking up after going to sleep
Flipping that mental switch and completely losing it
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1. Spiders, and to a lesser extent, insects in general.
2. Deep water. I remember making a thread about it.
3. Heights
That's about it, really.
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Hornets.
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(https://urbansportstalk.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/cpaul.jpg)
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SHHHHHHHIIIIIII
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Being eaten by a giant squid
Particularly high places
People sharpening knives in my general direction
Organised religion (disorganised is fine)
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Being eaten by a giant squid
:implode:
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FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK
Implode's onto me again.
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And bees, I FUCKING HATE BEES!!!!!
This.
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Barring dying alone and other emotional fears, I must go with:
Deep Water
Black Water
Engine failures while taking off (thanks to this horrible photo)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/53/Aa191_ohare.jpg)
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- Being a disappointment
- Talking to people which aren't my friends already (and sometimes even my friends)
- Being unprepared (I leave the house with an umbrella when it's 40 degrees outside, bring my phone charger to friends' houses in case my battery's in danger of running out, double-check eeeverything and similar)
- Fire (I can't light a match, for example)
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- Talking to people which aren't my friends already (and sometimes even my friends)
*puts a hand gently on her shoulder*
Sighhh... I know how you feel. I used to be very sociable, but I got bullied in elementary school and became shy. Now I try to get rid of shyness, but it isn't very easy.
And back to the topic: unstable high places. I'm not afraid of being in a high building, but for example I'm always extra careful with ladders.
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Death of one of my kids
My death while the kids are still not adults ( I am a single dad )
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Losing my teeth. (I'm fucking serious, I have had a mini trauma involving losing my front teeth and I still get nightmares of teeth falling out)
This :eek
You serious? Damn. I have only ever met one person that had the same.
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Losing my teeth. (I'm fucking serious, I have had a mini trauma involving losing my front teeth and I still get nightmares of teeth falling out)
This :eek
You serious? Damn. I have only ever met one person that had the same.
Losing your teeth is one of the Top Ten most experienced nightmares.
The Top Ten Most Common Nightmares
32% - Being Chased, Attacked
7% - Falling or Drowning
7% - Being Trapped
6% - Partner Leaving Them
6% - Being Injured, Ill
5% - Teeth Falling Out
3% - Being Naked in Public
2% - Misssing a Plane or Train etc
2% - Contacted By the Dead
1% - Natural Disasters
https://www.nightmares.com/top-nightmares.htm (https://www.nightmares.com/top-nightmares.htm)
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My greatest fear is something happening to my wife and daughter and having to go on without them. I think I would find a way to check out.
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I really don't fear anything... except maybe a bear attack while hiking alone in the woods. But I man up and go hiking alone anyways....
oh... and accidentally knocking up my girlfriend
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Losing my teeth. (I'm fucking serious, I have had a mini trauma involving losing my front teeth and I still get nightmares of teeth falling out)
This :eek
You serious? Damn. I have only ever met one person that had the same.
Losing your teeth is one of the Top Ten most experienced nightmares.
The Top Ten Most Common Nightmares
32% - Being Chased, Attacked
7% - Falling or Drowning
7% - Being Trapped
6% - Partner Leaving Them
6% - Being Injured, Ill
5% - Teeth Falling Out
3% - Being Naked in Public
2% - Misssing a Plane or Train etc
2% - Contacted By the Dead
1% - Natural Disasters
https://www.nightmares.com/top-nightmares.htm (https://www.nightmares.com/top-nightmares.htm)
Sorry for the quote pyramid, but I have semi-recurring dreams where I'm chewing gum (which I hardly EVER do) or I'm talking to someone and my teeth just... shatter. It's creepy as hell.
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Talking on the phone
As demonstrated today: I HATE talking on the phone. HATE. HATE. HATE.
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Drowning in vomit.
(https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/forumavatars/avatar_1070_1346181559.gif)
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Any particular person's vomit? It's a bit hard to dust for vomit.
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Any particular person's vomit? It's a bit hard to dust for vomit.
It's better than dying in a freak gardening accident.
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Had to look it up but I was relieved to be correct.
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Being serious for a moment, my greatest fear is that my mother or my wife will outlive me.
I have HepC and a pretty shitty prognosis (not fishing for sympathy here, I've known this for about a decade and it is what it is).
All I really want out of life is to live long enough to support my mother until she's gone and to not leave her or my wife high and dry. Luckily, considering my health circumstances, I've got a killer life insurance policy from my job (twice my annual income in a lump sum if/when I die) and my medical prognosis says I have a good 15 to 20 years left - if I take care of myself (which I am doing) and that should be enough to outlast my mother.....I hate to even look at it that way, but I just want her to have a comfortable life in her golden years......I put her through hell until about 15 years ago, so I've got a lot of making up to do.
Anyway, that's my greatest fear - dying before my mother and/or my wife.
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Nice post Barry. Your dedication to karma is indeed heartwarming :)
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Being serious for a moment, my greatest fear is that my mother or my wife will outlive me.
I have HepC and a pretty shitty prognosis (not fishing for sympathy here, I've known this for about a decade and it is what it is).
All I really want out of life is to live long enough to support my mother until she's gone and to not leave her or my wife high and dry. Luckily, considering my health circumstances, I've got a killer life insurance policy from my job (twice my annual income in a lump sum if/when I die) and my medical prognosis says I have a good 15 to 20 years left - if I take care of myself (which I am doing) and that should be enough to outlast my mother.....I hate to even look at it that way, but I just want her to have a comfortable life in her golden years......I put her through hell until about 15 years ago, so I've got a lot of making up to do.
Anyway, that's my greatest fear - dying before my mother and/or my wife.
:hug: :'(
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Not having somewhere to live or being able to support myself, having to rely on others to get by.
Being alone for the rest of my life.
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Talking on the phone
As demonstrated today: I HATE talking on the phone. HATE. HATE. HATE.
I'm not a big fan of the phone either. Lots of awkward pauses and people talking over/interrupting each other awkwardly. I'm more of a email, texting guy.
Not having somewhere to live or being able to support myself, having to rely on others to get by.
and this freaked me out big time when I was still going to Film school, especially when I saw all my friends graduating and not being able to find jobs. It is a terrifying feeling.
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- Talking to people which aren't my friends already (and sometimes even my friends)
*puts a hand gently on her shoulder*
Sighhh... I know how you feel. I used to be very sociable, but I got bullied in elementary school and became shy. Now I try to get rid of shyness, but it isn't very easy.
And back to the topic: unstable high places. I'm not afraid of being in a high building, but for example I'm always extra careful with ladders.
I know both of these feels.
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I would 100% absolutely rather go deaf than blind.
Just think of all the things you couldn't do if you couldn't see.
Versus : can't hear music any more. That's it.
I could easily live without music. You could still PLAY guitar and drums. You just wouldnt need earplugs anymore :D
Not being able to see would require help to do virtually everything. It would be awful.
Plus i'm really claustrophobic so there's that as well.
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I would 100% absolutely rather go deaf than blind.
Just think of all the things you couldn't do if you couldn't see.
Versus : can't hear music any more. That's it.
I could easily live without music. You could still PLAY guitar and drums. You just wouldnt need earplugs anymore :D
Not being able to see would require help to do virtually everything. It would be awful.
Plus i'm really claustrophobic so there's that as well.
On the flip side, it's not really just no music, but no nothing. I can't read lips and it would take me forever to learn sign language if ever, but blind I could still hear people, nature, and all of the wonderful things in life. And I could become Dare Devil :xbones
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No thanks.
I am more irritated on a daily basis by un-necessary noise and sounds that I could happily go deaf.
Imagine sitting by the river on a hot sunny day and not being able to hear the screaming baby 10 m away :lol
I'm really claustrophobic so not being able to see anything ever again would be horrible for me.
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You wouldn't have to see the 97% of the posts you find unfunny in the funny thread.
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Getting alzheimer's and Lou Gehrig's disease at the same time.
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and I can always have somebody read me what you guys are saying.
Mom: Dylan....I don't want to read this.
Darky: Mom pls, I'm blind, just read it.
Mom: .....okay. Dark Castle, I want to be so de-
Darky: OKAY MOM THAT'S ENOUGH.
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You wouldn't have to see the 97% of the posts you find unfunny in the funny thread.
THROW THE ACID.
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Just walk up to my avatar. Lots of acidic digestive fluids :metal
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Just walk up to my avatar. Lots of acidic digestive fluids :metal
:metal WARM
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And note the delicate aroma of Icehouse residue :tup
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And note the delicate aroma of Icehouse residue :tup
:metal FRAGRANT
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My tits obeying gravity by falling past my kneecaps.
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I always had this dumb fear that I would be kidnapped when also having a really bad cold.
The kidnappers would cover my mouth with duct tape, but I couldn't breath through my nose so I slowly suffocate and they would think I was just resisting, when I was really dying.
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Spiders
Breaking a guitar string onstage
Spiders
Deep water
Losing a loved one
Spiders
Forgetting how to play a song onstage
And Arachnids.
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Breaking a guitar string onstage
Happened to me a couple times. As long as it's either E string, you're in way better shape than if it's any of the middle strings. It's funny though since it happened to me in the middle of covering Local H's Bound For the Floor and, as simple as that song is, it took me almost a whole minute to figure out how to seemlessly make it through the only two riffs in that song without the low E. Probably since my mind was split between playing the song and transposing mentally at the same time.
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:dangerwillrobinson:
I just had too.
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:biggrin:
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Loneliness
Abandonment
Being forgotten by those who claim to love me
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The biggest fear I have is not living up to my potential, I've wasted a bit of my life doing stupid shit and I don't want to waste anymore time.
And most recently after my past relationships I'm afraid of being alone, at the moment but in 15 years when I'm 40, I don't want to be alone.
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My tits obeying gravity by falling past my kneecaps.
sweet jumping jeezus that made me LOLcopter :rollin
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I'm just glad someone caught it. :lol
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My biggest fear is that I'll never find a solid career and I'll be jumping between minimum-wage jobs my whole life. Also the fear of being foreveralone and never having my own family. It really kills me to think about it, but I just don't see it happening with my career situation.
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My biggest fear is not living up to the potential God has given me.
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I'm terrified of being trapped in somewhere tiny and 100% escape proof (welded inside an iron crate for example) with no windows or air holes and just being left there to die. OMGGGGGGGG
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Losing my teeth. (I'm fucking serious, I have had a mini trauma involving losing my front teeth and I still get nightmares of teeth falling out)
This :eek
You serious? Damn. I have only ever met one person that had the same.
Losing your teeth is one of the Top Ten most experienced nightmares.
The Top Ten Most Common Nightmares
32% - Being Chased, Attacked
7% - Falling or Drowning
7% - Being Trapped
6% - Partner Leaving Them
6% - Being Injured, Ill
5% - Teeth Falling Out
3% - Being Naked in Public
2% - Misssing a Plane or Train etc
2% - Contacted By the Dead
1% - Natural Disasters
https://www.nightmares.com/top-nightmares.htm (https://www.nightmares.com/top-nightmares.htm)
Sorry for the quote pyramid, but I have semi-recurring dreams where I'm chewing gum (which I hardly EVER do) or I'm talking to someone and my teeth just... shatter. It's creepy as hell.
Excuse me for the quote pyramid as well;
That actually surprises me, that teeth falling out is a common nightmare. I didn't have them at all before I lost my teeth, but afterwards, especially the first couple of weeks, my dreams consisted of a replay of the event and completely random other stuff involving losing teeth. It's fucking scary.
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One of the greatest fears and scariest moments of my life was the few days before and the morning of taking the PCAT exam. I was terrified that I wouldn't do well and that I would have to re-evaluate my entire life. I was so very worried and couldn't sleep at all the night before.
I was able to get the score that I wanted, and it ended up being a moment of relief that can't be expressed in words.
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The biggest fear I have is not living up to my potential, I've wasted a bit of my life doing stupid shit and I don't want to waste anymore time.
After the fear of dying, and the fear of the people I love dying, this one would probably be next for me. That's not to say I think I've wasted my time, but I haven't progressed as fast as I feel I could/should have, and I have this fear every single day.
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fish
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My tits obeying gravity by falling past my kneecaps.
Tits!!!! :metal :tup
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Getting a serious sports injury that will leave me helpless for six months.
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Bye quote pyramid
I didn't realize losing one's teeth was one of the most common nightmares people have.
I had a traumatic experience when I was about 6 where I lost four teeth, and since I have dreams about losing the rest. it's not a dream I have often and they're all different apart from the teeth falling out.
I'd rather have dreams where I get shot (have had a few of those as well).
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My tits obeying gravity by falling past my kneecaps.
Tits!!!! :metal :tup
:blush :lol :blush
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I am absolutely terrified of flying. I have no idea why and statistically its safer than driving and that jazz, but still, since I was a kid I've always been freaked out about it.
Ironically, I would really like to go skydiving. Now I know that doesn't make much sense, but I think that knowing that I'll be jumping out of the plane changes the dynamic a little, but still. I don't know.
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Prison.
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Everything that's out in the ocean that we haven't discovered. It's fascinating, but scary at the same time.. The feeling that things are out there that make us humans look like small piss ants.
Giant squids, DAMN.
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Everything that's out in the ocean that we haven't discovered. It's fascinating, but scary at the same time.. The feeling that things are out there that make us humans look like small piss ants.
Giant squids, DAMN.
That shouldn't really be an active fear unless you spend a lot of time deep in the middle of the ocean.
Wait, do you spend a lot of time deep in the middle of the ocean? :|
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Where do you think I'm posting from? How do you think I'm posting? Of course I'm in the ocean.
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SwimmingBIZKIT.
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I honestly want to go to the Bermuda Triangle and see what all the fuss is about. :corn
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I honestly want to go to the Bermuda Triangle and see what all the fuss is about. :corn
If you post from the Bermuda triangle, does it make it to the internet or is it lost?
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Horrible injury or illness that has permanent consequences not allowing me to enjoy life as I otherwise would. And of course death. Those are the big ones. I just want to be for the most part healthy and live forever, no biggie.
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Having a water moccasin bite my butthole when I'm shitting.
Being stung on the eyeball by a hornet.
Actually dying when I fall to my death in my dream about falling to my death.
Not being able to taste bacon.
Not having air conditioning.
Fake silver necklaces.
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Well, this may seem insignificant, but my greatest fear is never talking to the one person, that I've known the longest, outside of my family, again. It may seem lame, and it is lame, but I usually enjoy life a lot more after a nice conversation with this person, so yeah.
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Near all my fears are now centered around my children.
- Them getting Kidnapped
- Them getting Cancer or a disease that kills them young
- Them getting maimed or disfigured in an accident
- Something happening to me where they are left Fatherless at a young age
I rarely come across a fear that is 'selfish' as I've reached a point in my life where I am very secure in my Faith which helps me cope with any thought or 'fear' that may try to crop up in my head. Even when I do experience the 'fears' about my kids...I have good luck at expunging them from my mind rather quickly.
But I will admit there are times when I find myself 10 minutes into a wandering daydream that has just spiraled out of control and that contains nothing but horrible circumstance after horrible circumstance.
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Despite me being reserved and somehow cold person my biggest fear is loneliness. It would be even worse knowing I'm to blame for being lonely :/
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The Top Ten Most Common Nightmares
32% - Being Chased, Attacked
7% - Falling or Drowning
7% - Being Trapped
6% - Partner Leaving Them
6% - Being Injured, Ill
5% - Teeth Falling Out
3% - Being Naked in Public
2% - Misssing a Plane or Train etc
2% - Contacted By the Dead
1% - Natural Disasters
https://www.nightmares.com/top-nightmares.htm (https://www.nightmares.com/top-nightmares.htm)
Interesting statistics. It's really rare for me these days, but I used to have this recurring nightmare of me walking up an escalator but the steps would then be heightened by several decimeters while the actual step itself would become smaller so only your toes could fit on it. I would then fall down, and just as I'm about to hit the ground I'd wake up.
It used to happen with me falling off a building too. I've never been that afraid of heights though when I'm awake, but I guess there's something about falling that made my frightened.