What are you afraid of?

[EastTexas]

I don't remember seeing this up before.
What is your biggest fear?
Something big, something little, I'm curious to see what fears are common.

I was watching a movie about some kids getting stuck on a ski lift and forgotten (Frozen). That's a big one for me. Heights, anything over about 8 feet in the air I don't like. The higher I am the more freaked out I am. This fear I can fight to an extent, but I'm really uncomfortable.

Confined spaces. Any space small enough you have to crawl in. Nope can't do it, won't try. Like that movie Descent, I'm okay with the monsters in the cave, ask me to crawl through some narrow hole into the next room of the cave, fuck no. The monsters are going to get to eat me, because I can't make myself go through there.

[jacey.ATX]

STAIRS
...because about 3 years ago, I was having a little party at my new condo, and I was on my very first glass of wine (not even tipsy,) walking down the carpeted stairs with heels on, and one of my heels caught on the carpet and tripped me. My friends say that somehow, I twisted around backwards and flew through the air, like an upside-down Superman, down the stairs to the hard tile floor below, head-first.

I was knocked out, and when my friends revived me, I had a concussion and amnesia. I didn't know any of them except one (I had known most of them for 5 years or more.) I had no clue where I was (at my own condo I had moved into 2 months before), and I kept asking where my boyfriend of 5 years was (I had found out terrible things he'd been doing behind my back, and left him, and our house, to move into the condo.)

After EMS came and checked me out (they said I had a mild concussion and would be fine,) my one friend that I recognized took me into another room and started explaining everything to me. And every time he would say something, I would get that memory back. But I couldn't remember anything on my own, so he had to tell me everything: the breakup, the move, etc. I bawled crying. It's like I went through all the pain of months of heartache again in 5 minutes. Awful.

So, now, even though I don't remember the actual fall, every time I'm at the top of a set of stairs I have to go down, I get a little shiver and I don't want to go. I usually make myself go anyway, muttering under my breath "Iamnotgoingtofall...Iamnotgoingtofall...," but I always hold the handrail and I'll only do one step at a time, even in sneakers. If I'm in heels, it takes me forever to get down and I look like an idiot. And I'll take the elevator anytime I have a choice.

I moved out of that condo within 16 months.
Carpeted stairs = never again.

EDIT: This is my 99th post. After 100, will I be a Senior Member???

[BrianAlt]

Originally Posted by jacey.ATX

EDIT: This is my 99th post. After 100, will I be a Senior Member???

Only one way to find out. Are you afraid to find out?

[EastTexas]

You actually have good reason to be scared of stairs.
I'm always uneasy about steep stairs, afraid of falling just like you did.

[campy]

Yes, after 100 you are a senior member!


My baby getting sick/dying....I can't even think along this wave length. This far far overshadows any other fear I list by a landslide

I am afraid of spiders, Once when I was driving one crawled out of the air vent, a HUGE out door one and I had to kill it with my bare hands, it was him or me as I flew down the highway at 120km an hour

I am afraid of heights like climbing trees, climbing a ladder, bungee jumping, air ballooning etc. Not on bridges, in really tall buildings or airplanes or anything like that.

Sometimes, and not as often as when I was younger, walking alone at night if someone is behind me.

[FletchLives]

BEARS!

[campy]

Originally Posted by FletchLives

BEARS!

bears??

Where the hell do you live??

I have to agree though....have you ever seen the documentary with the creepy grizzly man...you gotta see it....you'll love this...starts at 2 min
YouTube - grizzly man grizzlyman

[RebelFart]

Well, I'm kind of a puss, I am afraid of heights like no other.. well, I'm afraid of a lot of things, but there is one that just beats me up every day.

The biggest fear i have, is just being alone, the very thought of it just freaks me the hell out. I'm going to school to become a paramedic, and i work at a nursing home just down the street from my house, not even half a mile down the road and everyday the thought of my house just bursting into flames and me loosing everything i have just squeezes right into my head.
I take care of many people who have been alone for most of their lives, the stories are not good, I'm constantly filling out DNR forms for people who just want to die, and that throws me off quite a bit. I'm constantly calling my GF of 3 going on 4 years, and talking to her about said people, just trying to get some reassurance that i wont end up like them, And when she doesn't answer (which is about 40% of the time) I freak out, and then i imagine my house bursting into a huge ball of flame, taking her with it. Now i know some people pray for something like that, but not this guy.

Doesn't seam like much, but after thinking about it nearly every day for the last year and a half, it really gets to me now. Sometimes i have to get home and take a few shots of Jager just to calm my mind.
I hope some day I'll get over it.

[FletchLives]

Originally Posted by campy

bears??

Where the hell do you live??

i didn't say it was a fear i have to regularly deal with. if a bear came at me though, i would try to fight the motherfucker. i don't want people to say i died from being mauled by a bear. i would rather people say that i died fighting a bear.

[snwlover79]

The only thing that unnerves me is being in deep bodies of water. Oceans, lakes, etc. I find it really creepy to not know what's swimming underneath me. And I was in the United States Marine Corps=water. I can function in the water but im not comfortable.