What scares you ???

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Marianne Williamson Dept of Peace

I always thought Nelson Mandela wrote and said that that but he didn't...
 

John Doe

Well-known member
Heights. Badly.

I especially have a deep seated fear of walking across high bridges, at night, with dark still water beneath me. Makes me sweat.

Also spiders. Not small, even medium ones, I can handle them. I mean the big ones, the half-the-size-of-your-hand types you get in Australia. I had one in my bedroom when I lived in Sydney and, fuck me, it gave me the fear. :(
 

baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
Not since "the incident".

But seriously, I think I went to one, and it scarred me forever. Therapy ain't cheap either.
 

zhao

there are no accidents
HSDNZ said:
"Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.


I do think this is true.

I'm scared of large, dark, and deep bodies of water, and the prospect of being alone afloat on the surface. and I'm a Pisces. go figure.
 

swears

preppy-kei
Spending the next forty years in my shitty office job.
I'm trying to figure a way out, but I'm too used to the independence the money gives me.
 

Freakaholic

not just an addiction
For some reason, ive had this fear of wicker for a while.

I cant even go into a Pier 1 without the willies.

Its not that bad, not phobia-size, but still.... wicker gives me the willies.
 

john eden

male pale and stale
I've banned HSDNZ because he is a previously banned poster returning under a new name. I have changed his username accordingly.

He seems almost magnetically attracted to this site, for reasons which elude me.

If any banned posters wish to rejoin then they should discuss it (and the reaons for them being banned) with the moderators first, otherwise this will keep on happening.
 

bassnation

the abyss
confucius said:
I do think this is true.

I'm scared of large, dark, and deep bodies of water, and the prospect of being alone afloat on the surface. and I'm a Pisces. go figure.

yeah me too. i tried jet skiing to see if i could overcome it but the thought of having all that water underneath me totally paralysed me. i'm a reasonable swimmer too, its just the ocean that gets me.

Looking up into the void of outer space at nighttime both scares and fascinates too, for much the same reasons.
 
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Gabba Flamenco Crossover

High Sierra Skullfuck
bassnation said:
yeah me too. i tried jet skiing to see if i could overcome it but the thought of having all that water underneath me totally paralysed me. i'm a reasonable swimmer too, its just the ocean that gets me.

Looking up into the void of outer space at nighttime both scares and fascinates too, for much the same reasons.

I find sea swimming a bit freaky, but not to the point of stopping me doing it - I quite like the rush actually. But I was on holiday with a friend last week who has a paralysing fear of swimming in the sea. I pursueded him to jump in & he was doing OK, when his hand touched this huge wierd seaweed flower that had appeared out of nowhere & he completely spazzed out. I went back in to do battle with his nemesis but I couldnt find it - it had disappeared back into the deep - eerie.

Worse than the sea are large bodies of freshwater like locks, because they are so calm. At least in the sea the waves occupy you & stop you looking down so much.

And clear seas - I was in sardinia last year & the sea was ridiculously clear, you could be 30-40m above the seabed and see everything on it. 40m vertical is subjectively a very long way down, so I was experiencing a constant mild vertigo. Plus the ocean floor looked wierd & blue, like footage of the moon. Great once you got used to it but it was odd.
 

nomos

Administrator
needles

and i've found that my fear of heights usually only kicks in when i'm over water. when i'm walking on a high bridge over a roadway i'm usually all right, but as soon as land gives way to a river below me i'm terrified. i'd actually rather try my luck walking with the traffic than get too close the barrier. i have this odd feeling that i might accidentally leap over the edge.
 
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noel emits

a wonderful wooden reason
Telephones.

Spent too long working in a hellish call-centre and I still get jumpy when the phone rings. Hate speaking on the things as well.

Surely call-centres are against the Geneva convention?
 

baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
I'm scared of incredibly straight people who do everything by conventional norms.

Not that I'm massively unconventional or anything, but i certainly pick and choose according to what i think is right, and not for normative reasons. The idea of people doing things their whole lives with no interoogation of why or wherefore, terrifies me.
 
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