Your Worst Fear

Stalkers. It doesn't matter what their motivation is, I'm afraid of someone being so obsessed with me that they will do anything to get my attention or control me.

It's also why I have an intense fear of yandere characters.

Blood and gore, though I've been slowly getting over it. A similar fear I have is weapons, especially guns.

The weird thing is, I like clowns, robots, animatronics, etc. but I'm creeped out by dolls and mannequins. I guess they're creepier because they don't move.

Drugs. Specifically Heroine.

There's a story behind this one. Back in Elementary School, every now and then, this Health teacher would come in and show us an anti-drug video. However, there was this one time she showed a video that explained the physical and emotional effects of these drugs. Younger me was horrified.

At one point, they explained what Heroin does, I think. During this time, I hid in the bathroom the whole lesson- Out of fear of these things. It's possible it may have been another well-known drug that can easily kill someone, but, I really do think they taught me about Heroin.

Ever since, I've easily gotten panic attacks at the mentioning of Heroin.

On other, less-serious fears, Balloons. I've always been scared at the sound they make when they pop.

edited 1st Jan '17 1:41:07 PM by Revaryk

Being alone in old age.

Bees. It comes from childhood trauma of being stung by one when I was four

Nightmare Faces. A few years ago, I came across a certain image online that gave me nightmares for months. I later came across another one (hint: it's also a page image from a Nightmare Fuel subpage) on YouTube by surprise and that gave me more nightmares. Fortunately I think I'm a bit more desensitized to that now, and I've gotten over those images.

I'm also disturbed by blood and cuts, but it's more so Nausea Fuel and Paranoia Fuel than Nightmare Fuel.

Maybe this is kind of obvious, but I really hate it when characters get taken captive by the villains. I guess it just inspires so much Adult Fear, to be trapped with someone who is clearly insane and/or malevolent.

It doesn't really bother me in works like Super Mario Bros., because instead of focusing on the damsel's distress, it focuses on the more optimistic, action-packed hero's quest to save them.

But in other works like A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and others, it really gives me the chills. Heck, remember that episode of Spongebob Squarepants where Spongebob is forced to work at the Chum Bucket? That episode made me cry as a kid!

edited 27th Mar '17 4:59:51 PM by DrNoPuma

I have a few fears.

• Getting into a deadly car crash. When I was in middle school, I was involved in a car crash. Ever since then, I've been scared of getting into another car crash. Because I'm scared I won't be as lucky as I was then.

• Drowning. I can't swim so I'm scared that I might drown.

• Death. I don't believe in an afterlife, so I'm scared about the fact that when I die, there will be nothing.

Being beaten, raped, or killed.

More specifically, one of the above happening to me because someone thinks I'm ignoring them...because I can't hear them. I'm hard of hearing. This fear has diminished ever since I got hearing aids, but that dull roar of unintelligible conversation makes me VERY nervous when I can't make out individual words and figure out whether they're directed at me or not.

I've been yelled at before for ignoring someone: "@#$%! didn't you HEAR me?!" Um, actually, no. "Don't give me that #@$!, I was right here!"

Nuclear war, being burned alive and Cessation of Existence.

Murderous rage, whether on the giving OR receiving end, complete despair and being helpless to what's about to happen.

Also, Evil Me Scares Me.

In addition to the ones I listed earlier, there's also accidentally harming a loved one and being too late/unable to help them in a life-threatening situation

I get really creeped out by X-shaped Wingding Eyes indicating a dead character. I guess they just fall into the Uncanny Valley to me.

Snakes. I really despise looking at them even in pictures. I always get an uneasy feeling in my right leg whenever I do.

Flunking an exam, too.

Heights,even a 4 foot elevation causes me some difficulty in breathing. It even carried over in videogames such as in Minecraft, I get nervous around heights. I think it's connected to my childhood experience in simple suspension bridges since I possibly experienced it shaking while me and my family were on it.

Going insane.

Probably cause my father was insane and I don't want to see that happen to anyone again.

Loneliness.

Not much more needs to be said.

Bikes.

I'm not kidding, those things terrify me now.

They're easily breakable, they're dangerous, and due to a certain accident that nearly killed my dad two years ago or so, good luck convincing me to try riding on a road.

edited 29th Jun '17 7:51:49 AM by RandomWriter413

Being such a pathetic useless failure of a human being that no one is going to love me and I'm going to die alone and unwanted with even my closest friends having turned their backs on me.

Becoming evil.

The end of the universe.

My friends all dying, atomic bombs, gasping for breath as I die, a fiery and painful death, pancreatic cancer, a supereruption.

I think it's a tie between shots, kidney stones, and losing my loved ones (or having them abandon me).

Edited by Segal991 on Jun 28th 2023 at 5:40:19 AM

Vicious dogs.

Inadvertently gaining enemies instead of friends by misunderstandings.