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[Hime Blue]

I haven't seen a topic like this, and since I'm genuinely interested, I really want to know what your worst fear is, and does it appear in your nightmares?

Well, I guess to start this topic off, I'll say that mine is needles. They scare me to death, really really really hate needles. And yes, they do appear in my nightmares, because just last night I had a dream that I had skin cancer in a few small spots and they had to take some sort of skin sample with a needle... And we're not talking any kind of needle, we're talking one that had to be left in for 5 minutes while it took the sample, and then there would be a huge scar left that had to be covered up. Plus, the needle wasn't conventional, it was some sort of air pressure needle that looked okay at first glance but stabbed a 9-inch needle once it was put against your skin...

Ew. Okay, uh, I'm going to quietly sneak away and ask you to tell your worst fear.

[The wise Kitsune]

Heights. I'm TERRIFIED because of a nightmare I had like 1 year ago. I was in a dark, industrial Gameworks, that I had been to in Chicago with my aunt. Anyway, I was on the second floor chasing my cousin, and I slipped under the railing. A large, black, tube for air or something, was holding me. It was starting to break, and I was starting to slip. I eventually slipped, and I fell. BOOM! At the exact moment I hit the ground, I woke up. It was scary, and I am still afraid of heights.

[Meggiemaccat]

Dying and the apocalypse. I've dreamed many times of dying, and several times it's involved a huge meteor crashing into the Earth and blowing it up, while I'm watching the fire-ball shockwave hurtle at me as I scream. I think I stopped (or tried to stop) dreaming for a while for fear of having nightmares, which had become more numerous than my dreams, but I think I'm getting over that now (or noticing that I'm dreaming more often). ^^'

[Zero-Shift]

I'm not really afraid of anything in particular. The closest I have to a fear is I somewhat worry about when I'm old if I'll end up like some decrepit, crusty, slobbering, shambling, excuse of a corpse who lives off an oxygen tank and needs a walker to get around. I don't mind the notion of getting old in itself. I just don't want to be pathetic. It never comes up in my dreams probably because I take damn good care of my body so I'm not too worried about this ever happening. I take action to prevent it from ever happening. When I'm in my seventies I'll probably be as spry as Revolver Ocelot or those other old guys who kick ass in games and anime.

On an unrelated note, I know for a fact that several people on this board hate heights which I find amusing considering what our favorite dream jester's pastime is.

[The wise Kitsune]

I know, But what I mean be heights is falling from them. If I could fly, then I wouldnt be falling.

[Kori]

I don't much enjoy needles meself, but my biggest fears are tied for top position.

First, SPIDERS. I'm so much an arachniphobe, I avoid any and all physical contact, so I can't always squish them! And when I do, it takes some major courage to clean up the mess! XD;;; Anyway, most nightmares I've had have involved spiders, really freaking huge ones that could outrun a cheetah and have fangs the size of my arm. @_@ And legs. Big long spindly... EEEEUGH! *shudders* (You can likely guess how much I'm looking forward to the JOD spider boss! LOL)

My second fear is losing people, like family and close friends. Whenever I dream about such things happening, I wake up with that dread still knotting my stomach. One nightmare was so bad, when I woke up, I realized I'd been crying in my sleep! It took me a good ten minutes to calm down.

This is why I love lucid dreaming so. Nightmares lose their sting when you can call on the red ideya! :3

[TRiPPY]

My fears are all loltastic and make no sense. Most of which annoyingly appear in the new NiGHTS game :|
Yay.

[animejosse]

Another one who's afraid of heights... though not as much of the heights in themselves as of falling down from them.

I also fear zombies and beings like them. Guess why I've never been able to play Resident Evil. Or how many times I've been stuck in a Zelda game because of the redead just being there. I've had at least one zombie-related nightmare, it was awful.

Related to the above: fear of a big worldwide catastrophe, like a meteor hitting earth or an epedemic killing everyone. Like Kori and Ekairi, I fear being alone.

[^_^ Go Dreamer]

My biggest fears:

I'm lonely already, but I'm afraid that I'll always be alone!
I'm afriad of being ignored and people hating me!
I'm afraid to be around big crowds of people!
I'm afriad of what people think of me!
and I'm also afraid of heights (falling) I'v had nightmares where I'm up in a really high beem or platform and then I just fall off of it, but I don't wake up before I hit the grond, I hit the ground and then wake up! This is kinda dangerous because I wake up with my whole body feeling severely in pain from colliding with the ground! And it hurts BADLY!! >_<

[Hime Blue]

Just found this:

http://www.phobialist.com/

Apparently I have Aichmophobia.

[Zero-Shift]

My fears are all loltastic and make no sense. Most of which annoyingly appear in the new NiGHTS game :|
Yay.

Oh come on! You can't tease us like that and not share with us, especially considering how open everyone else is being.

[NNR07]

My fears are... out there X_X. Yay for having OCD.

It's too many to name for me >______<. I'll name them ONE DAY 8D.

[spinningcannon]

Well, I have a rather severe fear of elevators, but I'm starting to think it's connected to simple claustrophobia.
For example, I get extremely nervous and uneasy in windowless rooms. It doesn't matter how big or small they are-- if I can't see windows or open doors, I start to panic. As a result I think it's more of cleithrophobia.
This would explain why 90% of my dreams involve huge, roomy buildings with tons of windows. However, it gives no logical explanation as to why I often dream of elevators (and using them) with no fear whatsoever. I actually get along very well with dream elevators. Uncanny.

Looking through the phobia list... I don't want to go pasting tons of these things to my name, but I do have normal-intensity cases of ankylophobia, anginophobia (both quite logical ones in my case), athazagoraphobia (Selph has this severely), atychiphobia, erotophobia, genophobia, gymnophobia, hadephobia, hamartophobia, homophobia, lockiophobia, meteorophobia (I've had enough dreams of 'em), and probably a ton more but I have no time to go looking right now. ^^;

[animejosse]

Keep in mind that there's a difference between a fear of something and a phobia.

I used to have a phobia for the dark, but I thankfully grew out of it. Had a few nightmares about it >_O Fear of dark is not good when you live up here. 5 pm and the sun has already set...

[Dark Magician]

Phobias:
Entomophobia (fear of insects and my most intense one... yet strangely enough, I have a fondness for Tentomon, Wormmon, Scyther, Butterfree and Shino Aburame)
Arachnophobia (fear of spiders and is on the same level as my other one)
Bathophobia (the fear of depth, not baths silly)
Acrophobia (fear of heights)

Fears:
Failure
Not realizing myself
Dogs (grew out of it *pats elder sister's dog on the head*)

Sickeningly enough, I've had a nightmare in which I was faced with two phobias rather than one. It all revolves around falling from something, hitting the ocean and finally drowning. As for my fears, my dreams are mostly centered around trying to confront them (hardly ever plays out).

[Kraken]

I only have two fears.

The first is, ironically, drowning. I love the water, but the idea of the deep ocean scares the crud out of me. You don't know what's down there, and drowning in deep water seems terrifying to me. I blame this fear on Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire. I hate you, sewer level. Rot in oblivion.

The second is being nothing. This one is sorta general, though. I'm talking more of a literal nothing (trying to imagine myself not existing is really frightening), and metaphorical nothing (to my close friends).

[Xenon]

Gawd, I've been trying to avoid this thread so much, but I must share after a certain experience.

Top three fears are Bats, Spiders, and Unstable Heights (not so much being up high, but the lingering feeling that I'm going to fall and the sudden stop shortly afterwards.)

I had a nightmare about two weeks ago that involved two of the three, which is what has convinced me to show up here and tell you all. Reala doesn't like me (or probably anyone for that matter) it seems. The dream was me walking along in an open field on a nice, sunny day. As I looked up to admire the clouds floating by, the sky grew dark and angry. Deep black cluds rolled in over my beautiful view and flashes of lightning ripped through the sky. I saw the outline of what appeared to be a person hovering in the sky nearby, and another flash of lightning illuminated his face. Of course it had to be Reala. What fun.

He lifted his left hand and swept it to his side, causing the earth around me to crumble, and leaving me standing on a teetering pillar of earth not more than two feet in diameter. I looked down and began to panic. I remember thinking I was going to die. I reached my hands up, pleading with him to stop this torture, but with another wave of his finger, my hands were wrenched behind my back and held fast. I remember seeing him point about halfway up the pillar on which I was standing, and as I looked down to see what he was pointing out, a swarm of spiders began making their way up the pillar. As they reached my feet I began outright flipping, and thrashed about for a few seconds before my movement threw me off balance and I fell over the edge of the pillar. I watched myself fall into the darkness beolw from what seemed to be the perspective that Reala may have had at the time, and as soon as I disappeared from sight, I was jarred awake somehow.

Like I said, Bats, Unstable Heights and Spiders. Not sure why there weren't any bats in that nightmare, but damn I am glad that they were left out.

[randomrhys]

i had a major nightmare the other night about....mewtwo. it sounds hilarious now but it was really scary.

luckily i don't usually get major nightmares but i do have a recurring one about being in trouble and having to dial 999 to get the police and there's never any answer.

[The wise Kitsune]

Anglophobia- Fear of England or English culture, etc. - O.o

You arent alone Ekairi, I have anxiety disorders too. : (

[kidninja]

I fear most scary things like zombies and dark nightmarish stuff , I cant even watch a scary movie .

But I mostly fear my imagination I can imagine good things but i think so vividly about bad things so if I see a zombie Im gonna think of them a lot in my dreams.

[Zero-Shift]

This thread is really bringing out the devil in me. I'm fond of quite a few of these fears, especially falling from heights, bats, and zombies. I'm fighting every urge to post pictures. Optimus help me.

Anyway, I'm kind of curious why you people fear the things you do. Obviously this it to those who might have an idea why. Sometimes it's hard to pin down.

[Hime Blue]

I can state why I'm scared of needles. It's also because I'm a complete wimp and hate my own pain; the fear might also be because I'm very empathetic towards others and my friends have told me 'you can sense my feelings'.

...although, for how much I hate my own pain, I can torture characters as good as heck...

[LiGHTS]

I have anxiety disorder. So fear is sort of what I do. Its one of the blackest parts of my life and I hate it. Here goes.
I fear ill health, uncontrolled pain, death, God and other supernatural beings that can be malevolent (if they exist), and parts of my own mind. I also hate what I fear. Anyone else notice that anger and fear seem to be linked? The things we fear seem to infuriate us with the power they have over us.

[wocko]

Heh I used to be afraid of lots of things when I was a kid. Teddy bears, whistling kettles, cuckoo clocks, exhaust fans and certain tv commercials to name a few. But I grew out of all those fears.
HEY! Stop laughing!!!

But I'm pretty much afraid of heights and getting into trouble with people these days.

[The wise Kitsune]

XD When I was little, I was afraid of Mr.Bean, Pee Wee Herman, and (Dont laugh!) Austin Powers.

[Roam]

Heights, isolation, the undead, and becoming unable to do anything on my own are probably my biggest four. Which is amusing, because zombies fascinate me.

[Camittles]

I also fear zombies and beings like them. Guess why I've never been able to play Resident Evil.

I totally agree with you on that. Rotting human corpses, walking or not (and I prefer not) scare the crap out of me. I wish there was a technical phobia term for it, but haven't been able to find one. I thought they had terms for just about any fear, like peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.

[LadyTwinkle]

I totally agree with you on that. Rotting human corpses, walking or not (and I prefer not) scare the crap out of me. I wish there was a technical phobia term for it, but haven't been able to find one. I thought they had terms for just about any fear, like peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.

My worst nightmares involve zombies. I hate them completely. I loathed them especially in college. My roomie would blast resident evil all night long right next to my bed. UHG! I thought drawing them in a funny way would get me "over" them. but even drawing them freaked me out. I just couldn't handle it.

My friends had me play card games, and read zombie survival manuals. (they all like zombies)
I still have nightmares about them.
and they make me ill.

[wocko]

What would you do if this happened to you when you're walking down the street at night?


Honestly I'd be scared not to mention have nightmares if a skeleton riding a motorbike approaches me

[Zero-Shift]

What would you do if this happened to you when you're walking down the street at night?
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn4WwRmDigg" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn4WwRmDigg</a>

I might jump from surprise but I'd probably be amused by it because it reminded me of Grim Fandango.

I've had friends say Shaun of the Dead helps with getting over a zombie fear. I just like the movie because I love zombies.

(>_O)

Urge to be a bastard rising.

[Soyo]

I guess the fact that I don't really know what my worst fear is, prevents me from ever encountering it.

I do happen upon some of my worst fears sometimes in dreams though, but not "thee" worst fear.

[DAiLiGHT]

Bees. Bees, needles, heights, and the kids at school who have been like, stalking me and following me around, teasing me and making my life a living hell since kindergarden. But mostly bees. If I have to get into the house, and there's a bee near the door, I WILL. NOT. MOVE. until the bee is gone or my mom squishes it. My dad and I are both highly allergic and terrified of bees. I sat on a bee once. My right ass cheek swelled up so big I couldn't sit properly for a week.

[Gun6]

I'm afraid of:

Bees, wasps, things that chase me, things that can sting or bite, strangers, the dark, the undead, being outnumbered, strange noises, blood, physical deformities, people that try to make me my friend when I don't know them, death, driving in a car, flying, strange neighborhoods, being alone, windowless rooms (not claustrophobic though), physical contact, sneaking around (being caught, can't play games like that), dark depths in water (even in a swimming pool), being in trouble, people being angry at me, and some other stuff.

When I'm alone, I sometimes talk to some voices that I make in my head for a bit. Call me paranoid? I probably have OCD and clinical depression too. :3

[FanOingo3]

Clowns. I got a really big fear of Clowns after watching Scary Movie 2. Yes Laugh at me. Ha ha! Very funny XD. But the movie "IT" also shared that fear as well as that scary clown from "Poltergeist" XD

[Rhapsody]

I'm terribly afraid of ghosts. I had a nightmare once where ghosts had invaded my house. I just sat in a corner until the dream was over.

[Phantom Rin]

*Grumble Grumble* I don't ever have nightmares. I wish I had at least one so I know what its like though. I guess I'm too calm and collected of a person as I never really stress out over anything though. I swear though people talk about how scary some movies and other things are and I can't relate to it.