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That's the dream.Quote:
Originally Posted by Poop~Ghost
Numbers flying around in a primordial stew, like bats exiting a cave to feed on me, where no sense or meaning can be inferred.
Capped off by the guilt and shame of my inadequacies causing others pain and loss.
-wish I could have a drink right now...
been overcoming them since day one but it is a lifelong battle.Quote:
Originally Posted by SkiCougar
i don't fly in aeroplanes either.
Sasquatch scares the shit out of me
The next 4 monthsQuote:
Originally Posted by jack shit
Funny, but never had the least worries when my daughters started driving.Quote:
Originally Posted by GiBo
This is supposed to be the "What scares you" thread, not the "how to have a good time" thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by Benny Profane
Flat, open spaces. University in the prairies sucked. Prefer to stay within sight of the coast when out on the ocean. Those dreams of being trapped in a space without a vantage point still haunt from time to time. Slightly agoraphobic I guess.
Hookers & blow , but I'm a big believer in conquering my fears .
Y'know what the praire folk say about them mountains "You would have a good view if them damn mountains weren't in the way "Quote:
Originally Posted by BCMountainHound
Yeah just the opposite, can't stand close walls and people jammed up against me, a middle seat in a plane just sucks for me. Out of sight of land on the ocean? Happy as a lark. I'm sure the difference signifies something in our psyches related to something-something but fuck if I know what.Quote:
Originally Posted by BCMountainHound
edit: but I wouldn't call my claustrophobia "fear' really, I'm not scared of that shit i just can't stand it.
I can't go into a no window basement anymore without the willies. Overseas flights are sleepy med time. Can't imagine getting into the back seat of a two door car. Being up off the deck climbing or something like that bugs me, yet I can roll one on the goofiest chair.
If I lost one of my kids I would cease to exist as I am at this time. There is zero way I would be able to go on.
Ya, it's something that is sometimes hard to describe. I don't like crowds either - like the prairies/ocean, I feel exposed on all sides, kinda trapped while still having motion. But at least when in a crowd (that isn't mob-like) I don't get that increasing feeling of anxiety I do when I'm in the flatland or salt chuck for extended periods of time. Age has moderated most of the fear, though - or perhaps it's just a sign of my reaction time just slowing down...Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
Flowtron's ghost scares me. And Spook and Deathvan. But Poopghost scares me the most.
It's some variation of claustrophobia. Don't have a hard time with small rooms or anything, but if I had to crawl through a wedge in a cave, got buried in an avalanche, or trapped under some couch cushions I'd die unnecessarily early.
Might be why I was born a month premature.
When I was younger- a mediocre life. Now that my life actually is mediocre I don't fear it.
Now,
Tax audits or something bad happening to my friends ,family , and pets. Also I fear heights more than I used to (lessened by a factor of 10 with skis on). But if I look down one through one of those grated bridges down into a ravine it scares me now.
I went caving once. I was fighting the urge to freak out the whole time.
Now I'm scared I'm gonna 'splode my ankle again, and also scared if I don't do activities that might cause that then ill live some mediocre life of fear.
To live is to fly.
Fuck it - commitment.
This. Mediocrity.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ski to Be
I fear mediocrity too - I mean, if I climbed all the way up there I might fall off and hurt myself.
That rog will stop sharing his awesomeness with us.
My dog dying....I mean I know it's gonna happen, just sucks I love that animal more then most ppl.
I've been flying in planes since I was 3 months old. For some reason in the last year or so I started freaking out a little when there's heavy turbulence. Never bothered me before - shit, I'd laugh silently at the other passengers getting all white knuckled and closing their eyes. Now I'm not that guy quite yet, but I feel it on the inside... probably because I have 3 other people to live for now.
I used to have a frequently recurring nightmare of my teeth cracking into shards and falling out. Now I only get them occasionally, and they go away when I get my teeth cleaned.
My fear of heights is definitely getting worse. That sucks.
Yup. Waking up one day and wondering where the hell my life went. But frankly I don't have the balls to blow the kids college funds on overseas adventures.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mazderati
Been There. Done that. It's not so bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by OldLarry
Murdering someone and not disposing of the body properly then living my whole life in fear the body will be found. This is my recurring nightmare maybe once every 2-3 months for some reason.
Also plane crash, like the kind where you just drop from the sky. Had one go down in my area once, few classmates parents from my HS gone, entire family from a neighboring HS gone, buddies mom's boyfriend was on the clean up crew telling us stories of picking body parts from trees.
Oddly I never feared the plane crash. It would at least alleviate my fear of a mediocre life though an extraordinary death :). Probably the most painless way to go and my family will likely get a huge settlement.
You would hope...Quote:
Originally Posted by Ski to Be
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Andes_flight_disaster
Love that book. That is more the exception than the rule. Had their plane not just barely cleared the ridge and landed in a 3,000 foot steep avalanche gully it would have been instant lights out.
imagine the noises of the fat people being eaten.... yeeeash.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ski to Be
I don't recall there being any fat people on the menu at that point.
heights, big bugs and the creepy Asian lady who picks through my trash every Thursday.
Paddling out in large surf or skiing steep, narrow terrain. I started surfing at 35 and skiing at 45, so I am never going to rip the gnar in either sport. Pushing it with friends can scare the shit out of me. Now I just tell them to fuck off and go without me. Head high and 35 degree pitches are just fine for me now. I have nothin to prove.
That my Mom will outlive my Dad.
Snakes... always scare the shit out of me - mostly how they can just spring out of nowhere.
Also weird ocean creatures and sharks. I'm always freaked out swimming in the ocean thinking that something is going to take a chunk out of my leg.
...that in the afterlife the deer have mauls.
Mechanical devices in bodies of water....very strange I know but stuff like waste water treatment pools scare the crap out of me.
I'm a good swimmer who loves the ocean but put some mechanical shit in a pond and I'm very hesitant.
LOL the human mind is very funny.
taggin a moose on the highway up here. between the near misses, friends hitting them, knowing people who have died from hitting them, and how easy it is to cruise (no cars) I have had reoccurring daydreams about how I would hit them, how I would dive to avoid being crushed, etc. I now drive like gram at night.
fuckin moose.
Went through the same thing a year and a half ago, except it was a close family friend. 10 fucking years old. Her father seems to be holding up alright. Her mother is still a wreck. It's amazing to see how much the entire family has changed because of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stymie
For me, I would say not feeling accomplished. I just signed onto a m-f job while skipping most of the college part. If I end up with a family of my own to support and myself backed into this situation because I have to be, rather than because I want to be, and without taking some time to myself to travel, I'm not sure what I'll do.
This pretty much sums up my fears. This and Paul Reiser.Quote:
Originally Posted by tBatt
My father-in-law worked for NW most of my wife's life so she has a gazillion miles under her butt. I have flown steady 6-8 times a year for work for long time. One of first times flying with daughter as infant we hit amazing turbulence. Shit falling out of overheads, people puking, the plane was really going. Even my wife was spooked. I went from being nearly asleep before leaving the jetway to medicating for 2hr flights for about 18 months. My FIL said you know they have only lost one or two from turbulence.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tippster