your biggest fears please!?
 

I am an art student in london and am currently thinking a lot about fear and the way it can affect your mind. If anyone can spare a couple of minutes it would be great if you could write a small paragraph or just a sentence on the thing that terrifies you the most. I'm not particularly interested in fears of spiders or wasps but am looking for the stuff that delves a lot deeper into the subconcious. I thought a horror film website might be a good place to find people with a more active imagination. If anyone could spend a couple of minutes sitting down, freaking themselves out a bit then letting me know the results I'd really appreciate it!
Please send me an email.
I will only use this information for research.

Just a suggestion:
I think it would serve your research much better if you could go out into the street and find real people that would give you a coupla minutes of their time.
It gives a more emotional level if you can see their faces and body language.
IMO.

Bananas...

They KNOW things.. They are everywhere....


And i suspect they want to violate me.. just LOOK at them....

Bumperstickers.

http://209.85.48.12/3599/85/upload/p2319071.jpg

I'm afraid of sea spiders. Sure, I'll probably never see a sea spider, they can't live outside the ocean and I can't live IN the ocean, but still.
Sea spiders. (shudder).
On the other hand, I LOVE lobster.
Go figure.:rolleyes:

Mmmm....gargle....I might even eat a sea spider if it was in garlic butter sauce.....

Nope.
Bad mental picture.....GET IT OUT OF MY HEEEAAADD!!!!!!
Flowers
Bunny rabbits
Fuzzy kittens.
Whew....that was BAD.

my biggest fear is mediocrity . . . that's why i wake up screaming every morning

Nope.
Too fast.
Too many LEGS.
I met this hippie one time who freaked out when I killed a spider, and HE said "You should respect it's little life, and try to adjust yourself to the spider. Why don't you watch a spider, and every time he moves, make an auditory picture of musical notes floating up from his feet?"
Well, I didn't bitch slap him, although it was almost IMPOSSIBLE not to, but I got out of there pretty quickly. They have good weed, but hippies are pretty useless for the most part. Anyway, the next time I saw a spider, god help me, I tried to picture it crawling along to music, but the only music that would come was the REE REE REE violin sound when someone's being killed in a horror movie.
So I squashed the sucker, and never looked back.
Moral of the story: Hippies SUCK.

Well one time,I woke up and my mom's boyfriends TARANTULA was...on my lap when i was sleeping.But that wasnt even scary.




But,i cant stand little spiders.I dont know why.Anyway I almost drowned one time when i was around 5(Yes i can still remember this) and i had to pull myself out of the water,because no one was around.Fun,fun stuff.

Black widows are the Hell's Angels of the spider world.
I don't mind the stubby little fuzzy jumping spiders TOO much....they're kind of cute in a Jim Henson kind of way, but I still wouldn't stroll in the flowery meadows with one on my shoulder and sing John Denver songs....

Me too.:)

Tonight I'm gonna dream about John Denver on eight legs chasing me around with a guitar singing "Thank God I'm A Country Boy." Great.
I'm SO glad I got myself on this tangent.

Back on topic

My greatest fear is being commited to a mental institution. As someone who pursues nightmares for a livivng I stare ino the darkness of my own psyche a great deal - I have learned to revel in it - but I fear slipping into the abyss.

To be locked up by people who simply do not believe you are competent o make your own decisions - horrifying.

Then you must be TERRIFIED of getting old.

Off topic again:
I only hope that when the Denver spider catches me, he'll kill me quickly, and not force me to listen to his greatest hits and eat falafel....or dandelion stew....or organic WHEAT GERM.....

Hyperventilating.
Puppies.
Kittens.
Flower...CHILDREN OH GOD IT'S NOT STOPPING!!!!!!

Whew. That was close.

Somebody wants a kiss, Miss Olivia

reminds me of the martha stewart dog from Big Trouble.


Olivia, dont worry about the spider. Give it a beer and an airplane, youll be okay.



I have a fear of disfigurement. the number 1 thing that made me cringe in hostel was the chainsaw lopping off his fingers...

I am a writer, programmer, bass player... Everything i enjoy doing is with my hands, plus i have a VERY strong sense of identity.. If anythign took that away i would lose it.

LMAO that is one of the most horrible things I've ever seen!!!
That does it. It's the Denver sea spider nightmare tonight for sure.
I'm glad that's settled.

Back on topic again...

For me it's not being able to move, i'm not claustraphobic and can take small spaces no problem, but if i can't move at all... especially my head... that scares the shit out of me. It's hard to explain because it's not a feeling of being trapped, pinned down or imprisoned, i can handle that, as long as i can still move my head. It's the not being able to move at all that freaks me out, that really hits the panic button big time :eek:

Gmork! lol...Other than childhood fears, I don't like heights, other than that, nothing. Maybe losing a loved one or dying alone.

We all die alone

Yeah, but if you take someone out at the same time, you can at least create the illusion that you didnt.

Isn't it all illusion, really? How much of what we know is actual? We cannot trust what we see, because everything is filtered through sense images and memory. The entire concept of the present is an illusion.

Look at anything...The object you are seeing is he memory of an object, a sense image created by the transfer of information from light into nerve impulse and then decoded in the brain. This may take the tiniest nano-fraction of a second, but it still takes time...everything is memory. Everything is illusion.

How's that for scary?

my brain hurts

Wanna bet? -Looks down at pistol- :D

Eventually you have toget past all of the philosophical crap and just accept that things are. Because if you could stop believing in yourself out of existance, i know a few people who wouldnt be here anymore.

Haha, someone who actually has the same concept of things as me. Interesting.

Deep, dark water. My worst fear is being dropped in the middle of the ocean, no land in sight.

It blows my mind to know that we haven't even come close to discovering what lurks in the deep, black ocean waters below.





***shivers***

You know I didn't really consider myself frightened of the sea before reading this.

Now I just got the willies

love that feeling

Thanks

A world without beer.






http://www.hdbeat.com/media/2006/01/homer-simpson.jpg

Girl's angry fathers :eek:

Heights :eek:

Dentists :eek:

I'm with you, Arrogant Bastard

mmmmmmm hoppy

I'm more worried about the moms. If the dad takes a swing, I can hit back. With an overprotective mother...I just can't hit a girl, I'm sorry.

Funny thing is...I'm usually a malty beer guy....but I do love the Bastard

I do what I can, brother.

Heights are the worst. I can't even watch Fear Factor when people have to be on top of a building. I'm not afraid of falling. I'd much rather fall down from a high place than stay there.

I don't remember who said it before me, but being the only person left alive in the whole world freaks me out too. I once read a book about that...I should go look it up again.

Mothers usually dig me. I get the evil "you're fucking my daughter" eyes from the Dads tho haha :D