What are some "scary things" to you?
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Trish
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Would it make a difference if she were clutching a bucket of ice cream in her knuckle dustered hands?What is "scary thing" to me?
A huge Amazon woman wearing a snearing face and a knuckle duster...... and walking towards me.
feywon
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There is a difference between phobic fear, or even just slight anxiety producing fear of wild animals (land, sea or human) and having a healthy respect for the power of predatory critters, and natural catalysms (earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes). Sounds to me like you're a pragmatic person who respects the realities of life.
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feywon
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Had issues with claustrophobia when younger. Rarely gave into it, and eventually got past it. I have a healthy self preserving respect for the realities of aging. So i don't often go on my roof anymore. I'm clutzy enough on terra firma. But heights themselves not an issue for me (bridges, tall buildings, even cliffs)
The one thing that 'scares' me, because i have little confidence my ability to deal with it Is the idea of any of my children or my grandson predeceasing me.
The one thing that 'scares' me, because i have little confidence my ability to deal with it Is the idea of any of my children or my grandson predeceasing me.
hollydolly
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I have a horror/fear of Bugs like Cockroaches, .. never seen them in this country but OMG they're in so many places abroad... *YuK* *YUK*
I fear heights.. but not on a plane because I feel protected from the voices that tell me to JUMP whenever I'm on top of a height like a 20th floor Balcony.. etc...
.. but what keeps me awake if I was to let it would be the fear that I will die in Pain... the fear that if I get a horrible life limiting painful disease and that I will be unable to end my own life...
I fear heights.. but not on a plane because I feel protected from the voices that tell me to JUMP whenever I'm on top of a height like a 20th floor Balcony.. etc...
.. but what keeps me awake if I was to let it would be the fear that I will die in Pain... the fear that if I get a horrible life limiting painful disease and that I will be unable to end my own life...
Knight
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You could strip naked & smile. Seeing you naked & smiling just might wipe the sneer off her face, cause her to drop the knuckle duster & try to grab you. Then what would you fear?What is "scary thing" to me?
A huge Amazon woman wearing a snearing face and a knuckle duster...... and walking towards me.
Aunt Mavis
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Aunt Mavis.
Lewkat
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- New Jersey, USA
Something happening to my son, my only blood relative that counts, and my only child.
IKE
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The thought of something happening to mama.
I'd need to go and lie down.
Jamala
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It is "scary" to me when people jump on a bandwagon and take up the fight of their mate. Goodness knows what else they are capable of doing 
I hate it when I have to make hard decisions, perhaps I'd try to be brave and go for the ice cream.Would it make a difference if she were clutching a bucket of ice cream in her knuckle dustered hands?
I used to have many irrational fears which did stagnate me at times but I have learned to overcome most of them. I do still get anxiety and have a great fear of being in a room with a lot of people who I do not know. Thankfully those situations are rare these days but I was always a wreck when I used to have to go to a convention or the yearly company meeting.
On a different note, certain movies can scare the sheet out of me. Horror films which have children in them (Shinning, Orphans, etc) keep me spooked for a couple of days after watching the movie.
On a different note, certain movies can scare the sheet out of me. Horror films which have children in them (Shinning, Orphans, etc) keep me spooked for a couple of days after watching the movie.
David777
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Many things we might imagine can potentially or rarely scare us but the question ought not be about things we rarely experience. For example trying to walk on beams of a skyscraper under construction. Or crawling underneath a home with a dark basement crawl space where cockroaches, black widow spiders, mice, rats, live. Or being in a wind driven wildfire. I can imagine myriad situations like these but none are experiences I'm likely to encounter.
Over recent decades, little in my day to day life that has been scaring me, so low stress. Most stressful frequent situation is high speed urban night time freeway driving. An even worse white knuckle experience is being in my Forester with no leading vehicles in front of me on two lane high speed mountain highways during snow storms with many headlight blinding vehicles moving in the opposite direction. That is me in the Lake Tahoe basin during the winter ski season. Over 5+ decades, I've never caused a accident but when younger was merely lucky.
During winter ski season, there are plenty of truly scary steep places with obstacles like boulders and tree trunks to ski that as a senior I tend to avoid challenging myself as been there done that decades ago, no longer interested. Though what I do often ski, would scare a majority of skiers.
During summer out solo backpacking in Sierra Nevada wildernesses far from any other people inside a tent trying to sleep, black bears at night can be especially creepy that brings out an ancient primal fear all of we humans have for large dangerous wild carnivores. Worst is a deep dark forest on a moonless breezeless night where the sounds of unknown creatures making subtle twig noises moving about carry long distances and might be a squirrel, deer, black bear, or worst a mountain lion. Another scary situation out backpacking is being in electrically dangerous locations during massive thunderstorms with lightning. The most dangerous situation is when such a storm moves in over dry landscapes because bolts may land anywhere until water with electrolytes covers surfaces. Following excerpt of a story I have on the web elsewhere.
At the same time thunderstorms to the south began moving towards RS Mountain and before long, I heard thunder and shortly after rain drops so rambled back to my gear. By time I reached the gear, hail began to fall so I then prepared for a fast escape with rain gear though did not waste time putting on my rain pants that would have required removing my boots. I was surprised the main storm that I could see to the south had suddenly began moving north so quickly and I was soon moving as fast as I (little me 138#) could carrying my heavy load (~60#) north on the trail as hail began falling harder amid frequent ground stroke lightning. Lightning tends to follow down the more conductive paths with heaviest hail and rain that I could sense behind where I was moving due to the loud sounds made advancing north on lake waters. It wasn't long before I realized I would not be able to reach the far end of the lake before the peak of the storm arrived so began looking for options sheltering under larger whitebark pine. Fortunately the ridge to my east above the lake was steep and high enough that it was more likely to take any lightning strikes.
I stopped trail side under a tree where it was soon evident I would soon be soaked if I didn't find something better. There was a tent spot about 200 yards back on the trail I considered fleeing back to, but setting up my Copper Spur HV UL1 tent in a gusty storm with heavy rain is not something that can be done quickly. I noticed a larger tree up the slope with a split trunk so climbed up to that, then scootched down against the V of the trunk and placed my ground sheet over the pack and me that reached down to my boots. I then endured the awkward position for over an hour as several periods of heavy hail and or rain moved through. If the sky had not lightened up some to the west with storming into the evening possible, I was prepared to move back to that tent spot and endure setting up in the rain that at least would allow survival from exposure despite getting a lot of gear wet in the process.
As the storm waned to sprinkles, I dropped down to the trail and rambled quickly north. I soon had more regrets for not putting on my rain pants as the trail often routed through areas of now wet willow that had overgrown the trail and readily soaked into my Levi 505 cotton jeans. By time I'd covered the mile to the far end of the lake, the drama was over and noticed 3 groups of others that had endured the storm as the white surfaces of hail on landscapes quickly melted away. Not trusting the skies, I then set up my tent and was prepared to spend the night there.
Over recent decades, little in my day to day life that has been scaring me, so low stress. Most stressful frequent situation is high speed urban night time freeway driving. An even worse white knuckle experience is being in my Forester with no leading vehicles in front of me on two lane high speed mountain highways during snow storms with many headlight blinding vehicles moving in the opposite direction. That is me in the Lake Tahoe basin during the winter ski season. Over 5+ decades, I've never caused a accident but when younger was merely lucky.
During winter ski season, there are plenty of truly scary steep places with obstacles like boulders and tree trunks to ski that as a senior I tend to avoid challenging myself as been there done that decades ago, no longer interested. Though what I do often ski, would scare a majority of skiers.
During summer out solo backpacking in Sierra Nevada wildernesses far from any other people inside a tent trying to sleep, black bears at night can be especially creepy that brings out an ancient primal fear all of we humans have for large dangerous wild carnivores. Worst is a deep dark forest on a moonless breezeless night where the sounds of unknown creatures making subtle twig noises moving about carry long distances and might be a squirrel, deer, black bear, or worst a mountain lion. Another scary situation out backpacking is being in electrically dangerous locations during massive thunderstorms with lightning. The most dangerous situation is when such a storm moves in over dry landscapes because bolts may land anywhere until water with electrolytes covers surfaces. Following excerpt of a story I have on the web elsewhere.
At the same time thunderstorms to the south began moving towards RS Mountain and before long, I heard thunder and shortly after rain drops so rambled back to my gear. By time I reached the gear, hail began to fall so I then prepared for a fast escape with rain gear though did not waste time putting on my rain pants that would have required removing my boots. I was surprised the main storm that I could see to the south had suddenly began moving north so quickly and I was soon moving as fast as I (little me 138#) could carrying my heavy load (~60#) north on the trail as hail began falling harder amid frequent ground stroke lightning. Lightning tends to follow down the more conductive paths with heaviest hail and rain that I could sense behind where I was moving due to the loud sounds made advancing north on lake waters. It wasn't long before I realized I would not be able to reach the far end of the lake before the peak of the storm arrived so began looking for options sheltering under larger whitebark pine. Fortunately the ridge to my east above the lake was steep and high enough that it was more likely to take any lightning strikes.
I stopped trail side under a tree where it was soon evident I would soon be soaked if I didn't find something better. There was a tent spot about 200 yards back on the trail I considered fleeing back to, but setting up my Copper Spur HV UL1 tent in a gusty storm with heavy rain is not something that can be done quickly. I noticed a larger tree up the slope with a split trunk so climbed up to that, then scootched down against the V of the trunk and placed my ground sheet over the pack and me that reached down to my boots. I then endured the awkward position for over an hour as several periods of heavy hail and or rain moved through. If the sky had not lightened up some to the west with storming into the evening possible, I was prepared to move back to that tent spot and endure setting up in the rain that at least would allow survival from exposure despite getting a lot of gear wet in the process.
As the storm waned to sprinkles, I dropped down to the trail and rambled quickly north. I soon had more regrets for not putting on my rain pants as the trail often routed through areas of now wet willow that had overgrown the trail and readily soaked into my Levi 505 cotton jeans. By time I'd covered the mile to the far end of the lake, the drama was over and noticed 3 groups of others that had endured the storm as the white surfaces of hail on landscapes quickly melted away. Not trusting the skies, I then set up my tent and was prepared to spend the night there.
RandomName
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I fear encounters with neighbors about zoning issues. I fear losing face, and also fear making them feel the same way. As though someone has to be humiliated, hopefully not me. Often I just do nothing and hope the situation goes away. It takes courage for me to tell other people what I want when it might make them mad. Usually the continued, unending anxiety I endure as I procrastinate becomes so exhausting, that addressing the issue is a relief, and doesn't require courage.
Used to fear public speaking. And attractive women.
I have a lot of shyness and general anxiety, that I might construe as fear, also.
Used to fear public speaking. And attractive women.
I have a lot of shyness and general anxiety, that I might construe as fear, also.
MountainRa
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I’m afraid I’ll be traveling out of state when a bomb is dropped on the US, destroying most of the infrastructure, and I can’t get back home.
I read too many dystopian novels.
I read too many dystopian novels.
Marie5656
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Living alone, I fear becoming seriously ill at home, or worse, passing on, and not being found for a while. I mean, living in an apartment, I doubt that will happen, but the thought is still there. That is why I try to remember to keep my "button" close by
Teacher Terry
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Heights, losing one of my kids and being stuck in a nursing home.