Your three biggest fears.

Heights, spiders and I have this weird recurring dream (I've been having it for the last 20 years or so) which is impossible to describe because it looks nothing like anything I've ever seen, but it terrifies me even now. It's like I'm in an always-changing arena with these small blocks about the size of my fist that can and do enlarge themselves to an impossibly huge size almost instantly and then shrink right back down again... Everything is black yet I can still see what's going on, and yeah. I'm glad it's just a dream, and not one I have too often any more.
 
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Heights, spiders and I have this weird recurring dream (I've been having it for the last 20 years or so) which is impossible to describe because it looks nothing like anything I've ever seen, but it terrifies me even now. It's like I'm in an always-changing arena with these small blocks about the size of my fist that can and do enlarge themselves to an impossibly huge size almost instantly and then shrink right back down again... Everything is black yet I can still see what's going on, and yeah. I'm glad it's just a dream, and not one I have too often any more.
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Jesus! thats a weird dream! and you had it for the last 20 years or so?!

Do you have any idea what it means??
 
Hmm. Quite hard to pick only 3.

Operations scare the **** out of me just at the thought. I could take getting knocked out and all that (Gas only. Keep reading.), but the thought of people cutting me up just makes me... shiver. Even while typing this, I shudder at the thought of them. Maybe its because of the time my Dad had one in hospital, but I don't really know. That's always been and always will be my biggest fear.

Needles come from the same fear as the aforementioned problem. I just can't stand sharp objects near my skin. Once while waiting for a Booster Jab, I had a panic attack at the thought of just a needle. Another issue I should really deal with.

Insects, which is a weird one for me. I don't mind insects at all, but I cant like touch them. Makes me shudder. Especially spiders, which I stare at, but the moment they come near me, I move like mad. Not an unusual one but true.
 
MUSC4EVER
Jesus! thats a weird dream! and you had it for the last 20 years or so?!

Do you have any idea what it means??
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Nah, no idea. Last time I had it it was really brief, I remember thinking it was me that changed the dream so maybe I'm so used to it now that I can shrug it off, but when I was younger it used to really scare me, it's been a long, long time since it woke me up though.
 
Tahli462
That's nothing to worry about, unless you have horrible teeth.
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Yeah, the dentist around here is apparently incompetent, she allegedly took the wrong tooth out of someone... so I got a filling in, and she wanted to polish them, and she says to her assistant "which one is this again, the polishing or the drilling"

That's one of the last things you really want to hear in a dentists...
 
MarcoM
3. Returning kidneystones. I have had troubles with it last year and it's so painfull, I am scared of it.
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Yup. Worst pain that I have ever experienced, so much so that I passed out multiple times from it. For me the worst parts were the less-painful lulls between the stone moving around knowing what was still to come. Ouch.
 
1. Getting a girl pregnant. -I would literally die, or take the first one way flight to Switzerland
2. Going to jail. -For more than 3 years. Complete loss of freedom.
3. Being tortured in some horrible Saw-type contraption.
 
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1. I'm so scared of fire, I don't mind it when i have control with it, but any fire out of hand scares me.
2. Anything happening to my brother, without him I don't know what i'd do.
3. What my parents would do if they found out what I really do when I'm out with my mates.
 
honeymonster505
3. What my parents would do if they found out what I really do when I'm out with my mates.
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this. All too true for me. Couldn't even begin to imagine....
 
This is a weird thread.

Are we talking about phobias here? Or concerns about life. Are we talking about things that we're afraid of happening to us or are we talking about predictable circumstances in which we'll be afraid.

For phobias I've got:
- Heights (flying)
- Snakes
- That's about it

For life concerns I've got:
- Some sort of physical violence to my wife or dogs. I'd occasionally freak myself out while driving home imagining that my dog had been eaten by one of the mountain lions that showed up in our neighborhood periodically.
- Screwing up at work. What I accomplish at work is a major component of my life, and not only would I not want to live with the news headlines that my screwup could make, but I wouldn't want to cope with the effect it would have on my view of myself.
- Making a major life decision badly. I've had to make a bunch of those recently including putting an end date on my career as it is now, deciding a course of action for having children, moving to a new city, and creating general turmoil and cloudiness in what was an extremely solid financial situation. Whether I'm screwing up my life with my decisions is constantly on my mind.

So... 3 semi-rational fears and 2 irrational fears (and I really only listed snakes to get 2... I'm not more afraid of snakes than, say, lions or bears. They're just more likely to confront me).
 
1. Not being able to control my (very short) temper and/or physically assaulting someone I care or love.
2. Getting into major financial troubles or having to owe someone a lotof money, not being able to repay them and being threatened. It would literally be a step-off the chair moment.
3. House fires, I like many people don't mind fire in a contained environment if such a thing exists but if something spontaneously combusted in my house and it got out of hand, endangering my family's life then I would literally be scared stiff.
 

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