What's The Most Frightening Thing You Fear?

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

What will push you over the line into madness?

 

[Carnevil9]

http://www.pdc.co.il/hillary1.jpg

 

[S-Des]

It's a tie between this, http://wwtdd.com/post.phtml?pk=6911, and coming to the door to meet my blind date and instead finding a well-dressed older man who says, "Hi, I'm Chris Hanson....."

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

That was frightening!

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Well, aside from the previously mentioned things....

Forgetting. I'm going through a thing right now where I have memory loss and brain fog due to an illness and it's maddening. I can remember things that happened years ago, but I can't remember if I took my medication or if I need to be somewhere. It makes me angry because I know people must think I'm a total flake. I'm only 34. I can't imagine what it must be like for people who have alzheimers disease and forget everything. It's terrifying.

 

[S-Des]

Well, aside from the previously mentioned things....

Forgetting. I'm going through a thing right now where I have memory loss and brain fog due to an illness and it's maddening. I can remember things that happened years ago, but I can't remember if I took my medication or if I need to be somewhere. It makes me angry because I know people must think I'm a total flake. I'm only 34. I can't imagine what it must be like for people who have alzheimers disease and forget everything. It's terrifying.

I've had that for years. Partially it's in my DNA, but much of it has to do with the brain cells I've killed because of my sleep apnea. I doubt I'll get much of it back, and I too fear it just getting worse as I get older. I've had hundreds of nightmares about forgetting I was taking care of my daughter and losing her somewhere. I can't even go back to sleep after I wake up from one of them....they're just too intense.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

I've had that for years. Partially it's in my DNA, but much of it has to do with the brain cells I've killed because of my sleep apnea. I doubt I'll get much of it back, and I too fear it just getting worse as I get older. I've had hundreds of nightmares about forgetting I was taking care of my daughter and losing her somewhere. I can't even go back to sleep after I wake up from one of them....they're just too intense.

I'm hoping this is just going to be temporary and it's supposedly not progressive. It's from fibromyalgia and a lot of lifestyle changes I've made are helping, thankfully. I totally sympathize on the forgetting the kid fear. That's the worst one of all.

 

[tickledkitty]

My worst fear used to be having my kid in her car seat and forgetting she was there and leaving her. There were several cases like that in the news when she was a baby where the children died. I can't imagine anything more horrible.

 

[SemiColon]

Something happening to my kids. Beyond that, the possiblity that this is really all there is to life...

 

[The_Fractal_King]

It's a tie between this, http://wwtdd.com/post.phtml?pk=6911, and coming to the door to meet my blind date and instead finding a well-dressed older man who says, "Hi, I'm Chris Hanson....."

*falls off chair*

 

[oggbashan]

I suppose senile dementia/Alzheimer's is what I fear most having observed some signs of it in my father and father-in-law in their 90s.

What was worst for both of them was that they had short periods of complete lucidity when they knew how much they had lost.

Og

 

[where]

it's pathetic, but daddy-long-legs. totally phobic about them

 

[sutherngent985]

I am most afraid of something happening to either my son or my girlfriend. Im at least 4 hours away by plane and dread not being able to be there. Next is getting the phone call people my age eventually get...that one or both of my parents have died. Same situation...Im hours away by plane. Last would be being buried alive. For this reason alone Im going to be cremated.

 

[MarshAlien]

Fear itself. African or European? No, wait -- Blue. AAAAAGGGGHHHH!

it's pathetic, but daddy-long-legs. totally phobic about them

Actually, I read somewhere that their venom is the most toxic ever discovered. But their mouths are so small they can't harm you.

I don't actually know if it's true, but this is the internet. So it's not like you guys care, right?

 

[tickledkitty]

Fear itself. African or European? No, wait -- Blue. AAAAAGGGGHHHH!



Actually, I read somewhere that their venom is the most toxic ever discovered. But their mouths are so small they can't harm you.

I don't actually know if it's true, but this is the internet. So it's not like you guys care, right?

Um...eeewwwww.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Well, aside from the previously mentioned things....

Forgetting. I'm going through a thing right now where I have memory loss and brain fog due to an illness and it's maddening.

I've had that for years. Partially it's in my DNA, but much of it has to do with the brain cells I've killed because of my sleep apnea.

Hugs.

Makes any political snark I might have posted seem trivial.

I don't want to get old and die, so I suppose I'm afraid of that. My reaction to all those "to every thing there is a season" nostrums is an angry "NOOOOOOOOO!"

 

[bluebell]

Um...eeewwwww.

I hate bugs but I love Redon.
If bugs looked like his bugs I wouldn't want to squash them all the time. Or maybe I still would, except I'd like a nice, long conversation with them first.

http://moma.org/images/collection/FullSizes/26273006.jpg

 

[WM1966]

Clowns

 

[DeeZire]

Clowns running our government.

 

[where]

Actually, I read somewhere that their venom is the most toxic ever discovered. But their mouths are so small they can't harm you.

I don't actually know if it's true, but this is the internet. So it's not like you guys care, right?

I've heard this and it comforts me to know that my fear is not entirely irrational because they might grow teeth!

Clowns

*shudders*

 

[Carnevil9]

This is pretty high up on the list.....

http://www.rotten.com/library/sex/vagina-dentata/vdentata1.jpg

 

[scheherazade_79]

I suppose senile dementia/Alzheimer's is what I fear most having observed some signs of it in my father and father-in-law in their 90s.

What was worst for both of them was that they had short periods of complete lucidity when they knew how much they had lost.

Og

Watched one grandmother die from it, and now I've just learnt that I'm going to have to go through the same thing with my other grandmother.

The moments of lucidity are the hardest to deal with.

It's why I smoke, eat what I want and engage in risky activities. I don't want to live to the point where my brain starts packing up on me.

 

[scheherazade_79]

My biggest fear is the unknown, which is why I like to know as much as I can about stuff.

I used to have a flying phobia until I bought Microsoft Flight Simulator and learned exactly how planes work and how to fly them.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

What scares me the most are people like Albert Fish.

 

[tickledkitty]

I hate bugs but I love Redon.
If bugs looked like his bugs I wouldn't want to squash them all the time. Or maybe I still would, except I'd like a nice, long conversation with them first.

http://moma.org/images/collection/FullSizes/26273006.jpg

I'd still squash that fucker. Immediately.