Topic: What's your phobia? (also unofficial Mighty Max thread)

[Lashen]

"Do you bear the burden of fear? Perhaps there's a bizarre/unique phobia of yours or someone else's in which you're interested in sharing? Well, my friend, seek no further and share with us."



Theatrics aside: Does fear play a role in your daily routine or life choices? Did you have any strange fears as a child? If so, were they conquered, or did they simply fade away on their own? (I'm curious.)

I'm deathly afraid of forgetting things of even potential significance. So much, in fact, that I often memorize seemingly worthless conversations in their entirety—you'd be surprised what may come back to bite you in the ass when you don't.

When I was but a young vampire killer, the thought of the sun dying out was rather unsettling (a recurring personal query).

Edit:

THIS IS NOW A MIGHTY MAX THREAD

[TheCruelAngel]

When I was really little, I always got the heeby jeebies from going upstairs out of my basement at night (our basement leads to our back yard). Because when you turn off that light, everything behind you seems to just be enveloped in the deepest black and you swear something has been summoned out from the darkness to get you. So I usually bolted up the stairs as fast as I could. Needless to say I got really good at running up stairs from a young age.

[X]

Spiders. There's just something physiologically disturbing about them. I don't know what got me so afraid of them in the first place. When I was young I had no problems with touching webs or handling spiders but no... I can't do it. But at the same time if I were to see a flick that had a woman webbed up and a giant spider came down on her and started mating then I'd feel pretty turned on...

[TheouAegis]

Ghosts. I don't fear demons, and if a ghost is really a demon, I wish it'd just tell me so I could go back in that room.... Always thought my parents' house was haunted. Maybe it was built over a grave. I still hear scratching noises in my old bedroom, but nowhere else in the house. And I used to hear someone or something opening the kitchen cupboards at night even though I knew everyone was in their own rooms.

[PyramidHead]

Oh... I have one - doors... Every door of this world must be closed. If at least one door at my house is opened I just can't stop thinking about it. I hate the fact, but I can do nothing if doors are not closed. I can't sleep. So I check-recheck-re recheck them.

[Laina]

I'm afraid of being afraid. Really. I hate the feelings that come with fear so much it frightens & worries me thinking about when I'll be truly afraid again. It's banaynays, I know, but I'm filled with a slightly lesser fear/dread thinking about fear & dread. I've always had anxiety problems though, they've just gotten WAY worse these last 3 years or so, to the point that my hair was falling out in 2011, my blood pressure has risen & anxiety attacks are a 2-3 times a week deal for me. I fainted in 2012 & bruied the life out of my face because I smacked a table on the way down. It's quite a mess & I'm now nervous & generally unsettled talking about it, but c'est la vie.

[Phoenix7786]

I was in 5th grade when RE1 came out. I still have nightmares about the opening zombie cinematic, so much I wrote a paper on it as a phobia. Oddly enough, every other RE game (including REmake) and any other zombie game or flick won't make me budge but if you play that opening cinematic my knuckles will still whiten.

[TheouAegis]

For me it was the dog that jumped through the window. And then I stopped playing RE completely after my first encounter with the Hunters or whatever they were called. I did not like hearing a door open and close then get chased through the house!

[Lashen]

Warning: Explicit Language (also traumatic)

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Resident Evil 1 - "Fucking dogs!"

[JR]

Spiders. There's just something physiologically disturbing about them. I don't know what got me so afraid of them in the first place. When I was young I had no problems with touching webs or handling spiders but no... I can't do it. But at the same time if I were to see a flick that had a woman webbed up and a giant spider came down on her and started mating then I'd feel pretty turned on...

Me too. It's not as bad as it used to be for me but the mutant-sized ones creep me out.

I've had a bad fear of public speaking for years. It was pretty bad when I was younger, and was one of the main reasons I left college. But I got a promotion at work last year that requires me to speak in front of my crew on a daily basis. I'm still somewhat in disbelief that I can pull it off every day without being a nervous wreck. Woohoo!

Oh, and the last part of this video creeps the ever-loving shit out of me:
The Goddess Bunny

Seriously. Not trying to be cruel or anything, either. But I seriously can't watch that.

[Dark Nemesis]

I'm afraid to be left alone. I want to have people around me and talk with them, that's why when i'm left alone, i'm thinking about death and nothingness. I just can't take it that i'll have to be alone with no one to talk or be by my side.

[Mooning Freddy]

Used to be afraid of skeletons when I was a kid. The very sight of a skull made me turn away. It was not the physical structure of the skeleton itself that was scary, it's the thought that it was once a human being and now it's all that's left of him or her. Damn that creeped me out.

Today, I am afraid of a sad future. It's not a fear of death or war, it's a fear of living my life in misery or loneliness. It's a philosophical thing I try not to think of. 

[TheouAegis]

Hahaha the top comment on that video of the tap dancing tranny. 

[Lashen]

Hahaha the top comment on that video of the tap dancing tranny. 

Holy mother of god!

[Laina]

Me too. It's not as bad as it used to be for me but the mutant-sized ones creep me out.

For me, if they're not furry, they're more frightening than SlenderMan having tea with Hitler in the silent woods at midnight on a moonless night.

The big furry ones, like tarantulas don't bother me really-I find them kind of cute. But no fur? I instinctively yell at muh Nana (or whoever's near me) to grab her heavy shoes & as she says, "smash their bones". I always feel bad though whenever someone kills a spider...or any bug actually. I just think, "Was that really necessary? It wasn't purposefully malicious to you, it had no hate in it's heart for you or anything at all really. It was just trying to live the only way it knew how. For God's sake, YOU'RE the supposed 'higher' being & here you are acting on a primal impulse, letting fear control you. You disgust me, self.". Then a bunch of soul searching philosophical shit happens & I cry in the shower.

I have a complicated relationship with spiders...