Dumb Things That Scare/Frighten You - Dumb shit that someone your age shouldn't be afraid of.

meatslab said:
Finally someone else who hates flies. Both common cockroaches and flies are disgusting and I hate being around their filth.
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What's (possibly) even worse about it is that I think I can pinpoint exactly where the fear comes from. When I was a kid some kids told me a story where a family went hiking without bug spray and flies ate them alive. Because of where I live I'm pretty sure this story is total horseshit, but now flies just skeeze me out way more than they should.

There's also a psychological mechanism, I guess, where sometimes just telling someone you're afraid of something can 'contaminate' the person, although I think this is mostly a thing with children. This works best with things that are evolutionarily scary like spiders or snakes. If you want to be a terrible person, find a child who isn't afraid of snakes or spiders and tell them how scary they are and how afraid you are. I can vouch for this (as my fear/dislike of spiders can say).
 
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meatslab said:
Finally someone else who hates flies. Both common cockroaches and flies are disgusting and I hate being around their filth.

I'm afraid of being alone in my house sometimes too, especially with mirrors around. I've watched too many episodes of "I Survived" and one in particular freaked me out so bad. This one woman was putting on her makeup and she could see a man scrunched up in the corner of her room in her mirror and she didn't know how to react to him. What she endured was horrifying and she barely made it out alive. :(
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I forgot, home invaders are something I never really think of but if I remember I'll be nervous for the rest of the day. Every time I had to go babysit I would always have a nightmare that someone would break in and its always the same nightmare.
 
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Dr.Research said:
What's (possibly) even worse about it is that I think I can pinpoint exactly where the fear comes from. When I was a kid some kids told me a story where a family went hiking without bug spray and flies ate them alive. Because of where I live I'm pretty sure this story is total horseshit, but now flies just skeeze me out way more than they should.

There's also a psychological mechanism, I guess, where sometimes just telling someone you're afraid of something can 'contaminate' the person, although I think this is mostly a thing with children. This works best with things that are evolutionarily scary like spiders or snakes. If you want to be a terrible person, find a child who isn't afraid of snakes or spiders and tell them how scary they are and how afraid you are. I can vouch for this (as my fear/dislike of spiders can say).
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Yesss, that's exactly where my fear came from was childhood. I won't go I to detail but being in fear of being seen as"dirty" definitely came from being a kid. I have always loved bugs since being a kiddo, but flies and roaches I can't stand. Give me a nice clean arachnid or praying mantis.
 
Accidentally cutting people off in traffic or doing something otherwise dickish by accident (like jumping into a lane when I didn't realize mine was going away) and having the person I may have pissed off shoot me. Or driving through intersections, even when looking before going through it, and thinking "someone could fly through here and plow into me and kill me, and I wouldn't even get to say goodbye to my parents or girlfriend or friends." Same with that last bit @ the idea of a nuke dropping on my city without me having time to say goodbye.

I'm usually fine and don't let this shit bother me, but damn, it usually enters my head at least once when I drive. It's dumb because it's unlikely (well, mostly. Having someone blow through an intersection isn't that unlikely, though having the collision be fatal is).

Vrakks said:
For a surprisingly long while into my childhood I was terrified of when your head is on your pillow and you can hear your heartbeat. I would have nightmares entirely based around that sound.
Nowadays it's having my head smashed in by my bookshelf falling on my head while I sleep.
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When I was younger I used to have a shitload of Breyer horses that we kept on this shelf thing up high near the ceiling along one of the walls in my bedroom, a wall that my bed was against. I would sometimes worry that we'd get an earthquake during the night and that they'd fall on me, specifically my face, and that one of the hooves would find its way into my eye or some shit.
 
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Butterflies.
they're uncontrollable, they're unpredictable, they're floppy, they're big and they have weird thin legs...
I prefer to look at them behind a glass frame rather than in the garden.
 
Zach_Kun said:
Rollercoasters. I'm scared that it'll derail and I die gruesomely or the highschooler operating the thing will fuck something up.
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Same, buddy. Also afraid, specifically, of the protective bar coming undone right as the coaster approaches a loop and I slide out of my seat and fall and break all my bones.

On a related note, I get uneasy around ill-maintained ferris wheels, like the kinds that've started to rust and creak as they move and you wonder whether the cars are swaying more than they should.
 
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