What irrational fear do you have?

Going blind. I don't know why. The thought of not having vision terrifies me.

Dragonmatsuko said:
I can't sleep near windows especially windows without blinds, or a curtain.
I'm scared that if I do a home invader, or serial killer will break in and kill me in my sleep. Or something far more sinister will come in and God knows what will happen.
Or it will just stare inside and watch me sleep.
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I'm kinda similar. When I was a kid, I was afraid that someone would break into the house and kidnap me, so I ended up sleeping in my mom's room a lot. A few years ago, the fear came back and there was a month where I would wake up every night, terrified that someone would break in my house and kill me.

Bitch I Might Be said:
I have this weird irrational fear of a snake or rat coming out of the toilet and attacking my ass mid-shit. Also, wasps and scorpions can go straight to hell without collecting $200.
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One time, a rat came up the toilet right when I was about to flush.
That's not helping. I'm sorry.
 
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When I was really young, one of my teachers read a book to the class about a zombie. If your hand hung over the bed while you slept, it would come out from under, slit your wrist and drain out your blood for its oatmeal.

I don't fear it anymore, but I still keep my wrists covered out of habit.
 
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Bokrug's Basement said:
When I was really young, one of my teachers read a book to the class about a zombie. If your hand hung over the bed while you slept, it would come out from under, slit your wrist and drain out your blood for its oatmeal.

I don't fear it anymore, but I still keep my wrists covered out of habit.
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Thats brutal
 
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Im scared of being abducted by the greys.
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Also swimming above deep murky water.
 
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Fish. I can't handle fish. I can't swim in open water that is too deep to stand in because of fish. I'm fine with dead fish out of water and most fish in tanks, but sometimes I have trouble with those glass tunnels through big tanks that you walk through, especially if there is dim lighting. Sometimes even pictures of certain fish will freak me out, aquatic dinosaurs count as well.
Also, Christian Bale.
And dolls. Dummies, dolls, mannequins, etc. That Goosebumps book about the dummy and the Twilight Zone episode about the department store really fucked with my head.

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Bokrug's Basement said:
When I was really young, one of my teachers read a book to the class about a zombie. If your hand hung over the bed while you slept, it would come out from under, slit your wrist and drain out your blood for its oatmeal.

I don't fear it anymore, but I still keep my wrists covered out of habit.
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I had forgotten that story until just now. Cheers.
 
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Yawning Bulbasaur said:
Brain aneurysm, because that was how my grandmother died when she was only 59 and I had an MRI done last month to make sure I don't have one, seeing my neurologist on Tuesday to go over the results
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These scare the hell out of me too, considering they can happen at random. I think my phobia of brain aneurysms/hemorrhages started when it happened to Brett Michaels. And then a girl I knew in high school suffered one when she was alone in her dorm room. She lived, but has brain damage.

I just try not to think about it.
 
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Elevators. When I was younger my grandmother used to live in the same building as me. Me and my dad got on the elevator to head to her apartment on the second floor. I guess I took to long and just as I was about to get off, the door slammed right into me. There was another time I got stuck in one in New York. Mine didn't move for about a minute or two and I panicked because I can't stand tight spaces and kept picturing it falling twenty stories down. No one told me they were old and took a while to move. I'm pretty sure the guys watching the security cameras got a good laugh out of watching me aggressively pushing the main floor button.

Fuck elevators. Take the stairs.
 
Optimus Prime said:
Stinging insects - bees, wasps, hornets, etc. that fucking buzzing noise just makes me shut down and freak out. Really pisses me off that the stinkbugs that occasionally get in the house make the exact same noise but are otherwise harmless, but until I see them it may as well be one of those barbbed-ass motherfuckers.
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This. Especially wasps. Holy fuckballs, wasps are my fucking bane, I swear. As soon as I notice one, I go full on "nopenopenopenope" mode, and get the fuck out of there asap, even when my peers assure me that it's just minding it's own business. Nah m80, to hell with wasps.
 
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I have such an intense fear of drowning that I can't even watch underwater scenes in movies etc without feeling like I'm going to drown. Whenever I go swimming or anything, I have to stay by the side of the pool. It's pretty weird because I've always been a great swimmer, the past few years though I've just been petrified by the thought of going under and not coming back up.

Another irrational fear is getting cut in two or decapitated. Extreme, I know. But whenever I walk to work I always worry a car is gonna slam into me from nowhere and slice something off.
 
I have so many fucking fears I wonder how I function.

I'm afraid of spiders, Their legs are just ew. I'm afraid of getting ill but not of something you can normally get. No, I afraid I'll get rabies or tetanus. Why those two? I don't know. I'm afraid of elevators because of a ghost story where a ghost kills people by making the elevator fall. Oh i'm afraid of ghosts too, and the dark. Because I think i'll see a ghost.
 
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