What scares you?

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Losing my hands.

Something bad happening to the decent people in my life. I know I'm scum and society is going to line me up against the wall if my health doesn't get me first, but there are people I care about that don't warrant that.
 
Knowing that, actuarially speaking, on average, I have more than 1/2 my lifetime left on earth. Just getting to this point has been hell. I can't even fathom this much, plus some to go, and that is the shitty 1/2+ as well since it's a slow slide into a non-functional body and possibly mind.
 
The fact that there are pedophiles and sexual predators everywhere, who often seek professions in which they will have unsupervised access to children, and they're not always easily identifiable.
 
GuitarRevi said:
The existential dread thinking about death.
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Dwight Frye said:
The possibility of developing Alzheimer’s or some other type of dementia absolutely horrifies me. Having your personality, your memories, the core of who you are slowly erased little by little until you’re just a drooling vegetable with rare moments of lucidity? Just kill me at that point.
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Death of my parents worries me so much more than my own, but the idea of either of them having Alzheimer's is somehow worse.
 
I'm scared of the dark. When I'm tired I start hallucinating demons and monsters in the shadows. I'm sure it's just normal up too late paranoia but part of me worries I'm starting to develop schizophrenia.
 
Degenerative brain diseases, my children dying before me, insane sadists with measures of power over other people, working 40 hours a week just to exist, having a car crash that leaves me as gore for people to scrape off the road, feeling like something I can't see on a different plane is watching me in the dark, sleep paralysis.

And this. Especially fucking this.
Pimpleking55 said:
The apathy the human population presents while moving towards a destructive hedonistic dictatorial nanny state which will decides everything for you ,to the amount of beans on your plate scares the shit out of me.
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Real world fear? Submechanophobia. Mechanical constructs underwater. Even docks wierd me out.

Abstract fear?

I have a recurring series of nightmares where I'm trying to sleep, and A light keeps coming on, door keeps popping open, etc, and I'll repetitively shut it off or shut the door, like in a fever dream, just repeat myself many times, and after 10 or so times, as I approach whatever the issue is my vision will begin to darken and distort, like a camera failing. I'll hear a whirring, rushing noise, like water in a pipe, all around my head, and I'll begin to rise, feeling pressure on my ears and a rubbing sensation on the side of my head, all while I can sense something, some entity around me, never taking form but I know it's there. Eventually the noise and the entity reach some sort of peak, and I usually yell out, waking myself up and ending the dream completely. I'll wake up in silence, the sensations gone.

Except last night I woke up, and the pressure on my ears, the rubbing sensation, the whirring noise, the presence was still fading out after I had woken up.

This is not a creepypasta, its bothered me all day long.
 
TheTrumanShow said:
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Also why Higher Dimensions? They seem like neo-religious ramblings of scientists gone mad to me.
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I was referring to mathematical dimensions. We exist in the third dimension. There is a mathematical first and second dimension that we can observe. There are also dimensions higher than what we can observe, from fourth all the way up to something like 26 or possibly infinite. So what is there? Who is there?
 
Cats said:
I was referring to mathematical dimensions. We exist in the third dimension. There is a mathematical first and second dimension that we can observe. There are also dimensions higher than what we can observe, from fourth all the way up to something like 26 or possibly infinite. So what is there? Who is there?
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Are you sure we can observe higher dimensions? Let alone lower dimensions? Have we observed something infinitely thinn? And how would we even observe the first dimension?
 
TheTrumanShow said:
Are you sure we can observe higher dimensions? Let alone lower dimensions? Have we observed something infinitely thinn? And how would we even observe the first dimension?
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I said we can't observe higher dimensions. All we can do is model what the "shadow" of a fourth-dimensional geometric shape would look like, such as a fourth dimensional cube.

I am no physicist, to be honest I am not really that smart or even very good at math for that matter, but I will try and relate what I understand. Almost every "thing" in our third dimensional sphere of observation is composed by matter, so even the smallest, thinnest object would still be one unit of composition "big" in each direction (the Planck Length is the smallest theoretical volume of measurement, so to our current understanding the smallest object could maybe be one "Planck" tall, wide, and long - even though we can't technically measure or observe such a size) however mathematics can tell us much more than our eyes can. Most of what we know of the universe we know thanks to math and the ridiculously complex calculations that astrophysicists perform with the available data. Most of it isn't really something you see with your eyes, or even a telescope...but we know it to be true.

Like I said before, shadows play a role in our understanding of dimensions. Shadows of three dimensional objects within our three dimensional sphere of observation are two-dimensional, but shadows of higher dimensional objects are also all that we would be able to perceive of them, and are three-dimensional. So when you look at that four dimensional cube I mentioned, you are looking at the three-dimensional "shadow" of the actual object.

Futhermore, we are aware and have proven the existence of gravitational singularities. These are not by default one- or two-dimensional...there is a lot of complex work that goes into determining the dimensions of a specific singularity (in mathematics). And as you probably know, a gravitational singularity deals with infinites, where mass is so great that the actual fabric of reality (spacetime) breaks and the math becomes even more wonky and convoluted. You can go read up on this stuff for yourself and if you have the mind for it, learn how the math works. I personally can't do any of the necessary calculations. My brain shuts off if I go any further than algebra. But math can prove the existence of plenty of things that we can't "see". Don't forget we live in a very, very numerically structured reality.
 
Driving on a dark, empty road and coming across @Cats there
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walking by a window and seeing a scary face Peering out of it.
 
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