Name your fears...

Whatever that thing is that calls itself Joan Rivers nowadays. That things has so much plastic inside, it shouldn't even be alive.

Losing my home [a beautiful Edwardian property.]
Dementia
Getting a rejection from the MA I'm applying for.

- Having been shot in a leg, then an arm, for example, and staring at the barrel of the gun while your assailant taunts you.
- Watching while restrained as a loved one is tortured/killed.
- Being in a pitch dark room knowing there is someone in there with a knife and a desire to off you.
- Having your child snatched from you.

Honest... I sleep well at night...

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Finding that I'm adopted and Dan Brown's my daddy.

My worst fear is that I'll die a horrible tragic death like the deaths in my latest novel Murder at the Rendezvous

Strangulation. It just seems so uncomfortable. I like to breathe. A lot.

I must not be a very fearful person because that's all I can come up with. Optimism makes for happy. Realism makes for preparedness after optimism gets its guts blown away.

I'm not going to list my bigger, stranger fears. I can see myself writing a story where some nut reads this thread and proceeds to act them out on unsuspecting AWers.

(Then we'd find out that Todd and Whacko are twins and their parents are Dan Brown and Joan Rivers.)

Therefore, my most horrifying fear is picking out a pair of pants to wear and not finding any clean socks that are the right color.

LOL at Todd and mt! haha

Hmmm....I've noticed, since starting my new sci fi/mystery that the slightest noise has me looking around when it's dark and I'm in bed. Just reading about a scary scene has me going bonkers! I love the opening of the movie When a Stranger Calls. OMG, I couldn't sleep for nights after that...

Other random fears that occasionally cross my mind...

-Being tied up and tortured/killed...no need to go into the options there...

-Being eaten alive by a Great White...

-Coming out to people who will make my life more of a living hell than it already is...

And if anyone has fears of your plane falling apart mid-flight, check this out. Awesome read/survival guide! http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4344036.html?page=1

mtrenteseau said:

Then we'd find out that Todd and Whacko are twins and their parents are Dan Brown and Joan Rivers.

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Would that be the Dah! Vinci Code?

i'm not really afraid of anything.

i'm more, resigned, really, that things will go wrong.

and i've lived through some of the scariest things in the world. so it would just be more of the same. really.

Oh! Just remembered.

Swarm of bugs. Hate bugs. They can live outside fine. Just leave me alone, especially inside. Inside is my space. Outside is yours. Stay in your space!

I'm super paranoid that I won't be dead but they'll think I am and so I will be buried alive. Hence my wish for cremation. But then I'm kind of scared that then I'll be burned alive. But I think I'd rather that than buried...

Sassy3421 said:

Namatu, bugs that could be an interesting torture method....maybe use poisonous crawlers to kill someone?

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Ugh, just set a mass of them around a tied-to-chair me and I'll have such a fit I'll spontaneously combust. They Must. Not. Crawl. On me!

JessC12 said:

I'm super paranoid that I won't be dead but they'll think I am and so I will be buried alive. Hence my wish for cremation. But then I'm kind of scared that then I'll be burned alive. But I think I'd rather that than buried...

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Burning would be over more quickly.

I'm terrified of pitch dark where you can't tell whether your eyes are opened or closed, especially when I don't know where the door is. I cringed watching the news for the last few weeks!

I have chiroptophobia so I'm terrified of bats. It's a really irrational fear because there's no real reason, but if I'm in the same room as a bat, I'll break down into hysterical sobs. They just really scare me. Little freaks of nature...

Of course on a larger scale I'm afraid of dying and just being alone in complete isolation.

I fear Naegleria fowleri.

Gehanna

Jessianodel said:

I have chiroptophobia so I'm terrified of bats. It's a really irrational fear because there's no real reason, but if I'm in the same room as a bat, I'll break down into hysterical sobs. They just really scare me. Little freaks of nature...

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Have you ever had a situation in which you were in the same room as a bat?

One got into my mother's house and our neighbor killed it when it was hanging upside down in the middle of a Christmas wreath over the mantle. We were both furious - not for any PETA/animal rights stuff, but it was an artificial wreath my parents had bought for their first Christmas as a married couple and we had to throw it out.

Poor little bat.

Anyway, as for my typical fears, I have nightmares about mean water, which is usually any water that's murky and dark and really wavy. You know, the kind that wants to kill you? Normal water I'm fine with, though. I'm a good swimmer.

Tornadoes. I really, really hate tornadoes. Also fascinated by them, though. Actually, I also have tornado dreams.

Not actually afraid of dying. These are the first two that really stand out. I'm sure I'm afraid of more, but those are the main ones. I did discover a fear of being attacked by dogs the other day. 99.99% of all dogs I'm perfectly fine with, but I got chased down last week by a dog that was jumping on my back trying to bite me, and that was freaky. I wasn't just worried for myself, though. I was actually more afraid that it was going to attack someone else before I could find out how to contact it's owner and I had no idea what I'd do if it did. That was pretty terrifying. Now it freaks me out just seeing it.

This thread.

kaitie, I've been in three tornadoes. Hurricanes? Bah. You know they're coming days in advance. Tornadoes? You're lucky if you get five minutes warning. THEY are scary.

Yeah, I've been in a couple myself, and had lots of close calls. I think that's why I'm scared. Hurricanes...well, depends I guess. They're noisy, but if they're not too big and everything's boarded up they don't really scare me too much. Also, I can evacuate before a hurricane.

Did I not mention earthquakes? How did I not mention earthquakes? I guess because I don't have to live every moment of my life aware that I'm way overdue for a giant earthquake likely to kill thousands and injure hundreds of thousands. Oh wait, I live in the Midwest...

going back to grad school....I have a recurring nightmare where I find out, belatedly, somehow I'm not finished and I need to go back

losing loved ones

hitting a point where I decide sagging or Jersey Shore are cool

1/work
2/em....