What can cause true,intense fear/terror in your opinion?
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April 5th, 2010
Being the victim of a crime, the state of one’s mind, one’s spouse, the future…....... ? What is something that really brings on fear?
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The situation…It needn’t be a crime. Falling down a mountainside or getting hit by a car can do it.
The fear of my life or my son’s life being threatened in any real or imaginable form
I think that the underlying cause of fear is something happening that is completely beyond our control.
Asthma attack.
SUV moving over into my space of traffic.
Surgery under anathesia.
Unprotected sex with someone untrustworthy.
Car breaking down on the freeway at night, all alone and in a shitty neighborhood.
A very large star that explodes with such great force it produces a gamma ray burst and Earth sits right in it cross-hairs and our scientists track it and realize that its traveling as such great speeds it will only take 10 years to hit us, and when it does it will easily push our atmosphere clean off our planet and we turn into Mars and there is not a thing we would be able to do about it….that’s fear…10 years left? What utter chaos it would be for that 10 years.
Am I safe in assuming that this fear you mean is the type that would cause a person to think and act outside the realm of self-preservation? Or phobias and other irrational fears? What demarcates the type of fear you have in mind, please?
@earthduzt , the state the world is in, I can only see this as an act of mercy coming from the universe!
@phillis yes, the former, not phobias necessarily.
A huge robot picking up your 6 year old little sister and crushing her in its hand so that the blood spurts out like if he crushed a water filled balloon.
@ragingloli – the robot activated and instructed by who, may I dare to ask?
Something bad happening to a member of my family. An accident, illness, whatever. I just always want them safe & healthy.
Thank you for that. There are a few people in my life that would send me right over the edge, were they to die tragically and/or unexpectedly. My husband is one, my little girls are the remaining two. The fear is so great that I break out in a cold sweat, whenever I think about it. My pulse heads through the roof.
If this hypothetical death includes in it’s scenario my failure to pay attention or act in such a way that I could have prevented it, or worse – caused it – I can relate with virtual certainty that I would not survive that guilt for any appreciable length of time. I have very vivid pictures in my mind of holding my child’s lifeless and broken body in my arms in the middle of some street because she was hit and killed – and I could have prevented it.
@ragingloli Have you been gazing the the Queen, News of the World album?
Britney Spears as President.
@phillis, wipe those images completely out of your mind love. It is your intense love for your family that is causing that. Nothing bad will happen to them, they will always be close to you.
@loser , now don’t be scared of that, there could be so much good coming out of a set-up like that, think of the endless possibilities!
@ragingloli Check it out! See? You just gave a really good description of the cover!
Someone I know moved into a new home and a snake came up out of the toilet. That image gave me nightmares for weeks!
@Trillian
I got the Idea from a small animation from an Anine, where a huge robot/monster crushed a young girl to death so that a load of blood shot out of her mouth and splashed onto, which I assume was her boyfriend, a guy sitting on the ground, completely paralysed and watching in total horror.
I was like, “That is one anime I will not watch”. Seeing cute girls in Anime die always gets to me (curiously, watching similar things in live action movies leaves me completely unfazed)
Hearing this over the intercom system on an airplane – “assume crash positions now”
Knowing that someone wants to kill you.
Finding a 6 foot live bull snake in my gym bag made me scream like a little girl. Pucker Factor 7.
I came home from shopping and wondered why there was a firetruck in front of my house and wondered why the fireman was walking up to me? He asked if I was Mr. Cruiser and I said yes and he informed of a little accident my son had been involved in and cautioned me that there was a fair amount of blood in the house and to not panic. I tried my best. Pucker factor 8.5.
Really loud bangs and bumps mid flight and during landing really suck. Pucker factor varies to loudness of bang or bump.
Experiencing a “forced” emergency landing on 9/11 and being greeted by the National Guard brandishing M-16 and screaming at us to run like hell and exit the terminal immediately was above and beyond terrifying. Pucker Factor 10.
Being misdiagnosed by a Chiropractor who was fairly certain I had MS and to go get tested. Pucker Factor 11.
Getting shot at in the middle a National Forest miles from help…Pucker Factor off the charts.
I’m with you @Trillian, particularly when it feels like it is being yanked away from me.
Situations that usually cause me terror seem to completely unmask me and make me realize control can be very illusionary.
Most fears really boil down to fearing a loss of control. (Not all. But most.)
@Cruiser Holy smoke! ALL of those are pretty scary. Especially the 9/11 one!
Any life threatening event. It is a natural self-preservation mechanism.
@Cruiser Of course not! It went from bad to worse, didn’t it?
@jbfletcherfan Imagine my shock when we find the real reason we were forced to land in that terrorists were flying planes into buildings and we were in one.
@Cruiser I’m sure! I bet you kissed the ground THAT night!!!
A spider running across my hands while I’m typing on the computer, I almost had a heart attack.
@YARNLADY Not a tarantula I hope, I would have a cardiac arrest on the spot!
@ZEPHYRA Nope, just a plain, ordinary household spider. I have an irrational fear of them.
I have a bit of a theory about spiders anyway…I don’t think it is an irrational fear at all… those little beggars crawl into all sorts of places if you know what I mean…and no-one likes the thought of having a spider crawling into any orifice!!
Like others have said, I’m pretty sure it generally consists of something that is a threat to your life or someone that you care about…no matter how indirectly. I am afraid of getting lost for example, which really comes down to my fear of not surviving. I think a lot of the time fears that might seem irrational tend to have very rational explanations if one digs deep enough.
I was scheduled to fly on a flight to LA and although I had never missed a flight, I did this one. They told me to go eat and they would put me on the next flight. When I came back, everyone in the place was glued to any television they could see. I wondered what all the commotion was. The date was 9/11/01. Thankfully, I was not flying out of the east, BUT if I had made that flight, I would have had a similar experience to that of @Cruiser. It was the first time I was glad I missed a flight!
@jbfletcherfan Yes, it was. I had go home and wait till Friday to fly out. I became sick with a very bad head cold. I was so glad I missed that flight and did not have to spend 3 days, sick, in an unknown airport somewhere, alone…..broke, sick, uncomfortable and probably very hungry….LOL!
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