What are you affraid of, I mean really affraid?

[Grandpad58]

Mrs GPad hates big spiders and bees/wasps,she goes ballistic, screams and runs away where as I have no problems with them I either shoo them out of the house or as a last resort kill them.

Now fear/dread to me is deep dark still water, there's a very damn near here where I live and it feeds the midlands with water, at the bottom where the water comes down there is a large football pitch size man made trough which the water falls into when the gates are open, I fills me with dread don't know why, maybe because I don't know how deep it is.
I had to pull the dog back several times because she wanted to jump in. (She's a lab and loves water)there is no way of getting her out if she got in.

Sooo what are you afraid of and can't explain why?

[Monkeylegend]

The story about the burglar who got stuck and died in a chimney while trying to break in makes me go hot and cold all over. He wasn't found for several weeks.

Being stuck like that in a very confined space is my biggest fear.

[FD3Si]

Spellcheckers.

Also, eyeballs, and things touching my throat.

Edited by FD3Si on Sunday 13th April 08:48

[MikeOxlong]

Snails. I have a completely irrational fear and hatred of them. They're the only thing that makes me do that shiver type thing when I think about them.

[Johnny]

Monkeylegend said:

Being stuck like that in a very confined space is my biggest fear.

Yep, this. Freaks me out just watching things of that nature.

Also burning & drowning. Just... no.

[selym]

The thought of potholing leaves me cold. Just thinking about sliding down a hole that could taper off to narrower than your body is a horrible thought.

[Grandpad58]

selym said:

The thought of potholing leaves me cold. Just thinking about sliding down a hole that could taper off to narrower than your body is a horrible thought.

Actually I never thought of this one ,wedged in ,like the chimney post.

[Benbay001]

selym said:

The thought of potholing leaves me cold. Just thinking about sliding down a hole that could taper off to narrower than your body is a horrible thought.

Running out of light :-/

[selym]

Benbay001 said:

selym said:

The thought of potholing leaves me cold. Just thinking about sliding down a hole that could taper off to narrower than your body is a horrible thought.

Running out of light :-/

Knowing there are hundreds of tons of earth and rock to move to rescue you. Would they bother, could they get to you in time?

[Fishtigua]

Johnny said:

Monkeylegend said:

Being stuck like that in a very confined space is my biggest fear.

Yep, this. Freaks me out just watching things of that nature.

Not much fazes me but once, working in an engineroom, we had disassemble loads of pipework to get to a part of the hull. Being the smallest/skinniest, I had to wiggle into the space. It was dark, cold and damp. It took about 20 minutes to crawl down there and not terribly inviting.

Once I got into the void and got the tools out, our highly amusing German chief engineer thought it would be really funny to start bolting the pipework back together with me still down there.

Clunk, clunk of the pipes and the echo sound of ratchets tightening bolts and it getting darker and darker.

I lost it. Effing and Jeffing, sockets and spanners flying at them. I have never got out of a hole so fast in my life.

I almost punched this huge bloke, there was that much adrenaline pumping.

Horrible.

[Asterix]

Don't watch 'Buried' then.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1462758/

And I agree. Imagine, you actually have all that time to contemplate what's going to happen in the end.

[Vladimir]

This is an odd one for a water lover but for me, it's man made stuff underwater.

Submerged pipes, the underneath of big boats and my worst, locks and weirs. They all PROPERLY s**t me up.

If it's natural (reefs, rocks, etc) I have no issues at all.

This picture makes me go all wobbly - the pinnacle of my fear:



I have wee panics about the kids occasionally too (we lost one at full term before we had our two healthy kids).

[GTIR]

Toilet cisterns and cold water storage tanks, especially old abandoned ones.

[The Moose]

I came incredibly close to drowning back in January in Australia which st me up a little, however I didn't get the chance to go back in the water then and haven't been near the sea since and worry that it'll have st me up so bad in the future I'll struggle!

If you want the full story posted, just let me know...

[bexVN]

I do have fear of heights but don't worry about water for me, however I have a massive fear on behalf of my young son when it comes to being near water and recently when we were viewing a valley (from a very safe purpose built viewing point) I could not relax at all. Luckily he doesn't seem to have picked up on this yet!!

My fear of him drowning is why he goes swimming twice a week!! At least give him a chance!

This worry also transfers to other peoples kids, I see danger everywhere for them and seem to think their parents don't! (ie toddlers walking ahead or behind their parents next to a busy road)

[Quattromaster]

Being in the water around a big ship that's in port, inbetween the ship and dockside.

How the diver guys swim around under those ships checking props and other such things makes me shiver.

No idea why I'm such a wuss.

[Simes110]

Wasps.

Absolutely petrified of them. Probably stems from last being stung when I was 3 years old and I know my time's long overdue to be stung again.

[MJK 24]

The Moose said:

I came incredibly close to drowning back in January in Australia which st me up a little, however I didn't get the chance to go back in the water then and haven't been near the sea since and worry that it'll have st me up so bad in the future I'll struggle!

If you want the full story posted, just let me know...

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[TheJimi]

Losing my parents.

Nothing terrifies me more.

[deltashad]

Angry dogs. They smell my fear and single me out