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What Scares You?

P: 7/5/2007 10:35:11 PM
KimberlyH Ideal Rock Total Posts: 6,555 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 6/15/2006	I realized last night that one of the few things that really scares me is... FIREWORKS!!! I love to watch them but hate the sound effects. We watched from our porch last night (could see 2 shows at once!) but after about 5 minutes I had to go inside, crawl into bed and turn the TV way up to mask the noise. I have no fear of fire, it's simply the sound that leaves my tummy in knots. Anytime I see them up close I have my ears covered and I fllinch everytime they explode; so silly as they are so predictable. I have been scared of fireworks noise for as long as I can remember, and I've never had a bad experience with them. Strange. So what are you afraid of?
Posted: 7/5/2007 10:35:11 PM

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P: 7/5/2007 11:07:15 PM
AmberWaves Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,421 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 10/19/2005	I'm deathly afraid of clowns. And spiders... gusty wind (seriously, when I was a kid I'd never go outside for fear of being blown away), thunder... I'm terrified of things popping up while I'm looking out or in a window. Yeah, I scare easily. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * If you were an ocean, I'd learn how to float.
Posted: 7/5/2007 11:07:15 PM

P: 7/5/2007 11:09:28 PM
phoenixgirl Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,500 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 3/20/2003	I'm mildy afraid of spiders and dying in a plane crash. I'm reasonably afraid that random violence or tragedy will affect my family. I'm deeply afraid that the human race will flub things up so badly that "anyone still alive in the radioactive soup" (The Third Chimpanzee, Jared Diamond) will mourn inconsolably for the past.
Posted: 7/5/2007 11:09:28 PM

P: 7/5/2007 11:11:08 PM
Kaleigh Ideal Rock Total Posts: 25,920 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 11/18/2004	That a tree will fall on our house during a bad storm. And spiders. Got bitten 2 years ago, that wasn't fun. ____________________________ Piece of cake and a candle. ng gift
Posted: 7/5/2007 11:11:08 PM

P: 7/5/2007 11:11:16 PM
iwannaprettyone Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,548 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 2/5/2002	Lets see: Small spaces Clowns Birds ( don't ask ) Germs on an airplane Men with long nails Driving in the pouring rain Losing someone I love Things that bite/ sting I think that is a good start... Iwanna x (IWPO) *****Status: MARRIED!!!!*****
Posted: 7/5/2007 11:11:16 PM

P: 7/5/2007 11:19:21 PM
parrot tulips Cut Rock Total Posts: 327 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 2/13/2007	Amber, that's too funny about gusty wind. As a little girl, I was on the smaller side, and definitely on the skinny side (oh, to have those problems now!). I remember walking home from school one day when it was stormy out. I had an over-sized umbrella (the sturdier type, not one of those collapsible ones). Wouldn't you know it - a gust of wind swooped underneath and picked me right up. It didn't take me more than a few inches, but I felt like Mary Poppins.
Posted: 7/5/2007 11:19:21 PM

P: 7/5/2007 11:26:41 PM
happilyeverafter Cut Rock Total Posts: 361 Last Post: 3/19/2008 Member Since: 6/7/2007	SPIDERS!!!! Blech! Can't even look at them! Also violence of any kind, but especially with a knife Scary movies of any kind (if a preview comes on tv i'll cover my eyes and hum to myself LOL) I fear for any animal's safety. Natural or human-inflicted cruelty really upsets me. Those are the every-day type fears. Of course I fear that someone I love will be hurt, etc but I try not to think about those things! ~~happilyeverafter~~ The first duty of love is to listen.
Posted: 7/5/2007 11:26:41 PM

P: 7/5/2007 11:31:22 PM
Skippy123 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 19,840 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 11/24/2006	Good thread Kimberly. I am afraid of: Giving presentations Sharks (just found that one out) Roaches, ewwww. reading scary books right before bed and same w/scary movies Skippy "The only things that stand between a person and what they want in life are the will to try it, and the faith to believe it's possible" Rich Devos
Posted: 7/5/2007 11:31:22 PM

P: 7/5/2007 11:33:11 PM
amylikesrocks Cut Rock Total Posts: 223 Last Post: 11/8/2007 Member Since: 4/2/2007	In no particular order: something bad happening to one of my kids or my husband spiders tornados my house burning down getting into a fatal car accident (on that note, my kids learning how to drive and dying in a car accident) cancer random violence of anytype global warming life changing accidents of any kind
Posted: 7/5/2007 11:33:11 PM

P: 7/5/2007 11:34:34 PM
Miranda Ideal Rock Total Posts: 4,042 Last Post: 9/24/2009 Member Since: 2/18/2006	LOL! Everything! I'm REALLY scared of wild animals. Our house backs up to a nature preserve and we've seen coyotes, deer, etc. I hate it! DH and the kids love it! We went to the Sequoias for a vacation and I was so paranoid about bears the entire time that I didn't even have fun. Any extreme weather is spooky, too...And I'm talkin' about Southern California extreme weather...Hee Hee. If it rains hard, I worry that the hill behind us will come down, etc. As a parent, I'm also afraid of the usual stuff like child abduction or the kids being harmed in any way. Flying is another of my many fears. I can't stand the sensation. Or the noises. I react to flying very much the way you described reacting to the fireworks, Kimberly.
Posted: 7/5/2007 11:34:34 PM

P: 7/5/2007 11:39:38 PM
amylikesrocks Cut Rock Total Posts: 223 Last Post: 11/8/2007 Member Since: 4/2/2007	miranda, coyotes would scare me too! Deer, not so much but coyotes or bears, definately! I think something bad happening to my kids is the biggest scare I have. Second, something happening to my husband and third, me dying and not getting to see my kids grow up.
Posted: 7/5/2007 11:39:38 PM

P: 7/5/2007 11:42:33 PM
Mara Ideal Rock Total Posts: 27,936 Last Post: 11/25/2009 Member Since: 10/30/2002	i think there is another thread like this, i will have to see if i can find it and link it...!! for me it's spiders...nevermind they are WAY smaller than me. irrational fear for sure. also i am afraid of the ocean. i love swimming pools but i am afraid of drowning in the ocean, it's so vast and deep. it's not so much the animals in the ocean, just the ocean itself. heights scare me too, not being up in a plane or anything, but rather like being suspended on a small chair really high off the ground. i used to have this random nightmare where i'd be on a stilted chair like 100 feet off the ground, it was horrible. i don't know why heights scare me, can't remember a bad experience i have had, random! not too much else that i can really think of...i used to have a really irrational fear of my mother dying...but over the years that has lessened a lot...maybe it just had to do with growing up, it was just us for a long time so we were really connected. ________________________________ "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." -Albert Einstein
Posted: 7/5/2007 11:42:33 PM

P: 7/5/2007 11:42:45 PM
lumpkin Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,491 Last Post: 2/29/2008 Member Since: 5/24/2005	I'm scared of wasps -- as a child I got stung by a bunch of them at a picnic once, and I really do get spooked when I see flying, stinging insects. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Opinions are like belly buttons. Everyone has one, but some are more appealing than others.
Posted: 7/5/2007 11:42:45 PM

P: 7/5/2007 11:48:44 PM
Skippy123 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 19,840 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 11/24/2006	Date: 7/5/2007 11:42:45 PM Author: lumpkin I'm scared of wasps -- as a child I got stung by a bunch of them at a picnic once, and I really do get spooked when I see flying, stinging insects. Me too! Same thing happened to me Lumpkin!!! Skippy "The only things that stand between a person and what they want in life are the will to try it, and the faith to believe it's possible" Rich Devos
Posted: 7/5/2007 11:48:44 PM

P: 7/5/2007 11:50:52 PM
Ellen Ideal Rock Total Posts: 22,894 Last Post: 11/6/2009 Member Since: 1/13/2006	Date: 7/5/2007 11:48:44 PM Author: Skippy123 Me too! Same thing happened to me Lumpkin!!! You, are wanted in Who's Who. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "It is also important for the State to inculcate in its subjects an aversion to any 'conspiracy theory of history' for a search for 'conspiracies' means a search for motives and an attribution of responsibility for historical misdeeds." -Murray N. Rothbard, in The Anatomy of the State John Swinton [1829-1901] Chief Editorial Writer of the New York Times (Considered "the Dean of his Profession" by his peers), when asked to toast an 'Independent Press' in a gathering at the National Press Club, circa 1880 "There is no such thing in America as an independent press unless it is in the country towns. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dare express an honest opinion. If you express it you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid... for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things.... The business of the New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and sell his country and race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same thing, his salary. You know this, and I know it and what foolery to be toasting an 'independent press.' We are tools, and the vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the strings and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, all are the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
Posted: 7/5/2007 11:50:52 PM

P: 7/5/2007 11:52:00 PM
Ellen Ideal Rock Total Posts: 22,894 Last Post: 11/6/2009 Member Since: 1/13/2006	Oh, and I practically become a paralyzed idiot with dogs I don't know, and heights. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "It is also important for the State to inculcate in its subjects an aversion to any 'conspiracy theory of history' for a search for 'conspiracies' means a search for motives and an attribution of responsibility for historical misdeeds." -Murray N. Rothbard, in The Anatomy of the State John Swinton [1829-1901] Chief Editorial Writer of the New York Times (Considered "the Dean of his Profession" by his peers), when asked to toast an 'Independent Press' in a gathering at the National Press Club, circa 1880 "There is no such thing in America as an independent press unless it is in the country towns. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dare express an honest opinion. If you express it you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid... for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things.... The business of the New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and sell his country and race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same thing, his salary. You know this, and I know it and what foolery to be toasting an 'independent press.' We are tools, and the vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the strings and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, all are the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
Posted: 7/5/2007 11:52:00 PM

P: 7/6/2007 12:02:49 AM
Kaleigh Ideal Rock Total Posts: 25,920 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 11/18/2004	Right now, my biggest fear is having my daughter in London. She left the day of the Glasgow attack, and a day before they found the car bombs. Talk about bad timing, but I also believe you have to live your life and go on as normal. She'll be there for the next 3 weeks studying. ____________________________ Piece of cake and a candle. ng gift
Posted: 7/6/2007 12:02:49 AM

P: 7/6/2007 12:07:01 AM
lumpkin Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,491 Last Post: 2/29/2008 Member Since: 5/24/2005	Kaleigh, that is frightening. Can you imagine living there or where terrorist attacks have happened and are not unheard of? I'm sure she'll be okay, though. I also don't care for heights. I don't mind ladder heights, but real heights, like say, a high fire escape, the St. Louis Arch or a stage cat walk frighten me. I can't do them. I used to be okay on roller coasters (have no idea why that didn't qualify) but I don't think I'd want to be on one now. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Opinions are like belly buttons. Everyone has one, but some are more appealing than others.
Posted: 7/6/2007 12:07:01 AM

P: 7/6/2007 12:09:24 AM
sipper Cut Rock Total Posts: 162 Last Post: 9/14/2007 Member Since: 5/29/2006	Spiders (but not as much as I used to be) Heights (especially if I can see the ground) Water slides Being separated from my kids Not being in control
Posted: 7/6/2007 12:09:24 AM

P: 7/6/2007 12:11:57 AM
strmrdr Ideal Rock Total Posts: 23,296 Last Post: 10/9/2009 Member Since: 11/1/2003	heights - but I love flying planes and repelling and want too go skydiving. But standing on the edge of a building or cliff without ropes utoh no way! That comes from cracking my skull falling off a porch when I was a little kid. gun control politicians ........... Karl has joined the diamond trade and is now posting as Karl_K
Posted: 7/6/2007 12:11:57 AM

P: 7/6/2007 12:14:26 AM
Skippy123 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 19,840 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 11/24/2006	[QUOTE]Date: 7/6/2007 12:11:57 AM Author: strmrdr heights - but I love flying planes and repelling and want too go skydiving. But standing on the edge of a building or cliff without ropes utoh no way! Me too!!!! I also have the fear of losing a loved one since it has happened to me lately. Skippy "The only things that stand between a person and what they want in life are the will to try it, and the faith to believe it's possible" Rich Devos
Posted: 7/6/2007 12:14:26 AM

P: 7/6/2007 12:26:42 AM
marcyc Ideal Rock Total Posts: 7,831 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 2/27/2007	Enclosed places is my worst - I'm very claustrophobic Miller moths - I hate them Big spiders Losing someone in my family Boogy men (crime or violence against my family, me or our house) Sparkle On My Friends!
Posted: 7/6/2007 12:26:42 AM

P: 7/6/2007 1:14:45 AM
musey Ideal Rock Total Posts: 11,179 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 9/30/2006	Sharks Spiders (under 1/2 inch not so scary... but I grew up with brown recluses!) Claymation. Seriously can't even look at it.
Posted: 7/6/2007 1:14:45 AM

P: 7/6/2007 2:44:36 AM
luckystar112 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,797 Last Post: 11/16/2009 Member Since: 1/8/2007	Wow. Where do I begin? lol You guys know from my previous threads that I'm a bit of a stressed-out, worrisome, anxiety-ridden spaz. 1. Heights. 2. Another 911 happening on any plane I am on. (Especially last year flying home from Europe on the 4th of July. I thought for sure that if it were going to happen at all, it would happen then. I was a paranoid freak the whole flight.) I also have a fear that my pilot will be drunk...that air control won't pay attention and we'll get into an on air collision...that the breaks will fail.....etc. I hate flying, but I'm usually okay after take-off. Most people hate landing, but I don't mind that....I hate taking off!!! 3. Spiders 4. Driving on the freeway 5. Lightning 6. Deep water 7. Any amusement park ride that goes extremely high, extremely fast, or upside down. Basically, any ride where I can fit in the seat. haha. 8. My absolute biggest fear....and the one I think I'm going to go to a psychiatrist for soon....is DEATH! -Dieing in a plane accident, car accident, drowning, in a fire, being murdered, getting cancer, etc. Dying is inevitable, but the thought of it terrifies me. If I let myself think about death too much I have extreme panic attacks where I can't breathe. It's the fear of not knowing and not being able to say goodbye. But if I found out I had cancer, it would be the fear of knowing and being able to say goodbye! It's the idea of life going on without me...it's the fear of not being done with my life yet...it's the fear of what it might feel like....it's the fear of what hapens after. I really am a wreck, and I totally need help with this. I have way more fears that this, but I don't want to bore you. haha
Posted: 7/6/2007 2:44:36 AM

P: 7/6/2007 3:34:34 AM
diamondfan Ideal Rock Total Posts: 10,999 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 6/17/2005	I fear bad things happening to people. Especially my kids, which makes me totally insane when they are sick. I am a chronic worrier and catastrophizer, so I always assume the worst. I also hate flying, big bugs, earthquakes (lived through a few) hurricanes and tornadoes (never lived through one), I find clowns really freaky, I hate waiting for test results from the doctor, I hate heights and small spaces, I am so severly claustrophobic that anything confining freaks me out...I hate ski lifts and roller coasters now but used to love them and be fine with them. I am scared to not be in control. Happening upon a snake or poisionous creature also freaks me as does the thought of sharks when I am on the sea. **************************** "There is no such thing as fun for the whole family-there are no massage parlors with ice cream and free jewelry" Jerry Seinfeld
Posted: 7/6/2007 3:34:34 AM

P: 7/6/2007 7:03:39 AM
allycat0303 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,928 Last Post: 11/15/2009 Member Since: 11/19/2004	This is SO silly but BALLONS. I hate the surprise popping sounds. Everytime I am near a balloon I freak out and need to leave the room. Free balloons with children running around squeezing them is one of the worst things I can imagine. Also spiders And of someone I love dying in a car accident. Waking up with an intruder standing right by my bed. Airplanes. That about sums up the definition of hell for me.
Posted: 7/6/2007 7:03:39 AM

P: 7/6/2007 8:27:30 AM
anchor31 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 6,366 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 10/18/2005	I'm deathly afraid of heights. I don't even need to be very high up to feel like I'm going to die. To a lesser degree, I also hate fireworks popping and ballon popping. I get startled easily and I hate it! ******** R & J 08-02-08 Expecting baby on 12-30-09
Posted: 7/6/2007 8:27:30 AM

P: 7/6/2007 8:34:39 AM
Harriet Ideal Rock Total Posts: 11,800 Last Post: 11/19/2009 Member Since: 7/7/2006	Ghosts. "The greatest experts are only as good as the sum total of what they have seen." (Souren Melikian)
Posted: 7/6/2007 8:34:39 AM

P: 7/6/2007 8:43:58 AM
Madam Bijoux Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,054 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 7/15/2005	Poverty "I never met a diamond I didn't like." No jewel is as beautiful as a cat's eyes. Madam Bijoux (Gabrielle)
Posted: 7/6/2007 8:43:58 AM

P: 7/6/2007 9:13:56 AM
**~Danielle~** Ideal Rock Total Posts: 558 Last Post: 10/21/2009 Member Since: 6/24/2005	I am surprised how many people are afraid of spdiers! I don't particularly enjoy them, but I'm not really scared. I am scared of: 1. The ocean - when Fi & I were in Cancun, he dragged me in the ocean and I wouldn't let him let go of me! I also yelped every 5 seconds! Everyone was laughing at us....I am afraid of both the water itself and all the fishies and what not. 2. Falling - I cried at the Statue of Liberty in 6th grade......I couldn't even stand near the edge, I ran back to the farthest point possible. Also, when I am sitting in a chair, I will freak out if someone pulls the back to make me rock a little bit. I probably have a better chance of falling based on my reaction than if I just sat there... 3. That I will wake up with an intruder watching over me (Ally - I really thought I was the only one like this!). I only have this fear when I am alone though, if my fi is home, I never think about it. 4. Driving at night, in the rain, snow, etc. I am not scared enough of this to let it prevent me from doing it, but it gives me quite a lot of anxiety. I always said that if I won the lottery the first thing I would do is hire a driver 5. I used to have a fear of stairs - especially ones that were open. I still have to walk on the left side, so I can hold on with my dominant hand (Because apparently if you are lefty, your right side is useless!). 6. Going downhill - like skiing, biking, etc. Ugh, I am weird!
Posted: 7/6/2007 9:13:56 AM

P: 7/6/2007 9:31:16 AM
ephemery1 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,724 Last Post: 7/10/2008 Member Since: 3/20/2006	I'm not scared of the dark, per se... but I'm TERRIFIED of bad things happening while I'm sleeping, especially if DH is away and I'm alone for some reason. When I was little, this was my biggest fear... I always thought there was somebody just outside my bedroom door, waiting until I fell asleep to come in and kill me/take me/whatever. Now, if I turn the lights back on and get up and read or watch TV, I feel fine... but as soon as the lights go off again, I feel like I'm signaling the bad guys to come out and get me. Other than that, I'm okay with flying, spiders, heights, and all the regular phobias... although the older I get, the more wussy I get, I've noticed. ETA -- Oooh Danielle, I forgot, driving is a fear for me too... for some reason it just gives me the WORST anxiety, which usually leads to a tension headache, which then ruins the rest of the day. Fortunately I live in the city and only really leave on weekends, and DH drives then. But driving on highways, at night, in rain, etc... ugh, hate it. -~-~- "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." Edith Wharton
Posted: 7/6/2007 9:31:16 AM

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