Current Events > What are some of your most irrational fears?

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Things you spend far too much time imagining, no matter how unlikely.

I remember as a kid I always used to worry about forgetting my past once I reached adulthood. Nowadays, I imagine getting lost in the dark while driving, and all the major highways are under construction.

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Big water bugs. Can't stand knowing one's alive near me.

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• I'll somehow come across someone hanging off a ledge, and I won't be strong enough to pull them up
• not so much anymore, but when I was a kid, I used to believe that I viewed reality "wrong"; like, everyone, including myself, really looked like monsters and everyone else saw reality for how it was except for me

edit: and that within a group of people, someone might be able to read my mind

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that i'll never be able to reach these keeeeeds

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If I use a water bottle for more than a week the water will become bad.
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Bears with bullet proof vests on.

Tsuyoi3 posted...

Big water bugs. Can't stand knowing one's alive near me.

Oh god, house centipedes get me too. Theyre way too quick for something with that many legs.

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Bees

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Cheese graters

A slight slip and you've lost 3 layers of skin, followed by unimaginable pain and your cheese is now covered in blood

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Seafood

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That I'll just totally lose my shit while driving and decide to crash into the next lane over. Similar urge to l'appel du vide.

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Falling to my death because the water disappeared while I was riding a speedboat.

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Throwing my keys on the roof for no reason and not being able to get inside to get the ladder and get them down.

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I was afraid there was gonna be a drive by almost every second of my life when I was younger, I remember I would hear cars coming down the street and I would always make sure to look

Took me awhile before I started just training my brain to just and only look forward - those fears back sometime again in my sophomore year but thinking about now Ive never noticed there were two instances of this in my life

Now, its not being careful climbing down a steep hill on a mountain - like people can usually fly down faster than going uphill but Im so afraid of a misstep or sliding onto my back and hitting my head off of something.. I dunno how irrational that is though

Getting metoo'd for something I didn't do.

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It's not something completely impossible to happen, but I spend way too much time and energy worrying about what if my daughter died, or worse, what if I did something to cause it? Like I'm driving and am totally at fault in an accident, or take her to the park and she falls off a playground thing and breaks her neck or something. >_>

I mean I'm sure its normal to worry about your kids to SOME extent but I think I go way overboard.

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RedJackson posted...

I was afraid there was gonna be a drive by almost every second of my life when I was younger, I remember I would hear cars coming down the street and I would always make sure to look

Almost posted that, too. I got over it but for some reason as a kid I was always worried that would happen... didn't grow up in the BEST neighborhood but it wasn't really "you totally need to worry about a random drive-by" level, either.


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Having some random person on the street ask me what I have to say for myself/my race/my sex and not being able to come up with anything.

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Oh man I can't believe it slipped my mind.
When driving, I get scared I'm becoming "too comfortable" and not paying enough attention.
So my mind freaks when I can't remember every detail driving and says "Do you REALLY know you didn't hit a person and didn't realize?" which sometimes causes me to do a circle back or stop to check (only in neighborhoods to stop)

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My mom dying. I mean, its not irrational to believe it will happen because it eventually will (probably soon actually), but Ive spent an inordinate amount of time worrying about it, ever since I was a small child.

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I have pretty bad social anxiety, all of my fears are irrational. Just the idea of standing in a crowd and everyone staring at me. It sounds stupid saying it, but it's the one fear I focus on almost every day. I've gotten help for all my mental problems and can handle it really well now, but it's still there
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Being murdered while pooping or showering. I always lock the door in the bathroom.

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EffectAndCause posted...

Being murdered while pooping or showering. I always lock the door in the bathroom.

I keep my .40 when Im shittin on the toilet.
-Boosie

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Everyone counting on me for some, like, world-saving event and me just plain forgetting.

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DevsBro posted...

Everyone counting on me for some, like, world-saving event and me just plain forgetting.

I'm pretty sure that's the plot to Bill & Ted 3.

EffectAndCause posted...

Being murdered while pooping or showering. I always lock the door in the bathroom.

Honestly though! I feel pretty vulnerable if I'm thinking that I left the door unlocked and I'm in the shower. It's scary.

BlockAddition posted...

Cheese graters

A slight slip and you've lost 3 layers of skin, followed by unimaginable pain and your cheese is now covered in blood

This one is scary too. Whenever I'd see a knife left out as a kid, I'd move the blade part to be under something because I worried it'd get bumped and land on someone's foot or something. The thought of cutting skin still makes me really uneasy.

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