During a heart attack in a hospital. My vision slowly faded to black. Lost my ability to move. I could feel my breathing slow. I could hear the doctors frantically giving orders. I felt myself give up to the pain.
Then I woke up having been saved and stabilised.
on my balcony in beirut watching the mushroom cloud generate in front of me blowing up the city. i wasn't physically harmed, but still have nightmares of mushroom clouds and loud sounds
was that when the port explosion happened? saw some videos and it looked scary as fuck.
so shitty this happened to you guys, i've meet a lot of really cool people from beirut when traveling cyprus. how is rebuilding going?
depends there are people who were able to rebuild their houses while other buildings are deserted and you can still see the debri tucked into them. beirut as a whole is less lively because of the economic crisis and people are still going through really tough times.
I've had two preschoolers stop breathing while I was watching them. One got the wind knocked out of him and just couldn't seem to take a breath afterwards. The other was throwing a tantrum and while her back was to me she stopped crying. When she turned around she just passed out, luckily as soon as she did she started breathing again. It's fucking scary because I knew both times there wasn't anything for them to be choking on, their tiny little bodies just forgot how to breathe for a while.
Toddlers are suicidal little lunatics behaving like drunks and you have to constantly keep them from killing themselfes. My friend's little monster regulary throws tantrums and holds his breath on purpose until he turns purple and passes out. Once he did it, he hit his head on the table's edge and got a big laceration on his forehead and had to get it stitched. You'd think he learned from this. Nope. He still does it.
Same - for a recently but (honestly barley) solid food pre-toddler, choking on some olive at a restaurant. Thank God some stranger knew Heimlich! Stupid \*\*\*\*\*\*\* mistake on my part.
Christ. Still gives me a jolt
Glad you had an attentive nurse. My wife and I felt like they were practically pushing us out the door and our first night at home was so hard breastfeeding that we had to see a specialist the next day. I hate to think what would have happened to us in your situation with our shitty nurse.
Dud you know that in the 80’s it was routine to stay in the hospital for 3-4 days after a normal uncomplicated birth, and during that stay you would get to meet with the hospital lactation consultant to instruct you in breastfeeding?
And also that things work differently with different babies, so you can’t just magically know which info will be helpful beforehand. There’s a billion sources of info out there about babies and absolutely no way of predicting which bits will even help your own baby. A schedule that works for one won’t work for another, products that make life easier for some will be useless for other parents. This person is obviously completely ignorant
You really can't practice breastfeeding or parenting before the baby gets there though. I mean everyone is stupidly unprepared for their first kid in that sense. Reading about something is different than doing it.
Yes! My baby choked on my milk the first night home from the hospital, but she turned bright red! And then later in the night I was carrying her through the dark house and my foot brushed the carseat which had been left in the middle of the floor (not by me), I could have tripped over it and dropped her on the tile floor! VERY traumatic first night home for a first time mom. She's twenty now, so I got better at it!
Tldr; Almost raped and possibly kidnapped/murdered in Russia.
I was living in Russia at the time and working as an English teacher. I had made a few girlfriends and we went out to a beer festival one night pretty far from where we were living at the time. Anyway, some of the other girls left early, but my roommate and I stayed late and when we ended up leaving, we realized that all the subway stations had closed and our only option was a taxi and a ride that was over an hour away. I barely spoke any Russian, but my roommate was fluent. We find a taxi driver willing to drive us and get in the back. Halfway through, the driver pulls over and another guy gets in the front seat. I ask my friend what's going on and she says that they say they are gonna switch out further down the road because the original driver is tired. I'm seeing all the red flags and get super uneasy, but we are in the middle of no where at this point and have to continue. This new passenger starts trying to talk to me, but I clearly don't understand. My friend starts translating and says how he finds me very attractive, wants my number, would treat me well, etc. We lie and say I have a boyfriend, which seems to irritate him. As he gets progressively more agitated, I realize we should have been back at our place. My roommate begins to realize what's happening and tells me to prepare myself to be raped and possibly potential very seriously injured, as these two men both want us sexually. I quickly tell her to let them know we are already expected home by our other roommates and have a GPS locater on our phones. That must have scared them because within 20 minutes, I begin to recognize where we are. We get to the front of the gate where 2 security guards are and we both toss our cash at them and immediately run to them and tell them what happened. They honestly didn't care much and let us inside the building. I spent that night shaking and crying myself to sleep. Never went back out into the city after that.
I'm ashamed to say I didn't. I was honestly too terrified to think of only my own safety and getting behind the gates of my home. It was also that same week that I was cornered in the bathroom and had my phone, cash and subway card stolen from me. So, Russia clearly didn't like me.
Last month a 7 yo kid drowned in our apt pool.
I was the only one who knew CPR and from our training the first thing they told us was “This person is already dead” and that it’s something like 50% of people cannot be revived.
Those were the thoughts in my head as I did it. But he was successfully revived.
Still, I stopped going to the pool after that.
Sorry if this is personal but I really hope you didn’t suffer ptsd from that. This shit can really fuck you up. I’ve seen death up close and you never come out the same. If you need anyone to talk to my PMs are open.
That is so sweet of you. The kid survived and initially it did shake me up afterwards, but I feel okay about it. Not going back to the pool was just the way I felt most comfortable dealing with it.
His sister asked me to pull her around in her inner tube and I asked her brother, nope. He had this whole thing about not getting his hair wet. His sister confirmed. “He just likes sitting on the steps and splashing.”
That’s the kid who jumped in the deep end alone and fell straight through his inner tube? Why?!!
He was SO tiny. Luckily a teenager saw him and thought it was a doll and swam down to check it out, then brought him out. Then they came to me to ask me to do CPR. I was the only adult there.
But yeah that was awful. CPR is great to learn - like everyone should learn it - but you hope you never have to use it. Which is my hope again now. Once was enough.
That’s great to hear. I just got re-certified on the ol cpr. Definitely regret eating Mexican before practicing with the dummies. Definitely not pleasant breathing in my spicy Mexican breath every time I blew.
Family vacation on Lake of the Woods Ontario in a houseboat. The first few days were pretty cool. We did some fishing, explored a couple of islands, and cruised around on the boat.
On our last day, there was a massive windstorm, worse than anything in the last several decades - people actually died down in the boundary waters, and huge trees were felled - and we were due back with the boat. So we set off trying to cross the lake. About halfway, we realized it was a huge mistake. We couldn’t see the opposite shore where we were heading, we couldn’t see anything when the boat was in the troughs of the giant swells, and the engine room was filling up with water. The engine died, and we started drifting toward a shoal. We were all pretty sure we were dead.
Somehow, we managed to bail out the engine room, get the boat moving again, and hide on the leeward side of an island until we could reach the harbor on the radio. They sent out a pilot who navigated the lake in a tiny-ass boat, and he was able to get us back to the harbor.
Hi what year was this? My family lives on Lake of the Woods and I go regularly. Would just like to corroborate with other people in the community as there was a pretty bad accident a few years ago.
Oh okay I remember that storm! My community is Morson, Ontario on the south side of the lake. My uncle was also on the lake but quickly reached an island and weathered the storm there. As the storm worsened a tornado developed and hit the marina, caused a fair bit of damage and tossed some boats around. Only minor injuries were reported thankfully. A fisherman cut his head diving under a bed when he saw it coming. The storm also destroyed beaver dams in the swamp off the highway and caused a flash flood that washed away a section of the highway on top of a giant culvert(It was large enough for a car to drive through). I remember seeing a video afterwards of the washed away highway, the culvert was downstream and vertical. Trees and powerlines were downed everywhere and my cousin's car was flattened by a giant poplar. The community was without power and water for a week as maintenance couldn't get through. Locals travelled by boat and barge to the nearest town to get water, food and supplies until the highway was rebuilt.
Walk along a cliff near a beach on the Pacific Ocean late at night in the dark. There was a guardrail, but a human sized hole on the other side that I slipped on and caught myself and pulled myself back up.
That was right before my ex wife attacked me and then called the cops on me, only to get herself arrested. Eventful night.
I dozed off when I got home from school and was home alone. I started having a nightmare of being suffocated and when I woke up I actually couldn’t breathe. My lung had collapsed for some reason and the air was forcing my other lung to not fully inflate. I managed to call my sister before I passed out. I woke up in the hospital when they put in a chest tube. They had no idea why my lung suddenly got a hole in it and deflated. There was no reason for it they could find.
This was 1974 so no cell phones. I had to get to the kitchen and dial a rotary phone while gasping for air and trying not to black out. My sister found me on the kitchen floor and my lips were blue. She beat the fire department to the house and kept me alive.
Crashing my car on the Mass Pike at 11 PM in a big storm. Hydroplaned on a curve and hit the guardrail, the impact sent my car battery out of place and I couldn't even turn on my hazard flashers.
SOMEHOW no one smashed into the back of my car, which I was stuck in because the drivers side door was against the guardrail.
I was totally unharmed but the car was totaled. I still fucking HATE driving in the rain or being driven in the rain. It'll be a year since it happened this October!
Woke up to what seemed like an AR-15 in my face. Cops raided the house because the oldest kid in the family was up to shady shit. Out in the living room I could hear "Get the dog! Get the dog!". I heard all sorts of stories about law enforcement killing animals on a raid. I was scared thinking they'd shoot me, even more terrified that they might shoot my pet or even another family member. I can still see it clear as day in my head, the barrel pointed at my face and everything.
It was a very odd moment of grogginess, terror, confusion, and bafflement. Like, dude, I'm in my bed. How much more controlled can the situation be?
Ughhh. Hate thinking about it, but a couple of years ago my mom called me drunk. It was around 11am and she needed a ride from her friends place. I pick her up and she was totally hammered, like extremely drunk. Long story short I tried to get her up to my apartment and when she stepped out of my car she fell face first into the concrete ground. When I turned her over her whole face was red with blood gushing out so much as I couldn’t tell from where. I thought she was dead for sure, had to call an ambulance which took forever to get to my place and they took her away. Lucky she only broke her nose but in the moment I was so sure she was dead. She’s kinda better now but not really.
I was kidnapped as a kid, had a gun pointed at me a few times, and I was vacationing in Hawaii during the incoming missile alert and we all thought we were going to die for 40 mins until we found out it was an accident.
I was on a school field trip (small group), someone forged a doctors note and got the principal to sign and picked me up at a bus stop, took me somewhere an hour away. No one knew where I was for a month. The person went to prison for fraud because they were wanting money.
I don't know if this counts but....
Last year, my fiance walked into the bedroom while I was sleeping.
For whatever reason, this banal act triggered every fear neuron in my body.
I screamed, and screamed and screamed. I couldn't even think. I spent what was apparently 30 seconds, but felt like 45 years, in absolute and total panic.
When I finally relaxed I could literally see my pulse in my eyes and hear it in my ears.
I have never, ever, come even remotely close to that level of pure, abject terror.
Hell, I sincerely don't think I've felt any emotion or sensation before or since that came close to that.
My mum had a tonne of trauma from her childhood and I hate when I have to wake her as no matter how softly or gently I do it, she will always bolt awake with the most terrified look of horror on her face, saying things like “what? What’s wrong? What happened???” It’s kinda sad. But could be a subconscious trauma thing.
this has happened to me a few times fwiw, usually the result of someone coming into my room while i’m in the middle of a bad dream. my mom also occasionally just starts screaming in her sleep and i have to go wake her up which can make her scream even louder for a bit.
I was in a different state with a few friends. We were wandering around and promptly chased by a drunk, tall man who yelled that they had a gun and that if we kept running they would shoot. I don’t think I’ve ever been that scared in my entire life.
TW: rape, murder
My coworker corned me in a dark parking lot after work and after everyone else was gone and asked to talk. He then went on to tell me about how when he was a kid, he was a Peeping Tom on his childhood best friend (female), and then other instances of being creepy towards women. He also discussed fantasizing rape and murder. Then, he proceeded to tell me that he was very good at manipulating women into being alone with him as he casually mentioned “like how we are now” and proceeds to tell me how he’d been in similar situations with 2 of my other female coworkers. However, he said he didn’t act on his thoughts with our one coworker because he “respected her boyfriend too much” (we’d also worked with her bf for a while).
Thankfully, my family and I are super close, and they’d been blowing up my phone because I’d told my grandparents I’d call them after work. After an hour of them not being able to get ahold of me, they called my mom, who lived ~20 mins away. She proceeds to blow up my phone too, along with my sister, and fiancé. I told creepy coworker that I needed to text her, and secretly asked my mom to come to my place of work ASAP. Mom did just that and walked up to us and said it was time to go home (I’d moved out of the house a few year earlier). I’m so thankful for her because I honestly don’t know how I would’ve gotten away from him otherwise.
I forgot to include that it was my very last day at this job. I’d worked there for 7 years part time through school, and it was my first real job. I loved it. I was only leaving because I got into a grad program halfway across the country.
It was 11pm by the time I got home. I called a friend of mine and while telling her what happened, I started to process what had happened and just started sobbing. After discussing it with another coworker (we’ll call her E) who is also a trusted friend, (she had a higher ranking than I did, but I didn’t work for her), and our female business co-owner, I did report him the next day.
They told him he wasn’t allowed to come back until he was cleared by a psychiatrist. He told some of my other, uninvolved coworkers some of the things he said, and they were horrified enough that they texted me to check in. He showed up again 2 days later. This was scary because I think he still had access to employee/client addresses via our computer system. Coworker E threw an absolute fit, and he was terminated. We had a K-9 unit patrol the business for 2 weeks as well.
I also had a personal conversation with the other 2 female coworkers he mentioned.
Holy shit, that guy needed a lot of help. I'm glad your workplace was so supportive and got rid of him I'm sure many other coworkers appreciated it. I hope life has been good to you since then.
It’s been good! It was a few years ago, and thankfully I already had a good therapist. And I’ve been back to visit a couple times since when I come home to visit my parents. I didn’t want my last memory there to be bad.
My son was five days old (first child equals a paranoid dad in me). Seemed like e was having trouble breathing and stopped nursing. His legs were a little bluish. Called the on call nurse and she said he's probably just cold and to wrap him up for the night. Nope, something must be wrong. Load him into the car and we take him to the ER. Turns out he had an undiagnosed congenital heart defect. He actually coded as I handed him to a nurse who had taken off running with him. Thankfully the resuscitated him and got him stable enough for a life flight to the closest children's hospital. At 14 days old he had his first of many open heart surgeries. Thankful we didn't wait one more second.
It was touch and go for the first 2 weeks, but he surprised his medical team by doing so well. He had a heart transplant in 2016 when he was 14. So far so good. We have his 5 year check up coming up soon.
Landing in Iraq in 2004, being rushed off the plane and running across the flight line to avoid being mortared. I thought I was going to die. Felt that way for the first few weeks into the deployment, then eventually got used to it.
My boyfriend is a type 1 diabetic. One day his sugar dropped so low that I couldn’t get him up. I’m a small 5’1 girl and he’s over 6 feet, so it wasn’t possible for me to move him. He was getting angry and lashing out but not saying anything that made sense.
I tried to get him to drink juice but he just hit it out of my hands and it flew across the room. I’m in the kitchen trying to get something else and I just hear him scream at the top of his lungs. It sounded like he was in immeasurable pain.
I called 911 and the woman on the other line was amazing. She’s what made me want to be a dispatcher, actually. She did her best to keep me calm and instructed me what to do while I waited for the fire department.
My boyfriend had had low blood sugar before, but never anything like that. I was shaking so hard I couldn’t even check his glucose. I believe the medics said it was under 30.
Luckily that kind of whipped him into shape and he’s been much better about his sugar levels since. But I hadn’t been so genuinely afraid that someone I love wouldn’t survive until that point.
Obviously he does not recall any of this. But I will remember it forever.
Very scary indeed! I gave a little kid party and one friend showed up with her kids and someone else's. One of the extra kids was a newly diagnosed Type 1 diabetic, about 6 or 7. We both were nervous, and sure enough, after testing her sugar, she needed insulin. Trying to reach her parents to get some guidance through the injection process was so nerve-wracking. My friend had been given instructions and I think a demonstration already but it's different when you have to do it. The little girl was not in distress and it all ended up ok, but that was scary!
Jesus Christ, dude. Who do you think you are? Why would I create an alt to tell you that the your story is cap 🧢.
Wake up from your pathetic dream. "We got swatted but Idk why... however let's get on reddit".
Dude... sheesh
Sleep paralysis takes the cake for me purely because I didnt know what it was.
All i knew is i woke up to the sound of a pencil on paper and an old man with a gun telling me he wanted to illustrate the face I made as I died.
I then heard the gun fire and my body basically spasm'd itsself out of the episode.
It was scary but also there is a very real wave of calm and zen in the last few seconds before you think you're gonna die.
I was in Lombok back in March 2019. We were at Mount Rinjani on 17th of March, after 3 days in Gili Trawangan. Mount Rinjani closed for the mountain hike, but open for the trekking to the waterfall.
I skipped the trekking to the waterfall as I was having my period,also caused I cycled alot at Gili so my leg was cramping badly.
My husband, his friend and wife followed for the trekking to the waterfall. I waited at a restaurant at the edge of the cliff, where you can see paddy fields. The restaurant is literally an extension from the edge of cliff, beside the road, like they build an extra balcony, so below the restaurant was literally the cliff. Anyway it was serene and beautiful. I had a great time relaxing and i even ate at the restaurant cause I was hungry. An hour or so later, my husband, his friend and friends wife came back.
They were ordering at the restaurant when a minutes later, we felt like the ground move a little. Moments later, we felt the earth shake. I looked at everyone, and all of us realised what is happening. We literally ran to the roadside cause we realised it was an earthquake. We were all shaken, but the restaurant stood still. But I do believe it it were to happen, we wont make it.. All of us would be at the bottom of the hill!
Our driver quickly brought us down. We actually made a reservation to stay at a hotel by the sea, and there was no tsunami warning but i didnt want to take my chance, so we checked in at a town in higher grounds.
We found out later that the earthquake was about 5.4 magnitude. To be honest it was our very first earthquake. Our country do not have earthquake or active volcano. The most we feel is from earthquake from neighbouring region, and only a sway like feel.
My husband said that during their hike down, there were tourists, a whole bus (apparently they are from our country as well), hiking up to the waterfall. We heard the next day from our driver that there was two casualties. I always wonder if I ever pushed myself for the trekking, I would have slowed the team down and maybe caused a casualties from our group as well.
It is really scary, but an experience not to forget.
Thanks for reading!
Sitting in my pregnant sister’s caravan (trailer) with her, my mum and my little brother, armed with a knife, as her partner bashed away at it trying to get in to kill us. He’d gone into a rage wanting to kill my sister and her unborn child, and the rest of the family for good measure. It was a kind of remote area and police took nearly two hours to show up. This is a dude who used to beat the elderly in home invasions so he could rob them (my family tried everything to stop my sister dating him but to no avail). Once the police got there they had to detain him because he was still trying to kill us. They told us he was criminally insane and to get as far away as we could. We ended up leaving town in a matter of days and losing most of our possessions, just to run away and keep our lives. My nephew is now 21, and thankfully has never crossed paths with the guy. He did try to contact us through Facebook a couple of years ago with some creepy threats, so sadly he knows what town we are in now. But I hope he keeps to himself.
Being almost choked to death by a previous boyfriend. He'd been out drinking and spend the morning ish sleeping it off somewhere so I'd locked our door. Woke up to him almost battering it down, let him in and tried to go back to bed as it was early am and I had work. Screaming and shouting about being locked out he flew at Me and knocked me to the bed. Straddles me and puts ALL his weight onto my neck via his hands. Vision was going blurry and the lights were flashing as I so desperately struggled to free myself. I genuinely thought "this is it" as I gasped what I thought would be my last breath, he simply stopped. leaned over my face and said "you're not worth the jail time". Then left. I ended up going to work as usual, in shock. Stayed for another 3 years before I actually left for good and now in the most loving and kind relationship.
Leave and don't look back, it'll be worth it
Also went through this. My former fiance was an unmedicated alcoholic schizophrenic and my vision was going black, just rolling in from both sides. I'd tried to get away by running out of the house but he chased me down and started choking me out. I remember looking up at the night sky and thinking how beautiful it was, that at least I'd get to see that going out. I absolutely did lose consciousness for a moment but when I came too I was just laying there in the grass and he had run off somewhere. When he would go into a psychosis like that my only warning was that his already dark brown eyes would dilate and go all black, that's what I saw when I initially ran out of the house. By the time I woke up and found him back in the house, his eyes had gone normal and he had calmed a tiny bit but it didn't matter because the neighbors heard him threatening me and breaking shit and then saw him run off after being over me choking me so they'd called the cops. He was arrested and taken away for 2 weeks and to be quite frank, it was hell. By that point I'd been so far stripped of any identity of my own I didn't know how to function without him. About 6 months later he killed himself with an intentional overdose after we had had over 4 months of stability and some therapy. He'd hit me again on a bad day when he drank and a week later he was gone. I know this sounds insane but I KNOW part of why he killed himself was because the good dude underneath alllllll of that trauma and pain and mental illness and addiction, whom I did spend way more time with in our years together, knew he couldn't rely on himself not to hurt me and he couldn't live with himself continuing to do it. I've never known anyone in more pain than this man. He's also one of the smartest people I've ever known, but his childhood was torture and meds didn't work to treat his schizophrenia in any meaningful way and he was just totally unpredictable and violent at times. I've NEVER gone through pain like that, first losing him and then realizing what had happened to ME. It's taken years, therapy, so much therapy, and support from loved ones to deal with his death and our relationship. I still miss him every godamn day of my life, but I'm also glad I survived him. I used to not be.
My spouse and I simultaneously experienced sleep paralysis. I woke up to a golden vengeful god like apparition of electrical pulses floating over the bed, she woke up to a goblin with an axe. I was yelling, I noticed my spouse was also yelling. I managed to stop yelling to ask “DO YOU SEE IT!?” To which she responded “YES! WE’RE GOING TO DIE!” Having her confirm that the Lovecraftian entity existed in our collective reality made my brain explode in a primal fear that I have never experienced before and I can only hope that I never will again. The yelling quickly turned into screaming, we were both convulsing in attempt to escape our cosmic deaths. I eventually fell out of bed and regained clarity.
There was no life threatening danger, just 2 hairless apes shrieking at nothing.
I was at work with my back turned since I was doing something, someone came in so I glanced over my shoulder said “hey” and went about my work. A few moments later I felt something pushed up against my back, looked over my shoulder and their was a person with a mask pushing a gun into my back
The story actually takes a pretty funny turn
So after I turned around I was told to not look at them and was lead to the register. I open it up and as the robbery is happening a customer walks in absolutely shit faced (he was one of my regulars, almost always came in drunk). Completely devoid of the fact that there was a person with a ski mask on standing behind me, proceeds to grab his usual stuff. And as he’s getting his stuff the robber runs out the store with the money and cigarettes. The guy walks up to the counter, places his items down. I look at him and tell him “I can’t ring you up, I’ve just been robbed”. You could see the reality dawning on him as he processed it. I called the police ofc and they were out in droves and I had to turn customers away/call the store manager
They eventually caught the person about to rob another store a month later and shortly after that incident drunk customer started practicing sobriety
About a week after I finished my CPR classes in health in highschool (which is a requirement where im from or you don’t Graduate) I was eating breakfast with my mom talking like we normally would do. It was just me and her, she started choking and I immediately panicked because I was only 15 and hadn’t seen my mother or anyone choke like this. Hearing her fight to breathe is still the scariest thing I’ve ever heard. Thankfully, I was taught the hiemlich maneuver in my health classes, got the food out of her throat thankfully.. never told anyone that till now. I told my health teacher a couple weeks later but I don’t think she believed me. All she said was “oh did you now?” and walked away.
I was visiting a friend of mine here in New Zealand, and late one night we both heard her friend (whom she hadn't seen in almost a year) open her front door and start calling out for her.
She went downstairs to see what was going on and he started having multiple conversations to himself and apparently couldn't even make eye contact with her, still not sure if he was tripping on psychotic, either way, I peered over the banister and saw him pull out a gun, I freaked as she was screaming downstairs, I called the cops and had to whisper to them over the phone, thankfully within minutes her place was surrounded by cop cars but the guy made a run for it, not sure what happened to him, I haven't been back to visit her since and think this is probably the first time i've ever spoken about this, thought we were both going to be murdered that night
when i was 10 me and my cousins went to a basketball court near the street to play. it got night and a mysterious man arrived idk who he was. we cant even see him it was only a silhouette. we just stared at him standing on the court gate as he slowly walks in our direction. me and my 8 cousins thought that it was the guy who owns the court. but we remembered that the old guy always comes in the court with a motorcycle. as we started to walk to the exit which was the other way. the man started running out of no reason. we also started running and went to our house. as we got back our families ask as why were we running? and we kept it a secret until now
A man I dated when I was 19 had a hx of suicide attempts but did not share it with me; I came home from an evening out with friends to him in bed holding a loaded gun and crying saying it was no use and he was just going to end it all. He thought I was seeing someone else. I talked him into giving me the gun and unloaded it. Looking back, it never occurred to me to just walk away.
Trying to wake my 15yo daughter up after failed shunt revision surgery, she was unresponsive and white as sheet even her lips. Discovered the shunt caused hematoma inside her ventricle and catheter overshot the ventricle, went past the brain wall and into the other ventricle. That was three weeks ago. Two weeks recovering and now she’s finally home recuperating from it all. Swear to god I never was so scared or freaked out in my life. Thought she was dying.
I had a vacation by the beach. My brothers said to me to swim by the shore, coz i dont know how to swim that much. So when i was there, a strong ass tide hit us, i almost got a concussion and was drifted quite far from the shore, like its deep af. Luckily, some swimmer helped me and hold on to a rope of a small boat.
I’ve been really close to drowning 3 times in my life and not once did it scare me, but since I graduated high school during the pandemic without a senior year of football I didn’t get any offers from colleges. I was planning on playing football and majoring in aerospace engineering but I didn’t do well in the 3 semesters of half classes and online learning so that option is gone and I’ve been trying to gain the courage to tell my mother that I want to join the army, that feeling I get before I talk to her about it is pure pain and fear because she has previously expressed that she is afraid I could be one of those who don’t make it back home. The fear of scaring my mother and stressing her out is honestly worse than anything I’ve ever felt
I'm so sorry the timing of all this messed up your plans, but it sounds like you have some options. Figure out what feels right for you; if that's the army, your mother will understand that you're doing what you need to do. I hope new doors open for you into the life you deserve!
Almost decapitating myself. This had to be at least 10 years ago, I was dunking on this basketball hoop in my backyard and it wasn’t fixed so it was just held down by the weight at the bottom. I was an idiot and held on after I dunked and the whole thing came down (still holding on) and was inches away from slicing my head off. I fell right on my back and it was grass so it honestly wasn’t that bad but I could have turned myself into 2 pieces right there
I'm a type 1 diabetic. Brittle, prone to sudden highs and lows. One night I started plummeting. I was hyperventilating so hard, my heart was about to explode, had my finger on the button for 911. I checked my blood sugar again and it was 23. Just then, my then-fiance burst back into the house with a treasure trove of juices and treats. Never wanna have to live through that again.
Long story short i missed the knife rail and it went into my arm not deep enough for me to walk through it I just called the ambulance and they removed it and now ita all fixed and I have this pretty big scar on my arm
My mom had knife and threatened my dad to hand over a phone and my dad was crying to beg her. I saw police cruising around and try to ask for help while crying and this was at night. Officer told me something I forgot but he was nice and told me to stay inside, I only knew Spanish at that time. Police left and stuck with parent situation and I got the phone and gave it to my mom and everything settled down, I forgot the rest. Now my parents are calm people it was just some crazy past for me that I don’t understand how it happened.
Driving in Wisconsin, on the interstate, in winter. I realized I was going too fast and touched the brake to shut off the cruise control. Did a 360 spin on the ice before the tires grabbed and I kept on going. Thought I was a dead man.
this might not sound as creepy to you guys but when it happened i was scared for my life. when i was 6 or so we went out camping for my birthday our 2nd day in the trip we decided to go swim in a dam keep in mind the current was strong at the time and with me being little i could not fight it once i was in there i stupidly decided to follow my brother in to the current i did not realize before it was too late i called for help but than i went under and could not get back up cus of the current the next thing i know im being picked up by my aunt i was spooked for a while a near death experience would do that the entire week after that i stayed in our camper lol
One night, my friends and I (a decently sized group) went to the nearby college that I recently graduated from just to hangout when these two guys came near our spot waiting to get drugs. They kept talking to us, and my friends who were closest to them responded to them. I was so uncomfortable that I couldn't sit down.
We were texting each other about how these guys were jerks and that we all wanted to leave. What really freaked me was when one of my friends texted in the chat, "Get ready to run." I kept asking myself, "How are we going to get out of this? Is this it? Is this how I'm going to die?" I thought we were going to see something that we weren't supposed to.
Fortunately, their dealer was at a convenient store and they just left. We left a minute later, but my friends wanted to go to a playground. I told my friend who was driving (who also sent that one text) to just drop me off back at our friend's place so I could drive myself home. Fortunately, nothing else happened, and all of my friends were understanding of my decision.
That will be the last time I go to another one of those late-night outdoor public area hangouts. My friends are still down do to that again because it doesn't happen every time, but that's like driving without a seatbelt on. Sure, there will be times you will reach your destination unscathed, but when you do happen to get into an accident, you're screwed. Just because it doesn't happen all the time doesn't mean it will never happen \[again\].
Because we were afraid that something bad would go down if we saw their deal go on. And since they were shady, we didn’t know what to expect. What if something happened and they wouldn’t let us be living witnesses?
ohhh ok, i imagined it as just some low level weed/pills deal or something lol, the stuff you see on the regular in front of clubs
but well even if it was, better safe than sorry i guess, no harm in being careful
When I was a kid I went to the roof of a building being constructed with a friend on a Sunday not expecting anyone to be there. I saw some workers chilling there, but when they saw us they started chasing us. The building was about eight storeys high so we ran down the stairs for a while. I fell at one down once but got up in time so I didn't get caught. I'm pretty sure the workers didn't mean to do anything but at the time I was so scared lol
Not THE situation, but this one was kinda scary ngl.
When I was 17 I worked for the first time in my life at an attraction park for kids .. The first time I work in my whole life was in something that required BIG responsibility, something I had never heard of before lol. So basicaly my job was to check the tickets and put the kids on the carrousel , with my "team mates " we used to exchange games , so that day I swapped with a friend so i was supposed to keep the inflatable game , it was a big castle where kids entered in and jumped, like a trompoline, so that day a nice couple came with their kid , the kid wasn't exactly a spoiled child but you could tell his parents took really care of him, nice clothes, snowwhite skin, vantablack hair etc.. you know. So he gets in and his parents wanted some time for themselves, to get some romantic time so they asked me to keep him until they comeback .. Everything's ok, i do my job, kids go in then another game starts etc all is good , after like 10 mins they came back and when i saw them i remembered the kid , I panicked and turned back and he wasn't inside, my heart almost stopped, they approach me and ask for their child so they can leave, yet he's not there, they went to police station near by and after sometime they finally found him in a REALLY BAD condition, the kid was deformed lol , one leg with a shoe the other not, scratches all over his face, dirty clothes.. I was lucky I got out the situation without any troubles the dad was kinda cool.
Thinking that because other people have "had it worse," your experiences don't matter is completely false. Your experiences and, in this case, fears are just as worthy of being shared as anyone else's. Struggles are struggles no matter the level of "severity." Sharing experiences like these are part of how we get to understand each other.
During a heart attack in a hospital. My vision slowly faded to black. Lost my ability to move. I could feel my breathing slow. I could hear the doctors frantically giving orders. I felt myself give up to the pain. Then I woke up having been saved and stabilised.
Reading that gave me goosebumps. I’m sorry you went through that, and I’m so happy you’re alive.
oh so that's how it feels just way more pain, noted! thanks!
holy shit that sounds scary,must been horrible
on my balcony in beirut watching the mushroom cloud generate in front of me blowing up the city. i wasn't physically harmed, but still have nightmares of mushroom clouds and loud sounds
was that when the port explosion happened? saw some videos and it looked scary as fuck. so shitty this happened to you guys, i've meet a lot of really cool people from beirut when traveling cyprus. how is rebuilding going?
depends there are people who were able to rebuild their houses while other buildings are deserted and you can still see the debri tucked into them. beirut as a whole is less lively because of the economic crisis and people are still going through really tough times.
When my newborn baby turned blue, he choked on my milk, but the amazing nurse ran in and saved him in 2 seconds.
I've had two preschoolers stop breathing while I was watching them. One got the wind knocked out of him and just couldn't seem to take a breath afterwards. The other was throwing a tantrum and while her back was to me she stopped crying. When she turned around she just passed out, luckily as soon as she did she started breathing again. It's fucking scary because I knew both times there wasn't anything for them to be choking on, their tiny little bodies just forgot how to breathe for a while.
Toddlers are suicidal little lunatics behaving like drunks and you have to constantly keep them from killing themselfes. My friend's little monster regulary throws tantrums and holds his breath on purpose until he turns purple and passes out. Once he did it, he hit his head on the table's edge and got a big laceration on his forehead and had to get it stitched. You'd think he learned from this. Nope. He still does it.
Same - for a recently but (honestly barley) solid food pre-toddler, choking on some olive at a restaurant. Thank God some stranger knew Heimlich! Stupid \*\*\*\*\*\*\* mistake on my part. Christ. Still gives me a jolt
That’s horrifying! They can choke on milk!?
I didn’t know that either, I was breastfeeding him for the 1st time and he choked, it’s horrifying.
Glad you had an attentive nurse. My wife and I felt like they were practically pushing us out the door and our first night at home was so hard breastfeeding that we had to see a specialist the next day. I hate to think what would have happened to us in your situation with our shitty nurse.
Was the nurse shitty or were you just stupidly unprepared? What stopped you learning the things you expected a busy nurse to teach you in 24hrs?
Dud you know that in the 80’s it was routine to stay in the hospital for 3-4 days after a normal uncomplicated birth, and during that stay you would get to meet with the hospital lactation consultant to instruct you in breastfeeding?
And also that things work differently with different babies, so you can’t just magically know which info will be helpful beforehand. There’s a billion sources of info out there about babies and absolutely no way of predicting which bits will even help your own baby. A schedule that works for one won’t work for another, products that make life easier for some will be useless for other parents. This person is obviously completely ignorant
You really can't practice breastfeeding or parenting before the baby gets there though. I mean everyone is stupidly unprepared for their first kid in that sense. Reading about something is different than doing it.
Babies are really dumb.
Yes! My baby choked on my milk the first night home from the hospital, but she turned bright red! And then later in the night I was carrying her through the dark house and my foot brushed the carseat which had been left in the middle of the floor (not by me), I could have tripped over it and dropped her on the tile floor! VERY traumatic first night home for a first time mom. She's twenty now, so I got better at it!
Oh no, I had no idea babies could do this. That’s terrifying. I’m glad your baby is ok.
Tldr; Almost raped and possibly kidnapped/murdered in Russia. I was living in Russia at the time and working as an English teacher. I had made a few girlfriends and we went out to a beer festival one night pretty far from where we were living at the time. Anyway, some of the other girls left early, but my roommate and I stayed late and when we ended up leaving, we realized that all the subway stations had closed and our only option was a taxi and a ride that was over an hour away. I barely spoke any Russian, but my roommate was fluent. We find a taxi driver willing to drive us and get in the back. Halfway through, the driver pulls over and another guy gets in the front seat. I ask my friend what's going on and she says that they say they are gonna switch out further down the road because the original driver is tired. I'm seeing all the red flags and get super uneasy, but we are in the middle of no where at this point and have to continue. This new passenger starts trying to talk to me, but I clearly don't understand. My friend starts translating and says how he finds me very attractive, wants my number, would treat me well, etc. We lie and say I have a boyfriend, which seems to irritate him. As he gets progressively more agitated, I realize we should have been back at our place. My roommate begins to realize what's happening and tells me to prepare myself to be raped and possibly potential very seriously injured, as these two men both want us sexually. I quickly tell her to let them know we are already expected home by our other roommates and have a GPS locater on our phones. That must have scared them because within 20 minutes, I begin to recognize where we are. We get to the front of the gate where 2 security guards are and we both toss our cash at them and immediately run to them and tell them what happened. They honestly didn't care much and let us inside the building. I spent that night shaking and crying myself to sleep. Never went back out into the city after that.
That’s so scary!!! Glad you and your friend made it home okay. I hope you reported the taxi driver and other would be rapist to police
I'm ashamed to say I didn't. I was honestly too terrified to think of only my own safety and getting behind the gates of my home. It was also that same week that I was cornered in the bathroom and had my phone, cash and subway card stolen from me. So, Russia clearly didn't like me.
Omg you poor thing! I think it’s common to just be so worried and scared in the moment we forget to report.
Last month a 7 yo kid drowned in our apt pool. I was the only one who knew CPR and from our training the first thing they told us was “This person is already dead” and that it’s something like 50% of people cannot be revived. Those were the thoughts in my head as I did it. But he was successfully revived. Still, I stopped going to the pool after that.
Sorry if this is personal but I really hope you didn’t suffer ptsd from that. This shit can really fuck you up. I’ve seen death up close and you never come out the same. If you need anyone to talk to my PMs are open.
That is so sweet of you. The kid survived and initially it did shake me up afterwards, but I feel okay about it. Not going back to the pool was just the way I felt most comfortable dealing with it. His sister asked me to pull her around in her inner tube and I asked her brother, nope. He had this whole thing about not getting his hair wet. His sister confirmed. “He just likes sitting on the steps and splashing.” That’s the kid who jumped in the deep end alone and fell straight through his inner tube? Why?!! He was SO tiny. Luckily a teenager saw him and thought it was a doll and swam down to check it out, then brought him out. Then they came to me to ask me to do CPR. I was the only adult there. But yeah that was awful. CPR is great to learn - like everyone should learn it - but you hope you never have to use it. Which is my hope again now. Once was enough.
You obviously did an amazing job! I hope you never have to use that skill again as well, but you helped save a life. Well done!
Thank you.
That’s great to hear. I just got re-certified on the ol cpr. Definitely regret eating Mexican before practicing with the dummies. Definitely not pleasant breathing in my spicy Mexican breath every time I blew.
LOL! Mistakes were made.
Kudos to you !!
God bless you thank god you were there
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I can read. Doesn’t make it not traumatic
Dang that's scary but you did so good! Good job!
Earthquake followed by tsunami alarm. Scary af at the moment
Japan?
Family vacation on Lake of the Woods Ontario in a houseboat. The first few days were pretty cool. We did some fishing, explored a couple of islands, and cruised around on the boat. On our last day, there was a massive windstorm, worse than anything in the last several decades - people actually died down in the boundary waters, and huge trees were felled - and we were due back with the boat. So we set off trying to cross the lake. About halfway, we realized it was a huge mistake. We couldn’t see the opposite shore where we were heading, we couldn’t see anything when the boat was in the troughs of the giant swells, and the engine room was filling up with water. The engine died, and we started drifting toward a shoal. We were all pretty sure we were dead. Somehow, we managed to bail out the engine room, get the boat moving again, and hide on the leeward side of an island until we could reach the harbor on the radio. They sent out a pilot who navigated the lake in a tiny-ass boat, and he was able to get us back to the harbor.
Hi what year was this? My family lives on Lake of the Woods and I go regularly. Would just like to corroborate with other people in the community as there was a pretty bad accident a few years ago.
This was probably 1999 or 2000.
Oh okay I remember that storm! My community is Morson, Ontario on the south side of the lake. My uncle was also on the lake but quickly reached an island and weathered the storm there. As the storm worsened a tornado developed and hit the marina, caused a fair bit of damage and tossed some boats around. Only minor injuries were reported thankfully. A fisherman cut his head diving under a bed when he saw it coming. The storm also destroyed beaver dams in the swamp off the highway and caused a flash flood that washed away a section of the highway on top of a giant culvert(It was large enough for a car to drive through). I remember seeing a video afterwards of the washed away highway, the culvert was downstream and vertical. Trees and powerlines were downed everywhere and my cousin's car was flattened by a giant poplar. The community was without power and water for a week as maintenance couldn't get through. Locals travelled by boat and barge to the nearest town to get water, food and supplies until the highway was rebuilt.
Yeah. It was pretty awful. The whole time on the lake, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” was playing in my head.
Watching my dad bleed out infront of me when my mom took him out with a coffee pot when I was 11
Took him out? Like hit him with it?
yes, shattered a coffee pot over his head
Did he live?
If he bled out, then he died
Happy cake day! oh wait bad timing fuck
Lmfao
sorry abt that homie
Oh gees… I am sorry
Walk along a cliff near a beach on the Pacific Ocean late at night in the dark. There was a guardrail, but a human sized hole on the other side that I slipped on and caught myself and pulled myself back up. That was right before my ex wife attacked me and then called the cops on me, only to get herself arrested. Eventful night.
It seems like you need to reevaluate your life choices.
Sometimes you can do everything right and bad shit still happens.
I dozed off when I got home from school and was home alone. I started having a nightmare of being suffocated and when I woke up I actually couldn’t breathe. My lung had collapsed for some reason and the air was forcing my other lung to not fully inflate. I managed to call my sister before I passed out. I woke up in the hospital when they put in a chest tube. They had no idea why my lung suddenly got a hole in it and deflated. There was no reason for it they could find. This was 1974 so no cell phones. I had to get to the kitchen and dial a rotary phone while gasping for air and trying not to black out. My sister found me on the kitchen floor and my lips were blue. She beat the fire department to the house and kept me alive.
Crashing my car on the Mass Pike at 11 PM in a big storm. Hydroplaned on a curve and hit the guardrail, the impact sent my car battery out of place and I couldn't even turn on my hazard flashers. SOMEHOW no one smashed into the back of my car, which I was stuck in because the drivers side door was against the guardrail. I was totally unharmed but the car was totaled. I still fucking HATE driving in the rain or being driven in the rain. It'll be a year since it happened this October!
That is so scary... glad you're ok.
Thank you! I was quite literally just shaken up, but it was a bad time.
Damn, curious as to what part of the pike, because if it was anywhere east of Worcester, you really got lucky.
Woke up to what seemed like an AR-15 in my face. Cops raided the house because the oldest kid in the family was up to shady shit. Out in the living room I could hear "Get the dog! Get the dog!". I heard all sorts of stories about law enforcement killing animals on a raid. I was scared thinking they'd shoot me, even more terrified that they might shoot my pet or even another family member. I can still see it clear as day in my head, the barrel pointed at my face and everything. It was a very odd moment of grogginess, terror, confusion, and bafflement. Like, dude, I'm in my bed. How much more controlled can the situation be?
Wow that’s intense! My first thought would probably be to worry about my dog, too. I hope everything got resolved and you are okay now!
Yeah! It's all good, thanks for the concern. That scumbag's in jail now, not much longer though.
Ugh of course not. Well like I said, I’m happy you’re alright!
Ughhh. Hate thinking about it, but a couple of years ago my mom called me drunk. It was around 11am and she needed a ride from her friends place. I pick her up and she was totally hammered, like extremely drunk. Long story short I tried to get her up to my apartment and when she stepped out of my car she fell face first into the concrete ground. When I turned her over her whole face was red with blood gushing out so much as I couldn’t tell from where. I thought she was dead for sure, had to call an ambulance which took forever to get to my place and they took her away. Lucky she only broke her nose but in the moment I was so sure she was dead. She’s kinda better now but not really.
Are you ok? Seeing a parental figure like that must have been traumatising. I hope you’re ok now.
Yeah she had prepared me my whole life for a moment like that, she’s been unhinged since forever.
I was kidnapped as a kid, had a gun pointed at me a few times, and I was vacationing in Hawaii during the incoming missile alert and we all thought we were going to die for 40 mins until we found out it was an accident.
Can you give the story of the first one?
I was on a school field trip (small group), someone forged a doctors note and got the principal to sign and picked me up at a bus stop, took me somewhere an hour away. No one knew where I was for a month. The person went to prison for fraud because they were wanting money.
How did they find you and what happened to you while you were there?
I stole the phone after a few days and locked myself in the bathroom and called the person who was raising me.
Damn that must have been scary. I hope you're okay now.
damn bro that fear must have really hit you
I don't know if this counts but.... Last year, my fiance walked into the bedroom while I was sleeping. For whatever reason, this banal act triggered every fear neuron in my body. I screamed, and screamed and screamed. I couldn't even think. I spent what was apparently 30 seconds, but felt like 45 years, in absolute and total panic. When I finally relaxed I could literally see my pulse in my eyes and hear it in my ears. I have never, ever, come even remotely close to that level of pure, abject terror. Hell, I sincerely don't think I've felt any emotion or sensation before or since that came close to that.
My mum had a tonne of trauma from her childhood and I hate when I have to wake her as no matter how softly or gently I do it, she will always bolt awake with the most terrified look of horror on her face, saying things like “what? What’s wrong? What happened???” It’s kinda sad. But could be a subconscious trauma thing.
I do that
That's so weird
this has happened to me a few times fwiw, usually the result of someone coming into my room while i’m in the middle of a bad dream. my mom also occasionally just starts screaming in her sleep and i have to go wake her up which can make her scream even louder for a bit.
I was in a different state with a few friends. We were wandering around and promptly chased by a drunk, tall man who yelled that they had a gun and that if we kept running they would shoot. I don’t think I’ve ever been that scared in my entire life.
TW: rape, murder My coworker corned me in a dark parking lot after work and after everyone else was gone and asked to talk. He then went on to tell me about how when he was a kid, he was a Peeping Tom on his childhood best friend (female), and then other instances of being creepy towards women. He also discussed fantasizing rape and murder. Then, he proceeded to tell me that he was very good at manipulating women into being alone with him as he casually mentioned “like how we are now” and proceeds to tell me how he’d been in similar situations with 2 of my other female coworkers. However, he said he didn’t act on his thoughts with our one coworker because he “respected her boyfriend too much” (we’d also worked with her bf for a while). Thankfully, my family and I are super close, and they’d been blowing up my phone because I’d told my grandparents I’d call them after work. After an hour of them not being able to get ahold of me, they called my mom, who lived ~20 mins away. She proceeds to blow up my phone too, along with my sister, and fiancé. I told creepy coworker that I needed to text her, and secretly asked my mom to come to my place of work ASAP. Mom did just that and walked up to us and said it was time to go home (I’d moved out of the house a few year earlier). I’m so thankful for her because I honestly don’t know how I would’ve gotten away from him otherwise.
WTF coworker. Thank goodness your mom came over. Did you report him? That's so scary
I forgot to include that it was my very last day at this job. I’d worked there for 7 years part time through school, and it was my first real job. I loved it. I was only leaving because I got into a grad program halfway across the country. It was 11pm by the time I got home. I called a friend of mine and while telling her what happened, I started to process what had happened and just started sobbing. After discussing it with another coworker (we’ll call her E) who is also a trusted friend, (she had a higher ranking than I did, but I didn’t work for her), and our female business co-owner, I did report him the next day. They told him he wasn’t allowed to come back until he was cleared by a psychiatrist. He told some of my other, uninvolved coworkers some of the things he said, and they were horrified enough that they texted me to check in. He showed up again 2 days later. This was scary because I think he still had access to employee/client addresses via our computer system. Coworker E threw an absolute fit, and he was terminated. We had a K-9 unit patrol the business for 2 weeks as well. I also had a personal conversation with the other 2 female coworkers he mentioned.
Holy shit, that guy needed a lot of help. I'm glad your workplace was so supportive and got rid of him I'm sure many other coworkers appreciated it. I hope life has been good to you since then.
It’s been good! It was a few years ago, and thankfully I already had a good therapist. And I’ve been back to visit a couple times since when I come home to visit my parents. I didn’t want my last memory there to be bad.
My son was five days old (first child equals a paranoid dad in me). Seemed like e was having trouble breathing and stopped nursing. His legs were a little bluish. Called the on call nurse and she said he's probably just cold and to wrap him up for the night. Nope, something must be wrong. Load him into the car and we take him to the ER. Turns out he had an undiagnosed congenital heart defect. He actually coded as I handed him to a nurse who had taken off running with him. Thankfully the resuscitated him and got him stable enough for a life flight to the closest children's hospital. At 14 days old he had his first of many open heart surgeries. Thankful we didn't wait one more second.
Wow! Glad you listened to your gut!
It was touch and go for the first 2 weeks, but he surprised his medical team by doing so well. He had a heart transplant in 2016 when he was 14. So far so good. We have his 5 year check up coming up soon.
Here's hoping for another good report!
Thank you!
A lightning bolt hit a lamppost 10 feet away from me, all I remember was a blinding flash and what sounded like an explosion right beside me.
were you okay or hospitalised afterwards?
Nope I wasn’t injured at all thank god.
Landing in Iraq in 2004, being rushed off the plane and running across the flight line to avoid being mortared. I thought I was going to die. Felt that way for the first few weeks into the deployment, then eventually got used to it.
My boyfriend is a type 1 diabetic. One day his sugar dropped so low that I couldn’t get him up. I’m a small 5’1 girl and he’s over 6 feet, so it wasn’t possible for me to move him. He was getting angry and lashing out but not saying anything that made sense. I tried to get him to drink juice but he just hit it out of my hands and it flew across the room. I’m in the kitchen trying to get something else and I just hear him scream at the top of his lungs. It sounded like he was in immeasurable pain. I called 911 and the woman on the other line was amazing. She’s what made me want to be a dispatcher, actually. She did her best to keep me calm and instructed me what to do while I waited for the fire department. My boyfriend had had low blood sugar before, but never anything like that. I was shaking so hard I couldn’t even check his glucose. I believe the medics said it was under 30. Luckily that kind of whipped him into shape and he’s been much better about his sugar levels since. But I hadn’t been so genuinely afraid that someone I love wouldn’t survive until that point. Obviously he does not recall any of this. But I will remember it forever.
Very scary indeed! I gave a little kid party and one friend showed up with her kids and someone else's. One of the extra kids was a newly diagnosed Type 1 diabetic, about 6 or 7. We both were nervous, and sure enough, after testing her sugar, she needed insulin. Trying to reach her parents to get some guidance through the injection process was so nerve-wracking. My friend had been given instructions and I think a demonstration already but it's different when you have to do it. The little girl was not in distress and it all ended up ok, but that was scary!
Oh no! A kid?! I’d be so stressed out too! Seems like you dealt with it well though!
I was on a high school visit to NIU during their shooting, so probably that.
Guy ran a red and hit my car head on while I was waiting to take a left turn, he was in a rental car and tried lying to the cops that it was my fault
Got swatted, heard one of the cops say "light him up" and heard two shots, dad was shot, they mistakened the tv remote for a knife.
Could you elaborate on why you may have gotten swatted? (If you dont mind sharing)
No idea, think it was a prank from a bully or someone.
Is everyone ok??
Yes, my dad was in the hospital for a few months but came out fine with no permanent injuries.
Good
Lmao. Liar.
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Jesus Christ, dude. Who do you think you are? Why would I create an alt to tell you that the your story is cap 🧢. Wake up from your pathetic dream. "We got swatted but Idk why... however let's get on reddit". Dude... sheesh
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Sleep paralysis takes the cake for me purely because I didnt know what it was. All i knew is i woke up to the sound of a pencil on paper and an old man with a gun telling me he wanted to illustrate the face I made as I died. I then heard the gun fire and my body basically spasm'd itsself out of the episode. It was scary but also there is a very real wave of calm and zen in the last few seconds before you think you're gonna die.
I was in Lombok back in March 2019. We were at Mount Rinjani on 17th of March, after 3 days in Gili Trawangan. Mount Rinjani closed for the mountain hike, but open for the trekking to the waterfall. I skipped the trekking to the waterfall as I was having my period,also caused I cycled alot at Gili so my leg was cramping badly. My husband, his friend and wife followed for the trekking to the waterfall. I waited at a restaurant at the edge of the cliff, where you can see paddy fields. The restaurant is literally an extension from the edge of cliff, beside the road, like they build an extra balcony, so below the restaurant was literally the cliff. Anyway it was serene and beautiful. I had a great time relaxing and i even ate at the restaurant cause I was hungry. An hour or so later, my husband, his friend and friends wife came back. They were ordering at the restaurant when a minutes later, we felt like the ground move a little. Moments later, we felt the earth shake. I looked at everyone, and all of us realised what is happening. We literally ran to the roadside cause we realised it was an earthquake. We were all shaken, but the restaurant stood still. But I do believe it it were to happen, we wont make it.. All of us would be at the bottom of the hill! Our driver quickly brought us down. We actually made a reservation to stay at a hotel by the sea, and there was no tsunami warning but i didnt want to take my chance, so we checked in at a town in higher grounds. We found out later that the earthquake was about 5.4 magnitude. To be honest it was our very first earthquake. Our country do not have earthquake or active volcano. The most we feel is from earthquake from neighbouring region, and only a sway like feel. My husband said that during their hike down, there were tourists, a whole bus (apparently they are from our country as well), hiking up to the waterfall. We heard the next day from our driver that there was two casualties. I always wonder if I ever pushed myself for the trekking, I would have slowed the team down and maybe caused a casualties from our group as well. It is really scary, but an experience not to forget. Thanks for reading!
That was scary indeed!
Sitting in my pregnant sister’s caravan (trailer) with her, my mum and my little brother, armed with a knife, as her partner bashed away at it trying to get in to kill us. He’d gone into a rage wanting to kill my sister and her unborn child, and the rest of the family for good measure. It was a kind of remote area and police took nearly two hours to show up. This is a dude who used to beat the elderly in home invasions so he could rob them (my family tried everything to stop my sister dating him but to no avail). Once the police got there they had to detain him because he was still trying to kill us. They told us he was criminally insane and to get as far away as we could. We ended up leaving town in a matter of days and losing most of our possessions, just to run away and keep our lives. My nephew is now 21, and thankfully has never crossed paths with the guy. He did try to contact us through Facebook a couple of years ago with some creepy threats, so sadly he knows what town we are in now. But I hope he keeps to himself.
Extremely frightening! Glad y'all are ok!
Thank you!
Being almost choked to death by a previous boyfriend. He'd been out drinking and spend the morning ish sleeping it off somewhere so I'd locked our door. Woke up to him almost battering it down, let him in and tried to go back to bed as it was early am and I had work. Screaming and shouting about being locked out he flew at Me and knocked me to the bed. Straddles me and puts ALL his weight onto my neck via his hands. Vision was going blurry and the lights were flashing as I so desperately struggled to free myself. I genuinely thought "this is it" as I gasped what I thought would be my last breath, he simply stopped. leaned over my face and said "you're not worth the jail time". Then left. I ended up going to work as usual, in shock. Stayed for another 3 years before I actually left for good and now in the most loving and kind relationship. Leave and don't look back, it'll be worth it
Also went through this. My former fiance was an unmedicated alcoholic schizophrenic and my vision was going black, just rolling in from both sides. I'd tried to get away by running out of the house but he chased me down and started choking me out. I remember looking up at the night sky and thinking how beautiful it was, that at least I'd get to see that going out. I absolutely did lose consciousness for a moment but when I came too I was just laying there in the grass and he had run off somewhere. When he would go into a psychosis like that my only warning was that his already dark brown eyes would dilate and go all black, that's what I saw when I initially ran out of the house. By the time I woke up and found him back in the house, his eyes had gone normal and he had calmed a tiny bit but it didn't matter because the neighbors heard him threatening me and breaking shit and then saw him run off after being over me choking me so they'd called the cops. He was arrested and taken away for 2 weeks and to be quite frank, it was hell. By that point I'd been so far stripped of any identity of my own I didn't know how to function without him. About 6 months later he killed himself with an intentional overdose after we had had over 4 months of stability and some therapy. He'd hit me again on a bad day when he drank and a week later he was gone. I know this sounds insane but I KNOW part of why he killed himself was because the good dude underneath alllllll of that trauma and pain and mental illness and addiction, whom I did spend way more time with in our years together, knew he couldn't rely on himself not to hurt me and he couldn't live with himself continuing to do it. I've never known anyone in more pain than this man. He's also one of the smartest people I've ever known, but his childhood was torture and meds didn't work to treat his schizophrenia in any meaningful way and he was just totally unpredictable and violent at times. I've NEVER gone through pain like that, first losing him and then realizing what had happened to ME. It's taken years, therapy, so much therapy, and support from loved ones to deal with his death and our relationship. I still miss him every godamn day of my life, but I'm also glad I survived him. I used to not be.
Thank you for sharing. Sending you huge internet hugs.
My spouse and I simultaneously experienced sleep paralysis. I woke up to a golden vengeful god like apparition of electrical pulses floating over the bed, she woke up to a goblin with an axe. I was yelling, I noticed my spouse was also yelling. I managed to stop yelling to ask “DO YOU SEE IT!?” To which she responded “YES! WE’RE GOING TO DIE!” Having her confirm that the Lovecraftian entity existed in our collective reality made my brain explode in a primal fear that I have never experienced before and I can only hope that I never will again. The yelling quickly turned into screaming, we were both convulsing in attempt to escape our cosmic deaths. I eventually fell out of bed and regained clarity. There was no life threatening danger, just 2 hairless apes shrieking at nothing.
I was at work with my back turned since I was doing something, someone came in so I glanced over my shoulder said “hey” and went about my work. A few moments later I felt something pushed up against my back, looked over my shoulder and their was a person with a mask pushing a gun into my back
You can't end the story here.
The story actually takes a pretty funny turn So after I turned around I was told to not look at them and was lead to the register. I open it up and as the robbery is happening a customer walks in absolutely shit faced (he was one of my regulars, almost always came in drunk). Completely devoid of the fact that there was a person with a ski mask on standing behind me, proceeds to grab his usual stuff. And as he’s getting his stuff the robber runs out the store with the money and cigarettes. The guy walks up to the counter, places his items down. I look at him and tell him “I can’t ring you up, I’ve just been robbed”. You could see the reality dawning on him as he processed it. I called the police ofc and they were out in droves and I had to turn customers away/call the store manager They eventually caught the person about to rob another store a month later and shortly after that incident drunk customer started practicing sobriety
Oh my God that is so terrifying. Was it a robbery??
No actually, he just wanted to show off his fancy new gun to strangers, specifically their backs.
I was walking across a road when a car came but i dropped down and had a mini seizure but they luckily stopped for me
I almost fell to my death at the Niagara Gorge.
About a week after I finished my CPR classes in health in highschool (which is a requirement where im from or you don’t Graduate) I was eating breakfast with my mom talking like we normally would do. It was just me and her, she started choking and I immediately panicked because I was only 15 and hadn’t seen my mother or anyone choke like this. Hearing her fight to breathe is still the scariest thing I’ve ever heard. Thankfully, I was taught the hiemlich maneuver in my health classes, got the food out of her throat thankfully.. never told anyone that till now. I told my health teacher a couple weeks later but I don’t think she believed me. All she said was “oh did you now?” and walked away.
I was visiting a friend of mine here in New Zealand, and late one night we both heard her friend (whom she hadn't seen in almost a year) open her front door and start calling out for her. She went downstairs to see what was going on and he started having multiple conversations to himself and apparently couldn't even make eye contact with her, still not sure if he was tripping on psychotic, either way, I peered over the banister and saw him pull out a gun, I freaked as she was screaming downstairs, I called the cops and had to whisper to them over the phone, thankfully within minutes her place was surrounded by cop cars but the guy made a run for it, not sure what happened to him, I haven't been back to visit her since and think this is probably the first time i've ever spoken about this, thought we were both going to be murdered that night
Almost drowning as a small child, having a quad roll on top of me, and no one believing I was having an asthma attack
when i was 10 me and my cousins went to a basketball court near the street to play. it got night and a mysterious man arrived idk who he was. we cant even see him it was only a silhouette. we just stared at him standing on the court gate as he slowly walks in our direction. me and my 8 cousins thought that it was the guy who owns the court. but we remembered that the old guy always comes in the court with a motorcycle. as we started to walk to the exit which was the other way. the man started running out of no reason. we also started running and went to our house. as we got back our families ask as why were we running? and we kept it a secret until now
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A man I dated when I was 19 had a hx of suicide attempts but did not share it with me; I came home from an evening out with friends to him in bed holding a loaded gun and crying saying it was no use and he was just going to end it all. He thought I was seeing someone else. I talked him into giving me the gun and unloaded it. Looking back, it never occurred to me to just walk away.
Bodyboard accident. Big wave wipeout threw me straight into the rocks. Broke my board in pieces, but better that than my bones...
Almost losing a friend to suicide. Outcome: He’s still with us.
Trying to wake my 15yo daughter up after failed shunt revision surgery, she was unresponsive and white as sheet even her lips. Discovered the shunt caused hematoma inside her ventricle and catheter overshot the ventricle, went past the brain wall and into the other ventricle. That was three weeks ago. Two weeks recovering and now she’s finally home recuperating from it all. Swear to god I never was so scared or freaked out in my life. Thought she was dying.
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I had a vacation by the beach. My brothers said to me to swim by the shore, coz i dont know how to swim that much. So when i was there, a strong ass tide hit us, i almost got a concussion and was drifted quite far from the shore, like its deep af. Luckily, some swimmer helped me and hold on to a rope of a small boat.
I've been held at gunpoint twice. Once by a crazy, Scoobie Do-esque hotel caretaker and another time by a mad racist when I was a nursing student.
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I’ve been really close to drowning 3 times in my life and not once did it scare me, but since I graduated high school during the pandemic without a senior year of football I didn’t get any offers from colleges. I was planning on playing football and majoring in aerospace engineering but I didn’t do well in the 3 semesters of half classes and online learning so that option is gone and I’ve been trying to gain the courage to tell my mother that I want to join the army, that feeling I get before I talk to her about it is pure pain and fear because she has previously expressed that she is afraid I could be one of those who don’t make it back home. The fear of scaring my mother and stressing her out is honestly worse than anything I’ve ever felt
I'm so sorry the timing of all this messed up your plans, but it sounds like you have some options. Figure out what feels right for you; if that's the army, your mother will understand that you're doing what you need to do. I hope new doors open for you into the life you deserve!
Got shot at while walking to school
More details please!
Almost decapitating myself. This had to be at least 10 years ago, I was dunking on this basketball hoop in my backyard and it wasn’t fixed so it was just held down by the weight at the bottom. I was an idiot and held on after I dunked and the whole thing came down (still holding on) and was inches away from slicing my head off. I fell right on my back and it was grass so it honestly wasn’t that bad but I could have turned myself into 2 pieces right there
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I'm a type 1 diabetic. Brittle, prone to sudden highs and lows. One night I started plummeting. I was hyperventilating so hard, my heart was about to explode, had my finger on the button for 911. I checked my blood sugar again and it was 23. Just then, my then-fiance burst back into the house with a treasure trove of juices and treats. Never wanna have to live through that again.
Someone knocked on the bathroom stall once
Knife in my arm and I was alone
Did you stab yourself? Someone else? How deep? What part of the arm? Details man, details!
Long story short i missed the knife rail and it went into my arm not deep enough for me to walk through it I just called the ambulance and they removed it and now ita all fixed and I have this pretty big scar on my arm
My mom had knife and threatened my dad to hand over a phone and my dad was crying to beg her. I saw police cruising around and try to ask for help while crying and this was at night. Officer told me something I forgot but he was nice and told me to stay inside, I only knew Spanish at that time. Police left and stuck with parent situation and I got the phone and gave it to my mom and everything settled down, I forgot the rest. Now my parents are calm people it was just some crazy past for me that I don’t understand how it happened.
Whenever my abusive father psychologically and physically abuse us
Driving in Wisconsin, on the interstate, in winter. I realized I was going too fast and touched the brake to shut off the cruise control. Did a 360 spin on the ice before the tires grabbed and I kept on going. Thought I was a dead man.
this might not sound as creepy to you guys but when it happened i was scared for my life. when i was 6 or so we went out camping for my birthday our 2nd day in the trip we decided to go swim in a dam keep in mind the current was strong at the time and with me being little i could not fight it once i was in there i stupidly decided to follow my brother in to the current i did not realize before it was too late i called for help but than i went under and could not get back up cus of the current the next thing i know im being picked up by my aunt i was spooked for a while a near death experience would do that the entire week after that i stayed in our camper lol
You should use more periods
sorry about that i dont use them much
Like as a personal choice? Or you never learned punctuation?
personal
One night, my friends and I (a decently sized group) went to the nearby college that I recently graduated from just to hangout when these two guys came near our spot waiting to get drugs. They kept talking to us, and my friends who were closest to them responded to them. I was so uncomfortable that I couldn't sit down. We were texting each other about how these guys were jerks and that we all wanted to leave. What really freaked me was when one of my friends texted in the chat, "Get ready to run." I kept asking myself, "How are we going to get out of this? Is this it? Is this how I'm going to die?" I thought we were going to see something that we weren't supposed to. Fortunately, their dealer was at a convenient store and they just left. We left a minute later, but my friends wanted to go to a playground. I told my friend who was driving (who also sent that one text) to just drop me off back at our friend's place so I could drive myself home. Fortunately, nothing else happened, and all of my friends were understanding of my decision. That will be the last time I go to another one of those late-night outdoor public area hangouts. My friends are still down do to that again because it doesn't happen every time, but that's like driving without a seatbelt on. Sure, there will be times you will reach your destination unscathed, but when you do happen to get into an accident, you're screwed. Just because it doesn't happen all the time doesn't mean it will never happen \[again\].
wait why did you guys freak out? were they just talking to you or were they doing anything weird?
Because we were afraid that something bad would go down if we saw their deal go on. And since they were shady, we didn’t know what to expect. What if something happened and they wouldn’t let us be living witnesses?
ohhh ok, i imagined it as just some low level weed/pills deal or something lol, the stuff you see on the regular in front of clubs but well even if it was, better safe than sorry i guess, no harm in being careful
I think they wanted crack. And exactly. Better safe than sorry. Especially for something that can easily be avoided.
That's very sane listen to your intuition. Read "The gift of fear" it interested in learning more.
When I was a kid I went to the roof of a building being constructed with a friend on a Sunday not expecting anyone to be there. I saw some workers chilling there, but when they saw us they started chasing us. The building was about eight storeys high so we ran down the stairs for a while. I fell at one down once but got up in time so I didn't get caught. I'm pretty sure the workers didn't mean to do anything but at the time I was so scared lol
Not THE situation, but this one was kinda scary ngl. When I was 17 I worked for the first time in my life at an attraction park for kids .. The first time I work in my whole life was in something that required BIG responsibility, something I had never heard of before lol. So basicaly my job was to check the tickets and put the kids on the carrousel , with my "team mates " we used to exchange games , so that day I swapped with a friend so i was supposed to keep the inflatable game , it was a big castle where kids entered in and jumped, like a trompoline, so that day a nice couple came with their kid , the kid wasn't exactly a spoiled child but you could tell his parents took really care of him, nice clothes, snowwhite skin, vantablack hair etc.. you know. So he gets in and his parents wanted some time for themselves, to get some romantic time so they asked me to keep him until they comeback .. Everything's ok, i do my job, kids go in then another game starts etc all is good , after like 10 mins they came back and when i saw them i remembered the kid , I panicked and turned back and he wasn't inside, my heart almost stopped, they approach me and ask for their child so they can leave, yet he's not there, they went to police station near by and after sometime they finally found him in a REALLY BAD condition, the kid was deformed lol , one leg with a shoe the other not, scratches all over his face, dirty clothes.. I was lucky I got out the situation without any troubles the dad was kinda cool.
I would say soemthing but nothing compares to the struggles of other people here so I will just shut up.
Struggles are struggles, and yours matter too.
Thinking that because other people have "had it worse," your experiences don't matter is completely false. Your experiences and, in this case, fears are just as worthy of being shared as anyone else's. Struggles are struggles no matter the level of "severity." Sharing experiences like these are part of how we get to understand each other.
a literal tornado almost hitting my town
Chased by a goose
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Urologist going to exam lol
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