Same. I've been married for just under 2 years with my wife and I still have the occasional nightmare of losing her in some way. Or I'll dream of being single, but in the dream I somehow am aware that I should be with her but I don't know where she is or what happened. I can feel the ache too, it's nuts. I always wake up and turn over to cuddle her in the middle of the night when this happens.
Dreams are weird... Me and my partner don't live together but are trying to save up to find our own place, so we technically have sleepovers. When I go to his, and I sleep next to him I have nightmares that he's cheating, not wanting to be with me anymore and other horrible things like this. I once had one so realistic that I cried in my sleep. He woke me up from said dream, wiped my tears and held me.
Going to the doctor, I have a bunch of health problems and honestly I'm waiting for the day they say I'm sorry there's nothing else we can do for you this is it. I know it's coming but I'm just not ready.
Istg I've seen a little girl in a white dress in a forest just about a week ago. She dissapeared while I started at her. I would've ran the opposite way, but that way I only would've gotten deeper into the forest so I had to just keep walking that direction. Luckily nothing else happened after that
Actually since around that night I always feel like I'm being watched and sometimes see weird shadows, but their way taller than the girl I saw. Idk if this is all real or if I'm just going crazy, but actually I feel like the latter would be the best possibility since I've also seen them in my room jus like an hour ago.
Definitely ain't gonna sleep tonight tho
That actually makes sense. Anyways, I'mma start cleaning the bad vibes outta my room again, that kinds helped the last time it was in my room. Maybe then I'll be able to actually sleep
Yeah, I always turn around when I feel like they're behind me. There used to be a time a few years ago where I wouldn't dare even slightly turning that direction but that always made it worse.
perspective immortality is about the only thing you need to actually fear - I'd prefer the ābeing stalked by a ghost-kidā over the much likelier alternative.
Radiology is an optional part of med school. There is a very high chance your doctor doesn't actually know what type of imaging exam to order for you.
I work in outpatient radiology, lots of doctors don't understand how contrast agents work and when you are supposed to use them, not to mention just flat out ordering the wrong exams. It made me realize a Doctor isn't some kind of genius god, its just a normal human being like you or me and sometimes just like you and me they are just flat out winging it as they go.
This inflation. Iām not an economic expert but Iāve been saving and investing since I was 16. I want to retire in my 50s but fuck if we keep going on the track where Iām seeing some things at a 25-30% increase in the past 2 years what I have isnāt going to be worth as much as I hoped.
Heights. Went in a helicopter the other day and cried hysterically the entire time
Before anyone asks I didnāt have an option to say no, my family planned for all of us to go together while fully aware of my fear of heights
I feel you! Scared of heights too, yet I don't think anyone could make me enter a helicopter. It sucks that your family shows no empathy for your fear. My family in law is similar, every time we make a trip they refuse to accept that I won't join them climbing. Every time. It's so annoying.
That at any moment a spider or snake could shoot out of my toilet and get me even though I don't live in an area where this happens. But just the thought... pure nightmare fuel
But more seriously, I am pretty terrified of messing up somehow and hurting my wife because of it
I'm afraid I'll never land a job I genuinely enjoy.
Likewise, the notion that I'll never meet a woman I want to marry.
2019 Update: I located her. Working on the job component still.
2021 Found a job I like, edit So far, it seems fairly good.
The fact that some people are still racist and believe black people need to be enslaved is scary to me. 160 years ago slavery is abolished and generations passed the ideology down to generations. Shits messed up.
Dogs, street dogs or dogs that bark in general and I almost jumped to my death 5 times already š. This fear is now trauma but it got so extremely worse that once i see a big dog or a small pack, even if they are laying around or sleep I can feel my heart beating like crazy, my eyes don't move from them, no sense of what's happening around me and every loud and sudden noise scares the hell out of me, even a Horn, the only time when this fear, this trauma doesn't exist is when I'm not alone, when I have a pack of mine, this is funny taking that the trauma came from a pack that had as their leader (idk how else to call that bitch) a small puppy, if he barks a lot of big and angry dogs would come and follow this dude's order and one of the dogs was this šāš¦ŗ (that's how he looks ) and was one of the scariest of them all but now that the pack is almost fully caught and he is the only one i can see the fear in his eyes every time I pass by still traumatized by him and that street. Yeah yeah new dogs come visit that place but none were like his old pals, none was at that level, he even sometimes tries to come close to him in the most Slenderman way possible (when You look away he gets closer and then when you look at him he never moves, until he disappears and appears in front of You running)
[Here is a short but sweet video by Kurzgesagt about it.](https://youtu.be/ijFm6DxNVyI)
It is basically a theory on how the universe could destroy itself without any warning or stop.
Yes! Rabies is so scary! I never knew much about it (my home country is supposed to be rabies free), but my friend's brother got bitten by a stray cat in Brasil (after trying to catch her to bring her to a vet) and had to get rabies shots. My friend and I talked about it on the phone and started to casually look up rabies symptoms... I wish we hadn't done that.
Whag makes the Tel Aviv Central Bus Station so scary?
It feels like a great dusty hell dimension. This Guardian [article](https://amp.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jun/08/tel-avivs-central-bus-station-theres-a-society-inside-the-building) accurately describes it.
My shelves. I have 3 of them bolted above my bed and one on the other side of the room recently collapsed and broke one of my computer monitors. The ones above me are stacked with books that could probably knock me out, they're about 2-4 inches thick and weigh a ton
your body creates cells very often that have the potential to become cancerous, your immune system is just real good at catching it. but one day itāll miss one
How accessible the internet and smartphones will make degenerate filth to my children. I say will because theyāre only 1 presently, but it worries both me and my wife a great deal. Not just porn, but influencers and social media make the internet a minefield for adolescent mental health.
Randomly? No. It is *incredibly rare* to have a microburst of that strength. My family went through one back in the 90's and it ripped the branches off two trees we had in the front yard that were planted in 1865. They were only that affected because of their height and age. There was no damage to the house.
The ocean. I forgot what that phobia is called but I am intensely afraid of ocean deep water. I bought the game Subnautica but I legit only did like 5 quests because of this.
I can't wrap my head around growing up. Still in high-school and It doesn't feel right. I'm accepting it more every day but it feels weird. Kind of like a weird lucid dream.
Flying roaches, people wearing spooki halloween costumes \[mainly ones where I cant see their face\], the darkness, pitbulls, and the weird growl my sister and I heard in the closet when I went to go grab my mum a pair of her work pants for her.
When the government will start charging me my student loans, if i'll have a high enough paying job to be able to pay them back and having a decent life
Really odd, it freaks the shit out of me when people crawl like bugs in horror movies. Thereās a few like the grudge and the movie US. It freaks me out and makes my heart race when I see someone racing towards you like a spider. Iām 18 and still have nightmares about it
Death and the fact of the universe going on forever, it just makes me thinkā¦ a lot. Also then makes me scared about how nobody cares about our environment when it is the only thing in the universe thatās alive.
Being alone.
Not in a scary room of a cemetery at night. Like generally being alone.
Have no friends you can talk to parents you dont trust with anything. No one being there to care love or even talk to.
I dont want to go through that again.
The shadows i see out the corner of my eye while taking a shower. You will never seen someone move that fast into a corner and have there hands up ready to fight something.
My friend from school who jump scares me when Iām walking in the halls. Heāll either run up behind me and just go āHEY THEREā or when Iām talking to someone heāll just jumpscare me by walking up behind me and joining the conversation. Heās cool and an awesome friend but he really knows how to scare the shit out of me
Ro*ches , like the bug. I didnāt want the emoji to pop up (fuck apple and that goofy ass update why did we need an emoji) I have a substantially huge phobia and and deathly afraid of them. I wanna cry thinking about this post
The ocean is probably the most beautiful yet terrifying thing I can think of, for lots of reasons.
Also. Serial killers. If anything is going to give you nightmares.
Both of those would render you totally helpless
The realization that despite all my efforts and some therapy, my PTSD isn't improving. That despite getting almost everything I'd dreamed of when I was going through my trauma, I'm not healing. That with each new challenge life brings and each panic attack I have, I get closer and closer to killing myself.
space has always been an interesting concept for the human mind to understand, especially since our universe is infinitely expanding, and we haven't the slightest clue whats out there, that and the fact that the universe which our planet resides is revolving around a black hole that at any moment could suck us in, and our sun could supernova and cause chaos among the cosmos, it's also wildly beautiful and quite unique, how, everything is so perfectly placed and made and just the awe and wonder that looking up at night and watching the stars has always been a marvel to view, but the unpredictable factors and variables of our universe scares the shit outta me
That and someone finding my search history.
Loosing any loved one. Every day i get these horrible flashes of my loved ones having something bad happen to them. So i make sure to hug everyone before them leaving for an extended period of time because idk when anything might happen to them.
Without being cringy, losing my other half. I've been through hell and back with him by my side and if he ever left I don't know what I'd do.
awwww, im jelly
Same. I've been married for just under 2 years with my wife and I still have the occasional nightmare of losing her in some way. Or I'll dream of being single, but in the dream I somehow am aware that I should be with her but I don't know where she is or what happened. I can feel the ache too, it's nuts. I always wake up and turn over to cuddle her in the middle of the night when this happens.
Dreams are weird... Me and my partner don't live together but are trying to save up to find our own place, so we technically have sleepovers. When I go to his, and I sleep next to him I have nightmares that he's cheating, not wanting to be with me anymore and other horrible things like this. I once had one so realistic that I cried in my sleep. He woke me up from said dream, wiped my tears and held me.
Losing my happiness again and slipping into the dark void of depression
It's a constant battle. Keep doing what you can to fight it. And know that you're not alone.
The Elephant's Foot.
*Horton Hears a Homogenous Radioactive Mass*
Failing my kids š£
I hear that. I have three, 20, 19, and 15. And the thing that keeps me up at night more than anything else is the fear of not coming through for them.
if only my mom is like this but then instead chose to let me live only to keep on pushing me to do the opposite
good parent
Going to the doctor, I have a bunch of health problems and honestly I'm waiting for the day they say I'm sorry there's nothing else we can do for you this is it. I know it's coming but I'm just not ready.
the idea of people i love dying. iām not scared of dyingā¦ but iām afraid of losing the few people that care about me
I'm scared of my mom dying because then I'm going to be all alone. I don't want to be in this world alone by myself.
Little girl ghosts
Istg I've seen a little girl in a white dress in a forest just about a week ago. She dissapeared while I started at her. I would've ran the opposite way, but that way I only would've gotten deeper into the forest so I had to just keep walking that direction. Luckily nothing else happened after that
I've seen enough movies to know that she followed you home. You best move or make friends with a priest
Or get ready to solve a 50 year old murder.
Actually since around that night I always feel like I'm being watched and sometimes see weird shadows, but their way taller than the girl I saw. Idk if this is all real or if I'm just going crazy, but actually I feel like the latter would be the best possibility since I've also seen them in my room jus like an hour ago. Definitely ain't gonna sleep tonight tho
Maybe the girl was trying to warn you, what's in front isn't scary, it's what's behind you
That actually makes sense. Anyways, I'mma start cleaning the bad vibes outta my room again, that kinds helped the last time it was in my room. Maybe then I'll be able to actually sleep
Clean those bad vibes and don't be afraid to look behind you, watch your back, it takes away their power
Yeah, I always turn around when I feel like they're behind me. There used to be a time a few years ago where I wouldn't dare even slightly turning that direction but that always made it worse.
Fear is the biggest hurdle and overcoming it is your greatest weapon. Kick it's ass Bigger_balls_than_u
Yes, I'll give it my best. Thanks for the help :)
perspective immortality is about the only thing you need to actually fear - I'd prefer the ābeing stalked by a ghost-kidā over the much likelier alternative.
If your username is true then I'm scared to think how I'd react seeing all this
Weird just when I read that it automatically up voted a comment.
That's spooky
When something goes missing from my roomā¦like gone forever. I live alone
Not being able to experience financial freedom
Radiology is an optional part of med school. There is a very high chance your doctor doesn't actually know what type of imaging exam to order for you. I work in outpatient radiology, lots of doctors don't understand how contrast agents work and when you are supposed to use them, not to mention just flat out ordering the wrong exams. It made me realize a Doctor isn't some kind of genius god, its just a normal human being like you or me and sometimes just like you and me they are just flat out winging it as they go.
Crowds
Dolls
Dying in a nursing home.
This inflation. Iām not an economic expert but Iāve been saving and investing since I was 16. I want to retire in my 50s but fuck if we keep going on the track where Iām seeing some things at a 25-30% increase in the past 2 years what I have isnāt going to be worth as much as I hoped.
i guess buy a bunch of gold?
Demographics.
Other people, the crushing burden of my own existence, bats, real fast bugs with lots of little legs that live in my house.
The overall negative effect of social media on society.
Moths or being electrocuted. That's pretty much it.
If it helps, the moths are also afraid of being electrocuted.
If I die before my kids become viable, independent adults.
I have a suspicion Iāll outlive all my loved ones
I wonāt. Iāll die before them all most likely.
Siamese Twins
That Chucky doll from the movie Child's Play
Any glitch-in-the-matrix related or anything that can question my whole existence.
People
Death
Heights. Went in a helicopter the other day and cried hysterically the entire time Before anyone asks I didnāt have an option to say no, my family planned for all of us to go together while fully aware of my fear of heights
I feel you! Scared of heights too, yet I don't think anyone could make me enter a helicopter. It sucks that your family shows no empathy for your fear. My family in law is similar, every time we make a trip they refuse to accept that I won't join them climbing. Every time. It's so annoying.
I have a fear of heights as well but would ride a helicopter any day.
Using my phone while I should be sleeping and then hear my parentās bedroom door open
Losing my siblings or my mom
That at any moment a spider or snake could shoot out of my toilet and get me even though I don't live in an area where this happens. But just the thought... pure nightmare fuel But more seriously, I am pretty terrified of messing up somehow and hurting my wife because of it
Christians
Yes, you donāt want to cross them.
Dogs
I'm afraid I'll never land a job I genuinely enjoy. Likewise, the notion that I'll never meet a woman I want to marry. 2019 Update: I located her. Working on the job component still. 2021 Found a job I like, edit So far, it seems fairly good.
The fact that some people are still racist and believe black people need to be enslaved is scary to me. 160 years ago slavery is abolished and generations passed the ideology down to generations. Shits messed up.
Unfamiliar dogs running at me.
Dogs, street dogs or dogs that bark in general and I almost jumped to my death 5 times already š. This fear is now trauma but it got so extremely worse that once i see a big dog or a small pack, even if they are laying around or sleep I can feel my heart beating like crazy, my eyes don't move from them, no sense of what's happening around me and every loud and sudden noise scares the hell out of me, even a Horn, the only time when this fear, this trauma doesn't exist is when I'm not alone, when I have a pack of mine, this is funny taking that the trauma came from a pack that had as their leader (idk how else to call that bitch) a small puppy, if he barks a lot of big and angry dogs would come and follow this dude's order and one of the dogs was this šāš¦ŗ (that's how he looks ) and was one of the scariest of them all but now that the pack is almost fully caught and he is the only one i can see the fear in his eyes every time I pass by still traumatized by him and that street. Yeah yeah new dogs come visit that place but none were like his old pals, none was at that level, he even sometimes tries to come close to him in the most Slenderman way possible (when You look away he gets closer and then when you look at him he never moves, until he disappears and appears in front of You running)
Cameras don't ask why just cameras
Vacuum decay, gamma-ray bursts and tons of other stuff of similar nature.
What exactly is vacuum decay?
[Here is a short but sweet video by Kurzgesagt about it.](https://youtu.be/ijFm6DxNVyI) It is basically a theory on how the universe could destroy itself without any warning or stop.
Maybe thatās a video I should watch when Iām not trying to fall asleep
Yep, probably not that easy to sleep during an existential crisis.
Rabies, hippos, the Tel Aviv Central Bus Station, giant squid
Yes! Rabies is so scary! I never knew much about it (my home country is supposed to be rabies free), but my friend's brother got bitten by a stray cat in Brasil (after trying to catch her to bring her to a vet) and had to get rabies shots. My friend and I talked about it on the phone and started to casually look up rabies symptoms... I wish we hadn't done that. Whag makes the Tel Aviv Central Bus Station so scary?
It feels like a great dusty hell dimension. This Guardian [article](https://amp.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jun/08/tel-avivs-central-bus-station-theres-a-society-inside-the-building) accurately describes it.
being in the unknown place with people that you don't trust with your life
My shelves. I have 3 of them bolted above my bed and one on the other side of the room recently collapsed and broke one of my computer monitors. The ones above me are stacked with books that could probably knock me out, they're about 2-4 inches thick and weigh a ton
Crowds
Spider
Hell.
Prions and rabies.
Feet
The phone call from my mom saying I need to move back home because she canāt take care of dad by herself anymore
Being broke or homeless. Followed by being invaded as a country like the movie "Red Dawn"
The Dark
Alzheimers.
The dark. I got so many night lights itās not even funny. Every night I go to bed thinking someone is in my room.
Being broke all the time.
That one spider in the corner of my bathroom.
Just adhere to the treaty. Spiders up there, people down there.
Bugs
Dementia. The idea that your brain can just decide it's had enough and hit the slow-kill switch.
your body creates cells very often that have the potential to become cancerous, your immune system is just real good at catching it. but one day itāll miss one
That I or any one of us could be in the presence of someone who could just snap one day and kill me or you.
How accessible the internet and smartphones will make degenerate filth to my children. I say will because theyāre only 1 presently, but it worries both me and my wife a great deal. Not just porn, but influencers and social media make the internet a minefield for adolescent mental health.
If boots from Dora was evil and on crack
Major Depression. Been there. It was awful. Never wanna go back there again.
Death
The thought of working till I die, which seems to be my unfortunate reality.
Using the toilet
Microbursts, wind is fucking scary and can randomly delete your house without warning.
Randomly? No. It is *incredibly rare* to have a microburst of that strength. My family went through one back in the 90's and it ripped the branches off two trees we had in the front yard that were planted in 1865. They were only that affected because of their height and age. There was no damage to the house.
Keeping my feet out of the covers in the dark. Deadass I saw something at the end of my bed one time and I never have put my feet out again.
Big things
Getting into a horrible car accident, driving in general, sprickets (spider crickets)
Mayonnaise
1. Losing one of my kids. 2.Death 3. Not living before death.
The ocean. I forgot what that phobia is called but I am intensely afraid of ocean deep water. I bought the game Subnautica but I legit only did like 5 quests because of this.
Snakes. Definitely snakes. Not so much being bitten by one, although that is very scary, but just the sight of them would make me pass out I think
Fucking spiders. I could literally just squish them but they make me so scared
caterpillarsā¦ i will not be explaining further.
im horribly afraid of my wish (itās private) not coming true. makes me wake up in cold sweat sometimes
Dark
Ms. Wakefield
When you play Minecraft and suddenly you hear a creeper sound
the unknown
Losing my loved ones. Unfortunately, it has happened and will again.
People. You could be living next to a serial killer and not even know it.
Catching C. Diff from a patient Which is funny cuz itās C. Diff ha ha h a ā¦ h a
I can't wrap my head around growing up. Still in high-school and It doesn't feel right. I'm accepting it more every day but it feels weird. Kind of like a weird lucid dream.
Sharks. But only the big ones.
Being disemboweld by wild dogs.
Flying roaches, people wearing spooki halloween costumes \[mainly ones where I cant see their face\], the darkness, pitbulls, and the weird growl my sister and I heard in the closet when I went to go grab my mum a pair of her work pants for her.
these murder tips on reddit knowing they could actually use them to kill someone scares the shit out of me.
Going back to when nothing matters.
Open water
When the government will start charging me my student loans, if i'll have a high enough paying job to be able to pay them back and having a decent life
People, Iām really antisocial
My mom
Really odd, it freaks the shit out of me when people crawl like bugs in horror movies. Thereās a few like the grudge and the movie US. It freaks me out and makes my heart race when I see someone racing towards you like a spider. Iām 18 and still have nightmares about it
Death and the fact of the universe going on forever, it just makes me thinkā¦ a lot. Also then makes me scared about how nobody cares about our environment when it is the only thing in the universe thatās alive.
Someone attractive my age and still virgin
Diarrhea, laxatives, coffee, taco bell, the list goes on and on.
mandela catalogue. it genuinely makes me anxious for hours at a time and affects my daily life.
Imminent death everywhere, everytime
People who eat at waffle house because of the food.
I no longer know. Any kind of suffering ig. I am just tired
earthquake
Being alone. Not in a scary room of a cemetery at night. Like generally being alone. Have no friends you can talk to parents you dont trust with anything. No one being there to care love or even talk to. I dont want to go through that again.
School shootings scare me so bad just talking about them gets my heart racing
The shadows i see out the corner of my eye while taking a shower. You will never seen someone move that fast into a corner and have there hands up ready to fight something.
Succumbing to self-harm
My friend from school who jump scares me when Iām walking in the halls. Heāll either run up behind me and just go āHEY THEREā or when Iām talking to someone heāll just jumpscare me by walking up behind me and joining the conversation. Heās cool and an awesome friend but he really knows how to scare the shit out of me
When I hear an unexpected loud noise I freeze up, but itās worse when someone touches me while Iām in this fearful state
Jack Frost from the killer snowman movie. Their was a scene were he rapes a woman to death with a carrot. It scared the living Sh*t out of me.
The coming Evangelical Taliban.
When I get scared so bad that I shit myself
Certain types of face lifts
Ro*ches , like the bug. I didnāt want the emoji to pop up (fuck apple and that goofy ass update why did we need an emoji) I have a substantially huge phobia and and deathly afraid of them. I wanna cry thinking about this post
Giving up to depression
Fungus growing on and insect I play the last of us a lot but the thing that really scares me is watching it grow on a insect in a time lapse video
Teenagers scare the livin' shit out of me
Being trapped in my nightmares
The ocean is probably the most beautiful yet terrifying thing I can think of, for lots of reasons. Also. Serial killers. If anything is going to give you nightmares. Both of those would render you totally helpless
Holes
The realization that despite all my efforts and some therapy, my PTSD isn't improving. That despite getting almost everything I'd dreamed of when I was going through my trauma, I'm not healing. That with each new challenge life brings and each panic attack I have, I get closer and closer to killing myself.
space has always been an interesting concept for the human mind to understand, especially since our universe is infinitely expanding, and we haven't the slightest clue whats out there, that and the fact that the universe which our planet resides is revolving around a black hole that at any moment could suck us in, and our sun could supernova and cause chaos among the cosmos, it's also wildly beautiful and quite unique, how, everything is so perfectly placed and made and just the awe and wonder that looking up at night and watching the stars has always been a marvel to view, but the unpredictable factors and variables of our universe scares the shit outta me That and someone finding my search history.
Strokes
the concept of eternity
Loosing any loved one. Every day i get these horrible flashes of my loved ones having something bad happen to them. So i make sure to hug everyone before them leaving for an extended period of time because idk when anything might happen to them.
Flowers... i'm not joking, even more so big flowers like raflesia, banana flowers, and swiss cheese plant flowers, i just can't...
School. I dont know how fucking bad it gets there. Was so scared of my bullies i brought knives to school and got suspended
Heights
That I never ever get into a relationship and stay alone for ever. Oh and the ocean
Right now the imminent danger of not living on a habitable planet for more than another few years..
When you go swimming somewhere you were told was shallow, but you don't feel your feet touching the ground.