IRRATIONAL FEARS ALL UP IN THIS THREAD

[Overcast]

Knowing the infinity of time is a boring thing, my wish for immortality only extends to my physical form. I love the simplicity of humanity and knowing all choices and pathways and the ultimate fate of everything would make the endless timespan absolutely worthless.

In other words I'd rather be loved by time than know it.

Pitch black only affects me if it is cold and dry or warm and damp. It is just an environmental kind of thing, in the pitch dark I am comfortable in warm and dry or cold and damp situations. When you hit the opposites though it picks at my nerves in a big way.

I guess my fear of death isn't irrational, but I can't come into a talk on fears without taking care of the big one first. It has affected my persona more than most things I can think of.

[BitVyper]

I've had some very disturbing nightmares that still freak me out a bit. Beyond that, anything I'm afraid of is more the kind of stuff that you forget about until the one time you're confronted with that situation, so I can't really competently say about some stuff, but I'm pretty confident at this point that I can overcome any fear.

Edit: Actually, I am a bit afraid of mental illness. The idea of losing myself is freaky.

Edit: Not really afraid of bugs, but like many, I don't like touching them very much. I'm making an effort to improve in that area, and I find that examining them helps. Watching flies go about their business is really cool. They're all like *rub rub rub rub rub*. They always look like they're up to something.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Thadius

There are really only two things that scares me anymore. The Multiverse in all its glory, and the inevitable future of all that is. I saw both once in my mind's eye. The scary part is I can lead others down the same path I took and turn them into the same gibbering broken wreck I was for a day.

That... explains a lot.

Originally Posted by Nikose Tyris

Either my friends are stupid or they're awesome.

They are awesome.

[Thadius]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

That... explains a lot.

There is a reason my 'location' tag is 'beyond the edge of reason.' I could bring other people into a similar state, but what little remains of my morals and sanity urges me constantly to NOT do that.

But hey. At least I recognize I'm not entirely sane. That's better than 99% of the other nutjobs!

[phil_]

Originally Posted by phil_

The fear of heights is not irrational!

It seems there was some demand that it be clarified what I meant by this statement. As such, I offer this re-wording: Man was not meant to go higher than he can jump, except in such cases where man can jump very high. In those cases, man was not meant to go as high as he can jump, either. We left the trees for a reason. Vertigo is not weakness. It is a warning of the very real threat that gravity holds over our heads at every moment. Stay safe; stay on the ground.

[akaSM]

Needles, I don' like them AT ALL, just the sight of them induces fear on me, however I don't get paralized or anything, maybe I'll get a bit pale but that's it, and I'm not easily scared by anything, bugs, death or whatever, however, my fear of needles is nothing compared to my curiosity, I like to see the needle getting into my arm, hand, wherever. And watching the blood going into that bag thing they use for donations was interesting :3. Also, the sound of the drill dentists use...THAT THING'S SOUND IS IN YOUR HEAD GOING THROUGH YOUR JAWBONE, that, is something I'd rather not see ever again . I'm really interested in that multiversr thing Thadius, do you think you could share your madness inducing info with me? I don' think I could get any worse

[Aldurin]

Other people, oh wait that's rational.

From my experiences, nothing has freaked me out more than the Grim (Resistance 2 zombie-like enemies). These are not like other zombies, they do not make a shitload of sound, they do not come from hiding spots beyond doors and windows and hallways.

These Grim hatch in cocoons, and there's a shitload of them in the solo campaign. And they don't all hatch, and there's no indication which do until it's too late. You literally walk around in a dark cave (first person, so you can't be aware of rear attacks) and walk by these cocoons, since even though you can shoot them to kill them immediately, you aren't given the necessary ammo or grenades to break them all. You literally walk through the cave until BAM!! a grim hatches 5 feet away from you. Then BAM!! several grim within the "too close" range hatch and charge at you.

Then the combat is scary shit. These things will always run once they get within several yards of you. They do not flinch. Do you hear me, they do not flinch. Cut their arm off with a splicer, and they'll kill you with the other arm (splicer is actually the best defense against Grim as they can slice through multiple targets with one shot, just cut them in half to be sure). And they take like 10 shots from your carbine or bullseye before they die, so in one of the many huge assaults from these, you may run out of ammo and have to hit them with your shitty melee attacks. Half the time you get a shotgun to fight them off but there's problems with that. The range sucks, the reload delay sucks (you have to restart your reload if you melee during it), the secondary fire sucks (two consecutive shots with a longer refire delay does not help).

And the final kicker is, if you try to dash your way past a nest, you'll hit all of the event triggers that hatch almost all of them and then they kill you in seconds. Your only way through is to slowly move towards certain spots or follow your AI buddy (if available) to minimize hatchings.

Zombies don't scare me, especially since they're clumsy, weak (one bullet can tear them apart) and they have no skill, no claws, no sharp teeth on the majority and you'll always be able to tell when they're coming because they'll be making a shitload of noise and won't hatch. My zombie plan is a katana. In case we get something the equivalent of special infected then I'll have to dual wield two katanas instead.

My Grim plan is to go to a desolate island where there will be no one else to get caught by the spinners and turn into inconsistently voilatile death-bombs that might kill me at any moment. Or if the military forces me to fight the Chimera (what the Grims mature into) then I'll take all the missions involving infiltrating enemy battleships as there are no Grim in those.

Other than that, I'm psychologically normal.

[DarkDrgon]

Bears. They are not cute, they are not cuddley, they are not your friend. They are evil, vicious animals that will eat your face off, then consume the rest of you alive.

[Tempest]

I don't like wild mice and rats. If I ever see them I scream and run the other way! But I really love pet rodents, my friend used to have a rat that I'd have sitting on my lap or shoulder when I went round there. I thought she was a great little animal, erm -the rat, not my friend

I also scream and run away from frogs, snakes, lizards and newts - regardless if they are someones pet or not

[Loyal]

Unsecured heights. Like, I live on the 10th floor of an apartment building, so altitude isn't a problem for me. But if I'm not absolutely secure in what I'm standing on and what's keeping me at that altitude I can freak out a little. We have this balcony, and whenever I look over it I lean at an awkward angle such that my torso is always at least at arms length from the safety railing (which itself is chest high, so there's no way I could accidentally stumble over it), and I kinda look stupid. But I don't care I don't want to fall over and end up a dull red paste in the rose garden.

I'm also rather afraid of losing those close to me, such that I have a hard time getting close at all.