IRRATIONAL FEARS ALL UP IN THIS THREAD

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Thadius

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!

Like I said, it explains a lot.

No worries. Some people take it better than others. Once you're over it, though, your weirdness tolerance goes up. If I got shifted into an alternate universe with magic instead of technology, my reaction would probably be, "SHIT! I can't get Internet here!"


Plus, I don't think I'd trust a person who was entirely sane. They scare me.

[synkr0nized]

zombies

Alma Wade and Samara/Sadako, but it's paired with a complete fascination and perverse thrill from the scare



I'd say the depression I slump into when I try to imagine death, the cessation of all activity and thought in a nothingness of non-existence, isn't irrational, but *shrug*.

[RickZarber]

Haven't seen it mentioned yet (or I skipped it) but: claustrophobia.

One time in high school they made the whole class sit on the floor all squeezed in together to simulate what slave ship conditions were like, and I nearly flipped out (luckily only my friend noticed). That was probably my first indication of how bad it could be sometimes.

I have since learned:
I can't deal with stadium-sized crowds pressing 'round, no matter how big an area we're in. I can deal with rock concert crowds as long as the roof is high enough. I do okay in tunnels, but not if the car has to stop--tunnels under water are worse somehow. I'm not a fan of metro trains at all, but I still have to use them from time to time. One time in Atlanta the crowd was so big, we were pressed into the train car like sardines. Then someone outside got their sleeve caught in the door, so the train couldn't move. But the door wouldn't open because someone was leaning on it. But he couldn't stop leaning on it because we were packed in so tight. It took a good twenty minutes to fix, and meanwhile I pretty much had a breakdown. (Hyperventilating, shaking, cold sweats, etc.)

Interestingly enough, I find the "fear" involved with that kind of phobia feels very distinct from, say, the fear of death.

[Kim]

I fear that if I take my eyes off a soda I'm drinking, it will be ruined while I'm not looking. This started when I was living in a spider infested basement and grew paranoid that spiders might have crawled into my soda, and it's only gotten worse since then.

[Thadius]

People expecting me to drag them kicking and screaming into the world of madness need to get their heads screwed back on! It is not something I can just say a magic word about and have you end up outside sanity in a second! I only managed to do it after 22 freakin' years of life. I might be able to make a cliff-notes version, but there's no guarantee that it would be particularly effective!

It's not like saying the word Snozzberry will suddenly cause a massive sanity failure among all the humans of the earth. If it did, I could hold the world to ransom, and you don't see me doing that, do you?

And yet the knowledge that if I stray too far in my thoughts and think too long on all that is and all that will be and-

IA IA C'THULU F'THAGAN!

[Amake]

Well you said you could lead others on the same path. How does that work exactly?

[Aldurin]

I'd say sign me up for the process, but I don't know if I'm already there, or suffering of a different insanity (although suffer would be the wrong way to describe how I handle it).

Oh, other irrational fear that almost never comes up for me. Becoming normal. Fortunately it almost never comes up, as I usually play hopscotch on the boundary between eccentric and psychotic.

[Loyal]

I suspect he's already succeeded, seeing as you lot have begun babbling as incoherently as he.

[Lumenskir]

New irrational fear: Ending up anywhere near the Hot Topic where you guys are hanging out.

[krogothwolf]

I fear the terror that flaps in the night.