What are you afraid of?

[capt. apathy]

mainly just situations where I'm powerless to influence the outcome.  
I have a lot of self confedence, or at least if I'm actively doing something I can put the problem out of my mind.

for example, I don't have a problem with planes but sitting in an airliner being flown by a guy I've never met, and can't see requires some alcohol.  I actaully think I'd be more comfortable with flying it myself even though I'm completely unqualified (flight sim experience aside.  

same thing with the idea of skydiving.  it's not the idea of the alt, the falling, or the fear of death.  it's the thought of having a failure, running out of options and waiting to hit the ground.  the thought of those powerless moments is pretty damn terrofying.

when things go really wrong I'm actually quite level headed,  and can deal with just about everything life has thrown at me so far.  it's afterwards when everythings ok I usually have the panic attack.

in case you haven't guessed I'm kind of a control freak.

[Estes]

I'm going to have to second the spiders.. I ****ing hate spiders.

[Rafe35]

My biggest fear?

Completely Hearing lost without H-Aid

[Udie]

blindness even more so if coupled with deafness.

wasps and/or bees

[Drunky]

Only that really puts fear in me is being closed in underwater.  Like a small tunnel under the water.

I don't mind something that I can see the end of, it's just that you will NEVER get me to swim into a narrow, restrictive passage underwater that I cannot see daylight at the end.

Spiders, heights, guns, knives, failure, etc don't mean sh i t to me...but I will not go into an underwater tunnel where I cannot turn around.  Full stop.

[Pei]

Originally posted by Nash
Well this is all hush hush but me and SOB already take long walks on the beach. Purely to trade twisted internet links under the setting sun, mind you.

By merely mentioning the scene you describe, it's gonna cost me an arm and a leg in therapy bills. I should just send the bill to you.

Be afraid, be very afraid.

[NUKE]

The thing that freaks me out is swiming in the ocean, being unable to see but a few feet below me. I always wonder what in the hell is down there waiting to make lunch out of me.

So many freakish things in the ocean.

[Octavius]

Originally posted by Nash
What are you afraid of?

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[Tarmac]

What Nuke and Drunky said.  I get really claustrophobic underwater, especially in any kind of enclosed space.  I've always hated holding my breath underwater.  And swimming in oceans, and even lakes to some extent, freaks me out.  Never know what's just under the surface.  

I took up scuba diving to get over it, but I still wouldn't go anywhere near an overhang or door on some of the shipwrecks.

[FUNKED1]

heights
going to sleep

[Dune]

Drowning.

Listened to "A Perfect Storm" on audio book while driving from Yuma, AZ to San Fran one time.  It got to the part where it talked about them trapped inside the boat and detailing what happens to the body when it drowns.

I was hell and gone from any body of water and I smoked a whole pack while listening to that.

[SOB]

Heights
Fatty's mom when she gets that look in her eye

[Nash]

Originally posted by SOB
Heights
Fatty's mom when she gets that look in her eye

Or a mean combination of the two. Fatty's mom when yer standing on her belly.

[Dune]

That would also be bad for those with fear of drowning and bad smells.

[DREDIOCK]

Not heights, I'll climb as high as you want. Once scaled Seneca Rock W Va without ropes even.(no not the toepath either)
Looking back at it was one of the dumber things Ive done
But
Jumping from a high place I wont do.