[Closed] What makes you scared?

Heights, but only because I have a massive urge to jump off. WTF is that all about?

deep ocean.

that feeling when you know youre gonna fall off big time, and theres nowt you can do.

This scared me - anything with open-sided big drops. I crawled along Sharp Edge on my hands and knees.

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Moths. Great big hairy moths. The sort that look more like birds and fly into the bathroom when you're soaking in the bath on a summer evening.

Once got hyperthermia waiting for one to die...

Air - at least, the mtbing kind. I am such a pansy it's ridiculous. Ok, not as much as a typical weekender, I mean I can get say 2 feet without any bother, but I just can't attack the jumps enough to do it properly. I can't do the big plank at Cwmcarn, nor can I do the drop into the second section of the DH course - disgraceful.

Currently, not being able to find a job is scaring me a bit. I'd not care but I can't sell the house atm either.

Women, obviously

I have the heights thing, not coz I have an urge to jump off, but what if you freaked and jumped off, or threw someomne else off, or someone else does. makes my feet feel weird!!

Helicopters. 3000ft in the air, 2 engines, but only one gearbox! Especially with all the accidents atm.

That laughing gnome from Ashes to Ashes. Don't like that.

Snorkelling under an upturned boat, 10 miles offshore, at night, in 10 foot seas to check if anybody was trapped inside it. That was a pucker moment.

The enormity of life's challenges. As you stare out at it like a great undiscovered ocean. Trying desperately to comprehend the shear magnitude of it all, and you're total insignificance in the scale of it, as it stretches out before you

... oh... and clowns

Wasps

Buzzy, agressive, stinging...can't stand them. Crap at killing insects but I'll happily napalm a wasp's nest.

Spiral staircases (yesh, I'm wierd!) the narrow stone ones you get in castles

And flying. Scares me silly.

Cars. Well the people that are allowed to sit behind the wheel in them.
I get butterflies everytime I'm getting ready to ride home.

Earth worms I have a serious phobia. Cant go out when its raining sometimes 🙁

bridges.. big bridges
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Ski lifts 🙁

Like coffeeking - heights - for the same reason. I have this almost overwhelming urge. It's like 'what if i were to take leave of my senses and just throw myself off...'

Flying...it's the knowledge of almost certain, imminent death shhould things go drastically wrong.

Big things in deep water - lock gates etc...no idea why!!

Moths. Terrified of them.

Also high places with open sides. Remember being very scared on the top of the Bluff at Deep Cove with my two kids.

weird I have that about heights as well, wonder why. I don't even like other people going near them for the same reason that they might jump or I might push them

cows, big 'orrible black 'n white monsters!!!

Dying alone.

Oh and wasps. Love moths though.

Will probably be laughed at for this but geese...

hangs head in shame.....

My kids. Knowing bad things will happen to my little girls as they grow up and that's how life works.

And yacht sailing across shipping lanes in the middle of the ocean. The bit where you realise you're in a GRP bathtub a mighty long way from land, next to metal things the size of Croydon doing 25 knots and they can't see you.

I had a mate who was bitten and beaten by his pet goose, probably good reasoning in that tinker!

This fear of jumping/pushing people off heights thing is surprisingly common, im amazed. Maybe time to google!

hillsplease - they can see you, they just dont like you 😉

Financial collapse of the world, proliferation of nuclear and chemical weapons, my kids future, my job, human size cats on their back legs with machine guns

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DezB that is classic, I'll never sleep tonight 😥
Somebody on here the other week said something about being scared of cats with guns and ever since Ive thought, what a nightmarish idea 😆

Becky Taylor

Not bothered about heights at all. Caves on the other hand, nah... Tunnels for that matter as well, I'm not overly fond of.

sticking your finger up a cats arse which is armed with a AK47? that has to be a rare one.

Heights. I'm fine rock climbing and scrambling, but don't like standing next to drops. Makes the back of my knees tingle.

Geese. Don't trust them.

I find I can control my fear of sticking my finger up a cats arse which is armed with a AK47 by not doing it.

Sitting on a London Underground train opposite a man with a back pack on his lap feverishly poring over a copy of the Koran muttering to himself whilst knodding back and forth.

I switched carriages!

Lakes, but only if the water is flat calm without the slightest ripple. When it's like that you just know there is something very bad lurking underneath you.

Car washes. Frighten me sh1tless they do.

All them soapy suds everywhere - so you can't see nothing. Then out of nowhere, great big fukoff giant rollers come steaming towards you out of nowhere 😯

How scary is [i]that[/i] FFS ? 🙁

Mind you, I was in one today - I reckon that I just do it for the adrenalin rush 8)

Deep water and my Uncle Trevor in his potting shed.

ernie - Try going through one in a car next time!

These;

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Irrational fear I know, but they know where I live, I just know it!

LJ. 😯

The sounds of a deer screaming (or something) when I'm out on a night ride along way from anywhere, I agree with the flat water thing also high structures like standing under a pylon looking up, also hieghts. While I'm at it intolerance, prejudice, war, anger, dying, cancer, my lad crossing the road.

Appart from the above I'm fearless...........

only thing I can think of worse than being in that Kayak, would be if a loved one was in it.

Heights and spiders

I'm another one of the folk scared of heights. I get the same urges to jump or push folk off. Trouble is I love climbing mountains.

On a bike its raised wooden stuff. It might be 3 foot wide and 1 foot high but it scares the bejaysus out of me - I guess the same as heights.

The only reason raised wooden stuff scares me is because usually it's slippery as ice and it has sharp edges 😀

I discovered today that crows in a house are pretty scary. The Birds...

Nothing, absolutely nothing...

Well..ok then, Tories

Heights,

Lorries tailgating me on my bike.

Doubles.

Small suspension bridges over big chasms, especially with people who know of my fear who make them bounce.

Mental illness.

Nightshifts on understaffed wards.

"Feline girls."

The dentist. Suffering from that gagging thing doesn't help.

On the bike, really steep droppy off stuff ('cos Me don't do big air)

Some dogs- having been bitten 3 times now.

mcmoonter - hows about this...(slovenia)
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You could easily fall over those ropes even when walking, on the bike it's nerve wracking for sure!

I can say that having swum with basking sharks that were ~25ft+ long in the sea off the Devon coast, even though you KNOW they wont bite you still find it slightly concerning when they swim AT your head and brush past. Awesome creatures, amazing feeling and amazing priviledge though.

Not great at heights....
Not great on steep, technical downwards facing bike stuff/jumps and all that malarky
Not great with wasps - just flail my arms around and run in circles.

Coffeeking, that's exactly the thing. Cowers behind sofa.

Snowboarding: steeps that you can't see the bottom of.
Kiteboarding: getting wrapped up in my lines and kitelooped in high winds.
Kayaking: getting tangled in a downed tree while submersed.
Climbing: useing a handhold that has a rattlesnake in it.
Biking: idiots in cars.
Worst of all of these: not doing any of these because of fear!

Worst of all of these: not doing any of these because of fear!

Right on man... Do you wear these?

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Avocado,
Nice shirt!, I'm too old to attempt to be fashionable, what sets me appart in my circles is helmet, elbow and knee pads, butt pads, and lots of bandaids and bruises, but no worries, its all part of the price you pay to play!

as someone up there sid, mental illness, the idea that my brai could be so far gone i could no onger communicate that i'm not in there anymo, but kowing my relatives would still be upset and careing for me. ot sure which is worse, them doig the riht thing and turnig me off, knowing that tey'd have to live with that knowlage. or doig the riht thing and keeing e allive, knowing that i'd never get bettr?

That and the split second between everythig goig wel and ievitable failure, where you reach tha peak and go yeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..........
Shortly before the bike does somethig you weren't expeciing and it all end u in a horrible bloody mess o the floor. Seems to happen a lot less now im riding on flats thankfuly.

flying monkeys

The sea and incoming tides...ever since a father and son I knew drowned in Morecambe Bay. Even though I'm a reasonably competent sailor I am terrified of the sea.

Mental illness...nolonger afraid...been there, done that, got the t-shirt!!!

KNEE PAIN!!!! ARHH

Mr Nutt; early exposure to Wizard of Oz?

Singletrackworld 😡

And frogs for some reason. (the amphibians, not our fellow europeans!)

I've been riding rollercoasters for work this week, which was interesting, as i'd never ridden a big coaster before and was a bit scared of them, but it turns out they aren't scary at all, or at least the actual ride bit isn't. The lifts are sometimes a little scary - particularly the one on saw at thorpe park which is vertical, and at the top the track goes 110 degrees over to point downwards, meaning that when you go over the top, you can't see the track at all.

The actual whooshing around bit doesn't really seem scary at all - i don't seem to get that stomach going up feeling that i remember from being a kid on fairground rides. You get some great views from them too, which is an aspect i'd not considered before.

Personally, i've done way more scary things on bikes & unicycles off road, i was pretty suprised at just how unscary rollercoasters are.

Joe

Politicians at all levels

Death. As an athiest it scares the bejesus out of me.

Baked Beans

t.k.i.d. i get that with death. Just can't get my head around the concept of "the end" I know there is nothing else after(imo). Normally you can think "what's after?" but...nothing. I just try not to think about it, have a cup of tea and a lie down and it seems alright. With a bit of luck its a long way off.

see that big yellow streak..

the one all of the way down my back...

loads of things scare me

but I'm comfortable with that knowledge