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Nice try, sleep paralysis demon

In terms of anything that does not include something related to death or torture its probably having an operation on your eye while being conscious. I know someone who had to get surgery on his eye and could see while two doctors were doing stuff on his eye. Even just hearing this scared the living shit out of me.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmudiyah_rape_and_killings

Burying my kids.

Bears. They don’t kill you right away, they just crush your face and start gobbling at your gutty works. Sometimes they leave for a bit to digest while you’re still not dead and come back to finish their meal later.

There are existential horrors and real life scenarios that are probably worse than death, but bears still take the cake for me.

Becoming a quadriplegic or suffering from "locked in" syndrome, where I can no longer move anything myself, cannot feed myself or use the toilet, etc, just laying there, 100% dependent on other people for everything. I'd rather be dead, thanks.

Snake clowns!

Death is the only correct answer. We've been singularly focused on avoiding it since we were single-cellular. Any other fear presented here represents a "what if" hypothesis about what's on the other side of it.

A failed democracy.

alzheimers.

The idea of lobotomies.
Just being trapped in a shell of who you once were, for the remainder of your life... Bloody hell, what a horrible part of history.

Being buried alive.

I mean, God judging that I was a "problematic child" and overall a bad person and sending me to Hell, I guess. 🙃

But, without talking about my religious beliefs, I'm afraid of doing something awful that I cannot fix or take back, in a moment of heightened emotion and lack of foresight, and hating myself forever for it. It's the reason I stopped getting into random fights, after all. In the end, when you die, you die, there's no more time for regrets, but if you kill then you have to live with yourself being a murderer, right? And I'm too self-aware to ignore it, and to see that if I ever started taking drugs to turn my brain and heart off I evidently have a problem and remembering the source of that problem would put me back to square one...

Elephant shit, because it is so much.

The sun moving the other way through the sky

Dick spiders.

More seriously: body parasites of any kind.

Liquid shit.

Homeless in the gutter on a cold night, shivering so hard it hurts like needles, wondering hoping to find the threshold of death in the hopeless misery of a lost battle of life in a dystopian world with no ethics or morality; surrounded by people that treat animals orders of magnitude better than me; completely indifferent and uncaring about my last breaths and thoughts as I pass alone in the freezing cold.

My scariest shit was in a dream. I took a dump in a bucket in the garage, and when rising and turning to look at it, it started growing into this spider that soon outgrew the garage. I chose to wake up at that point as I'm not too keen on spiders.

That was my scariest shit. I cannot think of any scarier ones.

What I'm living with right now.

Sometimes I think of the literal worst thing that could happen.

Like, going to hell, and being told you can leave if you complete some fucked up, borderline impossible task, like:

• Make friends with everyone else who is in hell. Not get them to like you. You must like them too, and enjoy their company. Yes, even Mother Teresa.
• Consecutively live through everyone's life who has ever lived, as a passenger in their brain, you can't control anything, but you experience all physical and emotional pain.
• Suck all sand until the earth is sandless. You have to suck each grain one at a time. Also, you have to find them, they're not just in one big pile, also, there's sand at the bottom of the Marianas trench
• Live your life on repeat until you live it perfectly. What does perfectly mean? You're not told. Also, you're not given any feedback after you die each time. If you try to cheat the system by having fun, you'll be yanked back to hell and raped by demons before starting back at day 1.
• Achieve universal human genocide in 100 different times periods and starting points. Also every person you kill also ends up in hell, and know its your fault.
• Learn every vim function, then be forced to rewrite all the world's code in nano.
• Translate every book, movie, song, and poem ever written into every other language, even dead languages.
• Think of a colour which doesn't exist, then invent a new instrument, and play a song with a tune which has never been performed, invent a new language with a completely new structure, and convince everyone else in hell to adopt it as their primary language.
• read and reply to every comment on the internet. If someone replies, then you need to reply back. Every message must be unique and coherent. Also, spacetime warps to make it possible for everyone to be given a chance to reply to you.

pure void - just a void, not death, a void

Not having any feeling in your legs, but not being paraplegic, so you could legit accidentally walk outside without any pants on.

For me personally being out in nature with no cover and encountering a thunderstorm right above me. Most scary things are scary because I read about them at some point or heard about them in the news but the fear of getting struck by lightning is much more archaic.

Ebola

Read The Hot Zone bloody terrifying **