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    When Spoopiness TRULY Strikes You In The Hoo-ha: Discussion of Fears

    So i made a blog post about my fear of Slendytubbies, but that low-key sucked so i blew it up. So, i made this thread to be more inclusive so people can share and discuss their fears and maybe funny stories about the fear i suppose XD

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    this isn't a spooky fear more than it is a really dumb irrational fear. i have a really bad time with robots? more specifically people in robot mascot costumes. when i was at a festival when i was like 4 a guy in a transformers outfit like came up to me and it scared me so bad that i just want nothing to do with them.

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    For me, when it comes to spoopy stories/movies/fictional stuff, I don't usually get more than a little unsettled for a bit. But there are a few things I've read that really got to me for some reason. And what my brain decides is spoopy enough to cause actual problematic fear makes no sense. Murderers, kidnappers, real-life dangerous environments, "humans are the real monsters" type of stuff? My brain is just like "Heh, cool story." But (certain types of) bizarre, physically impossible, complete fantasy type of horror? My brain has just gone "oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no..." a few times.

    But I've found a very effective solution for me. Lucid dreaming. Spoopy thing appears in nightmare? Well, birch, I control this reality now, so it's on. Few things are more satisfying than finding that thing I'm afraid of in a dream (the only place it can exist in my life) and curbstomping it.

    So yeah, that's the tl;dr of my experience with spoopy fears.


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    For me, fear and phobias are weird because I don't really experience it much and if I do, it's very random. One common phobia that I would say I relate to but don't experience is the phobia of spiders. I'm not scared of them, I'm just sort of disgusted by them. I wouldn't get scared by the sight of one, it would just make me feel a bit uncomfortable and put me off my food haha.

    There are a few things that I have issues with though. One major thing for me is being home alone. My senses go OTT and I'm constantly on edge and stress but I think that's down to something that happened a few years ago.
    One time when I was back home from uni, I was home alone and I went to go and do myself a shower. I turned the shower on and went to go downstairs to get myself some clothes from the laundry and the door was wide open, stuff all over the floor and a window broken. As you can guess my house was broken into... whilst I was still in it. So yeah, ever since then being home alone has been a bit of an issue for me, but it doesn't bother me much. It's only at night where it becomes mostly an issue, but if I shut myself in my room i'm fine as I feel safe there.

    I guess another thing for me is the paranormal but it's very complicated. I'm super fascinated with all things paranormal and one thing I would love would be to go on a paranormal investigation or find some proof etc. However, at the same time, the idea terrifies me. The fear gets specific though because it isn't fear of the dark, it's the fear that I will suddenly see a face in the dark. This also extends to dark windows. If I can, I will always cover up a dark window (when it gets dark outside so you wouldn't be able to see anything or if the light is on you only see your reflection. All of this is about seeing faces in the dark. It even goes so far as me having to sleep facing the wall because I can't stand the idea of waking in the middle of the night to see a face staring at me from across my room. That has happened a few times so I think that's the reason. I remember being about 10 and I went into my room one night and clear as day saw a ghostly woman in my bedroom window, smiling sinisterly. I also woke up one night to see a sort of glowling childlike figure in my room. It didn't scare me though, I ended up starting to try and talk to it. But yeah, that face in my window sort of scared me for life lol. Other than that, I'm not bothered by the paranormal.

    Quote Originally Posted by Scytherwolf View Post
    But I've found a very effective solution for me. Lucid dreaming. Spoopy thing appears in nightmare? Well, birch, I control this reality now, so it's on. Few things are more satisfying than finding that thing I'm afraid of in a dream (the only place it can exist in my life) and curbstomping it.
    THIS is me too! I very rarely have nightmares. I don't think I've had a real nightmare in years. Can't even remember the last time I did. I seem to be able to lucid dream quite easily. I'd say I lucid dream about 50% of the time, and I lucid dream EVERY time I have a nightmare. It's as if the bad experiences wake me up whilst I'm still dreaming and I always sort it out. A lot of the time if it's an enemy chasing me, my favourite thing to do is to pretend my hands are guns, miming shooting them with noises and everything and most of the time I take them out with ease (Thank god for the finger guns!) So in that regard almost all my nightmares don't end up scaring me. If that technique doesn't work I just close my eyes, waiting for my inevitable death/wake up haha.

    I'd say my last biggest fear is a standard thing. Death. As a paranormal enthusiast you would think it wouldn't scare me as I believe in a life after death, but that's where it get weird. Theres two parts to my spirituality. I'm also Atheist, which comes from my very strong scientific bias, so that sort of lends to my belief of no afterlife too. I just can comprehend the idea that when you die you literally won't exist. Our whole self and experiences are all created by our brains. When we die, so do our brains so we would literally not be able to think, therefore we would just stop. We wouldn't experience anything, we wouldn't even know we were dead. Just nothing. And out of everything, that terrifies me to death. (pun intended)
    Don't ask me how I can believe in the paranormal and not the afterlife, I don't even understand that myself so it'll just get super confusing lol.

    But other than those, I'm a bit of a soulless void haha. My friends even don't understand sometimes. I love horror films, but none scare me. They don't even phase me. One time I was watching The Conjuring 2 on my flight back to the UK from New York and I fell asleep half way through. Same with scary TV shows such as Ghost Adventurers or Most Haunted and games such as the FNAF franchise and Amnesia. I love thrills and it takes a lot to scare me. I guess if you were to put my fears down into a category, there would be two. One would be 'People' and the other would be 'Things our brains will never understand'.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Coru View Post
    THIS is me too! I very rarely have nightmares. I don't think I've had a real nightmare in years. Can't even remember the last time I did. I seem to be able to lucid dream quite easily. I'd say I lucid dream about 50% of the time, and I lucid dream EVERY time I have a nightmare. It's as if the bad experiences wake me up whilst I'm still dreaming and I always sort it out. A lot of the time if it's an enemy chasing me, my favourite thing to do is to pretend my hands are guns, miming shooting them with noises and everything and most of the time I take them out with ease (Thank god for the finger guns!) So in that regard almost all my nightmares don't end up scaring me. If that technique doesn't work I just close my eyes, waiting for my inevitable death/wake up haha.
    Oh wow same! More than half my dreams are lucid dreams now. And yeah, I'm very efficient at killing off spoopy things in dreams. The nightmares that do get me (that I'm trying to come up with reliable counters for) are ones based on real-life fears and anxieties. There's this one that keeps popping up, and keeps finding new ways to trick me because it builds off of previous dreams I've had or dream-created memories that seem so real. And it's hard to deal with because it's an anxiety relating to things that have actually happened to me irl. One of these days, though, I'm going to find a way to counter that in my dreams and turn the whole thing into a joke or something.


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    Will I, at any point in my natural life, be anywhere near a black hole? Probably not. Will a black hole spontaneously appear and consume me, or the earth? Probably not. Do I have a big fear of black holes? Heck yeah I do. Just the concept of them and everything I learn about them is utterly terrifying to me.
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    I have this like really irrational fear of animatronic mascots. Like robots on their own are fine but I really don't like stuff like those at Chuck E Cheese. We visited one my senior year of high school and in all the pictures I'm just eyeing the robots anxiously.

    It's mostly due to the FNAF franchise since I have a tendency to watch playthroughs of the games at night before I go to bed and you'd think after like idk seven games or whatever I'd figure out not to do that but nahhhh I still do it like an idiot. The games themselves kinda freak me out too but I can take them in small doses.
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    For me I kinda have two laced together. Odd as they may be. Aliens and being abducted. I mean I know the odds of it happening to me out of the 7billion+ people on this planet is at odds, but it still has me with a slight fear of it. Mostly cause "what will they do with me" and "I'll never see home again" kind of thinking following it. I'm already pretty weak as it is. Don't have very much muscles. I mean I know there's a lot of good some aliens can do too, but the fear of those that do wrong doesn't help.

    See LKWayvern's yeah black holes can be pretty terrifying too. I remember learning about those in school many years ago and fearing those too. Still kinda gives me goosebumps.

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    Me and heights don't mix well, I'm terrified that I'll somehow slip and fall, even if there's no feasible way that'll happen. When I go on holiday next week I'm hoping to work on this because we've got theme park tickets included in our package, so I may as well give a roller coaster a go. Holding a tarantula helped me get over my fear of spiders, after all. Now it's just moths (and to a lesser extent most other bugs) that I'm scared of. :3

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    Quote Originally Posted by Blaquaza View Post
    Me and heights don't mix well, I'm terrified that I'll somehow slip and fall, even if there's no feasible way that'll happen. When I go on holiday next week I'm hoping to work on this because we've got theme park tickets included in our package, so I may as well give a roller coaster a go. Holding a tarantula helped me get over my fear of spiders, after all. Now it's just moths (and to a lesser extent most other bugs) that I'm scared of. :3
    LOL i actually have something like that ish

    heights don't scare me a bit, but FALLING from a great height does. just the feeling, i don't actually get paranoid tho

    wow then the lamp moth meme doesn't suit you then? i guess wasps and roaches spoop me tho
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