Greatest realistic fear?
 

I mean things that might actually happen.

Mine is waking up and just not being able to breathe. Being awake to feel the total helplessness and not being able to do a damn thing about it except expect the impending darkness that follows. It's scary beacause it's possible, I think.

Well what's yours?

a plane crash. being burned alive. getting hit by a DAMN SUV. :D

so some of these are far-fetched but they can happen, therefore real..istic. :P

Getting knifed to death on an empty street for some meager amount of cash.

Getting hit by a drunk driver who's not obeying traffic laws, and thus is completely unexpected.

Having any of the above happen to people I know and care about.

Being eaten by a shark. Or some other deep sea creature *shudders at the thought of deep water*

My fears aren't so much about being killed gruesomely as they are about becoming disfigured, blind or deaf, or getting brain damage.

Worrying about dying

Something happending to my family. Sisters being rape, niece/ nephew being kidnapped and molested. Brother dying. Mom and dad dying crap like that. Beat me, stab me, shoot me, rape me, just leave my family alone.

Having to get a real job

being followed at night, beaten and raped.

i walk alone a lot...

Seriously?

A nuclear bomb in Tel Aviv or New York.

Going out late and getting knifed or shot.

Being burned alive in a fire.

Getting cancer and lingering for months or years in great pain.

Watching my loved ones die.


Those are the things I fear.

My own death.

It doesn't matter how it comes, I'll be shit scared. I had a problem with sleep apnea at one point in my life where I several times stopped breathing while I slept. Even though I was unconsius, I very well remember the feeling of suffocating while not being able to do anything about it. When I pass the point where I normally wouldn't be able to hold my breath, this creepy numb feeling spreads through my body and you feel like you fall into yourself. Luckily it has never gone beyond that, after this I always wake up gasping for air. But during the few seconds this takes place, I manage to feel that this is it; that I'm dying.

It's the worst feeling I've ever experienced.

Yeah I think I would be destroyed if my brother were killed, if I think about it too hard i even get emotional. Same with rest of the family i'm just closer to my brother (he's a younger brother btw.)

being stuck in a mental ward for any period of time as a patient, I helped assist people in one, Being stuck on a lifesupport system for more than a week. Losing the ablity to think clearly due to some condition.

Mine would be knowing youre going to die, like being tied up on a pole and someone holding a gun to your head and the anticipation of when they are going to pull the trigger.

Being raped, stabbed, strangled, drowning, or a car wreck

Drowning..Would have to be my biggest fear, I can't swim...Go ahead and laugh. My Mom could not swim when I was a kid..so she never let me around water. I will go in swimming pools, If it's not a swimming pool then I will not go in the water.

When I was younger there were a few times when i went under and My lungs started to fill with water...I guess I panicked and didn't even think to hold my breath until I got above the surface. I was only 8 or 9 years old. I was being watched by adults, But I just slipped or something and went under...Then came back up hacking up water... I remember that feeling like it was yesterday...Not good at all.

Being shot, I had a dream one time that I was shot...It burns like hell...In the dream it did anyways.

Being Stabbed...Just cause that would hurt sooo badly.

brain damage or losing my hearing or losing my hands scare me shitless

Anything happening to my brain (aneuryism, stroke, stuff like that).

My friend getting beaten/raped/killed by one of the dumbass guys she always seems to go after.

Losing my memories

seeing one or more of my children, friends or relatives being possesed by the devil.

and im afraid of worring about dying too, like cchris

loss of family, friends, etc..
helplessness
waking up and the world is completely different.

burnt alive
drowning

and um, waking up without my penis....

Going mad.

dying alone. both in the sense of nobody being around trying to help, and having no-one that cares if it happens.

I totally agree. My biggest fear by far is something like that happening to my loved ones. It's really hard because then I worry too much about things I can't control, especially friends/family getting into car accidents etc.

I've always been scared of getting old... Alzheimer's runs in the family, and having your mind disintigrate around you seems like one of the scariest things that could happen to someone.

I also have a horrible fear of scorpions.

Falling from a height. I'm not scared of heights until I'm right at the edge of something. Then I get creeped out. Ironically, if I committed suicide, that's how I'd do it.

War, the odds that I won't find the courage to fight, and the odds that I do. So, essentially, war and all that goes with it.

Not waking up, i mean the thought of never knowing if you will be alive the next day really bugs me.

i'm really scared of being alone... my friends shunning me or my family dying... it's hard to think about it but when i do i can't sleep well all night....

Being alone and dieing.

Always have nightmares about that.

Being exorcized from the body I'm currently possessing. I hate that.

water where i can't see the bottom
i have no problem with deep swimming pools, as long as i can see the bottom, but i refuse to swim in lakes or ponds
i just get this weird feeling

also, dying and leaving behind my loved ones

My children being hurt!
Being caught in a fire and having to live with the pain of the burns.

I had dreamed this once.And even to this day it scares the sanity out of me.I dreamt i was with my family and we went to the mountains, hiking.and i accidentally slipped and i started to fall.As I fell I could see my family walking away as if nothing happened.I could see the mountain moving beside me as i was falling.The strange thing is that when i woke up I landed on my bed as if i fell from the mountain to my bed.I was about three inches above my bed and then as i woke up i fell from that height.Pretty friggin wierd eh?

Mentally breaking would be my greatest realistic fear.

Being disabled in such a way that I can't continue the activities that I love now. If I lost the use of my legs, I couldn't drive, I couldn't paintball, I couldn't walk. If I lost an arm, I wouldn't be able to type the same way that I always have, and my goal of working with computers would be pretty much gone.

The worst is the thought of losing my sight, followed closely by losing my hearing.

hmm. i have lots of fears.

sometimes it is nill to none, sometimes it is overwhelming. when i was young i had the great fear of Christ coming back and me left on earth (thanks mom, thanks dad)

i fear being stranded or in a car wreck due to my inability to get away. i've gone so far as to figure out suicide schemes some odd years ago.

i fear harm coming to people while i'm in a helpless position.

i fear failure.

bah. enough

about the only thing i do -not- fear are people. they aren't worth my time.

Nuclear death.

Scares the hell out of me.

Rendered comatose - someone has to decide whether to keep me alive or pull the plug. Every now and then I read about coma patients who came back when doctors had insisted on pulling the plug. Just think how many people might have been able to come back if they didn't pull the plug...

Death/Living alone - Everyone dies alone. I loathe loneliness.

Going blind - Rather blind than Deaf.

Being abducted or accosted/Didn't make a difference - If I suddenly disappeared, would I be missed? Would anyone notice I'm gone? A friend of mine committed suicide who didn't think he made a difference, but he left a lasting impression. Will I be like him or forgotten in a year.

somehow breaking my spine making me parylyzed. If that happens to me I will somehow find a way to kill myself.

knock on wood. *knock* *knock*