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Fears
Nov 19, 2015 18:05:16 GMT
Post by Jwnewall on Nov 19, 2015 18:05:16 GMT
Fires Planes Going to school Communicating
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Fears
Dec 2, 2015 16:04:28 GMT
Post by Rusty Red Scrap Iron on Dec 2, 2015 16:04:28 GMT
I've developed a couple of new fears in the last couple of years:
First, doing an injury whilst swimming. In 2014 I sustained two dislocated shoulder, both the right shoulder, in completely freak accidents. One was jumping at the deep end of a swimming pool, and the other was doing backstroke (in which with the backstroke one, I met my Guardian Angel but haven't seen her since). Everytime I go for a swimming, I'm always worried about doing something else in - like my legs, knees, feet or the left shoulder. Now I don't even do backstroke, and I don't even attempt to jump in.
Secondly, the Chinese Year of the Dragon. I was born in the year of the Rabbit, and the last two occurrences towards the end of the Rabbit year - something on the negative side has happened, and when the Dragon year comes it gets worse. In the summer of '99 while I was away in Orlando, my Nan had passed away, and from 2000 onwards till 2004 I went through the years of Hell - better known as High School. In 2011 after coming back from a holiday in Orlando, I sustained a dislocated shoulder and then went through a Hellish saga of hospitals and being unemployed for a year in 2012 - which didn't end until roughly February 2013 (plus I was 24, which I now refer to as the crisis age).
I fear of what the next Dragon year will bring in 2024, as I've heard that there's apparent fact that those born in the Chinese year of the Rabbit go through a traumatic year in the Dragon year (of course I don't know if every Animal of the Chinese New Year goes through anything similar). You can call it completely superstitious, but believe me I've been there and done it (though I can't answer for 1988 as I was only a Baby during that year). Also I've noticed that when someone predicts the "End of the World", its been known to happen in the Chinese year of the Dragon (on the plus side though, I know quite a few people born in the year of the Dragon. One of those got me interested in the Chinese Zodiac, and I don't know where I'd be without it).
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Alpharius Omegon
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Fears
Mar 24, 2016 0:22:33 GMT
Post by Alpharius Omegon on Mar 24, 2016 0:22:33 GMT
I have quite a few fears, some of which are wholeheartedly irrational.
- Nuclear war - Wasps, Hornets - Spiders - Ghosts (During the day, I don't believe in ghosts. At night, I'm a bit more open to suggestion.) - The ones I love dying or being seriously injured (includes my pet birds) - Losing my job
Also, when I was younger I had an irrational fear of Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds. Left me with night terrors for about 6 years. I enjoy the production now though.
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Jun 7, 2016 22:57:47 GMT
Post by rangerready23 on Jun 7, 2016 22:57:47 GMT
Statuary.
Weird, yes, I know! But been a thing all my life, and then seeing certain episodes of Doctor Who later on in years didn't help the situation any.
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Nov 16, 2017 16:33:25 GMT
Post by Rusty Red Scrap Iron on Nov 16, 2017 16:33:25 GMT
If anyone remembers reading when I mentioned about when I said that I've dislocated my shoulder from freak accidents whilst swimming, one of the other fears that I've really developed is doing front crawl because of fears that I may do my shoulder in. I have gently tried to do front crawl from time to time, but not a full length of just front crawl like I used to as a Kid.
Its certainly something that's becoming quite a fear for me, and yet as stupid as it may sound, it'll be like a athlete having done a particular injury and then having a fear of where they do whatever it is they do again i.e. if a Wrestler does a particular maneuverer, then sustains an injury from that particular maneuverer, and then having a fear of doing that move again when they make a comeback in case they may reinjure themselves from said move (yet nine times out of ten, they go back doing said move after their comeback).
I seem to only have this fear, because if I ever do my shoulder in again, I may have to have surgery to strengthen it which you may think is more of a blessing than a curse but for me it feels more like a curse. But I guess that some fears that you, have to be overcome regardless of whatever consequences that you may have or as they say, start slow and gradually build up again to where you had been before all the occurrences.
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Mar 17, 2018 15:32:57 GMT
Post by WhitehouseFilms on Mar 17, 2018 15:32:57 GMT
Growing up I had a few fears, but these are the ones that I can remember the most. 3 of them I've overcome. - Spiders
- Socialising
- Performing on stage
- The Groke
1. Arachnophobia is something I've been trying to get over since my first encounter with spiders. Up to this point I have been doing fine with standard spiders but I draw the line when it comes to dealing with larger ones and tarantulas. I had a friend who had a red kneed tarantula as a pet. One day he brought it's shedded skin into school to show us how big it was and I kept a good distance to avoid eye contact with it. I still get a bit sensitive when I see spiders and this is becoming a bit of a running joke in my family, but they have tried a few times to help me get over it but to no avail. Oh well.
2. You'd be surprised but social interaction was something I used to be very bad at. I spent most of my childhood isolated from the outside world and the trends that were often mentioned in school e.g. Football, card games, 'birds & bees' (You know what I mean), I had little knowledge of. So you can imagine I was often referred to as the Karl Pilkington of the class room and be the subject of giving everyone a laugh with my little understanding of what they were referring to. But over time some talents of mine would strike an interest in my classmates, drawing, story writing, model work etc, and I would have a good handful of friends come the end of the year. But the same thing would happen again when I move schools but when I joined media school in 2012, that pretty much changed everything for me. Socialising was much easier for me to do, I had friends who shared the same interests and talents and I pretty much felt a lot better since then.
3. This one dates back to my early school days when the Nativity play was always the BIG occasion for the school to do. I think my earliest performance was an angel but then one year I was given the leading role of a Angry King who yelled quite a lot. The play's production manager, one of our senior teachers, used to frighten everyone for her appearance and for her temper. Think the Demon headmaster in female form with the bridge of Frankenstein's hair do - that was her. Now I must say now that she is a kind soul really and does a lot of good things for us in class but if you pushed her to the limit, you'd be in trouble. So anyways I was playing this role and there was a line I had to say which involves me yelling at the audience for not worshiping me. I said, ahem, I yelled the line and did it quite convincingly. To well in fact that one of the teachers decided to have a bit of fun and fell on the ground and bowed before me. I saw this and fell into a fit of the giggles. I kept doing this during every rehearsal because I knew that they would do it again. But this soon ended up with me told off by the teacher on the last rehearsal when I laughed again and I knew I had to stop otherwise I would be recasted. So when the day came, I was petrified that I would screw this role up but managed to get through it without so much as a snigger. This was more to the point that I had fallen seriously ill that day but wanted to go on stage despite my condition.
There was another time, some years later when I was playing an uncle and everything all went fine. But on the day of the play, things went wrong. Not with me but with the props. The scene features a family getting together for Christmas and sharing merry conversation. Each of us would have a glass of wine in our hands (It was Ribena really) and the father character would top us up if our glasses showed signs of being empty. Now the glasses we were given were plastic type wedding glasses and we used these a few times during rehearsals. While everything was being prepared that morning, one of these glasses got cracked and it was very hard for anyone to notice this. Guess who got that glass? Yep, moi. So the curtain went up and we entered on stage to do our family bit. Father character hands out the drinks, I take mine and waited for my next bit of dialogue. My glass was resting on my leg and I felt this cold wet feeling come over my leg and towards my...anyway. I looked down and I see this wet patch in an embarrassing area on my beige trousers. I began to panic and the first thing I thought I had to do was to drain the glass as quickly as possible to stop any more from spilling out. I thought I was fine after that, but then my friend saw my empty glass and as instructed by our teacher, he came over to fill the glass again. I had to play along as it was the character's first drink and I didn't want ruin the play by this blunder. Now I must point out here that my character was a golf enthusiast and 'rarely' likes the odd drink on special occasions. Today, everyone saw him gulping down every top up like he was drinking for the country. Someone in the audience thought my character was having a drinking problem and even the teachers and the rest of the cast were wondering what was going on. I had now drained my 10th glass and we were only 5mins into the 20min scene. My friend came over again to refill my glass again and before he filled it, he bent down as if his and my character were having a small conversation, which we were.
"Stop knocking back the wine!" He whispered harshly. "Everyone is staring at you!"
"I have to though" I mouthed and using my eyes guided him to the crack in the glass which was now visible, thanks to the Ribena. He looked back at me, then saw the wet patch on my leg caused by the leaking glass and he understood.
"Your bladder bust be ready to burst after all those refills I gave you" he smiled.
"Not 'alf!" I laughed quietly.
Thankfully we made it look as if I turned down the next refill and we continued the rest of the scene. When the time came for my character to leave, my friend threw my character's coat to me allowing me to put it one with my back to the audience so that they wouldn't see the wet stain the Ribena left on my trousers and I departed. My teacher was waiting for me BTS and questioned on what happened, but I had to quickly explain as I had more important things to deal with at that moment.
But yeah, stage performing is something I've gotten used to now but so long as the props work and that nobody puts me off, I'd probably do fine.
4. I didn't know I had a fear of this till the day before my 17th Birthday. I had this fear since early childhood and I never really understood what it was. For many years the creature often used to come back to haunt me in my dreams but I didn't know where exactly it came from. The day before my 17th Birthday I finally found that fear. I was browsing through some vids on YouTube and I was looking at a vid I think Chris had in his favourites on his channel, not there any more, and it was of a funny clip from the Moomin series. Among the other vids one said 'Scariest scene in Moomins- Groke's visit' I played it and was reintroduced to my childhood fear, the Groke. Just this image was all that did it for me.
All throughout that night I was kept awake, terrified of that creature. So on my 17th Birthday I was completely knackered. I knew I had to get over the fear so I spent quite a few weeks watching any clips featuring the broke in order to get over the fear and get used to the character. The other week I mentioned this to a work colleague and he was currently reading the original book series. He told me in great detail about the character and even got me to a point where I can like this character by what happens to it in one of the books. So I've now gotten over my fear of that character and have no issues with it.
So apart from the fear of spiders, those last 3 fears were very much sorted out for me.
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Mar 17, 2018 15:56:47 GMT
Post by Lord Pacer Commander on Mar 17, 2018 15:56:47 GMT
I have just one fear - the French
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Harperman
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Feb 16, 2024 15:40:36 GMT
Post by Harperman on Feb 16, 2024 15:40:36 GMT
I have many fears, here are some of the main ones right now:
- AI Art making it impossible for me to get a job - The Afterlife might be one dark void of nothingness - Ending up homeless and with no hope - Failing College - Getting banned from SiF - Being trapped in an unhealthy life/relationship
The first one in particular is my main fear right now, being a college student seeing this really does not set easy the tons of money you and your family are dumping in to get a paper that on paper should help you get a job, and now your main competition are probably robots. I thought I'd never have to worry about such things a few years ago, now i fear every day that AI will leave me little to no chance of having a sustainable life.
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Apr 18, 2024 15:37:26 GMT
Post by BoCo NWR on Apr 18, 2024 15:37:26 GMT
Nothing much to say, but I'm morbidly afraid of water - deep water particularly. I literally can't get too close to the edge of a canal, river, the sea, a swimming pool without breaking down. Bit embarrassing but it's just something that's always been there, as well as a fear of flies.
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