[ SECRET POST #4285 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4285 ⌋

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[Suikoden]



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[Great British Bake Off, series 8+]


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[Kelly Siegler on Cold Justice]


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[The Great Food Truck Race]











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Comments

What things terrify you that most people probably don't think about?

[(Anonymous)]

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Re: What things terrify you that most people probably don't think about?

[philstar22]

Airplanes. Or just heights in general.

Re: What things terrify you that most people probably don't think about?

[(Anonymous)]

Fear of heights and fear of flying are extremely common, though.

Re: What things terrify you that most people probably don't think about?

[philstar22]

True. I think my specific airplane fear is weird, though. Less scared of crashing and more scared of the plane flipping.

Re: What things terrify you that most people probably don't think about?

[kaijinscendre]

You know those pools that are on the edge of a balcony? One kind is an infinity pool. Like below. They TERRIFY me.

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Re: What things terrify you that most people probably don't think about?

[philstar22]

Oh god those things terrify me. Hit my height phobia so hard. even with a rail. I do not want to be high up and able to look down and see the ground. Then again, I have pretty severe vertigo, so heights can make me sick.

Re: What things terrify you that most people probably don't think about?

[kaijinscendre]

I would be afraid I would look over and slip out.

Re: What things terrify you that most people probably don't think about?

[(Anonymous)]

Aaaaaaaaaah. Those ones are not quite as bad as the freaking see-through bottom one I saw on a goddamn tower. I just imagine the weight of all that water making the bottom fall out and then you and the water just free falling for like two minutes before splatting.

Nightmares:

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Re: What things terrify you that most people probably don't think about?

[(Anonymous)]

Don't worry. It would probably take a lot less than two minutes.

Re: What things terrify you that most people probably don't think about?

[(Anonymous)]

The absolute mess that happens when a loved one dies suddenly and unexpectedly. It's not just grief and your world falling apart, it's that AND dealing with the admin work of arranging funerals, wrangling with insurance and doing stuff you've never done, like throwing a really sad party and trying to get the contact info for everyone your loved one knew well enough to invite to the memorial, all while fielding dozens of phone calls from people who meant well but who will inevitably say shitty awful things to you.

Re: What things terrify you that most people probably don't think about?

[rosehiptea]

My father died relatively suddenly. He died in a huge amount of debt. I had to beg for money on the internet for his cremation, and I had to tell his many creditors that he had died. And the house had a reverse mortgage on it, so I knew I was going to lose that, too. I should have been more prepared for the whole mess than I was, but it was so horrible.

Re: What things terrify you that most people probably don't think about?

[(Anonymous)]

You couldn't have known. That's the crappy part - the average person just isn't prepared for something like that and why would they be? It's made me more aware that even though I'm not old or in poor health, I should make plans and write a will just so my family aren't caught off guard.

Re: What things terrify you that most people probably don't think about?

[rosehiptea]

I really want to buy burial insurance, but I keep hearing that it's a rip-off. I might do it anyway though because I don't want my son stuck in the situation I was. I'm 51 and in fairly good health but I need to think about this. Unfortunately I don't have a big chunk of money lying around to make actual pre-need arrangements, though I keep hearing they're a rip-off too.

Re: What things terrify you that most people probably don't think about?

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly I'd just set aside the money with instructions on what it's for. Or just get life insurance. It depends on what arrangement you want, of course. I'm all for cremation in a cardboard box. I don't want people to waste money on a fancy coffin.

Re: What things terrify you that most people probably don't think about?

[syncing_feeling]

This is something I think about every day. A really close friend of mine passed away 5 years ago today (just got back from a little memorial get-together with friends) and while I struggled massively with his death, I can't imagine how it must have been for his son. He was with him when he died, organized the funeral, the eulogy, what music to play at the wake, and I just. I just can't. How do you even process that.

I miss him so much.

Re: What things terrify you that most people probably don't think about?

[rosehiptea]

Certain types of maps and certain movie/TV company logos, especially old ones from the 40s (for both). I am really not sure why, or even how to define which ones I mean. Though google did show me that I'm not alone in this.

Re: What things terrify you that most people probably don't think about?

[(Anonymous)]

I’ve seen people discuss logos that weird them out (I haven’t been truly unnerved by any but some make me feel like I should be anticipating something else afterwards, which kind of puts me on edge). Certain map types is new to me, though! If it’s okay to ask, is it physical or digital/digital images of maps? (Google maps also spooked me a little the first time I used it.)

Re: What things terrify you that most people probably don't think about?

[rosehiptea]

I don't mind discussing it at all, but it's hard to explain - something very realistic is OK, and street maps at city level are fine, but maps of the world can be scary. Old Mercator projections especially get to me, but sometimes I'll see maps of the world online and I just don't want to look at them at all. One woman online mentioned being afraid of blank spots on maps and I think that may be part of it for me too.

(You know when they have that thing in old movies where they show the map and the little dotted line showing the airplane route? I hate that, especially if it's in black and white. It's like there's some kind of uncanny valley of maps that my mind doesn't want to deal with.)

Re: What things terrify you that most people probably don't think about?

[(Anonymous)]

Does the map thing extend to globes?

Maybe it really is an uncanny valley thing wherre maps just st don't look real enough to the way the world actually looks? (Because, inherently, they can't)

Re: What things terrify you that most people probably don't think about?

[(Anonymous)]

That if anybody really looks at me and pays attention to me and sees me, they'll realize that I'm worthless and vapid and empty and utterly without value

Re: What things terrify you that most people probably don't think about?

[(Anonymous)]

This is more of a phobia and it doesn’t really terrify me, it’s just an irrational fear—when I hear small airplanes or especially any kind of helicopter nearby, I always want to get undercover—inside a building or under a tree. And it’s been happening since I was a toddler and I’m in my 30s. The weird thing is that I have no problem being on planes unless there’s lots of bad turbulence. And I grew up in the US so it’s not likely the US military is gonna drop a bomb on my neighborhood supermarket or whatever.

Re: What things terrify you that most people probably don't think about?

[kamino_neko]

I'm bothered by knives and razors...not for fear of accident...I get freaked that I'm going to pick it up and harm myself.

Re: What things terrify you that most people probably don't think about?

[(Anonymous)]

I have a fear of the possibility that a person's mind is immortal and stays alive in their body even after the body dies, in a way that science hasn't been able to detect yet.

Re: What things terrify you that most people probably don't think about?

[(Anonymous)]

I usually never ask things like "are you me?" since that question gets tossed around quite a bit...

BUT HOLY SHIT ARE YOU ME

I have a vague recollection (from childhood) of seeing some movie or TV show where someone had died, and everything was from the POV from the corpse. I think the guy had been murdered, because there were two men that I think were trying to conceal the body. From there I started to wonder if consciousness gets trapped in corpses, and do you just lie there watching the worms eat you, etc. If you're cremated, does your consciousness get burned into the ashes and bones, and if your ashes are scattered/divided, does that have an affect? When the autopsy is performed, is it like being awake during surgery?

But I'm fucked in the head due to other childhood trauma, so I'm sure none of this actually happens and you just black out from the time you die or something.

AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

I wonder that about cremation and body decay, too! Would the mind finally die when those things happen, or would it stay in the place where the decay/burning occurred without any way to move around?

I think I started to fear that possibility because of a story I read where an immortal got knocked out and mistaken for dead, so they buried him and when he woke up he was stuck underground forever.