I decided to ask some questions, because I do so in real life.
These ones, anyways.

1) Greatest fear(s), why/what experience spawned them¹
2) Best and Worst Experiences of your life.

I have a fear of loosing those that I love, and I have a couple experiences, which I'll keep brief (the second is brief by nature).
1st - talking someone out of suicide. Unpleasant, never want to do it again.
2nd - fell off of a roof. I was sneaking back out of a friend's house and, in the process of getting to the edge thereof, half-jumped, half-slipped, got a foot caught in a vine, and fell, hard. Unpleasant walk home, that was.

¹e.g. Watching Jaws and never wanting to swim again >.< (English teacher of mine two years ago)

1) Death. I don't want to miss the future.
2) No idea. I'd have to think for ages to come to a decision.

1) same as yours, Datsyuk (i.e. fear of losing someone I love). Also, like DC said, it would be nice to see the future.
2)Umm, tough. Both good & bad are many. But once when I was travelling in the local trains, an unattended bag caught the attention of all passengers. We all were dead sure it contained a bomb. I didn't have an iota of doubt in my mind. Though it turned out to be a bag of clothes, the very fact that I was certain it contained an explosive device & didn't even consider anything more plausible, shook me up.

1) Eh, going to have to agree with DC.
2) Best and Worst experiences hmm, I'm not sure, but in the last year...
Best: The Chicago and North Bay trips I went on
Worst: One day about a month ago that I don't really want to talk about, and finding about my Grandma's cancer (she's fine now, but the first few days were rough)

I think the thing that scares me most is losing any of the few people I'm genuinely (and by choice) close to.
Best experience.. I'd probably say when I went to see Nightwish live.
Worst.. There's a few years when I was aged maybe 10-15 that collectively count, for reasons I won't go into beyond saying that I hadn't met any of the aforementioned people at the time.

Fears:
1) Fear of the dark, and have been diagnosed with nyctophobia.
1a) Related to the above fear, I am also horrified by the idea of blindness and going blind.
2) Needles (trypanophobia)
3) The physical loss of loved ones (i.e., through death)
4) Minor claustrophobia
5) The loss of my intelligence (irrational, I know; was spurred on by a nightmare in which this inexplicably happened to me)

Unrelated, I also have severe insomnia. >>

I don't trust my memory enough to give any "best or "worst" experiences.

Apollo wrote:Fears:
1) Fear of the dark, and have been diagnosed with nyctophobia.
1a) Related to the above fear, I am also horrified by the idea of blindness and going blind.
2) Needles (trypanophobia)
3) The physical loss of loved ones (i.e., through death)
4) Minor claustrophobia
5) The loss of my intelligence (irrational, I know; was spurred on by a nightmare in which this inexplicably happened to me)

This may be a bit of a bizarre desire, but I'd kinda like to experience immediate and direct fear of something, rather than a vague fear of things going wrong in the future. In my quest to achieve this, I have:
a) Gone walking in the woods at night. Nope, not scared of the dark.
b) Gone caving. Nope, not scared of the small spaces or the dark.
c) Gone diving. Not scared of depth or water. (diving was actually awesome and I'd really like to go again..)
d) Gone skydiving. Not scared of heights or any of the other sensations involved with jumping out of a perfectly good plane at 12,000ft.
The closest I've managed to get is a rollercoaster (no, I have no idea why I find rollercoasters scarier than skydiving), and even that isn't all that scary.
Bah. Boring.

Oh, and I have a mild fear of heights, which is directly proportional to the amount of detail I can see of whatever is below me.
Other than that, no major fears.
Don't mind needles, the dark, confined spaces don't make me incredibly uncomfortable, just that it's nice when I do get out.
Mom fears clowns and needles, and dad's claustrophobic - had to have an MRI once, scared the crap out of him.

Dansariki wrote:Oh, and I have a mild fear of heights, which is directly proportional to the amount of detail I can see of whatever is below me.

...by that logic, standing on a table -> terrifying
looking out of an open door in an aeroplane -> fiiiine?

Heh. My fear tolerance is so random. When I nearly got hit by a truck I was nonchalant (and even bragging about it later) but if there's a bee (or even worse a wasp) I get squeamish. But it's most likely because I have time to imagine the worst when such evil buzzes about rather than quick and in my face.

Oh, and death a little as well. (Though when I do go I want it to be totally bad ass. Any ideas of what I should do in the case that I already know I'm going to die soon?)

wrote:Worst.. There's a few years when I was aged maybe 10-15 that collectively count, for reasons I won't go into beyond saying that I hadn't met any of the aforementioned people at the time.

And then you joined this forum? :P

Well, it's mild, but you're correct - standing high on a table and looking straight down makes me a bit squeamish, and I've been on top of the Empire State building - just fine.

I routinely dodge traffic, no problem.
When I was younger, I fell asleep while my grandma was making some BBQ. Unbeknownst to me, I was next to an anthill.
Woke up with my arm and half of my shoulder nearly black with ants.
Seeing lots of them at once still gives me a little feeling light in my stomach, but since they were the little harmless black ones, nothing else bothers me. So, really minor heights, minor ants, and losing loved ones.

Hate snakes. Nothing can prevent that. I run my arse off whenever I even see a gardner snake.

Used to be afraid of heights. Then...

http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/fi ... 00_132.jpg

Then...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CN_Tower

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So the answer to your snake problem is to have you face really big ones?

Also, apparently DC's afraid of butterflies.

Cool links - I really want to visit the Burj Dubai.
Must've been fun, the CN Tower.

FuzzyLobster wrote:So the answer to your snake problem is to have you face really big ones?

Also, apparently DC's afraid of butterflies.

Would you like to explain that one DC?

Sentynel wrote:

Apollo wrote:Fears:
1) Fear of the dark, and have been diagnosed with nyctophobia.
1a) Related to the above fear, I am also horrified by the idea of blindness and going blind.
2) Needles (trypanophobia)
3) The physical loss of loved ones (i.e., through death)
4) Minor claustrophobia
5) The loss of my intelligence (irrational, I know; was spurred on by a nightmare in which this inexplicably happened to me)

This may be a bit of a bizarre desire, but I'd kinda like to experience immediate and direct fear of something, rather than a vague fear of things going wrong in the future. In my quest to achieve this, I have:
a) Gone walking in the woods at night. Nope, not scared of the dark.

I would have a panic attack and slip into unconsciousness.

Wow.
Considerable.
Worst possibly, it makes me uncomfortable and/or jumpy.

Also, I'd like to experience losing a sense, one a time, then any two randomly, for one day each.
Ten days of interesting.

Apollo wrote:

Sentynel wrote:

Apollo wrote:Fears:
1) Fear of the dark, and have been diagnosed with nyctophobia.
1a) Related to the above fear, I am also horrified by the idea of blindness and going blind.
2) Needles (trypanophobia)
3) The physical loss of loved ones (i.e., through death)
4) Minor claustrophobia
5) The loss of my intelligence (irrational, I know; was spurred on by a nightmare in which this inexplicably happened to me)

This may be a bit of a bizarre desire, but I'd kinda like to experience immediate and direct fear of something, rather than a vague fear of things going wrong in the future. In my quest to achieve this, I have:
a) Gone walking in the woods at night. Nope, not scared of the dark.

I would have a panic attack and slip into unconsciousness.

I'd probably be uneasy, and it'd get worse the more I thought about it.

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Mwamba wrote:

FuzzyLobster wrote:Also, apparently DC's afraid of butterflies.

Would you like to explain that one DC?

I'm not afraid of them really, I just start flailing and squealing like a girl whenever one flies near/around me. It's much the same with all insects.

David Cat wrote:

Apollo wrote:

Sentynel wrote:This may be a bit of a bizarre desire, but I'd kinda like to experience immediate and direct fear of something, rather than a vague fear of things going wrong in the future. In my quest to achieve this, I have:
a) Gone walking in the woods at night. Nope, not scared of the dark.

I would have a panic attack and slip into unconsciousness.

I'd probably be uneasy, and it'd get worse the more I thought about it.

I have good night vision, good hearing, and I move quietly. The thing about the woods at night is that if you stay still, anybody moving around is going to be making vastly more noise than you, and if you move slowly and carefully you'll be quiet enough to hear others moving around (though not quiet enough to avoid being heard yourself, of course).
The only creature I've ever encountered that moves quietly enough at night to be unheard is an owl, and they're designed in every way to be able to do that.

I'm afraid of mushrooms and phones in terms of irrational ones, and various typical fears involving death, etc.

Awesomesauce: Iron Maiden in Montreal. So fun.