Wow. I wonder if our experiences count as being scary enough?
Scariest thing you have ever experienced
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Wow. I wonder if our experiences count as being scary enough?
Whoever was dropping acid and came up with this idea has made me look at my dog(which is a pug) in a different light lol
I see that a line of events has no meaning, nor sequence, nor logic. I will explain, since you are being an over dramatic grandma.
First, question asked what is scariest thing. Poster replies dream, with no explanation. Poster is then made fun of, and rightfully so considering no evidence was presented other than a dream. Now, when he explains why, in a later post, he gets indignant, but had he let on earlier, no one would have made fun of him. It's quite sad. But he can't get mad, based on the evidence he gave.
In normal person world, where people's scariest events are falling off mountains, held at gunpoint, or car wreck, comparing that to a dream is dumb. Oh hey, you got held at gunpoint? Man, I got something way worse, I dreamt the soda machine was empty. See the difference? One causes long term scaring and ptsd, the other causes mild discomfort.
Now, with no evidence explaining the death of his child, which is a tragedy, the audience has no way to know.
You can't go back and say said poster was an ***.
It's like me telling you the worst part of my day was buying a candy bar. Then you say that's not so bad, and I call you a jerk, because 2 hours before my family was killed.
This isn't complicated. Everyone feels for the dude. He just said a dream was the scariest thing ever, without evidence.
It's on him, not Z.
I was young. It was a long time ago. I've since remarried and have a little boy now, but something like that changes you forever.
Not scariest, but still ...
One time I needed to use the bathroom, and for some reason, started contemplating how the body does that function, i.e. voluntarily/involuntarily, control over it in my sleep, etc. So I head to the bathroom, and just stand there, nothing happening. I had psyched myself out of being able to pee. Had to go, but couldn't make it happen. Went back to the living room and at for a while. Tried again a few minutes later and still nothing. At that point I start getting concerned, cold sweat, this is it. I'm never peeing again. I'll die from urine infection or my kidneys will explode. Went to bed. Woke up in the middle of the night, didn't think about it and everything was all good.
Kind of scary that a person's mind can do that to themselves, more than anything.
Yes, there was a Beavis and Butthead episode that was similar. It was soothing to know that a mildly retarded cartoon character had the same issues as me ....
One time I needed to use the bathroom, and for some reason, started contemplating how the body does that function, i.e. voluntarily/involuntarily, control over it in my sleep, etc. So I head to the bathroom, and just stand there, nothing happening. I had psyched myself out of being able to pee. Had to go, but couldn't make it happen. Went back to the living room and at for a while. Tried again a few minutes later and still nothing. At that point I start getting concerned, cold sweat, this is it. I'm never peeing again. I'll die from urine infection or my kidneys will explode. Went to bed. Woke up in the middle of the night, didn't think about it and everything was all good.
Kind of scary that a person's mind can do that to themselves, more than anything.
Yes, there was a Beavis and Butthead episode that was similar. It was soothing to know that a mildly retarded cartoon character had the same issues as me ....
Mercy, some of you folks have lived through some ****** experiences.
Worst for me pale in comparison, but these are mine....
-Working my first code in the ER. A high school girl who had hung herself.
-The first few Level 1 C-sections (most critical/urgent) I had to work. Doing chest compressions on a newborn is a scary feeling or dealing with a mom hemorrhaging to death, but dealing with the family after an infant death is worse (obviously not scarier, but a whole different level of awful)
-Getting on a plane for the first time as a 15 year old, with no family, to travel to Japan to be an exchange student.
Worst for me pale in comparison, but these are mine....
-Working my first code in the ER. A high school girl who had hung herself.
-The first few Level 1 C-sections (most critical/urgent) I had to work. Doing chest compressions on a newborn is a scary feeling or dealing with a mom hemorrhaging to death, but dealing with the family after an infant death is worse (obviously not scarier, but a whole different level of awful)
-Getting on a plane for the first time as a 15 year old, with no family, to travel to Japan to be an exchange student.
Lol...this is it! I've done it now! I will never pee! I'm gonna rot from the inside out because I can't pee!
That's a George Costanza type thing, and I totally understand.
That's a George Costanza type thing, and I totally understand.
I have a list of these ...
Thinking about breathing
Toes are smushed together in my shoes. Must flex them apart.
Thinking about the spaces in my teeth and how I can't feel between them (without floss)
Thinking about people watching me walk and then I adjust my gait to some unnatural weird thing
Maybe I need to talk to a professional ..
Never become aware of the mechanics involved with walking while you're going down stairs.
Not realizing the condom broke til after. Was pretty worried for about 3 weeks or so.
Watching my 4 yr old son choke on a piece of candy. It was only for 5 seconds or so but panic instantly set in.
I've been to Chimney Top Rock out at RRG. Climbed over the rail and out over the rocks. Also climbed across the "Whale's Back". I think that's what it's called. I got to repel off of Grey's Arch. TexCat is correct, some serious pucker factor. That's just a weird feeling. Trying to step over the edge of the arch. My mind telling myself that I can do this. All the while my legs are saying eff you, do not take that step.
Watching my 4 yr old son choke on a piece of candy. It was only for 5 seconds or so but panic instantly set in.
I've been to Chimney Top Rock out at RRG. Climbed over the rail and out over the rocks. Also climbed across the "Whale's Back". I think that's what it's called. I got to repel off of Grey's Arch. TexCat is correct, some serious pucker factor. That's just a weird feeling. Trying to step over the edge of the arch. My mind telling myself that I can do this. All the while my legs are saying eff you, do not take that step.
Actually, since you asked. :grimace: I will preface this with the fact that I am afraid of snakes. Please feel free to call me names and point and laugh. Any who, I once had this dream / nightmare where I was face to face with this albino rattle snake. But in this dream I knew that if I made a sudden move that I was dead. So I standing there petrified and slowly this snake just inches closer and closer to my face until "Bam!" bastard is biting me on the lips and chin. Woke up freaked the hell out.
Float fishing trip with a couple of friends on the Clinch River in Scott Co. VA back in the late 70's before you had up to the minute weather available at your fingertips. About halfway through the trip, we got caught in a huge severe thunderstorm. No shelter available anywhere, except for getting under some trees on the sides of the banks. The only other alternative was to stay in the aluminum John boat on the water. Neither was a very good choice, but we went to the bank. The lightning was crazy scary, and the rain was coming down in buckets. After about 30 minutes, the lightning had let up, but the rain was still coming down hard.
The river was starting to come up at a pretty good clip, so we dumped everything out of the cooler and used it to bail enough water out so we could get back out on the water and get down to where we were going to take the boat out. The five mile "float" from that point had turned into a harry white water John boat experience. Going through probably what had turned into some Class III rapids in a John boat with no life jackets (we were young and stupid) was my first (and probably only) experience in thinking that I might be going to die. We wound up overshooting our takeout point and went another mile before we could find a place that looked like we could safely get out of the boat without being swept away. We had to drag the boat and our gear up a pretty steep bank, then had to carry it about 200 yards through some farmer's cornfield to the road.
The river was starting to come up at a pretty good clip, so we dumped everything out of the cooler and used it to bail enough water out so we could get back out on the water and get down to where we were going to take the boat out. The five mile "float" from that point had turned into a harry white water John boat experience. Going through probably what had turned into some Class III rapids in a John boat with no life jackets (we were young and stupid) was my first (and probably only) experience in thinking that I might be going to die. We wound up overshooting our takeout point and went another mile before we could find a place that looked like we could safely get out of the boat without being swept away. We had to drag the boat and our gear up a pretty steep bank, then had to carry it about 200 yards through some farmer's cornfield to the road.
Not sure for me, but I saw a ~17-year old girl do a 900 degree spin in a Toyota Camry on a four-lane stretch of I-95. When she finished she was facing oncoming traffic - I was the first car. I'll never forget the look of terror she had on her face. Glad people stopped and let her get turned around.
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Several years ago I was playing airsoft (similar to paintball) in an abandoned building. As I was being shot at I stepped through a door that I thought led to another room but instead it was a old elevator shaft without the elevator.. I fell long enough to be mentally aware I probably wouldn't survive the fall... That was a horrifying feeling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Air_Lines_Flight_1288
Was about 3 rows on the other side of the galley when this happened. Think about it at takeoff any time I fly.
Was about 3 rows on the other side of the galley when this happened. Think about it at takeoff any time I fly.
No, the area where they stored the carts/other stuff was between where I was and where this happened but not far away at all. It was INSANELY loud and bewildering. The people back where it happened sounded like they were going berserk. I remember assuming that the plane was on fire somewhere and didn't think about much else besides GTFO.
My dad and I evacuated off the left wing area exit we were sitting behind and it wasn't until we turned back to look at the plane that I really started thinking about the people back there. Amazing more people weren't injured or killed back there.
I was on Everest when the storm hit. We were scattered and on our way back from the summit when in a matter of seconds we were in zero visibility with a 30 below wind chill and running out of oxygen fast. That was when I saw the little blind girl. I don't know how she got up there or even where she came from, but I picked her little frozen body up and I carried her. Carried her until my fingers bled and my eyes froze solid in their sockets. I ripped off a chunk of my own hair and built a fire in a snowcave and nursed her back to health by boiling the leather in my snow goggles and warming her body with the stew. I named her "Rita" and decided right then and there I would either save her life or die trying to get her off that mountain. She died about an hour later and I knew I would have to feed on her corpse if I were going to survive. So I cried and cut off a chunk of her arm and she's like "OUCH" and I said "you're alive?" and she was pissed and said "yes, jackass. I was trying to get some sleep" so I left her there. In my shame. Rita. Rita. I hope you forgive me.
I was on the 2nd story and fell passed the 1st into the basement. I shattered my elbow and had my face and neck cut up a bit from debris... I was wearing an armored plate carrier at the time that probably saved me from a more serious injury. When I landed I couldn't move or feel my extremities so I was really afraid I was paralyzed.. A friend of mine there who was a marine comforted by telling me it was only because my body was in shock... Had to lay there in agony for an hour or two waiting for an ambulance to arrive... Not a fun time.
*When I was a teenager, I was up late and was eating an apple when somehow a piece of the peel perfectly covered my airway. I could not breathe. No noise would come out. Had to go to the other end of the house and wake my mom up. She was at first freaked about why I was in her room but not saying anything until she realized I was choking. Instinctually she swatted me across the back which dislodged it.
*Scuba diving in a cave and the o-ring on my tank blew. The chaos the ensued was surreal. You're trained on how to deal with it but I had that moment cross my mind when I said to myself, "This is how I'm going to die." Will no longer cave dive due to that experience.
*Going to work one morning and stopped at a crosswalk in front of school while kids are crossing. Taxi driver behind me decides he can't wait and whips out to go around me, guns it, and hits a kid that was maybe 6-7 years old and the kid rolls up on his hood and then off. I was certain he was dead but he bounced up and was obviously scared to death but fortunately was ok.
*Scuba diving in a cave and the o-ring on my tank blew. The chaos the ensued was surreal. You're trained on how to deal with it but I had that moment cross my mind when I said to myself, "This is how I'm going to die." Will no longer cave dive due to that experience.
*Going to work one morning and stopped at a crosswalk in front of school while kids are crossing. Taxi driver behind me decides he can't wait and whips out to go around me, guns it, and hits a kid that was maybe 6-7 years old and the kid rolls up on his hood and then off. I was certain he was dead but he bounced up and was obviously scared to death but fortunately was ok.
I would never step on an airplane again
"The captain then requested portable air stairs to deplane passengers, which arrived 25 minutes later." Took their merry time getting to plane I'd say. You and Dad are a fortunate individuals.
When I was 3.5, a neighbor ran me over with his push lawnmower in his backyard. My leg was basically amputated, my family kept running over to comfort me but ran away for it was too gruesome.
So I laid under a swing set, bleeding out, alone for what seemed like an eternity until the ambulance took me away.
Pretty scary. My first REAL memory as a kid that unfortunately is still vivid.
So I laid under a swing set, bleeding out, alone for what seemed like an eternity until the ambulance took me away.
Pretty scary. My first REAL memory as a kid that unfortunately is still vivid.
I only have 1 toe (big), fibula gone, original wound extends to knee, 3/4 of calf muscle gone. Since it happened at 3.5 years old, my 'foot' is a size 5 and good foot 11.
2 ankle surgeries to repair collapse , vascular surgery for arthritis trauma, ankle fusion, leg lengthening surgery (3 surgeries actually) to femur 2" added so my knees bend at different heights but preemptively done to avoid back problems.
So yeah, fücking mess.
That's crazy as hell. I can't imagine. But, you seem to have done well for yourself.