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The sun moving the other way through the sky

Being buried alive.

Dick spiders.

More seriously: body parasites of any kind.

Elephant shit, because it is so much.

Homeless in the gutter on a cold night, shivering so hard it hurts like needles, wondering hoping to find the threshold of death in the hopeless misery of a lost battle of life in a dystopian world with no ethics or morality; surrounded by people that treat animals orders of magnitude better than me; completely indifferent and uncaring about my last breaths and thoughts as I pass alone in the freezing cold.

I mean, God judging that I was a "problematic child" and overall a bad person and sending me to Hell, I guess. 🙃

But, without talking about my religious beliefs, I'm afraid of doing something awful that I cannot fix or take back, in a moment of heightened emotion and lack of foresight, and hating myself forever for it. It's the reason I stopped getting into random fights, after all. In the end, when you die, you die, there's no more time for regrets, but if you kill then you have to live with yourself being a murderer, right? And I'm too self-aware to ignore it, and to see that if I ever started taking drugs to turn my brain and heart off I evidently have a problem and remembering the source of that problem would put me back to square one...

What I'm living with right now.

For me personally being out in nature with no cover and encountering a thunderstorm right above me. Most scary things are scary because I read about them at some point or heard about them in the news but the fear of getting struck by lightning is much more archaic.

pure void - just a void, not death, a void

My wife got a light headed dizziness this morning. The kids freaked out and ran downstairs trying to get me. As I approached the kitchen one of my kids, super scared points towards the kitchen area. I can't see yet. My mind naturally goes... "She's dead isn't she? Oh yeah, she's a gonner...WTF! Who's gonna do the taxes? Who's gonna feed the kids and get them to school? Who's.... I'm totally screwed! No! K love her and need her too much! Why is she just quitting on me like that! Bitch! WTF! Where is she!

Oh she's fine! I finally make the turn into the kitchen. Its just another bout of high blood pressure. But I'm the crazy one for not eating all her ethnically correct lard cooked everything. Ooh! You gotta try the chocolate! Its traditional! Here, let me just add more lard and triple fry it for you....no way hose lady! She will just not listen. The good thing is she's not that big in case I need to carry her around the house one day. I'm going to have to change her diapers and everything. That's the scariest.

Sometimes I think of the literal worst thing that could happen.

Like, going to hell, and being told you can leave if you complete some fucked up, borderline impossible task, like:

• Make friends with everyone else who is in hell. Not get them to like you. You must like them too, and enjoy their company. Yes, even Mother Teresa.
• Consecutively live through everyone's life who has ever lived, as a passenger in their brain, you can't control anything, but you experience all physical and emotional pain.
• Suck all sand until the earth is sandless. You have to suck each grain one at a time. Also, you have to find them, they're not just in one big pile, also, there's sand at the bottom of the Marianas trench
• Live your life on repeat until you live it perfectly. What does perfectly mean? You're not told. Also, you're not given any feedback after you die each time. If you try to cheat the system by having fun, you'll be yanked back to hell and raped by demons before starting back at day 1.
• Achieve universal human genocide in 100 different times periods and starting points. Also every person you kill also ends up in hell, and know its your fault.
• Learn every vim function, then be forced to rewrite all the world's code in nano.
• Translate every book, movie, song, and poem ever written into every other language, even dead languages.
• Think of a colour which doesn't exist, then invent a new instrument, and play a song with a tune which has never been performed, invent a new language with a completely new structure, and convince everyone else in hell to adopt it as their primary language.
• read and reply to every comment on the internet. If someone replies, then you need to reply back. Every message must be unique and coherent. Also, spacetime warps to make it possible for everyone to be given a chance to reply to you.

Not having any feeling in your legs, but not being paraplegic, so you could legit accidentally walk outside without any pants on.

Ebola

Read The Hot Zone bloody terrifying **

My scariest shit was in a dream. I took a dump in a bucket in the garage, and when rising and turning to look at it, it started growing into this spider that soon outgrew the garage. I chose to wake up at that point as I'm not too keen on spiders.

That was my scariest shit. I cannot think of any scarier ones.

Being drafted during war and not dying in the first days

going to the park with your kids and letting them play on the playground while you sit 3 feet away.

then realizing you can't see them anymore, and no matter how loudly you call for them, they don't answer.

being a kid at the park and getting dragged off to a van where you're crying and screaming for your father but he doesn't look up to see you. as you're dragged into the van and the doors close, your world is encapsulated in darkness and you know you will never escape.

Compacted.

dick falls off

note: not a universal scare