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Not having any feeling in your legs, but not being paraplegic, so you could legit accidentally walk outside without any pants on.
The normalisation of genocide, pantopicon surveillance, neoliberal fascism.
The moral framework of the West turning out to be meaningless propaganda.
The silver lining to this is that at least more and more people can see it for what it is, and the possibility for change increases, right? Right?!
Imagine every day, your muscles get just a little bit weaker. Maybe you can’t open a container you used to be able to. Or you find you can’t lift your arms high enough to shampoo your hair anymore. No matter how much you try to exercise, it never helps. Pain sets in due to incredible stiffness. Your fingers start to curl up until they are nigh unusable. Entire limbs become gnarled.
Eventually you lose the ability to walk. Then speak. Then eat. And finally, even your breathing muscles become so weak and paralyzed that you constantly aspirate due to your inability to cough. Recurrent infections set in. Then you die of respiratory failure.
And the entire time, people shame you for being lazy and not exercising. They blame your diet, your screen-time, and gleerfuly take joy in your “just” suffering.
EDIT: You then find an actual cure, and are desperately using it. You can barely keep up, then someone yanks it out of your hand “stop using that! It’s making you worse!”.
Having no other choice, you slowly wither alive.
I watched my father go through that. MND is horrible for the person and everyone around them.
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…
People who enjoy breaking down and hurting other people.
Glacier collapse causing sea levels to rise. Global ocean currents failing. A meteor hitting the earth. The next pandemic Locust Super Volcanoes
Locust Super Volcanoes
Time dilation.
Imagine you go to prison for a year. That’s one year you’re without your family and friends, and a year they’re without you. 1:1 time.
Now imagine you’re put to sleep and kept in a coma like state, fed by tubes. A computer or similar machine induces a dreamlike state that is indistinguishable from reality in which you will be imprisoned for 100 years. You never sleep. You never eat or drink. You never need to. And you can’t relax, you’re constantly being hunted or otherwise threatened. In the real world your family never left your side because in the real world, you’re only under for an hour.
Something similar happened to a guy on Star Trek (O’Brien on Deep Space Nine). Black Mirror did it a few times. And the fourth season of Sword Art Online (an anime) did it as well. Probably some others. Oh yeah, Interstellar. So you may have seen it.
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.
dick falls off
note: not a universal scare
windows usb detach sound plays out of nowhere
Burying my kids.
Liquid shit.
Especially if it’s sentient. And flying.
I think shit that is too-solid is scarier. At least with liquid I can resign myself to the throne.
Death is the only correct answer. We’ve been singularly focused on avoiding it since we were single-cellular. Any other fear presented here represents a “what if” hypothesis about what’s on the other side of it.
How would a society of immortal beings work, though, considering the already existing inequalities and rampant amoral antisocial nature of those currently in power? We kinda just have to make peace with death, right? I’m religious, and what I’m gonna say here might sound a tad heretical, but one life does feel like “enough” (of a gift, if you’re religious) and I don’t see a working alternative… but perhaps I’m not creative enough? 🤷
I see nothing wrong with your logic. Acceptance of death is in some peoples opinion the main function of religion.
Being given an anesthetic that should put you out for an operation but only immobilizes you and you remain cognizant thru out the operation feeling everything being done.
Kinda happened to me in middle school when I broke my arm and they gave me anesthetics to knock me out so they could re-set my ulna and radius but half way thru i wake up to my arm in 5 Chinese finger trap-like device to hold my arm up and a strap across my bicep with weights on it weighing my arm down and 2 doctor’s trying to push my bones back in line.
I woke up getting my wisdom teeth out. They were at the “hammer and chisel to break them down into chunks” part. I could see, I could smell, and I could feel the thud, thud, thud, and the little bits of tooth land on my tongue. They’re was NO pain whatsoever, but it was an extremely freaky experience.
I thought I had dreamt it before realizing 1. you don’t dream on anesthesia and 2. They showed me my chiseled out teeth
Damn. I’m deathly scared of the opposite. General anesthetic. I have the worst memory of being put to sleep forcefully, like I was dying. I’d rather stay awake
I only had one operation in my life and had to get a general anesthetic. It was pretty funny to count down from 10 and not even making it to 7. Probably the closest thing to dying i guess. Now you’re here, now you’re gone. But i woke up too early, but thankfully they were done. I spooked them because i was talking gibberish while still in the operation room.
Prions - Actually nightmarish.
Except in developed countries. There it’s more an inconvenience
