"Killer bees."
"The sun blowing up in 4.5 billion years."
"That I’d need surgery and I wouldn’t go under anesthesia properly and be able to feel everything. A friend told me about it once and I’ve never forgot it since."'
"'Being kidnapped."
"That my parents would get divorced."
"Swallowing a watermelon seed."
"Ghosts because my childhood house was haunted AF!"
"You know, my worst fear as a kid was being forgotten or left behind. Always had this nightmare where I’d be lost in a crowd, looking for familiar faces, but no one would notice me. It was a mix of abandonment and insignificance, really shook me up. Sometimes it felt like a metaphor for life, even then."
"Unironically, quicksand. It kept appearing in kids media in the 80’s and 90’s, made it seem like it was super common.
Turns out, rarely anywhere in the real world!"
"Tornadoes."
"Acid Rain."
"Being abducted by aliens and experimented on."
"Snake coming out the toilet while I was on it."
"The dark."
"Something grabbing my feet from under the bed."
"Bermuda Triangle."
"Fire."
"Growing up I was terrified of dentists, when I was 5 years old my mom took me to the dentist at a mall, and from the moment I walked in, I was shaking in fear, everything about that place to me was unsettling."
"Getting eaten by sharks."
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#12 Ever since I was a child, I would imagine being abducted by aliens. I think it would be incredible. Even if it meant getting probed and never coming back to Earth. 'Especially,' if it meant getting probed and never coming back to Earth!
Pfffft, real men have moved on to false vacuum decay as their source of irrational existential dread