Im writing short stories about fear. What do you fear the most? Not monsters i want real fears the reason you cant sleep at night.
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The Great Depression, as described by my grandparents, great aunts and great uncles :)
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When my boys were babies I seriously had the fear that I would drive off into water and not be able to get them both out of the car. When I come into my house alone I always reach around the corner and turn on the light switch before I walk in. I have always thought if someone touched my hand I would fall down dead in fear.
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Losing my vision or hearing to the point of being legally blind or deaf.
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I'm scared to death of the ocean. I Have to be at least 10 feet away from the ocean at all times. Which is extreamly ironic, because I live like 5 miles from the beach. I'm not afraid of lakes, not pools, just the ocean. The fact that the water moves freaks me out for some reason.
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I have more than one. Since I was of driving age, I am afraid of going over large bridges. I have had a recurring nightmare that I drive off one. I just know that one day that nightmare will be a reality. I also have a fear of breaking my kid. When they are small they are so fragile. As they get older they are less fragaile but want to place harder and more daring. Sometimes they seem to have no fear and I have enough for the entire family. Good luck with your stories. If you publish some place, let me know. I would be interested in reading them.
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success and failure, my inner demons, not dying but living like this ,relaspe
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Money and not having enough to pay my bills the rest of the summer.
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I used to have nightmares that I bit into an apple and my teeth all fell out...don't know why...they are all here so far! lmao I fear having problems with my rental house because I finally DID...really bad tenant...trashed it to bits...cost me about $15000.00 that I'm still paying off...I'm in PA the house is in CA.... I've had "falling" dreams that fear jolted me. And lastly that someone got into the house at night and killed my dog then started on us. Bad Dream!
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A rapist/murderer and not discovering he's in the house until too late -- or seeing his face pressed against the window and smiling (I've had nightmares of that before) and not having anywhere to go and unable to use the phone or anything...
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I have a severe sleep disorder. i fear going to sleep because a doctor told me, that due to my disorder if I fail to get treated i can fall asleep and not wake up again. Sleep itself holds fear for me.
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Being buried alive, or trapped in a dark place.
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Someone breaking into my house in the middle of the night. I never know how I would react in such a vulnerable situation.
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Thoreau said that he went into the woods to live deliberately "and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." I think this is a common fear; who wants to realize, inches from death, that they have led a wasted life? That, at the very end, they have no one with them, that their possessions are meaningless, that they will not be remembered past Sunday's badly written obituary? Not all of us have the courage to go into the woods.
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My worst fear would have to be failure. I also fear walking in open spaces at night time.
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I am deathly afraid of spiders. I know that's been used a lot but I'm only afraid of them indoors. I'm also scared of ladybugs. Shh don't tell anyone. Lol. If they come anywhere near me I kind of black out. I also have trouble sleeping for fear that someone will break into my house. Strange I know.
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fear of losing a child
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Burning to death. While doing research for a book idea I had, I read up on how a person dies...what's it like to be in a hospital room with someone who is 80% covered in burns (the really sucky part of it, is you are still 99.9% going to die, but as your nerve endings regenerate during the short "healing" process, it feels as though you're burning all over again, and ppl with those massive amounts of burns tend to die from infection - not the actual burns.
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the fear that i wont be there to protect my faimly from danger, my cousins the most.
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This is stupid, but I fear that people will find out who I really am, or was in the past.
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