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Getting scared as an adult...

posted a month ago by M1sterDoct0r (4549)
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I was a scaredy cat growing up. Even the theme song to The X Files would spook me.

Wasn't allowed to watch horror movies. Would always get nightmares. Even into my teen years, horror movies scared me.

But it's been a while. I think The Descent (2005) was the last horror movie that genuinely scared me.

I almost got hit by a motorcycle around Halloween last year, just made me mad, not scared.

But something happened last month. I was hospitalised with a stomach ulcers problem & it had been raining pretty heavily that night.

I was going to pee & when I got up, the sky flashed so brightly that my whole room lit up. I'm talking blinding light.

And oh yeah, there was thunder (which kept getting closer). But hey, I'm a grown ass man, thunder doesn't scare me. Went to go the toilet, power went out. Took a flashlight.

When I was done peeing, washed my hands & that's when I heard the loudest thundering bang I've ever heard in my entire life.

I'm not exaggerating when I say that it sounded like the explosion sound effects you hear in movies.

My legs turned to jelly. And (Probably) for the first time in my adult life, I wanted to call out for my mommy 😆. I heard that shit in my soul, man! Couldn't sleep, my heart was beating so damn fast. 😆

BTW, Sorry for the long ass post.

[–] [email protected] (6247) a month ago

Sorry about the scare you had. One of my aunts was terrified of thunderstorms. I love them. Even as a child I liked them. The louder the better.

What I Am afraid of is falling on icy sidewalks. I have been like that since I was a kid. In high school everyone would be racing for the busses in a snowy, icy parking lot. I would be mincing along taking baby steps.

I don’t have a dog now, but when I did I was always afraid of slippery sidewalks. She would run along trying to pull me and I would be grabbing porch railings of the houses we went past. Falling scares me.

[–] AmeriGirl26 (15104) a month ago

It's okay to be scared. It means you're human and sane. It's a normal survival tactic to get scared, because it means you're less likely to die if you know that there are scary things out there that could hurt you, and you can get away from them. And it's perfectly okay to not like horror movies. I'm not a fan of them myself.

When I was little, I used to be scared of nighttime thunderstorms, for the exact reason they bothered you in the hospital. My family had moved to IL, so I'd spent the first few years of my life with quiet, [mostly] storm-free nights in CA before that. For a couple of years, mom and dad would let me climb into bed with them when there were storms out at night, and mom would tell me that there was nothing to be afraid of, we were in a nice, strong house that would keep us safe from the storms. Eventually I stayed in my room during nighttime storms, and made use of sleep masks. Mom also encouraged me to learn about thunderstorms while looking through our science books in our own personal library (having a nerd for a dad and a prolific reader for a mom helped in that dept.) I also learned how to understand radar on TV, back when the Weather Channel wasn't so pricey to have on cable. So really powerful storms still kinda put me on edge, due to the noise or the threat of tornadoes, but I know how to protect myself and others when they come around, so I'm not as scared as I used to be.

[–] Stratego (31075) a month ago

When you left the bathroom did you also see a pale-looking guy dressed in blue overalls and holding a kitchen knife at the end of the hallway?

[–] OnanTheBarbarian (13144) a month ago

Existential dread is my only fear.

[–] PersistentViewer (2682) a month ago

We get scared for different reasons. You are definitely not alone.
Being scared is part of being human.

Actually doing something that scares you, is healthy, believe it or not.

Hope you are better.