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[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] unknown@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (5 children)

If it's not death, that just sounds like the best sleep possible.

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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...

[–] myrmidex@belgae.social 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] goldenbug@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ooooh you should read Cursed Bunny's first short story called The Head by Bora Chung.

Or maybe not, because that shit scared me when reading it.

[–] myrmidex@belgae.social 3 points 1 day ago

The Head by Bora Chung

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Looks awesome, great recommendation! 😆

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

What I'm living with right now.

[–] satanmat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Ebola

Read The Hot Zone bloody terrifying **

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

transmissible cancer, some surgeons had got cancers from thier patients by accidentally pricking themselves with a contaminiated instrument, although it was treatable and non issue once the tumor was removed. other forms like transplant patients is another source. rare t-cell cancers like mycosis fungoides, you go from patches, to "plaques" to tumors.

and there has only one case of animal to human cancer, the guy had AIDS and got tapeworm cancer from it, which is the most unusual situations out there.

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago

Being drafted during war and not dying in the first days

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

dick falls off

note: not a universal scare

windows usb detach sound plays out of nowhere

[–] Tedesche@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 hours ago

Abuse of the psych. bug that leads to faschism by smart evil people that know exactly what they are doing and somehow make it work stable for centuries.

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 1 points 9 hours ago

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.

Being tied to a chair, lights and a video camera in your face with someone behind you waving a long knife, hand on your shoulder chanting Allahu Akbar over and over...

[–] Oberyn@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

Don't even hafta exhaust mental energy to try to come up with such thing bcus it already occupies my mind basicly 24/7

No . Not telling you what it is

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