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Flying.

Heights, specifically anytime I can look down and see that I'm a hell of a long way from the earth.

Currently- driving too. Since I started taking the bus I'm never in cars and now that I can't shake this feeling that when I'm in a car on the freeway that traffic is just going to freeze and I'll be in some horrible accident.

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I found drowning to be really pleasant, actually. Frighteningly so. "Holy [censored], I'm going down and loving it! Put it in gear, 'Cardo!"

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My drowning experience was nothing like that. I was held underwater for over a minute in a hydraulic after our raft tipped over while whitewater rafing. I only popped out of the hydraulic after I had used up all of my energy trying to swim to the surface, had completely run out of air, and was certain I was about to die. Once I went limp and half-passed out, the hydraulic spit me out. I had nightmares about drowing for months afterwards.

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wow, that is scary. i know exactly what you mean (not from drowning, but being certain you are dying) and the nightmares. i can imagine how terrible this was.

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but its quicker and alot less painful than many other things...u panic like a mofo at 1st...but its fast...no matter what the situation is and how long u can "normally" hold ur breath...when u panic that times cut in half if not less... so even for those 3 minute guys out there...its not that long [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

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I'd still take "dying in my sleep" over drowning, any day.

1 1/2 - 3 minutes might not seem like that long...but time it out with a stopwatch. It's not exactly the blink of an eye. Now imagine you can't breathe for that whole period, and as soon as you do try to breathe you're going to get lungful of water and choke and die. There are much quicker and less scary ways to die.

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I found drowning to be really pleasant, actually. Frighteningly so. "Holy [censored], I'm going down and loving it! Put it in gear, 'Cardo!"

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My drowning experience was nothing like that. I was held underwater for over a minute in a hydraulic after our raft tipped over while whitewater rafing. I only popped out of the hydraulic after I had used up all of my energy trying to swim to the surface, had completely run out of air, and was certain I was about to die. Once I went limp and half-passed out, the hydraulic spit me out. I had nightmares about drowing for months afterwards.

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wow, that is scary. i know exactly what you mean (not from drowning, but being certain you are dying) and the nightmares. i can imagine how terrible this was.

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A little off topic, but when my mom died, I had nightmares of the devil visiting me and laughing at me. Kept me up half the damn night. Nightmares suck. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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wow, that is scary. i know exactly what you mean (not from drowning, but being certain you are dying) and the nightmares. i can imagine how terrible this was.

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There was a silver lining, though. Coming so close to death really affected me and put things in perspective. It helped convince me to make changes in my life for the better. A short time later, I quit my job (that I totally hated), and went back to school.

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Drowning is incredibly painful and scary. When your lungs fill with water, your body starts freaking out and I have heard your vital signs can continue even if weak for 8-12 minutes after the start of drowning.

When my raft flipped in a class 5 rapid, I immediatly choked on water because I was breathing heavily entering the water. I got stuck under another raft which was trapped on the only way down. It was very painful and I was only under water for maybe 20-30 seconds.

Just make sure you hold your breath before you enter water at high speeds.

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1. Any of my children dying or being lost
2. heights
3. losing my internet connection

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Argh...that's horrible.

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I used to have a wierd phobia which I think I've got conquered now-I used to be afraid that I would fall through cracks between bleachers rows, open storm drains, etc...

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Yeah, I'd already swallowed half the river before I got sucked underwater, and it happened so quick that I didn't have time to take a breath. Once I was back on shore I spent the next 30 minutes violently puking up everything I'd swallowed. All in all it was a pretty wretched experience.

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Interestingly enough, after I was fine and alive, that was the most fun thing that happened on the trip. Whatever doesn't kill me makes me stronger!

I'm having flashbacks to that day, ahhh, good times. The raft ahead of us got stuck inbetween 2 rocks at a small 5 foot drop point, and was sideways, blocking the only pass through. By the time we saw they were stuck it was too late as we had already started our pass at the rapid. Our plan was to bump into the raft, but we hit a giant ass rock at really high speeds and immediatly our raft started climbing it. We had a guide and 4 others in the boat. The guide immediatly said "we are [censored]!" and abandoned ship by jumping onto the other raft. Our raft was completely vertical now and we were all just holding on for our lives. I couldn't hold on much longer and fell off leading to my previous story. The other raft grabbed me from underneath and pulled me in.

Good...times...

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I'd still take "dying in my sleep" over drowning, any day.

1 1/2 - 3 minutes might not seem like that long...but time it out with a stopwatch. It's not exactly the blink of an eye. Now imagine you can't breathe for that whole period, and as soon as you do try to breathe you're going to get lungful of water and choke and die. There are much quicker and less scary ways to die.

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1. Variance
2. Cheating on my girlfriend
3. Dying

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wow.this is exactly how i feel.

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Bugs

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Heights, spiders, and I'm really not sure of the next one. Maybe public speaking? Although I'm not all that afraid of that and usually do pretty well at it. Oh yeah, having to ask for favors, that must be the third one. I hate doing that or feeling like I have to. Makes me extremely uncomfortable. Often I find it extremely trying to ask for even the most trivial consideration, or accept it when offered.

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You've been here 8 days you don't know [censored]. All you are is typical internet girl stereo type who thinks attacking one of her own and joining the masses is best way to get noticed and accepted by all the boys. You strike me as incredibly weak, unoriginal, uninteresting and pathetic.

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"Annoying" to me is someone who can't spell out words and uses AOL-speak like "u" instead of "you." If you claim that to be incredibly weak, unoriginal, uninteresting, and pathetic, that's your prerogative. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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I give her automatic points for spirit.

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Heights
Going the rest of the way deaf
Bats

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1. Being eaten alive, specifically by sharks. I saw Jaws too young. Way too young.

2. Going to jail and being someone's bitch.

3. Getting Alzheimers.

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These are very good.

I was kind of thinking of fears as something that had a real likely chance of affecting someone anytime real soon or that they got a chill thinking about. These sound more like long-range life disappointments or something that may easily never happen even once. Now, coming into contact with a nasty bug or something, that I could see happening any second to anybody.

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Ozzie said that too.

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I found drowning to be really pleasant, actually. Frighteningly so. "Holy [censored], I'm going down and loving it! Put it in gear, 'Cardo!"

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My drowning experience was nothing like that. I was held underwater for over a minute in a hydraulic after our raft tipped over while whitewater rafing. I only popped out of the hydraulic after I had used up all of my energy trying to swim to the surface, had completely run out of air, and was certain I was about to die. Once I went limp and half-passed out, the hydraulic spit me out. I had nightmares about drowing for months afterwards.

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I've come close to drowning a couple of times. I remember it being terrifying, super hard body-wracking convulsions, a massive headache both during and afterwards, sore sinuses and lungs from the strain and the salt that the saltwater put on them and forced into them under pressure of convulsion, and once throwing up afterwards from the incredible strain those convulsions put on my stomach, and having bright red eyes for a long time from the busted capillaries. It wasn't pleasant, and the time didn't seem short. And that's when you live. I don't think prolonging it would have made it any less painful and terrifying. Pleasant, it wasn't.

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myself

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GoT

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but then i remember i believe in multiple lifes and im fine LOL

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Very funny.

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Getting an ugly bitch knocked up.

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1) Death
2) Heights
3) ---

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1) Getting badly beaten up.
2) Getting jailed.
3) Being unhappy.

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1. Public Speaking
2. Public Speaking
3. Feeling like People are staring at me.

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I've watched someone be purposely drowned. It was not pleasant to watch, and he was not enjoying himself. Actually they just held him under until his lungs filled up with water and he passed out then they brought him back. I don't know if this is technically completely drowning. Either way it wasn't pleasnt for him.

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peachy, you're fantastic. You seem to be conveniently an expert in any field discussed in OOT--even dying!

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OH MAH GAWD S3R10U5LY!!!!!!

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Rats and heights. So Kilgore brings out his pet rats yesterday to throw off my game.

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in no particular order.

1. falling asleep. I hate the feeling of letting go of my conciousness. sleep is a psychotic episode, and on some level I'm afraid of going insane and staying insane. this is a phobia, this fear is not rational.

2. never finding a woman. this is accentuated by recent events (I'm 0 for 4 in the last six weeks).

3. dying. no elaboration required.

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Jeez, if I was afraid of falling asleep I would have to kill myself.

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He's afraid of death though.

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spending three minutes in a cs gas chamber

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3 minutes is a joke.

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3 minutes is a joke.

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your MOMS a joke!

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Wasps
Death
Paralysis

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True, but so is 3 minutes. I used to do the gas chamber once a month or so with the recruits. The coolest part was how in every series, there would be like one kid that was just in there sucking the stuff in like it was plain air. No effect whatsoever. Then of course when they'd all come out with what appeared to be about a coffee cup's worth of snot running out of their faces. I've got some great pictures of kids with trails of snot running from their nose to the ground and just trailing behind them. I was always amazed at how quickly the human body could create snot.

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1) sharks
2) dying - specifically by being in a fire or in a plane plunging into the ocean and drowning
3) being rejected by women