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Now's the time to a make a list of the things you find scary, the things that keep you up at night. Here's my list:

Ejaculating blood
Blobs of human flesh (think Akira)
Choking in a restaurant
Old woman collapsing on the floor, unable to get up
Eye surgery performed by a sicko
Sensory overload
Being mugged/raped/etc. in an alley
Hitching a ride from a psychopath
Eaten alive by spiders
Internet addiction
Decomposing while alive
Being forced to commit a heinous act
Domestic violence
Mental illness
Being lost in a large area
Old people on the edge
Taking advantage of people in unfortunate situations- unwanted pregnancy, homelessness, people attempting suicide, etc.
Depraved practices in the name of “organized” religion
Being evil for the evulz
Any variety of abusive parents
Killing your own kids
Mind control/brainwashing/etc.
Conspiracies
Alien abduction
Extremely unhealthy devotion/obsession with/for something- a cause, a goal, a person, etc.
Castration
Cannibalism
A monster, either human or.... something else.
The unknown, unknowable, and/or unthinkable
Children committing vile acts, either deliberately or under pressure
Police brutality
Your life being an open book to someone, some group, or something

This could be a good vent thread - but i would like to add that for me personally my nightmares often led me to thinking i was pyschopathic and subsequent suicide attempts - so will simply pre warn you this might not get good opinions

Ejaculating blood - as seen in Antichrist
Blobs of human flesh (think Akira) - as seen in Flowers of Flesh and Blood
Choking in a restaurant - as seen in the 2008 film Choke
Old woman collapsing on the floor, unable to get up - as seen in commercials on TV
Eye surgery performed by a sicko - as seen in Un Chien Andalou, old French horror film
Sensory overload - as seen in any Tim Burton film. Man, does he pack a lot of visuals there!
Being mugged/raped/etc. in an alley - as seen in the graphic horror film Irreversible. Oy! What a movie.
Hitching a ride from a psychopath - As seen in Natural Born Killers
Eaten alive by spiders - as seen in Arachnophobia
Internet addiction - as seen in Hackers
Decomposing while alive - Yuck! As seen in the Peter Jackson film Dead Alive.
Being forced to commit a heinous act - as seen in those Russian/Japanese WWII movies about Unit 731like Philosophy of a Knife or Men Behind the Sun. Yeah, there's graphic and there's ridiculous.
Domestic violence - as seen in that J.Lo movie Revenge. (I think it's called Revenge).
Mental illness - as seen in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Being lost in a large area - As seen in A Boy and His Dog
Old people on the edge - New one on me. I suppose Cocoon comes close
Taking advantage of people in unfortunate situations- unwanted pregnancy, homelessness, people attempting suicide, etc.
Depraved practices in the name of “organized” religion
Being evil for the evulz - ???
Any variety of abusive parents - as seen in Mommie Dearest
Killing your own kids - Oy! As seen in the documentary about Andrea Yates
Mind control/brainwashing/etc. - As seen in Coma
Conspiracies - As seen in Conspiracy Theory
Alien abduction - as seen in Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Extremely unhealthy devotion/obsession with/for something- a cause, a goal, a person, etc. - as seen in Misery
Castration - Yuck. As seen in I Spit On Your Grave. (Interestingly, the 1972 original was gorier than the remake).
Cannibalism - As seen in Cannibal Holocauset.
A monster, either human or.... something else. As seen in King Kong or any serial killer movie (see John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, et. al)
The unknown, unknowable, and/or unthinkable - as seen in The Thing.
Children committing vile acts, either deliberately or under pressure - As seen in Children of the Corn
Police brutality - As seen in A Clockwork Orange
Your life being an open book to someone, some group, or something - As seen in Wrong Planet.

I try nOt tO think of these sorts of things the emotions I feel are almost unbearable. I did however previously have a fear of sharks I could not get out of my head. It became an obsession with documentaries and now I actually work with them and help to protect them.

Music boxes terrify me. There are so many films & TV shows where you hear the baby lulled off to sleep with one of those things, then something horrible happens in the next scene. It's worse than the Jaws music for me!

Getting a weird letter from some government agency, say SSA or the IRS, saying that I must pay a huge, unpayable amount of money or be imprisoned or stripped of everything and dumped naked in the street, because of some obscure bureaucratic rule that I didn't know about (and that everyone else seems to magically know about).

Carnivorous snails with paralyzing venom and tiny, razor-sharp teeth.

Right now I'm scared that someone, somewhere, is plotting to invade my home and kill me. It's because around three people have recently been murdered where I live (a still fairly uncommon crime here) , and one of them not only has the same last name as I do but her first name was like mine but spelled differently. It may be just a coincidence, or maybe the killer knew me back in school or in one of the homes I lived in and mistook her for me, even though we didn't look alike. The killer or killers are still on the loose and I even saw a sign that showed the three victims, two female and one male-on the bus to the mall this week. I'm wondering if I should put a knife under my pillow at night, but it might slide out and cut me up in my sleep, and I don't live in the US so I can't just legally get a gun or another weapon to protect myself, not even a can of pepper spray! And if that wasn't bad enough the other evening someone on YouTube wrote what a joke the justice system is in Canada, and that's why all the murderers and rapists want to come up here.

And if you eat pepperoni pizza just before bedtime it exacerbates the effects of that whole list

Remember to turn on the nightlight before turning in tonight

Not yet mentioned on The List, but should be: Golems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem

Oh.

Fish hooks through the eyelids
Taking a bath in lye/water mixture
Anything that has to do with acid
Anything that has fish hooks/needles
Alzheimer's or Psychosis (losing reality)
Being eaten in tiny chunks by fish
Being raped with a shotgun/rifle barrel
Being dragged behind a car after the roads have been salted
Being crushed in a garbage truck (here they have compactors)
Drowning after falling down a outhouse
Blood poisoning/infected wounds
Worms, especially the stomach variety
Anything that causes swelling/distension of the stomach

Broodmother from Dragon Age: Origins.
Giygas from EarthBound.
The scene from Super Paper Mario where Mimi transforms into a giant spider.
Dramatization of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima from Barefoot Gen.
The scene from Children of the Corn where Burt finds Vicky's corpse tied to a crossbar with it's eyes ripped out.
The scene from The Haunting in Connecticut where Matt breaks through the wall with an ax and all of the corpses fall out.
The scene from Final Destination 5 where Olivia gets laser eye surgery and things go horribly wrong.
The scene from Jaws where Quint gets eaten by the shark.
The scene from Water for Elephants where August abuses Rosie the elephant.
The Adventures of Mark Twain - The Mysterious Stranger.

This is far from a complete list of things that scare me and disturb me. I only listed things in media to shorten it up a little, but it's not even a complete list of things in media that scare and disturb me. I didn't go into a lot of detail because some of it might be too disturbing for some of the people here. Some of you have probably seen some of these movies or played some of these video games though.

The only thing you have to fear is fear itself

One thing that disturbs me badly is seeing something dead animated by a mechanical contraption. There was a NIN video ("Cover," I think) that had some thawed, frozen chickens animated in such a way. And, there was a Mythbusters episode where they did the same thing with a turkey (and a fish, now that I recall). I have occasional nightmares of deceased (or dying) humans being rigged up in similar ways. Oddly. Frankenstein-ish things in movies don't bother me the same way.

The movie "The Cell" also had a lot of bad-dream material in it, for me.

@redrobin62- By being evil for the evulz, I mean being evil simply because you can.

When I was about 10 I read a book on nuclear physics, I then had a horrible dream that someone had dropped an A-bomb near my house. My house was the only building standing, and in the dream I could recall exactly how to build a fallout shelter but I was totally unable to find things like doors / tables and sacks of earth to build even a reasonable improvised one. In the dream my inability to build a shelter using a simple design scared the wits out of me.

The odd bit is that what I now know as a scientist tells me that I remembered all the details of how to build a improvsied shelter correctly in the dream.

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Diagnosed under the DSM5 rules with autism spectrum disorder, under DSM4 psychologist said would have been AS (299.80) but I suspect that I am somewhere between 299.80 and 299.00 (Autism) under DSM4.