We all have strange and irrational fears, but few of us make a living off them like Fran Krause.
The LA-based cartoonist, who we previously wrote about here, has added new comics to his Deep Dark Fears series, and they're just as morbidly delightful as the last batch. Krause has gained a cult following on Tumblr thanks to his knack for illustrating the most paranoid corners of people's minds, and his work is almost entirely based on user input. Some of the comics turn ridiculous phobias into humorous imagery, while others deal with serious trauma.
The lifeblood of the project is how universal it is. It shows the fears that so many of us share, and encourages us to embrace them. Check out some of the latest Deep Dark Fears below, but make sure to leave the light on.
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THIS! I always position my bed affixed in a wall and every night when I sleep I always make sure that I am glued to the wall. I am afraid that creepy monsters will grab me by the hand or foot and take me to their dark kingdom. I thought of this even under my bed there is no space for monster to squeeze in because its full of "sentimental stuff".
Understandable given how fast time flies. Can't believe we're already into Feb for example.
once i was dreaming, that i was dreaming and i woke up in that dream and i told my dad about this, then i woke up for real, i was so confused and asked my dad if i already told him about this xD
Once I was sick the night before. St some point I had a short dream where I was violently sneezing. When my mom woke me up for school I was like "did you not hear me saying that I'm sneezing?" She had been in the room for at least five minutes
Load More Replies...This actually happens to me very frequently. False awakenings suck
This has happened to me many times, and I hate it. It confuses me!
i just had a similar experience. i had a dream that i was lying in bed next to my husband and we were holding hands and chatting like we always do before we fall asleep. it was so vivid and plausible that when i woke up a moment later to let my dog out, i couldn't tell if it was just a dream or if me waking up to let the dog out was the dream. i kind of panicked for a moment trying to figure out if i was awake or asleep.
Dreams of false awaken, I had a lot of them in my life, it's a little weird but you live something different.
Correct but when I made this experience, it was creepy
Load More Replies...I was told to try and wriggle my fingers, works every time...thankfully!!
I have this problem too, but I figured out how to tell if I'm in dream or reality. I just look for a clock. They never work in my dreams.
sleeping so deep you dream and then wake up behind the wheel is the real nightmare here...
That happens all the time for me and is ofcause really confusing not knowing if you are awake or not or if something you remember really happened or if you just remember a dream!!! Sometimes I eaven dream that I can't stay awake no matter what and no one knows of it...when I finally fall asleap in the dream I wake op like I've just bin in another dimension...
Your memory is not wiped out. At least not everyone's. My mother had an eye surgery and she "woke up" in the middle of the process. And the doctors couldn't tell, they almost thought they lost a patient, because it took longer for her body to start showing signs of conscience. She could tell us "kids" how she could see and hear them almost panicking over her, and how badly she wanted to shout "I'm alive and fine!". Then she had thoughts of patients in a coma and that were decided for anesthesia.... I'm so glad my mom has been doing fine all these years after that experience and that the surgery was actually successful and her sight was restored.
Oh yes, the plot to every movie about the rapture. Also, brings up a problem with teaching kids fundamental religious beliefs.
Then you might not want to watch National Geographic's Mysteries of the Unseen World...
Oh my, this one reminded me of that certain time when... It's a long story, but I wanna tell it, so, I'll try to keep it simple. Sometimes in S. Korea, the siren goes off as part of a military training (because technically, the war is not really "over", right?) for citizens to run to the shelters. Nobody cares about it nowadays, and people just ignore the siren, but the first times I heard it, back when I just moved to the country, from my Safe European Home, it was too hard to pretend I'm not freaking out. One day the siren went off while I was taking a daily nap home alone. Recently it has been a good while of not hearing those sirens.
Good habit if you ever go camping, i've spent an hour setting up the perfect safe spot for a tent. saved our lives last year when we had a late night wind storm and four old growth cedar trees came down. They all feel exactly where I thought they would so being a bit neurotic can be a life saver.
When I cut my eyebrow when falling down when kid, my father offered me a drink to calm me down. The problem he offered me to drink something red (guess some cherry juice or smth like that) - I cried even more because I was sure my blood was falling into the cup and that's why it is red, and I am offered to drink my own blood. Don't remember much, but the red drink and being sure that it is my blood.
It IS a super loud noise when you flush. Fast too. It always makes me jump.
There was an accident with a girl almost scalped on an attraction. It was horrible.
I've had several nightmares about how my beloved stuffed animals are being mixed up with identical stuffed animals (from the same factory) that aren't them :'( .
That's why they instruct you to not eat anything that needs chewing for a while after. You might also accidentally chew your inner cheek.
I don't think they'd snip off, but they could break your bones and it would hurt like all hell.
Hence qhy you should always concentrate on the road instead of the lights in front of you. If they need to suddenly brake the change of lights will grab your attention anyway, particularly at night.
when it takes too long to surface I'm afraid I'll never get there, that I don't know which way is up anymore. more so in the ocean. swimming is scary
One time I came home to my house with my mom (we both temporarily lived in a room together that had cheap rent) and we suddenly discovered a cigarette on the floor. Neither one of us smoked.
I feel like not only is that really smart-- this is kind of cute <3 I like the idea of taking good care of a life you'll have to live.
I lock my doors when I'm driving so crazy people can't jump in at a red light.
I have this fear daily. I always had a bad memory and fear that this defect will get worse with age sooner than later.
This is something they mentioned on multiple occasions when I was studying cooking... for exactly this reason. You can lose a finger, you can slash your hand, etc. I even jump back slightly so that it doesn't possibly stab or slice through my shoe. I can just wash a knife if it falls. If I cut myself, I have to thoroughly wash and dress a wound (even if it's not serious), clean the station, and throw out the food I was working on.
I worry I'll sneeze while driving and get in an accident while my eyes are closed
That is why it is good to wear eyeglasses instead of contact lenses. You are safe at least from this thing.
Some crazy chick once told me people with glasses are more likely to get brain cancer because our glasses amplify the wireless waves from the Internet. I was at work and she was a customer who thought I needed to know this.
Congrats, you have your own movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3013018/
Short of the heart explosion, i had this dream all through collage and for years afterward.
I hesitated whether to check out this or not but now I don't regret
Gonna have some of those for sure.. I just watched a bit of The exorcism of Emily Rose before bedtime.. Damn curiosity!!
As a child, my head would sometimes recycle dreams I already had and I would always remember how it went last time. A regular dream was then being eaten by something or someone, like in this case an older woman kidnapping me while I was waiting outside a supermarekt by putting me in a bag to put me in her soup. The second time I remembered how terrifying it was and I started thinking I always wake up the moment before dying and I was afraid this time I would die in my sleep. While trying to remember how waking up works I began to feel my blankets, but I was not awake. I saw some kind of mandala with a film of me in it. And that are only my childhood dreams...
As a kid, at night i would think someone was on the phone with me, but as soon as i tried to reply, it would disappear.
Don't remember the number, but one of them was just trypophobia. Also I can't seem to be able to stop clicking 5 more every time even when I know it's going to turn out being a 100+ list every time
I used to sleep with my head at the foot of the bed and my feet in a circle incase anyone tried to kill me at night.
I hesitated whether to check out this or not but now I don't regret
Gonna have some of those for sure.. I just watched a bit of The exorcism of Emily Rose before bedtime.. Damn curiosity!!
As a child, my head would sometimes recycle dreams I already had and I would always remember how it went last time. A regular dream was then being eaten by something or someone, like in this case an older woman kidnapping me while I was waiting outside a supermarekt by putting me in a bag to put me in her soup. The second time I remembered how terrifying it was and I started thinking I always wake up the moment before dying and I was afraid this time I would die in my sleep. While trying to remember how waking up works I began to feel my blankets, but I was not awake. I saw some kind of mandala with a film of me in it. And that are only my childhood dreams...
As a kid, at night i would think someone was on the phone with me, but as soon as i tried to reply, it would disappear.
Don't remember the number, but one of them was just trypophobia. Also I can't seem to be able to stop clicking 5 more every time even when I know it's going to turn out being a 100+ list every time
I used to sleep with my head at the foot of the bed and my feet in a circle incase anyone tried to kill me at night.