The sheer emptiness of oceans freaks me out... (x-post from pics)

Nillithwen · 19 days

I agree. I get scared in the deep end of a pool when I can't touch the bottom with my feet. That must be some kind of odd phobia

crash_over-ride · 19 days

there's probably a fuckton of Oceanic Whitetips just out of camera range.

a_tension_center · 19 days

That's exaxtly how I felt when I swam above the Marianas Trench. It's a humbling thought when you realize that there's more than 6 miles of water beneath you.

riceburner117 · 19 days

http://www.damninteresting.com/the-call-of-the-bloop/ This is where my fear of open water came from. Still terrifies me every time I think about it.

Doviwyn · 19 days

I like the vast, open spaces under the ocean. It's sort of beautiful knowing that your body is the only tangible thing around.

hippiechan · 19 days

Relevant

Cyreal · 19 days

too many terrifying experiences here:

When I was about 12 years old; I was out surfing in Northern San Diego and wanted to go out further than anyone in the water... Seemed like a great idea at the time; until I turned around and saw a fin hanging out about 10 feet with a huge brown // black body underneath... I start paddling back to the beach almost shitting myself and crying... It turned out it was a dolphin but holy crap that was ridiculous...
Age 16... I'm out underwater hunting with my dad for octopus and anything I can actually catch out in the Mediterranean. There are these cliffs underwater where we used to go where it gets insanely deep all the sudden (sometimes you can't even see the bottom)... Well anyway I dove down to check out this really crazy sea urchin I spotted... It was WAAAY bigger than the other ones in the area: purple with white tips. On my way back up, I am pretty much hugging the cliff and come face to face with an eel... PIC of type of eel in that area So as I'm slowly going back to the surface I come a foot away from that thing, with a mask magnifying it to look like Gyarados... I dropped my spear, took off the weights around my belt, and bolted back to the boat yelling some more...

Nothing really "harmful" but definitely scared now

retronomicon · 19 days

But what you don't see here are millions of tiny planktons in the picture

Anaphase · 19 days

You wouldn't like space.

Jaketh · 19 days

Not entirely empty...

UnknownUser404 · 19 days

It's not empty, it's full of water.

But seriously, large open bodies of water freak me the-actual-fuck out.

phytzee · 19 days

totally freaky that there are animals in the ocean that never touch anything but open water. no hard surfaces, no other animals, no land. i don't like open water.

darkreality20 · 19 days

OP: What about the sky?

I think the thing about oceans isn't just the flat dimensions you can see, but the actual depth. You know that trench in the Atlantic is six miles deep. Can you imagine?

But when we fly, typical airlines coast at around 36,000 feet, or so (It's been a few years since I flew). That's 5-6 miles. The sky has the same depth -- more or less. And if you want to perceive the actual depth of the sky, lay on your back outside. It's almost intoxicating.

I think space would have to be the worst. Sky is just up, the ocean is basically down. In space you can have six miles of nothing all around you -- or much more. Any episode of Star Trek, Stargate, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, whatever, when they're out in the middle of f&%king nowhere and they lose power (only to be saved at the last minute, LOL) it gets me thinking.

No fear on my part. Just contemplation.

vonReimo · 19 days

Kenophobia.

TexMexxx · 19 days

whats with the "sheer emptiness of the sky"? Why does nobody freak out because of this?

naboobies · 19 days

I find that comforting. I love thinking about space and how vast it is and how meaningless and small we are in comparison. It's so relaxing. =

Yggdrazzil · 19 days

Saw the picture before the caption.

instant sweat on my back, hairs in my neck up, etc

This is the stuff of nightmares.

For clarification, this is why.

squeeeeenis · 19 days

Dood, my heart drops every-time I see an image like this, I have no Idea why.

U4IC · 19 days

I know its like everything in the ocean stops what there doing and looks at you...... Freaks the fuck out of me...

readingnow · 19 days

That is terror

NeroJoe · 19 days

OMG one of the most eerie feelings of all is to tread water and only see gloomy darkness below.

Firerange · 19 days

This Scares the shit out of me, literally to a point i'm shaking. people who have this open water syndrome should NOT click the link. it's a free dive into the "blue hole"...seriously, i'm warning you. it scares the shit out of me.

turtletots · 19 days

Oceans? Empty?

tehkoal · 19 days

Agreed!

Ace1999 · 19 days

Got Jaws?

RowdyMrBaute · 19 days

it scares me when i watch deadliest catch, or see the perfect storm. To know just how big something like that is, the feeling of being so small freaks me the fuck out.

foursecondpin · 19 days

You are swimming a giant dish of Whale Shark, Basking Shark and Megamouth Shark food.

morningfog · 19 days

they're not empty you know, they're full of vast amounts of creatures. Right beneath you.

saveface · 19 days

My greatest fear

Evi1M4chine · 19 days

x-post?

How??

DBH114 · 19 days

Just remember, when your out in the middle of the ocean your never more than 6 or so miles from land at the most. Of course it's under all the water but it's still there.

Raelah · 19 days

But oceans aren't empty. You're surrounded by so much life it's creepy! Whether you see/feel or not. For me... The idea of not knowing what's around me freaks me out

YummyCultist · 19 days

You may like this guy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQITWbAaDx0

LnRon · 19 days

This is why I am scared of water, there is so much of it, its overwhelming. I think I wouldn't be scared about tropical areas, but I havent been to one. Just cold, large areas of water freak me out.

metalmasterloz · 19 days

I used to be afraid of the deep blue, so I took up scuba diving a year ago. Now = not afraid, just intrigued. Went diving in the red sea up to 100ft depths, staring into the blue is amazing. You knew the sea floor was up to 1km below.. But the depth just wasn't an issue anymore. I would recommend scuba to anyone who's afraid of deep, open water. It worked for me! Pic Related

anthonyisageek · 19 days

We know less about our own ocean, which covers 71% of the earth, than we do space. Relevant because both are vast voids, in similar but different senses.

serosis · 19 days

I am freaked out by the exact opposite, the ocean is not as empty as you think it is. Does not stop me from frolicking in the waves but once I see something I do not want to see I run out of that water like I am about to die.

Then I go back in and repeat the process. How else am I suppose to face my fears?

KaylaAnne · 19 days

This is my desktop right now, no joke. Perfectly illustrates how life makes me feel right now...

twarmus · 19 days

Dude this is awesome. I wish you had made it larger so it could be used as a screen background!

AvesAkiari · 19 days

As a registered diver, I have looked at this with my own eyes. I can tell you I have never seen anything scarier than looking off into some blue void. Anything could come out at you. ANYTHING. My mind had me think of giant sharks, and what else, which I have a fear of. Quite unpleasant.

Knocturne · 19 days

How eerie. I would be shitting myself..

hquarterz · 19 days

We could fill the empty space with sharks if you prefer

[deleted] · 19 days

the thing I fear the most is being eaten by a giant squid. you are just swimming along then this huge tentacle shoots up from nowhere and wraps around your leg and begins pulling you down into the darkness. the pressure builds in your skull each second that passes and then the beast wraps itself around you and its like trying to fight your way out of a 1000 wet blankets, the suction cups sticking to you and squeezing the life from you, all while being drug down further to crushing depth. then the beak appears, and since its underneath you, it bits off your dick and then half of your stomach is missing. eaten slowly at crushing pressure of the ocean by a giant squid. worst fear ever.

lush1984 · 19 days

The thought of being in space and holding onto an aircraft, knowing that if you let go and the life support failed, you'd be floating out there with no getting back and seeing your world underneath you, that really makes me feel icky. The same as diving in from a diving board into a pool used for divers or scuba divers (the ones that are more than 8 metres deep) makes me feel sick. I also used to fear going in the middle of the big playground when I was 4 or 5, because I would always get dizzy with all the space and I'd fall over.

DeadJethro · 19 days

Scares the shit out of me too.. That something can be so immense and you can't ever really know what's down there

Kismonos · 19 days

I'd need much more pictures likes this. Kind of freaks me out but I love the big open waters that creeps off like fuck. Any links appreciated, I mean, relevants.

SourCreamWater · 19 days

This is reposted from from yesterday.

This is also not a photograph(higher resolution).

pookabunny · 19 days

I have the same phobia. I think it started when I was a little kid and I watched a documentary about the Titanic in an IMAX theatre. I had an irrational fear of the Titanic's creepiness coming out of the water and attacking me or something of the sorts for the longest time lol

madsci_2000 · 19 days

I dove to 90 feet fro teh 2st time Saturday. One thing I learned was not to look up. When I did I felt panic set in.

Mrkinkykent · 18 days

I can stand swimming in the deep side of a pool, but when it comes to a lake/pond/ocean, i freak out.

Chilly73 · 18 days

This, I think, is one of the creepiest pictures I've ever seen. Damn

scouragestar99 · 18 days

Imagine, floating around in space, sure everything is beautiful, but eventually you will start to starve, dehydration hits you quickly, you're freezing. An idea hits you, rather than dying of dehydration, starvation, and freezing to death, you could just tear off part of your suit, suffocate yourself.

While in the ocean, you can either hope that a boat or an island is nearby, or you can cut your hand and have a shark eat you instead of drowning or starving.

Or, you can stay on land like man is meant to be.

fasterkill · 18 days

I'm so glad I'm not the only one!

I've had this awful vision in my head where I'm swimming in the middle of the ocean, and a gigantic whale just swims on by... Gives me shivers whenever I think about it.

casey825 · 18 days

The part in castaway where the whale comes up and looks at tom hanks made me scared of whales, and even more terrified of the ocean.

Epicwarren · 18 days

I'm a lifeguard, swimming teacher, former competitive swimmer, and avid beach goer. I live for water, and I certainly have no trouble swimming. But the thought of being in the ocean unprotected, or even a large lake where I can't touch the bottom, scares the everloving fuck out of me. I can pinpoint this fear to my repeated thoughts when in a deep body of water that go along the lines of "what if a huge fucking creature comes out of nowhere, right now". I can usually handle deep 12-16ft pools but they still make me uncomfortable, even though I know that there can't possibly be crazy creatures in a swimming pool.

ZeraskGuilda · 18 days

Yep... It's kinda breathtaking sometimes... I remember the first time I stood on the beach in Virginia... Just staring out into the Atlantic... That feeling of just how small we really are... It was incredible..

What really wigs me out though, is when you look closely at just how small the Earth is, and just how fucking vast and empty space is..

DoomAndSuch · 17 days

Someone should photoshop this with some artwork so that you scroll down for a few minutes to see some monster jaws at the bottom.

KatMackie · 17 days

It isn't the water that freaks me out, its just what's inside of the water that creeps me out.

Neutrino_1 · 10 days

This is my biggest fear, also those creepy fish down below. Is this a phobia?

UsagiYokai · 19 days

I feel like I should paint my own version of this image...

kindpastor · 19 days

If this freaks you out, do not watch Pandorum (2009). There is a particular scene that will get to you.

englad · 19 days

this is what r/creepy has become? :[

ResilientFellow · 19 days

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