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b_b  ·  4283 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are you afraid of?

I have a recurring dream that one or both of my cats run away. I'm not sure what that means I'm afraid of, but definitely something. Losing control, perhaps???

I spent my adolescent years terrified of flying. I loved to fly as a kid, and I enjoy it now, too. But I had an anxiety attack on a plane when I was 14 or 15 (I don't know what sparked it, but I was doing a lot of LSD at the time), and for the next 5 or 6 years, even the thought of flying scared me. No joke: I fixed it with alcohol. I would get shitfaced on planes, and then I wouldn't get the anxiety. But then I realized that the whole thing was chemical to begin with, and after that epiphany the fear went away. Now I get drunk on planes for pleasure and boredom, not fear :)