Assignment 11 - Daniel Brewer

Explain what scares you the most and why

My greatest fear is waking up one day and being completely unable to communicate at all with the outside world.  When I was younger, I had a nightmare which woke me up, and I had a sleep paralysis.  I didn't know what was going on, I couldn't move anything except my eyelids, and I couldn't even scream in terror.  Obviously, at such a young age this had quite clearly impacted me, and I had trouble sleeping for the next few days or so.

This is a very terrifying thing to me because it has happened to other people in the real world before, and I don't know if or when it'll strike again.  At the same time, I have been having difficulty falling asleep for a while now.  I don't know if that's because my body is subconsciously telling me "if you fall asleep now, you might not wake up... OR WORSE!" or if it's because of something completely unrelated, but the concept of going to sleep one day, just like every other day, and waking up in the morning completely unable to move is a fate worse than death to me.  If I couldn't move anything, I would just feel like a burden to society, and knowing that it might happen at any time is what scares me the most.