What is your worst nightmare?

Loosing my mom.

I lost my first husband to suiacide. His father also committed suiacide about 2 years ago. My son is bipolar. Can you guess what my greatest nightmare would be?
@talljasperman, I remember when losing my mom was my greatest fear too. We were so lucky that she died in her 80’s with so much grace. It ended up being a really spiritual experience to sort of midwife her into death. I miss her dearly but it was not at all like I expected.

Failing to stop my wife from dying. It won’t matter if it was not possible. It still would be a fail.

My worst nightmares (both in the real world and in my dream one) are all about something horrible happening to one of my children. Terrifying.

Going blind. I have nothing to worry about as far as that is concerned, because my eye sight is perfect. However, my entire family has history with very weak eyesight, blindness and shit like glaucoma. I have not been touched, and I’m thankful. But given the history, I worry about it anyways. Not being able to see would be horrible. Glaucoma may be treated though, when caught early enough, so I regularly get eye exams done. My grandma was operated for glaucoma in her late twenties, and it’s even better treated these days. But it still scares the shit out of me lol.

Margaret Thatcher naked on a cold day, when she was alive because skeletons technically can’t feel the cold or be naked…I think.

They can’t. The undead may be halted by the cold, but it does not destroy them unless you throw spiked cannonballs made of ice at them. But they don’t feel it. In fact, the cold can actually preserve the undead, which is dangerous…Nope, you see, when you deal with the undead, you gotta use fire man, now that fucks em up…

…we ain’t talkin’ bout the same thing here, be we?

Thatcher was undead long before she popped her clogs, I believe her pussy was haunted by the ghost of Winston Churchill giving his peace sign…he gave great finger.

To be unable to communicate when I am in pain while unable to physically take care of myself. I have a condition that needs tending to or I wind up in very bad discomfort and other physical problems. If my caretaker didn’t know to help me with it, or did not take it seriously enough, I would be in a miserable life in the prison of my body. I’m pretty sure I would rather be dead than in that situation.

To do something that really harmed another person and have them pursuing me for revenge.

A clsoe second is losing my mind to Alzheimer’s.

When I was younger I had nightmares regularly, real killers that caued me to wake up yelling or crying. Not so much anymore, though I still have two recurring ones from time to time, similar in meaning, when I’m especially stressed (and sometimes for no apparent reason at all).

In the first, somebody or something is lurking just outside my door or window, I never see who or what it is because either it’s too dark or I can’t fcus my eyes. Very scary.

Equally scary is the one about an approaching tornado. In some of these twister-themed dreams, I actually see the funnel, but more often I don’t—I just know it’s about to hit.

Living Existing in an icapacitated state with no way to move on.

Losing one of the young family members I love so much. Or screwing up somehow and taking one of them out, like a car accident. Other than that Alzheimer’s or Dementia getting me.

My worst nightmare? Not exactly sure right off the top of my head but one form of a nightmare for me would probably be in a situation where I was homeless, penniless, no benefits, and no job and/or no source of income.

Being old and poverty stricken in poor health. Pretty typical for the state of this economy as a boomer whose finances have bottomed out the last 3 years.
I have no fears of dying, accept death as an inevitable, but… I sure do not want to be homeless or living in squalor. Very real fears not negative thinking or neurotic musings, hardcore reality.

I guess my worst nightmares for myself personally would be either kidney disease (my kidneys as well as every other organ system are damaged every time my blood sugar is above normal…) or fainting from low blood sugar and just croaking alone and unprepared.

Or, ya know, being denied life-saving medical care because someone thinks I’m a transsexual freak. It happens. For a number of intersecting reasons, I am very vulnerable when it comes to medical stuff.

Ooops. I didn’t read this question carefully enough. My worst waking nightmares are loss of limbs or senses, death in an auto and especially a plane crash, burning alive, a lingering mortal illness, and learning Sarah Palin is back on TV.

@bookish1 This happens? Transsexuals can be denied medical care? Frankly, that doesn’t surprise me, but it sure sucks. :(

@Symbeline: Well, I guess the key point is that we have no federal protection and almost no state or municipal protection allowing for legal recourse if it does happen. And the ignorance of people in the medical professions when it comes to trans people can still be staggering.

The death of a child. I am living this. Pure hell.

Oh @Beantowngal, that’s horrific. I’m so sorry.

It was the worst dream ever in the evening of Jan 22, 2009 (my birthday). I dreamed that Obama was elected to be the President of the U.S.A. and would take office the every next day. It was absolutely horrific and still is. HA!

@gondwanalon, if that’s your worst nightmare you live a charmed life.