Most horrifying concept you can imagine?

The description of Hell from Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

technically it's Veeky Forums but rarely gets discussed there
you should read Knut Hamsun which is the literary equivalent of Munch. from the same place/time period

I don't know. I'm not that far along yet. That's probably a good thing. Fuck, I'm okay with death I just want it to be like I go back to sleep like I was before birth I don't want to live in I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream world. I'm scared that's what will happen.

I've seen Hamsun thrown around, is he real shit Munch in prose? I'm so in love with Munch's style I'll pick him up if this is real shit.

he actually is, as far as existentialist dread goes

What if we can't escape our consciousness? What if our minds simply are indesctructible and can not ever cease to exist?

Not being remembered when I die and drifting into nothingness because there is no afterlife.

Lads, you've all died a thousand thousand thousand times before. You were just as scared this time as all the other times. Just let it happen. Next life will be better or worse. What does it matter? You won't know any better. Your carbon will be useful short term.

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I constantly have suspicions that my wife is a lizard person that puts eggs into my drinks that I let her take a sip from.

Convincing someone to be my wife and bear my children, and then only to fall back into a lull of self loathing and paranoia. It permeates every relationship/friendship I have along with the unfathomable capacity to experience and to be experienced. I want these things so desperately though, and I squeeze myself into a little box as to not hurt anyone out of my stupidity.

I remain stupid out of fear and fearful out of stupidity. I don't know what to do but I just want to scream all the time.

I'm living the first sentence of your post, and my greatest fear is knowing that I'll not do a good job with my kids, they'll grow up fine anyway, and all realize I was not good at being a dad. After that, my next biggest fear is one of them being retarded.

You just need to try and fail

Failure wont be as bad as you think it is, and then youll learn

The weight of the world and humanity does rest on you shoulders , even tought it doesnt feel like it.
And whatever you do.
You areny saving them ,or yourself at all.
Cosmic defeat
Cosmic doom
All on you
And the only thing you have are tears of the bystanders as you look them in the eye. And wish you were still a kid again.

A sudden disaster, like the sun being blocked from shining, water becoming undrinkable or a huge plague epidemic.
Also that one day there wont be humans around to observe anything and that everything that we ever managed has ended.

dystheism/maltheism. Basically the idea that the being who apprehends the uiverse is just some extra-dimensional guy. You know, the demiurge and all that.

Reminder that Alzheimers is LITERALLY the river Styx.

What if this world is hell and all the good things are there to give false hope, which is the hardest thing to bear, and it doesn't really end, just start over?

A sweet prescription, sure, but I have failed. I've failed a lot in my life, and I've seen what it can bring. I'll try try again probably, almost certainly, and I will fail again most definitely. But to be a husband, to be a father, the way I see it you must be nigh infallible. I say infallible to a larger degree, don't misunderstand this as though to be father you can't miss a ballgame or a dance recital. It's missing twenty weeks of ballgames, being unable to afford dance classes, or losing a wife when I lose faith in myself. It's a lifetime comittment to being infallible after a life of failing.

Do you reckon [you] will come back to life the moment someone is born with your exact neural match?

If I was the only one to live forever. Like, forever forever, no substitutes. Think about it.

Genuinely the worst thing that could possibly happen. Unless you could die from explosion or something, that'd be fine.

How is false hope the hardest thing to bear?

I never knew Kafka was such a latent normie.

The worst is being without God. All this suffering and joy, attributed to nothing but impersonal forces. Not even my own anxiety and excitement would be mine, yet I would feel it is. Either infinite death without Truth or infinite death with the coldest Truth; I don't know which would be worse.

Realizing you were born a man but the doctor cut off your dick to make you a woman, and you were made to have sex with your brother as a child.

I'm pretty sure my wife is indeed a lizard, for she loves when I put my anaconda near her eggs.

holy shit this is the funniest thing i've ever heard

I meant, when it turns out to have been false. And it fundamentally is.

Nope. Referee won't allow it. Not even when the whole planet goes poof. Never.
Now that's what I call cosmic horror.

You know the Truth

no wifi

Yeah, that's definitely the worst then.

What do I "know"?

How, if you choose to compare sufferings like you are, is it the hardest to bear then? Explain the fundamentals seeing as I am clearly missing them.

What's really terrifying to me is that I may die before my old age, when all my genuinely interesting insanities will come tumbling out alongside the dementia.

I imagine being tortured for all eternity to be the worst one.

If you know something bad is coming your way and is unavoidable, there is some consolation still in knowing it. But if you think nothing bad is likely and it does happen after all, it feels much worse when the ground gives way under your confident step.
It's not a well fleshed out thought, I'm afraid.

Yeah, or Groundhog Day, only forever and ever. Not sure if it'd be worse than the previous scenario, but still.
I imagine your mind would eventually melt away, or rather rot. Slowly melt and seep into a puddle of its own waste products. Not before burning with a literally unimaginable torment. Eventually--mercifully--hopefully--consciousness would cease, I imagine. But before that? The horror...

Therefore, isn't death the most merciful contraption? What a deus ex machina, straight from God Himself. And the other user was saying what if this line is hell--how could it be, if it ends? Maybe purgatory, or some sort of limbo which we get to circle until we drop to either side. I wonder what's there to drop into: a pit in the middle, heavenly drafts to pull you upwards on the outside? Or just the river Styx, turned ocean, all around?

Becoming paralyzed from head to toe, trapped in my own body.
Or having to endlessly repeat my life, even without being aware of it.

falling into a black hole. seriously, it has to be the scariest way to die ever.
>accidentally fall into itd gravity field, you can't steer your ship away and you see the hole in the distance slowly getting closer, you know how you're going to die now and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it
>when you get close enough the hole starts filling your field of view, nothing but an enormous completely black void, probably the blackest black there is
>when you cross into the hole you see space behind you disappearing as you fall into something completely dark that nobody really knows anything about
>then in complete darkness there is zero hope, youre just waiting to die either from being vaporized by intense radiation, stretched by unreal gravitational force, or reaching the completely unpredictable singularity

Listen to Timeghoul - Discography
Second half especially. Death metal band just full of concepts about time ... and horror. Good album. Good stuff.

you mean coolest way to die? unironically wanna go like this because
1. time stops
2. youre stuck there until the universe implodes
3. you can time travel
if you dont have an infinite death its meaningless, but the thing is time would slow so much u wouldnt notice it til it sped back up again

>quantum immortality is real
its horrible. truly horrible.

Infinity scares me because along with all the other possibilities it also offers the possibility of infinite terror

I have killed my family and what I see of them are delusions

I have these constant thoughts that crop up randomly, sometimes when I wake up one morning, somethings when I just finish an activity, where I feel like I must've died at some point and resumed reality where I last left it. Either in a separate timeline, or right where I left off. I know it's no true and it's just the next day, or the fluidity / simple transition of a moment to another but sometimes the horror feeling of being reborn creeps over me like goosebumps up my spine.

>I think that my entire life is just a setup by a malicious and especially clever god to condition me to value a set of concepts I will be deprived of indefinitely

It is. You are the god.

you're mistaken. time doesn't slow down for you, but you slow down for anyone who observes you. for you the universe implodes in an instant and you experience time all the way to your death

Also, deprivation of any and all concepts that are purportedly not the Self is the default and only way in which such concepts can be conceived of, since the Self is the only truth and the only good.

Yeah, early Hamsun like Hunger, Mysteries and Pan do remind me a bit of Munch's paintings.

>missing ballgames
what's this meme about? i remember as a kid i hated when my parents wanted to watch my games

But you regularly experience this to a far greater degree in dreams. The one where you were a bird, the one where you were two people simultaneously looking at each other, the one where you died, the one where everything was as it usually is now as you're reading this and could've continued being so indefinitely had you not woken up; none of these are Ontologically distinct neither from each other nor from waking life. Ask yourself how important any one phenomenon is and what power it has over you when their totality randomnly changes and you barely notice.

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T. Mgtow that can't get a woman to love him because they don't want him, so he rationalizes this as going his own way to stave of existential dread.

>implying your waifu pillows are wives

That I will fail to raise my children properly and fail to create a cohesive, functioning family, in which each member reaches his or her potential.

I have a reoccuring nightmare where the xenomorphs from aliens-
okay, so what happens is, they're not real. BUT, if I'm afraid of them, they become tangible. If I stop being afraid of them, they cease to exist. But because they can hurt me, and because I spend the whole dream fleeing from them and watching them murder people en masse, of course I'm afraid of them. It's... awful.
I spend my nightmare running from them, watching them eat and kill people and I know it's all my fault and I can't stop it. I can never stop it.
Nothing will ever top that existential terror.

On the other hand, good people being misunderstood and hated for trying to do good is pretty fucking awful, and I will cry, every time.

Isn't this the Cartesian delusion?

>Becoming paralyzed from head to toe, trapped in my own body.
Oh yes, that'd be pretty horrific too. Senses on or off? Which do you think would be worse?

this is an actual thing.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locked-in_syndrome
only recently they found out that this guy was trapped for 30 years.

>oh well, these delusions are being pretty nice to me *shrug

a portal to hell

I'd never thought I'd make such a shitty god.

So you get to see the entire life of the universe unfold faster and faster until you see the end of all things? Sounds pretty cool to me.

yeah, since time is moving at almost 0/1 the rest of the universe would continue moving but you would be trapped until the very end (theoretically never? the theories vary) because it would take longer for you to die of old age (or even age a second) but if the universe implodes then u would see it collapse and witness teh big bang

my life desu

Immortality

Wouldn't you be ripped apart by gravity long before entering it?

Dude this gave me flashbacks to some book I read when I was a kid that described in explicit detail what it would be like to get sucked into a black hole. It was truly babby's first existential dread.

You could actually survive passing the event horizon, but at some point you would inevitably get spaghettified

Dude that's some heavy metal shit. Also real fuck this.

Say no more

iirc if the black hole is exceptionally big (like pic related) you would survive inside it for hours if not days (ignoring the radiation)

My favorite alien incident. Also the creepiest fucking shit. There's just something about big headed things just fucking floating around just makes my goddamn asshole clench.

here, have this. incident wasn't as good, but goddamn is that a scary ass picture.

all of the philosophy and literature in the world could never prepare me for flying bulletproof light-up gremlins. I remember your incident as well from many books, it was supposed to be real stanky alien witch right?

oblivion; the end of all things

>inside it for hours if not days
try millennia

Holy shit, yeah. Just the idea of those fucking things coming out of the forest like that, that don't even fucking flinch when they get hit with a bullet.

I had a dream with things like that once. I looked out the window and saw what I knew was old school fae digging in my yard. They looked like big black humanoid shapes with giant silver eyes and mantis arms they were using to dig with. I knew, that if they knew that I had seen them, they'd kill me, so I very slowly closed the curtains and sat back down at my computer. Then the curtain shifted (like they do in horror movies) and then they were in my room, on top of me, hacking at my throat. I woke up screaming. Smarts don't do shit when you know you're gonna die.

And yeah, stanky space witch is pretty apt, though people say it was just owls, but they say the goblins were just owls too.

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Consuming psychedelics and the effects never going off

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that's a big hole

I see it like this: either I'm getting my money's worth or (depending on what part of the trip I'm stuck on) my depression would be cured.
After reading Communion I unironically will always somewhat believe in visitors conjured from our mind's dread, anxiety, hysteria, etc. It's incredible to me that groups can all experience similar phenomenon despite it no evidence of it empirically "happening" at all, that is the existential horror to me. Maybe Im putting too much faith in my memories regarding Hopkinsville/Flatwoods/that school in Africa where dozens of kids saw a spacecraft. Overall I think Strieber is full of shit but he got my extra dimensional noggin joggin'.

>I see it like this: either I'm getting my money's worth or (depending on what part of the trip I'm stuck on) my depression would be cured.
dude, you don't want it. Permanent drug induced psychosis is a thing, and it is not fun. At best, it's harmless hallucinations, like crabs wandering around. At worst, you have crippling psychological problems like paranoia, delusions, recurring drug "flashbacks" and any number of other things. I don't take drugs, but I knew people in the scene.

For universe

underrated

Nothing will ever cease to exist.

Not having an afterlife after we die. We literally cease existing. There's no eternal sleep, no paradise, no hell, no "everything was a dream". You simply disappear from existence.