Why be scared? You won't be aware that you are dead when it happens? My childhood fear of death came from a misunderstanding of what death. I thought I'd still be aware and feeling after I died, and I'd be buried "alive," with all the people I know looking down at me buried in the ground. Being conscious and buried and being like that forever is what scared me infinitely more than not existing anymore.

Grandparents too.

Well, I'll never sleep again.

Notto disu shito agen...

Who DOESN'T? Although fir me it's more of an enraged mess.

I don't.

I do when I see it in stores for the first time in late ''September.''

I really hope that was an intentional pun. (I nearly went mad at the revelation that so many native English speakers can't tell the difference between homophones...)

I can and do, I just like to pronounce my {{Verbal Tic}}s, I pronounce fur like a hillbilly.

I wear Santa hats on every month except december. Then I wear a cowboy hat and a gas mask. I do it for the reactions.

For this troper, it was age 7, when my mom told me she was the tooth fairy. I went from an epic breakdown and tears to a frothing rage at her for lying to me. Interestingly, this was one of the turning points where I realized my parents were not the perfect beings I thought of them as, and that they had the ability to deceive, and it felt like the very fabric of my world was being ripped apart. Clearly, some of the madness stayed with me, as I now have almost no tolerance for someone lying to me, and if I think someone is trying to pull a fast one on me I get very angry.

This troper went through the same thing. This includes the got better part, by focusing on trying to do whatever good can be done. (The "emptying the ocean with a teaspoon" business is often frustrating, but it's better than the 'ol Despair Even Horizon.)

This troper might sympathize with you if she had any idea who the hell Ash and Paul are.

For those of you who are similarly unaware, they're Pokemon characters.

MNAUGH!

Many of my harder college classes nearly drove me insane too.

Ignorance may be bliss, but I'd probably be happier not knowing that...

This tropers friend read a HighOctaneNightmareFuel fanfiction to him OUT LOUD, which I later discovered magnifies the horribleness exponentially. I spent the rest of the weekend in a state of shock, and from that day forward, people have told me I am a much darker, more sadistic person who feels little to no emotion.

Hmmm, /b/. I heard this place is really horrible, but I'll buck up and take a look. Hmm... porn there, bad memes there, nothing I can't handle... wait... Dissected-Chan... they can't be serious... OH GOD NO

This troper actually felt like banging his head against his desk when he heard this line from the film version of LostInSpace :I didn't see the whole film, just the Nostalgia Critic's review - "Within these eggsacks lives a monster race of SPIIIDERS!!!" So, not only did the spider bite turn Dr. Smith into a mutant spider thingy, it also changed his sex? Furthermore, how the hell could he reproduce? Was there someone else in space with his condition? Does he reproduce asexually? It makes no sense! This is stupid! Explain, movie! EXPLAIN!!! *EarthShatteringKaboom*

When this troper first started watching NeonGenesisEvangelion, she spent one lazy summer afternoon digging up whatever information the Internet held on the series. After reading a review for TheEndOfEvangelion that described the way the apocalypse was portrayed, she figured that it couldn't be that bad. She then stumbled upon said apocalypse via an AMV, which is, to this day, the most horrifying portrayal of the end of the world she has ever seen. It was only after watching the AMV that she went mad from the revelation; she felt like a hollow shell and was on the verge of tears for the rest of the day.

...dear God, are you TheJoker?

This troper literally screamed out loud after reading this. She will now never play {{Persona 4}} or see anything related to GurrenLagann ever again.

This Troper had the same reaction when he read rumors of an ''IClaudius'' remake... starring ''LeonardoDiCaprio.'' '''I made that joke 10 YEARS AGO, for fuck's sake!!''' Now, granted, he did turn out be a pretty good actor, but still... No. Just... NO.

THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE! NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

Unless the OP is a genetically engineered newborn or a highlander, then no one in this thread or involved with Lucas Films Is leaving intact.

...............*has gone to {{happy place}}*

If uou can positively go mad by the revelation. That happened to this tropette. That is all I'm saying...

My god! Are you me?

This trope happened to this troper when his dad told him the family's dirty secrets. Believe me, knowing your mother's relatives scammed your father and used you to take more money from him, as well as realizing your family is a WWIII on-going isn't good for your sanity, especially when you thought only one side of your family was the rotten one and then you realize everyone's rotten as they come. After that, I took the same belief as our Joker-like friend above, along with a deep hatred for God and Reality. We are drifting blindly in a dark, empty universe, with either a jerkass, lazy and sadistic God with the poorest sense of humor in history of humor or nothing but our own illusions to keep ourselves hanging, while the comets and black holes inhabit this cold dark space could destroy us all at any minute, or the sun could simply blow up and deep fry us all. And we keep on fighting over politics, money, gender, nationality and skin color because we must occupy ourselves with the most mundane thing, so we won't all GoMadFromTheRevelation that we are sitting ducks and there's no God out there to pray for salvation and no afterlife nor paradise. We are stuck between Eternal Suffering and Oblivion...

And considering the size of the Universe, I re-quote Death from Supernatural: " This is one little planet in one tiny solar system in a galaxy that’s barely out of its diapers. So I invite you all to contemplate how insignificant you all are and everything that you believe in is."

On the other hand, if that ''is'' the case, then a existentially meaningless good time is just as valid as a existentially meaningless miserable time, so why not kick back, chill out and have some fun? One way... or another...

Yeah, today I know that Haruhi is The Doctor in Instrumentality. And that ''makes sense''. Those playing the drinking game should empty the fifth now.

For this Troper,it was a realization that hit him randomly,when he was younger.The day this troper realized that every person is similar to a character in a play.Everyone plays their part,and that even when they think they are different,they are still similar.The worst was,when he realized how most people believed in the word: "Deserve."By believing that someone deserved pain for an action that was caused to them,the person was able to cause harm to others with very little regret or care for the pain they inflicted.Cue this troper becoming paranoid,to the point to where he mapped out plans ahead of time,depending on the circumstances.He started to sleep with a box cutter under his pillar,hang curtains up so no one would spy on him when he's asleep,and even taught himself to wake up the moment someone managed to open his door after he locked it.Why?"Because sometimes dangerous people live in your house,or could be family members.It got to the point,where when he went to a supposed scary Halloween store,his friends found out that nothing there scared him.They asked what scared him,and this troper replied calmly."People scare me..Normal People scare me the most." Ironically,unlike most of the other examples,he didn't become pessimistic.He is still as helpful as ever,and willing to help anyone.Just don't be surprised if he happens to have come up with a plan on how to fight you beforehand,just in case things don't work out too well on the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism and you attack him.

Aversion: The knowledge that HumansAreBastards didn't make this troper go mad ''per se''. Instead, it made him more or less a TotalitarianUtilitarian and gave him the ambition of subjugating the entire Earth in preparation for creating an AI goddess that would destroy the minds of every human rendering them into a hivemind and make their bodies identical sexless cybernetic drones. As for himself, he would be the primary human-computer interface between the AI goddess and the rest of the new posthumanity.

After seeing the trailer for Beastly, this troper literally started screaming at the television. In Klingon. Just the THOUGHT of Mary Kate Oleson playing Kendra the obese, ugly witch girl. Or how much of the plot was changed. Or the Beast being fur-less. Or- *Twitch* 108! DOES NOT COMPUTE! 108! DOES NOT COMPUTE! 108! DOES NOT COMPUTE!

This troper's realization that the Mick Jagger autograph hanging by her TV isn't from after a concert or anything, but rather from a time her mom banged Mick Jagger caused this.

Would you like a hug?