Is it normal to be scared of space?

Okay so I don't why but I am scared of space. I start to get really anxious and scared when people talk about it. The fact that space is so big scares me and that we are nothing compared to other planets and galaxies. Just thinking that something can be infinite just makes me go crazy. The same is for afterlife. I do believe it but I don't wanna talk about it. I get scared thinking that after we die we are basically immortal so again the fact that there is no end to time, is this case, freaks me. I have even cried and panicked thinking or listening to conversation cuz my brain cant handle it. Is this normal? And hoe get I stop?

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  • webjock

    This may be part of your insecurities in relation to being able to control and/or understand things. Since the cosmos is so vast and huge, you fear it because you have a hard time controlling it or understanding it. Am I right or wrong?

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    • Uroosamahmood4

      That's right. I get scared because I cant find an answer to my thoughts as I dont have much understanding of it. I dont wanna thunk much about it but I always end up overthinking and stressing myself.

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  • suckonthis9

    "The fact that space is so big..."
    Is incorrect.
    'Big' and 'small' are relative sizes, that are not used in physics.
    Space is infinite, and infinitesimal. Space, however, does have a finite quality, due to the existence of proto-quarks, quarks, quarkenergy, massenergy, and the preceding latter three corresponding antiparticles thereof, in space.

    "I get scared thinking that after we die we are basically immortal so again the fact that there is no end to time,..."
    Is also incorrect, on two fronts.
    So-called 'immortality' is a fallacy. Every life form in the Universe, no matter how resilient, does, in fact, have a life span. The only hope for long-term survival, is to keep moving, and to continue reproducing.
    'Time' is an abstract concept that does not exist, in reality. There really is no beginning, nor no end, to time. It could also be said that 'time' is always beginning and always ending, because 'time' is a relative 'property' of massenergy, and massenergy particles frequently form, annihilate, or are absorbed into other massenergy particles.

    Now do you feel better?

    *Please note: Proto-quarks, quarks, quarkenergy, and the latter two corresponding antiparticles thereof, also have an abstract 'time' property, but this is meaningless to ordinary life-forms in the natural Universe.

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    • McBean

      Where's the beef?

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      • MissileExpert

        You mean, Where's the math?

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      • BlackCatsAreAwesome

        In the fridge, next to the cheese, two shelves down from the eggs.

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    • Uroosamahmood4

      Kinda. Its just that since I do not have much understanding I tend to think of things that my brain cannot find an answer to which stresses me out and causes fear and anxiety.

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      • insanebotv21

        so what you're really scared of is the infinite?

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        • Uroosamahmood4

          I think

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      • suckonthis9

        There are answers to nearly everything, if you look in the correct places, and avoid the lies, nonsense, thoughtlessness, corruption, bullshit, bafflegab and claptrap.

        Then you might gain a better understanding.

        And in this case, every non-thing, since space is really nothing, but does, in fact, have non-physical properties.

        Space is timeless.

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        • Miraak

          Then answer this: How was the universe created?
          (Don't just say 'Big Bang' because I mean how did that begin)

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          • shade_ilmaendu

            Well, all I can really answer here with is a popular theory on how this universe came to be created.

            There is evidence out there in what could be considered "echoes" of matter and energy that the big bang that created our universe was not the first, that all existence is in fact cyclical.

            So, as it is now, the Universe is expanding. The more time passes, the more celestial bodies decay, forming black holes. That gravitational force is still less powerful than the expansion of the Universe, and so we continue to expand.

            Eventually, over billions of years, as more black holes form, entropy will eventually outweigh momentum, and the universe will once again begin to contract - until it is all one point of matter once more... and the next big bang will spill all the matter back out once again.

            For any concrete information about how all of this actually began... well, we can't even fully understand our own brains yet, let alone have the tools or travel capacity to truly explore beyond our own tiny little corner of space.

            As much as it's a shit answer, the best that we know is that matter and energy have been in existence for a damn long time, and over a timeline of billions upon billions of years break down and reform themselves through the principal of conservation of mass - nothing is ever created or destroyed.

            Perhaps one day scientists will find what the starting point actually was, perhaps that is simply beyond our conscious ability to comprehend. Only time will tell.

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          • suckonthis9

            The Universe was not "created"!
            The Universe 'formed' from natural processes. These natural processes are still going on today, and the Universe will continue to 'form' into the indefinite future!

            The so-called "Big Bang" wasn't. It was an evolutionary event of the Level 1 Universe; an implosive event from a more diffuse, uniform and ordered state of the earlier Level 1 Universe. It was actually more like a 'Series of Little Bangs' during this contracting phase.
            "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." -Newton's Third Law of Motion.

            There really is no beginning, nor no end to the Universe.

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            • Miraak

              But there must have been an original 'action' to make the universe.

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            • Kevinevan

              Formed from what genious. If no thing exists where did the first thing come from and what did it spring into?

              Creating level 1 and level 2 universes only avoids the question and obfuscates. You scientists don't know shit. Just fancy gobbledygook bs that politicians and lawyers use.

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        • suckonthis9

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soTB2fD9HzA

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          • suckonthis9

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqeSUAlI5uI

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    • Kevinevan

      Prove it.

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      • suckonthis9

        I already did. Numerous times, in many different ways.

        It's not my fault if you are too stupid to understand it.

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  • LionsMane

    You are someone who runs off being in control of her situation. The thought of loss of control clogs up stability. I get this way when I think of roller coasters. Just beware of people who feed off convincing you to lose control and keep things consistent. Get a hobby like maybe find a book you can get caught up in.

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  • LuxM4G

    Well, i try to make the best of my limited existence as a human being on this planet we call earth and hope to contribute in some philanthropic way, developing a social conscience in the way to improve myself and help others in the same way.

    To address your specific concern about the threats of space, of course its haunting, you'd froze or burn to death and would die from oxygen depletion, but space aventure into the unknown its something mankind has got to look forward to in the future. There are many wonders and perils outside of our home sweet home.

    I'm an atheist and a man of science, so i don't believe in the afterlife, we are living conscious multi celular organisms, when we die that's it, its like you had never existed in the first place, all that's left behind is your legacy, so stop worrying about the long term future and strive for a better present, preserving this earth for the future generations to come.

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  • dirtybirdy

    Don't think so much

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    • LuxM4G

      Where have you been lately? I miss old school members like you, i know that you probably don't remember me but i first discovered this site two years ago. Been out for a long time after finding it not stimulating at a intelectual level, but i'm back again, a dumber version of my old self, though more socially adept, with more free time on my hands.

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    • Uroosamahmood4

      I don't want to either but since my family is religious and love astronomy, I cant avoid haeribg coversations about space and afterlife. I try to stay away from them but thats making it worse

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    • RoseIsabella

      Time to smoke up and watch something happy on the boob tube.

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      • HelicopterDick

        Twirling. It's a magic art.

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  • EleventhDoctor

    Watch Doctor Who. It will make you feel a lot better about space and time.

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  • NormalSchnormal

    I don't know if it's "normal," but space scares the crap out of me, too. As does the ocean. Just the idea of a vast space out there so much larger than anything I can even imagine, and with so much unknown. Perhaps "scare" isn't the right word, since I'm not really afraid. It's more of a creepy feeling. It creeps me out.

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    • suckonthis9

      "Vast" and "larger" are comparative and relative sizes, respectively, that aren't used in physics.

      The ocean really isn't all that vast, for instance, as it really is only an infinitesimally minute amount of massenergy, in and of the Universe.

      Nearly everything in the ocean, and about the ocean, is known.

      Why aren't 'vast' and 'avast' opposite in meaning of one another?

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      • Miraak

        Actually a lot of the ocean hasn't been explored. We know a lot about the areas we've covered but that's only 5%. If there's any undiscovered species, they'll be there.

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        • suckonthis9

          Certainly, there are most likely undiscovered 'species'.
          But go out and try to discover an uncatalogued 'genus', and that's really something!

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          • Miraak

            Yeah, but unless you've got a submarine handy then that's not going to happen.

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  • rayb12

    Whatever space is, whatever afterlife is, they exist whether you get anxious or not.

    There are billions of people, some worry about this, most don't.

    But a person's thoughts have never changed these things.

    If you want to think use it for something you can effect.

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  • wigz

    I don't believe in space.

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    • Kevinevan

      Me either.

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      • wigz

        Right on!

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    • suckonthis9

      Then, how do you explain all that mostly empty space between your ears?

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      • wigz

        It's both infinite and not, I relish in the thought. Mmm, relish. I prefer sweet relish. I love relish on hot dogs. I like those sweet rolls.

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        • suckonthis9

          Incorrect.

          Space is both infinite and infinitesimal, with an infinite number of hypothetical infinitesimal points, and with a finite quality.

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_gY82cgg4k

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          • wigz

            How's that incorrect when I just said it's both infinite and finite? I don't look at youtube links, sorry...

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            • suckonthis9

              Space is not finite. Space has a finite quality. A quality is a property (an abstract concept), and is not a real thing, or in this case, is not a real non-thing.

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    • Uroosamahmood4

      Good for you! 😊

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      • wigz

        It's the best! Fuck that noise.

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  • _Mehhhh_

    Both of these are the great unknown, space and death.

    We know (comparatively) so little about the universe still. We have some amazing scientists who have made discoveries about it and are speculating on what's further out there, but might never understand it fully. I used to get these feelings when I was a child, that space scared me, but the more I've read and heard the more it actually excites me, the possibilities of it, what life might be out there.

    Death is so final, on the other hand. There might be an afterlife, don't know, will find out when it happens. Worst case scenario you just end up going back to the same state of non-existence you were in before you were born.

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    • suckonthis9

      Actually, we are at about the extent of 'discovery' of the Universe.
      Certainly, there are many other worlds to 'discover', and perhaps many other life-forms to 'discover', in the Universe.

      But what we do know, is that all other life-forms in the Universe, should it or they exist, must follow the same basic Laws of Physics that we do. This gives us a general sense and understanding of what types of other life-forms might exist, elsewhere in the Universe.
      It would still be interesting and exciting to 'discover', perhaps very different, perhaps maybe not so much different (to what we are accustomed to) extraterrestrial life-forms.

      It seems that most of our science professionals are still too intent and preoccupied with 'discovering' the Universe, rather than 'uncovering' the truth about the Universe.

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      • LuxM4G

        Aww, Mr.suckonthis is so knowledgeable in both the biology and physics fields, we're so blessed to have his smart lectures. A little too dry and sciency for my taste, but it's okay. Just keep it real and no conspiracies, space-based theories or dementia inducing space rays. ;)

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        • Kevinevan

          He/she hasn't said a single knowledgeable thing or answered a single question. He just talks in circles.

          His answer to where did the first thing come from was "is it was always there": classic avoidance.

          No one has any answers, some people are just better at bullshit than others.

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      • Miraak

        Not unless they come from a 9th dimensional universe. Am I right....

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        • suckonthis9

          No, you are incorrect.

          So-called 'dimensions' are abstract concepts, that do not exist in this Universe, or in any other Universe.

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          • Miraak

            Yeah but what about Yugioh 5D.
            Or 2D and 3D shapes.

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          • wigz

            So then how can something be finite, either? Finality is just as abstract as a dimension.

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  • brookelexx

    yes!! me too! and death like where the fuck do we go or are we just dead and our entire soul and life is gone?? weird. freaks me the fuck out

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  • RoseIsabella

    Well, it is "... the final frontier".

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    • suckonthis9

      Incorrect.

      Space is not "The Final Frontier".

      There are no 'frontiers' in space.
      'Frontiers' are an exclusive property of massenergy objects.

      Sorry, Captain James T. Kirk!

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      • RoseIsabella

        You're no fun.
        :-(

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        • suckonthis9

          More entertaining still; space is not 'final'!
          There is no boundary or end to space.

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          • Miraak

            Unless it kinda all decays and withers away.

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            • suckonthis9

              Space can't 'decay' or 'wither away'.

              Certainly, massenergy particles do sometimes annihilate with antiparticles, and sometimes are said to decay.
              But decaying particles are not lost, unless they had been annihilated, due to the Law of Conservation of Mass ('mass' should be construed to mean 'massenergy'). These particles are simply transformed and /or absorbed into other particles.

              The overall net balance of massenergy in the Universe continues to increase over time, at an exponential rate.

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  • Dustyair

    It's fun to think about what kinds of life/entities live out there.

    And will they make contact with us, or smash us to pieces, maybe keep us alive forever in horrible experiments of torment?

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    • LuxM4G

      Anal probing most likely.

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