Extremely Scary Facts That Will Keep You Awake Forever! - AskReddit

then you find out there's a leech just casually eating on your brain and laying its eggs what's a scary or disturbing fact that would keep most people awake at night people who sleep less than six hours a night are at an increased risk to die prematurely every year in the northern hemisphere after daylight savings in spring when everyone loses an hour sleep there's a 24 rise in the number of heart attacks the next day if you want to read more about it there's a great book why we sleep by matthew walker think he also appeared on joe rogan if you'd rather listen to a podcast on it there is a spider that has fangs so powerful that it can bite through a leather boot and can even pierce through human toenails as easily as skin it usually attacks multiple times and you have to grab it and pry it off of you and it can live underwater it is called the sydney funnel web spider because of its venom it is the deadliest spider when swimming in stagnant water you could inhale an amoeba which eats its way through your nose and then eats your brain stem and there is no cure or treatment there are some medicines that had some effect against the disease but once you get it you're almost surely dead you can get this flesh eating amoeba from a water park the new yorker printed an article about a man named thomas hargrove who has been tracking murders in the u.s since 2010. he wrote an algorithm to detect similarities between murders and created the murder accountability project he has concluded that there are at least 2 000 active serial killers in the us even scarier when you look into the fbi files saying they believe a few thousand serial killers come from the us to tourist traps in mexico every year vacation murdering apparently is real hot if an imploding star were to create a gamma-ray burst and that grb were to hit the earth we'd never know it because we'd simply cease to exist poof terrifying apocalypse is listed in this thread that one seems like the least scary no warning no time to panic no suffering just snuffed out of existence for any world caught within the death beam from a light gamma ray burst the effects are devastating one side of the world is blasted with lethal levels of radiation our ozone layer would be depleted or completely stripped away and any life on that world would experience an extinction-level event on the scale of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs cancer is extremely common you likely have cancer right now the only thing stopping you from going terminal are your immune system tumors are extremely common not cancer when it has become a cancer it has started to invade surrounding tissues that is much rarer and more dangerous it will still happen to a lot of people during their lifetime but all those other tumors and growths are just not yet defined as cancer it takes 22 pounds of pressure to pop a testicle air pressure is 14 pounds per inch too your thumb and forefinger can pop a testicle the average strength of a human bite is 162 pounds per inch too in the 70s and 80s the first case of many southeast asian refugees in the u.s who died screaming in their sleep was recorded this was common for lau among men who lived through the cambodian genocide and cia recruitment for the lao civil war it's theorized that this was an extreme form of ptsd one case the man had stayed up for days fearing he would be attacked if he slept he drank coffee and lied to his parents about sleeping he did everything he could to keep from sleeping when he finally fell asleep his parents thought this crisis was over then they heard screams in the middle of the night by the time they got to him he was dead he died in the middle of a nightmare eventually all of human existence and history will be wiped out and no one or nothing will ever know we ever existed it puts our entire lives and society into perspective like we don't have to go to school and get a job and then make money because it doesn't mean anything we follow the same structure as early civilizations none of this matters beyond our society it also terrifies me that we'll never know the reason for our existence like what does this all mean because i refuse to believe we're truly alone the universe is literally infinite so what's that all about crazy you probably already escaped death or serious injury in your lifetime by simply being in the right place at the right time my family was going to go someplace in asia my mother found out she was pregnant with me and canceled the trip couple days later there was a massive tsunami in that place lots of people died they made a movie about it as well the blue ocean effect if you dive deep enough the water distorts light so much that you can't tell if you are swimming up or down this causes people to swim to their deaths constantly think they are getting closer and closer to salvation when in fact they are swimming to their demise people's conscious decisions are usually nothing of the sort they're usually made subconsciously then all the conscious mind normally does is build narratives about the previously made decisions those narratives consciously seem to arise concurrently with the decisions but really they are eyes only afterward research on split brain patients has proven all of this simply put your brain makes choices without you knowing then tricks you into thinking the choices were yours by allowing you to invent gratifying reasons why you supposedly chose them think of someone you love but only see a few times a year now take a guess at how many years until one of you dies how many more times in your lifetime are you going to see that person if you moved away from your parents and only see them three time a year and you expect them to live another 30 years that's less than 100 times you will ever see them again you can actually wake up during surgery but the worst part is that you are still paralyzed so you can feel everything what they do to you but you can't signal to them that you are conscious this is one of my worst fears the fact that we haven't a single clue of what happens after death nothing is guaranteed based on your faith or your preference even if someone knew exactly what happened after death with concrete evidence no one would believe them this making it useless to even talk about so not only is there a metaphorical fog when it comes to post-death we wouldn't believe what anyone says about it even if it were true there's a type of wasp that when it stings you the best thing for you to do is to just lay down in the fetal position and just start crying and screaming because its venom is so powerful the tarantula hawk wasp i'd probably recommend the same advice with the gimpy gimpy plan to be honest leech eggs are so small you can see them you can swallow hundreds of them if you fall into the wrong body of water even if you don't swallow they can get into your eyes ears up your nose they hatch and feed off you it's not a huge issue as long as you're not going for a leisurely swim in a swamp or the amazon basically if you're in the states or somewhere like europe not super likely to be exposed this happened to american soldiers during the vietnam war and it just thoroughly creeps me out imagine going to the doctor because you have been having terrible bouts of lightheadedness blackouts and migraines while noticing a lump on your nose getting larger and larger you think it's a tumor maybe so you go in then you find out there's a leech the size of a lychee just casually sucking on your brain and laying its eggs the fact that people who enjoy heavy violence and other disturbing matter perform on anyone even children and animals exist and that they can look like everybody else on the street a normal person but that's not even the scary part the scary part is that the human brain is literally programmed for violence and it's to the point that it can't even process things like cuteness without needing to balance out the good with the bad that's why children tend to get so mean around the three to seven years empathy is a learned trait and it's not default in the majority of people and most people don't even use empathy for people they don't know personally 90 of children are basically sociopaths without any actual reason to be until they're taught not to be it's wild there's nothing fundamentally stopping something in your brain from breaking forever while you sleep tonight you could be hungry forever lose your eyesight become consumed with uncontrollable rage whatever all it takes is a tiny hemorrhage in the right spot responsible for regulating some signals and they can happen to literally anyone most if not all power plants can be disabled for months to years if key components of the transformer are damaged these components are usually outside and could be hit with a suitable high-powered rifle since the power grids are integrated the loss of several of these would disrupt the grid for months to years the components are custom-made spares are not kept they take a year or two to make [Music] there's an island in the middle of the atlantic called la palma that has a dormant volcano on it named kumbrevia the western flank of the volcano is unstable and could collapse if that happens and causes a massive landslide it would create a mega tsunami that could wipe out the eastern seaboard of the us with waves up to 200 feet high since light has a finite speed and takes time to travel anywhere you experience the entire world around you on a tiny delay if a friend waves at you you are technically seeing them in the past even if it's just ever so slightly and never experience the true present with others and their own personal frames of reference it is actually impossible to experience the present even from your own perspective by the time your brain processes the thought its past dust mites are microscopic arachnids that live in your sheets and pillows and feeds on your dead skins they are apparently in all homes no matter how clean [Music] the one thing that keeps me up at night is this irrational fear that people could be standing outside of my bedroom window or in my closet waiting for me to fall asleep it's been a fear of mine so long as i can remember my nightmares always circulate around that fear people can be anywhere and everywhere and they terrify me more than anything the fact that most lawyers are not in the service of justice but in the business of law the fact that corrupt professionals doctors politicians businessmen engineers etc will manage to make their presence felt in this society i got a couple fun ones the current standing nato policy for nuclear warfare is mutually assured destruction if the global public internet went down for a week we would be looking at catastrophic and life-altering damages to the world almost all power grids and gas pipelines require the internet to properly function after they crash everything dies with it 95 or more of the population can't defend themselves against a semi-trained home invader if someone wants to get into your house bad enough they will get in before you can call for help and get to a weapon at the same time it's usually either or not both most people have a false sense of security interesting facts usa stats 3 million plus break-ins happen a year one million home invasions happen every year most break-ins happen midday 9 30 a.m to 2 p.m people tend to think they don't need weapons guns or knives yet never go above and beyond to secure their home most believe the baseball bat they have behind the bedroom door or kitchen knife is all they need i used to teach knife fighting defense to cops and even most cops don't know how to actually hold or use a knife correctly 95 of the population when it comes to self-defense are absolutely screwed if someone wants in their house also they do nothing to improve their chances of surviving a terrible situation the older they get for example training home security systems secure doors properly or practice and drill procedures on how they would actually handle the situation should something happen i have spent my whole life either training or teaching folks how to defend against situations such as these i would be more than happy to answer any questions my experience former special tactics operator firearms manufacturer and cqb instructor 20-plus years and jujitsu are submission grappling combative knife instructor and survivor of a home invasion and multiple armed attackers the bite of a brown recluse spider is so small and painless you may not even feel it most bite victims don't realize they have been bitten by this incredibly venomous spider until they develop a wound the venom eats away at flesh and some bite victims lose large chunks of flesh where they were bitten or even entire limbs the spiders aren't out to bite you they really only do so if threatened like if you accidentally squeezed one while putting on a garden glove your shoes or roll over in your bed at night self-mummification was a buddhist practice in which monks adopted certain living habits that made them enter in a state of mummification while still being alive this took a minimum of three years with a diet consisting of stuff like nuts tree bark pine needles and sometimes small rocks they would also do extreme amounts of exercise the process finished with an alive burial in a grave just big enough so they could do the lotus pose a small tube for oxygen and a belter ring every day if they were still alive were given to them at this point thanks for listening to radio dts congratulations you made it through the entire video and are now traumatized anyway hit the subscribe button and activate the notification bell for more videos click the right box for the facts playlist find the link for why we sleep by matthew walker in the video description

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Published: Sat Feb 20 2021