Megalophobia: Fear Of The Huge
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- čas přidán 12. 07. 2023
- In this captivating video, we delve into the fascinating world of Megalophobia, the fear of large objects and the overwhelming sense of scale they present. Join us as we explore the deep-rooted human fascination with big things, from historical monuments like the Great Pyramids to modern architectural marvels like the Burj Khalifa.
Discover the experiences of individuals who suffer from Megalophobia and gain insight into their intense fear of enormous structures. We explore the psychological aspects behind this condition, understanding how our brains are wired to detect potential threats and why large objects can trigger such a profound fear response.
Through vivid examples, we examine different aspects of Megalophobia, such as the fear of the vastness of space, known as Astrophobia, and the fear of deep waters, known as Thalassophobia. From mind-bogglingly large celestial bodies to the eerie emptiness of the ocean's depths, we uncover the reasons behind these fears and the sense of dread they elicit.
Drawing inspiration from various art forms, we explore how artists like Zdzisław Beksiński and John Martin use scale to invoke feelings of fear and awe in their works. We also dive into architectural renderings by Hugh Ferris, which depict sprawling metropolises that can overwhelm and terrify those with Megalophobia.
Experience the unsettling yet captivating world of the video game Babbdi, where players navigate a vast and desolate cityscape that feels larger than life itself. Through its meticulous design and attention to detail, Babbdi instills a sense of fear and despair, immersing players in a world that feels both unnerving and irresistibly intriguing.
Join us on this thought-provoking journey into the realm of Megalophobia, where the fear of the huge and the allure of vastness converge. Gain a deeper understanding of this unique fear and discover why big things continue to captivate and unsettle us as humans.
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A big inspiration was Solar Sands video on Monumentality, and Jacob Geller's essay "Game's that don't fake the space"
Thank you all for almost 250 subs!
Hey, I want to come out and say that this video was HEAVILY inspired by videos by Jacob Geller and Solar Sands, namely Solar Sand's "Monumentality", and Jacob Geller's "Fear of Big Things Underwater". It doesn't excuse me, but I made this video when I had around 250 subscribers and I had no clue what I was doing when I made this, (I even left the activate windows sign in the corner lol). I had never in a million years thought it would get this popular when I uploaded it, and I was a fairly new writer and had no plans of making this youtube thing a potential job for myself, which is why I took taking liberties from other channels so casually. I see this video as a stain on my channel which is why I removed monetization on it. (any ads you see is youtube not me) I still have it up because around 60% of it is still original, but just know I don't make money on this, and again, sorry for all this.
Irrelevant, it's a great video. No need to be ashamed.
I was just about to comment on how much i loved the video and how I really like how you covered Blame!, as one of my favourite manga.
The video was great lol
Alright, I see! That makes a lot of sense. I came to the comments to see if anyone was gonna point out the similarity, cuz it felt like too much of a coincidence that your video ended with Roygbiv playing in the background 🤣Good work man, the topics and ideas are clearly there, but you still made an entertaining video and took the whole conversation in Jacob and Solar's videos in a new direction. I liked it!
The rest of this video is fine but Jesus that start is right out of solar sands. Even the images and examples used.
boc music detected, great taste
the thing with unfathomably large objects is that they never feel natural. It's like walking across the desert, with nothing for miles, and then somewhere on the horizon you find a mile-high block of stone. You would KNOW that block would never had just . . . occurred, and it would feel disturbingly out of place
Something disturbing and out of place is what most horror uses to scare the audience, a monster being in a place it isn't supposed to, the fact that this works for large objects as well really points out the interconnectedness of horror and the huge.
As a kid I was familiar with the Monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey since I had seen references to it in some shows. The idea of an impossibly massive rectangular object just sitting in space freaked me out.
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FACE THE THING THAT SHOULD NOT BE!!!!
I have dreams of these unfathomably huge objects. It’s such a weird feeling and I love it so much
I love your pfp! :)
I’m glad I’m not the only one who gets these dreams
That might be a fetish.
Once I had a dream where I kept growing bigger and bigger. The bigger I got, the more I saw from the inner workings of the cosmos. Figures of people the size of galaxies appeared to me, but there was always a bigger one I'd see after a while. I thought they were some kind of dieties. The first one was a spec of dust compared to the last, and the first one was already the size of a nebula. When I stopped growing, I found myself in a room outside the universe. It was such an intense feeling. Being so huge that one swing of an arm can travel through the entire observable universe is an entirely different kind of unease. I don't believe it was some revelatory dream or attribute any spiritual meaning to it, but ngl I've been chasing that pleasantly terrifying feeling ever since.
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When I was a kid I remember playing with sims city builder and occasionally I would accidentally place a big object and get jumpscared so bad. Something about an object so big that it covers the entirety of mostly normal looking terrain was terrifying to my eight year old brain, and I would always close my eyes before clicking. Now I'm more fascinated with huge things and even like the feeling I get when looking at them, but I think it's tied to adrenaline and that primal fear thats still there somewhere deep down
When I was eight and playing the Sims 2, I got jump scared by a sim's nose being too small.
It's crazy that a building jumpscared you
for me its the same feeling of being scared of heights. when ever i look up into a air balloon i get an overwhelming feeling of dread and fear. i also get the feeling if i lay down on grass and look up at the sky for a while weirdly enough
I have more existencialistic fear of big things especially looking orange sky with clouds and clear night sky
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Thank god I'm not the only one. Sometimes, I would feel like that in a building with tall ceilings and really open area, like a wide field. It's as if I'm afraid I'll suddenly get pulled up and thrown down or something like that.
I get a similar feeling going looking up at a skyscraper from the base, makes it feel even more huge
@@Cresendex Doing that makes me rock from my heels to my toes like I'm becoming unbalanced. The exact same happens looking down. Its like a vertigo sensation.
I think everyone has megalophobia even if it’s in the smallest amounts. It just feels natural like something programmed in our nature.
Yeah, as someone in a small Midwestern town every time I enter a large city with stupidly big buildings I get a weird off putting feeling
Looks like It's our primal feeling like our ancestors used to fight with huge creatures back in the day
Megastructures, space, and the ocean aren’t scary, just fascinating. The vast expanses of space and the ocean, and our slow discovery of all things residing in them, and the sheer scale of what humans can do is an amazing thing to me.
I don't have megalophobia but I find huge things interesting
nope, i yearn for big things, i want the biggest thing
I am SO relieved to see this 🙏🏽 I remember being five years old and being terribly uncomfortable at the sight of the movie theater screen. As an adult, I’ve told so many people that I’m afraid of big things and I have never, not once, had someone know what I meant. So thank you for the video, I really appreciate it 🙏🏽
I can pinpoint my fear of large things to three events in my early childhood.
In 1987, I went for a walk with a local beauty spot called Sedgley Beacon. There were, and still are two tall radio towers on top of the hill. Anyhow, I remember looking up at the towers and being overwhelmed by the height of them and the moving clouds in the sky behind them made it look as though they were going to crash down onto me. I got a wave of dizziness, which was a terriying to two and half year old me.
At about the same time, I developed a phobia of the huge brushes in the car wash as they descended down on our windscreen.
Then in about 1989, we went to a large hardware store at our local out of town shopping complex. There was an indoor garden centre at the back of the store, and within it was a pool with an extremely huge working water wheel in it. I remember being so overwhelmed and terrified by the thing. It was so big and noisy.
I have the same fears. It's nice to find you're not alone. 😊
@AlisonBryen that's SO WEIRD. Mine comes from a water wheel I saw as a child, radio towers, and dreams I had during a fever.
WOW damn I always thought everyone was scared of large things! the locks at the river are like the scariest thing Ive ever seen!
Ditto on the movie screens. I couldn’t stand the thought of standing next to one. Still can’t even as an adult
I’m not afraid of large things, I’m more in awe by them because I’m reminded that I’m a small blip in this existence and that just being here is a pretty crazy thing. I’ve always been obsessed with the ocean, it’s so vast and beautiful and diverse even just the sand on beaches and shells and currents, I love the salty breeze and I remember when the colossal squid was discovered in my childhood. I’ve always been obsessed with whales too- so large, but graceful. The thought that a rib cage can be bigger than a trailer is insanely… beautiful. Maybe it’s because I think of how meaningless humankind is often, since I play too much NieR. Maybe it’s because I’ve made attempts before and shouldn’t be here, so I’m not afraid of dying and find large things dope. Maybe it’s because I’ve been on so many planes since I was a couple months old, I find large space’s comforting in a way. I don’t like crowded/cluttered spaces so maybe the large open spaces make me feel less claustrophobic. Idk, interesting topic nonetheless.
Sometimes I like to imagine an alien spaceship that appears out of nowhere and covers up the entire sky because of how unfathomably huge it is. Gives me chills.
i had a dream like that, freaked me out so bad i made a little comic about it
I'm sure you love Independence Day
Looks like I never had original thoughts 😂
I imagine gravity somehow flipping and everything falls towards the sky , Ik it has nothing to do with the fear of giant things
then Earth Defense Force would be perfect for you, the 4th series and 6th final stage is fighting a massive alien space ship covering the earth
Didn't know this had a name. Years ago, I had to drive for work to a place near Washington, D.C., along I-495. I'd never been out that way before, and I was driving through what was basically just a highway through the woods, when suddenly, there was this massive castle in the distance. Like, humongous. It just sort of appeared out of nowhere over the horizon, but you could tell it was still very far away, so it had to be huge. I remember thinking, "What in the world is that? There is no Disney Land or Disney World near D.C." But it also gave me this sense of unease, a panicky feeling, like something bad was going to happen because of this menacing structure that seemed to tower over the trees and the highway below. Turns out it was the Mormon Washington D.C. temple, but I swore, especially at that time, that it was a random castle in the middle of Maryland, USA. Strangely freaked me out despite being a pretty harmless place.
Similar thing here, I went to a major city at one point and I was in a park, and between the trees, I saw the roof of a large structure, and for some reason, I was overcome with fear.
When they were renovating, they actually allowed people to come and tour certain parts of the interior. I went on a trip with my family, and walked up impossibly tall spiraling staircases that went on for minutes. To think that a brief, unguided tour through only 7 or 8 rooms took over an hour really makes me wonder what the point of making a Disney castle superstructure was, instead of a few smaller buildings. Weird trip.
Most people in MD and the DMV actually refer to that as Disneyland 😂 but yeah it’s massive for a church
Lmao was on a road trip and saw this on the highway as well. Thought it was awesome and took some pics.
@@sham9505 Same, I was with my grandfather, saw it right off the highway in the middle of the night because it was illuminated
Back in early 2020, I had asked my mom what a phobia was, and she told me the definition. Then I had asked her if there was the phobia of large objects because I had said that I thought I had it. She told me that phobias were more than just finding something scary, and told me that I didn’t have a phobia. I shrugged it off and didn’t think about it for a while, but I still to this day become paralyzed in fear while my heart starts beat faster to whenever I see a abnormally large object or something like it.
I kind of always knew that I had it for a while, and I think I realized I had it back in 3rd grade. We had to do a planet project and had to look up images of the planet we had to study about. While looking up images of the planets, I felt an unnerving feeling about how mind-numbingly large they were, even though it was only on a computer screen, images like those still terrify me and still does to this day.
It’s not only planets that give me the chills, but also cruise ships, planes, buildings that are miles away, yet are still so insanely large. Those things that I just listed are all things that trigger my phobia fairly equally, but I can for sure say with certainty that it’s cruise ships and ocean vessels that fill me with anxiety and terror.
I don’t know why they terrify me so much when there’s so many larger objects than them, but the sheer overwhelming size of them, even though being built by humans, is definitely one of the biggest reasons they make me so uneasy. Back in 2022, my oldest brother had a graduation party on a Yacht in Marina del ray. While we were walking down the dock to the ship, all the other ships and boats were facing towards us from the right, with their bows hovering of us, overwhelming me with fear. I walked faster and kept my head looking straight so I wouldn’t have to see them. Even after getting on the yacht, I stayed inside for about most of the ride because I couldn’t stand the thought of falling overboard and being met with the size of the ship.
I honestly think it’s a mix of Astrophobia, and Megalophobia which causes me to have a fear of both ships and planets. And it’s the overwhelming, seemingly impossible size of the object, that makes it seem like it could just engulf you with ease, never letting you out, and being completely helpless if you were to faced with the object.
My phobias have gotten better, and pictures of large objects don’t make me too uneasy now, but sometimes I have dreams, or these fake scenarios, where I’m either floating out in space or in the ocean, and a ginormous planet starts pulling me closer with its gravitational pull, causing me to be absolutely helpless, or the ship going over me, causing me to get trapped underneath, and getting pulled closer to its propellers.
Thank you for making this video, I’ve been looking for someone to do a video on this with this much detail and quality and haven’t been able to find it. I hope this video really blows up because it deserves the views.
I never thought I'd find a video on this phobia. Everytime I say I have it, people are confused even though they can guess what it is. The concept is also hard to explain, it's hard even for me to say what exactly triggers it to avoid it. I'm terrified of anything that's even just bigger than usual, like large TVs, washing machines, mirrors, animals that are more often on the smaller scale... and even large things I've never seen up close in real life like planes and boats. With pictures, I am alright if there aren't ways of comparing the size, but it's hard for that to happen. Right now I honestly am only listening to the video, hiding in the comments lol but you've managed to intrigue me on a subject I'm all too familiar with, and I think I'll link your video to people who ask me about it and friends that want to know more! Thank you for this! 😊
@@rambunctiousvegetable Hello, sorry for the late reply I just found out I had one under this comment 😆
Yes, I knew my experience wasn’t described by megalophobia as a whole but I never actually found another that’s more fitting, so I always went with that; I’ve always had to explain what it is anyways.
Coining a phobia sounds both interesting and funny if I’m the subject in question lmao thank you for taking the time, I like the name!
I have a type of this fear where I don't like being in rooms with very high ceilings, like it makes me think the room is WAY bigger, possibly having lots of mysterious unexplored areas, and my mind makes me think I could just randomly shoot into the air at any moment and "forever fall into the sky". Its weird
Even looking at high ceilings gives me the chills
I have something similar. Not so much high ceilings but things (ceilings, rock formations, whatever) towering directly above me.
@@Redd_Is_Here I actually have a fear like that, too
though sometimes it can be oddly comforting in certain circumstances
@@madiotime I can see that. I somewhat conquered my big fear of it from doing urbex climbing cranes and such. No fear of heights from me but things above me still give me anxiety. Manageable now but still anxiety
@@Redd_Is_Here yeah
well good for u! :)
This pops up in my dreams sooo often! It is mostly very empty, liminal looking spaces, sometimes containing furniture to add to the scale. Like, a wall with endless shelfs or a sofa, with an absourdly high backrest. So strange
In my opinion, storms, hurricanes, and even clouds can be one of the things that scares me the most. Just looking down at the earth with a huge circular mess covering the surface from a space station scares me. It makes me feel how it is down there for the poor people experiencing it. And from below, its not less scary. As you see a huge heap of cloud covering the skies, it really makes you feel tiny.
Kind of the opposite for me, lol. I absolutely LOVE looking at approaching cumulonimbus clouds or supercells off in the distance, because you get this visceral realization that the thing is utterly HUGE - and it is literally THE biggest singular structure you are able to look at. Far bigger than any mountain, and the sun and moon just look like dots in comparison.
@@pro-socialsociopath769 don't get me wrong, we all get that feeling
And then you realize that the clouds and storms on Earth are microscopic compared to the ones on the Jovian planets. Planets just entirely comprised of clouds and storms bigger than our entire planet with winds that could fling a mountain like a speck of dust. Imagine falling into a planet like that. The scale would be incredible.
the quality of your videos are honestly amazing, so underrated.
more video games need to be made on certain fears, like liminal spaces or megalophobia
The transition from topic to topic is so smooth, unlike videos where they will have the titlecard for a transition. The raw, unfiltered, and nicely timed images really got me immersed. No fancy graphics, just "look at this scary photo and I'll let you decipher it by yourself while I continue talking." That or I'm just tired at 5:30 in the morning.
I'm no essayist, so I think it's probably the latter lol
I agree
@@Cresendex Nah, I agree with her. This video is too good.
I actually love these giant cities and how far it extends. Can't help but marvel at how we've managed to create such a thing.
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I feel the same awe, but at the same time, I feel a deep sense of contempt for the cities, these hives of rootless degenerate cosmopolitanism.
My favorite part is that most of those huge cities also have every food imaginable.
Same! I want to actually live long enough to see Hive Cities of the future.
As someone from nyc 3:02 sounds pretty accurate
this is legitimately one of the best videos I've seen in a long time. It has such a sense of uneasiness and yet, it's so intriguing.
Glad you mentioned BLAME!, I absolutely love it & its landscapes
I definitely have this fear in some sorts.
When I was a younger I travelled a lot. Used to go on these long road trips to visit family. I remember stopping one time, and seeing windmills in these massive fields. seeing how tall the windmills really were up close, it fascinated me, But also scared me because prior I always thought that these turbines were small. (I didn’t have windmills in my area.) But Seeing those rotor blades spinning while looking up really encapsulates this fear. Not really knowing the true scale but knowing sure as hell that it’s massive.
Same kind of experience here, I don't have skyscrapers near where I live, but one time we visited a major city, and I got to stand at the very top of a tall tower, it really puts it into perspective how small everything is, I think that was my first ever feeling of true Megalophobia.
I've had something similar happen to me. We were on a road trip through Iowa and it was the dead of night, and we ended up driving through a big field of massive windmills. Except for the fact that you couldn't see the actual structures, just the huge red flashing lights on the base that I'm pretty sure were just indicaters but looked like a bunch of red eyes in a field blinking
For me, it isn’t even the fear of the possibilities from the large object. It’s more just the sheer scale that both fascinates and terrifies me. I also believe perspective can induce it easier as it can portray the looming feel of an impossibly large object much better.
When there's basically no foreshortening to vanishing points, it feels unnatural. Like uncanny valley, but the perspective is sound and correct for such massive objects
It doesnt scare me, but it impresses me in a way different than anything else. The scale of everything feels stunning. It fascinates me and makes me curious more than anything else
"a sense of awe that can also be terrifying." that, my friend, is the sublime
I don’t have this fear, but that “BLAME” thing is something
yeah.....
I'm generally not afraid of large things, but large shadowy shapes in the water terrify me. A massive tornado barreling down on me, or one of those absurdly large excavators with the rumbling, would give me a heart attack. Fear of being crushed, eaten, or even just have some massive slippery slimy thing in the water brush against me
@@tagar8332 what? this is relevant
i was once outside in the evening during a thunderstorm. no rain, no sound, just quiet flashes of lightning. everytime lightning flashed it lit up the clouds above me and suddenly the clouds themselves looked huge and close-by. it was terrifying! and i loved it!
I've never been scared of large things, but recently I saw the end of MIB and while the alien didn't scare me, it made me understand better why people are so scared of large things. It feels like something we could never grasp.
i knew i had this when i looked at google earth vr, i knew i had this when i stepped in space in vr, i knew i had this when my body went "ew" at almost every point in this video. its not scary, im not gonna puke, its just in the middle
i was a bit scared no one had discovered something like this yet. you are so underrated and i hope people get to know this more
Thanks! The subreddit is a great place to learn more if you really think you have megalophobia.
Phobia means fear
@@emilydavis162 phobia means a persistent abnormal irritation for a specific thing. But basically fear
for me it feels like sorta fight or flight but Less
As someone with megalophobia, i had to reluctantly avoid these pictures because I wanted to understand. Unnaturally large objects had always absolutely terrified me. I even had nightmares of giants and they stuck with me. It sucks but it isn't life-limiting for me
Are you hiding from the sun during the day?
@@MrCmon113you’re looking at the sun?
@@usernameusernamex200I mean yeah you'll see it at the corner of your eye and i sometimes occasionally look at it directly.
I myself only ever get a bit spooked when I’m at the bottom looking up at large things irl. Whether it be a towering skyscraper or the cliff of a mountain, the fact that there appears to be no end to the object from that angle never fails to spook me.
When I was little, I'd have dreams of looking outside my window and seeing either the moon or massive planets close or covering the sky entirely. I still have them sometimes and they terrified me and still do. I didn't realize what I was experiencing was Astro megalophobia until recently.
I have those types of dreams too, all the time...
6:32 this reminds me of how when I first started playing no man’s sky, I had this really distinct feeling of fear every time I entered a new planets atmosphere. Like even though it’s a game as you get closer you see how gigantic the games planets actually are. And it was especially bad if it had a thick atmosphere or was an ocean planet
I had the same feeling while exploring the universe in starsector cuz of how eerie It was, you leave a bustling center with Constant signals and movement, to nothing, not a single signal, Just you and your ships, and the fact that there are abyssal and rogue ai's roaming around really makes you think of what awaits you in the next system.
Large objects do spark a feeling of fear in me but large other worldly LIVE things are what I find terrifying. I had a dream where a literal phoenix the size of a planet was in the sky. It was so massive, it literally covered the moon with it's wings in my dream. Just looking at it made me feel like I couldn't breathe. It was so overwhelmingly large.
Some kind of Astrophobia was the first real fear I felt as I child. I was maybe 5 and listening to a show on the TV talk about how scientist measure planets and galaxies and stuff, and the older man on the TV jokingly said something about how we don’t know how big the universe is, and in fact it may stretch on forever. It immediately gave me a pit in my stomach and a since of anxiety I had never felt. For years in one way or another the idea of something just going on forever, being so massive the smartest people in the world aren’t even sure how measuring it is possible, I don’t even know how to describe the feeling. That was decades ago and I still get the feeling sometimes when I look in the night sky, this surreal, crushing, dreadful feeling.
Videos like this are always fun to watch. Very informative :)
I only learned a couple years ago what Megalophobia was and that most people don't have it. I just thought it was normal to feel sick and want to lie face-down on the ground when looking up at tall buildings.
I used to have recurring dreams as a child about a boat that was so unfanthomably and impossibly huge that it gave me a feeling I have never felt since then. It gave me anxiety in a very different way, it was like looking at something that shouldnt be possible, and yet there it was, hovering over me like a giant staring down on me.
WHAT ive had a reoccurring fever induced nightmare as a child that had a gigantic boat too
@@tagar8332 so reflecting back at youre childhood is something an adult cant do? Seems like youre the one that has to grow up when you have this inaccurate view about how an mature person should behave. Youre probably insecure about youre own grade of maturity and therefore take that out on others. No mature person would ever seriously comment what you did and also use the word "bro" which I guess is a freqent word that you use.
@@tagar8332 Judged from youre other comments I guess you have zero idea what a metaphor is which is an indication of a low iq and also that youre not mentally stable.
@@tagar8332 ‘as a child’. They never said they still had those dreams/were afraid of them.
for some reason im obsessed with large scale objects seen in the horizon, theres something mesmerizing about them and so i tend to accomodate them in some of my artworks
I know I don’t have this fear, but boy howdy do these images make me feel just a bit unsettled. And I love it! Anytime I see any of these pictures, all I can imagine is me wandering around these unfathomably large spaces for eternity. Strangely enough, it calms me down. Being alone in a giant near endless space where the only limit is how far I can imagine
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I did a tour of some film studios on my last day of this film class I took and one of the sound stages we went into was ginormous. One open room, the height of 5 stories. There was a set of stairs in each side of the room that reached to the top of the room, revealing a giant catwalk that overlooked the entire space. Sometime about the space made me super unsettled. Maybe it was the size or maybe it was empty when it’s normally packed with people filming.
after a few videos you have become one of my favourite creators currently uploading. I love this content, keep it up!
What an awesome video. Narrated, edited, animated perfectly. This channel is some top tier content
I've been playing the indie game Fear and Hunger these past couple of weeks and I love it. There's a moment where (spoilers, obviously) you're adventuring in a village deep underground, made of rickety wood and clay huts. If you go deep enough, you'll find a wooden bridge overlooking a massive set of yellow lips and teeth, with ochre scales and gray filaments. It's a massive, massive mouth, with the rest of the body descending into the background. This is the God of the Depths, and it terrifies me. To see just a mouth peeking out of the abyss, so big that its lips are as wide as three people stacked on top of each other, makes me wonder the extent of this unseen creature. A lot of the game is unnerving, but I think the God of the Depths evokes a primal, deep-seated fear within me, rivaled only by the Uterus enemy, and that's because I have an intense fear of pregnancy.
Also this video sold me on Blame and Babbdi. They both seem so interesting!
I have a type of megalophobia where it mostly applies to interiors and round objects. When I was a kid, I constantly had fever, and in those nights I would hallucinate the room I'm in getting bigger and bigger and bigger, and they always gave me so much anxiety my parents had to calm me down and help me sleep; and one time those hallucinations took me to an endless flat land where the floor was white and then sudden massive pillars showed up that led to me having the worst panic attack in my life. Though I now very rarely have fever, those hallucinations led me to forcefully sleep facing the closest wall or I would get anxiety, and have a fear of the big things. Yet oddly enough, I LOVE futurism and massive, liminal buildings like the game you mentioned, where they give me comfort instead of anxiety. Oh but show me a royal room or massive hollow circles and I get anxious lmao
This sounds like a mix between megalophobia and altocelarphobia. Which is the fear of big open rooms and especially high ceilings. Maybe the latter really resonates with you?
Ever felt uncomfortable or disoriented when entering a giant church? Or a hangar? The feeling that if the room suddenly flipped upside down, you'd fall? That's Altocelarophobia.
I was hollering when you talk about Blame!. I love having lucid dream walking around the mega structure.
I think i have some sort of megalophobia, but i love it. I live in a small city so i'm not used to big buildings and structures and whenever i go outside at night and see how the cabins on the ferris wheel in our town (one of the biggest structures in our town, approx. 30 meters) are swinging in the wind, i always get this weird feeling that i just can't explain. I don't have this feeling when it's daytime, only when it's dark and the lights are off on the side of the ferris wheel. I love this feeling so i when im out at night i always love to look at it or other tall buildings like the clocktowers of churches.
This all reminds me of Gulliver's travel
In the second part he goes to a land of giants and makes a lot of comparison using day to day buildings; like comparing the set of royal stoves to Cathedrals, and the way the habitants live.
He stat that they were ugly, but not as in "not please looking" ugly, in the way that he could see wrinkles and skin marks from far away. Describing the way they ate were like animals chewing tearing up meat, and how he feared kids could be mean to "small animals like him" and how this was present to his day to day life, only he was not the small animal in that situation.
There's even an illustration in one of my books (i got 5 of them lol) where there's a group of sailors that are running away from a gigant (they're in a boat btw), and the sailors are shown paddling from what it seems to be a very deep water; but cutting back to the giant, the water reaches his knees, looking like just a middle deep poddle for him. It doesn't say much but i could read something a like "Our power is only as strong as our own knowledge"
One of the phrases that striked me the most was "Nothing is too big or too small if not the comparison", and this got me wonder that that land was normal to the habitants, and if it wasn't for Gulliver himself that land would never be known as a "Giant Land".
This is one of my favorites part of the book, I always read it to time to time just to get the "Maybe we're not alone in our own planet" idea alive
I have also read Gulliver's travel and can confirm that the line "Nothing is too big or too small if not the comparison" really got to me as well, everything must be put into perspective, from the perspective quarks or even the Planck length, we are larger than the universe itself, megalophobia is in the eye of the beholder.
You earned my sub, man. This video was excellent! One simply can tell how passionate you were in making this video, how you did the research and scripted it. I have to say, btw, that I found the video very relaxing, even though the subject matter is scary. I guess it is possible to simulteneously have megalophobia and megalophilia.
As a person with megalophobia let me explain my personal reason on why I have it so basically imagine that you are walking down the street and you take a glance at the big building near you. And you look away for a few seconds and you see the building collapse under its own weight right in front of you. Now that to me is one of my biggest fears ever.
You are an amazing content creator, I can't wait to see what your channel turns into over the years, I look forward to seeing what you have for us next
I remember being a little kid, and having a dream where my grandpa lost me in a grocery store. As soon as my hand left his, and I turned around to see where he went, I felt an incredible sense of dread and fear. The people around me became scary faceless humanoids, that completely ignored my presence as they shopped for strange items in suddenly unrecognizable text. When I realized I wasn't in danger, I noticed that the grocery store had become infinite in all directions, and I wound up exploring as far as I could. When I got to the toy aisle, things became absolutely absurd. Toy weapons were real, the action figures were life sized and sentient, and I talked and played with them until my grandpa found me in my dream. I woke up to him waking me and my older brother up for school. That is one of very few dreams I remember from my childhood that wasn'y a nightmare.
i JUST got done watching your liminal space video and subbing, great timing lol, anyway you make some great videos man, great job!
Same dude
Perfect timing, glad you're here!
@@brokenATM Double coincidence, thank you too!
@@Cresendex no problem man! just keep making great content on things you want to do
Awesome video man! Very informative
Very well made video! I really like the deatils and images you show. The commentary and editing style reminds me of solar sands, one of my favorite creators. Keep up the good work bro!
great video bro. i love the way you structured it, including multiple phobias instead of covering just one, and in such a short timeframe as well. this is mostly stuff that im already familiar with, but its really nice seeing it all laid out in such a neat way like this. looking forward to your future videos
I don't know if this has a relation to megalophobia but I've been dreaming of stairs so many times in my whole life.
Yes, stairs. Sometimes just normal stairs. Stairs in familiar places. Or maybe some escalators in the mall.
But I've dreamt of far weirder stairs: a rusty iron stairs that spirals up so high I can't see what's up there, stairs that goes into a vertical loop so I can't see what is hidden on the other side, stairs without railings on the (in)side of a building so tall it feels like on the edge of a chasm...
In most of my dreams the stairs are just some liminal space I went through, but sometimes the whole dream revolves those odd and bizzare stairs.
Perhaps I'm not the only one?
I have weird reoccuring dreams of water parks. Creepy ones most notably. Weird feeling unique just to that but I don't think it's relayed
sending this to my non-megalophobia friends so they understand my suffering
Definetly and one of the most primal fears. I either become fascinated by the immense things or they feel pathologically scary.
I have a fear for big things... but it's more of a thrill, every time I see one I can't help but be so intrigued...
They can be fascinating, and as you said thrilling.
How in the world do you have so few subscribers, this is absolutely amazing stuff, man! Definitely gonna suggest you to some people!
Cause they just started
Thank you for the support, amazing comments from people like you are really what get me going.
Cool, that’s my photo at 0:26. Glad it’s making it’s way around the web.
I found it fascinating yet appalling at the same time when a rainstorm is coming in the distance and because of clouds you just see these massive flashes of light in the sky, far away but big enough to cover most of your view. Like a impossibly giant camera flash going off at random.
I feel like Warhammer 40k should be an amazing setting for Megalophobia. I say should, because everything in the setting is blown way out of proportion when it comes down to the lore, but I feel like visual material rarely does that justice. Then again, I don't have that phobia, so I can't judge it.
For example, the most important structure for humanity in the setting is the Imperial Palace on Earth (or Terra), it's the size of a continent (Asia I think) and parts of it reach through the atmosphere. Earth itself is just one massive city. There's plenty of other examples, but I feel like the Palace is true bonkers. Unfortunately there's hardly any illustrations for it.
Actually would have been a great idea now that I researched it a little more, I would have included it had I known about it.
@@Cresendex Oh well, the video isn't worse off for it I think. I really loved it either way, Blame had me fascinated as hell.
I was literally just thinking about this especially Mars since its basically one giant robot in 40k
The moon is one of my biggest fears. Especially when it gets slightly closer so you can see the patterns on it.
Knowing the moon is still really far away yet big enough that ypu can get a good look at it is HORRIBLE
The only thought I have is "What if it fell on us?"
moonfall:
I'm pretty sure that the moon is actually moving away from us, but very very slowly.
And we only had three days to evacuate earth 😂
Looking at the moon: HORRIBLE 😂 breathe oxygen bro
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
Every time I see a giant thing, I always have a feeling of it falling towards me. That's scary, unsettling but excited at the same time.
Another thing that is somewhat related to Megalophobia is Lilapsophobia the fear of Tornadoes, Hurricanes & other huge weather bodies. Tornadoes are probably the most scary in my opinion. I do have a deep fascination with tornadoes but I also have a slight fear of them. Huge cone like clouds that rotate & are strong enough to life whole entire buildings here on earth is somewhat frightening.
SAME!
I'm not saying it's a plagiarized video or anything, but the points brought up here were included in videos by Jakob Geller and solar sands in "games that don't fake their spaces" And "monumentality" Respectfully.
Even if this video just happened to include those same thoughts on accident, it's also a pretty interesting thought that a person statistically could live their whole life and never think of an original idea just by how much thoughts and ideas have already been thought up and shared through the history.
A big inspiration was the monumentality video which I have credited in the description, Jacob Geller's video was the reason I played Babbdi, I wanted to review it in a way that fit the theme of the video and tried my best not to copy Jacob Geller.
Your voice doesn't sound the same as his, but your narration is pretty much the same as solar sands. Idk if that's what you're going for, but maybe in time you can put your own spin on it.
I didn't expect to see Beksiński mentioned in the video, but it's a really good example. Personally I'm not really afraid of huge stuff, but it's always been fascinating to me.
one time i had a dream where i was in some fancy baroque themed mansion or castle or whatever, and I entered this room, and it was HUGE.
It didnt have giant furniture or anything, it was a regular room with regular sized furniture, except there was so much space in it that it might as well have been an entire stadium. The furniture were also placed as usual, except they were extremely far away from eachother, as if only the walls and the ceilings have been resized.
Upon entering this room, and realizing just how large it was, I was shocked and extremely unsettled. eventually I woke up, but this dream still stuck to me to this day, and I get reminded of it whenever I feel unsettled by extremely large structures or spaces.
I experience megalophilia rather than -phobia, and I watched this to give myself new stuff to be fascinated by! Thanks! 😊
as someone who has megalophobia, i really dont fear the photos instead for me its being near insanely large things such as tall buildings
Literally same.
Same!
I love these essay form videos. I feel like your content is inspired by Solar Sands by the way some segments integrate with one another or with seemingly random transitions from topic to another.
Anyways, earned a sub and a like, I will be there when you by the time youre already too big to remember me, keep it up!
I'm from Mexico, and i confirm, i like to dance arround fire even without music.
GREAT VIDEO :3
I literally searched for gold but found diamond. I was shoked by this video. Even though I have been using CZcams daily for years, this one was the most shocking. I expected just to see photos of gigantic things, but never expected this video to be a rollercoaster of emotions. Never happen to me before.
It. was. Perfect...
My megalophobia is pretty mild; it only kicks in when I'm physically near large structures (in real life and in video games). Even then the anxiety typically isn't THAT severe, though I will turn a game off if it catches me by surprise with something that triggers the phobia. I've been able to achieve some exposure therapy in the game Tear Down though!
bro basically spent 17 minutes telling me my fears and feels were valid. thanks king 🤝🙏
The video was already very nice, but you talked about Blame! now it's a banger
Interesting video! You really put a lot of effort in these videos, keep it up. ))
I’ve got megalophobia myself (not severe but it does trigger my anxiety) and the thing about inanimate objects like ships or statues freak me out because they could still potentially hurt people if they moved. The worst, though, is the pics of spaceships. That’s just completely unnatural
Oh my goodness me too me too! Those exact things. I remember taking a field trip to some space related place and there was a piece of a spaceship on display. I just so happen to be right up next to as I was walking in the room. When I tell you I wanted to retreat into my own body and go *boop* 😂
Oh my god, and the scene in Ponyo when that ship comes in? If you know what I'm talking about. If you do, keep in mind I saw in theaters and was sitting at the mid-high part of the seats and in the middle.
@@j.l.4338why though? Spaceships are cool.
@@paperclip6377 from very far away 🥲
I might have megalophobia but it only triggers from large objects in terms of width instead of height. Like, im not intimidated by any towering structures but if I see something that occupies huge amount of horizontal space, like a huge tapestry or tarpaulin for example, it's giving me cold feet.
Ironically Im a fan of giant monsters (kaijus and whatnot) and clouds but if I stare at the clouds for too long and my brain starts to see it in a different perspective it might trigger my megalophobia.
I dont know, it's weird.
Great video! And thanks for bringing Babbdi to my attention :)
Awesome video, earned my sub
I do not have megalophobia, though I do have thallasophobia. So I can very much understand the core of megalophobia, also this video made me really wanna play Babbdi. So all and all great video man I'm excited to see more from you especially to learn for my own videos.
And you should play Babbdi because it is honestly an amazing game, also thanks for the support!
MEGALOPHOBIA: The fear of Sans Undertale
Sans undertale fnaf
Funny
MEGALOPHOBIA: Fear of a song you love getting turned into megalovania
:)
Lolz
I'm from Costa Rica, not very big mountains here. But a few months ago I watched a video from a car driving through the Cordillera de los Andes, Perú. Those mountains were huge! The camara didnt fit like not even half of how massive they were. Truly a random but amazing experience in my mind. Love the vid!
Wow I really liked this video a lot… I especially found the section about babbdi really interesting because of how it depicts the city so realistically but it also gives you a lot of flexibility in exploration. Although the game is supposed to inflict fear, I find the aspect of the city being sad and empty and never ending oddly comforting… even tho the primary goal of the game is to just take a train ticket home, the pure scale of the city gives me sort of a sense of freedom to just keep exploring the city and to wander around but I feel like it also leaves u to wonder about the people and the history of the town. Sorry if this is badly explained I tried my best 💀
huge things scare me but their also beautiful.
And fascinating in a way, a civilization has to be at least semi-capable in order to make large things, so maybe that's where the fascination comes from, knowing a civilization is advanced enough to build something so massive.
They’re*
This has got to be my new favorite video. You go into so much depth and explain it in such a way that makes sense to everyone. I can see how much effort was put into this video. Especially it being 17 minutes long must have took a while to edit.
He has an annoying voice
Thanks, appreciate it!
As a kid i visited the caves of Hotton in wallonia, belgium with my parents, and standing at the bottom of these huge chambers with stalactites drooping down filled me with a deep discomfort of how small i was compared to them. I recently visited them again with my mom and it was so nostalgic, but somehow that feeling of dread was still there. its fascinating.
Sometimes when look up in a room, mostly rooms with high ceilings but not necessarily, I get this really weird tingling sensation in my stomach.
It’s as if the ceiling suddenly rises to unfathomable heights in a matter of a second and I feel really small.
It’s a terrifying experience but I also kinda love it.
While I do not have megalophobia, I definitely can see where the fear stems from. The only thing that I WAS afraid of when I was little (or, at least, a little intimidated by) was something that actually isn’t on earth at all. I remember driving to the local pharmacy with my dad and sister, not expecting to see a giant super moon on the horizon. I don’t know why, but, when you put the actual scale of the moon into perspective (as well as the fact that the moon appears larger and more orange when closer horizon), it’s a bit unnerving to see a colossal sphere that takes up a great portion of the night sky. Even though the moon is a great distance away from the Earth, unlike mountains and other giant structures, it’s always in view when in the sky. Hell, you could say the same thing about the sun, but at least it’s what gives us blue skies. The moon, on the other hand, is paired with a pitch black sky of distant stars and maybe a few clouds.
Your mum feels this fear whenever I visit
I feel this fear whenever I visit your mom
The best rivalry ever.
Yeah should be the other way round
@@er4din903 No because my shlong is grotesquely large
@@er4din903you didnt get the joke
Fantastic video
The first time I experienced megalophobia was while watching Ice Age. There’s a scene where the characters walk through an ice cave and one moment has Sid notice something and the shot pans out to him looking at a flying saucer frozen in the ice. Sid is absolutely minuscule in this shot and all I remember is feeling extremely dizzy and nauseous seeing such a sight. It set the fear into me and I’ve experienced fear of large objects all through childhood, even having dreams of wandering through gigantic Victorian machinery and architecture. I don’t experience it as much as I used to (I guess from desensitisation) but recently, I experienced it again. I live not far away from a power plant with those huge condensation towers and while I’m not affected by them, one night while getting someone from the train station next to the plant, the towers were engulfed in steam. In limited light, I just made out the outline of one of the towers in the fog and I completely froze. I haven’t felt crippling fear like that in a while.
amazing video
Thanks! So thankful for the support I'm getting right now.
Great video. You left out giant mountains, though. Whenever I see base shots of places like Everest, the Matterhorn, certain shots of the rockies and alps, it triggers my megalophobia. I know I can't be the only one. Yet I love to mountain climb and camp at the bases. Perhaps it's more of an intimidation feeling?
You are definitely not alone, I once got lost on a hike in the mountains, and just wandered for an hour, seeing how large the mountains were around me really put my situation into perspective.
Hooh, dude you have to see how little mountains look from space in comparison to how we see it. They look like little tiny ridges and bumps, it's crazy.
@@hydrasevens I've seen them on Google Earth and on several flights, they look like lines in the dirt. lol
@@Cresendex That must of been terrifying. I've come close to being lost and that was bad enough. I like to hike alone, soo.
It wasn't too bad, I hadn't lost the trail I was just left behind, wandering alone.
Very captivating video!
When I dream or think about huge objects ir structures, it's kind of calming. A feeling of nostalgia.