origin: William S Burroughs, LETTER FROM A MASTER ADDICT ON DANGEROUS DRUGS: "Cannabis Indica (hashish, marijuana). --The effects of this drug have been frequently and luridly described: disturbance of space-time perception, acute sensitivity to impressions, and flight of ideas, laughing jags, silliness. Marijuana is a sensitizer, and the results are not always pleasant. It makes a bad situation worse. Depression becomes despair, anxiety panic. I have already mentioned my horrible experience with marijuana during acute morphine withdrawal. I once gave marijuana to a guest who was mildly anxious about something ("On bum kicks" as he put it). After smoking half a cigarette he suddenly leapt to his feet screaming, "I got the fear!" and rushed out of the house."
by stendhalismo March 17, 2005
An emotion which, irrespective of whatever previous emotion you were feeling, instantaneously makes you feel like you are going to die, fills your entire body with adrenaline and sends your heart rate off the scale.
Fear was a very useful evolutionary advance for millions of years, keeping mankind one step ahead of predators and snakes and shit but unfortunately it still occurs in trivial situations, such as:
- when you lean back on your chair to the point it feels like it might suddenly tip over
- when you are eating food in the street and you almost drop a bit on the floor
- when you have been smoking weed with your bong buddies for a few hours and a group of very tall, charismatic people you haven't met before suddenly show up
- when your girlfriend almost discovers the stash of tranny porn you acquired years ago but completely forgot about...until right now
Fear was a very useful evolutionary advance for millions of years, keeping mankind one step ahead of predators and snakes and shit but unfortunately it still occurs in trivial situations, such as:
- when you lean back on your chair to the point it feels like it might suddenly tip over
- when you are eating food in the street and you almost drop a bit on the floor
- when you have been smoking weed with your bong buddies for a few hours and a group of very tall, charismatic people you haven't met before suddenly show up
- when your girlfriend almost discovers the stash of tranny porn you acquired years ago but completely forgot about...until right now
"Are you coming to the pub?"
"No man I got severely drunk in there last night and exposed myself to everyone. I can't face their accusing eyes until the fear goes away."
"No man I got severely drunk in there last night and exposed myself to everyone. I can't face their accusing eyes until the fear goes away."
by Mr. Cardboard October 31, 2011
by pljhgd September 11, 2006
by jim June 24, 2003
by McKullicuddy March 09, 2008
When you know exams/ essay deadines are coming up, but for some reason you just don't care enough to do any work, until at the last possible minute (oftern when it's already too late), the Fear hits you and you suddenly find the ability to work through the night and til the morning.
Jack: Don't you have an essay due on Friday?
Jill: yeah but I can't do it, I've not got the Fear yet.
Ben: Hey,when was the last time you slept man?
Jean: Can't sleep... got the Fear.
Jill: yeah but I can't do it, I've not got the Fear yet.
Ben: Hey,when was the last time you slept man?
Jean: Can't sleep... got the Fear.
by chocolate clover January 20, 2008
While tripping on LSD, I encountered the fundamental "fear" of death. Then I realized that "I" don't exist and that emotions are just flow. I watch thoughts now, calmly as I wait for the watcher to fully dissolve into nothingness.
by MirroringAwareness January 31, 2010