1 I understand the difference between reality and fantasy. I know that zombies aren’t real and that it’s probably impossible (hopefully) for something like a zombie to exist, but I’m still terrified of them. Before I go any further I should probably define what a zombie is. I’m talking about the Romero zombies, the Dawn of the Dead remake and the 28 Days Later “zombies” (though not truly zombies because they are not dead, but it makes little difference). I don’t know what it is about zombies that scare me, I suppose it’s a number of things.
- They are basically an unstoppable force. A blow (bulltet) to the head/brain will kill them but otherwise they’ll just keep coming. An unstoppable tsunami of the dead will wash across the land and devour every last soul until there is nothing left. (Poetic, isn’t it.)
- The conformity. I think that this was one of the biggest commentaries that Romero was giving in his original Day of the Dead. All people will conform. They will all be the same and any who try to fight it will eventually be consumed and then they too will become one of the dead.
- If you get bit… it’s over. This is the one that scares me the most. Anybody that is bitten will turn into one of the dead. There is no stopping it.
There are a number of other things that scare me (like the insatiable hunger) but those three are really the ones that do it. The funny thing about my fear of zombies is that as much as they freak me out, I love reading books and watching movies about them. I can’t get enough of the zombie genre.
P.S. Kinemortophobie is fear of the moving dead.
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Amazing. I thought I was alone on this. I too, love watching movies and reading on Zombies, but I’m terrified of them. If I watch a movie (which isn’t TOO often) I stay up half the night for a week not able to stop thinking of the “what if” possibilities.
There are more of us out there than you would think.
i always thought i was silly for being afraid of zombies, i never knew that there were other people who live with this fear everyday. i’ve been dealing with this phobia since i was 4 years old, when i watched my first zombie movie. its so horrible, it’s ruining my life… because of this fear i have also have developed many other phobias such as kenophobia/agoraphobia (fear of open spaces; being alone in a big area), nocturophobia (fear of the dark), and to a certain degree claustraphobia (only if i’m shut inside an unfamiliar room). i used to have an addiction for zombie movies (its such an andrenaline rush to be scared like that) but after i would watch a movie it could take months, even YEARS for me to get over it.. so i finally decided to stop.. but i still take sleeping pills to avoid nightmares. lol ppl reading this must think i’m crazy… but i try not to effect my daily life too much, i’m alright as long as i’m not alone…
I know exactly how you feel. I live very close to a graveyard and get the chills every time i pass it. I dream about zombies at least once a week. I used to watch zombie movies all the time as a child and was afraid but not as scared as I am now. I am 24 years old and am terrified of the thought of the walking dead. I don’t think that this could ever happen but it still plagues me.
yeh since i watched i am legend i got anxiety of being alone in the dark etc…but knowimg im not alone helps =D
I am afraid of zombies too!!! I got the Zombie Survival Guide for Christmas just to be safe. 28 Weeks Later zombies scare the hell out of me because they RUN, but I love that movie.
You are not alone.
Hey guys, I’m terrified to! Glad to know I’m not the only one. Maybe if there is an attack will end up trapped in a basement together some where waiting for them to starve to death …. haha, that’s not funny. Is there any way to treat Kinemortophobie
I’ve been embarassed about my fear of zombies. I always want to watch zombie movies, and I know I shouldn’t because they scare me. Sean of the Dead freaks me out, even though it’s funny too. I want to find a way to not be so afraid. I was looking for answers when I found this site. Has anyone ever taken precautions to a possible zombie attack?
I’m so glad I’m not the only person who feels this way. I’m terrified of the idea of Zombies, I cannot read/watch/hear someone talk about Zombies without becoming uneasy! I remember when my fear kicked in – my sister played the Resident Evil games non-stop when I was quite young (although I don’t remember the age exactly). I watched her play once and the sounds and suspense terrified me. After that, I’ve had this phobia. My friend Rob thought it was hilarious to mimic Zombie sounds/movement until I hit him in the face.
Why do people find a serious phobia like this so hilarious?
I have been afraid of zombies for as long as I could remember (I’m only 23) but it didnt kick in 100% until I saw 28 days later (i could only watch like the first 20 minutes of it, b/c) I had never heard of a movie where the zombies were RUNNING, I was ok thinking that they were slow movers but that’s so freaking scary! I cant even talk about it without shaking and becoming paranoid. I have escape routes in case this should ever happen (for the most part I know it’s not real but you gotta be prepared for the worst) and if I see a picture I get a shooting pain in my chest it’s bad…my b/f took me to see 28 weeks later and I walked out and sat in the lobby of the theater until it was over…he doesn’t get that I am truly terrified of them…I’m glad theres a name for it. I feel better knowing that there are other people like me…
I have seen the films but wouldn’t have if I knew how much they have affected me – I always seem to walk in half way through just as someone is getting eaten! Once I went to the cinema with a friend who loves watching them and I spent the whole time underneath my coat – so scared – I couldn’t move incase one of the people in the audience was a zombie and jumped on me as I was trying to get out. I have an overactive imagination as it is without having zombies thrown in for good measure.
I always image them running after me in the dark! At night I usually have to run to my house with the keys out ready just incase they are there waiting to eat me. Any noises in my house I automatically think that it is them. Everyone that I tell about this – laughs and says don’t be so silly they aren’t real but they could be more real then you think? Why couldn’t a disease infect people and turn them into raving flesh eating zombies? Im sure stranger things have happened.
I don’t watch any horror movies now just incase they have zombies in, I just cant handle thinking that one misty night im going to see someone in the middle of the road, stumbling. They see me and start to make the noises that I dread and then begin to run! I can’t help how I feel but don’t know what to do about this to make me stop worrying about it??
It’s even affecting my fun – I went to Alton Towers and my friend not long ago and she made me go into the haunted house with her, thought it wouldn’t be that bad as even children are allowed in! Well how wrong was I? I was so scared I spent the whole ride stamping my feet with my eyes shut and screaming for my life. I came out white as I sheet and felt so sick. I had to sit down for half an hour before I could carry on, I didn’t end up staying long after that. All because im so scared of what could possibly one day become real.
thank you so much for posting this.
i have this fear, its not even fear its more of a I LOSE SLEEP EVERY NIGHT THINKING ABOUT ZOMBIES. I hope that none of this ever happens. I hate thinking about the WHAT IFS…
but thanks again for posting this, finally someone who understands.
You are not alone.
& Im not crazy.
I did not fear zombies until Dawn of the Dead. I wake up almost every morning wondering if there will be chaos outside of my window. -.-;; I have nightmares about zombies. No joke. *sigh*
Omg! i am so scared about zombies but i do love to watch the films and stuff i just don’t like the consequences! i really want to watch dead set on E4 but i think i am just too scared !!
I used to have complete kinemortophobia but I worked through it. To anyone else who doesn’t see a way out of their fear, you’re not alone and you never will be. Zombies play erratically on the human need to survive and tug at all our childish impulses.
Ok, Here is my guide to moving through you’re sleepless nights.
1. Watch Horror movies during the day. If you watch them at night, say in a dark room, it kick starts the ‘fight or flight’ response, which results in coarsing adreniline through your system – and there is no way you’re going to be able to relax or sleep when you’re that worked up. Or if you’ve got to watch the movie, (i.e. at the cinema or with friends) at night, then always follow with some light viewing afterwards (I find Pretty Woman does an excellant job) becuase not only does it reassure you but it calms you’re mind down, making your feel more secure and in reality.
2. The only way to efficiently banish you’re fear is so DESENSITIZE yourself. Remember the first time you were truly scared? I was scared of Groucho off Sesame Street. But the more I was exposed to him, I realised how silly my initial fear was. So watch Zombie movies, make jokes of them (even if you’re on you’re own) and make them an unspecial occassion. Violence becomes less shocking the more you’re exposed to it, same with sex (remember how gross the idea seemed when you were a kid), so you just have to keep exposing yourself to it untill it is no longer a big deal.
3. If you’re feeling a little paranoid then lighten up the atmosphere, make a cup of tea, watch some chat show (Friday Night Project with Justin and Jimmy is brilliant) or if you’re American I’m not really sure …. erm Connan O’Brian? Lol.
4. Once you’re over a fear from a particular movie or book that sent you on a sleepless night, DON’T WATCH ANOTHER ONE.
5. Good Luck.
i am sooo glad that im not the only one who fears zombies.
i am 16 years old and it all started when i watched shaun of the dead, i was fine about it at first but then i went out side and thought everyone was zombies it terrified me. and now i have to sleep facing my door at night just in case and have a baseball bat under my bed and peopl laugh at me when i tell them. but im glad im not alone!!
I am so glad to have stumbled across this site! I am 23 and have been phobic about zombies my entire life. I don’t go into a building without thinking out ways to fortify it. I even make my son who’s 2 sleep with me sometimes so he will be near if there is an attack! It is irrational I know but that’s what makes a phobia. It finally started interfering with my job so now I avoid zombie movies like the plauge!!!!
I am so glad that there is finally a diagnosis for my phobia! For years I have been crippled by the thought of a zombie uprising. I know that it is unrational and unreal, but I never say it aloud- because the sceptics are always the first to die in a zombie situation. I sleep with a loaded shotgun in case of the worst case scenario and have nightmares about it even if someone brings up the word “zombie.” My heart is pounding in my chest right now!
i have a small collection of zombie movies. i first saw them in the seventh grade when i watched “Return of the Living Dead” for three months my sleep was disrupted or never even happened. to this day i have nightmares at least once a month but i still have some sick desire to watch these movies, i even like zombie games and dressing up like a zombie for Halloween. glad to know there are others, i thought i was weird.
Yo… i can’t even explain my thoughtz on zombiez!! I can’t even ride in a trainstation with people i don’t even know if i think about zombiez, because i think about what if somebody iz goin to come up on me and bite me if i’m sleepin on the train, or if i’m not payin attention… I don’t even lyk thinkin about zombiez when i first meet a person, because i think about that person being infected, and they don’t know it, and then at a sleepover or somethin, they turn on me, and eat me! i don’t lyk watchin zombie moviez, because everytime i look at the screen my legz start shaking… i can’t stand it, whoever came up with zombiez should’ve kept it to themselvez, itz aggravatin not being able to go out late at night walking down the street thinking about some odd looking person under the light pole iz staring at me, and when i look away and look back, their running after me!!! but itz nice to know that i’m not the only one thinking about this kind of stuff, by the way i’m only 13 thinking about all the different possibilitez that could happen… ugh!
Just like everyone else here I really thought I was alone in this or that at least it wasn’t a recognised phobia! I’ve had panic attacks lying in bed before and all sorts! I have a total strategies planned out in the event of “Z-Day” and everything!
I’m thinking of getting some help. I need to start sleeping again!
I seriously thought I was the only person with this phobia. Zombies scare the shit out of me. I remember when I first went to see Dawn of the Dead when i was about 11 or 12 (I’m 16 now) and how the theater barley had any people sitting in it and I thought zombies were just going to pop in. I’ve seen a lot of zombie movies since then but I just can’t help myself. My friends think it’s funny but they don’t know how deadly afraid I am of them. I also have plans of how to escape and survive if there is a zombie attack. When I’m driving around with friends or family I’ll be looking at houses with flat roofs so that if a zombie pops up we can pull over, get stuff and go on the roof and wait it out, I sometimes do it unconciously and when i realize im doing it I try to stop. It scares me so much that when I’m old enough I’m getting myself a gun. I’m glad I found this, now when my friends make fun of me I can tell them that I’m not the only one.
I cant believe theres a name for this phobia, im amazed! Iv never really likedhorror movies but I watched 28 days later and thought ”my god,I wish I hadnt just watched that”. Iv had a few dreams about them and they have seemed so real that its actually affected me for a few days after, it mainly comes on when im stressed or anxious about something, its like my anxiety manifests itself as my worse fear which is zombies! I know they arn’t real but I sometimes think ”imagine if I started seeing them and they started wandering about and running at me” its so strange but it would just terrify me! I think thats what feeds the fear that I might go mad and start seeing them I just have to work through it and keep telling myself that other people have this and its all related to anxiety.
im so scared of zombies im only 12 im sh**ing my self i cant get to sleep im always getting up thinking theres a zombies at my front door so im so scared i need tips to get to sleep thank you
i too have a fear of zombies. i love watching the movies even the cheesy ones and playing zombie video games but afterward I always have zombie nightmares. However what I dont understand is how all of you insist it is an irrational fear and it could never happen. If we can clone things and reproduce cells and thats just what we KNOW we can do (who knows what the military can do) whos to say that in 10-20 years they will not be able to reanimate bodies. Also new vireses are found everyday and man is making some of these so who is to say that some one wont one day make a viris that not nessacarily brings the dead back to life but creates a situation like 28 days later. I just dont see how it is such an irrational fear. It could happen.
I just woke from another nightmare about zombies.. In an attempt to “feel better/safer”, I’m listening to Bjork and have spent the past ten minutes reading all of the above entries. I’m so petrified, I actually don’t know what I can do. I’m always thinking about what could happen if there was an outbreak.. would I turn all ‘fighty’ and run or just commit suicide? If you chose to fight (which would be likely, as your primal urges to preserve yourself would kick in to an insane degree!) you would spent the rest of your existence ON THE RUN – everyone dying, turning into ‘them’ and leaving you alone in a dying world of dusty nothing.. some life! Despite this, you would continue to hope and fantasize about a ‘cure’ and salvation, freedom from the nightmare. That alone might keep you runnning and wanting to survive just incase there was a chance of redeeming it all. I’d like to think that I would just commit suicide. Even though suicide is absolute and irreversible, you would still be saving yourself from the perpetual horrors of a life on the run. Even if there was a slight chance of it all getting better, you would still be alone. The world could be scratched back together again, but you would still be alone. The virus could be cured, but if it happened once it could happen again. You would be left with nothing – no loved ones, no house – KILL ME I’M SO FREAKING TERRIFIED.
I’m so desensitized in all other areas, it’s just the THOUGHT that zombification could occur that drives me up the wall. I think that Grace’s comment about trying to make yourself ‘less scared’ by exposing yourself to more of the material that actually makes you scared is a good idea. Although, watching more zombie movies just might fuel my imagination and leave me to have even more horrifying nightmares. Whatever happens, I hope nothing like this ever happens to us in this lifetime.
Oh my god I’m so glad I’m not alone! I am TERRIFIED of zombies. It impairs my daily life! My boyfriend doesn’t get home from work until 3am usually and I WILL NOT go to bed until he gets home. I can’t take the dogs out at night.. and I refuse to live in an apartment or townhouse in case of a zombie attack. It’s ridiculous! THIS ISN’T REAL and I KNOW IT ISN’T. But if I know this then why does it still scare me so much?
Fuck, did anyone else see Quarantine?! *shudder*
I dont think that taking precautions help that much, it makes you feel safer but it also makes you think that it is easier to believe that it will actually happen and 2 comforting thoughts i have found are: Zombie plagues have to start in one area and the chances of it being in your area would be very very low. and second… think of the video games, if a zombie apocalypse does come weapons will be strewn about conveniently on the floor
Thank God, there are other people who get this fear. My friends all love horror and zombie movies, and I have to watch with them. I spend the whole time freaking out on the couch, curled up and praying that if a zombie shows up it’ll go after them first so I could run.
It was never that bad before, I would watch a scary movie and spend a few nights trying not to believe that every noise is the unsteady shuffle of an army of the dead coming to get me! but lately I’v been having nightmares and panic attacks at just the thought of going somewhere at night. I think it was that new book “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies that got everything rolling in my head, and now it just cannon balled. Grace seems to have a good idea, but what if it just fuels my fear? I have a fairly overactive imagination already.
Its not even the fear of being turned into a zombie, cause your not aware of that (i think) its the fear of being hunted and eaten alive.
this is totally irrational but its real, thank you for this posting.
i no how you feel i watched dawn of the dead and has nightmares for two years the first thing in my mind aways is zombies its very rare i forgot them im reading cell to try to get over it but its hard its good to no im not the only one
I didn’t think that this was even a real phobia and that I was the only one who had this effect their everyday life. I can’t be alone or in the dark or outside at night or even take a shower at home alone without thinking I’m going to be attacked by zombies. It is such a horrible feeling and I feel like I’m going to have a panic attack everytime.. It’s good to know that I’m not alone though and that I’m not crazy.
Oh my goodness! I have always thought that i was alone. I never knew that there was others out there who shared my fear. i always thought that it was being extremly irrational and childish, i even went as far as planning out what would if zombies were to invade.
i, like a lot of people, have a huge fear of zombies. sometimes i wake up in the middle of the night because of the nightmares. i know its stupid, but the only problem i have is with my husband. he knows how i am when it comes to the ‘undead’ and all he really does is poke fun at it…. the whole funny part about being scared of zombies is that i can watch the movies and read the books, but my dreams are what get the best of me sometimes.
Like everyone else on here I have an irrational fear of zombies. There was a time when I would run outside to take the garbage out then bolt back in. When ever I go somewhere I always think how I could exit easily, or if I am on holiday where would be a good place to bunker down.
I ussually have a reoccuring dream that is always the same where I am on the run during a zombie uprising and the reoccuring theme is the safety of a blue coloured playground. I have had this dream at least 50 times. But in the last 2 years I havent had it quite so much. But its good to see Im not the only one here with this phobia
Wow, this is interesting. I don’t know if im actually a phobiac because I don’t get affected as much as before, but I’ll let u guys decide. My fear of zombies began when i was five and i saw Night of the Living dead with my father. He would notice how shocked/intrigued i was with the movie and would try to reassure me by saying “relax son, they are not evil or bad, they’re just hungry.” that… did not help. The fear slowly grew and by the time Resident Evil came out, it was on its peak. My friends tricked me into watching Resident Evil 2, that left me sleepless for a week. 28 Days Later, the concept of them actually being able to run was unbearable. Shaun of the Dead, helped slightly but still disturbed me. Land of the Dead, helped alot because the concept of zombies wielding guns gave it a very humorous look. 28 Weeks Later scared me but i managed to remain calm and i slept well. Resident evil 3 had absolutely no effect whatsoever. Quarantine, on the other hand, showed me a major revelation: In that movie, what caused the people to become zombies was a type of mutated version of the rabies. With the way biological weaponry is being developed, its would be no surprise that it could be possible. Zombieland, which i recently saw gave me one dream but nothing major. Playing games like resident evil helped but at first i had to play around 5 minutes during the mornin and it had to be sunny outside. I eventually began progressing into playing more during the night etc
I think the dreams are what affected me the most because my dreams would be extremely graphic and real. I would dream about myself watchin tv and suddenly, “breaking news, a massive riot is taking place where the attackers are actually “biting” people.” Some dreams include locations like the inside of buildings or even my own house. Most of them take place during the day, but it has to be cloudy, always cloudy and i would always wake up before they can actually bite me.
Its amazing how the mind works in these situations. I’ve thought about the different places I would go to stock up, where to find food, where to be safe, etc. Their images would pop up randomly when its really cloudy outside or if its nighttime. Most of my plans usually end up with me leaving the island (i live in PR) and living on a yatch out in the ocean XD
My hobbies which include Volleyball, Drawing, Writing stories and lyrics have helped me alot, but I’ve concluded (with me) that constant exposure has helped overcome it as well. Nevertheless, if an outbreak occurs, (as dark as it sounds) suicide can become a possibility. But like i said in the beginning, it doesnt affect me as much anymore, but talking about it helps as well. Good Luck to everyone!
Thanks so much for posting this. It DOES sound crazy when you tell others that you are so afraid of something that doesn’t even exist that you have to run into your home, or that you freak out when you’re home alone sometimes, but it’s the same for me. Even reading this website is making my blood pulse! I try not to even let myself think about zombies, or even dead bodies, at all- just for fear that it might trigger a panic attack. It sounds so stupid, but it is definitely real.
I do not, however, think that attempting to desensitize yourself will work. The few times that I have been exposed to these types of films, or even still frames of the films, I have ended up curled into a ball crying. Sitting through an entire movie would not happen.
Ya’ll don’t know how much it helps to know there are others out there with this fear. I’m 35 and have been scared of zombies for 15 years. It doesn’t affect my daily life much but without many different prescriptions over the years I would get no sleep.Ambien is what I am currently using. I am in the group that loves Movies books and games. My shrink has determined that the games can be therapeutical. Another thing that I have done is to make my house as zombie proof as possible. And my room is really a safe zone. Maybe I have gone to far but the way I figure it is better to much safety than not enough encase an outbreak/Zday happens. Some of my friends that i have told like to laugh at my fear. but because of my preparedness if you ask them what they would do if zombies attacked they all say they would “get to Marks house.” Shoot who knows maybe I’ll do more research and start a Zombie/Infected survival school. Oh and if you havent seen Zombie Land its a great movie…Rule 1 cardio. till later be safe all my fellow Kinemortophobia peeps.
I am so glad I stumbled onto this page. My friends all take the mick out of me with this phobia and I really don’t see how it is funny. My fear first started during 28 days later, I actually sat and cried through that dratted film. The thing that scares me the most is if it did come real which is impossible (fingers crossed) how would you protect everyone you cared about? You couldn’t. I have it manily is the 28 days later “zombies” which scare me, they’re jus mindless, violent and they RUN! Fast! I hate the fact others don’t take it sensibly and that it has begun affecting other parts of my life. I don’t get the nightmares others do but when it’s dark sometimes I get so scared I’m paralyzed and can’t think what to do in case something is there. I know the advice is to desensitize yourself by keep on watching it but I can’t bring myself to watch 28 days later again. I watched 28 weeks later twice and all that did was reinforce my fear. I’m just glad I’m not the only one who feels like this.
I realised I was scared of zombies after watching Shaun of the Dead and being much more scared than humoured. I tried to avoid zombie films after that but they were popping up everywhere. I made the mistake of telling my housemates that I was kinemortophobic, they didn’t take it seriously. They exploited it and kept pretending to be zombies. One night they were so cruel that I stayed locked in my room for 24 hours and pee’d in a bowl rather than going to the toilet.
I stupidily agreed to watch 28 weeks later at the cinema having found 28 days later watchable. I spent the whole movie frozen in my chair holding my friends sleeve and screaming. I remember going to the toilet afterwards and my hands were tremoring like crazy. My imagination is my real enemy. I’ve recently had 3 terrifying zombie dreams in 2 nights and I’m too scared to leave the house. =(
Wow… I always thought I was alone n crazy for having this fear. I have had this since I could remember. I think it started when I would go to church as a kid n when they discussed the book of revalations stated god said the dead would walk, that did it for me! Later finding out zombies are a source of voodoo didn’t help either! I know they’re are forces in this life we don’t know about n I pray this isn’t one of them. I have huge attacks when I watch zombie movies, my bf took me to watch zombieland n I wad the only person screaming. I’ve watched horror movies since I was 3, nothing gets to me like zombies, I say they’re not real yet in the back of my mind, they are.
I actually refuse to go outside at night because of my fear of Zombies. I have no idea where it came from initially, but I’m terrified of them. I can’t even read a book or watch a movie without having nightmares, I actually own Pride and Prejiduce and Zombies and if the book is anywhere where I can see it at night I freak out.
O.o Oh my goodness, I am so happy I found this. I have had this stupid phobia for YEARS. My best friend makes fun of me for it but then when I get scared he comforts me (what a jerk sometimes). I thought, and he did as well, that I was the only one with this fear. It is not common but not rare either, hence why we all thought we were the only ones, but see how many of us are there that replied not to mention the ones that just read and did not say anything.
I hate it when we go to amusements parks around Halloween because they have haunted houses set up and then my friends want to go and then there are people dressed up as zombies. They think I am scared just because I am a girl but I am just scared of ‘them’. I like all of the other haunted houses
I like the adrenaline rush out of the other scary movies but I cannot watch anything zombie related because then I will have nightmares forever afterwards. It totally sucks, I cannot even look at pictures of zombies without getting freaked out. It has gotten better over the years and I use to freak out over something as little as the mention of them.
There is NO WAY I could ever do that treatment that somebody mentioned above. I would be going WEEKS without sleep and in constant fear before it got any better. I would rather be hypnotized and cured that way. I think this is were my ridiculous claustrophobia came from. I really don’t like to be touched in the first place and can faint if I am in certain areas or around to many people. So I guess in some way this has affected my life.
I really hope it keeps getting better as the years go on but it looks like it won’t after reading some of the other responses. I guess I will just have to live with it for the rest of my life
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I’m so glad i looked into this.
On a daily basis i am in constant fear, mainly when alone and when it goes dark. It sounds absurd and i’m ashamed but i literally run home, when i get home i lock the doors, close all the windows, put down the blinds and lye on the floor. On especially bad days, (your going to think i’m insane) i wont even walk around the house. I actually crawl below window level so if one was outside it would not see me. I can’t sleep at all, and i have a strict bed time checking routine that makes me feel a tiny bit more safe. i have had to be taken to hospital on an especially bad episode a couple years back: I was certain one (can’t even say or write the z word) was in my house. I pretended to be dead and i held my breath to try not draw attention. I passed out and has to be taken to A&E.
My imagination runs wild, and i can picture my neighbours faces turning into z’s. I picture all sorts of stories in my head and have regular terrifying nightmares that scare, but intrigue me. And yes, i have this stupid but irresistible temptation to watch films containing z’s. I hate how films have progressed and made them far more scary,faster,stronger.
My parents are at their wits end, and fed up of me refusing to open to door to them. How can i gain help when i can’t even talk about them properly or say the word?
This page has made me feel so much better! I’ve been absolutely terrified of zombies for about 6 years now, i think the Dawn of the Dead remake triggered it but i cant be sure. I’ve had friends think its funny to send me emails where you have to concentrate on a picture and then a zombie face pops up screaming – not so funny when i’m crying hysterically and my laptop has been thrown against the wall! >_<
I rememeber going to the cinema to watch I Am Legend, not realising it was a (sort of) zombie film. I spent the whole time hiding behind my boyfriend and wishing the film would hurry up and end! They werent even that bad as far as zombies go, but it was bad enough!
I never knew so many people felt the same and i didnt realise there was a name for it!
I’m so glad there are people with the same phobia as me! Mine started when my older cousin forced me to watch Shaun of the Dead when I was 8, I didn’t unnderstand the film was a comedy! But ever since I have had and irrational fear of zombies. Even when I know that my Dad is winding me up pretending to be a zombie I still scream and kick out at him. I have even made plans as to what I would do if a disease or plague broke out that caused a zombie attack!
I suffer from an extreme case of Kinemortophobia. The thing is though, I never was scared of the undead before this year. I have watched plenty of movies. I love to be scared when I see a movie, but this year things went south. I’ve been having reacurring nightmares about zombies. I once got so scared that I woke myself up my biting my own tongue. That really hurt…and it’s still bruised. The thing that scares me the most about it is the fact that I once had a dream that came true about a bus accident so now I’m wondering if this will come true too. I know I sound crazy, but I am scared it will happen.
I am T*E*R*R*I*F*I*E*D of zombies…seriously….I have been for years and its crazy and I am christian so I shouldnt be! I should have faith my Lord first wouldnt let that happen and two that would protect my family should something like it does happen but I am really terrified….I cant watch any zombie movie cause my nightmares will be nightly for months afterwards and I still have the fears even not watching them! I cant take my family camping because I get anxiety about being attacked by zombies and no defense! I make plans in preparation in case it should on how to get out of house and into car to get somewhere safe without one of us getting bitten or scratched or anything. I have 4 boys 2 by first husband and when they are with him I fear what it happens and I am not there to save them. I worry if my kids go somewhere and something does happen that whoever I call wont believe me if I tell them to get in their car without question fast and meet me. I worry all the time, I have bad anxiety over this and I know its irrational and even embarassing but that doesnt make it my fear any less! First thing I think when I go somewhere is how protected is this place if attack happens now! I sound crazy I know, I have my periods when I am ok and manage to avoid thinking about this but then something as simple as me running outside at night to get my purse out of car and wondering if something is gonna come walking up out of dark to scare me and start my fears anew! Is there a cure for this? Help me!
It’s currently 5 AM, and I’ve just succeeded in my mission of self destruction. I’ve been a phobic since I was about 8 years old. My father (The GENIUS that he is) decided to show me some good old 20th century George Romero art. The original Night of The Living Dead is by far the single most frightening thing I have ever experienced. I cried for the entire night and some the next morning. Even the slightest noise would trigger a fit. Of course, now, I understand that the correct way to evade such… creatures (?) is by keeping your mouth shut. But I was a mere child, and quite susceptible to almost anything frightening.
Over the years, I’ve made a personal effort to finish the Living Dead series. I have created this fantasy in my mind that if I finish it, my fears will cease to exist anymore. It sounds insolent, I know, but in my mind it seems perfectly logical that I should subject myself to this endless sporadic of fear and anxiety and torture myself until I have nothing new to throw into my mind. Then it’ll be over.
I find that music helps the sleeping problem if you’re not medicated. I never have dreams, so that isn’t a big problem, it’s just the sleeping and the anxiety. I have “Happy Pictures” of things like cupcakes with faces, and rainbows. I stare at them for half an hour to 45 minutes and that calms me down. Music with light tones and acoustics calm me down too. A good thing to try if you’re new to the phobia.
Oh, look how I’ve ranted -Facepalm- G’bye!
when i watched dawn of the dead i literally couldn’t have peaceful sleep for a month and even then i still had nightmares i’m not sorry i watched the movie i’m just sort of irritated at the fact i’m scared of them i mean i know they’re fake i just cant get over the fear
I’m in the same boat. I’ve had vivid zombie dreams since I was a kid (after watching a Simpsons halloween special of all things!) They only happen after watching a zombie flick (shocking, I know), but I’m halfway addicted to that adrenaline rush of a scary movie.
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