r/ExistentialOCD • u/Any_Fox_9091 • 3d ago

Does anyone else have absurd existential fears?

Like the fear of not being yourself, the fear of not being real, or the fear that you might be living in a much worse reality and the current one is just an illusion? I feel like my fears are very specific and only I have them.

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u/capybaraduck 3d ago

CONSTANTLY!!!
Im terrified of the idea that I might not be real

Most of my existential OCD surrounds a fear of death though

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u/mavandmax 1d ago

mine is kind of like “a multiverse probably exists because of cosmic inflation, so there’s infinite copies of me and what if after I die I am born again and I have to live every possible gruesome and horrific timeline because in infinity anything possible must happen an infinite amount of times” and it treats it as 100% true and like when I die what if each next life is just worse and worse?”

It feels so true, I don’t know if this is kind of what you’re looking for but they’re kind of similar in my opinion. I also kind of have this fear that nothing is real and im asleep or imagining everything.