I don't generally suffer from thalassaphobia, but I remember snorkeling in Hawaii a few years ago. I wasn't paying attention to where I was at, and the next thing I knew the current had pulled me out into the open. It was an odd feeling just watching the reef I was swimming over just....disappear....and I was faced with such an absolute void that it actually made me freeze. I just remember floating there starting at all the shapes moving just beyond the light. I could've even sworn I saw lights twinkling down there, but who knows. It was a humbling experience to say the least.
I had somewhat of an experience my first time swimming in "deep water". Before that I had taken swimming lessons as a kid and had a good idea how to not drown. My dad took my family out on to a lake (around 300m depth) on a small boat in Europe and we were just sitting around and someone in the family said we should try to swim and at first I was nervous and wanted other people to do it first (I have a fear of what's in water) and my cousin was telling me to jump in. I got up stood next to the edge and looked out into the distance just barely seeing the beach. My dad pushes me in, I start to panic when my body and face is absorbed in the water. I am half a meter in the water and I start to open my eyes. Looking into the lake. Seeing all the fish swim around me. You cant describe the feeling, you have to experience it for the first time. Seeing where the light stops in the water is terrifying. I eventually reach the top and do my sandwiches (that's the method I was taught as a kid to do with my arms 😂) and my dad says "relax your fine, the fish are too small to eat you" and It takes a few seconds to realize there was no danger. I was jumping off the boat for the rest of the day. That was one of the best memories of my childhood.
Does this guy write and research his own content ? As a writer myself, I'm always amazed and pleased by the words spoken. Some sentences are like a melody or a poem. The mans a great narrator for both his voice and how he uses it. Much appreciated.
i have a deep fear of the ocean. watching this made me shudder. With all the stories, the vastness, the unknown possibilities of the ocean, i still just feel so much fear but also so much fascination with the ocean. it truly is beautiful but also truly terrifying
What terrifies me more than how deep and unknown the ocean is the Lovecraftian creatures that exist down there. Some of them just straight up look like Lovecraft's eldritch horrors.
Hahaha.. It's funny because I've freaked myself out thinking the same thing. Fyi.. At 15yrs. In an 9ft aluminum single motor boat fishing with my uncle between Trinidad and Venezuela a shark longer than the boat slowly passed us. There was a beach at the tip of Trinidad I begged my uncle to take us too. Once on the beach I out my head in salt water with goggles on and had a panic attack, the clear water allowed me to.... Deep water is hell. Outer space, Elon has the right idea.
Yeah, there are some bizarre creatures down there, and God knows what is living God knows how deep. It's kind of cool, though. No matter how otherworldly they may seem, these critters are of Earth. They're our kin. It almost makes me want to forget about extraterrestrial endeavors and apply all those billions of bucks to deep ocean exploration.
I have swam in about 17,000 feet of water. We were miles off the coast of Hawaii, decided to have a surface survival training (swim call). I jumped in, and swam about 20-25 feet and just floated there. looking away from the sub. It was a surreal experience. I felt scared and calm at the same time, like something was telling me that if i just let my self sink, i would be dead long before i saw the bottom. really unable to full grasp the depth of the water below me. I thought about what kinds of fish might be swimming under me at that moment, thought about what would happen if the sub just disappeared, thought about what would happen if a whale came up and decided i looked like a good snack, swallowing me whole. I looked down and only hazy blue filled my vision. I turned around as i dipped behind a swell which blocked the submarine from sight. My heart jumped and the next swell brought me up to see the sail of the sub and i felt safe again, yet on the edge of death and danger. It was a wild experience, I would do it again.
Wooow! That was intense to read! You are a brave man. The mere vision I was able to create in my imagination while reading your description, made me feel weak and quickened my heart rate... took my breath! That is absolutely wild man... I mean, I even have this intense fear of treading water in the ocean and being near a submarine! So your whole story is just nightmarish for me. But also incredible and awesome. If given the opportunity, I would force myself to experience the open ocean though. I'd love to scuba dive for example.. despite my fear. Well said, btw.. Super fun read.
as a Thalassophobic person, I can agree with your explanation, just seeing the open see scares me a lot, and being in a boat in the middle of water is extremely scary
as a Thalassophobic, i didn’t even have the courage to actually watch this video i’m just here to read the comments. I’m afraid there will be disturbing images that i won’t be able to look at.
I can imagine few situations more horrific than being in a shipwreck and having only a piece of wood to cling onto to stay afloat in the middle of a vast ocean.
You'd have to be one brave fucker to take a wooden ship across the ocean. Couldn't imagine how scary it was to them because it's still frightening even with modern technology
@@viggoveraja1511 Fear of the unknown. You can be scared of what's in the closet as a kid, even though you can fully scan the inside of it in a matter of seconds. The ocean is a massive body of water that you can't even see the bottom of. There's weird stuff on the surface, Lord knows what's down there
I got too high on shrooms tried to watch the deep episode of blue planet 2 and literally couldn’t handle thinking about how deep it is and started crying when it got to the squids
I got seasick one time on a fishing excursion in the Gulf of Mexico. A well-known cure to that is to jump in the water for a few seconds. Well, I did that, and as soon as I was in the water, I looked around and saw nothing but DARKNESS. I freaked the fuck out and immediately got back on board the boat. Thankfully, the feelings of seasickness were gone, but after that, I don’t think I’ll ever want to jump in really deep water again. (P.S. A few minutes later, someone in our party caught a shark, so I guess my fear of the deep is justified.)
That’s is honestly terrifying AF. When ever I go to the beach with friends I don’t go too far out. Once my feet stop touching the bottom, I move the hell back. Happens once, went back real quick lol.
The energy in the ocean is the most frightening part. Watching modern freighters get tossed around like toys will always blow my mind. Really blows the mind when u think about the people who'd cross in wooden bullshit ships just relying on the wind. That's some scary shit there
I do have fear of water bodies. And its kinda strange because I never drowned or something or had any such experience where I felt threatened. You see, the emptiness yet the fullness that these oceans hold. Its just something that hits me hard with philosphical questions. Its scary and beautiful simultaneously.
I suffocated when I was four and spent 2 days in the hospital with seizures. Yet I’m not scared of super deep dark water. I really like photos and videos of it and find it really interesting. Maybe nothing caused it in your case. Maybe you picked it up from a relative or if they mentioned water is dangerous and your brain ran with it? Maybe you drown in a past life? Maybe you saw something scary on tv when you were little and can’t remember it but you remember the feeling of seeing it?😳🙂
I remember swimming in empty pools as a kid and being worried about being in a body of water by myself thinking a shark would get me! But I loved to swim so I didn't stop going in. I hope to overcome it and be able to open water swim across lakes.
You know, it's pretty well known that H.P. Lovecraft had a distinct fear of the ocean and sea life and that inspired a lot of his works. I wonder if he ever jumped into ocean, and just looked down and saw that vast, empty, impenetrable _nothing,_ and that gave him inspiration? I kinda get what he's talking about when you think about it this way: Humans are predisposed to claustrophobia and don't like extremely tight spaces. We look at our cats, who love to stuff themselves into boxes, and think "that must be so nerve-wracking, I prefer large, open spaces". But when we're faced with a _truly_ open space like the ocean, we realize how _big_ everything is, how small and vulnerable we are in comparison, and we retreat to our houses, which, relative to the open ocean, are as tiny as the boxes those cats like to jump into. Even just an open field or prairie is relatively constrained, since _land_ stretches off in every direction too, giving us something to flatten ourselves against, and assuring us that we're safe from at least that direction. We narrow our perspective until we're comfortable, but when we're thrust into an environment so alien to our own, that perspective is shattered
Just in a minute of the video and I'm already trembling. I've always been dreaming that I am drowning in my sleep. I love the beach normally, the scenery, the breeze, I also love sailing and cruising. But, it's a different matter if you'd be seeing a dark blue to a black image of the ocean, it's melting all my bones inside just imagining the coldness and darkness of it-- how deep and how frightening it is to shout and no one will ever hear you because that's just how cruel deep water is.
I took my 1st cruise in January of 2020 right before the pandemic ramped up. We were in the gulf of Mexico headed for Honduras when I decided to go up top to the deck in the early hours of the morning before anyone else was really awake. I went to a guardrail to look out at the ocean and what I saw terrified me...I saw absolutely nothing. It was a cloudy night so light barley reflected off of the waves. All that could be made out was the foam from the ship 🚢 cutting through the water. Like sailing ⛵️ through a void. The vastness of our planet's oceans is truly awe-inspiring 🌊🖤.
What I remember about swimming on the surface of the ocean was the comforting warmth within 2-3 feet, underlined by the ice cold just a little deeper. And the darkness beneath me was haunting.
I'd choose deep space too, because at least if I died I could die looking at the beauty of the stars and not crushed by the thickness of pitch black death. The ocean is creepy.
Honestly I am fascinated by the ocean. I remember being afraid of the deep end at my community centre pool as a kid, but over the years I've grown to love the water after giving myself some exposure to it
I grew up on a peninsula on the coast and have always had a healthy fear and respect for the ocean considering at least a few people a year would get hit by rogue waves. I also live in a tsunami zone and occasionally late at night I can hear the surf breaking from roughly a mile away and for a moment it completely pulls me out of my slumber with pure panic. But It wasn't until I played Subnautica that I truly developed that phobia. I love that game and it scares the hell out of me but I can't stop playing. I feel like I'm working out a muscle when I play it. Awesome vid, even if I was better off not knowing lok
Not everyone may like this channel, but this is by far my favorite TH-cam channel. The first video I watched was "A blind man describes the world" and eversince, I've been hooked. I've learned so much from it, the knowledge and wisdom is almost priceless. Sometimes I even wonder how on earth such content is on TH-cam.
This gives a new perspective on "as above so below" space and ocean being so alien to us. And it's stranger to think of the web being infinitely more vast and unexplored than the deep ocean and outer space combined
I would say that I have some form of Thalassophobia. I came into full realisation about it while I was playing Subnautica, a video game where you explore and try to survive on an alien ocean planet. No other game I've ever played invokes the same kind of dread, a cold void starting in my stomach that slowly creeps to every corner of my body until I feel like I can't even move. The fear of the unknown is no joke.
5:19 Excuse me - the first vessel to reach (and return safely from) the bottom of the Challenger Deep - the deepest known point in the oceans - was the "Trieste "with Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard. This was on January 23 1960.
Having been in the navy, and spent many months out to sea, I've seen how massive the surface of the ocean is!! Yet, I still can't fathom how much is under the surface!!!!$🌊🏖🤙
There's a quote I read, but I'll have to paraphrase, "Bravery isn't the absence of fear, it's the presence of fear but having the courage to fight through it"
While 95% of the ocean remains unexplored, it's mostly just open ocean, (mostly) uninhibited waters. If you were to swim deeper, it would be unexciting cold, dark, silent, uninhibited, and uninteresting. so really I would say a lot more of our ocean is explored; however the deep depths are still mysterious. But still, great work on the video I loved it! ♥♥♥
The thing is... how do we know the rest are uninhibited waters if we've never been there before. Just imagine the creatures that exist down there (if they do exist, that is)
@@sylviaisafoot6570 I agree. I'm Just saying that not every unexplored place has something new. There is defiantly many undiscovered creatures, just 95% is a bit misleading.
@@hritesh7 I do agree that there is life undiscovered, but it's not like every inch of water has a new life form. most of it is discovered life, or empty open ocean. but I defiantly agree that we can learn and discover a lot in the unexplored ocean, but not all of it is different or spectacular, a lot is much the same. For the record, totally agree with tho
When I was about 6 I climbed onto the edge of a ferry my family were travelling on to see right down to the water. I remember that so clearly and how mad my dad was when he saw what I was doing!! I never did it again!!😳😳
I have a similar memory, being really young onboard a ferry and seeing the bottom of the ocean. The ferry hadn’t even moved yet, but even still, it was an unnerving body of water that terrified and mesmerised me. I’m sure this memory is the reason why I’m now fascinated by deep water.
Being a pisces, I feel hyper connected to water. It is very healing and rejuvenating. My connecting with water is very abstract and hard to put into words. It is your friend and it reflects back at you whatever you are.
I cant remember what exactly started this with me but my most distant memory of my thalassophobia is watching the movie water horse and absolutely cringing at the low light underwater scenes, I just couldn't handle it, and going to swim at my local lake just to find my body wont let me go deeper or face the deep while underwater, because with my eyes closed I panic, and with goggles I just get a glance at the deepest part and stare into nothingness waiting for a jump scare or something but all I know is it gets really hard to breath and its a constant hell tension I feel for no reason other than being in the water that deep or not being able to touch not knowing what's underneath
As a PADI open water scuba diver I still find deep bodies of water fascinating be it if I'm on a ferry on over the English Channel or walking alongside a small river. The fear of being swept down by a big current or dragged down by a large aquatic animal always looms but the experience of diving just tens of meters and the world as it is down there is something to behold. Curiosity killed the cat after all!
So Victor Vescovo in 2019 went deeper than the 1960 descension to the Challenger Deep? Even so, the achievement by Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard, especially given the less advanced technology back then, not to mention how they decided to continue even after part of their sub started to crack (I wouldn’t be that brave) is worth a quick shout out. But good video, thanks. I think it’s ridiculous that we haven’t mapped most of the ocean floor yet, but maybe we haven’t figured out how to do so without disturbing the wildlife and/or ecosystem.
Yup. Thanks to Fantasia. That fish crawling out with feet terrified me as a small child….then they found them in the Indian Ocean. It’s another world where perhaps we do not belong.
Really great video! I’ve never had any fear of the deep deep ocean. I’ve been in the sea many times around the world and jumped in really deep waters with little to no fear of what’s below. However, this video gave me the shivers and put me in my place for sure lol. Thanks again.
Those pictures of the deep see give off the same feeling as liminal spaces (especially "the backrooms"). There's this strong sense of constant looming danger, without any possibility of escape.
This makes us wonder what kind of intelligent creatures lives down there. There could be intelligent beings, even more developed than us, with advanced and technological societies. Maybe they also wonder what is above them, like we wonder what is above us while looking at the starts at night. Maybe they are trying to reach us too, making constant improvements at how far they can go above them. One day, we might finally meet them.
U said that they could be more developed than us... So, if that was the case, don't you think they could have already found us out? And if more developed, why live millions of feet inside the sea? And, to survive in those high pressure conditions, how would they do that? They would also need gills to survive inside the water.... So, doesn't that make them fish itself....? LOL, I can be stupid so yeah....
@@xoxo_aii yeahh there are a lot of suppositions on my part too!! But I think there is an answer to everything. If they are more developed, why haven’t they reached us yet? Well maybe they are more developed, but not developed enough to do that. Or they might just not want to at all. They know that we might not react well, or not be able to communicate (because not developed enough for it). Why live so far under the sea? Well, they probably don’t have a choice, they are probably fish of some kind of species that lives under extreme high pressure, without light or air. Even if they were developed societies, they might not be able to go up, even less to the surface without water or that much pressure. They might not be able to walk. Just like we are developed but are not able to go all the way down. Obviously like I said these are all suppositions, but I think all questions about this could be answered, since we just don’t know 95% of the ocean. There could be so much! And also about the high pressure thing, we already know that some species or even bacteria lives in extreme hot or cold conditions, with high or low pressure, etc. It’s like saying that there can not be other form of life’s in other planet because they are no water… well maybe they don’t need water. And there is so much unknown about the universe that I’m sure there are other form of life somewhere that lives in extreme hot or cold conditions. Life is such an interesting phenomenon, I believe that everything is possible. We just have to wait and see.
@@Chachoncha Yeah, maybe wut u said is true.... But, all of these are kinda just theories but actually proving these would be a real pain in the a$$.... But still, Thank You for ur explanation.....I really appreciate that.... ^^
I have zero fear of the unknown in the ocean....even after watching this extremely suggestive video. I actually feel like we (as a species) are better off not knowing about everything that's out there...we do have a history of disrupting, destroying and pillaging every place we "discover" and "explore"...we're the ones who never "come in peace". Let it be, let it let us be
I'm so glad that most of the water body remains a mystery or humans would only exploit the newly found creatures and resources once revealed. Hope it remains this way forever.
What is really interesting to me is the fact that USO sightings (Unidentified Submergible Object) happen fairly frequently throughout history going all the way to the 16th century
When I was 10 years old, I remember going out to the beach with a friend in Australia. The beach was called the whale beach and its called that because of the huge constant waves that kept coming. We went there and 5 minutes later, we were already playing at the shoreline. I decided I wanted to have my feet off the sand and swam a little further then I noticed… I was being pushed further and further away by the waves and this started to build up anxiety because I wasn’t strong enough to swim back. No one had heard my scream. But luckily, this old man just out of nowhere, swam next to me and offered me help to swim back to the shore. He dragged me back towards the shoreline and till this day, I cannot believe how lucky I was to be found by that man.
There’s also a second story. I don’t remember what the beach was called but it wasn’t popular. The same friend and I went there and brought cool swimming boards and stuff. The friend and I decided it would be cool just how far we can go with the body boards we had. We went maybe 100 or 200 meters away from the shoreline… and we saw something big swimming underneath us. We only assumed the worse that it was a shark, so we started swimming as slowly as we could. We didn’t know what was the ideal idea when we encountered the shark. But we just swam slowly with our boards and safely reached the shoreline. I’ve had so many scary experiences throughout my childhood life without realizing it during those times. Thinking about it now makes me shiver in fear. But I enjoy watching videos like these.
I encountered my phobia when I jumped into the sea and saw below I almost passed out , I started to get cold sweats or heat waves all throughout my body and I got laughed at by my friends lol
I have the opposite of this phobia. One of the coolest things I’ve done was jump off the boat when we were in the middle of nowhere. There was nothing but water around us. When I came up I just floated in the water feeling completely blissful, rocking with the waves. I’m not sure how deep the water was beneath me, but it didn’t bother me.
Once on a cruise from England to the tip of Norway, traveling in the North Sea and Norwegian Sea, I realized how scary and vast the ocean was. We were alone except for oil rigs. Dark and surreal.
Rather than the fear, the reason I'm here is actually curiosity. I watched & read many content about deep sea and its creatures. I think that's how this video reached me. It's always amazed me to know what's in deep sea or deep ground. Anyway, this is such a deep content with well-written narration and cool voiceover. I feel like you should put the writer, narrator, and some people's name here -or is it all made by one person? 🙀
I realized I had this phobia when I went kayaking out on the ocean. I actually really enjoy fishing, canoeing and boating, so I was surprised at my fight or flight reaction to being out on a kayak.. it wasn't a pleasant experience.
I suffer from thalassophobia and as you said in the video, I get triggered just by simple underwater photos. I get serious anxiety and I start to somehow choke, the idea of me being in the open water and not be able to see the ending below me is so terrifying and because of this I never learnt how to swim. Even though I am scared of the unknown in the deep ocean, I enjoy things about the universe and the vast of it and knowing there's complete infinity just like in the water that fact doesn't trigger me for some reason.
I don't generally suffer from thalassaphobia, but I remember snorkeling in Hawaii a few years ago. I wasn't paying attention to where I was at, and the next thing I knew the current had pulled me out into the open. It was an odd feeling just watching the reef I was swimming over just....disappear....and I was faced with such an absolute void that it actually made me freeze. I just remember floating there starting at all the shapes moving just beyond the light. I could've even sworn I saw lights twinkling down there, but who knows. It was a humbling experience to say the least.
I had somewhat of an experience my first time swimming in "deep water". Before that I had taken swimming lessons as a kid and had a good idea how to not drown. My dad took my family out on to a lake (around 300m depth) on a small boat in Europe and we were just sitting around and someone in the family said we should try to swim and at first I was nervous and wanted other people to do it first (I have a fear of what's in water) and my cousin was telling me to jump in. I got up stood next to the edge and looked out into the distance just barely seeing the beach. My dad pushes me in, I start to panic when my body and face is absorbed in the water. I am half a meter in the water and I start to open my eyes. Looking into the lake. Seeing all the fish swim around me. You cant describe the feeling, you have to experience it for the first time. Seeing where the light stops in the water is terrifying. I eventually reach the top and do my sandwiches (that's the method I was taught as a kid to do with my arms 😂) and my dad says "relax your fine, the fish are too small to eat you" and It takes a few seconds to realize there was no danger. I was jumping off the boat for the rest of the day. That was one of the best memories of my childhood.
I would have fainted and drowned myself
that is terrifying
@@kintokatt7004 lmaoo same
*reading this made me cold.*
Does this guy write and research his own content ? As a writer myself, I'm always amazed and pleased by the words spoken. Some sentences are like a melody or a poem. The mans a great narrator for both his voice and how he uses it. Much appreciated.
I’ve had the same thoughts. He’s marvelous.
I've been wondering too. it's not just the words he uses, but the thought provoking contents too.
I believe the writer and narrator are two separate people
Absolutely agree. The choice of words and also the sentences are just, Immaculate.
He writes his own materials
I have this massive fear of the ocean, but I can't stop looking at and reading thalassophobia stories. It's so damn fascinating
Same same
i have a deep fear of the ocean. watching this made me shudder. With all the stories, the vastness, the unknown possibilities of the ocean, i still just feel so much fear but also so much fascination with the ocean. it truly is beautiful but also truly terrifying
Get it
Same. But I’m so drawn to water ??
It’s just a bunch of water bro
You’ll be ok.
Don't think bout it bro the more you think the more you know and the more anxiety hits.
What terrifies me more than how deep and unknown the ocean is the Lovecraftian creatures that exist down there. Some of them just straight up look like Lovecraft's eldritch horrors.
Hahaha..
It's funny because I've freaked myself out thinking the same thing.
Fyi..
At 15yrs. In an 9ft aluminum single motor boat fishing with my uncle between Trinidad and Venezuela a shark longer than the boat slowly passed us.
There was a beach at the tip of Trinidad I begged my uncle to take us too.
Once on the beach I out my head in salt water with goggles on and had a panic attack, the clear water allowed me to.... Deep water is hell.
Outer space, Elon has the right idea.
cap
@@viggoveraja1511 there’s nothing implausible about the commenter’s experience…
Yeah, there are some bizarre creatures down there, and God knows what is living God knows how deep. It's kind of cool, though. No matter how otherworldly they may seem, these critters are of Earth. They're our kin. It almost makes me want to forget about extraterrestrial endeavors and apply all those billions of bucks to deep ocean exploration.
Yeah imagine a creature that can survive even with the tons of weight pushing you from every direction😳
I have swam in about 17,000 feet of water. We were miles off the coast of Hawaii, decided to have a surface survival training (swim call). I jumped in, and swam about 20-25 feet and just floated there. looking away from the sub. It was a surreal experience. I felt scared and calm at the same time, like something was telling me that if i just let my self sink, i would be dead long before i saw the bottom. really unable to full grasp the depth of the water below me. I thought about what kinds of fish might be swimming under me at that moment, thought about what would happen if the sub just disappeared, thought about what would happen if a whale came up and decided i looked like a good snack, swallowing me whole. I looked down and only hazy blue filled my vision. I turned around as i dipped behind a swell which blocked the submarine from sight. My heart jumped and the next swell brought me up to see the sail of the sub and i felt safe again, yet on the edge of death and danger. It was a wild experience, I would do it again.
weirdly relatable
Awesome story, gives me goosebumps reading it!
Please do shrooms and document your journey.
Wooow! That was intense to read! You are a brave man. The mere vision I was able to create in my imagination while reading your description, made me feel weak and quickened my heart rate... took my breath! That is absolutely wild man... I mean, I even have this intense fear of treading water in the ocean and being near a submarine! So your whole story is just nightmarish for me. But also incredible and awesome. If given the opportunity, I would force myself to experience the open ocean though. I'd love to scuba dive for example.. despite my fear.
Well said, btw.. Super fun read.
Wait how do you swim at 17000 feet depth ?
as a Thalassophobic person, I can agree with your explanation, just seeing the open see scares me a lot, and being in a boat in the middle of water is extremely scary
as a Thalassophobic, i didn’t even have the courage to actually watch this video i’m just here to read the comments. I’m afraid there will be disturbing images that i won’t be able to look at.
I can imagine few situations more horrific than being in a shipwreck and having only a piece of wood to cling onto to stay afloat in the middle of a vast ocean.
Your heart aches
The very image of a vast endless and dreadfully silent area is unimaginable
@@hafeeeda i discovered it recently. I couldn't even look at the vast blue waterbody shown in the video
This stuff's deep
Sea
ich sehe was du hier getan hast!
But your comment is shallow...
@@poughkeepsieblue I sea what you did there!
This comment is above the sea level in meaning; though shallow in words; and deeply underrated
The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.
Ya, if you're Herman Melville...
Not for me
@@poughkeepsieblue Call me thallasophobael.
The ocean is the embodiment of the sublime 😊🙏🏼💙
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The black of the ocean just scares me.
I like watching stuff about the deep seas, but would not go there.
You have to wonder what old time sailors must have felt about the ocean.
Fascinating
You'd have to be one brave fucker to take a wooden ship across the ocean. Couldn't imagine how scary it was to them because it's still frightening even with modern technology
@@joshlewis575 How could it be scary? they knew nothing and thought nothing of it
@@viggoveraja1511 You are so feeble-minded, it's wonderful.
@@viggoveraja1511 Fear of the unknown.
You can be scared of what's in the closet as a kid, even though you can fully scan the inside of it in a matter of seconds. The ocean is a massive body of water that you can't even see the bottom of. There's weird stuff on the surface, Lord knows what's down there
I got too high on shrooms tried to watch the deep episode of blue planet 2 and literally couldn’t handle thinking about how deep it is and started crying when it got to the squids
The episode about the depths was insane. Seeing completely unknown creatures didn't even look real.
Goated comment😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🫡🤙🏻
Lmao why did the squids make you cry
I got seasick one time on a fishing excursion in the Gulf of Mexico. A well-known cure to that is to jump in the water for a few seconds. Well, I did that, and as soon as I was in the water, I looked around and saw nothing but DARKNESS. I freaked the fuck out and immediately got back on board the boat. Thankfully, the feelings of seasickness were gone, but after that, I don’t think I’ll ever want to jump in really deep water again. (P.S. A few minutes later, someone in our party caught a shark, so I guess my fear of the deep is justified.)
That’s is honestly terrifying AF. When ever I go to the beach with friends I don’t go too far out. Once my feet stop touching the bottom, I move the hell back. Happens once, went back real quick lol.
The energy in the ocean is the most frightening part. Watching modern freighters get tossed around like toys will always blow my mind. Really blows the mind when u think about the people who'd cross in wooden bullshit ships just relying on the wind. That's some scary shit there
I do have fear of water bodies.
And its kinda strange because I never drowned or something or had any such experience where I felt threatened.
You see, the emptiness yet the fullness that these oceans hold.
Its just something that hits me hard with philosphical questions.
Its scary and beautiful simultaneously.
I've never experienced such things that can cause me to be scared too. but I'm really scared just looking into large bodies of waters
I suffocated when I was four and spent 2 days in the hospital with seizures. Yet I’m not scared of super deep dark water. I really like photos and videos of it and find it really interesting. Maybe nothing caused it in your case. Maybe you picked it up from a relative or if they mentioned water is dangerous and your brain ran with it? Maybe you drown in a past life? Maybe you saw something scary on tv when you were little and can’t remember it but you remember the feeling of seeing it?😳🙂
Maybe a former incarnation here or somewhere else caused your trauma.
same
Well, this gave me even more thalassophobia...
I remember swimming in empty pools as a kid and being worried about being in a body of water by myself thinking a shark would get me!
But I loved to swim so I didn't stop going in. I hope to overcome it and be able to open water swim across lakes.
this is why i’m scared to watch it 😭
Some fears are primordial. They are almost embedded with our DNA passed over from species to species even.
from species to species ? are u suggesting we originated from monkeys which originated from fish with legs before them?
You know, it's pretty well known that H.P. Lovecraft had a distinct fear of the ocean and sea life and that inspired a lot of his works. I wonder if he ever jumped into ocean, and just looked down and saw that vast, empty, impenetrable _nothing,_ and that gave him inspiration?
I kinda get what he's talking about when you think about it this way: Humans are predisposed to claustrophobia and don't like extremely tight spaces. We look at our cats, who love to stuff themselves into boxes, and think "that must be so nerve-wracking, I prefer large, open spaces". But when we're faced with a _truly_ open space like the ocean, we realize how _big_ everything is, how small and vulnerable we are in comparison, and we retreat to our houses, which, relative to the open ocean, are as tiny as the boxes those cats like to jump into. Even just an open field or prairie is relatively constrained, since _land_ stretches off in every direction too, giving us something to flatten ourselves against, and assuring us that we're safe from at least that direction. We narrow our perspective until we're comfortable, but when we're thrust into an environment so alien to our own, that perspective is shattered
Really, really well said
Thank you for putting this so eloquently.
Just in a minute of the video and I'm already trembling. I've always been dreaming that I am drowning in my sleep. I love the beach normally, the scenery, the breeze, I also love sailing and cruising. But, it's a different matter if you'd be seeing a dark blue to a black image of the ocean, it's melting all my bones inside just imagining the coldness and darkness of it-- how deep and how frightening it is to shout and no one will ever hear you because that's just how cruel deep water is.
I took my 1st cruise in January of 2020 right before the pandemic ramped up. We were in the gulf of Mexico headed for Honduras when I decided to go up top to the deck in the early hours of the morning before anyone else was really awake. I went to a guardrail to look out at the ocean and what I saw terrified me...I saw absolutely nothing. It was a cloudy night so light barley reflected off of the waves. All that could be made out was the foam from the ship 🚢 cutting through the water. Like sailing ⛵️ through a void. The vastness of our planet's oceans is truly awe-inspiring 🌊🖤.
What I remember about swimming on the surface of the ocean was the comforting warmth within 2-3 feet, underlined by the ice cold just a little deeper. And the darkness beneath me was haunting.
If I had a chance to go into deep space or the Mariana Trench, I'd get on a rocket for sure.
Same
I'd choose deep space too, because at least if I died I could die looking at the beauty of the stars and not crushed by the thickness of pitch black death. The ocean is creepy.
Same
@@tsugaru_solos Apparently, the feeling of drowning is very peaceful and calming.
I'd never even think of going
1000 meters: "life still lurks."
Yes, this phrase can be used 10 more times.
This is the deepest dive into the deep mysteries of the deepest parts of the deepest oceans.
That was deep
Honestly I am fascinated by the ocean. I remember being afraid of the deep end at my community centre pool as a kid, but over the years I've grown to love the water after giving myself some exposure to it
I love this! Challenger Deep is the ultimate unexplored area. But even there, they found a plastic bag.
it has such a good name too
Great video! Thanks for reminding us that the beautiful ocean is awe inspiring and potentially full of horror! 😅
I don't have enough words to say how marvelous this channel is.
this video is very well done thank you for your content it makes my day
I grew up on a peninsula on the coast and have always had a healthy fear and respect for the ocean considering at least a few people a year would get hit by rogue waves. I also live in a tsunami zone and occasionally late at night I can hear the surf breaking from roughly a mile away and for a moment it completely pulls me out of my slumber with pure panic. But It wasn't until I played Subnautica that I truly developed that phobia. I love that game and it scares the hell out of me but I can't stop playing. I feel like I'm working out a muscle when I play it. Awesome vid, even if I was better off not knowing lok
.. What is Subnautica ? 🧐
@@olikane530 a game about crash landing and exploring an alien planet covered in water
@@olikane530 go watch some gameplay, terrifying
played subnautica for countless hours and never left the safe shallows.
8:00 to 8:30 is how I feel about being a part of this society.
Not panic, just powerless and distanced.
This channel makes some of the most phenomenonal content ever, the videos are just relaxing and well made.
I sometimes dream of deep sea, it's always terrifying to see the surface so far above and the bottom inexistent
Ya
Not everyone may like this channel, but this is by far my favorite TH-cam channel. The first video I watched was "A blind man describes the world" and eversince, I've been hooked. I've learned so much from it, the knowledge and wisdom is almost priceless. Sometimes I even wonder how on earth such content is on TH-cam.
Kant - The Sublime. A feeling evoked when experiencing something completely beyond you, incomprehensibly beyond you.
Keep 'em comming. You even make the inline ads listenable!
This gives a new perspective on "as above so below" space and ocean
being so alien to us. And it's stranger to think of the web being infinitely more vast and unexplored than the deep ocean and outer space combined
I would say that I have some form of Thalassophobia. I came into full realisation about it while I was playing Subnautica, a video game where you explore and try to survive on an alien ocean planet. No other game I've ever played invokes the same kind of dread, a cold void starting in my stomach that slowly creeps to every corner of my body until I feel like I can't even move. The fear of the unknown is no joke.
5:19 Excuse me - the first vessel to reach (and return safely from) the bottom of the Challenger Deep - the deepest known point in the oceans - was the "Trieste "with Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard. This was on January 23 1960.
I thought of this too. James Cameron was also on a solo dive into the Challanger Deep in 2012. I'm surprised no one else talked about these.
It is the deepest KNOWN point. There can be something deeper
Having been in the navy, and spent many months out to sea, I've seen how massive the surface of the ocean is!! Yet, I still can't fathom how much is under the surface!!!!$🌊🏖🤙
Bravo!!
I can’t tell u how happy I am to have found this channel .. Iv listened to every story .. told by this teller .. just fantastic!
Only the ignorant doesn't have fear. Knowledge brings fear.
The strong ones fight through fear, the weak succumb to it.
There's a quote I read, but I'll have to paraphrase,
"Bravery isn't the absence of fear, it's the presence of fear but having the courage to fight through it"
I ain't have thalassaphobia till Subnautica.
This video deff triggers some thoughts.
hey pursuit of wonder, i love the variety of ur video topics!
While 95% of the ocean remains unexplored, it's mostly just open ocean, (mostly) uninhibited waters. If you were to swim deeper, it would be unexciting cold, dark, silent, uninhibited, and uninteresting. so really I would say a lot more of our ocean is explored; however the deep depths are still mysterious. But still, great work on the video I loved it! ♥♥♥
How can you say uninhibited water. 95% is not a joke, i am damn there were amazing things yet to be discover
The thing is... how do we know the rest are uninhibited waters if we've never been there before. Just imagine the creatures that exist down there (if they do exist, that is)
@@sylviaisafoot6570 Sorry no megalodon
@@sylviaisafoot6570 I agree. I'm Just saying that not every unexplored place has something new. There is defiantly many undiscovered creatures, just 95% is a bit misleading.
@@hritesh7 I do agree that there is life undiscovered, but it's not like every inch of water has a new life form. most of it is discovered life, or empty open ocean. but I defiantly agree that we can learn and discover a lot in the unexplored ocean, but not all of it is different or spectacular, a lot is much the same. For the record, totally agree with tho
I love how he talks about different and a variety of topics that are so interesting
Great to see you back! Was upset not to see an upload last wk
What an amazing video. Thank you brother.
When I was about 6 I climbed onto the edge of a ferry my family were travelling on to see right down to the water. I remember that so clearly and how mad my dad was when he saw what I was doing!! I never did it again!!😳😳
I have a similar memory, being really young onboard a ferry and seeing the bottom of the ocean. The ferry hadn’t even moved yet, but even still, it was an unnerving body of water that terrified and mesmerised me. I’m sure this memory is the reason why I’m now fascinated by deep water.
It's funny how we as humans think we are set apart (on top) of this world when in reality we are still just very much a part of it.
strange that you guys took this as a topic of your video , looking to see many more like these in future , cheers mates 🤘🙏
This is my favorite channel, the videos are absolutely beautiful. Keep doing what ur doing!
Maybe to them we are the ones that look like we are out of a horror film?
Alien to their world most likely, wonder how many of them would think anything tho.
I mean if they have horror films and stuff then maybe. But probably not I'm guessing.
Where's this channel been all my life ❤
This is one of your best videos. You did a really great job Putting everything in perspective and tying the physical back into philosophy.
Being a pisces, I feel hyper connected to water. It is very healing and rejuvenating. My connecting with water is very abstract and hard to put into words. It is your friend and it reflects back at you whatever you are.
I cant remember what exactly started this with me but my most distant memory of my thalassophobia is watching the movie water horse and absolutely cringing at the low light underwater scenes, I just couldn't handle it, and going to swim at my local lake just to find my body wont let me go deeper or face the deep while underwater, because with my eyes closed I panic, and with goggles I just get a glance at the deepest part and stare into nothingness waiting for a jump scare or something but all I know is it gets really hard to breath and its a constant hell tension I feel for no reason other than being in the water that deep or not being able to touch not knowing what's underneath
All I wanted was just a quick video, so I can easily fall asleep!! :|
I love this channel so much. I think about these topics so much and to see videos on those topics makes me so happy
These videos always make me have an existential crisis
You call it fear.
I call it Deep Respect
As a PADI open water scuba diver I still find deep bodies of water fascinating be it if I'm on a ferry on over the English Channel or walking alongside a small river. The fear of being swept down by a big current or dragged down by a large aquatic animal always looms but the experience of diving just tens of meters and the world as it is down there is something to behold. Curiosity killed the cat after all!
Just remember, the Oceans lay within the earths crust which only makes up 1% of the earth. We can go much deeper.
So Victor Vescovo in 2019 went deeper than the 1960 descension to the Challenger Deep? Even so, the achievement by Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard, especially given the less advanced technology back then, not to mention how they decided to continue even after part of their sub started to crack (I wouldn’t be that brave) is worth a quick shout out. But good video, thanks. I think it’s ridiculous that we haven’t mapped most of the ocean floor yet, but maybe we haven’t figured out how to do so without disturbing the wildlife and/or ecosystem.
Just got my hands on "Notes from the end of everything" So far so good.
Yup. Thanks to Fantasia. That fish crawling out with feet terrified me as a small child….then they found them in the Indian Ocean. It’s another world where perhaps we do not belong.
Great narration, especially at the end
Really great video! I’ve never had any fear of the deep deep ocean. I’ve been in the sea many times around the world and jumped in really deep waters with little to no fear of what’s below.
However, this video gave me the shivers and put me in my place for sure lol. Thanks again.
the ocean is IRL cosmic horror
Nah, Twitter is the IRL cosmic horror.
Such a great video, I never thought of the ocean like this til now.
Those pictures of the deep see give off the same feeling as liminal spaces (especially "the backrooms"). There's this strong sense of constant looming danger, without any possibility of escape.
Thank you for this beautiful video!
Honestly I love deep water, I don’t really get unsettled by it
I think this parallels really well how oblivious we humans are of our own inner consciousness.
This makes us wonder what kind of intelligent creatures lives down there. There could be intelligent beings, even more developed than us, with advanced and technological societies. Maybe they also wonder what is above them, like we wonder what is above us while looking at the starts at night. Maybe they are trying to reach us too, making constant improvements at how far they can go above them. One day, we might finally meet them.
U said that they could be more developed than us... So, if that was the case, don't you think they could have already found us out? And if more developed, why live millions of feet inside the sea? And, to survive in those high pressure conditions, how would they do that? They would also need gills to survive inside the water.... So, doesn't that make them fish itself....?
LOL, I can be stupid so yeah....
@@xoxo_aii yeahh there are a lot of suppositions on my part too!! But I think there is an answer to everything. If they are more developed, why haven’t they reached us yet? Well maybe they are more developed, but not developed enough to do that. Or they might just not want to at all. They know that we might not react well, or not be able to communicate (because not developed enough for it). Why live so far under the sea? Well, they probably don’t have a choice, they are probably fish of some kind of species that lives under extreme high pressure, without light or air. Even if they were developed societies, they might not be able to go up, even less to the surface without water or that much pressure. They might not be able to walk. Just like we are developed but are not able to go all the way down. Obviously like I said these are all suppositions, but I think all questions about this could be answered, since we just don’t know 95% of the ocean. There could be so much! And also about the high pressure thing, we already know that some species or even bacteria lives in extreme hot or cold conditions, with high or low pressure, etc. It’s like saying that there can not be other form of life’s in other planet because they are no water… well maybe they don’t need water. And there is so much unknown about the universe that I’m sure there are other form of life somewhere that lives in extreme hot or cold conditions. Life is such an interesting phenomenon, I believe that everything is possible. We just have to wait and see.
@@Chachoncha Yeah, maybe wut u said is true.... But, all of these are kinda just theories but actually proving these would be a real pain in the a$$.... But still, Thank You for ur explanation.....I really appreciate that.... ^^
I have zero fear of the unknown in the ocean....even after watching this extremely suggestive video.
I actually feel like we (as a species) are better off not knowing about everything that's out there...we do have a history of disrupting, destroying and pillaging every place we "discover" and "explore"...we're the ones who never "come in peace".
Let it be, let it let us be
I’ve had this all my life and I only NOW learn about this
a minute in and I'm crying due to fear. I do want to finish the video though coz the the usual brilliant writing.
Your content is amazing and has given me different ways to think. Thank you
I'm so glad that most of the water body remains a mystery or humans would only exploit the newly found creatures and resources once revealed. Hope it remains this way forever.
What is really interesting to me is the fact that USO sightings (Unidentified Submergible Object) happen fairly frequently throughout history going all the way to the 16th century
And if we evolved to fly or glide we'd have an even greater appreciation for heights and depths.
All of your videos are GENIUS. Thank you 🙏
When I was 10 years old, I remember going out to the beach with a friend in Australia. The beach was called the whale beach and its called that because of the huge constant waves that kept coming. We went there and 5 minutes later, we were already playing at the shoreline. I decided I wanted to have my feet off the sand and swam a little further then I noticed… I was being pushed further and further away by the waves and this started to build up anxiety because I wasn’t strong enough to swim back. No one had heard my scream. But luckily, this old man just out of nowhere, swam next to me and offered me help to swim back to the shore. He dragged me back towards the shoreline and till this day, I cannot believe how lucky I was to be found by that man.
There’s also a second story. I don’t remember what the beach was called but it wasn’t popular. The same friend and I went there and brought cool swimming boards and stuff. The friend and I decided it would be cool just how far we can go with the body boards we had. We went maybe 100 or 200 meters away from the shoreline… and we saw something big swimming underneath us. We only assumed the worse that it was a shark, so we started swimming as slowly as we could. We didn’t know what was the ideal idea when we encountered the shark. But we just swam slowly with our boards and safely reached the shoreline. I’ve had so many scary experiences throughout my childhood life without realizing it during those times. Thinking about it now makes me shiver in fear. But I enjoy watching videos like these.
Someone: “Why are you so scared of the ocean?” Me: “stop acting like you aren’t”
He didn’t mention how if you stay in the water too long, you’ll turn into a prune. So… water’s pretty dangerous.
The only phobia I have and it’s one one of my favorite channel. Ah yes I’m in for it
Props to this guy for not demonizing sharks and not using sharks as a way to portray thalassophobia .
i love this channel
I encountered my phobia when I jumped into the sea and saw below I almost passed out , I started to get cold sweats or heat waves all throughout my body and I got laughed at by my friends lol
I have the opposite of this phobia. One of the coolest things I’ve done was jump off the boat when we were in the middle of nowhere. There was nothing but water around us. When I came up I just floated in the water feeling completely blissful, rocking with the waves. I’m not sure how deep the water was beneath me, but it didn’t bother me.
This is brilliant.. I am definitely going to subscribe
The ocean’s vastness amazes me
Once on a cruise from England to the tip of Norway, traveling in the North Sea and Norwegian Sea, I realized how scary and vast the ocean was. We were alone except for oil rigs. Dark and surreal.
Rather than the fear, the reason I'm here is actually curiosity. I watched & read many content about deep sea and its creatures. I think that's how this video reached me. It's always amazed me to know what's in deep sea or deep ground.
Anyway, this is such a deep content with well-written narration and cool voiceover. I feel like you should put the writer, narrator, and some people's name here -or is it all made by one person? 🙀
Taking the sponsorship from curiousity stream, legend
Beautiful ending speech ❤️
To the moon & back? Time to go in pursuit of the wonder of our firmament. 🙏
I realized I had this phobia when I went kayaking out on the ocean. I actually really enjoy fishing, canoeing and boating, so I was surprised at my fight or flight reaction to being out on a kayak.. it wasn't a pleasant experience.
This video changed my life
I suffer from thalassophobia and as you said in the video, I get triggered just by simple underwater photos. I get serious anxiety and I start to somehow choke, the idea of me being in the open water and not be able to see the ending below me is so terrifying and because of this I never learnt how to swim.
Even though I am scared of the unknown in the deep ocean, I enjoy things about the universe and the vast of it and knowing there's complete infinity just like in the water that fact doesn't trigger me for some reason.