Megalophobia: Fear Of The Huge

In this captivating video, we delve into the fascinating world of Megalophobia, the fear of large objects and the overwhelming sense of scale they present. Join us as we explore the deep-rooted human fascination with big things, from historical monuments like the Great Pyramids to modern architectural marvels like the Burj Khalifa.
Discover the experiences of individuals who suffer from Megalophobia and gain insight into their intense fear of enormous structures. We explore the psychological aspects behind this condition, understanding how our brains are wired to detect potential threats and why large objects can trigger such a profound fear response.
Through vivid examples, we examine different aspects of Megalophobia, such as the fear of the vastness of space, known as Astrophobia, and the fear of deep waters, known as Thalassophobia. From mind-bogglingly large celestial bodies to the eerie emptiness of the ocean's depths, we uncover the reasons behind these fears and the sense of dread they elicit.
Drawing inspiration from various art forms, we explore how artists like Zdzisław Beksiński and John Martin use scale to invoke feelings of fear and awe in their works. We also dive into architectural renderings by Hugh Ferris, which depict sprawling metropolises that can overwhelm and terrify those with Megalophobia.
Experience the unsettling yet captivating world of the video game Babbdi, where players navigate a vast and desolate cityscape that feels larger than life itself. Through its meticulous design and attention to detail, Babbdi instills a sense of fear and despair, immersing players in a world that feels both unnerving and irresistibly intriguing.
Join us on this thought-provoking journey into the realm of Megalophobia, where the fear of the huge and the allure of vastness converge. Gain a deeper understanding of this unique fear and discover why big things continue to captivate and unsettle us as humans.
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A big inspiration was Solar Sands video on Monumentality, and Jacob Geller's essay "Game's that don't fake the space"
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[@Cresendex]

Hey, I want to come out and say that this video was HEAVILY inspired by videos by Jacob Geller and Solar Sands, namely Solar Sand's "Monumentality", and Jacob Geller's "Fear of Big Things Underwater". It doesn't excuse me, but I made this video when I had around 250 subscribers and I had no clue what I was doing when I made this, (I even left the activate windows sign in the corner lol). I had never in a million years thought it would get this popular when I uploaded it, and I was a fairly new writer and had no plans of making this youtube thing a potential job for myself, which is why I took taking liberties from other channels so casually. I see this video as a stain on my channel which is why I removed monetization on it. (any ads you see is youtube not me) I still have it up because around 60% of it is still original, but just know I don't make money on this, and again, sorry for all this.

[@plebisMaximus]

Irrelevant, it's a great video. No need to be ashamed.

[@danii7120]

I was just about to comment on how much i loved the video and how I really like how you covered Blame!, as one of my favourite manga. The video was great lol

[@cfuendev]

Alright, I see! That makes a lot of sense. I came to the comments to see if anyone was gonna point out the similarity, cuz it felt like too much of a coincidence that your video ended with Roygbiv playing in the background 🤣Good work man, the topics and ideas are clearly there, but you still made an entertaining video and took the whole conversation in Jacob and Solar's videos in a new direction. I liked it!

[@lovecraftianwalrus4490]

The rest of this video is fine but Jesus that start is right out of solar sands. Even the images and examples used.

[@hi28]

boc music detected, great taste

[@negativeiquser5295]

the thing with unfathomably large objects is that they never feel natural. It's like walking across the desert, with nothing for miles, and then somewhere on the horizon you find a mile-high block of stone. You would KNOW that block would never had just . . . occurred, and it would feel disturbingly out of place

[@Cresendex]

Something disturbing and out of place is what most horror uses to scare the audience, a monster being in a place it isn't supposed to, the fact that this works for large objects as well really points out the interconnectedness of horror and the huge.

[@drummerman6488]

As a kid I was familiar with the Monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey since I had seen references to it in some shows. The idea of an impossibly massive rectangular object just sitting in space freaked me out.

[@aiodensghost8645]

​@@drummerman6488never dream of Necromorphs at night...

[@moonlightsunshine7111]

​@@Cresendex you will love the vast from the magnus archives, the embodiment of mankind's fear of insignificance

[@arvidassburg4500]

@@Cresendex Drain you of your sanity... FACE THE THING THAT SHOULD NOT BE!!!!

[@sketchywav7741]

I have dreams of these unfathomably huge objects. It’s such a weird feeling and I love it so much

[@nikkifish]

I love your pfp! :)

[@ezekielwriter2620]

I’m glad I’m not the only one who gets these dreams

[@jekblom123]

That might be a fetish.

[@Gurgashufa]

Once I had a dream where I kept growing bigger and bigger. The bigger I got, the more I saw from the inner workings of the cosmos. Figures of people the size of galaxies appeared to me, but there was always a bigger one I'd see after a while. I thought they were some kind of dieties. The first one was a spec of dust compared to the last, and the first one was already the size of a nebula. When I stopped growing, I found myself in a room outside the universe. It was such an intense feeling. Being so huge that one swing of an arm can travel through the entire observable universe is an entirely different kind of unease. I don't believe it was some revelatory dream or attribute any spiritual meaning to it, but ngl I've been chasing that pleasantly terrifying feeling ever since.

[@diamondtv_0962]

Ayo? 👀

[@Staticsceptre]

0:28 “Dubai has the worlds largest building in the world”

[@this_is_diamond_rot]

This was great

[@this_is_diamond_rot]

Nothing really to add but. Hopefully commenting will help get more people to see this

[@Thomas54965]

Great choice of music

[@noodles-ft9ut]

for me its the same feeling of being scared of heights. when ever i look up into a air balloon i get an overwhelming feeling of dread and fear. i also get the feeling if i lay down on grass and look up at the sky for a while weirdly enough

[@rat2316]

I have more existencialistic fear of big things especially looking orange sky with clouds and clear night sky

[@smokecops5009]

Skill issue

[@ivana2609]

Thank god I'm not the only one. Sometimes, I would feel like that in a building with tall ceilings and really open area, like a wide field. It's as if I'm afraid I'll suddenly get pulled up and thrown down or something like that.

[@Cresendex]

I get a similar feeling going looking up at a skyscraper from the base, makes it feel even more huge

[@zubrhero5270]

@@Cresendex Doing that makes me rock from my heels to my toes like I'm becoming unbalanced. The exact same happens looking down. Its like a vertigo sensation.

[@madiotime]

I have a type of this fear where I don't like being in rooms with very high ceilings, like it makes me think the room is WAY bigger, possibly having lots of mysterious unexplored areas, and my mind makes me think I could just randomly shoot into the air at any moment and "forever fall into the sky". Its weird Even looking at high ceilings gives me the chills

[@Redd_Is_Here]

I have something similar. Not so much high ceilings but things (ceilings, rock formations, whatever) towering directly above me.

[@madiotime]

@@Redd_Is_Here I actually have a fear like that, too though sometimes it can be oddly comforting in certain circumstances

[@Redd_Is_Here]

@@madiotime I can see that. I somewhat conquered my big fear of it from doing urbex climbing cranes and such. No fear of heights from me but things above me still give me anxiety. Manageable now but still anxiety

[@madiotime]

@@Redd_Is_Here yeah well good for u! :)

[@MrsDerpina3]

This pops up in my dreams sooo often! It is mostly very empty, liminal looking spaces, sometimes containing furniture to add to the scale. Like, a wall with endless shelfs or a sofa, with an absourdly high backrest. So strange

[@gadpivs]

Didn't know this had a name. Years ago, I had to drive for work to a place near Washington, D.C., along I-495. I'd never been out that way before, and I was driving through what was basically just a highway through the woods, when suddenly, there was this massive castle in the distance. Like, humongous. It just sort of appeared out of nowhere over the horizon, but you could tell it was still very far away, so it had to be huge. I remember thinking, "What in the world is that? There is no Disney Land or Disney World near D.C." But it also gave me this sense of unease, a panicky feeling, like something bad was going to happen because of this menacing structure that seemed to tower over the trees and the highway below. Turns out it was the Mormon Washington D.C. temple, but I swore, especially at that time, that it was a random castle in the middle of Maryland, USA. Strangely freaked me out despite being a pretty harmless place.

[@Cresendex]

Similar thing here, I went to a major city at one point and I was in a park, and between the trees, I saw the roof of a large structure, and for some reason, I was overcome with fear.

[@benwillbur5791]

When they were renovating, they actually allowed people to come and tour certain parts of the interior. I went on a trip with my family, and walked up impossibly tall spiraling staircases that went on for minutes. To think that a brief, unguided tour through only 7 or 8 rooms took over an hour really makes me wonder what the point of making a Disney castle superstructure was, instead of a few smaller buildings. Weird trip.

[@Astropheminist]

Most people in MD and the DMV actually refer to that as Disneyland 😂 but yeah it’s massive for a church

[@sham9505]

Lmao was on a road trip and saw this on the highway as well. Thought it was awesome and took some pics.

[@jkjkISHIM]

@@sham9505 Same, I was with my grandfather, saw it right off the highway in the middle of the night because it was illuminated

[@Zedorfska]

Love this

[@ahmyaketsueki7150]

Eyyy blam appreciation you earn a subscriber

[@leviathan6071]

I think everyone has megalophobia even if it’s in the smallest amounts. It just feels natural like something programmed in our nature.

[@liquidwater1133]

Yeah, as someone in a small Midwestern town every time I enter a large city with stupidly big buildings I get a weird off putting feeling

[@d4rsh1l]

Looks like It's our primal feeling like our ancestors used to fight with huge creatures back in the day

[@YuriSupporter]

Megastructures, space, and the ocean aren’t scary, just fascinating. The vast expanses of space and the ocean, and our slow discovery of all things residing in them, and the sheer scale of what humans can do is an amazing thing to me.

[@randominternetuser1966]

I don't have megalophobia but I find huge things interesting

[@smoceany9478]

nope, i yearn for big things, i want the biggest thing

[@lesssss8124]

When I was a kid I remember playing with sims city builder and occasionally I would accidentally place a big object and get jumpscared so bad. Something about an object so big that it covers the entirety of mostly normal looking terrain was terrifying to my eight year old brain, and I would always close my eyes before clicking. Now I'm more fascinated with huge things and even like the feeling I get when looking at them, but I think it's tied to adrenaline and that primal fear thats still there somewhere deep down

[@DistantLoner]

When I was eight and playing the Sims 2, I got jump scared by a sim's nose being too small.

[@TomoKystes]

It's crazy that a building jumpscared you

[@tripaloski_6971]

Sometimes I like to imagine an alien spaceship that appears out of nowhere and covers up the entire sky because of how unfathomably huge it is. Gives me chills.

[@_BubblGum_]

i had a dream like that, freaked me out so bad i made a little comic about it

[@Neo-Midgar]

I'm sure you love Independence Day

[@AiePro26]

Looks like I never had original thoughts 😂

[@BackwardsMrahc]

I imagine gravity somehow flipping and everything falls towards the sky , Ik it has nothing to do with the fear of giant things

[@Vanille173]

then Earth Defense Force would be perfect for you, the 4th series and 6th final stage is fighting a massive alien space ship covering the earth

[@adami6087]

What’s the music used during the Blame! Segment? Great vid btw

[@gilpineda]

definitely unsettling

[@microtheguyfromearth]

In my opinion, storms, hurricanes, and even clouds can be one of the things that scares me the most. Just looking down at the earth with a huge circular mess covering the surface from a space station scares me. It makes me feel how it is down there for the poor people experiencing it. And from below, its not less scary. As you see a huge heap of cloud covering the skies, it really makes you feel tiny.

[@pro-socialsociopath769]

Kind of the opposite for me, lol. I absolutely LOVE looking at approaching cumulonimbus clouds or supercells off in the distance, because you get this visceral realization that the thing is utterly HUGE - and it is literally THE biggest singular structure you are able to look at. Far bigger than any mountain, and the sun and moon just look like dots in comparison.

[@microtheguyfromearth]

@@pro-socialsociopath769 don't get me wrong, we all get that feeling

[@Skrellder]

And then you realize that the clouds and storms on Earth are microscopic compared to the ones on the Jovian planets. Planets just entirely comprised of clouds and storms bigger than our entire planet with winds that could fling a mountain like a speck of dust. Imagine falling into a planet like that. The scale would be incredible.

[@marklashante8909]

Nice job ripping off Solar Sands - literally word for word at some points. Make better videos.

[@datemasamune2904]

I actually love these giant cities and how far it extends. Can't help but marvel at how we've managed to create such a thing.

[@leoipakleo6470]

boards of canada nice

[@the_kimchi_kommandant2603]

I feel the same awe, but at the same time, I feel a deep sense of contempt for the cities, these hives of rootless degenerate cosmopolitanism.

[@jayminyoel7911]

My favorite part is that most of those huge cities also have every food imaginable.

[@coreym162]

Same! I want to actually live long enough to see Hive Cities of the future.

[@diamondsbloodydiamonds]

As someone from nyc 3:02 sounds pretty accurate

[@thescarysection]

Subscribed as soon as I heard BoC

[@Cheekyballman]

Amazing vid bro you should do a podcast love your content keep it up

[@whitecomet3036]

Here lies the few who watch after the privatization purge...

[@Starwraaath]

sadly yes

[@TaTe2007]

i JUST got done watching your liminal space video and subbing, great timing lol, anyway you make some great videos man, great job!

[@brokenATM]

Same dude

[@Cresendex]

Perfect timing, glad you're here!

[@Cresendex]

@@brokenATM Double coincidence, thank you too!

[@TaTe2007]

@@Cresendex no problem man! just keep making great content on things you want to do

[@emiliepryor51]

I am SO relieved to see this 🙏🏽 I remember being five years old and being terribly uncomfortable at the sight of the movie theater screen. As an adult, I’ve told so many people that I’m afraid of big things and I have never, not once, had someone know what I meant. So thank you for the video, I really appreciate it 🙏🏽

[@AlisonBryen]

I can pinpoint my fear of large things to three events in my early childhood. In 1987, I went for a walk with a local beauty spot called Sedgley Beacon. There were, and still are two tall radio towers on top of the hill. Anyhow, I remember looking up at the towers and being overwhelmed by the height of them and the moving clouds in the sky behind them made it look as though they were going to crash down onto me. I got a wave of dizziness, which was a terriying to two and half year old me. At about the same time, I developed a phobia of the huge brushes in the car wash as they descended down on our windscreen. Then in about 1989, we went to a large hardware store at our local out of town shopping complex. There was an indoor garden centre at the back of the store, and within it was a pool with an extremely huge working water wheel in it. I remember being so overwhelmed and terrified by the thing. It was so big and noisy.

[@finalgirl640]

I have the same fears. It's nice to find you're not alone. 😊

[@finalgirl640]

​@AlisonBryen that's SO WEIRD. Mine comes from a water wheel I saw as a child, radio towers, and dreams I had during a fever.

[@DruNature]

WOW damn I always thought everyone was scared of large things! the locks at the river are like the scariest thing Ive ever seen!

[@detroitdiesel-vu3ig]

Ditto on the movie screens. I couldn’t stand the thought of standing next to one. Still can’t even as an adult

[@ec-68]

Boc works well with this. Good music choices 👍

[@thiccontro]

Idk wtf but i have had a constant chill up my spine from this video

[@psalmas9011]

GOD DAMN IT, i tried to watch it without getting mad, but you literally copied solar sands video 1 to 1, i tried to give the benefit of the doubt but i cant. this is very very borderline plagiarism

[@Cresendex]

Some things overlapped, like the Blame manga, but we both talk about big things, there is bound to be some overlap. He looks at it through the context of awe, how big humanity can build or how big things have permeated history. If you want to do a video about megalophobia then its hard NOT to copy since we both just talk about big things, it's a general subject, not a 1 to 1 copy.

[@Lucashallal]

It doesnt scare me, but it impresses me in a way different than anything else. The scale of everything feels stunning. It fascinates me and makes me curious more than anything else

[@CerealExperimentsMizuki]

I'm pretty much the same.

[@ariannasv22]

The transition from topic to topic is so smooth, unlike videos where they will have the titlecard for a transition. The raw, unfiltered, and nicely timed images really got me immersed. No fancy graphics, just "look at this scary photo and I'll let you decipher it by yourself while I continue talking." That or I'm just tired at 5:30 in the morning.

[@Cresendex]

I'm no essayist, so I think it's probably the latter lol

[@NeyamRye]

I agree

[@catenjoyer76]

@@Cresendex Nah, I agree with her. This video is too good.

[@halfbee7886]

Thank you for the manga recommendation.

[@Dudelol122]

"humans like big things" *sheds a tear*

[@vampire_juicebox]

I only learned a couple years ago what Megalophobia was and that most people don't have it. I just thought it was normal to feel sick and want to lie face-down on the ground when looking up at tall buildings.

[@klttrll]

I don’t have this fear, but that “BLAME” thing is something

[@HengEng-su4gl]

yeah.....

[@darcybarrett311]

BLAMB

[@GRasputin91]

I'm generally not afraid of large things, but large shadowy shapes in the water terrify me. A massive tornado barreling down on me, or one of those absurdly large excavators with the rumbling, would give me a heart attack. Fear of being crushed, eaten, or even just have some massive slippery slimy thing in the water brush against me

[@timxg]

@tagar8332 what? this is relevant

[@xfrix0054]

thank you man for the new manga to read

[@erbear2002]

Always nice to hear BoC in a vid 😎

[@Jack-oi6tw]

Looks like anyone who has this phobia is going to have a bad time

[@notsaltE]

amazing video

[@Cresendex]

Thanks! So thankful for the support I'm getting right now.

[@evanhollenbach6556]

How in the world do you have so few subscribers, this is absolutely amazing stuff, man! Definitely gonna suggest you to some people!

[@Noodledoodlethatpoodled]

Cause they just started

[@Cresendex]

Thank you for the support, amazing comments from people like you are really what get me going.

[@armandoreyes1052]

you sound like zuko from avatar and I love it!!

[@vaishnvuia]

how does this guy have only 59k , he just earned a new sub

[@Slimely]

I definitely have this fear in some sorts. When I was a younger I travelled a lot. Used to go on these long road trips to visit family. I remember stopping one time, and seeing windmills in these massive fields. seeing how tall the windmills really were up close, it fascinated me, But also scared me because prior I always thought that these turbines were small. (I didn’t have windmills in my area.) But Seeing those rotor blades spinning while looking up really encapsulates this fear. Not really knowing the true scale but knowing sure as hell that it’s massive.

[@Cresendex]

Same kind of experience here, I don't have skyscrapers near where I live, but one time we visited a major city, and I got to stand at the very top of a tall tower, it really puts it into perspective how small everything is, I think that was my first ever feeling of true Megalophobia.

[@jkjkISHIM]

I've had something similar happen to me. We were on a road trip through Iowa and it was the dead of night, and we ended up driving through a big field of massive windmills. Except for the fact that you couldn't see the actual structures, just the huge red flashing lights on the base that I'm pretty sure were just indicaters but looked like a bunch of red eyes in a field blinking

[@WrvrUgoThrUR]

I once had an assignment for work to photograph wind turbines-UP CLOSE!!😣 I dreaded it for a week. I ended up going with another co-worker. Not being alone helped tremendously. Also I was lucky it was in the fall and a little chilly, so I could seek “psychological shelter” in my hoodie😂. That worked until I had to photograph one of the gigantic blades laying on the ground😱. Don’t know how I did it, but there’s NO WAY I could do it now.

[@zeebrahhh]

I might have megalophobia guys, i get quite scared when i look between my thighs

[@thehangingfish]

Every time I see a giant thing, I always have a feeling of it falling towards me. That's scary, unsettling but excited at the same time.

[@Zora72954]

I just cant imagine being scared of space... space is so beautiful and cool

[@shelazy_wolf1]

2:01 THIS PICTURE GIVES ME SO MUCH GODDAMN ANXIETY YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW

[@EmiL_from_NieR]

I’m not afraid of large things, I’m more in awe by them because I’m reminded that I’m a small blip in this existence and that just being here is a pretty crazy thing. I’ve always been obsessed with the ocean, it’s so vast and beautiful and diverse even just the sand on beaches and shells and currents, I love the salty breeze and I remember when the colossal squid was discovered in my childhood. I’ve always been obsessed with whales too- so large, but graceful. The thought that a rib cage can be bigger than a trailer is insanely… beautiful. Maybe it’s because I think of how meaningless humankind is often, since I play too much NieR. Maybe it’s because I’ve made attempts before and shouldn’t be here, so I’m not afraid of dying and find large things dope. Maybe it’s because I’ve been on so many planes since I was a couple months old, I find large space’s comforting in a way. I don’t like crowded/cluttered spaces so maybe the large open spaces make me feel less claustrophobic. Idk, interesting topic nonetheless.

[@goldend791]

I'm not saying it's a plagiarized video or anything, but the points brought up here were included in videos by Jakob Geller and solar sands in "games that don't fake their spaces" And "monumentality" Respectfully. Even if this video just happened to include those same thoughts on accident, it's also a pretty interesting thought that a person statistically could live their whole life and never think of an original idea just by how much thoughts and ideas have already been thought up and shared through the history.

[@Cresendex]

A big inspiration was the monumentality video which I have credited in the description, Jacob Geller's video was the reason I played Babbdi, I wanted to review it in a way that fit the theme of the video and tried my best not to copy Jacob Geller.

[@babitosmcgee]

Your voice doesn't sound the same as his, but your narration is pretty much the same as solar sands. Idk if that's what you're going for, but maybe in time you can put your own spin on it.

[@njva36]

As someone with megalophobia, i had to reluctantly avoid these pictures because I wanted to understand. Unnaturally large objects had always absolutely terrified me. I even had nightmares of giants and they stuck with me. It sucks but it isn't life-limiting for me

[@MrCmon113]

Are you hiding from the sun during the day?

[@usernameusernamex200]

@@MrCmon113you’re looking at the sun?

[@paperclip6377]

​@@usernameusernamex200I mean yeah you'll see it at the corner of your eye and i sometimes occasionally look at it directly.

[@TECHNOCONCORDE]

yep you earned a sub

[@nimbusshadow-wings]

It gives me anxiety and discomfort, makes me wanna hide

[@corpiew]

I never thought I'd find a video on this phobia. Everytime I say I have it, people are confused even though they can guess what it is. The concept is also hard to explain, it's hard even for me to say what exactly triggers it to avoid it. I'm terrified of anything that's even just bigger than usual, like large TVs, washing machines, mirrors, animals that are more often on the smaller scale... and even large things I've never seen up close in real life like planes and boats. With pictures, I am alright if there aren't ways of comparing the size, but it's hard for that to happen. Right now I honestly am only listening to the video, hiding in the comments lol but you've managed to intrigue me on a subject I'm all too familiar with, and I think I'll link your video to people who ask me about it and friends that want to know more! Thank you for this! 😊

[@corpiew]

@@rambunctiousvegetable Hello, sorry for the late reply I just found out I had one under this comment 😆 Yes, I knew my experience wasn’t described by megalophobia as a whole but I never actually found another that’s more fitting, so I always went with that; I’ve always had to explain what it is anyways. Coining a phobia sounds both interesting and funny if I’m the subject in question lmao thank you for taking the time, I like the name!

[@lincsmash6795]

THIS GUY IS LIKE SO HANDSOME ITS INSANE

[@Cresendex]

You're looking even handsomer my guy

[@solidkeys]

What?

[@leckallen2350]

​@@solidkeysyou lookin good

[@Necromancer_XAES_864]

Wut u men by dat

[@Noperison]

@@Cresendexcool

[@nick3718]

basically Monumentality by Solar Sands but not nearly as good

[@poopmadnessfan]

With quite a bit of Jacob Geller thrown in too. "doesn't fake the space" is just straight up ripped from his latest video (which also covers Babbdi lol)

[@nick3718]

@@poopmadnessfan unoriginal mfs

[@Cresendex]

I covered some things Solar Sands video, that's because we both cover the same idea, big things, he and I just cover it in different contexts, I do it for fear, he does it for awe, megalophobia is a fear that nobody has made a full analysis of yet is talked about frequently. Not really a copy, we talk about the same concept but execute on it in different ways.

[@Cresendex]

The only Jacob Geller-inspired was the line "It doesn't fake the space" If you ask me one line doesn't really render the entire video unoriginal lol.

[@nick3718]

@@Cresendex even the background music lol

[@micc_1234]

It was a long time ago since i watched a video that good❤❤❤

[@Samm_387]

I have megalophobia, I think I can faint when I see large objects, especially the hall at my school, my friends say I'm a person with mental disorders I don't want to have this phobia😢,My legs were shaking, I felt uncomfortable, and had cold sweat, my heart was beating very fast.

[@isilion]

Glad you mentioned BLAME!, I absolutely love it & its landscapes

[@sonnydog]

i knew i had this when i looked at google earth vr, i knew i had this when i stepped in space in vr, i knew i had this when my body went "ew" at almost every point in this video. its not scary, im not gonna puke, its just in the middle i was a bit scared no one had discovered something like this yet. you are so underrated and i hope people get to know this more

[@Cresendex]

Thanks! The subreddit is a great place to learn more if you really think you have megalophobia.

[@emilydavis162]

Phobia means fear

[@sonnydog]

@@emilydavis162 phobia means a persistent abnormal irritation for a specific thing. But basically fear

[@blehh_mae]

for me it feels like sorta fight or flight but Less

[@WeskerTechnology]

the quality of your videos are honestly amazing, so underrated.

[@SamsarasArt]

The setting of Dredd 2012 would probably frighten you. The way you described how you felt watching the NYC video was how I felt looking at arial shots of Mega City One.

[@REDVINTAGE30]

There’s also a game called The Utility Room, just like Badbi it’s a game of huge structures. Endless caves, impossibly large mountains, valleys, and statues that move.

[@riffz6065]

Large objects do spark a feeling of fear in me but large other worldly LIVE things are what I find terrifying. I had a dream where a literal phoenix the size of a planet was in the sky. It was so massive, it literally covered the moon with it's wings in my dream. Just looking at it made me feel like I couldn't breathe. It was so overwhelmingly large.

[@spin7765]

You earned my sub, man. This video was excellent! One simply can tell how passionate you were in making this video, how you did the research and scripted it. I have to say, btw, that I found the video very relaxing, even though the subject matter is scary. I guess it is possible to simulteneously have megalophobia and megalophilia.

[@adamlindfors5082]

I used to have recurring dreams as a child about a boat that was so unfanthomably and impossibly huge that it gave me a feeling I have never felt since then. It gave me anxiety in a very different way, it was like looking at something that shouldnt be possible, and yet there it was, hovering over me like a giant staring down on me.

[@adamlindfors5082]

@tagar8332 so reflecting back at youre childhood is something an adult cant do? Seems like youre the one that has to grow up when you have this inaccurate view about how an mature person should behave. Youre probably insecure about youre own grade of maturity and therefore take that out on others. No mature person would ever seriously comment what you did and also use the word "bro" which I guess is a freqent word that you use.

[@adamlindfors5082]

@tagar8332 Judged from youre other comments I guess you have zero idea what a metaphor is which is an indication of a low iq and also that youre not mentally stable.

[@timxg]

⁠@tagar8332 ‘as a child’. They never said they still had those dreams/were afraid of them.

[@Gerg589]

Idk why, but instead of fearing the planets shown, I felt nothing but pure fascination

[@Monumentality]

Reminds me on Solar sands video, love this topic

[@kachowskiid]

i am scare of sans

[@mxce420]

For me, it isn’t even the fear of the possibilities from the large object. It’s more just the sheer scale that both fascinates and terrifies me. I also believe perspective can induce it easier as it can portray the looming feel of an impossibly large object much better.

[@THEdanrugaming]

When there's basically no foreshortening to vanishing points, it feels unnatural. Like uncanny valley, but the perspective is sound and correct for such massive objects

[@nbsoboleski]

I didn't know I've had a backburner issue with megalophobia for... w/o aging myself, several decades 😂 It's not specifically huge things that scare and literally disorient me, it's gigantic things isolated in a very vast space. Anything huge, amidst other things, like a 1 mile structure in a city, doesn't terrify me. It's the unnatural, uncanny eeriness of an unnaturally large, man-made structure in the middle of nowhere that terrifies me, because it seems surreal. I feel like I've been tossed from reality into a dream w/o transition. Going home to northern MN from Central Iowa in my college years, meant I'd have to pass by hundreds of wind turbines on I-35. I couldn't look to the side at them while driving or I'd get woozy and be unable to drive safely. Biggest fear is being stranded on ocean and being saved by a ship half a mile long. I'd die of terror before being assisted. Ironic, right?

[@tacituskilgore80]

People with megalophobia when they see my peanits:

[@Comrade_caterpillar472]

It’s quite the opposite for me, I’m incredibly fascinated with insanely huge things and I can’t explain why, especially from a first person perspective

[@noahg23]

I have crazy megalophobia, ESPECIALLY in water. The thought of a massive freighter or blue whale close to where I’m swimming or boating TERRIFIES me. EDIT: 1:46 this is what I’m talking about. I would be shitting bricks it I was in one of those canoes.

[@ashishhembrom3905]

My wife had the same fear so she chose me.

[@garbageyoutubechannel310]

cool video but the latter half seems way derivative of Solar Sands and Jacob Geller

[@smoot2337]

dont forget wendigoon

[@AustinDrawbaugh489]

this is legitimately one of the best videos I've seen in a long time. It has such a sense of uneasiness and yet, it's so intriguing.

[@DicetheIceCube]

The fact that I can’t even *process* the size of the likes of Jupiter until I’m there horrifies me. Just seeing those images (like mercury compared to the sun) are fine, because it’s in a pov of something far away, but an image in, say, mercury’s place is true horror

[@maplispro9384]

0:08 is such a cool picture. I want it

[@Randomguy-g4w]

2:53 and 1-3 nukes could destroy it

[@thebuilder5271]

6:32 this reminds me of how when I first started playing no man’s sky, I had this really distinct feeling of fear every time I entered a new planets atmosphere. Like even though it’s a game as you get closer you see how gigantic the games planets actually are. And it was especially bad if it had a thick atmosphere or was an ocean planet

[@Sucullentbutter]

I had the same feeling while exploring the universe in starsector cuz of how eerie It was, you leave a bustling center with Constant signals and movement, to nothing, not a single signal, Just you and your ships, and the fact that there are abyssal and rogue ai's roaming around really makes you think of what awaits you in the next system.

[@Danthenuggetman]

I remember being a little kid, and having a dream where my grandpa lost me in a grocery store. As soon as my hand left his, and I turned around to see where he went, I felt an incredible sense of dread and fear. The people around me became scary faceless humanoids, that completely ignored my presence as they shopped for strange items in suddenly unrecognizable text. When I realized I wasn't in danger, I noticed that the grocery store had become infinite in all directions, and I wound up exploring as far as I could. When I got to the toy aisle, things became absolutely absurd. Toy weapons were real, the action figures were life sized and sentient, and I talked and played with them until my grandpa found me in my dream. I woke up to him waking me and my older brother up for school. That is one of very few dreams I remember from my childhood that wasn'y a nightmare.

[@FoxGalahTheGamer]

00:03 Soohorang and Bandabi cameo! If you don't know who they are, they are the mascots for the 2018 Olympics.

[@Tomppsu]

it doesnt scare me… it makes me feel emotions, it gives me chills and makes me feel safe for some reason…

[@ianbirchfield5124]

i was once outside in the evening during a thunderstorm. no rain, no sound, just quiet flashes of lightning. everytime lightning flashed it lit up the clouds above me and suddenly the clouds themselves looked huge and close-by. it was terrifying! and i loved it!

[@alextears7153]

I have a type of megalophobia where it mostly applies to interiors and round objects. When I was a kid, I constantly had fever, and in those nights I would hallucinate the room I'm in getting bigger and bigger and bigger, and they always gave me so much anxiety my parents had to calm me down and help me sleep; and one time those hallucinations took me to an endless flat land where the floor was white and then sudden massive pillars showed up that led to me having the worst panic attack in my life. Though I now very rarely have fever, those hallucinations led me to forcefully sleep facing the closest wall or I would get anxiety, and have a fear of the big things. Yet oddly enough, I LOVE futurism and massive, liminal buildings like the game you mentioned, where they give me comfort instead of anxiety. Oh but show me a royal room or massive hollow circles and I get anxious lmao

[@mrcomp1971]

This sounds like a mix between megalophobia and altocelarphobia. Which is the fear of big open rooms and especially high ceilings. Maybe the latter really resonates with you? Ever felt uncomfortable or disoriented when entering a giant church? Or a hangar? The feeling that if the room suddenly flipped upside down, you'd fall? That's Altocelarophobia.

[@xphxntomx]

Back in early 2020, I had asked my mom what a phobia was, and she told me the definition. Then I had asked her if there was the phobia of large objects because I had said that I thought I had it. She told me that phobias were more than just finding something scary, and told me that I didn’t have a phobia. I shrugged it off and didn’t think about it for a while, but I still to this day become paralyzed in fear while my heart starts beat faster to whenever I see a abnormally large object or something like it. I kind of always knew that I had it for a while, and I think I realized I had it back in 3rd grade. We had to do a planet project and had to look up images of the planet we had to study about. While looking up images of the planets, I felt an unnerving feeling about how mind-numbingly large they were, even though it was only on a computer screen, images like those still terrify me and still does to this day. It’s not only planets that give me the chills, but also cruise ships, planes, buildings that are miles away, yet are still so insanely large. Those things that I just listed are all things that trigger my phobia fairly equally, but I can for sure say with certainty that it’s cruise ships and ocean vessels that fill me with anxiety and terror. I don’t know why they terrify me so much when there’s so many larger objects than them, but the sheer overwhelming size of them, even though being built by humans, is definitely one of the biggest reasons they make me so uneasy. Back in 2022, my oldest brother had a graduation party on a Yacht in Marina del ray. While we were walking down the dock to the ship, all the other ships and boats were facing towards us from the right, with their bows hovering of us, overwhelming me with fear. I walked faster and kept my head looking straight so I wouldn’t have to see them. Even after getting on the yacht, I stayed inside for about most of the ride because I couldn’t stand the thought of falling overboard and being met with the size of the ship. I honestly think it’s a mix of Astrophobia, and Megalophobia which causes me to have a fear of both ships and planets. And it’s the overwhelming, seemingly impossible size of the object, that makes it seem like it could just engulf you with ease, never letting you out, and being completely helpless if you were to faced with the object. My phobias have gotten better, and pictures of large objects don’t make me too uneasy now, but sometimes I have dreams, or these fake scenarios, where I’m either floating out in space or in the ocean, and a ginormous planet starts pulling me closer with its gravitational pull, causing me to be absolutely helpless, or the ship going over me, causing me to get trapped underneath, and getting pulled closer to its propellers. Thank you for making this video, I’ve been looking for someone to do a video on this with this much detail and quality and haven’t been able to find it. I hope this video really blows up because it deserves the views.

[@WrvrUgoThrUR]

Thanks for sharing that. Always interesting to hear someone else’s experience with this fear.

[@xphxntomx]

@@WrvrUgoThrUR Glad you enjoyed reading it. And holy moly I did not even realize how much a typed 😭

[@FreddyFazbear-mn7lj]

Its usually boats for me😭

[@flavoredwaters]

I don’t think I’m necessarily scared of large things but fascinated by them. I live near Houston and sometimes I just walk through the down town with the massive 100 story sky scrapers and just stare upward as I walk

[@OversizedPringleToe]

15:50 Activate your Windows!

[@godalseif]

"a sense of awe that can also be terrifying." that, my friend, is the sublime

[@darkvioletcloud]

I've been playing the indie game Fear and Hunger these past couple of weeks and I love it. There's a moment where (spoilers, obviously) you're adventuring in a village deep underground, made of rickety wood and clay huts. If you go deep enough, you'll find a wooden bridge overlooking a massive set of yellow lips and teeth, with ochre scales and gray filaments. It's a massive, massive mouth, with the rest of the body descending into the background. This is the God of the Depths, and it terrifies me. To see just a mouth peeking out of the abyss, so big that its lips are as wide as three people stacked on top of each other, makes me wonder the extent of this unseen creature. A lot of the game is unnerving, but I think the God of the Depths evokes a primal, deep-seated fear within me, rivaled only by the Uterus enemy, and that's because I have an intense fear of pregnancy. Also this video sold me on Blame and Babbdi. They both seem so interesting!

[@BloodMarket]

The moon is one of my biggest fears. Especially when it gets slightly closer so you can see the patterns on it. Knowing the moon is still really far away yet big enough that ypu can get a good look at it is HORRIBLE The only thought I have is "What if it fell on us?"

[@krio1267]

moonfall:

[@debug77-B]

I'm pretty sure that the moon is actually moving away from us, but very very slowly.

[@gainzday2838]

And we only had three days to evacuate earth 😂

[@peterpop-off]

Looking at the moon: HORRIBLE 😂 breathe oxygen bro

[@Willis_Fam]

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

[@BlackHeart1789]

Man, if you enjoy Beksinski's and Martin's work, you're gonna LOVE Wayne Barlowe. You might know him from his design work on the Avatar movies and Pacific Rim, however my favorite compilation of works of his is Barlowe's Inferno. It is a detailed fantastical depiction of hell itself and features huge beasts and structures whose anatomy and architecture defy human comprehension. It is a specific amalgamation of surrealism, religious themes and literal megalophobia that I have never found in any other kind of media. Very close to Martin's work though, I sense a strong influence even though I don't know of any instance Barlowe has mentioned something like that. Also fun fact about Beksinski: He wasn't a trained artist, but an architect! That's why his architectural paintings capture the essence of incomprehensible structures so perfectly, I think.

[@rickoniumneptoone]

Great song! I love Boards of Canada

[@milesvaleska2182]

I did a tour of some film studios on my last day of this film class I took and one of the sound stages we went into was ginormous. One open room, the height of 5 stories. There was a set of stairs in each side of the room that reached to the top of the room, revealing a giant catwalk that overlooked the entire space. Sometime about the space made me super unsettled. Maybe it was the size or maybe it was empty when it’s normally packed with people filming.

[@meridiasbeacon7669]

MEGALOPHOBIA: The fear of Sans Undertale

[@goe8479]

Sans undertale fnaf

[@wee7458]

Funny

[@TheRealSuperKirby]

MEGALOPHOBIA: Fear of a song you love getting turned into megalovania

[@joannajeter9994]

:)

[@_.kayla._]

Lolz

[@somnvm37]

btw, the pronounciation of zdzislaw was quite good, also if you like his art I'd recommend looking at what Seguru Tanaka makes, it's quite simmilar in many ways but the atmosphere is different.

[@finnishere3021]

I love that you used boards of canada in the background

[@Numinon]

I feel like Warhammer 40k should be an amazing setting for Megalophobia. I say should, because everything in the setting is blown way out of proportion when it comes down to the lore, but I feel like visual material rarely does that justice. Then again, I don't have that phobia, so I can't judge it. For example, the most important structure for humanity in the setting is the Imperial Palace on Earth (or Terra), it's the size of a continent (Asia I think) and parts of it reach through the atmosphere. Earth itself is just one massive city. There's plenty of other examples, but I feel like the Palace is true bonkers. Unfortunately there's hardly any illustrations for it.

[@Cresendex]

Actually would have been a great idea now that I researched it a little more, I would have included it had I known about it.

[@Numinon]

@@Cresendex Oh well, the video isn't worse off for it I think. I really loved it either way, Blame had me fascinated as hell.

[@mrmythman5001]

I was literally just thinking about this especially Mars since its basically one giant robot in 40k

[@AmIJuliaGon]

This all reminds me of Gulliver's travel In the second part he goes to a land of giants and makes a lot of comparison using day to day buildings; like comparing the set of royal stoves to Cathedrals, and the way the habitants live. He stat that they were ugly, but not as in "not please looking" ugly, in the way that he could see wrinkles and skin marks from far away. Describing the way they ate were like animals chewing tearing up meat, and how he feared kids could be mean to "small animals like him" and how this was present to his day to day life, only he was not the small animal in that situation. There's even an illustration in one of my books (i got 5 of them lol) where there's a group of sailors that are running away from a gigant (they're in a boat btw), and the sailors are shown paddling from what it seems to be a very deep water; but cutting back to the giant, the water reaches his knees, looking like just a middle deep poddle for him. It doesn't say much but i could read something a like "Our power is only as strong as our own knowledge" One of the phrases that striked me the most was "Nothing is too big or too small if not the comparison", and this got me wonder that that land was normal to the habitants, and if it wasn't for Gulliver himself that land would never be known as a "Giant Land". This is one of my favorites part of the book, I always read it to time to time just to get the "Maybe we're not alone in our own planet" idea alive

[@Cresendex]

I have also read Gulliver's travel and can confirm that the line "Nothing is too big or too small if not the comparison" really got to me as well, everything must be put into perspective, from the perspective quarks or even the Planck length, we are larger than the universe itself, megalophobia is in the eye of the beholder.

[@sonus5979]

Megalovophobia, the fear of Sans

[@eggabacon]

I absolutely love things that people with megalophobia, thalassopobia, and astrophobia find terrifying so I think I'm just weird

[@larikmustafa2035]

ive had this for the longest time!