Melanoheliophobia

A lot of recordings in this video have been made through Space Engine. Check it out, it's really worth it!

Music:
- Pablo De Sarasate Danzas Españolas - No2 Habanera
- Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata

Supporters: H H, Ephellon, Kyle A Criswell, Henson Lin, Jonas Lee, Joshua Titus, Tovi Sonnenberg, Parker Rosenbauer, iNF3Rnus, Pavel Kočarian, Ishin Hazue, John N, Danh Le, Stealer of Fresh stolen Content, Brandon Ledyard, Nathaniel Strizak, Nick Boykin-Reed, William Persson and everyone else!

[patrickbaker]

"Spiders never are that big of a threat as your brain might be telling you"

Me, an Australian:

[fnando]

I personally think that the universe's horrors are so abstract and so unfathomable for the human mind, that it is completely natural for us to want to explore it without hesitation or second thoughts

[tyegordon]

I had major melanoheliophobia when I first heard the song “black hole sun” as a kid. It introduced me to the idea of a black hole eating up the earth and I had night terrors about it for a while and often had scary day dreams about it. Eventually the stresses of my teen and adult life took me out of it and now I’m just so nihilistic I don’t worry about mass extinction events in general anymore

[JohnDoe-xpiy]

I never even thought about gas giants being pitch black inside. For some reason I always imagined a colorful lit up gassy fog. That hit me hard for absolutely no reason and now I have a sudden fear of gas giants.

[mcbadrobotvoice]

“If the universe is so big why won’t it fight me?”-internet historian

[doomakarn]

I first found out about my fear of blackholes when playing Universe Sandbox in which I was absolutely terrified of zooming in too fast, or even looking at a blackhole lest I be filled with dread or jumpscared. Still though, they are absolutely fascinating and of the many things in this universe; they are among my favourite.

[AlexEvett]

I dreamt that the sun was swallowed by a black hole in the middle of day, and it was now expanding and covering the sky and was coming for earth. I was holding onto another person as tight as I could, knowing that when the darkness reached us we would be separated forever. Strangely the black hole took my senses from me one at a time, until at last my sight survived, and then that was gone too. And then I was just a bodiless mind.

[aaronsmith]

Black holes used to keep Albert Einstein up at night. He remarked that he sometimes had a hard time believing such object existed (despite his field equations and general relativity). And he would wake up in the middle of the night thinking about them and would not go back to sleep, trying to think up of ways to figure out how the singularity can exist inside a black hole.

[InfernalAspect]

welp, it's 2024 now, time to see if this prediction is true or not.

[ZiemakAttack]

I’m glad my irrational fear that I’ve expressed to multiple people in the past of falling into Jupiter is somewhat justified.

[xjetfirex]

Guess I'm the weird one here, because.. I actually like black holes, it's my favourite celestial object. Dark, mysterious, powerful.
And quasars... Cosmic crucibles of raw energy, with matter circling around in an accretion disc and being expelled at subluminal speeds as jets of hot plasma. Extremely deadly yet so beautiful... It thrills me to no end, how the darkest known objects can give out the most light, becoming the brightest. Like beacons of the universe.

[mirandakeigher]

I have this memory that I've repressed most of the context away from, but in probably third grade we had an astronomy presentation in the gym where each grade would go into this big inflatable dome and there was a guy inside who talked about space, but he kept hyping up that we were going to see inside a black hole at the end. Everyone was psyched but I FREAKED out. I knew I wasn't going to be sucked into a black hole, but I thought maybe because there's nothing in a black hole, the dome would deflate and we would all panic and get stuck inside and suffocate. I also just did not want to hear about the existential horror of black holes and have to look at one while stuck inside an inflatable. This guy had me sold that he was going to simulate the experience of being sucked into a black hole. Not something I want to be a part of. I got more and more anxious as the presentation went on, so much so that I started to cry, but it was DARK, and I thought that if I asked to leave I would get yelled at, so I had to cry loud. So the teachers could hear and get me the heck out of there. But that meant that the whole grade got to see me cry like a little bitch because I was afraid to see a picture of a black hole. And thus, my dream of being an astronaut ended, and the seed for my imminent existential crisis was sewn. Fuck black holes.

[Bruced]

I don't like to look at the supposed look of black holes, it's something about the endless, deep, round shape, whirlpools give me the same feeling of dread. Like a combination of megalophobia, thalasophobia and fear of the unknown.

At the same time, there is the curiosity and endless fascination a black hole has, like the pull of the void to find out what the singularity is.

[ppenmudera]

When I play Space Engine I always go to black holes and enter them, because the combination of coolness and utter horror is like a drug of something

[sirduckington]

Back when I was a kid, I was extremely scared of the black holes from Super Mario Galaxy and I remember a nightmare of having my house be torn apart and eventually being sucked in myself. The fear has now subsided, and I only get slightly unnerved by black holes but I mostly just find them really fascinating. I think the main thing that scared me was how infinite it seemed and how it could easily suck in everything.

[ruaridh]

Question: since time dialation would be so extreme when entering the black hole, would that mean that the black hole would immediately disintigrate due to hawking radiation?

[ScorpoYT]

3:51 the music really fit the process of the cat being turned into spaghetti

[man]

The fact the that i watched this after the day of November 5, 2024 terrified me for a second because this video was 2 years ago.

[siimmrx]

A very nice message at the end. Very calming 😌

[REEEPROGRAM]

Considering all the stars that we see at night is just a tiny group to our galaxy, i don't even want to comprehend how big the universe is and how easy it is to get lost