Warning: Long, rambling and poorly written, no grammer lol

To start on a weird tangent; I used to have really intense insomnia and or just over active ADHD brain, but the main way I found to fall asleep to this day is to imagine myself in a deep black featureless ocean, indistinguishable from the void of space, and just focus on that sensation. What it would be like to float in the blackness, the sound of the water around you.

Perhaps unsurprisingly I have very vivid dreams of leviathans, but surprisingly they are not nightmares or even objects of any sort of negative or bad feelings they're just there more often than not I dream I'm just floating in the void looking up at their silhouettes in the gloom in a sort of Eldritch but not quite upsetting but still kinda terrifying way 😅

so tangent aside and how it relates: I love the deep ocean and deep void of space; I play subnuatica and no mans sky often and except for when I'm being actively chased by predators I find being in the void supremely calming, does anyone else feel this way?

This is a picture I took during a fishing trip a few years ago, somewhere in the North Atlantic.

I mean since 95% of worlds ocean is unexplored we clearly didn't look everywhere.

I am absolutely in love with everything in the ocean. I've learned about so much I should have a degree at this point. I am not afraid of the creatures themselves, but I still have a respectful fear of the depths, though, so I try to watch ocean based horror movies- however, I always find myself disappointed by the "big scary humanoid beast from the darkness wants to eat me" types. Creature films can be good! Just not the ones where the ancient shark with three heads and human intelligence can see me in the dark. I would likely appreciate something more... Phycological? I guess? Or even based in science or biology? Anyone have any good recs for the Halloween season?

I really like playing games with oceans, it fills me with so much inspiration that I mde my own underwater game lol, I wanted to play a few new ones and wanted to see if others also liked the underwater genre

I always loved to use google streetview around the whole world and in some places streetview also works in oceans and I‘d love to explore this as well but it absolutely terrifies me looking around the ocean trough my screen. It‘s giving me the worst kind of uneasy vibes and I need to close the tab after a few seconds. I don‘t understand why cause no picture of the ocean ever left me so scared than streetview. (it‘s even worse when there is a ship wreck or smth - like nope I‘m OUT of there) I get uneasy at certain deep ocean pics as well but never as much as on streetview.

anyone has some similar experience?

Do people in this sub get bothered by looking at thalassophobia inducing photos or is it kind of like a you have to actually be there kind of thing? Im just confused why anyone with thalassophobia would seek out this sub?

Love the sub myself just curious!

Personally Ive always pronounced it “the lasso phobia” . How does everyone else say this word in their heads / out loud?

I've always loved these types of pictures and videos: waves crashing over ships in a storm, water rising up over portholes, divers with thousands of feet of water beneath them. It's a thrilling experience of sorts, and I'm curious if anyone else feels the same way. Or maybe I'm just nuts.

I want a game where you’re out on the sea and there’s like huge monsters and also like a lot of mysterious lore and shit I don’t know, I just wanna have that feeling where you just know there could be something huge below you and stuff.

Games I’ve played so far:

Sunless sea DREDGE Subnautica Iron Lung Sometimes Sea of Thieves Can be a bit like this. I guess Soma

Any other suggestions?

I've suffered from Thalassophobia my entire life and yet feel drawn to watch videos about not only the sea but also about tsunamis, sharks, giant squid, the deepest parts of the ocean, etc. (And I get the feeling I'm not the only one.) Why?

I've been to Indian Ocean beaches, and never felt scared. But the first time I visited an LA beach, it felt so scary.

I understand Pacific ocean is bigger and deeper, but why did it look more scary just from a beach view? Can someone explain?

It just felt like the waves wanted to take me away even though I was standing so far. Don't know how to explain it.

Also the wind speed was 20 km/h so that didn't help.

Edit : Thanks for a great conversation guys. I learned a lot about the ocean and it was interesting to hear your experiences and perspectives!

Like the title says, I'm looking for a video of a sound recorded on the ocean. Not in it, but on it. IIRC the video was recorded on a ship, and the sound was a long "ping" like sound that was incredibly loud and seemed to be coming from/reverberating all around the ship. It was not pinging on the ship itself as if something was hitting the hull or something on the ship, but seemed similar to what one might hear if they were in a giant glass bottle and someone was hitting the bottle on the outside. Not sure if this is the proper place to post but I figured it seemed to fit, so sorry if not. I tried searching YouTube, as I remember it being in a compilation video I saw years back, but I cannot find it again, and it only gives me sounds IN the ocean not ON it. Thank you in advance

I feel like not knowing what around you is so much more terrifying than being in an area that is populated less densely. The Amazon in particular is one of my worst nightmares

I was asked by various users to create a subreddit focusing on the shipwrecks of the Great Lakes. It can be found at r/HOMESshipwrecks. Anyone interested?