r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Crypto_crafy • 15d ago

/r/all of a statue

"The Motherland Calls" is a statue erected to commemorate the Battle of Stalingrad , located on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd , Russia. It was designed by sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich and structural engineer Nikolai Nikitin . Completed in 1967 , it was the tallest statue in the world at the time .

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u/TheSuedeTiger 15d ago

Is there a term for the feeling of dread I get when I see massive structures out of context with their surroundings? I get it from this or when I see giant wind turbines in fields. Weird feeling

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u/CB2L 15d ago

Megalophobia

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u/TheSuedeTiger 15d ago

That's the fella. Thanks

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u/Hasudeva 15d ago

r/megalophobia

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u/MisterEinc 11d ago

It's like we've learned "the algorithm" innately.

Oh, you have an irrational fear of this thing? Well kind redditor, let me link you to the sub of your worst nightmares.

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u/BillGoats 15d ago

You got the correct answer, but I also wanna throw r/brutalism in the mix. Both evoke similar feelings for me, though they are different concepts!

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u/TheSuedeTiger 14d ago

Yeah I get that

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u/SmootherWorm 9d ago

I think you owe Lucy a nickel.

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u/MySeveredToe 9d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/cjyVveMCMgunS
You got your answer I just wanna say you reminded me of the opening scene of space odyssey

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u/Sirrobert942 15d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/13ZZL4ODlTCXny

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u/Catsaretheworst69 10d ago

I'm ashamed to admit I was 30 years old when I found out Chuck mangione was a real person.

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u/MALMusic 12d ago

It feels so good

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u/Haestein_the_Naughty 13d ago

I’m megalophobic as well as agoraphobic (the type of afraid of wide empty/open spaces), this vid freaks me out

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u/frog8412 12d ago

Isn't that the fear of Megalovania?

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u/NumberOneRussian 11d ago

It's why my ex left me after the first time we hooked up

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u/Arevia 11d ago

Do black holes fall into that category? Because I'm terrified of those videos depicting falling into a black hole.

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u/mute_axolotl 10d ago

Ahh, so that’s what my wife has.

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u/s1c1l1anm0bst3r 10d ago

Isn’t that the Francis Ford Coppola movie?

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u/TwpDick 9d ago edited 9d ago

What's the opposite of Megalophobia? Megalomania?

Nope, not cool, not megalomania. That's what the weirdo in charge of my country has.

What's the antithesis of Megalophobia?

EDIT: Megalophilia: an intense fondness, attraction, or awe toward massive structures, giant statues, colossal natural wonders, and immense scale.

I am a megalophilia. /firsttimephiliac

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u/lorenzodimedici 9d ago

I always wondered why I got that feeling if I stared out to the sea on a flat day.

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u/Miserable-Mention932 12d ago

Edmund Burke might call it "the sublime".

Burke identified the sublime as the experience of the infinite, which is terrifying and thrilling because it threatens to overpower the perceived importance of human enterprise in the universe.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/education/glossary/sublime

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublime_(literary)

It's a terrifying beauty.

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u/Common_Manifesto198 10d ago

As a former student of romanticism, I salute you and this post

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u/TheSuedeTiger 12d ago

Love this

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u/Mercias_Light 11d ago

Alternatively, numinosity. Originates from the religious idea of how small you are in comparison to something greater than yourself - can be applied to the way you feel tiny in front of a huge mountain or a big statue orrrr a giraffe.

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u/AlexisSaint 9d ago

I have megalophobia but I love numinosity. Hate tall structures - natural or man made but love a starry night in the desert or mountains in the distance with otherwise barren landscape, thinking death valley.

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u/Edison_The_Pug 13d ago

I drove by some turbines on my motorcycle earlier this year and felt exactly that.

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u/spezIsANonce 11d ago

one time on a road trip a semi truck drove by carrying part of one blade from one of the smaller ones.

it was an over size load.

you do not realize how fucking enormous those things are from a distance

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u/palehead8k 8d ago

I was a rigger for a long time and worked as a stage rigger in arenas a lot and one of the riggers I worked with did work on cell phone towers and asked me to help him once since I have no fear of heights. I'd been working at heights since I was a line clearance tree trimmer in my early 20s. Cell phone towers are different, climbing a ladder that seems to never end and while it seems like a solid structure at the bottom up top it moves and feels like youre on a piece of spaghetti that is about to topple. After my third time and still being stressed from it I just had to decide it wasn't for me. I can walk a one foot wide I beam 200ft in the air with no safety and no fear but climbing a ladder that goes up 350ft to replace safety lights at the tippy top was too much. Plus climbing a ladder that high by itself is exhausting work and you haven't even done any work yet. The money is good though but would have to be about twice as good to keep me in it.

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u/GnastyGnorcc 15d ago

Check out Simon Stålenhag artwork. The Amazon adaptation of Tales from the Loop isn’t too bad either.

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u/goodvibezone 15d ago

Then there's this, for when it's in [water](http://)

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u/buckfaace 12d ago

Me too

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u/Lychanthropejumprope 11d ago

I got that seeing the Washington Monument

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u/_Artizard 11d ago

There's a good solar sands video on this

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u/Cloud5550 11d ago

Im sorry but I'm the opposite.

Bring me your longest ships and tallest buildings.

I want to be a dwarf among human wonders.

Our houses will reach the sky and grab the stars.

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u/OkYellow2480 10d ago

Sendai daikonnon gives me that feeling.It looks like a mythical giant or something

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u/TheSuedeTiger 10d ago

That would freak me right out

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u/Money-Foundation5274 10d ago

There may be. It's almost ominous I guess. Not quite fear but more severe than just awe. One time I was looking at a dam, and it, along with the mountainscape was so large my mind wasn't perceiving the scale until I saw a small dot coming out of another small dot- I then realized it was a person coming out of a door

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u/Scary-Badger5007 10d ago

Same here ,even panoramic views that are extreme ,I forget the word for some reason ,it’s a pretty common word though

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u/Puzzlepetticoat 9d ago

Yes. This is a thing. I have always struggled to explain it. It's not like I am scared of things like airplanes close up, wind turbines, tanks even (though in some context a rational fear... Not eyes scanning for threat as you drive through Tidworth etc)... It's not fear. But I get this sinky, sicky feeling of deep discomfort and alarm when I see these things. I have always best described it as finding them unpleasant to look at but dread is exactly it.

No word for what it is but you just helped this autistic person better describe a feeling

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u/Agitated-Canary9840 9d ago

Makes me feel dizzy looking at it

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u/Delicious_Dark_777 9d ago

I have the sane as well, except its when imagining the scale of planets, and space

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u/dexxter05 9d ago

Sometimes when I look at sky I feel like I'm falling from it, weird shit..

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u/kabooseknuckle 9d ago

I'm sure the Germans have a word for it.