What is your worst fear?

I think something similar but specifically about my wife. When I reflect on how grateful I am that I have her, my brain immediately goes "what if she's not real and this is all a dream". The fear begins lol

god that's terrifying, like imagine trying to explain to people that you had this whole other life and they just think you're having some kind of breakdown. I'd probably end up doubting my own memories after a while too

"my whole life has been a dream" Hope this isn't too much of a tangent, but your post made me think of this: when I was a child, my brother explained schizophrenia to me (he was young too, so forgive him if his explanation wasn't perfectly accurate). He said schizophrenic people have hallucinations. "What are hallucinations?" "That's where you think something is happening, but it isn't really happening. So you could think you're in England in the woods somewhere, but you're actually in California in a city." After that, I spent years thinking that whenever I was in a toilet stall, I was in danger of it having all been a hallucination, the walls of the stall would dissolve, and I'd be bathrooming right in the middle of class as all my classmates laughed "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA," Charlie-Brown-style

There was actually a book someone wrote called "So You've Been Publicly Shamed," about exactly that

Hopefully won't happen in our lifetimes, but a legitimate concern TBH