This is one of those questions you ask, and let sit for months. Long enough that most of the table has started to forget you ever asked.

Current character in Curse of Strahd:

He’s deathly afraid of finding a Spartan laser-like weapon that fires concentrated sunbeams.

This is just an average session in Call of Cthulhu

Followup:

DM ME THE DOUBTS AND FEARS OR DOUBTS AND FEARS WILL BE ASSIGNED TO YOU.