phobias and fears?

[FloggingMolly]

Anyone got any interesting ones?

I'm scared of the dentist (which is tough shit, because I _need_ to go asap), and phobic of spiders and vomiting (mostly people around me vomiting)

 

[graceanne]

The sound of the toilet flushing at night will send me running for my bed, and leaping in, every time.

 

[FloggingMolly]

The sound of the toilet flushing at night will send me running for my bed, and leaping in, every time.

How come? I hate having to flush it overnight, but more because it wakes me up too much and then I cant get back to sleep.

 

[graceanne]

How come? I hate having to flush it overnight, but more because it wakes me up too much and then I cant get back to sleep.

No clue. *shrugs* I've been like that for as long as I can remember.

 

[VelvetSin]

Anyone got any interesting ones?

Water I can't see the bottom of. I love going to the beach, but I'm not likely to go in above my knees. The same goes for ponds or rivers or lakes, though I don't remember the last time I went to any of those (three guesses why).

I'm afraid of the dark. Really. I feel like I'm being watched no matter how silly it is, any time it's completely dark. Oddly, I can handle being blindfolded just fine.

Bugs and spiders. Depending on the creepy crawly, I'll go full-scale spaz-attack, and though I get the whole "you're much bigger, just step on it," I can't. I can leave until someone else does, and that's usually what I do.

Snakes. Tall grass (may hide bugs or snakes). Commitment. (Oops!)

 

[BiBunny]

Dams. Is that one weird enough for you? I have others, but that's the most unusual.

 

[FloggingMolly]

Dams. Is that one weird enough for you? I have others, but that's the most unusual.

yup, that's one of the oddest I've ever heard

 

[BiBunny]

yup, that's one of the oddest I've ever heard

It really is strange, LOL.

 

[callinectes2]

Ladders, I am not afraid of heights and will walk on the 3rd floor ledge at my office all of the time but I will not go past the 2nd step of a ladder.

 

[Bandit58]

I have the creepy crawly one too, especially spiders and cockroaches. Which is great, considering I moved to Australia which has some of the biggest spiders (huntsman, and the big furry black one that is like a trapdoor spider that I can't think of the name of just now )

I have claustrophobia. I found that out when I had to have a MRI last year. That 20 minutes in the machine was pure torture.

I am afraid of driving on the motorways here. I am quite comfortable in our local area, but get me to drive anywhere else and my palms sweat and I start breathing fast. I'm scared of getting lost. I'm scared of lots of traffic. I come from the NZ countryside where it was one lane each way and not a lot of cars.

 

[Mads]

Grasshoppers/crickets... and I'm demophobic, or ochlophobic if you prefer

 

[graceanne]

Ladders, I am not afraid of heights and will walk on the 3rd floor ledge at my office all of the time but I will not go past the 2nd step of a ladder.

I'm afraid of ladders, and I don't consider that a irrational fear or phobia. I am one of the clumsiest people you will ever meet; my balance is really off cause of my back problems. Add in the arthritis, and ladders are not my friend. I wont' go anywhere over the first step unless I really have to and it doesn't matter for anything above the second.

Well, I guess there are things that I'd go over the second for. The life of a child, etc. But you get the point.

 

[Yasashii_Kaze]

The sensation of falling. Not heights, but the actual dropping sensation. If I am walking down the stairs to the basement and move too quickly forward, I will have a sudden sense of panic because the motion imitates that feeling. My knees shake if I climb on a chair to change a light bulb, but I can fly without any trouble at all. It all depends on what I perceive my chances of falling are. Even being only inches above the ground can terrify me because the opportunity for that *sensation* is there. I can know that I'll experience little to no pain when I hit, but for me that's not the source of terror so it makes no difference.

 

[ultramarineblue]

Dams. Is that one weird enough for you? I have others, but that's the most unusual.

I wouldn't have thought of that one right off but I can definitely see where it could be a valid one especially if you've ever driven or walked across a bridge over the spillway of a dam. Then when you start thinking about how old some of them are and how leaky some can be. I know of two specifically that are leaking fairly bad - one so much that there are trucks waiting to drain water that collects at the base from the leaks.

 

[BiBunny]

I wouldn't have thought of that one right off but I can definitely see where it could be a valid one especially if you've ever driven or walked across a bridge over the spillway of a dam. Then when you start thinking about how old some of them are and how leaky some can be. I know of two specifically that are leaking fairly bad - one so much that there are trucks waiting to drain water that collects at the base from the leaks.

*Runs out of thread, screaming*

 

[sb2009]

1. clowns. they are creepy and I am sure they are some sort of Jungian representation of some sort of pure evil that is going to destroy civilization someday.

2. high places - I feel like I will suddenly jump off for no reason.

 

[lonelysmile]

I have a fear of sharks, fire (while I enjoy bonfires, if I get too close, I'm convinced the flames will jump out and catch me on fire), and bugs.

 

[Ravenwind]

Spiders, bees, hornets, wasps, and other ugly-and-potentially-poisonous bug. Not really an irrational fear, because I'm allergic to a lot of things, and I really don't want to find out if I'm allergic to them either. If I'm certain it's not poisonous, or if it's cute, it doesn't "bug" me (except daddy long legs... they're too close to spiders for my tastes).

I'm also scared of elevators, because of a dream I had once when I was a kid, and was never really able to get over. I'm not claustrophobic or anything (quite the opposite), but the idea of it falling (or worse, a corpse falling through the roof, and then it falling) is unnerving. I'll get on them if I must, but I won't like it.

 

[KoPilot]

I'm a trypophobe.

Clusters of holes makes me ill and want to die and/or destroy whatever it is that has the holes in it. :\

 

[midwestyankee]

Needles

 

[FloggingMolly]

I'm a trypophobe.

Clusters of holes makes me ill and want to die and/or destroy whatever it is that has the holes in it. :\

That might beat dams tbh.

 

[where]

I'm a trypophobe.

Clusters of holes makes me ill and want to die and/or destroy whatever it is that has the holes in it. :\

holes? like holes in the ground?


I'm very phobic about daddy-long-legs. not the US leggey spider type the UK crane fly type.

and it's all that shithead david Jepson's fault.

 

[PenIsMightier1]

Heights, I can't even go up a ladder without feeling faint.

I always say to my friends, that's why I'm short, so I'm not as far from the ground

 

[begcil]

anything with more than 6 legs.....
OH!!!
.....and those creepy white faced clowns! They absolutely freak me out!

 

[the captians wench]

The sensation of falling. Not heights, but the actual dropping sensation. If I am walking down the stairs to the basement and move too quickly forward, I will have a sudden sense of panic because the motion imitates that feeling. My knees shake if I climb on a chair to change a light bulb, but I can fly without any trouble at all. It all depends on what I perceive my chances of falling are. Even being only inches above the ground can terrify me because the opportunity for that *sensation* is there. I can know that I'll experience little to no pain when I hit, but for me that's not the source of terror so it makes no difference.

See I'm just the opposite, it's the going up that makes me all freaked out. Going up the rollercoaster, I'll curse you all the way, but once I make it to the top, I'm okay. We think it might be becuase my dad tossed me in the air as a kid and hit my head rather hard on the ceiling. I also don't remember anything before my 5th birthday which is when the accedent accured.

Needles

yup me too, but strangely it's not a fear of pain from the needle, it's the needle itself. If you can draw blood with out me seeing the needle I'm fine, if I see it, I'm out like a light.

Also goes back to childhood trama.