Phobias

Cockroaches. I kill them, with extreme prejudice. I shudder when I just see one and can't stand being in the same room with one, even if I just see it run under some piece of furniture I have to leave.
 
Yikes. Those grasshoppers climbing the grass stems made me uneasy. *shudder*

I think the fish-o-phobia wins for me. That's intriguing, especially as the dream have continued so long.

I'm not actually afraid of many things. Cockroaches do repulse me, but it's heights and free fall that I can't deal with. I once went to an amusement park with the SO and, like a macho idiot, insisted on going on the ride where they ratchet you up several stories in the air and simply drop you. I have no idea what I thought I was proving. It was a very peculiar and unpleasant feeling - I think my mind actually overloaded with fear and horror shortly after the locks released and we started falling. My whole body went limp and my mind sort of ... spun, and blurred. I staggered away from the ride in a daze and managed to hide behind a tent before I ... :eek: Well. Burst into tears, actually, which is extremely embarassing in public.

I've learned my lesson. I no longer feel the need to prove anything in amusement parks, other than my ability not to sob openly in public.

Shanglan
 
BlackShanglan said:
Yikes. Those grasshoppers climbing the grass stems made me uneasy. *shudder*

I think the fish-o-phobia wins for me. That's intriguing, especially as the dream have continued so long.

I'm not actually afraid of many things. Cockroaches do repulse me, but it's heights and free fall that I can't deal with. I once went to an amusement park with the SO and, like a macho idiot, insisted on going on the ride where they ratchet you up several stories in the air and simply drop you. I have no idea what I thought I was proving. It was a very peculiar and unpleasant feeling - I think my mind actually overloaded with fear and horror shortly after the locks released and we started falling. My whole body went limp and my mind sort of ... spun, and blurred. I staggered away from the ride in a daze and managed to hide behind a tent before I ... :eek: Well. Burst into tears, actually, which is extremely embarassing in public.

I've learned my lesson. I no longer feel the need to prove anything in amusement parks, other than my ability not to sob openly in public.

Shanglan


Bwahahahahah!

I laugh, Shang, only because I had a panic attack on a shaky ladder this summer. I almost started crying in front of my SO and his dad... I was shaking so bad, I froze up and he had to help me down the ladder, and I wouldn't let go. It was an old decrepit ladder we found in the garage when we moved in that was certainly not safe. We threw it out on the curb soon after and got a proper step ladder.

:kiss:
 
BlackShanglan said:
Yikes. Those grasshoppers climbing the grass stems made me uneasy. *shudder*

I think the fish-o-phobia wins for me. That's intriguing, especially as the dream have continued so long.

I'm not actually afraid of many things. Cockroaches do repulse me, but it's heights and free fall that I can't deal with. I once went to an amusement park with the SO and, like a macho idiot, insisted on going on the ride where they ratchet you up several stories in the air and simply drop you. I have no idea what I thought I was proving. It was a very peculiar and unpleasant feeling - I think my mind actually overloaded with fear and horror shortly after the locks released and we started falling. My whole body went limp and my mind sort of ... spun, and blurred. I staggered away from the ride in a daze and managed to hide behind a tent before I ... :eek: Well. Burst into tears, actually, which is extremely embarassing in public.

I've learned my lesson. I no longer feel the need to prove anything in amusement parks, other than my ability not to sob openly in public.

Shanglan

Sorry about your incident, Shanglan.

The fish dreams are less frequent now... Maybe every other month. They used to be a couple of times a week. And for a while it was everynight. *shudders*
 
BlackShanglan said:
Yikes. Those grasshoppers climbing the grass stems made me uneasy. *shudder*

I think the fish-o-phobia wins for me. That's intriguing, especially as the dream have continued so long.

I'm not actually afraid of many things. Cockroaches do repulse me, but it's heights and free fall that I can't deal with. I once went to an amusement park with the SO and, like a macho idiot, insisted on going on the ride where they ratchet you up several stories in the air and simply drop you. I have no idea what I thought I was proving. It was a very peculiar and unpleasant feeling - I think my mind actually overloaded with fear and horror shortly after the locks released and we started falling. My whole body went limp and my mind sort of ... spun, and blurred. I staggered away from the ride in a daze and managed to hide behind a tent before I ... :eek: Well. Burst into tears, actually, which is extremely embarassing in public.

I've learned my lesson. I no longer feel the need to prove anything in amusement parks, other than my ability not to sob openly in public.

Shanglan

Poor, poor Shanglan. :( *stroke, stroke your fuzzy cheek*

I agree, I think logo gets my vote for the oddest phobia prize. Fish? Wow, I would love to know the psychological trigger for that fear, logo.

I don't like bugs on me but they have their place in the world and as long as they remember that place is outside, then I'm good. I love the sound of running water and the huge, party-colored koi in ponds are lovely, almost mythical creatures in my mind.

I'm just plain old claustrophobic. I was in a kayaking in college and got wedged in some rocks, upside down, still in my kayak. I couldn't roll, and I couldn't maneuver enough to get out. I turned sideways, still in the kayak, trying to pull myself to the surface, clawing the bottom of the boat. It didn't work. I was sucking water and staring at the trees through what looked like really thick, wavy glass. My bf at the time hauled me upright, but it is as close as I have ever come to drowning.

I'm not afraid of water, but if I can't straighten myself up to my full height, or move my arms and legs, in just about any circumstance, I can't breathe. Caves, crawlspaces, etc.

Just thinking about makes me feel like an elephant is sitting on my chest. And I've noticed the phobia is only getting worse as I get older. :(
 
scheherazade_79 said:
OK, this another You-based question. Do any of you out there have any unusual phobias? Not the traditional things, like spiders, snakes, heights etc. but really idiosyncratic ones?

I have a phobia about gristle in sausages - finding a piece can ruin my entire meal. I also have a phobia about walking into a bathroom just after someone's taken a dump. Actually... give me spiders, snakes and heights any day! :cathappy:

LOL any suggestion of gristle (arrrg even writing the word makes me heave) and I have to lie down for an hour! Actually anything I think 'dodgy' about meat sets me off!
 
Yui, that experience is enough to make anyone phobic. It gave me a shudder reading it.

Awfully glad the BF was there. *nuzzle*
 
yui said:
I'm not afraid of water, but if I can't straighten myself up to my full height, or move my arms and legs, in just about any circumstance, I can't breathe. Caves, crawlspaces, etc.
This made me remember something that happened to me once, Yui. I live near Mammoth Cave and there are many smaller caves on private property around here. When I was in high school I went with a small spelunking group to a private cave. It was very narrow, the kind you have to slide into on your belly or your back. I was fine with that part, I'm not claustrophic.

But as I was sliding in on my back, the light on my helmet illuminated the roof of the cave which was technically only inches from my face. It was completely covered with cave crickets. So thick you couldn't see space between them. I almost threw up and wasted no time getting my nappy ass out of there.

Sorry Carson. I wouldn't have posted those pics if I had remembered that experience. Apparently I buried that memory.

*shudder*
 
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