What are you Afraid of?

[The_Darkness]

Night Terrors, the things that make you jump in the night and creep you out even in broad daylight....what makes your mind go numb with fear?

I'm not talking like global nuclear war or anything trivial like that....I'm asking what makes you cross the street to get awayfrom it, what makes you jump, squeek, cower, or flat out scream?

For me, it's puppets and life-like dolls. They're just creepy. Especially the ones that have little eyes tha open and close depending on how you hold them. I've always hated those....I distinctly remember turning over the doll we had in Pre-school that had those damn weighted eyelids. *Shudder* I should have just cracked the damn thing open and taken the eyes out...

 

[impressive]

Used to be spiders. Now, I'm just afraid someone's gonna abduct my children.

 

[English Lady]

Used teabags freak me out. *shudder* I know, weird, but they do.

Heights and depths often feature in my worst nightmares, and falling from one to the other.


The dark. I know this is really childish, but i don't like walking around in the dark, I just feel like something is following me. I often dream that I've woken up from a nightmare, I can tell I'm not actually awake by the fact that I can never rurn on a light...that scares me....


Oh hell, most things do *L*

 

[The_Darkness]

Used to be spiders. Now, I'm just afraid someone's gonna abduct my children.

That was one of the 5 nightmares I had....and that one was just this past June. I dreamt it was a couple of years from now and my kid went to school and told them, "Daddy hit me." The child (which was oddly sex-less in the dream) meant that I had spanked her for being bad, but in Iowa, they don't take that shit lightly anymore and DHS (Department of Human Services) swept in to take the kid from me.

I work nights, they take children away from people usually in the middle of the afternoon while folks are at work. I remember very distinctly telling them "They'd better come back with a SWAT team and a warrant." They did and there was a lot of dead cops before they finally took me down.

Thinking about that still makes my heart race in the panicked, defending-the-family sort of way.

 

[TheEarl]

Scaffolding. I won't walk underneath it.

It's not a phobia particularly and I can if I really must, but I won't if I have any kind of choice. Ever since I read 'Straight', which is basically a book about a man trying to sort out the business and life of his older brother who's life was cut off abruptly when scaffolding collapsed on him. It's just such a poignant book; all these secrets and enigmas that this bloke could have rectified himself in a second, but can't anymore cause he walked under the wrong scaffolding at the wrong moment.

And of course spiders, which really is a phobia.

The Earl

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Used to be spiders. Now, I'm just afraid someone's gonna abduct my children.

Ditto.

 

[kendo1]

Piazza Navona in Rome.
My 8yo daughter was watching a street artist and I turned away to look over to my wife and son, just to check that they were where I last saw them.
When I turned back my daughter was gone.

We found her about 5 minutes later wandering up the piazza looking for us. She had looked round at the same time I had my head turned and couldn't see me, so had gone to look for me.

God that was scary.

 

[NoJo]

Naked, bald store mannequins

 

[logophile]

We did this once before, and I think that EL and I tied for weirdest phobia. Since she's already shown you hers, I'll show you mine too.

I'm scared of fish.
I've had a recurring nightmare since I was 7 where fish get out of their fish bowl, swim through the air and attack me.
The nightmares have gotten more gruesome as I've gotten older.

I can't go to aquariums or look at those big Japanese Koi fish in fish ponds. Commercials (and there have been several lately) where people are interacting with humansize fish freak me out too.

My new girl thinks this is a hoot.
But she's e-skeered of bugs, so we're even...

 

[The_Darkness]

We did this once before, and I think that EL and I tied for weirdest phobia. Since she's already shown you hers, I'll show you mine too.

I'm scared of fish.
I've had a recurring nightmare since I was 7 where fish get out of their fish bowl, swim through the air and attack me.
The nightmares have gotten more gruesome as I've gotten older.

I can't go to aquariums or look at those big Japanese Koi fish in fish ponds. Commercials (and there have been several lately) where people are interacting with humansize fish freak me out too.

My new girl thinks this is a hoot.
But she's e-skeered of bugs, so we're even...

If it's any councilation, I'm sure if fish were air-breathers, they'd eat the bugs, giving you and your girl time to both scamper on out of there

I was in a city in Northern Germany (Kiel, methinks, but I can't remember....its the place where they invented marzipan) and there was a marionette shop in one of the stores in the old part of the city. I walked to the other side of the street and wouldn't take my eyes off the store window until I was past it and then didn't like the fact that it was behind me. I was more than observant for the next little while to make sure none of the little bastards were following us. That was right after my 19th birthday.

Fuckin' marrionettes. Animated shows ala Pinnochio don't bother me. Statues CAN bother me, but generally don't. I don't get it. Damn irrational fears anyway.

 

[logophile]

If it's any councilation, I'm sure if fish were air-breathers, they'd eat the bugs, giving you and your girl time to both scamper on out of there

That's sweet of you, Dark. Thanks!

Damn irrational fears anyway.

Yes!
People make fun of me all the time about this fish thing.
I always say, "I KNOW it's irrational! That's what makes it a PHOBIA!!"
I try not to tell anyone any more.

My girl only found out cause we were watching TV at her house and one of those commercials came on and I had to leave the room.

 

[The_Darkness]

That's sweet of you, Dark. Thanks!



Yes!
People make fun of me all the time about this fish thing.
I always say, "I KNOW it's irrational! That's what makes it a PHOBIA!!"
I try not to tell anyone any more.

My girl only found out cause we were watching TV at her house and one of those commercials came on and I had to leave the room.

One of my good friends has a full blown phobia of zombies. He's one of the most rational people I know....but he has contingency plans in place if there's ever a Zombie Apocolypse like Dawn of the Dead or something....

 

[Liar]

Bees, hornets et al. I know they don't sting if I don't bother them. But my spine doesn't know that. Upon seeing a stripy flying thing, one of two instincts kick in. Flee or kill.

My real beef is my claustrophobia though.

 

[logophile]

My real beef is my claustrophobia though.

Let's talk about that...

 

[The_Darkness]

If I didn't like being in close, tight spaces....well....I wouldn't be becoming a dad in a few months...

 

[yui]

My real beef is my claustrophobia though.

Ditto. And mine is getting worse as I get older.

Drowning, but I think that is all twisted up with the claustrophobia. The kicker is I love to swim; I swim all the time. I am, with all modesty, an excellent swimmer, but touch me in the water, when I am underwater, and I am going to chew your hand off if that's what it takes to get to the surface.

Abandoned houses. There are ghosts that walk empty halls.

Embarrassingly enough, most paranormal/ghostly stuff.

Insects in huge quantities in a small space induce me to make a high pitched squealing not unlike Rodan makes in flight.

And like The Darkness, ventriloquist's dummies. *shudder*

 

[Dar~]

I am deathly afraid of Spiders. I thought that it was my worse fear, but roaches make me cringe too.

I also have this fear of losing everything.
It has been an awful nightmare my whole life. Everything and everyone that I hold dear.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

I'm with Imp on this one. The only thing that scares me is anything to do with hurting/loosing my daughters. The thought of loosing them terrifies me to the point that some nights I sit up all night staring at the ceiling after a nightmare about them.

 

[carsonshepherd]

does the ventriloquist dummy thing include muppets? I love muppets!

irrational fears:

1. grasshoppers. hate them passionately. always have, always will *shudder*

2. (improving over the years) sharks. i used to not even be able to look at them; like Logo i'd leave the room when they came on TV. Now I can look for a few mintues before I get the chills and close my eyes.

 

[Alex756]

*hides head in embarrassement*

People turning into fruit

Remeber the sceen in willy wonka? the girl, the plum, yeah .... can't handel it to this day. 2 years ago it was on in the post office, I left and went to the UPS store.

The entire idea of people turning into a fruit. The changing color and turning round....

Thats my irrational one.

-Alex

 

[Halo_n_horns]

I guess I'm going to be pretty boring here just because I don't have any real phobias. The only thing that makes me nervous is people, but I certainly can't cross the street to get away from them.

 

[Guest]

 

[carsonshepherd]

Spiders, bugs, being underground, drowning, someone hurting my dogs to hurt me--I think those are the really bad irrational ones.

your av is rather terrifying, esp to cats....

 

[yui]

your av is rather terrifying, esp to cats....

I was actually thinking that if I were the people who dressed that cat in PJs, I would be afraid the cat would kill me in my sleep.

And for me, the Muppets aren't fear inducing… it's the Chucky-ish sort of dolls/dummies that wig me out.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

*hides head in embarrassement*

People turning into fruit

Remeber the sceen in willy wonka? the girl, the plum, yeah .... can't handel it to this day. 2 years ago it was on in the post office, I left and went to the UPS store.

The entire idea of people turning into a fruit. The changing color and turning round....

Thats my irrational one.

-Alex

I gotta say, that's just weird.

But I do think that the original Willy Wonka was creepy thru and thru. (I have yet to see the new one so I can't attest to it's creep factor.)