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Anyone else have one? My irrational fear is of midgets. It's not a hatred, I know it's not their fault, and I feel really sorry for them, but they scare me. Plain and simple.

bees and wasps.

keep 'em away from me, and I'll spare you. ;) :D

mormans. i kno i shouldnt but i do

When I was a little kid I was disgusted and uncomfortable around plants. The fact that something so alien and strange could be a living thing bothered me.

Buggery.

Cockroches.

Buggery, on the other hand, is appreciated.

A friend of mine used to be afraid of round things when she was little. :p

spiders. Those big spiders with long hairy legs that move like they're possessed by a legion of demons.

they scare me.

Vacuum cleaners used to scare the hell out of me... Until I found out that my toes would *not* get torn off if they got too close.

Ok, seriously?

Sleeping with my body right next to a wall.

When I was little, my older brother told me not to lean up against the wall when I sleep, or else a monster will come out through the walls and snatch me.

It was an irrational thing, and a joke that was perfect for scaring little kids. But to this day, not a single part of me ever touches a wall when I sleep.

Buggery.

Maybe I should define "irrational"........

spiders. Those big spiders with long hairy legs that move like they're possessed by a legion of demons.

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Eeeeeeek! Shut up! *frown* :mp5: :mp5: is there no smily with a flame-thrower or somethin?

I don't really think spiders count as irrational. I meant stuff like midgets and sleeping next to a wall. I used to be the other way round, I hated sleeping with my back to an empty space (more room for monsters to come up and grab you). I also used to be scared of going to the toilet because after we watched "IT" when I was very young, my brother told me that he was going to pull me down the toilet. My mum had to come with me for weeks. My friend's mum once told her that if she turned off the toilet light without washing her hands first, a monster would chase her and eat her. So, instead of washing her hands, my friend used to turn off the light and run as fast as she could to her mum. Weirdo.

I'm scared of lady bugs, butterflies, worms, bees, spiders, rodents etc, small spaces, large spaces, heights (as in being up in a tree/flying where you can look down and see your high up, not as in being on top of a mountain), large and small dogs that bark loudly, and anything icky looking.

Germs to a degree.
*violently washes hands*

When I was a little kid I was disgusted and uncomfortable around plants. The fact that something so alien and strange could be a living thing bothered me.
*gets flashbacks to Day of the Triffids*

Plants aren't creepy. I have a venus fly trap and that's just interesting.

But for no apparent reason, moths scare the hell out of me. Like menacing butterflies....

Vacuum cleaners used to scare the hell out of me... Until I found out that my toes would *not* get torn off if they got too close.

do i want to know?


Having my back to an empty room with noway of seeing behind me, coz err... the government has hired aliens to kill me ..... but mostly just anything behind me
:mp5:

A friend of mine, who's 6'8", fears wasps, he's in a constant state of war with them. It takes him a lot to not freeze up when a wasp is around. Funny though, he doesn't really fear anything else. But a little wasp freaks him out.

Then again, if I would have been hit by one repeatedly years ago in kindergarten I'd possibly freak out too.

Um most of the posts i read dont seem irrational. I went to one board and they had irrational fears such as one person had the fear or edges without railings even if they were several feet from it.

I just remembered, there was something like this on Maury. A person was about 6'3 and 220 pounds was afraid of a wee lil peach. How can you be afraid of a peach? They were never alive and were made to be eaten.

I just remembered, there was something like this on Maury. A person was about 6'3 and 220 pounds was afraid of a wee lil peach. How can you be afraid of a peach? They were never alive and were made to be eaten.

peaches are scary

hahaha I love Maury....

When he gets little kid freaks on his show he just insults them more...

I'm afraid of the iron, when other people are using it.

im afriad of dead silence...dont ask me why i cant stand it

Another thing I can't stand is the sound of someone brushing their teeth. It make MY teeth feel all weird.

Despite almost a thousand military parachute jumps ( including one that almost killed me ), I'm still afraid of heights. Except now at least I know that I can make myself overcome it. That's a very valuable lesson.

When I was a little kid I was disgusted and uncomfortable around plants. The fact that something so alien and strange could be a living thing bothered me.
Man, you're going to really freak out when the aliens from Deneb IV land! They're animated plants, you know. :D

Man, you're going to really freak out when the aliens from Deneb IV land! They're animated plants, you know. :D
I'm not really bothered by them anymore. I actually like plants now. I know many of the edible, poisonous, and medicinal plants in the Northeastern US, and have found endangered plant species growing in local woods.

I have a fear of clowns… their ever staring eyes, and that creepy make up and everything else! It's just freaky and scars me to no end…

I don't like standing near flowers.

I hate going near the edge of platforms that are high-up.

I'm deathly scared of needles.

I don't like sleeping alone in a room without something liek a blanket over my head.

The most irrational fear I have is that, while lying in bed (back to a window, open spaces on both sides, so I get to feel niiiiiiice and vulnerable), that if I close my eyes, when I open them there'll be a body hanging from my light fixture, a la one of the Eternal Darkness insanity effects. It's entirely illogical (I don't even think my light fixture could support the full weight of a dead body). Nonetheless, even thinking about in passing leads to me staying awake until 6am. If I try to put the light off before it starts getting light out, I get all scrabbly and frantic and have to turn the light back on again.

Another irrational fear I have is of something being under my bed. My futon-based bed. The one with a good five centimetres of space under it. The scariest thing that can *logically* be under there is my cat, but we're talking about irrational fears here, so logic need not apply.

... and people wonder *why* I'm so jumpy sometimes...

im not really afraid of anything well not the normal things...im afraid of marsupills i dunno how u spell that but i am and silence i cant stand it so i just start talking to myself if im the only on in the room or think of a song playing oh and i dont like masks in the dark but my mom has many masks all through the house :rolleyes: mean person

I'm scared of dolls.

I'm a girl who's afraid of dolls.

The most irrational fear I have is that, while lying in bed (back to a window, open spaces on both sides, so I get to feel niiiiiiice and vulnerable), that if I close my eyes, when I open them there'll be a body hanging from my light fixture,


im afraid of waking up and something being there that isnt supposed to be there too so i sleep with a dagger under my pillow and i wake up when people or my dog walks into my room ...i dont have a door just a sleeping bag for cover :rolleyes: it sucks

im afraid of waking up and something being there that isnt supposed to be there too so i sleep with a dagger under my pillow and i wake up when people or my dog walks into my room ...i dont have a door just a sleeping bag for cover :rolleyes: it sucks

I'd sleep with a weapon, except I fear things like undead-hanged-corpses-that-appear-when-I-close-my-eyes. I doubt even a pocket flamethrower could provide any comfort against my pet irrational fear.

It's also uber-fun because my cats like coming in at 2am and climbing into my wardrobe... which then creeeeeeeeeaks open. I wake up to the door swinging open in the darkness, and the mysterious rummaging sounds of the cats molesting my shoes.

You'd think the abject terror would wear off after a few dozen times, but I can tell you; it doesn't.

Feet. I dont know what is it about them. They just freak me out.... I made my boyfriend wear socks in bed for the first 6 months of our relationship....

Clowns, Puppets, Mannequins - anything that has a constant expression, or an expressionless face.

I have a fear of answering machines.

I fear big crowds, if I dont have enough room to swing my arms around in a crowdm I start freaking out and get paranoid of anyone who enters that space.

I just remembered, there was something like this on Maury. A person was about 6'3 and 220 pounds was afraid of a wee lil peach. How can you be afraid of a peach? They were never alive and were made to be eaten.

Similar to that, Im scared of yellow plums. The smell, and the wierd colour just make me freak out, I think I must have got ill off of them when I was younger.

I'm not really bothered by them anymore. I actually like plants now. I know many of the edible, poisonous, and medicinal plants in the Northeastern US, and have found endangered plant species growing in local woods.
Kewl. Can you say "fried, Deneb IV aliens for lunch" boys and girls? :D

i also fear getting into bed and closing my eyes then opening them back up to have dead bodies hanging from the ceiling. but along with the bodies, my room is being flooded with blood. i can sit with my eyes closed for hours and i won't open them because i am convinced that things that couldn't be there are there.


my other irrational fear is of spiders. but not normal crawl around on the floor or in a terranium spider, i am okay with those. i am afraid of sucking a spider into the vaccuum and when i leave the spider will crawl back out but it will have morphed into a saint bernard sized creature that will come and eat me. so i never suck up spiders with the vaccuum...

Clowns and dolls. Those damn things freak me out, especially the porcelain ones with the staring eyes.

peaches are scary

Yeah. Someone on here once mentioned that eating a peach reminds them of biting into human flesh. Try it. It's true. :D

my other irrational fear is of spiders. but not normal crawl around on the floor or in a terranium spider, i am okay with those. i am afraid of sucking a spider into the vaccuum and when i leave the spider will crawl back out but it will have morphed into a saint bernard sized creature that will come and eat me. so i never suck up spiders with the vaccuum...

Actually, the smaller/medium (black widow, brown recluse, etc) spiders scare me. The biggest ones I have no problem with (tarantulas, those hand-sized ones (name?)) since they are so big they can't sneak up on anyone.

Yeah. Someone on here once mentioned that eating a peach reminds them of biting into human flesh. Try it. It's true. :D

Mmmm...flesh...

I took a Jung personality test and got Hannibal Lecter as a match. (Oddly enough, I also got Clarice, Hannibal Barca, Caesar Augustus :confused: )

especially the porcelain ones with the staring eyes.
:eek: agreed
there is just something unnatural and not right with porcelain dolls

bees and wasps.

keep 'em away from me, and I'll spare you. ;) :D
me too! i really, really hate wasps. bees aren't exactly cool either.
even if i just hear their buzzing in the room i have been known to freak out, though i'm better now :D


edit: i also have an odd irrational fear of talking to people on the phone (and sometimes talking to people at all)... though that may have something to do with mild social anxiety disorder :headbang:

:eek: agreed
there is just something unnatural and not right with porcelain dolls

Agreed. :eek:

Agreed. :eek:
doubley creepy when they are broken and they still look back at you and smile

me too! i really, really hate wasps. bees aren't exactly cool either.
even if i just hear their buzzing in the room i have been known to freak out, though i'm better now :D

Same here. I hate bees and wasps..but thats probably because I was stung multiple times at Disney World when I was like 6... :(