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The "are you afraid of dying" thread got me thinking. I'm not really afraid of death, and I didn't have much to contribute to that threat since others said it better than I would, but it did get me thinking about things that DO scare me. Particularly, phobias.

I have a healthy dose of claustropbobia, but that's kinda common. I was thinking about the more unusual ones...

I'm sure there's a word for it, but I have a deathly, horrible, irrational fear of lava. I mean, yeah everybody here would certainly hate to encounter the stuff up close and personal, but I mean I have nightmares about it, I get freaked when I see it on TV, I get debilitated in games where there's lava.

Like once I was watching the Discovery Channel and there were these volcanologists studying cooled lava fields. Then they suddently started talking about how there was liquid lava somewhere under the surface. That made me jittery as I watched... just knowing.. then suddenly one of the guys fell through. Luckily, there was another cool layer uner the one he fell through, so he was fine... But at that instant, when I saw him drop through... I literally screamed. I really did.

There's a zone in EverQuest II called Lavastorm. I've been there... once. Just the idea of running around an imaginary place with imaginary lava as an imaginary character made me so uncomfortable I played instead in an equivalent level zone called Everfrost.

In Unreal Tournament there's a capture the flag zone where you're on an island in a sea of lava. I can only function on that map is I fell myself it's an ocean of Orange Crush.

Thankfully, I live in Maryland... A place that hasn't seen liquid lava in.... well long enough ago that I'm not worried.

My wife wants us to go on a trip to Hawaii. To a place where lava on the surface is considered normal. I'll just stay on Oahu, thanks.

What about y'all?

I have but 2 phobias, a phobia of spiders(I won't even be in the same room as a daddy longlegs)and a phobia of the dark(I have to have a light on at all tops). And I live in Maryland too!

I'm sure there's a word for it, but I have a deathly, horrible, irrational fear of lava.

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Awesome.

But yeah, Hawaii might not be your ideal holiday destination...

I don't have unusual phobias, I don't think. My boyfriend would disagree because he thinks that just because I think things like evil, dark coniferous trees are scary I have a phobia of evil, dark coniferous trees. Sheesh.

Seriously, though, the only real phobia I have is of spiders. And that's very common.

I have but 2 phobias, a phobia of spiders(I won't even be in the same room as a daddy longlegs)and a phobia of the dark(I have to have a light on at all tops). And I live in Maryland too!

Yay a fellow Marylander! I'd invite you over for lunch, but I have a pet Mexican Redknee Tarantula...

But at least they're not indigneous to the area... like lava! :)

Yay a fellow Marylander! I'd invite you over for lunch, but I have a pet Mexican Redknee Tarantula...
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Did you post in thew "NSGs Pets" thread? Please tell me now before I wander over there all innocently...

Yay a fellow Marylander! I'd invite you over for lunch, but I have a pet Mexican Redknee Tarantula...

But at least they're not indigneous to the area... like lava!
A...A...A WHAT!?!?! No offense but I....I-I-I think I might not come to your TOWN for that matter. PLease don't say you live in cumberland(Shivers)

Spiders.

Yes, I know, quite common, but it really is my worst irrational fear. I saw one in the bathroom last night, and after screaming first of all (just in case, a good scream might scare it off, you never know, do you?) I asked my BF to kill it. So after a short discussion ("Why should I kill it, you're the one who's scared"), he went in there with a mop/scrubber thing and killed it. When he came back out, he pushed the lower end of the mop towards my face.... I screamed and ran off. He laughed and told me that the spider's still in the bathroom, lying dead on the floor. So I asked him, as calmly as possible, to please get rid of the corpse. He went back in an shortly after came back out with some crumpled toilet paper in his hand, which, again, he held to my face. That's when I slammed the door behind me, pushed the chair in front of it and started crying with fear... that bastard thought it was hillarious. :(

I'm completely freaked out by damage to the hands.

You know the movie Starship Troopers? Full of splashy violence, right? Guy's head gets blown off, people get ripped to pieces by giant bugs, et cetera. Well, I can't watch the part where the one soldier gets a knife thrown at his hand. No problem with the rest of it (I think it is a gloriously awful movie), but I cannot watch the hand-stabbing part.

In terms of other weird phobias, my partner is freaked out by having to swim underwater in videogames. He's a fine swimmer in real life, doesn't mind going under water at all, and doesn't particularly fear water or drowning (any more than is normal). But he HATES the underwater levels in games like Mario.

I think most of the world fears spiders. I know I do, I also have this completely irrational fear of bees. :confused: I hyperventilate and scream, even just looking at pictures or hearing a buzzing noise on the TV. I also fear the dark, but more so what is in the dark (That I can't see) than actual darkness. Kind of ridiculous and I'm unable to think rationally about it either! I've tried! :headbang:

Water is OK, heights are kind of OK, but heights and water... ugh.

I have a spider story too. I have a friend and a Grandmother who is afraid of spiders, and so me and my friend were playing some games when all of a sudden I saw a spider. I jumped up and ran over to my Grandmother"THERES A SPIDER THERES A SPIDER!!!" Then my friend started screaming. So we were all in the same room screaming,cause that thing was a big sucker. I think it was one of those spiders that live under piles of stuff. Anyway we all sat in the living room until my Grandfather came home and killed it for us. I hope to never see that spider again.

Spiders.

Yes, I know, quite common, but it really is my worst irrational fear. I saw one in the bathroom last night, and after screaming first of all (just in case, a good scream might scare it off, you never know, do you?) I asked my BF to kill it. So after a short discussion ("Why should I kill it, you're the one who's scared"), he went in there with a mop/scrubber thing and killed it. When he came back out, he pushed the lower end of the mop towards my face.... I screamed and ran off. He laughed and told me that the spider's still in the bathroom, lying dead on the floor. So I asked him, as calmly as possible, to please get rid of the corpse. He went back in an shortly after came back out with some crumpled toilet paper in his hand, which, again, he held to my face. That's when I slammed the door behind me, pushed the chair in front of it and started crying with fear... that bastard thought it was hillarious. :(
Whoa! Boyfriend still has to learn a lot! I'd suggest a night of no sex (yeah, yeah, I know, that'd mean punishing yourself, too :p).

Seriously, though, that's fucked up.

Incidentally, I fractured my big toe last week when trying to kill a small spider on the wall and it crawled unharmed out of the tissue paper and fell to the floor and came towards me and I was scrambling to get away. Stupid fucking spiders.

I really cannot stand pictures of seal cubs, I have never seen the real thing and have no wish to.

I think most of the world fears spiders. I know I do, I also have this completely irrational fear of bees. I hyperventilate and scream, even just looking at pictures or hearing a buzzing noise on the TV. I also fear the dark, but more so what is in the dark (That I can't see) than actual darkness. Kind of ridiculous and I'm unable to think rationally about it either! I've tried!
I know where my phobia of darkness comes from. When I was little I used to watch my Grandfather play resident evil, Parasite eve,Etc,. And I was too stupid to go in the other room,I just sat there and watched him. Which is why I'm still scared of the dark.

Spiders.(
If you and your BF are still together he must be awesome. I had a spider related bathroom accident once and although my arachnophobia is very mild, I can't shower without getting goosebumps since, and it's been five years.

If you and your BF are still together he must be awesome. I had a spider related bathroom accident once and although my arachnophobia is very mild, I can't shower without getting goosebumps since, and it's been five years.

Well, he's got a fear of heights, funnily enough, so next time we're in a high-up place somewhere I'll pretend to shove him. And then laugh my head off. Or something.

I had an incident where I actually got up the courage to the damn spider, then as I was cleaning the body up with a tissue it came back to life! I screamed and ran, I was shaking the rest of the night. I think my phobia stems from a childhood spent in an old car full of huntsman nests. We kept fly spray to kill the ones we'd see crawling across the windscreen or sitting on the door handle as we got out. Of course after while we noticed they became immune to that. I hate driving in old cars now.

If you and your BF are still together he must be awesome. I had a spider related bathroom accident once and although my arachnophobia is very mild, I can't shower without getting goosebumps since, and it's been five years
Wow. If your arachnaphobia is mild, then I wonder what happened that mad you scared 5 years later? Or is it too creepy and would give us all nightmares arachnaphobia or not.

Well, he's got a fear of heights, funnily enough, so next time we're in a high-up place somewhere I'll pretend to shove him.
Oh please be better than him! Kick him in the nuts instead, that's easier forgiven.

Wow. If your arachnaphobia is mild, then I wonder what happened that mad you scared 5 years later? Or is it too creepy and would give us all nightmares arachnaphobia or not.

*has to shower later, doesn't want to know*

Come on guys, all the spider stories are common stuff xD

I have a phobia of things falling on my head, or touching my head in the dark. If I'm out walking at night, I will walk on the road to avoid overhanging trees or wires. My skin actually crawls when I walk under tree branches.

My worst phobia is a phobia of elevators: when I was in summer school, I was in an elevator that fella about three or four meters, before the safety features kicked in. It came to rest on a lean, and we had to climb out. I can't stand to go in elevators since.

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Did you post in thew "NSGs Pets" thread? Please tell me now before I wander over there all innocently...

Didn't know there was one... But if I do post there, I'll only mention SPeedy (my pet's name) but I'll focus more on my wife's pet rat Merlin. (Who is, for a rat, pretty cool)

A...A...A WHAT!?!?! No offense but I....I-I-I think I might not come to your TOWN for that matter. PLease don't say you live in cumberland(Shivers)

No not from Cumberland, although that town kinda freaks me out (there's a story behind that). I'm down by D.C.

Spiders.

Yes, I know, quite common, but it really is my worst irrational fear. I saw one in the bathroom last night... that bastard thought it was hillarious. :(

Now that's just wrong. :(

Arachnophobes do not read this***********************
Speedy is a good girl, never bites, (except when eating, of course) but I don't handle her unless I must because she's one of the species that, when nervous, kicks utricating hairs off her abdomen. They get under your skin and cause a rash and irritation.
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Dear God! I'll Never Sleep Again After Reading That! Why Must I Break The Rules All The Time!

My worst phobia is a phobia of elevators: when I was in summer school, I was in an elevator that fella about three or four meters, before the safety features kicked in. It came to rest on a lean, and we had to climb out. I can't stand to go in elevators since.
Hope you don't plan to go to the top floor of the sears tower then:D
But I have this weird facination/fear about spiders. It goes something like this: I fear spiders so much I learn as much as I can about them. Is this weird to try and find out information on your phobias topic?

I'm scared of moles. I hate their little faces, and I really hate their big claws. And I'm terrified of the noses on star-nosed moles. *shudders*

Incidentally, I fractured my big toe last week when trying to kill a small spider on the wall and it crawled unharmed out of the tissue paper and fell to the floor and came towards me and I was scrambling to get away. Stupid fucking spiders.

A while ago, I was in bed watching some tv, and I saw something move out of the corner of my eye. I had a cold, and I assumed it was a tissue I'd left there. Then it moved again. Turns out a massive spider had decided to share my bed.

I slept downstairs. When I came back in the morning it was still in my bed. Now I check every night that theres no spiders.

Lyssophobia

Hope you don't plan to go to the top floor of the sears tower then:D
But I have this weird facination/fear about spiders. It goes something like this: I fear spiders so much I learn as much as I can about them. Is this weird to try and find out information on your phobias topic?

I had to go to the top of the tallest building in my home city for a teaching practicum once. I refused, and was reported for not being willing to go up. None of the teachers recognised the fact it was better for me to stay at the bottom, instead of crying and fraking out in front of the kids.

It made me want to lock them in a falling elevator, then see how enthused they were about it afterwards xD

I've also walked 28 storeys up and down to get to someone's apartment, in preference to taking the elevator.

I used to have a fear of heights. Then miraculously, I got over it, I don't know how. My friends used to laugh at me. I think it was at one of my high school camps. I did the high ropes course, I was wearing a harness but I was so short if I fell I would have the grab hold of the shock protector thing to get back up. Of course we were told never to touch that or we might be electrocuted. So, petrified I would fall and be elctrocuted I took about 3/4 of an hour to finish the thing, in the rain I might add, with my friends laughing at me. Funny thing was, when their turn came, none of them finished because they were all more scared than I was! Some of them couldn't even climb the ladder to the course!

I'm afraid of bees, wasps and hornets. I have never been stung, and I mean to keep it that way. :p

Wow. If your arachnaphobia is mild, then I wonder what happened that mad you scared 5 years later?
Nothing particularly creepy.
I just noticed a really large Tegenaria domestica hiding behind a sponge. It's just that it was in the shower - small shower, 80 cm across - and I was already wet and all in soap and I just didn't know what to do except to immediately step out of course. Then I had to kill it and I did it setting the water temp to REALLY FREAKING HOT (like 70°C / 160 F) and showering it because I didn't want to touch it with anything... and it died in a second, but in a last reflex it clung to the sponge so strongly that I had to remove the spider together with the sponge. I placed it on a refrigerator – don't ask me why, I guess wanted to fight my phobia in this way - and each time I entered the kitchen I had this sensation it is looking at me accusingly.
Then I read somewhere that the perception of time is different depending on size and metabolism of the animal and I thought how it must have suffered... :(
Now ever time I enter the shower I have to check everything and I can't help thinking how, once upon a time, I painfully killed an animal.

I'm afraid of bees, wasps and hornets. I have never been stung, and I mean to keep it that way. :p

*dons bee costume, stings LG*

There's a first time for everything. ;)

Last summer my boyfriend and I had a giant spider living near our living room windows. We named her Arachneon, and she was fearsome. Fast, too, and apparently impervious to the various bug-killing poisons we tried to nail her with. We kept finding small spiders around the corners of the room, and we knew they were Arachneon's minions.

Turns out that one of our windows had a crack way up near the top, behind where the blinds fitted on, so we hadn't seen it. There's a tree that leans almost against the window and the spiders loved to hop from the tree to our window and make massive webs all over the place.

We suspect Arachneon entered through the crack in the window shortly after she was exposed to some type of super mutating radiation, and she used her newly-mutated super spider brain to begin a hostile takeover of our apartment.

Fixing our window and having the condo board trim back the tree outside appears to have won us the battle. Arachneon and her minions are nowhere to be seen. But until I see her corpse, I will not trust that she is gone for good. She could be anywhere.

Here are a few of my faves

Pergonophobia - The fear of beards
Anthrophobia: Fear of flowers
Arachibutyrophobia: Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth
Barophobia: Fear of gravity
Judeophobia: Fear of Jews

But until I see her corpse, I will not trust that she is gone for good. She could be anywhere.

And yanno... I don't know about that particular species of spider but on average, the species pet tarantula I have live up to 40 years.

I have no phobias to speak off, except the one where you can't look at pennies...

And yanno... I don't know about that particular species of spider but on average, the species pet tarantula I have live up to 40 years.
All joking aside, I seriously wondered if she was some kind of escaped species from a zoo or something. Her leg span was easily the size of my hand. I have never seen a spider that big outside of a tropical insect display.

Here are a few of my faves

Pergonophobia - The fear of beards
Anthrophobia: Fear of flowers
Arachibutyrophobia: Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth
Barophobia: Fear of gravity
Judeophobia: Fear of Jews

So what would it be if you had a fear of a bearded Jewish gentleman eating peanut butter in a garden?

So what would it be if you had a fear of a bearded Jewish gentleman eating peanut butter in a garden?

Maybe.. Judeopergonoarachibutyroaanthrophobia
?

*Breaths*

So what would it be if you had a fear of a bearded Jewish gentleman eating peanut butter in a garden?

Pergonanthrarachibutyrobarojudeophobia is no joking matter.

All joking aside, I seriously wondered if she was some kind of escaped species from a zoo or something. Her leg span was easily the size of my hand. I have never seen a spider that big outside of a tropical insect display.

Unless you have real small hands, that's pretty impressive for a non-tarantula. Did you get a close enough look at it to tell whether it had fangs or mandibles?

Unless you have real small hands, that's pretty impressive for a non-tarantula.

Well, I do have pretty small hands, but still. Freaking huge.

The proportions were different than a tarantula, though. Longer, slimmer legs, and a more elongated body.

(I think tarantulas are adorable, for the record, because they're all chubby and fuzzy. They're like 8-legged gerbils.)


Did you get a close enough look at it to tell whether it had fangs or mandibles?
She was far too wily to allow us such close inspections. Clearly she made use of the immortal teachings of Sun Tzu, who wrote,

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."

She thus prevented us from knowing her, while deploying her scouts to gather information on us.

Well, I do have pretty small hands, but still. Freaking huge.

The proportions were different than a tarantula, though. Longer, slimmer legs, and a more elongated body.

(I think tarantulas are adorable, for the record, because they're all chubby and fuzzy. They're like 8-legged gerbils.)

My point exactly! Speedy is of the same type as the ones in Raiders of the Lost Ark... at the beginning when Indy has to brush all the spiders off of his assistant.


She was far too wily to allow us such close inspections. Clearly she made use of the immortal teachings of Sun Tzu, who wrote,

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."

She thus prevented us from knowing her, while deploying her scouts to gather information on us.

LOL

I have as yet been unable to find a word for phobia of lava. I know it's out there.

*dons bee costume, stings LG*

There's a first time for everything. ;)

*hoses you down with Raid* >.<

Closest is Pyrophobia, the fear of fire.

Wind. It scares the bejeezus out of me. Specially gusty wind.
I also have some OCDesque issues with food. Certain food types can't touch (e.g. Sausages and Mash. They've got to be separate or I won't eat them)

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This thread has reminded be of this
http://www.ulillillia.us/aboutme/majorfears.shtml
It was in last weeks B3ta newsletter.

It is amazing how many people are scared of spiders, considering that they hardly ever come out of the shower drain by the hundreds, scurrying for the only safe place in sight, which is your legs, and then run by the hundreds upwards, over the calves, the knees, the thighs, looking for some crevice/niche to occupy, anything really...

I have strong arachnophobia. I hate spiders.
I'm used to checking the walls of every room before i go in. If I see a spider at home i will most likely let my parents remove it... but if i'm alone at home i will probably start tossing books or get the vacuum cleaner. Or insect spray, but if this goddamn monsters are immune to it simply hold a lighther close to the spray-dose and spray again. (I would rather risk to have my hand blown off than to have a spider around.) oh yes, and i have a phobia of hights.

The proportions were different than a tarantula, though. Longer, slimmer legs, and a more elongated body.

But until I see her corpse, I will not trust that she is gone for good. She could be anywhere.

She's gone to a far away country called Hyrule where she invaded a big old talking tree and got struck down by a little blonde guy wearing green clothes.

It is amazing how many people are scared of spiders, considering that they hardly ever come out of the shower drain by the hundreds, scurrying for the only safe place in sight, which is your legs, and then run by the hundreds upwards, over the calves, the knees, the thighs, looking for some crevice/niche to occupy, anything really...

You know, in all seriousness, if I had to sustain a spider bite, I'd rather be bitten by my tarantula than just about any "true" spider. Tarantula bites are comparable to bee stings in terms of level of pain and venom (if used). But those little ones like black widows and brown recluses... you don't feel the bite but there's hell to pay later... or those big black ones around Sydney, Australia... they look like tarantulas but aren't... mean little bastards. toxic venom.

You know, in all seriousness, if I had to sustain a spider bite, I'd rather be bitten by my tarantula than just about any "true" spider. Tarantula bites are comparable to bee stings in terms of level of pain and venom (if used). But those little ones like black widows and brown recluses... you don't feel the bite but there's hell to pay later... or those big black ones around Sydney, Australia... they look like tarantulas but aren't... mean little bastards. toxic venom.

This seems pretty rational...but have you ever actually seen lava? I mean 'live'?

This seems pretty rational...but have you ever actually seen lava? I mean 'live'?

Thankfully, no I haven't... But in 1999 when Mt.Tungurahua in Ecuador erupted I was in the country.

NOT COOL.

She's gone to a far away country called Hyrule where she invaded a big old talking tree and got struck down by a little blonde guy wearing green clothes
Lol nice OOT reference

There's a zone in EverQuest II called Lavastorm. I've been there... once. Just the idea of running around an imaginary place with imaginary lava as an imaginary character made me so uncomfortable I played instead in an equivalent level zone called Everfrost.

I always think it's very cool that people with phobias can be phobic of something in a game. I know there are people who are terrified of spiders and go to lengths to change the game files so as not to have to see them. I don't like spiders, but I'm not phobic of them exactly, I just think they're creepy.

Now heights used to bug me a lot, til I got a job where I had to work on a ladder daily, after a while it didn't bother me much anymore. Got to the point where I didn't bother with it and just climbed up the side of things.

In terms of other weird phobias, my partner is freaked out by having to swim underwater in videogames. He's a fine swimmer in real life, doesn't mind going under water at all, and doesn't particularly fear water or drowning (any more than is normal). But he HATES the underwater levels in games like Mario.

Me too.

There's this game called Rune, and one of the first levels is mostly underwater (bad design, that...). Put me off the game entirely. I mean there was never enough time to both search for ways to go without drowning. And at some points there's this gigantic fish that comes along and eats you too.

I also have video game acrophobia.

Exposure will get you rid of all those pesky phobias.

:D

I'm afraid of bees, wasps and hornets. I have never been stung, and I mean to keep it that way. :p

The people I know that are afraid of bees wasps and hornets, have all never been stung... The mind makes it far more dreadfull than the real thing really is.

I don't get phobias. Both in that I have none, and that I don't understand why others have them. There are things I dislike and avoid if I can, but nothing that debilitates me completely. I don't understand the mindset that allows someone to be incapacitated like that from something most likely harmless.

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So long as no-one takes a soldering iron to my loins, I can pretty much say very little frightens me.

Exposure will get you rid of all those pesky phobias.

:D

Erm....well, I don't think I can go that route without, you know, dying. I'm terrified of water that I can't see to the bottom of. It doesn't even have to be deep, but if I can't see the bottom, it scares the hell out of me. I always knew this about the deep ocean (seriously, the very thought of not being able to see the bottom of the ocean brings up images of being sucked to the bottom....like the end scene in the Titanic actually gave me nightmares...shit just scares me to death) but didn't realize it applied to anything I can't see to the bottom of until recently.

I was playing disc golf and my disc, of course, got lost in the middle of the bog. Being a disc I've had since I was a little kid, I really wanted to find it and at the goading of my friends I waded bare-foot into the middle of the bog and it was probably the most terrifying experience I've had in recent memory. The very idea of putting a body part into water that isn't clear just freaks me out so much, I've never had a fight/flight response like that. This might have to do with having drowned and actually been technically dead for a while when I was a little kid, but that was when I was maybe one year or so old so it isn't something I remember, at least on a conscious level.

Electricity and chicken. Used to have one of canned goods too. Chicken one is getting better.

Erm....well, I don't think I can go that route without, you know, dying. I'm terrified of water that I can't see to the bottom of. It doesn't even have to be deep, but if I can't see the bottom, it scares the hell out of me. I always knew this about the deep ocean (seriously, the very thought of not being able to see the bottom of the ocean brings up images of being sucked to the bottom....like the end scene in the Titanic actually gave me nightmares...shit just scares me to death) but didn't realize it applied to anything I can't see to the bottom of until recently.

I was playing disc golf and my disc, of course, got lost in the middle of the bog. Being a disc I've had since I was a little kid, I really wanted to find it and at the goading of my friends I waded bare-foot into the middle of the bog and it was probably the most terrifying experience I've had in recent memory. The very idea of putting a body part into water that isn't clear just freaks me out so much, I've never had a fight/flight response like that. This might have to do with having drowned and actually been technically dead for a while when I was a little kid, but that was when I was maybe one year or so old so it isn't something I remember, at least on a conscious level.


With deep water it can be dangerous to panic, but you do not have to take the plunge into deep water...

the first step might be a murky tub or something...

then you go close to a murky pool with solid footing...

then you put one foot in the water... then another...


each time you let the anxiety grow and you take it to the point you can just take it.... you remain in the anxiety for a few minutes and it will drop.

Finally you can even have your whole body submerged in shallow murky water and have a swim.

If that works you might be ready for a deep pool, with a lifejacket that is :)

With deep water it can be dangerous to panic, but you do not have to take the plunge into deep water...

the first step might be a murky tub or something...

then you go close to a murky pool with solid footing...

then you put one foot in the water... then another...


each time you let the anxiety grow and you take it to the point you can just take it.... you remain in the anxiety for a few minutes and it will drop.

Finally you can even have your whole body submerged in shallow murky water and have a swim.

If that works you might be ready for a deep pool, with a lifejacket that is :)

Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm not completely incapacitated by deep water/opaque. I like to think I have a fair amount of self-control and, if need be, I can force myself to deal with it. I just feel really, really, really, really, really (can't repeat this word enough) uncomfortable. Which is too bad because I actually love swimming and sailing. :(

Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm not completely incapacitated by deep water/opaque. I like to think I have a fair amount of self-control and, if need be, I can force myself to deal with it. I just feel really, really, really, really, really (can't repeat this word enough) uncomfortable. Which is too bad because I actually love swimming and sailing. :(

And you will probably always will feel uncomfortable :(

but regular exposure will greatly reduce this feeling :)

Needles (or, rather, needles coming towards me - I'm not freaked out by the sight of people sewing or anything). I had a normal child's fear of shots, then was unintentionally but very effectively tortured with a needle, and my normal child's fear blossomed into lifelong crippling terror. The last time I was supposed to get a blood test, my doctor prescribed me the maximum safe dose of Valium first, and I still panicked so much I couldn't get the test done. It's really, really annoying.

And you will probably always will feel uncomfortable :(

but regular exposure will greatly reduce this feeling :)
Meh, I'll skip the exposure and just shy away from deep waters and bogs. :p This also might be why I actually like deserts and such.
Needles (or, rather, needles coming towards me - I'm not freaked out by the sight of people sewing or anything). I had a normal child's fear of shots, then was unintentionally but very effectively tortured with a needle, and my normal child's fear blossomed into lifelong crippling terror. The last time I was supposed to get a blood test, my doctor prescribed me the maximum safe dose of Valium first, and I still panicked so much I couldn't get the test done. It's really, really annoying.

Friend of mine whose father is actually a doctor has a similar phobia of needles. It's really odd. I take it you're not likely to sell plasma then, huh? Big ol' needles for that.

Meh, I'll skip the exposure and just shy away from deep waters and bogs. :p This also might be why I actually like deserts and such.


Friend of mine whose father is actually a doctor has a similar phobia of needles. It's really odd. I take it you're not likely to sell plasma then, huh? Big ol' needles for that.

my girlfriend does not mind needles, but is terrified of giving blood... :(

Friend of mine whose father is actually a doctor has a similar phobia of needles. It's really odd. I take it you're not likely to sell plasma then, huh? Big ol' needles for that.

*shudder*

I can't give blood, either, which makes me quite unhappy. I finally weigh enough to be allowed to do so, but the mere thought of it leaves me huddled in a corner trembling.

needles injecting me with stuff, altho tatoo needles are no bigie... am I off my rocker???

I read earlier that someone had a fear of gravity?
a fear of gravity? i ask you, how can you move without gravity taking effect? Fear of gravity, i just doesn't make any sense, maybe fear of heights, i can understand that, but gravity, come on how is that possible?

The people I know that are afraid of bees wasps and hornets, have all never been stung... The mind makes it far more dreadfull than the real thing really is.

LIke republicans. :)

Fear of the color yellow.

... that's the wierdest one I've heard,... and no, I haven't found out my phobia yet.

Electricity and chicken. Used to have one of canned goods too. Chicken one is getting better.
Cooked chicken, or live?

Fear of the color yellow.

... that's the wierdest one I've heard,... and no, I haven't found out my phobia yet.

:eek:

Holy shit! You're a Green Lantern! :eek:

I can't think of anything other than the mad tingles I get down my spine and legs when I look down from way up high .. even in a building behind glass. But I don't consider myself being scared of heights. I'm pretty sure I could sky dive.

I can't think of anything other than the mad tingles I get down my spine and legs when I look down from way up high .. even in a building behind glass. But I don't consider myself being scared of heights. I'm pretty sure I could sky dive.

I get those, too, and I'm not particularly scared of heights either.

Cooked chicken, or live?

Cooked. Or chicken to be cooked. If for some odd reason I cook chicken in my own kitchen I have to do some elaborate cleaning and decontaminating after. I also can't eat chicken I've cooked myself unless it's pan fried in super thin strips and I eat it immediately after I cook it. I can't eat chicken with bones or watch other people eat chicken with bones.

This was quite annoying back in my housemate days.
I will throw away a tuperware that has chicken in it if it was my tupperware. I won't use the fridge if there's an open package of chicken lunch meat in it. I'll throw away or give away any of my open food that was in the fridge at the time. If it was unopened, I'd clean it.


I have no idea why I have this phobia. It just started one day when I was baking some boneless chicken breasts in the oven.

:eek:

Holy shit! You're a Green Lantern! :eek:

Sssshhh, actually I'm the mysterious Red Shift (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_shift).

Mine would be fear of phones (telephonophobia?), and also fear of galagos (but that's nothing irrational).

Cooked. Or chicken to be cooked. If for some odd reason I cook chicken in my own kitchen I have to do some elaborate cleaning and decontaminating after. I also can't eat chicken I've cooked myself unless it's pan fried in super thin strips and I eat it immediately after I cook it. I can't eat chicken with bones or watch other people eat chicken with bones.

This was quite annoying back in my housemate days.
I will throw away a tuperware that has chicken in it if it was my tupperware. I won't use the fridge if there's an open package of chicken lunch meat in it. I'll throw away or give away any of my open food that was in the fridge at the time. If it was unopened, I'd clean it.


I have no idea why I have this phobia. It just started one day when I was baking some boneless chicken breasts in the oven.
See, now, if your fear was of live chickens, I would tell you that it's not a phobia...it's just good sense. Because let me tell you something about live chickens: they're wicked birds. Oh, sure, the chicks are all cute and fluffy at they peep at you because they think you're mommy, but the big ones peck your hands and kick you with those freakishly sharp toes.

But cooked chicken? You're just a nutter.

;)

centipedes. specifically house centipedes. those things freak me right out.

spiders, snakes, mice, bats, you name it, i'm okay with them. even millipedes are fine, and dare i say, kindof cute. but house centipedes have got to go.

I'm terrified of fish hooks. If you pull one out, I'm already gone.

centipedes. specifically house centipedes. those things freak me right out.

spiders, snakes, mice, bats, you name it, i'm okay with them. even millipedes are fine, and dare i say, kindof cute. but house centipedes have got to go.

Hmm. I've never seen one in person, but after thinking about it ... If I was sitting here typing away or gaming and a centipede came crawling onto my desk I might would fall back in my chair trying to get the hell out of the way lol. But I wouldn't kill it. I'd do my best to capture it and put it back outside .. the way I do spiders and bees.

edit: oh geeze .. i just googled pictures of them.. yeah I'd most definitely fall back or jump up especially if it was over 2 inches long lol But I don't think they are naturally around here... so I won't have to deal with it.

centipedes. specifically house centipedes. those things freak me right out.

I'm pretty sure there's one living in my room, so I'm inclined to agree.

oh geeze .. i just googled pictures of them.. yeah I'd most definitely fall back or jump up. But I don't think they are naturally around here... so I won't have to deal with it.

They're also incredibly fast.

My weird phobia is escolators.
I know that no one would like to fall down one of those,
but I have an intense fear of it, particuarly my shoelaces getting caught in it and being sucked under. It really inconvienent always asking "wheres an elevator or stairs?" but I do what I gotta do. I haven't been on one in probably 3 1/2 years.

I can't stand cheese. That's my phobia.

See, now, if your fear was of live chickens, I would tell you that it's not a phobia...it's just good sense. Because let me tell you something about live chickens: they're wicked birds. Oh, sure, the chicks are all cute and fluffy at they peep at you because they think you're mommy, but the big ones peck your hands and kick you with those freakishly sharp toes.

But cooked chicken? You're just a nutter.

;)

Roosters have spurs too. Got spurred across the top of the skull as a kid, blood everywhere.

Roosters have spurs too. Got spurred across the top of the skull as a kid, blood everywhere.

I used to have to take a bin lid with me to use as a shield when I collected the chicken eggs at home. I swear we had the most vicious rooster ever

I've been having nightmares about finding myself infected with flesh-eating virii, but I guess that's a fairly normal fear to have (in my experience, most people wouldn't be too happy with their body parts falling off).

I really, really, REALLY hate thunderstorms. The worst is, I know it's a childhood fear that I never grew out of, and that I wasn't afraid of them until I moved to rural NC, but I have an extreme (I wouldn't necessarily say irrational, sinc lightning isn't something to screw with) fear of them that only got worse when my neighbor's house got hit by lightning when I was 14.

And of course the worst thing to evr happen to me that's storm related? Over the summer I was forced to stay at home during a severe thunderstorm. I was in the family room, doing stuff and there's only one window in the room despite it being the largest in the house, so it was a bit dim despite the day being rather sunny. But suddenly I noticed that the room was too dark, and then I heard a low, menacing rumble. I looked outside (my nieghbor was mowing his lawn at the time, so I thought it might just be him) and off to the north-west, there is this solid wall of black. My first thought? "I'm gonna die." The storm came so quickly that I didn't have time to run to someone else's house (because I was home alone, and I hate even being in a room by myself during a storm). The weatherman on the TV says there has been like 3000 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes within 2 hours... holy cow. So I spent a good hour or so sitting in a corner curled up in the fetal position crying with my eyes shut tight and my fingers in my ears so I couldn't hear the thunder, which would surely be deafening if a bolt of lightning were to somehow crash through a window, snake through the upstairs hallway, and somehow hit me in my little corner of the family room and blow me to little Pancake-bits... anyway, I gave myself a deadline-- If I'm alive at 3:30 (or something like that) then I am not going to die during the storm. Yes, I seriously feared for my life. The lightning just kept coming and coming and coming, and it was really close, it sounded so close that I thought surely my entire neighborhood must be burning by then, and my house was surely next.. So once the thunder got quieter and quieter, I peeked out from my blanket and checked the time-- 3:45. I survived the worst storm ever to hit my town (possibly)!

Also, something really funny happened during that storm. When I first peeked out from the blanket, the house was shaking and there was a low rumble that didn't change in volume. I was like, oh crap, how effing marvelous, an earthquake right in the middle of a storm! Effing wonderful! But then I realized that eastern NC is not very prone to earthquakes (silly me :rolleyes:) so then I was like "Oh my god, it's a tornado! F#($!" But I heard no sound that sounded anything like a freight train or whatever a tornado would sound like if it were to make a beeline to where I was, if anything, the rumble got quieter, so then I was like "Oh wait, it's just thunder... wow, I am so blonde."

Of course, I still hate storms... still have a phobia. *sigh*

To be fair, North Carolina is one of the worst areas of the country where it comes to storms.... or maybe it just seems that way because of my backpacking trips in the area which were interrupted every few hours by the sudden rumble of thunder just overhead, especially when you're on a bald or a clifftop and thus best-placed to become a human lightning rod. To say nothing of the one night you leave your backpack outside the tent, and wake up next morning to find all your stuff soaked. :p Good times, though.

That, and we did live there for a few years, and it seemed that every year or so there would be a huge storm of some variety -- '93 it was an ice storm, big hurricanes in '96, '00, and '04 (El Niño hates the Bush-Clintons?), '98 a tree in our front yard got hit by lightning, '99 a tornado went through our back yard; et cetera.

I hate close-ups of insects.

Escalators.

Yes, you read that right.
All originating in a bunch of repetitive dreams I had as kid, I point blank refused to step on one until I was 8, since then it's sort of dissipated, but I'm still not entirely comfortable on them and get of asap.
Now, the crazy bit? I'm not scared of getting stuck/caught in the belt or anything like that, I'm scared of them stopping while I'm on one and my momentum carrying me onwards... and off into the air.
Rationally I know that it would be practically impossible, but still...

The other thing that bugs me is those glass railings they put on second story mall levels. You know the one's that are supposed to stop children from running over the edge and splitting their skulls open on the floor below?
The solid one's are a bit better, but the fact that you can see through the glass one's freak me out. I see people leaning on them like a wall and...
*shivers*

I had a lot of fears as a kid. Mostly due to an over-active imagination.
It still is, I've just learned to rationalise in most cases.

I'm npt saying I'm fearless but I really don't have any phobias per-se.

I'm npt saying I'm fearless but I really don't have any phobias per-se.Phobia doesn't mean fear, it means an aversion. Fat doesn't have emotions, but hydrophobic lipids are still hydrophobic because they don't bond with water. Likewise, I'm not afraid of cheese, I just hate it to the point that it makes me puke when I eat it.

But I did realize that I have a fear of swings. Would that be pendulophobia?

The "are you afraid of dying" thread got me thinking. I'm not really afraid of death, and I didn't have much to contribute to that threat since others said it better than I would, but it did get me thinking about things that DO scare me. Particularly, phobias.

I have a healthy dose of claustropbobia, but that's kinda common. I was thinking about the more unusual ones...

I'm sure there's a word for it, but I have a deathly, horrible, irrational fear of lava. I mean, yeah everybody here would certainly hate to encounter the stuff up close and personal, but I mean I have nightmares about it, I get freaked when I see it on TV, I get debilitated in games where there's lava.

Like once I was watching the Discovery Channel and there were these volcanologists studying cooled lava fields. Then they suddently started talking about how there was liquid lava somewhere under the surface. That made me jittery as I watched... just knowing.. then suddenly one of the guys fell through. Luckily, there was another cool layer uner the one he fell through, so he was fine... But at that instant, when I saw him drop through... I literally screamed. I really did.

There's a zone in EverQuest II called Lavastorm. I've been there... once. Just the idea of running around an imaginary place with imaginary lava as an imaginary character made me so uncomfortable I played instead in an equivalent level zone called Everfrost.

In Unreal Tournament there's a capture the flag zone where you're on an island in a sea of lava. I can only function on that map is I fell myself it's an ocean of Orange Crush.

Thankfully, I live in Maryland... A place that hasn't seen liquid lava in.... well long enough ago that I'm not worried.

My wife wants us to go on a trip to Hawaii. To a place where lava on the surface is considered normal. I'll just stay on Oahu, thanks.

What about y'all?

Wow, you must be absolutely horrified of Super Mario games, huh?

If I even see a photo of a praying mantis, I feel physically sick. When I go to the zoo, I have to send people ahead of me in the insect house so that I can be warned if theres a praying mantis (Do they warn me? No. They think it's really funny. If you ever see a woman running out of the insect house crying, it's probably me. :p)

Escalators is an interesting one. I don't have a phobia of them, but I always make sure I step on carefully because I'm scared that I'll step on the joint between two steps and fall :/

If I even see a photo of a praying mantis, I feel physically sick. When I go to the zoo, I have to send people ahead of me in the insect house so that I can be warned if theres a praying mantis (Do they warn me? No. They think it's really funny. If you ever see a woman running out of the insect house crying, it's probably me. :p)

Urk!
I'm not phobic of praying manta, but at one point in my life for a period of about a month I kept having the damn things FALLING ON ME... OUT OF NOWHERE!
Needless to say at the time it scared the heck out of me, and I was quite suspicious of them for awhile afterwards.

I really have bad luck with insects though. I hate moths, and am slightly paranoid about them seeing as they have a tendency to fly at me...

Urk!
I'm not phobic of praying manta, but at one point in my life for a period of about a month I kept having the damn things FALLING ON ME... OUT OF NOWHERE!
Needless to say at the time it scared the heck out of me, and I was quite suspicious of them for awhile afterwards.
:eek::eek::eek:

Thats probably one of the most terrifying things I've heard recently! If one fell on me, I don't know what I'd do. Well, except panic.

Ugh, thats made my skin crawl. Damn you!

Mild arachnophobia, although the large orb-weaving spider (similar to this one (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Orb_weaver_white_bckgrnd02.jpg/800px-Orb_weaver_white_bckgrnd02.jpg)) that maintains a web (like this (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/SpiderWeb.jpg/800px-SpiderWeb.jpg)) right outside my front door has actually served to lessen the effect of the phobia. Not only is it fascinating to watch while building/fixing the web, but I've also noticed that the local housefly (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Musca.domestica.female.jpg) population has dropped to zero since the spider arrived.

Eight-legged security against pests/disease vectors. Awesome.

When i was younger late at night in my room the X-Files theme would start playing! I still don't know where it came from but i would go down stairs to tell my parents but it would be louder and creepy pictures of I guess aleins would be on in addition to the creepy sound! I have never seen a episode of X-Files and do not plan on seeing one!

Ah, weird phobias...

I used to be unable to take a shower/bath at night. I knew why I was so scared of it, but I was still terrified nonetheless (no, it has nothing to do with the film Psycho.) I eventually conquered this fear by actually doing it and reminding myself that nothing bad was happening, and that nothing bad could happen.

However, one of the fears I still have, and I have no idea why, is looking into mirrors in the dark. As long as there is some sort of light source, I can look into them just fine, and I do. But if there is no light, I have the fear that if I look into the unlit mirror some kind of monster from Mirror Land will burst out, glass shards flying everywhere, and then proceed to murder me in a suitably gory fashion. I will literally look away and fumble for the light switch in the dark. Once, I had to sleep in a room where there was a big mirror right in front of the bed and I forced myself to sleep on my belly so that I wouldn't look at it accidentally, thus provoking the obligatory murder by mirror monster.

Yeah. I know.

Edit: Oh yeah, centipedes too. Once my mom was watching an episode of Larry King Live where this guy was presenting exotic animals, and he brought out centipedes. I freaked out so much she had to change the channel. I'm not even immune from cartoon centipedes.

Edit edit: If you post an image of a centipede in this thread, I will hate you forever.

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*whispers*Mentally retarted people. Whenever someone is in proximity, I have this overwhelming urge to flee. I have fled before, running until my breath was ragged.*/whispers*

>.>

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*quietly leaves*

I used to be unable to take a shower/bath at night. I knew why I was so scared of it, but I was still terrified nonetheless (no, it has nothing to do with the film Psycho.) I eventually conquered this fear by actually doing it and reminding myself that nothing bad was happening, and that nothing bad could happen.

I had difficulties with showering at night, but that was mainly because I was worried that the noise made by the water hitting the bathtub floor would drown out the sounds of Karatsai (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=13175349&postcount=15) agents breaking in through my bedroom window. [Link: It is one of the agencies as which I roleplay, an agency loosely based on one of my paranoias.]

Whoa! Boyfriend still has to learn a lot! I'd suggest a night of no sex (yeah, yeah, I know, that'd mean punishing yourself, too :p).

Seriously, though, that's fucked up.

Incidentally, I fractured my big toe last week when trying to kill a small spider on the wall and it crawled unharmed out of the tissue paper and fell to the floor and came towards me and I was scrambling to get away. Stupid fucking spiders.

Sounds like the spider was the smart one in that story.

Personally I never kill spiders. I think it's an English thing, even though I haven't lived there in so long I have no real memories of it. My wife (then girlfriend) was really confused the first time she saw me pick up a spider and throw it out the front door. Honestly, if she isn't around I don't even do that.

I had difficulties with showering at night, but that was mainly because I was worried that the noise made by the water hitting the bathtub floor would drown out the sounds of Karatsai (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=13175349&postcount=15) agents breaking in through my bedroom window. [Link: It is one of the agencies as which I roleplay, an agency loosely based on one of my paranoias.]

Well, my phobia came from when I was about 6. My brother and I watched a Wayne's World skit in which Wayne and Garth watch a clip from The Leprechaun, and then Wayne proceeds to repeatedly turn off the lights, flash a flashlight onto his chin and shout "I'M THE LEPRECHAUN!" repeatedly, much to Garth's dismay. My brother was so 'inspired' by this sketch that when I took my bath, he turned off the lights, rushed in with a flashlight under his chin and shouted "I'M THE LEPRECHAUN!"

Twice.

While I don't really have any phobias, I have had a few instances where something scared me so badly I reacted in a most unmanly way. Back in '89 I was in Panama with the Marines arresting Manuel Noriega and I woke up about 0-dark thirty with this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Phoneutria_nigriventer.jpg sitting on my chest. Needless to say I shouted loudly, knocked it off my chest, and SHOT it, :sniper: Embarrassment was the least of my worries :( Nor have my "buddies" ever let me live it down.

While I don't really have any phobias, I have had a few instances where something scared me so badly I reacted in a most unmanly way. Back in '89 I was in Panama with the Marines arresting Manuel Noriega and I woke up about 0-dark thirty with this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Phoneutria_nigriventer.jpg sitting on my chest. Needless to say I shouted loudly, knocked it off my chest, and SHOT it, :sniper: Embarrassment was the least of my worries :( Nor have my "buddies" ever let me live it down.

I wonder if someone will shoot their monitor after innocently clicking on that link? :D

While I don't really have any phobias, I have had a few instances where something scared me so badly I reacted in a most unmanly way. Back in '89 I was in Panama with the Marines arresting Manuel Noriega and I woke up about 0-dark thirty with this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Phoneutria_nigriventer.jpg sitting on my chest. Needless to say I shouted loudly, knocked it off my chest, and SHOT it, :sniper: Embarrassment was the least of my worries :( Nor have my "buddies" ever let me live it down.

I'd have shot it too. I have the obligatory spider/scorpion phobia. In fact most crawly things spook me. I had a dream when I was little that my house was infested with spider/scorpion hybrids that were 3 feet long. They were crazy fast and I couldn't outrun them. Also, I'm scared of what's in the dark and what might be in space. Not aliens or anything, but black holes and such. That just freaks me out.

While I don't really have any phobias, I have had a few instances where something scared me so badly I reacted in a most unmanly way. Back in '89 I was in Panama with the Marines arresting Manuel Noriega and I woke up about 0-dark thirty with this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Phoneutria_nigriventer.jpg sitting on my chest. Needless to say I shouted loudly, knocked it off my chest, and SHOT it, :sniper: Embarrassment was the least of my worries :( Nor have my "buddies" ever let me live it down.

I would have reacted the same way. Not that I have a phobia nor much of a fear of spiders (provided they're not very big, like common spiders one would find in the garden or house).

I would have reacted the same way. Not that I have a phobia nor much of a fear of spiders (provided they're not very big, like common spiders one would find in the garden or house).

How about this one?


http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/944/spidermv7.png (http://imageshack.us)

Well, my phobia came from when I was about 6. My brother and I watched a Wayne's World skit in which Wayne and Garth watch a clip from The Leprechaun, and then Wayne proceeds to repeatedly turn off the lights, flash a flashlight onto his chin and shout "I'M THE LEPRECHAUN!" repeatedly, much to Garth's dismay. My brother was so 'inspired' by this sketch that when I took my bath, he turned off the lights, rushed in with a flashlight under his chin and shouted "I'M THE LEPRECHAUN!"

Twice.

I approve. :)

I'm afraid of bees, wasps and hornets. I have never been stung, and I mean to keep it that way. :p
...IT HAS A WEAKNESS!

My weird phobia is escolators.
I know that no one would like to fall down one of those,
but I have an intense fear of it, particuarly my shoelaces getting caught in it and being sucked under. It really inconvienent always asking "wheres an elevator or stairs?" but I do what I gotta do. I haven't been on one in probably 3 1/2 years.

Escalators.

Yes, you read that right.
All originating in a bunch of repetitive dreams I had as kid, I point blank refused to step on one until I was 8, since then it's sort of dissipated, but I'm still not entirely comfortable on them and get of asap.
Now, the crazy bit? I'm not scared of getting stuck/caught in the belt or anything like that, I'm scared of them stopping while I'm on one and my momentum carrying me onwards... and off into the air.
Rationally I know that it would be practically impossible, but still...

The other thing that bugs me is those glass railings they put on second story mall levels. You know the one's that are supposed to stop children from running over the edge and splitting their skulls open on the floor below?
The solid one's are a bit better, but the fact that you can see through the glass one's freak me out. I see people leaning on them like a wall and...
*shivers*

I had a lot of fears as a kid. Mostly due to an over-active imagination.
It still is, I've just learned to rationalise in most cases.
So when I was young (2nd grade, so I think 7 or 8), I was at a Sears with an old escalator...one that had the emergency stop under the railing. I was wearing rubber boots which squeaked on the side. Anyway, the rubber boot melted, went into the gears, and resolidified, pulling my foot in. Eventually, an employee stopped it, but my foot was still in. A very, very drunk guy came over with a pocket knife, which my dad took and cut me out, accidentally stabbing my big toe (the only clear injury).
They then crammed my foot into an ugly boot that was 2 sizes too small after making me sit there for 2 hours for insurance purposes.
Turns out, I broke 3 metatarsils.


as for my fears, I don't really have any big ones.

...IT HAS A WEAKNESS!


I can(and have) pet a shark while scuba diving, but I scamper at the sight of a bee. My friends think it's hilarious. :p

I can(and have) pet a shark while scuba diving, but I scamper at the sight of a bee. My friends think it's hilarious. :p

*sets up bee hives around house*

I'm afraid of flies, and I don't understand why more people aren't. I mean, it's like all that's bad with spiders, plus they can fly and they're really fast and unpredictable!

I heard of some guy who had Liberalphobia.......I think his name was Bill O'reilly.

Bees.

Those things are beasts.

*sets up bee hives around house*

:eek:

*feels so unloved*

:(

No phobias. Not what so ever. When I was a child I got sometimes scared when we had to go to high places, but since then I´ve never had that feeling. There aren´t very high buildings in Finland, but high enough to freak out some one with acrophobia. Well I never feel strongly about anything, I maybe have an emotiofobia or something :rolleyes:

I've always found spiders to be rather sweet. In an unsual sort of way. I look at them close-up on those rare occasions when they stand still long enough.

I'm the designated "get the spider out of this room'" person, wherever I go. All I need is a sheet of paper and a glass to contain it long enough to carry it outside.

mine is cats they scare me senseless and to the point where i have ran in the road to get away from one almost got myself killed and the cats just strolled on oblivious

Electricity and chicken. Used to have one of canned goods too. Chicken one is getting better.

Why not just kill the chickens with the electricity and can them?

I know for damn sure that Siranland can't stand chocolate...

"It spreads!"

It doesn't.:p

I have Claustrophobia and Astraphobia

mine is cats they scare me senseless and to the point where i have ran in the road to get away from one almost got myself killed and the cats just strolled on oblivious

Oblivious? Hah! They know. They always know! :eek:

Oblivious? Hah! They know. They always know! :eek:

LG, do you look anything like him? (http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/92/91/70/10m.jpg) I always picture you looking like him, but dressed as a clown.

A colleague of mine has an unusual phobia, glitter (not Gary, the sparkly Yuletide card stuff)

LG, do you look anything like him? (http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/92/91/70/10m.jpg) I always picture you looking like him, but dressed as a clown.

I've been denied permission to see the link. :(

I've been denied permission to see the link. :(

http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/92/91/70/10m.jpg

I have never seen anyone with this fear before but I have a phobia of open doors. I think it stems from the fact that if the door is open, then something could get inside the room without me knowing. So now I have a habit of closing every door that I see.

I also have a fear of spiders and most insects (except bees and ticks), but that seems fairly common from this thread.

Click Stand;13294123']I have never seen anyone with this fear before but I have a phobia of open doors. I think it stems from the fact that if the door is open, then something could get inside the room without me knowing. So now I have a habit of closing every door that I see.


My dog appears to have the opposite. She hates shut doors. If a door is pushed to and can be opened, she will open it. Not to come in; she'll just open it, glance inside, and walk away. She does it all the time.

I was once in the bathroom shaving with the door pushed to, so of course she pushed it open. I pushed it to again, so she pushed it open again, and walked away.

Perhaps she's just curious. In any case, she has a very unusual obsession with doors. Which has intensified with old age.

I guess i got lucky, considering all the phobias listed here i don't have any (well not that i know of) and i love a good thunderstorm it's like a special lights effect for the sky but it's free and most people nearby can see it. (i know anyone who knows a thundergod and (the person) who's scared of thunder can send it over to Scotland i'd be very happy).

That's not to say i've never been afraid, i saw my first thunderstorm in Jamaica in ooh 2000? and i wasn't that scared it was the best public display of lights i ever saw.

I had a friend who joined the marines but was scared of heights (not a proper phobia but he couldn't jump from a high hight (later on he left after 6 months because he was told if he didn't stop he would break his spine, this i can believe), but got over his fear when taken in an apache helicopter, lucky so and so.

I guess i got lucky, considering all the phobias listed here i don't have any (well not that i know of) and i love a good thunderstorm it's like a special lights effect for the sky but it's free and most people nearby can see it. (i know anyone who knows a thundergod and (the person) who's scared of thunder can send it over to Scotland i'd be very happy).

That's not to say i've never been afraid, i saw my first thunderstorm in Jamaica in ooh 2000? and i wasn't that scared it was the best public display of lights i ever saw.

I had a friend who joined the marines but was scared of heights (not a proper phobia but he couldn't jump from a high hight (later on he left after 6 months because he was told if he didn't stop he would break his spine, this i can believe), but got over his fear when taken in an apache helicopter, lucky so and so.


I'd gladly send you all my thunderstorms. :) I don't want to be stuck at home alone in another one. Then again, I don't want any here at all.

I'm terrified of dogs. I also used to be terrified of elevators and of a certain type of moss.

http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/92/91/70/10m.jpg

:eek:

Picture a short stocky Jim Carrey covered in mud and frequently dancing to music only he can hear. That's me. :)

:eek:

*feels so unloved*

:(
They just want to be your friends!

*chases*

They just want to be your friends!

*chases*

:eek:

Aiieeee!!!

*runs and dives into mud*

:eek:

Aiieeee!!!

*runs and dives into mud*

hmm...mud really does fix everything. Like duct tape.

fear of bees. dunno wether it's weird or not.

I don't have any actual phobias, but I am a little scared of heights.

hmm...mud really does fix everything. Like duct tape.

You could conquer the world with mud, duct tape, WD-40 and a handful of pennies. *nod*

You could conquer the world with mud, duct tape, WD-40 and a handful of pennies. *nod*

You could also have a very....colorful....evening with those same things

You could conquer the world with mud, duct tape, WD-40 and a handful of pennies. *nod*

I read that as "...and a handful of penises". :eek: I spend too much time on NS...

I read that as "...and a handful of penises". :eek: I spend too much time on NS...

The support group meets every Wednesday. Coffee and shock therapy are provided

The support group meets every Wednesday. Coffee and shock therapy are provided

I hear they're upping the voltage next week. *nod*

The support group meets every Wednesday. Coffee and shock therapy are provided

Oh good, just what I... OUCH!

*spills coffee*

I hear they're upping the voltage next week. *nod*

Oh good, just what I... OUCH!

*spills coffee*

think we could combine NSG with the Milgram Experiment?

I'm sure that would bring out some phobias too...

think we could combine NSG with the Milgram Experiment?

I'm sure that would bring out some phobias too...

What about NSG with MKULTRA? Fun! :D