Most embarrassing fear?

[Logan Westbrook]

I'm terrified of jellyfish, despite never having been stung by one and living around 70 miles away from the cost.

I just hate the little bastards.

 

[RhinoTuna]

Claustrophobic. I don't like to admit it because i hate the fact that i am. I just freak out and panic, it feels silly sometimes

 

[Dys]

Attractive women... beat that people, you just try to beat that!

I'll match you're attractive women and raise you.
I have a theory, that so far has been shown (by my records) to be around 75% accurate. Attractiveness of any girl is proportional to insanity.

Hot girls, even the nice ones who don't act high and mighty, are fucking insane.
An example of this is, a girl I talk to at uni, who studies mechanical engineering (very maths heavy) spent maybe 45 minutes telling me she didn't beleive in most of the maths we were learning. Either she is an A grade prankster or she is nuts.
Another girl, who also is very hot, had a habit of going balistic at any bloke who mentioned anything that could in any way (or in many cases couldn't even remotely) be taken as them calling her fat. All other insults were fine, no she is/was not fat.
countless girls have violent tendancies (not only directed at me).

It's now gotten to the stage where I am so shitscared to talk to (hot) girls I don't already know, I avoid them out of fear of them trying to kill me in my sleep.

 

[Labyrinth]

I'm 19 years old and I'm afraid of the dark, you can't beat that you just can't, thats so high on the wuss-o-meter it's not even funny.

So is Stephen King, if it makes you feel any better.

That doesn't surprise me in the slightest.

Fear of the dark is one of the most common, because it is the basic point of almost all fears. The dark is the unknown. You can't see what's there, and you can't tell if whatever is there is going to hurt you.

That same fear of the unknown is reflected in any number of phobias, along with many types of xenophobia and bias. Just watch the first scene of Jaws. The creature is terrifying because you can't see it and you don't know what it is. Some of the scariest movies and stories are those without direct contact with the creatures who are trying to scare the viewer.

As for my own fears. That's hard. Nuclear apocalypse is the first one that springs to mind. I used to also be shit scared of speaking or performing in public, but a few rallies and violin exams have cured that for me.

Oh, being unable to fight back, paralysed. I saw a mention of Everything Eventual, and it reminded me of that. I dislike anaesthetics for that very reason. Moshpits and small spaces don't phase me however, so I'm putting it down to being unable to use my own body.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Bee's
when they fly into your face or land on your back

Try a wasp flying behind your glasses. Now that's terrifying.

 

[Kuweekee]

I have only one fear, that's being afraid of the unknown, but i try to overcome it by learning as much as possible.

 

[Di22y]

I'm scared of spiders but don't find it embarrassing in any way shape or form, in fact I look down on people ho aren't scared of spiders and consider myself somewhat superior to them.

 

[Zeke109]

FOr some reason, I'm afraid that If I fall asleep, a fly will fly down my throat and lay its eggs in my esophagaous. (SPELLING, much?) And when they hatch, they'll go into my lungs and kill me. I have a lot of these irrational fears.

 

[dijital101]

The thing that truly gives me the lock-up heebee jeebees is looking out of a window into the dark. In my mind I'm just absolutely sure that when I look out the window something or someone is going to be looking in. It's weird because I'm in no way afraid of the dark. I used to regularly walk between the two towns I lived in growing up (15 miles apart) literally in the middle of the night.

Now I live in a very dense forest with the front windows looking at my only neighbor, a church with an attached graveyard. When I'm outside having a smoke I'll walk out into the forest and just stroll around but as soon as I'm back in my head turns away from the windows.

My friends know about this and will capitalize on it every chance they get. They'll come up to the house with their lights off and see me watching TV from the window and slowly tap on it trying to get me to look over.

What makes it even stranger is that I'm a pretty imposing figure, 6' tall 250lbs, and I have an affinity for firearms so really anybody looking to break in is not going to like the outcome, well after I see them outside the window and have to change my pants.

My fear that is really embarrassing is I am completely freaked out by the flying monkey that the witch talks to in the Wizard of Oz. Just the one that actually had a midget in it. The ones flying in the background I could care less about but that single one jumping up and down I can't even watch. I'll turn my head when it's on.

 

[Zeke109]

The thing that truly gives me the lock-up heebee jeebees is looking out of a window into the dark. In my mind I'm just absolutely sure that when I look out the window something or someone is going to be looking in.

I did that to someone once. They shouldn't have been in an empty classroom anyway, so I gave them monkey for their back.

 

[Jovlo]

I have a serious blood and needle phobia and just talking about donating blood makes me very nervous.
It's not really the blood, it's the bleeding that scares me, especially if it's me.
Sitting there with a needle in my arm waiting while some of my blood seeps away is one of my worst nightmares.
Unless I could save the life of a loved one I'd never do it, and even then somebody would have to knock me out to handle me. It's that bad.
At my university, they have a big blood collection week twice a year (it so happens to be this week). I can't even stand seeing all those adds for it, I almost need to hide those weeks. Maybe I should find help...

I'm also afraid of loud sudden noises in the dark. I always react panicky to sudden loud noises, night or day.

And mirrors get me nervous.
I don't dare to look into a mirror at night, afraid that it won't be me in the mirror, my mirror image will do something else then me or worst of all, I'm not alone in the reflection.

I guess the worst case scenario would be me looking in the mirror seeing my reflection bleeding and screaming to me. Brrr, nightmare...

 

[AuntyEthel]

I've always had a fear of parasites. Just the idea of some tiny horrid creature who lives inside my syphoning off my blood. I love everything else that people are afraid of - ghosts, the dark, heights, spiders etc, but I hate the idea of parasites.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

And mirrors get me nervous.
I don't dare to look into a mirror at night, afraid that it won't be me in the mirror, my mirror image will do something else then me or worst of all, I'm not alone in the reflection.

Dude, I thought I was the only one.

 

[Lt. Dragunov]

I have a crippling fear of spiders mainly the "omg there it is it's gonna come down and pick you up and eat you" kind of spiders (you know who you are). Those things can turn me into the softist person in the world.

 

[Colonel Joson]

Moths. Ridiculous, I know, but when I was very small, I read a short story about a boy who collected moths. One day, he finds a very odd caterpillar. He nurtures it lovingly, caring for it as it fattens up and then spins its cocoon. The second it emerges from its chrysalis, he takes it and stuffs it in a killing jar. Oddly, he feels as though it's watching him as it dies. He pins it to the wall at the foot of his bed. One night, his parents come in to find that the moth is gone, and the boy has been wrapped in caterpillar silk, his mouth stitched shut.

Sounds like a story I'd like. heh...Does anyone know the name of the story?
And my 2 fears that may be embarrassing, 1: Dogs, I scared shitless of them, whenever one works towards me I move to the other side of the path.
2: The dark, Playing FEAR got to me....I keeping thinking Alma will be there...

 

[freakyHippo]

I have an irrational fear of Kites (not the bird, the 'childrens play thing'). I'm not scared of kites when they are on the ground, it is only when they're in the air. I get really nervouse and agitated when i see someone flying a kite to the point where i either have to run away or run to the person flying the kite and cut the string to 'save them'. I can't even watch them on the telly (theres a horrible BBC segway that has loads of red kites flying about, i have to leave the room when it comes on). Its the worst when i drive and spot one. I can't look in the direction of the kite, which often means i turn my head away from the road. It takes an enormouse amount of will power for me to concentrate on the road and just turn my head (or the car) away from the kite.

On my third date with my girlfriend we went to the cinema to watch 'Son of Rambow'. There is a fairly lengthy scene in which two boys fly a kite. During this scene i started squeezing my girlfriends hand really hard and eventually had to leave the screen until the kite had gone (fortunatly we were sat close to the isle so no one saw me bolt towards the exit).

I hate kites, evil vicious things.

 

[Mindex]

Being pwned by GM's 4 hxoring games to include lolerskaters and roflcopters.

 

[neoman10]

My most embarrassing fear is I'm afraid someone is always going to start following me when I walk up the stairs at night. I don't know why but because of it i have to take off running up the stairs, fallen face first a few times.

Same here, I'm always afraid someone is either going shoot me or hit me with a lead pipe