Strange fears you have...
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Little people, who apparently don't like being called midgets (and I'm certainly not going to make them angry). Just to be clear, because a lot of people seem to misunderstand this: I don't hate little people, I don't wish them any harm; they just make me feel really, really anxious.
When I was a kid, though, the thing that scared me the most was the Bunyip from 'Dot and the Kangaroo'.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=WtrYO-Mog60
When I was a kid, though, the thing that scared me the most was the Bunyip from 'Dot and the Kangaroo'.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=WtrYO-Mog60
Well do what I do, Chew on that steak until its in very very small peices that just slide down your throat without having to swallow. Ordering medium is usually the best way to keep it tender while still having flavor and be cooked if you don't already eat medium steaks.I have almost never had stomach pains because I do that with every food i'm guessing..Lvl 64 Klutz said:
I fear not being able to help, I fear being crippled, I fear learning everything, I fear amnesia and I fear that someday there will be nothing left to entertain me like LoZ:OoT and MM did...
Once I was sleeping, and a spider must have crawled in my ear as I rolled over, because when I woke up it had made a big splatter mark on the bed and I had to pick it out of my ear leg by leg. I'm fine with spiders, but if they are all around my room when I want to go to sleep, I sleep on the sofa.
Having mosquitos in my room at night. I don't like trying to sleep with them buzzing around my face biting me then waking up all itchy. It's not a fears I just...don't like it...at all.
Zombies can't run. But I as well have a fear of zombies. Fortunately, I have an unusual talent to conquer my fears. Exposure works.Bulletinmybrain said:
The dark... i can play resident evil games and see horror movies and not give a crap but darkness just scares me, like in the movie pitch black when the guy is sitting in the dark and he lights a match and there are tons of those alien things all around him...
i keep thinking something like that is going to happen to me.
i keep thinking something like that is going to happen to me.
One of my greatest fears is fake hair I know it sounds wierd but fake hair just freaks me the fuck out and makes me want to hurl.
crumbs. That's right. Crumbs. I don't like having them all over stuff because
A: I don't know what they are half the time
2: It's old food, nasty old dried up food
III: I just tidied up!
A: I don't know what they are half the time
2: It's old food, nasty old dried up food
III: I just tidied up!
I'm petrified of trying new food. I've got a bit better recently. My dad encouraged me to try Cucumber for the first time a month or so ago. I had to spend a few minutes preparing myself for it, but in the end it wasn't that bad.
The worst time was when I told my dad I'd like to try Curry when I was drunk, and the next day he prepared this curry for me, and when he asked me to eat it I refused and got really angry and defensive... =/ I just don't like the idea of putting something in your mouth that hasn't been there before (make sexual puns if you like XD)
The worst time was when I told my dad I'd like to try Curry when I was drunk, and the next day he prepared this curry for me, and when he asked me to eat it I refused and got really angry and defensive... =/ I just don't like the idea of putting something in your mouth that hasn't been there before (make sexual puns if you like XD)
I wouldn't call it a fear per say, but at the moment I can't walk up stairs with no "backboard" (if that makes sense), particularly in the dark. I've seen far too many movies where the killer/zombie etc grabs someone's ankles through the stairs, and I have a vivid imagination. I tend to be alright for the first 2/3rds of the stairs, but then I'm too high up to see through, and I start to get more and more uncomfortable the higher I get. If I'm particularly jumpy that day, it means I end up scampering up the last few like a little girl. I can't stand it, annoys the hell out of me and I realise how stupid I'm being, but I can't stop it. It actually made me roll my ankle a few weeks ago when I took the steps too fast and landed poorly on it at the top.
I have a friend who has developed a fear I find slightly strange - he's a football (soccer for the non-followers) player, and as a result he can't stand watching anyone get damage in their legs, particularly to the achilles' tendon. The Freddy movie where he slices the tendon from under the bed - absolutely couldn't stand it, had to look away. He said all he could think to himself is "Dear God, there goes a career."
My only two strong fears are not having control, and infinity. An example for the control: A few months ago I had a nightmare where I was given the death penalty while innocent, and having absolutely no way to avoid my impending doom. Worst dream I've ever had. It wasn't the idea of death that scared me though, it was the fact that I couldn't do anything to prevent it. Any time I feel that I'm not in control of my own actions and surroundings, I feel anxious.
As for infinity, that developed when as I kid I was thinking about "heaven" in the Christian term, and the fact that it's supposed to be eternal life. I started thinking about how it would go on and on and on for millions of years with absolutely no way to end it (you can't die twice, can you) and the lack of control (there it is again) made me terrified of heaven/infinity, and as a result, death itself. Then again, the idea of nirvana, complete nothingness upon death, doesn't exactly appeal either.
When I was a kid, I had a horrible fear for about a year of germs. I couldn't do ANYTHING without washing my hands. I either didn't eat outside, or would eat by holding onto a bit of paper, napkin etc that I knew was clean and using that to pick things up. I wouldn't touch anything that could give me any germ or disease. In all fairness though I'd nearly died a few years earlier from an unknown condition (in a coma for 2 weeks, respitory/cardiac failure etc kind of nearly died, not just "life flashing before my eyes" nearly in a car accident crap like some people say) so it was probably psychological aftershock from that.
I have a friend who has developed a fear I find slightly strange - he's a football (soccer for the non-followers) player, and as a result he can't stand watching anyone get damage in their legs, particularly to the achilles' tendon. The Freddy movie where he slices the tendon from under the bed - absolutely couldn't stand it, had to look away. He said all he could think to himself is "Dear God, there goes a career."
My only two strong fears are not having control, and infinity. An example for the control: A few months ago I had a nightmare where I was given the death penalty while innocent, and having absolutely no way to avoid my impending doom. Worst dream I've ever had. It wasn't the idea of death that scared me though, it was the fact that I couldn't do anything to prevent it. Any time I feel that I'm not in control of my own actions and surroundings, I feel anxious.
As for infinity, that developed when as I kid I was thinking about "heaven" in the Christian term, and the fact that it's supposed to be eternal life. I started thinking about how it would go on and on and on for millions of years with absolutely no way to end it (you can't die twice, can you) and the lack of control (there it is again) made me terrified of heaven/infinity, and as a result, death itself. Then again, the idea of nirvana, complete nothingness upon death, doesn't exactly appeal either.
When I was a kid, I had a horrible fear for about a year of germs. I couldn't do ANYTHING without washing my hands. I either didn't eat outside, or would eat by holding onto a bit of paper, napkin etc that I knew was clean and using that to pick things up. I wouldn't touch anything that could give me any germ or disease. In all fairness though I'd nearly died a few years earlier from an unknown condition (in a coma for 2 weeks, respitory/cardiac failure etc kind of nearly died, not just "life flashing before my eyes" nearly in a car accident crap like some people say) so it was probably psychological aftershock from that.
Oh god, I have so many stupid fears, so I'll just say the most prominent ones.
Spiders. They just freak me out so much, even if their only about the size of my small fingernail. It must just be the legs. Things with lots of legs that are longer than their bodies just seem really unnatural and scary to me. I freak and run away if I see a normal garden or house spider (living in the UK here, so we don't get massive ones). I'm just so glad I don't live in places that have poisonous ones or massive ones like tarantulas, I think I'd die of shock if I was ever near one of those. It's sort of the same with other insects with long legs as well, ESPECIALLY daddy long legs. Their like frickin spiders WITH WINGS. There was this time that I was sitting at night on the computer, and I must have accidentally left my window open. So, this massive daddy long legs flies in and lands right on the monitor, about a foot away from my face. I totally freaked and fell backwards off my chair, had to work up my courage for about five minutes before going back in and killing it with a rolled up magazine.
And to the person that said zombies, I agree. I can't watch a film or play a game with them in it anymore without having to sleep with the light on for about three days afterwords, and probably still getting nightmares even if I do. I know they're not real, but they just really genuinely scare me. The slow, yet relentless shuffling, the flailing of arms, the rotting flesh and the fact that THEY WILL NOT STOP until you are one of them. I think I actually know how this phobia started, because when I was young (about 6, can't remember exactly), I was staying over at my dad's house and I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't get back to sleep, so I went downstairs for something to eat, and my dad was in the livingroom playing resident evil (the first one), on the playstation. So I sat down, and watched for a bit, and it was really scary, but I couldn't leave the room because I didn't want to be alone in the dark house (it was stormy outside, and the house was in the country), so I stayed and sat next to him and watched and I NEVER want to see that game or any of the others EVER again. I do believe there's a bit in that game with massive spiders as well, which might have had an impact on that phobia too.
Spiders. They just freak me out so much, even if their only about the size of my small fingernail. It must just be the legs. Things with lots of legs that are longer than their bodies just seem really unnatural and scary to me. I freak and run away if I see a normal garden or house spider (living in the UK here, so we don't get massive ones). I'm just so glad I don't live in places that have poisonous ones or massive ones like tarantulas, I think I'd die of shock if I was ever near one of those. It's sort of the same with other insects with long legs as well, ESPECIALLY daddy long legs. Their like frickin spiders WITH WINGS. There was this time that I was sitting at night on the computer, and I must have accidentally left my window open. So, this massive daddy long legs flies in and lands right on the monitor, about a foot away from my face. I totally freaked and fell backwards off my chair, had to work up my courage for about five minutes before going back in and killing it with a rolled up magazine.
And to the person that said zombies, I agree. I can't watch a film or play a game with them in it anymore without having to sleep with the light on for about three days afterwords, and probably still getting nightmares even if I do. I know they're not real, but they just really genuinely scare me. The slow, yet relentless shuffling, the flailing of arms, the rotting flesh and the fact that THEY WILL NOT STOP until you are one of them. I think I actually know how this phobia started, because when I was young (about 6, can't remember exactly), I was staying over at my dad's house and I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't get back to sleep, so I went downstairs for something to eat, and my dad was in the livingroom playing resident evil (the first one), on the playstation. So I sat down, and watched for a bit, and it was really scary, but I couldn't leave the room because I didn't want to be alone in the dark house (it was stormy outside, and the house was in the country), so I stayed and sat next to him and watched and I NEVER want to see that game or any of the others EVER again. I do believe there's a bit in that game with massive spiders as well, which might have had an impact on that phobia too.