Your irrational fear.
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Hmm I don't really have an irrational fear, most of my fears are quite rational really, heights, snakes, maybe a little bit of claustrophobia? It would have to be a very small space I'm trapped in though. I do get the odd paranoia that I'm being watched by someone or something I can't see sometimes.
Two things, Ladders and large, tightly packed crowds of people. I don't have any fear of small spaces or heights in any other situation. I've stood on a ridge line as sharp as a knife, with a 100m drop to either side of me and been perfectly fine, and that same summer I went explring a local cave system, with gaps so small you actually had to let all the air out of your lungs to squeeze through, and never once did it bother me. But put me on a 1m ladder, and I'm holding on for dear life, put me in a room packed to capacity, and I start hyperventilating and frantically trying to find the nearest exit.
I can't really explain why these bother me so much, but they do, and it sucks somedays.
I can't really explain why these bother me so much, but they do, and it sucks somedays.
Well, mostly deep, unclear water. I either want to see the botom of where I swim, or feel it under my feet. If not, I kinda panic. This used to be increadibly bad, but I got over it and I'm only slightly uncomfortable now.
Gotta be spiders. When I'm not busy being afraid of them, I think spiders are actually quite cute little creatures who keep bugs out of my house (aside from themselves, of course).
I can't stand the dark, I have my lamp of amazing that I never ever ever turn off...I also don't like windows I'm always scared there will be someone just staring at me on the other side. Mirrors are a little worse than windows, I'm always scared that I will look at one and it won't be my reflection or it will be me, but be moving on its own. Oh and I really don't like walking down hallways or climbing stairs I always end up feeling like something is chasing me or something and its just never a pleasant experience...
Crustaceans, I hate them all, but specifically lobsters are the worst. If there is lobster in the fridge I will try and avoid eating anything out of it as I feel it taints everything around it. I have what I guess you could call a nightmarish fantasy of someone getting me lobster as a gift some time and then basically flipping shit and having to explain why I'm freaking out.
I use to crack them open for my parents when I was younger and they only freaked me out while alive. Now though even the thought of them can disturb me.
Also giant Isopods are some sort of creature who have found the portal from hell into our world I swear.
I use to crack them open for my parents when I was younger and they only freaked me out while alive. Now though even the thought of them can disturb me.
Also giant Isopods are some sort of creature who have found the portal from hell into our world I swear.
Buttons.
Put one near my mouth and I will throw up. They disgust and repulse me. I can't look at them and I can't touch them. I don't even like saying/typing the word. They are my enemy.
Put one near my mouth and I will throw up. They disgust and repulse me. I can't look at them and I can't touch them. I don't even like saying/typing the word. They are my enemy.
Driving, I'm almost 25 and don't even have a learners license yet because the idea of driving a car terrifies me.
My friends think it's irrational. I don't, but then most people on the planet seem to drive, so maybe it is.
My friends think it's irrational. I don't, but then most people on the planet seem to drive, so maybe it is.
Driving a car.
During childhood and teenhood I had plenty of nightmares, during which I was forced to drive a car without licence. In the dream I had trouble reaching the pedals (on account of being a kid), always broke basic rules and was scared to death, that I might crash into someone or get stopped by police.
I have yet to take my driving lessons, but I hope that might cure my fear.
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During childhood and teenhood I had plenty of nightmares, during which I was forced to drive a car without licence. In the dream I had trouble reaching the pedals (on account of being a kid), always broke basic rules and was scared to death, that I might crash into someone or get stopped by police.
I have yet to take my driving lessons, but I hope that might cure my fear.
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Weird coincedencechozo_hybrid said:
I was gonna say heights but its abit boring and overdone, so ill go with my more unusual fear..
Whenever i'm driving, i'm absolutly terrified that a small animal or anything really will jump out into the road. It drives me mad, i'm always having to check that theres nothing around. I guess this stems from when i was quite young my mother drove over a cat by mistake and it was one of the most horrible experiances both of us has ever had, and i just don't wanna go through that again.
Whenever i'm driving, i'm absolutly terrified that a small animal or anything really will jump out into the road. It drives me mad, i'm always having to check that theres nothing around. I guess this stems from when i was quite young my mother drove over a cat by mistake and it was one of the most horrible experiances both of us has ever had, and i just don't wanna go through that again.
Sometimes at night when I'm trying to sleep and my eyes are closed I have a phobia that there's something in the room that can only kill me when my eyes are open and it's just waiting for me to open them so I try really hard not to open my eyes at all. I wouldn't have opened them anyway because I'm trying to sleep but when you think of it, it's really hard to intentionally keep your eyes closed. Especially when you know you'll die horribly if you open them for even a second.
Heights as well. I can't even think about a high drop without freaking out. When I had a university class on the 10th floor of a building I only ever went twice (what genius only gave the building two lifts, a flight of stairs that face a window and a banister that barely reaches my hip being the only think between you and certain death I do not know.) I can feel my toes curling just thinking about that.....Probably a bit more irrational in that i'm also scared of other people going near heights. I feel the urge to push them off and have to scream at them to get away before I freak out and do.
