Your Weird Phobias?

[Starbird]

What are they?

For me:
- The texture of wool. Ugh...that coarse feeling, just the thought of it makes my skin crawl.

- Deep dark water I can't see the bottom of. Even in games where I *know* there is nothing down there I simply cannot swim down into it with my eyes open. If some massive creature suddenly did rise out of it and attack me, I would probably have some sort of nervous attack.

- Being stuck in a situation where people want me to do something important, assume I can do it - but actually I have no idea. This happens in games often, and it really bothers me :|.

How about you?

 

[Someone Depressing]

The idea of immortality, or even of a Heaven or Hell.

I find much more comfort in the theory of cessation of existence. I'm much more contend to not exist, than to exist forever.

 

[Thaluikhain]

- Deep dark water I can't see the bottom of. Even in games where I *know* there is nothing down there I simply cannot swim down into it with my eyes open. If some massive creature suddenly did rise out of it and attack me, I would probably have some sort of nervous attack.

Oh yeah, I get that as well. I'd be a terrible mermaid. Also, I don't have a tail.

 

[DANEgerous]

When I am in the fish section of a pet store I think they are all going to shatter and kill me somehow. I also used to think dark was literally harmful as so many kids feared the dark.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

Mine are pretty common ones...

1. Spiders.
2. Heights.
3. Public speaking.
4. Murky water that I can't see the bottom of.
5. People looking over my shoulder.

 

[Colour Scientist]

My only legitimate phobia is cows/bulls.


I've lost count of how many times I've posted this on the forums. XD

 

[Mimic]

Death? I mean I don't think about it that much but sometimes there's something about lying in a dark quite room that makes my own mortality smack me around the face.

Spiders freak me out, and more weirdly, there's something about phonecalls that I can't stand.

Nothing too odd there I don't think. Probably the weirdest I know of was mum telling me her work colleage was afraid of bananas - that's probably the weirdest one I've heard.

 

[DefunctTheory]

As I've stated in other threads (Probably as many times as Colour has), I have mastrophobia, which I acquired after a particularly devastating life experience.

Fun Fun.

 

[Something Amyss]

My phobias are all pretty common. Now, if we want to go into obsession/compulsion territory....

My only legitimate phobia is cows/bulls.

I blame Dennis Rodman. Dude was really scary.

 

[EeveeElectro]

I don't like touching people's belongings (I'd make a shite burglar) especially wallets or credit cards. Some customers try put their cards in my hand when paying at work and it freaks me out, I nearly drop it like it's some big, big spider. I don't even know why, maybe I'm scared of breaking them?
I also don't go near other people's dirty laundry and hate touching rubbish or eaten food. I don't like laying in other peoples beds or using their pillows. I can't use a duvet cover unless it's completely fresh either. Seeing peas and peppers on a plate genuinely angers me and I always worry I'm gonna swallow one by accident.

I always have to wash my own dishes and cups before I use them, doesn't matter if they've been washed 50 times and sterilised, I need to know it's properly clean. This may be why I get poorly so often.

I'm a strange person and a pain in the arse to live with, that's for sure.

 

[Poetic Nova]

I have a fear for insects, not so much for the smaller ones but most creep me out.
Does it count that I panic when someone touches me without permission?

 

[Twintix]

Mold.

As soon as I walk into a room, I can tell if there's something moldy in there. And if it is, I'll turn right around and get the fuck out of there.

 

[DementedSheep]

Deep dark water is pretty normal. I'm not bothered by games with it and I don't think I'm bad enough for it to really be phobic but I am very uncomfortable in water I can't see through. It's kinda funny, both my brother and dad are very unconformable with heights but love water. My mum and me are completely fine with heights (hell I like heights. I think the part of my brain that gives you healthy dose of fear for self preservation with heights is broken) but don't like water.

I don't like the dark but I'm not too bad (I can still function just fine and won't avoid it) unless it's the hallway. Dark + confined space or too many horror movies? I don't know. It's irrational, what is the likelihood of there being serial killer or something in one the side-rooms of the hallway? If someone got into the house the dog would probably hear them anyway. It seems to specifically be the hallway in my own house for some reason. I've gotten better with that one at least since I started forcing myself to walk down it without turning on the lights. This is probably related to not liking water I can't see through and why horror is more effective to me if it creates tension through sound while gore and monsters tend not to work. It's not being able to see when something out to get me that's the issue.

I have freak outs of the possibility of having cancer but I'm too embarrassed to actually get checked so there is that.

That stupidest and most harmful thing is I don't like people seeing my work or anything I've made to the point where it's ridicules. Nobody sees what I draw and paint and I've almost failed courses not because I didn't do the project but because I didn't want to hand it in so handed it in late. I have to go through this stupid mental struggle with this every single time I have to hand in piece of work. Someone who I don't even know will have to read it and might...I don't know, laugh at how shit it is? The horror! This shouldn't be an issue but it is. It also means I don't get anyone to spell check for me.

 

[Black Reaper]

Medical Operations, whenever someone mentions one, or i see stitches or something, my stomach starts hurting, i really hope i don't have to get operated when i get older
This is also why i don't like sterilizing my pets, whenever i look at the wound, my stomach starts hurting

 

[jademunky]

- Deep dark water I can't see the bottom of. Even in games where I *know* there is nothing down there I simply cannot swim down into it with my eyes open. If some massive creature suddenly did rise out of it and attack me, I would probably have some sort of nervous attack.

This is the reason I cannot play certain games at all. It takes everything I have just to gather up the nerve to fight the Hydras in Dark Souls 1 and I cannot bring myself to fight that Sea Serpent boss in "Shadow of the Colossus." (I have to ask someone else to fight it for me!)

Oddly enough, I am pretty good about large bodies of water in the real world.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

Midgets give me The Fear.

Don't judge me.

 

[FirstNameLastName]

Wasps, or virtually any flying, stinging insects. The combination of agility, speed and pain makes them rather terrifying.

Death? I mean I don't think about it that much but sometimes there's something about lying in a dark quite room that makes my own mortality smack me around the face.

Spiders freak me out, and more weirdly, there's something about phonecalls that I can't stand.

Nothing too odd there I don't think. Probably the weirdest I know of was mum telling me her work colleage was afraid of bananas - that's probably the weirdest one I've heard.

Strange, i likewise rather hate phone calls (not helped by the fact that I'm about to have one of the most painful phone conversations imaginable, either today or tomorrow).

I guess it's the combination of many bad aspects of communication rolled into one. Aside from not being able to read body language, it always seems more rushed than normal conversations, not to mention or expensive, less private, less convenient.

 

[cdemares]

Dying of an embolism from an IV - The most terrifying thing ever.
Crapping my pants - I have an intestinal condition and this has happened, so it's not that weird.