Irrational fears

Zombies Tossed My Salad!

So what every day things are you scared of? I'm not talking spiders or what ever, but things that people do every day. Me, I don't like those pop top soup can fruit can lids. I nearly cut my finger off with one of them a while back, and now I can barely open them.

World as Myth

I am petrified of driving.

babyeatingjesus

The ocean.

I refuse to even go to coastal towns because I am so afraid of the ocean and the things that live in it.

Whales specifically. Even more than sharks, whales freak me out.

Meissnerd

I'm actually scared of a lot of things. I have a lot of anxiety, but I'm not going to get into that.

But one of my biggest fears is driving, too.

Green

Getting a haircut

Seriously, you never know when you're going to get the barber who just fucking snaps and shoves those scissors in your eye

mully

1) talking to people on the phone, yet, not on voice chat.
2) spiders.
3) puke.
4) finishing art. -_-

The Otaku Suppository

I feel threatened by change.

Much like the Republican party and splinter forums.

ohoho

Zombies Tossed My Salad!

mully wrote:

1) talking to people on the phone, yet, not on voice chat.
2) spiders.
3) puke.

oh man. I hate phones. Thats why I text every one.

<3

I'm afraid of being a failure.

also public speaking.

mully

ZeroZero wrote:

mully wrote:

1) talking to people on the phone, yet, not on voice chat.
2) spiders.
3) puke.

oh man. I hate phones. Thats why I text every one.

yup, same here.
my phone is all fancy for texting/imaging purposes only

Remington

ZeroZero wrote:

mully wrote:

1) talking to people on the phone, yet, not on voice chat.
2) spiders.
3) puke.

oh man. I hate phones. Thats why I text every one.

Another one for phones.

I'm so awkward on the phone.

Garlic Bread

mully wrote:

1) talking to people on the phone, yet, not on voice chat.

I hate talking on the phone/voice chat. I have no problem talking to people to their face, or typing to people, but I just can't stand using the phone

ShimSham

My job often requires me (during the spring and summer mostly) to crawl under houses that are on raised foundations.

I take every chance I get to get out of having to do that, I don't mind getting all dirty and having to trench under the house and whatnot, and despite the heat it's usually pretty cool under there.

It's just being unable to even sit up. You're either lying on your stomach or your back and have to crawl over pipes and cables and have found more than enough snakes under there.

But it's just the shortness of vertical space, I start getting short of breath and almost in a state of panic.

So yeah I try to avoid that but it's not always unavoidable.

babyeatingjesus

I've been on a massive zombie buzz lately because I wake up in the night with my heart racing because of zombie nightmares.

most of the time I've even found a safe refuge with some friends in my dream, but I'm so jazzed up from the adrenaline rush of dealing with the shambling undead that I wake up anyways, heart racing, unable to go back to sleep.

JM Wyatt

public water fountains, just cause I've seen the pipes that lead to em. they are in such dirty shape I always thing the water is like contaminated

Captain Cthulhu

big nasty bugs freak me out, they're just gross is all. but I don't know, not much else...
well I'm kind of a hypochondriac (sp?) but thanks to webMD I'm able to check new "symptoms" I have as soon as I wake up in the morning everyday.

naporeon

Keith wrote:

mully wrote:

1) talking to people on the phone, yet, not on voice chat.

I hate talking on the phone/voice chat. I have no problem talking to people to their face, or typing to people, but I just can't stand using the phone

Man, me too, Keith. h5.

As for my irrational fears...deep water. Clowns creep me out, too.

Also, from The Wasp Factory...babies and flies. That is all.

Critical

I fucking hate driving. Been in 3 accidents, none caused by me. Someone coming in 1 MPH too fast into a stop sign makes my asshole slam shut.

Phones are evil, as well.

Trillian

I randomly become almost petrified with very strange anxiety. I'm almost convinced at times that I'll see ghosts in a mirror or a serial rapist trying to get in through the window. This only happens when my mind has a chance to wander and think back to all the things I've watched on TV and all the murder mystery novels I've read. I know it's stupid and completely irrational but I can't help it.

rockmonkey

driving at night. I hate that crap when there is a car coming toward you and you're on a hill, BAM right in your eyes. Plus there are a lot of deer around here, I see them on the edge of the road barely visible in the edges of the headlights.

...but DON'T look at them for too long because if you do you're not paying attention to the road infront of you and one might be running out to stop in the middle and kill you by throwing its body against your windshield

Redeemer

Didn't we just have one of these topics?

Anyway,

clowns
dolls
mannequins

heights

squids and octopi

Vorus

World As Myth wrote:

I am petrified of driving.

Seriously, screw driving

CrossBuster

Green wrote:

Getting a haircut

Seriously, you never know when you're going to get the barber who just fucking snaps and shoves those scissors in your eye

Or your ear. For whatever reason, that scares me a whole lot more.

Oden

Faricazy

I guess I'm a bit of a claustrophobic

I don't mind small spaces, but when I can't take a big breath or my arms are really limited in mobility I get anxious

Oden

I'm not actualyl scared of spiders I just posted that to scare the people in this thread who are.

World as Myth

every day things, guys
specifically not spiders
gosh

Zombies Tossed My Salad!

Here's one for you. I'm scared of Wal Mart. Thats right. Every time I go in there I have a panic attack. I don't know what it is, and it's only there.

Redeemer

Also whenever I'm at the dentist I'm terrified that he'll slip and totally fucking cut my mouth open

ShimSham

Trillian wrote:

I randomly become almost petrified with very strange anxiety. I'm almost convinced at times that I'll see ghosts in a mirror or a serial rapist trying to get in through the window. This only happens when my mind has a chance to wander and think back to all the things I've watched on TV and all the murder mystery novels I've read. I know it's stupid and completely irrational but I can't help it.

Ooooh there's this window in the room across from mine that's always open and you can see through to my back yard. There's a utility light that lights up a good portion of the yard.

Every night I open my door before I go to sleep and I see through to that window and I can see outside because we never shut the blinds.

Every friggin' time I'll look at it and think I see someone looking in or something. Just mind playing tricks on me.

rockmonkey

My apartment is two stories and when I turn off all the lights at night and am the last to go up stairs (or even worse alone in the house) I start out walking but before halfway I start running up the stairs. I don't know I just get this creepy feeling.

I've living in lots older houses and I can literally sit in a pitch black room staring into nothing for hours with my mind wandering and not get scared but for whatever reason in this apartment I can't handle going up those stairs in the dark.

The_Indigo_Apocalypse

The hallway in my house.

Also: Reading outloud. I sometimes stutter like crazy because I can't talk as fast as I'm reading the text. Then I get nervous, and it gets worse.

Coldbrand

mully wrote:

2) spiders.

<3

Faricazy wrote:

I guess I'm a bit of a claustrophobic

I don't mind small spaces, but when I can't take a big breath or my arms are really limited in mobility I get anxious

Yea I don't mind tight spaces by myself, but if I'm trapped in small spaces with people I don't know I feel really uncomfortable.

Mendoza

ordering food on the phone

Redeemer

Also I read this story about this crazy guy who dressed up as a clown and would walk through neighborhoods at night and just stare into the open windows of people's homes

So I never ever ever ever open windows or leave one uncovered at night

The_Indigo_Apocalypse

rockmonkey wrote:

My apartment is two stories and when I turn off all the lights at night and am the last to go up stairs (or even worse alone in the house) I start out walking but before halfway I start running up the stairs. I don't know I just get this creepy feeling.

I've living in lots older houses and I can literally sit in a pitch black room staring into nothing for hours with my mind wandering and not get scared but for whatever reason in this apartment I can't handle going up those stairs in the dark.

That's what my hallway feels like!

Whenever I'm the last one up, I end up having to run through the hallway to get to my room. I can never just walk through to the end.

ShimSham

Oden wrote:

I'm not actualyl scared of spiders I just posted that to scare the people in this thread who are.

Spiders don't bother me, I kill them as my job.

It's spider webs and getting caught up in them that I absolutely hate. I feel like I'm covered in them.

babyeatingjesus

ShimSham wrote:

Oden wrote:

I'm not actualyl scared of spiders I just posted that to scare the people in this thread who are.

Spiders don't bother me, I kill them as my job.

It's spider webs and getting caught up in them that I absolutely hate. I feel like I'm covered in them.

you are.

right now!

rockmonkey

I don't care for taking a shower at night in an empty house.

Zombies Tossed My Salad!

Redeemer wrote:

Also I read this story about this crazy guy who dressed up as a clown and would walk through neighborhoods at night and just stare into the open windows of people's homes

So I never ever ever ever open windows or leave one uncovered at night

This makes me glad I live on the 5th floor.