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Why am I paranoid, SE++?

Wombat!!Wombat!! Registered User regular
edited July 2008 in Social Entropy++
I have a question for you all. I constantly think that I see things move on my desk, or outside. It is almost always something small, although sometimes I think I see a person, or a larger...thing, out in the woods. Is it my fear of spiders which produces this illusion, or am I just crazy?

I was once deathly afraid of bigfoot, so I think that that may be the source of some of my outdoor illusions.

Alternate topic: Irrational fears or paranoias.
Clock spider not allowed.

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  • Bloods EndBloods End Blade of Tyshalle Punch dimensionRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Because I am actively trying to kill you.

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  • FandyienFandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Are you high

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    i have no irrational fears

    except when creepy stories threads pop up in which case sleep does not come easy

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  • SzechuanosaurusSzechuanosaurus Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited July 2008
    Bigfoot is a fucking parasite. Sucked the Henderson's dry. I don't think it's paranoia to be concerned he might force himself on your family one day.

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  • SilmarilSilmaril Mr Ha Ha Hapless. Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Its not paranoia...

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  • vsovevsove ....also yes. Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    well honestly clock spider isn't an irrational fear.

    anyone who doesn't have a healthy terror at spiders the size of a fucking clock

    well i just don't understand.

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  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    I am currently moving the things on your desk.

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  • fightinfilipinofightinfilipino Angry as Hell #BLMRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    this thread lead me to check out whatever happened to the band Garbage.

    did you know that Shirley Manson has been cast to be a regular on the Terminator TV series? i did not know this.

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  • RuckusRuckus Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    I once told a friend I had an irrational fear of stupid people.

    He responded by saying that my fear didn't make sense.

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  • ProlegomenaProlegomena Frictionless Spinning The VoidRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    op thats a nice shirt you're wearing

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  • UsagiUsagi Nah Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    I sometimes have an irrational fear that spiders are crawling on me - usually it's just that I've shed a hair and its tickling me, but when it really is a spider I justifiably freak out.

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  • RuckusRuckus Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Usagi wrote: »
    I sometimes have an irrational fear that spiders are crawling on me - usually it's just that I've shed a hair and its tickling me, but when it really is a spider I justifiably freak out.

    Oh god this but with woodticks.

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  • Wombat!!Wombat!! Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    op thats a nice shirt you're wearing

    Thanks! I got it on sale at JCpe--oh shit!

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  • vsovevsove ....also yes. Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    i was lying on my couch yesterday doing some writing.

    suddenly i thought i felt something crawling up my leg. usually it isn't anything but i looked and holy fuck it was a giant goddamn spider.

    it is no longer of this world.

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  • CasperCasper __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2008
    I am afraid of flying on a commercial airplane.

    I can fly on C130s and helicopters with no problem.

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    I'm paranoid too

    I'd suggest we'd form some kind of club but I don't trust your motives

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  • IskanderIskander Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Ruckus wrote: »
    I once told a friend I had an irrational fear of stupid people.

    He responded by saying that my fear didn't make sense.

    Did you then run away screaming?

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  • Wombat!!Wombat!! Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Usagi wrote: »
    I sometimes have an irrational fear that spiders are crawling on me - usually it's just that I've shed a hair and its tickling me, but when it really is a spider I justifiably freak out.

    Some times I feel like tiny spiders are crawling all over my feet when I try to sleep. It is worse in sleeping bags, and after I actually look down there to reassure myself that it is spider-free I don't feel it any more.

    Or I need to stop doing meth.

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  • SilmarilSilmaril Mr Ha Ha Hapless. Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Iskander wrote: »
    Ruckus wrote: »
    I once told a friend I had an irrational fear of stupid people.

    He responded by saying that my fear didn't make sense.

    Did you then run away screaming?

    He's right.

    There is nothing irrational about a fear of the stupid.

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  • ProlegomenaProlegomena Frictionless Spinning The VoidRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    so this one time my mum left her bedroom window open and there was a tree right next to it and when she woke up her bed was full of earwigs

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  • UsagiUsagi Nah Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Ruckus wrote: »
    Usagi wrote: »
    I sometimes have an irrational fear that spiders are crawling on me - usually it's just that I've shed a hair and its tickling me, but when it really is a spider I justifiably freak out.

    Oh god this but with woodticks.

    Oh god something else to think about crawling on me.

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  • mastmanmastman Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    I read the beginning of The Stand on a day when I spent 8 hours in airports and on planes. It is about an epidemic, and the symptoms were similar to a cold or flu and the "tell" that someone had the disease and passed it on to others was a cough or sneeze. And here I was sitting in planes and airport terminals surrounded by tons of people.

    Every sneeze and cough I got a little more freaked out.

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  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited July 2008
    smoke less weed.

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  • FandyienFandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    so this one time my mum left her bedroom window open and there was a tree right next to it and when she woke up her bed was full of earwigs

    So do earwigs actually infiltrate ears or what

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  • fightinfilipinofightinfilipino Angry as Hell #BLMRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Usagi wrote: »
    Ruckus wrote: »
    Usagi wrote: »
    I sometimes have an irrational fear that spiders are crawling on me - usually it's just that I've shed a hair and its tickling me, but when it really is a spider I justifiably freak out.

    Oh god this but with woodticks.

    Oh god something else to think about crawling on me.

    growing up in the more woodsy areas of the northeast and having pets makes you watch out for deer ticks constantly.

    i'd finished up mowing the lawn at my family's house one day, felt something itching on my leg, and looked down to see a nice old tick seeking a home.

    i flicked it onto my lawnmower's still-hot exhaust.

    i fucking hate ticks.

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  • UsagiUsagi Nah Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Usagi wrote: »
    Ruckus wrote: »
    Usagi wrote: »
    I sometimes have an irrational fear that spiders are crawling on me - usually it's just that I've shed a hair and its tickling me, but when it really is a spider I justifiably freak out.

    Oh god this but with woodticks.

    Oh god something else to think about crawling on me.

    growing up in the more woodsy areas of the northeast and having pets makes you watch out for deer ticks constantly.

    i'd finished up mowing the lawn at my family's house one day, felt something itching on my leg, and looked down to see a nice old tick seeking a home.

    i flicked it onto my lawnmower's still-hot exhaust.

    i fucking hate ticks.

    I've lived in a woodsy part of CT for five years and have yet to be bitten by a tick (that I know of), but half the people I work with have Lyme's so I know its a possibility

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  • ProlegomenaProlegomena Frictionless Spinning The VoidRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    no but there was one in a head of broccoli the other day

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  • fightinfilipinofightinfilipino Angry as Hell #BLMRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Usagi wrote: »
    Usagi wrote: »
    Ruckus wrote: »
    Usagi wrote: »
    I sometimes have an irrational fear that spiders are crawling on me - usually it's just that I've shed a hair and its tickling me, but when it really is a spider I justifiably freak out.

    Oh god this but with woodticks.

    Oh god something else to think about crawling on me.

    growing up in the more woodsy areas of the northeast and having pets makes you watch out for deer ticks constantly.

    i'd finished up mowing the lawn at my family's house one day, felt something itching on my leg, and looked down to see a nice old tick seeking a home.

    i flicked it onto my lawnmower's still-hot exhaust.

    i fucking hate ticks.

    I've lived in a woodsy part of CT for five years and have yet to be bitten by a tick (that I know of), but half the people I work with have Lyme's so I know its a possibility

    that's where i grew up, near the Simsbury/Granby/Bloomfield area.

    Lyme disease coming from Lyme, CT didn't help my hate of ticks any.

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  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Fandyien wrote: »
    so this one time my mum left her bedroom window open and there was a tree right next to it and when she woke up her bed was full of earwigs

    So do earwigs actually infiltrate ears or what

    actually, they went for her wig. backward assed bugs.

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  • UsagiUsagi Nah Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Usagi wrote: »
    Usagi wrote: »
    Ruckus wrote: »
    Usagi wrote: »
    I sometimes have an irrational fear that spiders are crawling on me - usually it's just that I've shed a hair and its tickling me, but when it really is a spider I justifiably freak out.

    Oh god this but with woodticks.

    Oh god something else to think about crawling on me.

    growing up in the more woodsy areas of the northeast and having pets makes you watch out for deer ticks constantly.

    i'd finished up mowing the lawn at my family's house one day, felt something itching on my leg, and looked down to see a nice old tick seeking a home.

    i flicked it onto my lawnmower's still-hot exhaust.

    i fucking hate ticks.

    I've lived in a woodsy part of CT for five years and have yet to be bitten by a tick (that I know of), but half the people I work with have Lyme's so I know its a possibility

    that's where i grew up, near the Simsbury/Granby/Bloomfield area.

    Lyme disease coming from Lyme, CT didn't help my hate of ticks any.

    Rotten Groton, all the way

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  • fightinfilipinofightinfilipino Angry as Hell #BLMRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Koshian wrote: »
    I have an irrational fear of worms/grubs/centipedes/milipedes/that kind of thing

    the worst bugs are probably black flies

    just for their sheer numbers and annoyingness

    houseflies.

    as soon as i even hear a housefly all my attention goes to hunting it down and killing it dead. i will literally drop everything i'm doing at that moment.

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    god I hate bugs

    burn the swamps

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  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Casper wrote: »
    I am afraid of flying on a commercial airplane.

    I can fly on C130s and helicopters with no problem.
    Well yeah, you can't hear that fucking chatty bitch on a C130.

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  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Koshian wrote: »
    I have an irrational fear of worms/grubs/centipedes/milipedes/that kind of thing

    the worst bugs are probably black flies

    just for their sheer numbers and annoyingness

    houseflies.

    as soon as i even hear a housefly all my attention goes to hunting it down and killing it dead. i will literally drop everything i'm doing at that moment.
    Oh man, do you turn on all the lights to try and either lure it towards them or just to get the shadow? I get crazy like that.

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  • fightinfilipinofightinfilipino Angry as Hell #BLMRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Koshian wrote: »
    Koshian wrote: »
    I have an irrational fear of worms/grubs/centipedes/milipedes/that kind of thing

    the worst bugs are probably black flies

    just for their sheer numbers and annoyingness

    houseflies.

    as soon as i even hear a housefly all my attention goes to hunting it down and killing it dead. i will literally drop everything i'm doing at that moment.

    but houseflies don't bite

    they just vomit digestive juice all over your foods and slurp it up, all spreading e.coli and shit.
    horseflies and biting flies also fucking suuuck

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  • fightinfilipinofightinfilipino Angry as Hell #BLMRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Mysst wrote: »
    Koshian wrote: »
    I have an irrational fear of worms/grubs/centipedes/milipedes/that kind of thing

    the worst bugs are probably black flies

    just for their sheer numbers and annoyingness

    houseflies.

    as soon as i even hear a housefly all my attention goes to hunting it down and killing it dead. i will literally drop everything i'm doing at that moment.
    Oh man, do you turn on all the lights to try and either lure it towards them or just to get the shadow? I get crazy like that.

    that's a good idea...

    err, not exactly, but i will close all the doors in the room to block off any escape routes. i'll turn off any TVs or anything else making noise, too.

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  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    I've got fruit flies that just won't go away. I can't find their breeding ground anywhere and it's pissing me off.

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  • VisionOfClarityVisionOfClarity Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Mysst wrote: »
    I've got fruit flies that just won't go away. I can't find their breeding ground anywhere and it's pissing me off.

    My mom used to have a fruit fly problem. Get a mason jar and put vinegar in the bottom. Then make a paper funnel and put it in the jar but don't let it touch the bottom. Put tape around the paper funnel to tape it to the jar. The flies fly in and drown.

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  • NerindilNerindil Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    You're not paranoid, OP.

    You're prepared.

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  • BoredGamerBoredGamer Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Face in the window/mirror.

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