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I wouldn't really call mine a phobia but I really do hate dry mud cracks, like in the picture below. If I was actually where they are, stood in them, I think I probably would go insane. I don't mind so much looking for them on Google for a minute, as long as I don't give them too much thought.
Ezakael I have a fear of flying also, but not a fear of heights. I've never flown and I never will. There's always sailing, you know.;)
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Well it's always harder getting on the ladder to go down; I freak when I get on the top of my roof and have to step off on that first step...my daughter holds the ladder but if i fall; I just fall on her....Quote:
Originally Posted by OrphanPip
I know what you mean: I like to swim; but I'm really afraid of deep water...but it's hard to swim when your belly touches the bottom:confused:
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Originally Posted by Veho
You're right sailing would be a good way to avoid flying :P. I've always been scared that the plane would crash for some reason.
Yeah, I'm always reminded of the saying "if God had wanted man to fly, he'd have given him wings". Aeroplanes just don't look natural up there, to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ezakael
I love to fly, whether commercially or in a little plane, and really enjoy being on the water as well. However, I have this weird thing about overnight ferries (and cruise ships) after reading about the Estonia disaster.Quote:
Ezakael I have a fear of flying also, but not a fear of heights. I've never flown and I never will. There's always sailing, you know.
It's not much a phobia as there being certain things I need to do whenever I'm on a boat like that, or even just a car ferry to Long Island. I always look for the life jackets and memorize the escape routes. I rarely sleep and have to sit on an upper, outer deck if it's an option.
I've never been, but I feel like Centrailia, PA, or any situation where the ground could open up and drop you into fire, would be creepy as anything.
Now that's a weird one. What puts you off about mud cracks?Quote:
Originally Posted by Veho
I guess it just is the imperfection of it all. If I was near the ones in the picture, I couldn't rest until I'd pulled off all the dry bits so that there were no cracks. I don't know, they just make me feel weird.Quote:
Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf
Mine's a pretty common one, I'm afraid ( ;) ). Needles. I hate, hate, hate, hate them. I seriously rethought getting married because, by state law, I had to have a blood test to get married. I wondered if marriage was worth it.
Flu shots? Hate them.
Quick story: When I had to get my childhood booster (immunization) shots, the nurses put me in a sort of straight jacket for kids because I would try to kick, scratch and bite them if I was otherwise unrestrained.
It's totally irrational too: I'm not scared of blood; I know shots don't hurt; I know all that stuff. . . but man. I don't do needles.
Toughen up.:p (I'm joking, of course). I'm sure needles can be scary. I guess we all have irrational fears. May I ask why you have to have a blood test to get married?:confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by The Comedian
It's not irrational, particularly when you find out these vampires were practicing on grapefruit right before they put a huge needle in you:eek:; I've seen them come at people from a 45 degree angle; you're getting pure bone at that:mad: I even hate fingersticks...usually, I tell them to let me do it to myself; nothing hurts when you do it to yourself.:nod:Quote:
Originally Posted by The Comedian
Water, I don't mind, I can at least feel the bottom most of the time. Ladders aren't fun, particularily because you have to walk backwards down them. I think that is the scary part.Quote:
Originally Posted by OrphanPip
I don't like going down stairs. Partially because I don't want to fall down, I'm scared of that. I like going up them, but they just look weird from above, so unstable. Especially spiral staircases.
It was a syphilis test -- easy now! The state in which I got married requires of everyone who wishes to receive a marriage license to have this blood test. I think it's an old, Puritanical state law that was just never taken off the books.Quote:
Originally Posted by Veho
I passed. :banana:
I'm not sure if I have any fears that amounts to actual phobias anymore. I used to be deathly afraid of tornadoes, but ever since I took a couple of severe weather classes in college, I find them more interesting now. :) At the moment my biggest fear is knives, or basically anything sharp. I feel like they're horrific accidents waiting to happen.
Maybe they want to get a good look at you and see if the two of you are attractive enough to have offspring:brow: Of course you passed.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Comedian
There are people walking around with all sorts of diseases...totally oblivious; I've never figured it out...Remember, they say Al Capone had neurosyphilis when he died, mean stuff.
So, do you avoid the kitchen or just bad neighborhoods:confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Plumbum
And the train station near school. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by soundofmusic
Is there a phobia for train stations?
I've got a phobia for ICT class and electronics class.
ICT because I sit next to this kid who was supposedly expelled.
Electronics because I am the only girl and we are in the shifty little room at the back of the school that doesn't seem to be attatched to anything.
I guess that isn't a phobia though. Only a fear.
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Oh...so claustrophobic! :p
Poor dear.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nikhar
I don't know if I am or if I'm just regaining asthma from childhood.
I was never scared of heights until last new years eve. I don't know how it snuck up on me...
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia and hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia. Well, not really!
Fear of immortality. Is there any medical term for this?
I came here Satan, to find your fears...Hahaha:reddevil::reddevil:Quote:
Originally Posted by Satan
Now, face them, yes, :grouphug: lets all lay hands on satan, banish his fear of long words and numbers like 666...
Now sister, we did not mean for you to put your hands on Brother Satan in that manner...:drool5: Well gracious, look where he has the mark of the devil, you say that was tatooed...Golly that must have hurt:ack2:
A phobia to being unforgiven, and another to being forgotten.
(sings) Always look on the bright, side of life!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Satan
Heights...even watching them on screen. Like the skyscraper scene in King Kong or the platform fight scene in Star Trek. Even though heights scare me (a lot) it's doesn't really make my life difficult, just hilarious at times :D
Also, it's not a phobia, but certain flying insects give me the screamin' heebie jeebies when they fly close to me. Moths (normal and giant) and those bugs that sit in trees and scream all day during summer...ugh...I only mention this because I had a giant moth encounter this evening, hehehe. The horror and skin crawlies are still fresh in my mind, lol! My family finds it hilarious and my mom always regrets not having a camera close by, seeing as I practically bounce off the walls trying to escape the little monsters!
I often have a phobia to barking dogs. The popular saying states that barking dogs never bite. Well, let me tell you it's a sovereign lie. Both dogs I've been attacked by have barked first, and bitten next. So don't you ever blindly confide in popular sayings. Experience in the field can prove them utterly wrong.
So now you're more of a cat person I suppose? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Maximilianus
Well no kidding, an agitated dog will attack you. If not, then you are pretty lucky.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maximilianus
I've got a fear of sleeping and weirdos from your class are coming into your camp cabin. I mean, how can you sleep when you should probably be on guard? They are strangers after all.
That would be a natural move... provided they don't bite :pQuote:
Originally Posted by TurquoiseSunset
True :nod:Quote:
Originally Posted by Heathcliff
When among strangers, sleeping has less priority http://smiles.kolobok.us/personal/triniti.gif ... :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Heathcliff
I'd rather live. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Maximilianus
Not too much, there isn't much in this world that scares me. Dolls do a bit, they just creep me out :blush:
As for something a bit more serious, I would have to say my biggest fear is failure. I'm kind of your classic over achiever type, and the idea of not making something that I put my mind to happen just terrifies me.
I know entirely what you mean. Especially in the dark afeter seeing a scary movie about them. Their lifeless eyes... I am beyond frightened of ventriloquist dummies. Also I don't like clowns either.Quote:
Originally Posted by mkhockenberry
Agreed a hundred percent. So when you aren't sure of something you take it as a big joke. That's what I do.Quote:
As for something a bit more serious, I would have to say my biggest fear is failure. I'm kind of your classic over achiever type, and the idea of not making something that I put my mind to happen just terrifies me.
Unfortunately (maybe) for me I'm not an over-achiever as I used to be like a decade ago, but I often experience the horrors of failure more times than wanted or needed (maybe because I'm not an over-achiever anymore). Either way, be it an over-achiever or not, failure is always there to give one the worst creeps, I believe.Quote:
Originally Posted by mkhockenberry
When you see something human-like, not alive, the feeling that it may gather a life of its own is quite :yikes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Heathcliff
And... does it work? http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/jus...C_thinking.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Heathcliff
Well, when you mess it up, you could just as well say you weren't trying. Spares a little humiliation. And then if you succeed you look like a genius.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maximilianus
Like how I'm not cool, calm and collected; I stress about everything, except emergency situations. However I have a lot more fun playing games. :lol:
Sounds like a very well warmed-up method http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/to_clue.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Heathcliff
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Originally Posted by Heathcliff
Good question. I love to cook and I use small knives for cooking and whatnot, so I don't necessarily avoid the kitchen unless big butcher knives are involved.Quote:
Originally Posted by soundofmusic
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Originally Posted by Plumbum
I, on the other hand, have never feared a knife. I love them all in every shape and possible size, even more when they are big, and swords even more than knives, but I understand the feeling. It's quite scary to see what happens if you have an accident by handling them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Plumbum
I do not fear knives, I don't think. However I'm paranoid about knife safety.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maximilianus
I think my mum drilled it into me. :p
I like katanas especially, they look awesome.
Don't know if it has a formal name but I've got a phobia of holding and sucking ice lolly sticks. Makes me gag. Weird or more common than I think?
Safety is always healthy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Heathcliff
Me too. Like I could use one right now for beheading purposes :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Heathcliff
Maybe that's something like a repulsion. I think a phobia would be a more serious condition. Not sure though.Quote:
Originally Posted by janesmith
Ouchy. Remind me not to get on your bad side. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Maximilianus
I like looking at them. :p
I don't think you could :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Heathcliff
I like wielding them http://smiles.kolobok.us/rpg/assassin.gif (not exactly katanas but the closest emoticon I could find :p)Quote:
Originally Posted by Heathcliff