unsinkable Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Parking garages. Why are the ceilings so low?!?! I'm ducking INSIDE my car. I know it's an illusion, but geeze. And they are either damp OR freezing cold OR horribly hot. And the stairwells smell. Disgusting. And the elevators are like a nightmare...claustrophobia-inducing anxiety and slasher film scenes come to mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaithManor Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Snakes. Any snake. There is no snake on earth that I want to let live. Flamethrower, shoulder launch bazooka, hand grenades, nuclear bomb....I barely, just barely survive the lizard ds keeps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unsinkable Posted May 19, 2014 Author Share Posted May 19, 2014 Snakes. Any snake. There is no snake on earth that I want to let live. Flamethrower, shoulder launch bazooka, hand grenades, nuclear bomb....I barely, just barely survive the lizard ds keeps. Didn't even need to read this one. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 I have a somewhat normal irrational fear of spiders. I have a strange, completely irrational fear of The Great Blue Hole, and the idea of underwater caves and sinkholes creeps me out. One of the kids was watching a documentary about some divers exploring an underwater cave, and I couldn't watch. I read about an underwater lake recently and that gave me heart palpitations too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jelbe5 Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Spiders here too. Actually anything with more than six legs (shudder). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYoungerMrsWarde Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 All of my fears are completely rational and justified, thank you very much! :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happi duck Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Wind turbines!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Phone calls and business meetings! UGHHHHH! I have a conference call coming up and I've been hyperventilating all morning. Blah!!!! I think I also have an irrational fear of getting caught up on my work. Every time I am in danger of shortening my to-do list, I get all panicky and have to switch to some unproductive activity such as jigzone.com. Though the backlog makes me crazy too. Despite outward appearances, a serious battle is being constantly waged over here.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Common Core? Oh wait, you said "irrational fear," not "fear of the irrational." Sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibraryLover Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Deep, deep tank water (aquariums), and extreme heights. Cliffs without guard rails. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Critterfixer Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Grasshoppers and dead trees under water. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kewb Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Spiders and insects. And Rollercoasters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GinaPagnato Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Any animals at night (except my dog). The stray cat that I see running around the lot next door during the day is perfectly fine...almost cute. But at night? FREAKS ME OUT!!! Plus, raccoons, opossums, essentially any nocturnal creature. <<shudder>> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Spiders and high bridges. I lived in a city with two very high bridges (international shipping lanes). I drove over them exactly once - when we moved there. I could ride over them, just couldn't drive over them. I really tried to get the courage to do it. Every few months I'd psych myself up to do it, then I would hear about an accident on the bridge and I'd lose all desire to try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Critterfixer Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Watching my children go out the edge of a cliff. Even with DH. I can't look. I have visions of them falling and screaming and I can't deal with it. It's one of those places where having a very vivid imagination is a curse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsMommy Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Parking garages. Why are the ceilings so low?!?! I'm ducking INSIDE my car. I know it's an illusion, but geeze. And they are either damp OR freezing cold OR horribly hot. And the stairwells smell. Disgusting. And the elevators are like a nightmare...claustrophobia-inducing anxiety and slasher film scenes come to mind. I duck inside my car in parking garages, too! Especially at one mall near us. My husband laughs whenever we go there, because I'm in the passenger seat, cowering so I don't "hit my head!" Driving near water. Especially if it involves backing up, say near a pond. I can't do it, and I have to close my eyes if I'm in a car when somebody else is doing it. It's especially irrational, because I have no idea where this fear comes from at all! On a related note, bridges over water. I guess I just have a weird thing about water when I'm in a vehicle. Why I choose to live in a place that has lots of rivers, I'm sure I don't understand! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 I can't even type centipede without shuddering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
73349 Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Butterflies, moths, birds, and other flying things. They have no sense of personal space. Go away, you creepy things! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2jjka Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Bats - flappy, swooping, creepy, rabies-infested rodents with wings (and yes, I know they aren't really rodents...but in my mind they are just flying mice with fangs and rabies.) If one ever gets in my house...I'm moving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Butterflies, moths, birds, and other flying things. They have no sense of personal space. Go away, you creepy things! Except for white hawks? ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paige Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Driving through cliffs w/ signs warning to watch for falling rocks. Why are there always big boulders on the shoulder and how come I never have seen any fall? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Sharing my irrational fears online because as you know, any criminal mastermind or spy organization could use that when torturing me for information about the WTM forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom@shiloh Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 I shouldn't have read any of these. I kept thinking, "Me too!" I now realize that I have many, many, irrational fears. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dory Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 heights, mice, and unexpected touch. Any of those will either leave me vibrating like a leaf, or screaming like a little girl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
73349 Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Except for white hawks? ;) I do like ducks, penguins and birds of prey, including hawks and owls. I've not had them get too close. It's the smaller fluttery icky things that need to back up! I appreciate the things that eat worse things. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Making phone calls Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freesia Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 mice gas station attendants (weird, I know) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Buckin' Longhorn Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Talking on the telephone. Stupid, I know, but YIKES! I hate it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Buckin' Longhorn Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Making phone calls I didn't see this before. I see I am not alone, but I can't stand making phone calls or answering the phone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moxie Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Big water. Standing next to the Ohio River gave me chills. So big and still looking but so deceptive. Shudder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myfunnybunch Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 I have visions of them falling and screaming and I can't deal with it. It's one of those places where having a very vivid imagination is a curse. Me too, fear of my children falling off of something high. I was not afraid of my children falling until I was pregnant with our 4th child and I dreamed that my dh dropped our third child down a ten-story concrete stairwell. I have been irrationally terrified of my children, and particularly the child I dreamed about, falling. I am also irrationally afraid that there will be an earthquake while I am stopped at an intersection under an overpass. Cat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kentuckymom Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Even the mention of the word "snake" makes me jump a couple feet in the air. When we visit the reptile house at the zoo, I walk in the middle of the hallway and avoid looking at the cages. I don't care if most of them are harmless and they're an important part of the ecosystem. As far as I'm concerned, they are all evil :). Also, I wouldn't say I'm afraid, but I really don't like talking on the phone to people I don't know well. I would so much rather send an email or a text. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belacqua Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Rabbits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaithManor Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Even the mention of the word "snake" makes me jump a couple feet in the air. When we visit the reptile house at the zoo, I walk in the middle of the hallway and avoid looking at the cages. I don't care if most of them are harmless and they're an important part of the ecosystem. As far as I'm concerned, they are all evil :). Also, I wouldn't say I'm afraid, but I really don't like talking on the phone to people I don't know well. I would so much rather send an email or a text. You actually go INSIDE the reptile house????? :svengo: Not me! I stand outside and contemplate ways to end the life of the residents of the building. You remember that nasty snake that got loose a few years ago from the Zoo in NYC??? Somebody even tweeted on behalf of the darn thing. Nah....give the residents 24 hrs. to get out of town, and then level the place. Have some standards for pities sake! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seasider Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Echoing the bridges over stretches of water. Not quite an irrational fear, back when I had three kids in car seats and drove them on a daily basis. I would mentally rehearse the unbuckling order and escape strategy on every approach. I have a bit of a fear of heights, which I didn't realize I had until the first time I jumped off a dive boat over a site 80' deep in crystal clear water. Took my breath away. I have since found that I need guard rails at high places to feel comfortable and while I love to fly, and look down and around when I do, I get nauseated if I let my thoughts dwell on the fact that there's thousands of feet of nothing but air between my backside and the hard ground. Like all mothers, I do dread something awful happening to my kids. But that's not irrational, and I don't let it rule me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seasider Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Rabbits. Really? Do you know how you came to be afraid of them? Did you have a bad experience with a malicious rabbit? (I'm not making fun, I am genuinely curious.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephanier.1765 Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 MRIs. I was hospitalized a week ago and had to have one. Tears were rolling down my face. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seasider Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 I have a somewhat normal irrational fear of spiders. I have a strange, completely irrational fear of The Great Blue Hole, and the idea of underwater caves and sinkholes creeps me out. One of the kids was watching a documentary about some divers exploring an underwater cave, and I couldn't watch. I read about an underwater lake recently and that gave me heart palpitations too. The Blue Hole has fascinated me for years, but that lake - that is amazing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairfarmhand Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Bridges. Weird I know. This started after that freeway collapsed into the Mississippi. Closed in spaces like caves just horrify me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ananda Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 I have three. 1. Anything ob/gyn related. When I was pregnant with my two boys, I felt like I was walking around with a scarlet "slut" written on my forehead. I have never had a pelvic exam. I pretend that area of my body doesn't exist. 2. Psychatrists. I immediately think they are going to lock me up, drug me & lobotomize me. 3. Using the telephone. I used to only use the phone to chit-chat with my family or husband or for business. Then I had my husband take over business calls, and stopped chit-chatting with my family. So for the last several years I would call my husband freely and my mother for short no-nonsense calls. I might give up even that soon. The phone ringing when I am not expecting a call terrifies me. If I am expecting a call, I won't sleep the night before and I pace until it happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 The Blue Hole has fascinated me for years, but that lake - that is amazing! Atlas Obscura has lots of cool posts about things like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belacqua Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Really? Do you know how you came to be afraid of them? Did you have a bad experience with a malicious rabbit? (I'm not making fun, I am genuinely curious.) It's weird, isn't it? I have no bad bunny experiences. I think they're beautiful, actually. But just as I don't want to be up close with a lion or shark, I don't want to be anywhere near a rabbit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Library Momma Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Spiders, especially Daddy Long Legs. Yes I know they can't hurt me. I just don't want them to touch me. Shudder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraidycat Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Snakes. Any snake. There is no snake on earth that I want to let live. Flamethrower, shoulder launch bazooka, hand grenades, nuclear bomb....I barely, just barely survive the lizard ds keeps. Yup. Lizards are cute, though. I don't mind them. I'm with you on the snakes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slartibartfast Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Mrs Mungo is waiting in the reeds, waiting for me to post here so she can pounce and make hilarious jokes about this one. I am scared of dolls. When we were little there was a creepy doll that sat on our shelf. IT WAS WATCHING ME!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 I am scared of dolls. When we were little there was a creepy doll that sat on our shelf. IT WAS WATCHING ME!! I think dolls & clowns both have that creepy factor... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbmom77 Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 It's weird, isn't it? I have no bad bunny experiences. I think they're beautiful, actually. But just as I don't want to be up close with a lion or shark, I don't want to be anywhere near a rabbit. It must be BUNNIEEEEES! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT3MBYp5I-Y Cliffs, underwater or underground caves, snakes - I can't even watch these things on TV. ETA: Clowns. Clowns are just creepy. With apologies to any clowns here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 I have a somewhat normal irrational fear Love the wording! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seasider Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 It's weird, isn't it? I have no bad bunny experiences. I think they're beautiful, actually. But just as I don't want to be up close with a lion or shark, I don't want to be anywhere near a rabbit. I was waiting to see if you would say that when you were a kid, you saw that groovy psychedelic animated production of Watership Down... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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