(March 18, 2014 at 11:20 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: Is it a fear of heights, or a fear of falling from those heights? I don't have a fear of heights, but I share (to some degree) your fear of falling off a sloped roof. Do you also have a fear of falling off flat roofs with parapets?
For me, it is definitely a fear of heights, aka acrophobia. I have stood on - well, near - the top of a mountain in Scotland with no fear at all, since as far as I was concerned I was on the ground; notwithstanding that the ground was however-many-thousands of feet above sea level at the time. Once I climbed the few steps of the gift shop that was standing there on its stilts (seriously!), that's when I lost it. Even though I was only about four feet off the ground, the sudden realistaion of just how high I was turned me into a zombie.
The weird thing about acrophobia, unlike probably all other phobias, is that in those situations you're having to fight against your own body, since you're unconsciously and actively trying to put yourself in further danger instead of backing away from it.
Also, spiders.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
