What is your phobia?

[Phatt Matt s]

I hate Muslims!

I'm going to break my own request and post a photo without hide tags in the hopes this drives Thunder Cunt away in pure terror:

hock:

That little kid is going to be creeping into my dreams attached to explosives with a fully automatic in his hands.

[Bob Kelso]

And love. Spiders and love. Not sure which frightens me more. :p

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I have a terrible fear of confinement, it's not really claustrophobia per se as it's not debilitating, but it's somewhat irksome quite often.

Like being in an elevator? Or...?

No, it's hard to explain; I start panicking sometimes if my SO is on top of me (during cuddling, not sex) or if my clothes are too tight, or if I'm in a large crowd.

[NoraBrimstone]

I have loads of irrational fears. The world is a scary place for me.

In no particular order: Wasps, clowns, sheep, chickens, hornets, mosquitoes, cotton wool balls, balloons bursting, deep water, crowds of people (except when I'm at work, for some reason), fish, cows, moths, crane flies, cockroaches, mushrooms, the noise a vacuum cleaner makes, ageing, pain, needles going in my skin... And probably some more I can't think of right now.

[*Deidre*]

And love. Spiders and love. Not sure which frightens me more. :p

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Like being in an elevator? Or...?

No, it's hard to explain; I start panicking sometimes if my SO is on top of me (during cuddling, not sex) or if my clothes are too tight, or if I'm in a large crowd.

Maybe it is a feeling of losing control. Hmmm.
That's curious.

[Marsellus Wallace]

Dentist and all the dental stuff .

[Clueless Morgan]

I have loads of irrational fears. The world is a scary place for me.

In no particular order: ... cotton wool balls, ...

Like cotton balls you use to dab ointments on to you skin?



Why do you think you have an irrational fear of cotton balls?

Dentist and all the dental stuff .

I used to be able to feel everything the dentist did when he filled cavities. I was never numbed sufficiently until I was like 20 years old. But I would call that a completely rational fear. :p

[NoraBrimstone]

I have loads of irrational fears. The world is a scary place for me.

In no particular order: ... cotton wool balls, ...

Like cotton balls you use to dab ointments on to you skin?

Why do you think you have an irrational fear of cotton balls?

They're horrible! If they rub against your skin when you're still wet from the bath or shower or something it's the most horrible thing ever, except for the even more horrible feeling you'd get if they touched your teeth. I'm cringing at the thought of this right now.

[Bob Kelso]

No, it's hard to explain; I start panicking sometimes if my SO is on top of me (during cuddling, not sex) or if my clothes are too tight, or if I'm in a large crowd.

Maybe it is a feeling of losing control. Hmmm.
That's curious.

It's a possibility, but I think it may be more along the lines of an overdeveloped sense of personal space, not a fear but I absolutely hate it when my toes touch or if I have skin that overlaps (fatrolls) which has kept me perpetually in socks (for some reason it doesn't bother me then), and relatively skinny.

[Tonus]

Palmetto bugs, what we called water bugs when I was a kid. They're those large, brown cockroaches with the spiky legs that can fly and move at blinding speed. What's strange is that when I was a child, we had lots of them in our South Bronx apartment and while they were creepy, I wasn't scared of them. I'd stomp them like any other bug.

We moved out of that place when I was 11 and into a building in the projects and I did not see another one for a good 15-20 years. Got up one night to pee and saw one on the shower curtain, so I grabbed a broom, knocked it to the floor, and tried to kill it but it scurried away. Meh, finished up and went back to bed, at which point I realized that I had a serious knot in my stomach; I felt physically ill. And any time I see one, that is the feeling I get. Not so much if I see a picture, although I can tell I get a bit anxious.

It is, as far as I know, the only irrational fear I have.

[Cyberman]

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.