Do you have any irrational fears?

[Moh 10]

For me it is the bottom of ships.

Being underwater and being run over by a ship and sucked up into the propeller blades . . . AHHHHH!

Even just looking down at the stern of a boat or ship in the water makes me uncomfortable.

ANd those radar domes at the bow of a ship just under the waterline freak me out too.

 

[LostSapphire]

you''re not the only one with that! I can''t even get out of the little boat at the cottage because of my fear of the propeller blades!

LS

 

[stepcutgirl]

Clowns. I can''t stand them. I''m not even sure I can explain it but my fear shows itself in the form of anger so when I see a clown and it won''t allow me to scurry away quietly and be gone from the situation I end up yelling at them! Things like "can we please don''t do this" or "I''m not doing this right now!" I have no idea why that is my response but it is always the same every time.

 

[KimberlyH]

I''m afraid of fireworks and loud noises in general.

 

[Haven]

I have an irrational fear of being falsely accused of a horrible crime.
I can''t watch movies or read books about that happening to anyone, because it terrifies me.

 

[LilyKat]

Being sucked down when I flush the toilet on planes.

 

[whitby_2773]

being caught in a plane in an electrical storm and getting knocked out of the sky...oh - wait - that''s already happened to me....

took me the best part of 20 years to get over a deep, deep fear of flying.

i also once watched a show based on an edgar allen poe story about a man being buried alive. since then, i''ve been afraid of that. as a result, tim and i for years have had an agreement that - when i die - he will be ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that i am dead, and will then have me cremated. after that, we have an agreement that he''ll put my ashes in a clear glass jar and keep me in the living room where i can see things happening so i don''t get bored. every so often he has to swap which room i''m in so i can have a change of scene. i really considered asking him to put gladwrap on the jar and punch holes in it so i''d be able to breathe, but i stopped short of that....just....

(still thinking about it, to be honest)

 

[D&T]

Date: 7/18/2009 11:35:18 AM
Author: stepcutgirl
Clowns. I can''t stand them. I''m not even sure I can explain it but my fear shows itself in the form of anger so when I see a clown and it won''t allow me to scurry away quietly and be gone from the situation I end up yelling at them! Things like ''can we please don''t do this'' or ''I''m not doing this right now!'' I have no idea why that is my response but it is always the same every time.

the movie ''IT'' ruined it for me when I saw it at the age of seven

I too do not like clowns

 

[Beacon]

A few. One that is pesky is I constantly think I have left something plugged in, like coffee maker, hair curler, toaster, etc that will catch fire and burn the place down while I am away. My DH is extremely patient with this and checks everthing.

Pretty much anytime we go anywhere, right after I get in the car I say, "oh, did we unplug the toaster (or whatever)....?" He''s on it. Bless his heart.

 

[bee*]

Tomato ketchup getting on my skin. The thought of it freaks the life out of me!

 

[Linda W]

I have never gone on a cruise. Something about being out in the middle of the ocean scares me to death. I have a fear of drowning.

 

[packrat]

I wonder if there''s something I *don''t* have an irrational fear of. Sharks. (Tho I LOOOVE watching shows about them and am fascinated by them) I''m convinced somehow I''m going to find myself in the middle of the ocean and get eaten alive. Drowning, tho I happen to love water. Smothering. Being burned alive. I get up in the middle of the night sometimes and stand in the dark to watch the smoke alarms and make sure the red light blinks every 90 seconds or whatever. I watch scary movies and read scary books, and still get tingly in the middle of the night when I get up to go to the bathroom that somethings going to grab my foot from under the bed. The closet doors must remain closed. (Stephen King''s Boogeyman did that to me when I was like, 13) I used to have the Encyclopedia of Serial Killers..that made for some late late nights with all the lights in the house on.

 

[Lorelei]

Moths.

 

[whitby_2773]

oh! oh! i forgot one...

i HATE sleeping alone in the house. hate it. absolutely hate it.

 

[atroop711]

flying....it''s like no other fear for me..ok that''s a lie...drowning..I feel like I will get sucked into a vortex one day in the ocean

 

[purrfectpear]

Not a one. I guess I''m a pretty rational person. I don''t even have rational fears much less ones that I know are irrational. There are a couple of things I could see myself struggle with, like eating a live giant cockroach or straddling a steel beam on the top of an open 80 story skyscraper under construction, but I suppose I could overcome that if I truly had to?

 

[HollyS]

Irrational?

I''m always rational. Therefore, my fears are perfectly normal. They are.

There are things I wouldn''t do. Bungee jump. Skydive. Other dangerous sports/activities. Not into life-threatening hobbies.

Living in TX, and having spent my youth in IL, I''m very aware and very cautious about tornadoes. Storm chasing would not be exhilerating for me; it would scare the crap out of me. I watch the radar very carefully during the spring.

I fear a house fire. Or car fire. Being trapped by fire. Or just losing my house to it. I don''t obsess over it, but it comes to mind often. I have many candles, but I don''t often light them. Again, living in TX, where we have been more dry than wet most of the last decade, wildfires are a concern. And with darn good reason; we had a big one last summer within a quarter mile of the house. Scary.

But I think those are all rational fears. The only ''phobia'' I ever had is long gone, banished forever, and I don''t share it with anyone who didn''t know me when I had it.

 

[HollyS]

Date: 7/18/2009 3:33:22 PM
Author: Linda W
I have never gone on a cruise. Something about being out in the middle of the ocean scares me to death. I have a fear of drowning.

I hear ya. Nothing about getting on a boat and being in the middle of an ocean sounds at all appealing to me. Not scared. Just not willing to go.

 

[DiamanteBlu]

No. All my fears are rational.

 

[Richard Sherwood]

Women.

 

[Moh 10]

Rich, that's a rational one.
Makes perfect, sense.

 

[FrekeChild]

Date: 7/18/2009 4:03:56 PM
Author: Lorelei
Moths.

OMG. ME TOO!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[AGBF]

Date: 7/18/2009 8:44:54 PM
Author: FrekeChild

Date: 7/18/2009 4:03:56 PM
Author: Lorelei

Moths.

OMG. ME TOO!!!!!!!!!!!

Lorelei and FrekeChild-


I have the perfect book for you! You absolutely must get it! It is by far my favorite Henry and Mudge book (and I have all of them in paperback). Henry and his parents go to visit his grandmother and Henry's big dog, Mudge, ends up banned from the house. Henry is terrorized by a moth in his bedroom. Luckily, there is a solution!

AGBF

 

[zoebartlett]

I''m always afraid of things catching on fire. I hate putting furniture too close (or what I think is too close) to baseboard heaters because I''m afraid will go up in flames. We''ve only had one real Christmas tree and it freaked me out the entire time it was in our house.

Actually, when I was little and my parents were putting me to bed, I used to ask them to make a lot of noise if they went back downstairs so I''d know that a fire didn''t get them.

 

[zhuzhu]

My MIL....

 

[radiantquest]

MOH- that doesn''t seem irrational to me. Everyone is afraid of being chopped into tiny pieces.

I do have an irrational fear. It is so silly, but I am afraid all the same. Here it is

I am very afraid of dark colored tubs, toilets and sinks. Like dark blue, dark green and black. Scares the crap out of me. I cannot even be in the room with them. If someone was going to give me a million dollar house that had black tubs, toilet and sinks I would not accept unless they were changed out. Also many shower heads. Just one plain one is all I want. If it is the kind that you can move around like with a hose, I will not use that shower.

I also have a fear of empty pools. To look into one gives me chills!

 

[Lilac]

I absolutely hate flying. I get scared just thinking about a plane. I do fly, but only if it''s REALLY worth it. And when I do fly, I spend most of the flight very tense and nervous and I feel sick from thinking of all the horrible possibilities of things that could go wrong.

My entire life I''ve had this fear of going into a dark place by myself because I always think there''s something or someone waiting in there to attack me. I also check in closets and behind doors when I get into a room and always look under the bed before going to sleep.

I''m also scared of swimming in the ocean - even very shallow water by the beach - because I think I''ll get attacked by a shark. Maybe that''s why I don''t particularly like boats either.

My mom (a lawyer) once told me a story of a case she was working on where a girl''s family was suing someone because the girl swam in a pool and got sucked into the vent (or whatever it is on the bottom of a pool) and the vent or fan or whatever it was wasn''t properly shut off. The girl got sucked to the bottom and her intestines almost got sucked out from the force of it and she almost died. Sounds crazy, but it happened in this case. Ever since then I ALWAYS avoid swimming over those things on the bottom of pools.

And I''m afraid of all bugs

 

[*Danielle*]

I will NOT go above my waist in the ocean. PERIOD. Last year I jumped out of our kayak in the middle of Balboa Bay and freaked and started yelling at my boyfriend to help. I never knew how bad it was until that moment. He thought I was joking.

And I hate the under water videos where they pan out and it is nothing but hazy blue. That creeps me out.

 

[lulu]

Date: 7/18/2009 1:31:45 PM
Author: whitby_2773
being caught in a plane in an electrical storm and getting knocked out of the sky...oh - wait - that''s already happened to me....

took me the best part of 20 years to get over a deep, deep fear of flying.

i also once watched a show based on an edgar allen poe story about a man being buried alive. since then, i''ve been afraid of that. as a result, tim and i for years have had an agreement that - when i die - he will be ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that i am dead, and will then have me cremated. after that, we have an agreement that he''ll put my ashes in a clear glass jar and keep me in the living room where i can see things happening so i don''t get bored. every so often he has to swap which room i''m in so i can have a change of scene. i really considered asking him to put gladwrap on the jar and punch holes in it so i''d be able to breathe, but i stopped short of that....just....

(still thinking about it, to be honest)

Whitby, did you really get hit by lightening in an airplane? The rest of it is hysterical. I have the image of your eyeballs looking around from a jar on the mantel.

 

[Dannielle]

I have a fairly large skin coloured mole on the back of my head (Covered by hair)

I have a really big fear that someone is going to stab it with a fork.. If I am at a restaurant where there are many people with forks my mole tingles and I have to put my hand over the spot on my head where it is...

... *Off to crazy town*