Me, I'm kind of terrified of large sheets of fabric. I'm not talking large as in bedsheets, I'm talking about something huge like theatre curtains. The reason for this is probably that as a kid, I once crawled inside a massive, rolled up carpet and suddenly had a panic attack because I couldn't find my way out. For some reason, I also found the image of a restored Viking ship particularily unnerving; maybe I just thought of that thing capsizing and being crushed or trapped under it, even though I'm not particularily affected by any other large boats. There's just something about that particular shape of the boat.
stop motion/claymation movies, like Nightmare Before Christmas or Frankenweenuie CANNOT even look at them they give me the creeps. i swear to God every time they had to show that damn trailer to Frankenweeinie I was under the theater chair pretending to look for a contact (LOL I had to go back and correct that last word as autocorrect put condom)
I'm afraid of the ocean. I won't go in past my knees because a shark will obviously eat me. I was on a party on a boat once and as the boat got out to sea and kind of rocked side to side a bit I sobered up real fast. The boat had a creaky wood floor that in my head couldn't handle the raucous crowd and we all were going to fall into the ocean and get eaten by sharks just like the crew of the U.S.S Indianapolis . When I was in elementary school all I did was read about & draw sharks.. I was quite knowledgeable too but in those days they didn't teach you that sharks aren't interested in humans, books were filled with images of sharks attacking boats and 15 scientists standing within the fossilized jaws of a giant monster. Damn my interests!!
Could be. I find being in the ocean really uncomfortable. Being up to my neck in the ocean with just my head above water is almost paralyzing. I was stretching it a bit about the sharks for a cheap laugh. (even though I am terrified of them too)
Same. Also I have a fear of watching people get hurt. Whenever I see someone get hurt by something like a knife, I feel the pain.
I freak out when balloons start floating into the sky. The thought that there's nothing to stop them freaks me out. I guess I wouldn't make a very good astronaut Your sig pic creeps me out to lol
^^^I would never, ever in my life go up in a hot air balloon. No thanks. More room in the basket there for everyone else. Never catch me on a Ferris Wheel either. I'll go on every other ride in park but under no circumstances will you get me into that janky swinging metal tub. On second thought I don't like that ride that's like a swing that you'd find on a playground but it lifts you high and spins.. good god no, that swing is ready to fly off! Sending the rider who knows where to their death.
I can't really think of anything similar to the stuff you guys have posted, but most fears I push myself to overcome on the spot. I think alot of fears come from waiting. Like being in line for a ride or something. Jury duty, just sitting there waiting for them to not call your name. Waiting for a certain date/event/thing that I don't want to do/be part of... IDK.
I cannot stand being in the same area with a high pitched chatterbox. If I hear them go off saying stuff like "ohmaigawdgurlwheredidyoudothathairermaigahditssocewt!1!" I try to leave. Sucks that this is usually in school. Oh, and I'm homophobic. I live in the California Bay Area. Half of the people above are gay. And no, although the creep me out, I am not one of those "FAGS R GAY" "GAYS ARE SINS" people. I actually vote in favor of them. Another thing I don't like are jokes about reproductive organs. You will never see me laughing at a sexual joke, wether it's a verbal one or a physical one. And if it's a physical about me, I will force the teller to the ground and either punch his face or wring his wrist.
Great white sharks when their mouths are open. I have virtually no other fears and I even catch Eastern Brown Snakes and release them away from the house. Same with Wolf Spiders that fall in the pool, I just pick them up and let them go bare handed. Crocs dont worry me, heights dont, almost nothing but great white mouths. Its rough because I also find them facinating and love learning about them but it seems like everything they are in, even when its talking about being all sciency and dispelling the negative hype has the standard 'lunge at camera' clip in it. I think its because when I was a kid my brother used to hold my head down to pictures of them with their mouths open saying how they could swallow me whole. Im hoping to confront this and go cage diving with them next year (I just have to turn images off before I check out the websites).
Not anymore but I used to be afraid of using an escalator. I got over that fear when my dad was in Regina most of the time. My mom would take me out shopping and Midtown Plaza requires the use of an escalator so I got used to them. I used to always have nightmares about them so I think that's where the fear came from. Like, the mall would be on fire, everything was collapsing around me and I'd always be on an escalator. There was also the one store with a super steep one that I always felt like I'd fall off of. Both of those are from my childhood but it was constant enough that it just kinda stuck with me. There's still a part of me that wants to clutch to the railing though. I mean, the urge is so strong that I break my rule of never touching anything in a mall other than something I'm looking at. Like a Transformer. Yeah, I think I'm bordering on germaphobe... EDIT: Oh wait, I thought of another one. Walking up or down narrow stairs like a normal person. I think this one comes from the combination of my large feet and the fact that I've fallen down the stairs several times. If there's no railing or it's a public staircase I crabwalk down them and walk on my tiptoes when I go up. I honestly don't really know where my toes are. My shoe size went up by two in the last year and a half. I suddenly went from a men's 7 to a men's 9! D: Even when I could wear women's shoes I'd fall down stairs and trip so I'm a little afraid to chance it. Funnily enough, Bella doesn't seem to trust me carrying her down the stairs. She's seen me fall a couple of times so when I carry her she shakes like a leaf until I get to the bottom.
I will word this carefully... i am afraid of idiots with guns. as in people who buy them, but get their gun skills/training from a GI Joe cartoon and then when there's an accident, they all have a laugh. idiots who do not respect them as they "play" with them. Understand, i am not afraid of these people because they are swinging a loaded gun around- i avoid people like this like the plague- what makes them terrifying is that they are the reasons other people (anti-gun activists, people who don't like guns and blame them on the world's ills, etc) immediately give to justify taking them away from people who know what they are doing. tyranny via dumbassery. that scares me. SHITLESS.
