What irrational fears do you have?

Cherish - posted on 03/10/2011

Ever since I was 5 and almost drowned Ive been scared of water..im 23 and I still cant swim Every time I get chest level I start to freak.b Countless people have tried to teach me to swim but it never works lol.

Anika - posted on 09/11/2010

I gotta agree with you Brenda about the dolls! *shudder* The only thing creepier are the little old women who make them!

Brenda - posted on 09/11/2010

lol ok i have a fear of porcelain dolls... i know its weird and all but they are freaky and some are way to life like for me.

my niece was just over 1yr old and i didnt even know she was up and she came running down the hallway ( and she's a powder white little girl at the time with thick brown hair wearing what looks like a dolls dress) and im in the kitchen making lunch. i saw her out of the corner of my eye and i jumped up on the counter and sceamed. i REALLY thought she was a doll.. she was a little and short and just the right size to be a doll. when she finally came into the kitchen all i could do was laugh....lol

Isobel - posted on 09/11/2010

yeah, nothing dangles over the side of y bed either...and I was the spitting image of that kid...people used to make me kneel in front of their TVs and say theeeeeir heeeere.

anyhoo...mine is 2012

Krista - posted on 09/11/2010

Will not allow my hands or feet to go off the bed when I am sleeping.....I think Poltergeist did that one to me.

You too? After seeing that movie, I wouldn't lie on my side in bed for YEARS -- only on my back, so that nothing could sneak up behind me.

Diane - posted on 09/11/2010

clowns

Meghan - posted on 09/11/2010

-People in masks. Anything where I can't see someone's face..mascots, Halloween costumes...and it's to the point that I hyperventilate and cry. I have NO idea where it came from.
-Driving beside semi's on the highway. I don't really know that this one is irrational though. I just fear that they wont shoulder check or I am in their blind spot and they will just switch lanes OR the driver will fall asleep and swerve into my lane.
-Guinea Pigs. I don't know what it is about these little bastards-maybe the beady eyes but they actually make me sick to my stomach!

Diane - posted on 09/11/2010

Stephany hilarious about the ferrets...

I have a fear of closed in places....do not like elevators and small rooms...like the nurse who closes the door while you wait endlessly for the doctor to come in.

I do not like to fly but the older I get the better I am handling it. We almost crashed going to Cancun as we tried to land twice during a hurricane. Will never get over it....plane almost rolled over in the air.

Do not like worms.........I can't look at them.

Will not allow my hands or feet to go off the bed when I am sleeping.....I think Poltergeist did that one to me.

Jumping fish out of fish tanks.........could never pick one up.

Rosie - posted on 09/10/2010

stephany, i have the water escape plan in my head as well!! i also worry about my car setting on fire while filling it with gas, and how i would get my kids out. i can't open one side of my van doors becasue of the gas pump being there so i would have to waste time and go around the other side and get them that way. i really am paranoid, arent i?, lol!!

Stephany - posted on 09/10/2010

I have so many!
-Ferrets. Those bastards scare the shit out of me. It's not normal that they can fit through such tiny spaces. I once saw an article about a guy who stole ferrets from a pet store by shoving them in his pants and I couldn't sleep for 2 nights. Creepy bastards.
-I'm terrified that somebody is going to sneak into our house in the middle of the night and take our kids! I lock all the windows and doors, check them several times over, and if I hear even the slightest sound I arm myself with something (like a broom or a toy bat) and sneak in so I can catch the sicko in the act. (Sometimes I have nightmares about this and, when I wake up, I have to visualize beating the crap out of the wacko before the police show up- and they always show up a little too late- otherwise I can't get through the day without being jumpy at every sound.) My kids are probably going to grow up with a fear of a woman entering their room armed with random toys, ready to attack.
-I'm scared of heights and really tall things. For example, the neighborhood I grew up in had a super huge tree and I nearly had a panic attack every time I had to walk under it.
-Spiders. Snails (I know, they can barely move, but those things are nasty and creepy). Really, most bugs. Oh, and snakes. And wild animals (HELLO- they're wild and unpredictable, which equates to scary as fuck).
-Driving over really long bridges that go over water. I'm scared an earthquake will happen and I'll fall into the water. In fact, I think I'm just scared of driving into water. I've imagined an escape plan that would include having to get both kids out of their carseats and out of the car- scary stuff.
Geez, I've got a ton! I'm sure I'll think of more throughout the day, but for now I'm thoroughly creeped out.

Brie - posted on 09/09/2010

I am afraid of spiders... I have had some pretty bad ones my arm under my wrist had what looked like a large apple sized growth on it from a spider and I almost died from a bite on the back of my thigh (not irrational) although i was afraid of them before that! (however i love snakes) I will not dangle anything off the bed or sleep to close to the edge for fear of the monster under the bed (which isn't there lol) slugs creep me out... I have to kind of leap into bed unless my hubby is there... and injuries involving teeth and nails...

Stifler's - posted on 09/08/2010

Toilets. Even as an adult I'm afraid that something is going to come out of the water and touch me.

Erin - posted on 09/08/2010

Loureen tell your maggot story lmao

Erin - posted on 09/08/2010

Birds. It's the wings and the beaks - I hate them! I'm not too bad outside, but if I'm in an enclosed space I freak out. People think I'm joking, until they see me in the foetal position.

Charlie - posted on 09/08/2010

maggots !

Alison - posted on 09/07/2010

Slugs! They scare me even though they hardly move. I get scared just looking at them and I would hate for one to get on me.

Kate CP - posted on 09/07/2010

Oh, I forgot about bees and wasps and hornets. Anything that stings freaks me out. :/

Sherri - posted on 09/07/2010

Snakes and heights!! I have gotten stuck on more than one occasion because I couldn't go up or down due to being frozen in fear of heights.
Snakes I scream my bloody head off and I just can't even cope. Just writing this gives my the heebie jeebies UGH!!

Kate CP - posted on 09/07/2010

Heights. I can't stand heights. Went to France and I refused to go up to the top of the Eiffel Tower. Went to Florence and wouldn't go to the top of the Duomo. Went to Reunion tower in Dallas, took the elevator up, and refused to get out of the elevator. I HATE heights. I feel like I'm going to be sucked out the window or something. *shudders*

Jennifer - posted on 09/07/2010

Hehe =] I had a bit moment the other day with my fear of the stairs with gaps in...We went on a daytrip to Carlisle and we needed to go over a bridge to get across the main road...we didn't know there was a subway at that time. Well the stairs we had to walk up were the ones with gaps in...I got halfway and started crying lmao! Steven (my husband) thought it was funny. We were also with our two friends James and Kelly who actually showed some sympathy lol! On the way back we discovered the subway thank god and I got Steven back by throwing a toy spider on him which he thought was real!

Jessica - posted on 09/07/2010

lol, glad I'm not the only one! :)

Jennifer - posted on 09/06/2010

I hate seaweed too Jessica =[

Jessica - posted on 09/06/2010

Seaweed! - convinced it wants to wrap around my feet and pull me under, i know, crazy.
Badgers - nasty little attitudes on feet! i had an incident with one.
And catching my toes in the car door - I always wear flip flops.

Ashley=) - posted on 09/06/2010

When i was young it was red cars..lol..seriously..for over a year i was afraid to see them or be in a red car..i would have nightmares about a red car coming after me&being in a car crash too.

One day after shopping i was in the back,we have a big family so two boxes of bread were on either side of me..i had no belt on and we were crashed into by a red car on the wrong side of the road..on our side..i was 8 i think..the two boxes of bread saved my life..i got wedged between them stopping me from going through the window screen.

I was never afraid of red cars from that day..you would think i would be worse but no.

Now i dont have any fears..nothing to make me a complete wreck over lol.

Holly - posted on 09/05/2010

Oh, and I also do the running leap into bed thing... And I can't sleep unless my feet are covered, and forget about even trying to sleep with anything hanging off the bed - not gonna happen!!! I also always check on the kids before I go to bed to make sure their feet are covered too!

Holly - posted on 09/05/2010

Oh man, so I have issues with my irrational fears!



On our honeymoon, I almost drowned my hubby while we were snorkeling in Hawaii because I was terrified that sharks would come get me... despite the fact we were in very shallow water with lots of tourists (Waikiki beach)... THEY ARE OUT THERE!!!



Ghosts are creepy and I am constantly in fear of them in my house... even though the ONLY ghost encounter I have ever had was really far away from where I live now and in a building with a very dark and violent past (it's actually been on Ghost Hunters and they saw what I saw when I was a little kid!)... I KNOW in my head that my house isn't haunted, but I STILL get freaked out from time to time! Crap, now I have to go to bed thinking about scary ghosts because I wrote this!!!



Dinosaurs WILL come back and they WILL come find me and get me! I do not use port-a-potties because of this (think Jurrasic Park)...



Vampires are our there and as I lock up every night I turn off the light and whisper out the door "You're not welcome here!" before slaming it shut and locking it really quickly...



That's it... for now... My hubby seems to think we should go watch this movie called Wolfman (with Benecio Del Torro) tomorrow night... I may have to add warewolves to my list after that...

Jennifer - posted on 08/13/2010

I thought of another one. I've got this fear that when I'm looking out of a window when it's dark outside someone will come up to the window and scare me!

Jenny - posted on 08/13/2010

Yellowjackets are the devil. If I hear one near me, I flee, the kids can fend for themselves. I hate seaweed which causes me to freeze and stop breathing. I really, really hate clowns. Clowns are evil.

Wynter - posted on 08/13/2010

Joanna: I had that same feeling when I was pregnant with my daughter, and I FREAK out when I think there is an earthquake. My husband sometimes laughs cause I freak out when they are SUPER small.

Nikki - posted on 08/13/2010

I do the bad man thing too! when I was younger I used to put layers and layers of blankets over me, so that if someone broke into my house and stabbed me, they would just get the blankets! I have the worst irrational fears, I feel quite insane at time, I can't be by myself of a night, I convince myself I will be raped or murdered. (I have an array of household home made weapons!) I hate spiders, bugs, snakes, horses,(most animals really) heights, dust, chalk, flour, driving fast, driving in the rain, swimming, all of these things make me cringe, some make me cry, others I scream and run away like a baby.

Joanna - posted on 08/13/2010

Yeah I hate earthquakes or the thought of them. If I hear a creak in the house, I automatically think it's the start of an earthquake and go into panic mode.

The bad thing is is that this baby is SO super-active, that sometimes she'll be kicking/moving so much that I wake up in the middle of the night thinking it's an earthquake, when it's just the baby shaking me :P But really, it scares me!

Wynter - posted on 08/12/2010

I have this fear of earthquakes!! I always think that the earth is going to crack open and I am going to fall into the middle of the earth!! I know, lame right!! But I have ALWAYS been scared of that!!

Rosie - posted on 08/12/2010

i do the bad man thing too!!! lol!! i have to have my body covered with a blanket, i feel soooo much safer if i'm covered. and fuck dangling my feet or arm over the side of the bed, that shits scary!!!!

Brandy - posted on 08/12/2010

Oh, and it was his toe nails, which to me, makes it even more disgusting.

Brandy - posted on 08/12/2010

Laci, me and my fiance used to bath together all the time (before we had kids of course) and one time I had my eyes closed and woke up to the sound of him clipping his nails, I bolted out of the tub so fast I almost fell down, then yelled at him for being so disgusting as to clip his nails in the tub while I was in there with him!

LaCi - posted on 08/12/2010

The about to pop balloon thing, yeah that makes me cringe. Not really a phobia, but I don't like it one bit. Other things that make me cringe: People putting any sort of fabric in their mouth. If my kid chews on his blanket my mouth hurts and my stomach turns. Being in the same room as someone clipping their nails. gag. I have to remove myself from those situations.

Krista - posted on 08/12/2010

I'm scared of balloons.

Go ahead, you can laugh.

It's not even the balloons, per se, but if they're in a situation where it looks like they're going to pop. So a balloon just floating there doesn't bother me.

But if someone is blowing up a balloon, especially if they're blowing it up to the point where it looks like it could pop, or if a kid is squeezing a balloon...anything like that, and my heart races, I get really anxious, and almost feel like I'm going to cry.

Toni - posted on 08/12/2010

Haha even though I was melting with heat during my pregnancy (typical the year we have a good summer I happen to be pregnant) and had to have my legs propped on pilliows too, I still had to slip my feet under the duvet even though they were the only thing underneath it :-)

Joanna - posted on 08/12/2010

I used to have the "bad man" phobia too that made me cover my feet! In fact up until I was probably 20 or 21 I had to have the sheet over my ears! I don't know why, but I couldn't feel safe enough to fall asleep unless my ears were covered. Feet too. Until I got pregnant and I couldn't cover them because I had to have them propped up on pillows, so since then I've been fine.

Jocelyn - posted on 08/11/2010

Oh and clowns. (hubby is watching Supernatural, and it's the one about clowns...FML...)
Fucking scary ass things. I can't look up from the computer because the tv is directly in front of me. "You were right dad, he is my friend...." BAM you're dead.

Jocelyn - posted on 08/11/2010

Lol you guys reminded me of more random phobias!
I HAVE to check under the bed before I go to sleep. If I don't I will lay there not sleeping until I check. I also don't leisurely walk to the bed after turning out the lights; I leap because that way the thing under my bed (even tho I already checked!) won't be able to grab my feet! I also can't hang my feet or hands off the bed (because the [non existent] thing under my bed will grab them if they are dangling...)

Toni - posted on 08/11/2010

Oh Brandy I know it is so illogical and I REALLY try not to do it but end up having to because if I don't then I just cannot sleep - I laugh at myself I am rediculous lmao.

Oh and after a little thought I have concluded that 'the bad man' I hide my feet from is in fact the monsters that live under my bed (I have actually lost the plot) gqtm.

Brandy - posted on 08/11/2010

If you hold it up to your ear and squish it back and forth between your fingers it makes a sound. lol. I had an ear infection when I was younger and the doctor told my mom to put the drops in the put cotton balls in my ears before bed and I couldn't do it.

Rosie - posted on 08/11/2010

what sound does a cotton ball make?!!lol!!

Brandy - posted on 08/11/2010

Joanna, I have the cotton ball thingy too! Can't stand the texture or that sound!! UGGGHHH!

And Toni, I was literally laughing out while reading your post because I use to do the exact same thing when my fiance was gone!! And I used to do the feet thing but don't anymore. I watched this show called obsessed and there was a woman on there whose husband passed away and she went a little crazy with it and thought she had to say the same prayer the exact same way every night with her kids or something bad might happen to them and it would be her fault and she would check everything in the house twice then end up getting out of bed to recheck the locks, sneak into her kids' rooms to recheck closets. So, I ended up being more afraid of ending up like her than I was that somebody was hiding in the shower waiting for me to go to sleep. lol.

I'm afraid of spiders.

Anika - posted on 08/11/2010

This isn't about me, but I watched a programme once about phobias and there was this guy who was afraid of tins of baked beans! Poor man. His kids used to find them in the supermarket and chase him around the store! LOL. And for all you people out there afraid of spiders, move to New Zealand. We only have 1 poisonous spider which you never see and the other spiders are tiny and you hardly see them. We also have no snakes!

Toni - posted on 08/11/2010

You guys have reminded me of more irrational fears I have lol.

If I am home alone I have to check every room and then shut the door behind me before I go to bed (this is after checking the locks on the doors and windows several times) because there is obviously going to be some psycho hiding in my house cos the hubby is out - then I have to sleep with the TV on so I can't hear said psycho...

...another is my feet have to be covered at night because I have a fear that 'the bad man' (I have no idea who this is or how he got in my house) will get me BUT if the blanket is over my feet I'm safe (I'm a wierdo I know).

Bridges Joanna you can't go under them I can't go over them - I HAVE to run across all bridges I need to cross and I have to be central not near the edge - if I am driving then I start getting panicky that I may have to stop on the bridge - I actually closed my eyes when driving over the forth Bridge in Scotland (bloody scary).

Jocelyn - posted on 08/11/2010

lmao Joanna you got me thinking.... we had one of these threads a couple of months ago...who was it that is scared of mushy stuff in a sink and midgets?

Joanna - posted on 08/11/2010

Haha, you guys are making these "irrational fear" topics just for me, aren't you?

Cotton balls. I hate the sound and feel of them. I think it's a texture thing. But the thought of touching one sends me into panic mode. I also hate having to pick things up from a poofier type of carpet, like stickers. My husband is the crumb/sticker/messy carpet cleaner. I just can't stand the texture of the fibers in my fingers. Ugh.

I'm also terrified of parking in parking structures or being stuck in traffic under a bridge. I think it stems back to seeing a movie about earthquakes when I was younger, where the bridge crumbled and trapped/killed people underneath. But I will not stop under a bridge. I will change lanes, get very close to the car in front of me, or just wait and hold up traffic, just so I don't have to be stopped under a bridge on the freeway. Stupid California. Stupid earthquakes.

Charlene - posted on 08/11/2010

Death is my MAJOR fear. It's like a debilitating fear. If I think about it too much, I have a panic attack. :(

I'm also, like Kati, terrified of driving beside, ahead of or behind Semis or other large trucks, especially trucks hauling wood. I'm always afraid that one of the logs is going to slide off and go through my windshield . :(