YOUR Irrational Fears

[Greatness Gone]

I need to look behind my shower curtains before I take a shit. I'm afraid that a serial killer, dead body, huge fucking spider or rapist is in my shower or something. You just never know.

And after I find a spider in my bathroom, I have to put, like, my whole head in my toilet and look around to make sure that none of those creepy bitches crawl up my butt and lay eggs or something in it.

[Tristam]

I used to be deathly afraid of thunderstorms but now I absolutely love them, especially before it rains. I love the smell and the heaviness of the air -- plus the lightning shows are always a spectacle. I live in the Midwest so I'm in a prime position to enjoy them, too

I used to be really afraid of spiders and now I guess I still am, especially if I see one on the ceiling and I can't easily kill it. When I see a spider I go COMPLETELY overkill -- my apartment doesn't have very strong walls and I've put a couple cracks in them because I've smashed my palm into the wall so hard in killing a spider.

I've looked up stranger phobias to see if I had any of them. There's the fear of nothingness, which I think is called kenophobia, and sometimes I'll think about it for hours because it's so incomprehensible trying to imagine it -- trying to imagine that I'll never imagine anything again.

[Powerslave]

becoming gay

[Madrun Badrun]

I have a really strange feeling that right now my life is just an illusion and some day I'm going to wake up, as me as a kid, with a paramedic standing over me and a big gash on my head.  That scares me.  Does that count?

[cool breeze]

Clowns.  Directly in front of my bed is door way, and sometimes I would wake up and imagine seeing a clown leaning and watching me and I turn on my light.  I blame the movie It from when I was younger.

[tiesto]

Heights... well, maybe it's not so irrational.

[Tucah]

Spiders. I always have the image of a huge one just crawling on my pillow or head in the middle of the night.

[Brehvolution]

Being "that guy". You know, the one you read about in the paper who got himself killed for something really stupid.

[Eric P]

that some how all the people i hate on gaf and people i'd hate if i knew they existed on oa would somehow make their way to eb.

[bagofeyes]

I'm really claustrophobic, and I also have kinda bad hearing and freak out in places with large crowds or bars with loud music when I can't hear other people speak.

[Madrun Badrun]

and I also have kinda bad hearing and freak out in places with large crowds or bars with loud music when I can't hear other people speak.

Me too.  I always thought this was a major cause of my social anxiety.  I hate having to nod my head with a smile just because I don't want to have some one repeat something for the fourth time.   

[bagofeyes]

I used to try and put up with it, but these days I just think, fuck this, and go home.

[Powerslave]

that some how all the people i hate on gaf and people i'd hate if i knew they existed on oa would somehow make their way to eb.

Already happening

[bagofeyes]

videogame warz!!

[laesperanzapaz]

myself

[CajoleJuice]

myself

not irrational

BURNNNNN

[Jabberwocky]

Confession... I sleep with a lit candle every night because I've seen to many [fake] Japanese ghost videos on Youtube. Scared the crap out of me and scarred me for life.

[Bildi]

I saw it on a TV show once where contestants had to go through a cave and squeeze through this tiny hole that was submerged.  I did a quick paint to illustrate:



That's some scary shit to me.

[Raban]

Dying anti-climactically, or in my sleep.

[Robo]

I've looked up stranger phobias to see if I had any of them. There's the fear of nothingness, which I think is called kenophobia, and sometimes I'll think about it for hours because it's so incomprehensible trying to imagine it -- trying to imagine that I'll never imagine anything again.

I used to have this something awful when I was younger and would stay up for days and days working it over in my head.  It's not troubling to think about anymore -- I'm considerably more fatalistic these days.

I don't really have any fears so much as I have nasty fits of irrational paranoia, usually involving my personal health or safety.

[bagofeyes]

I saw it on a TV show once where contestants had to go through a cave and squeeze through this tiny hole that was submerged.  I did a quick paint to illustrate:

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That's some scary shit to me.

holy fuck, that is like my worst nightmare

[Greatness Gone]

I saw it on a TV show once where contestants had to go through a cave and squeeze through this tiny hole that was submerged.  I did a quick paint to illustrate:

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That's some scary shit to me.

That's not an irrational fear. That's fucking horrible.

[bagofeyes]

I wouldn't worry about it

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[Powerslave]

I saw it on a TV show once where contestants had to go through a cave and squeeze through this tiny hole that was submerged.  I did a quick paint to illustrate:

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That's some scary shit to me.

Tiny holes and small pipes are a horrible thought. Imagine being trapped in one.

[Raban]

I wouldn't worry about it

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Man, the skin looks so strange.

[Tauntaun]

Snails.

I've been like this since I was a kid. It's not as much a fear as is it is a deep revulsion, but I get shivers down my spine whenever I see a snail, and I haven't been able to bring myself to touch one.

I have no problem with slugs though, and I really like sea snails.

Tauntaun's remedy for phobia:  Put whatever you fear the most on your dick.

[Lone]

Heights (except when in an airplane oddly enough) and Spiders.

[Mupepe]

Heights

Also, I was really scared for a long time about dying in my sleep.  It set in shortly after my grandpa died in his sleep.  It took me a few years to get over.

[Tauntaun]

Heights (except when in an airplane oddly enough) and Spiders.

Go stand on top of a ladder with a spider on your dick.  DO IT!

[Lone]

Heights (except when in an airplane oddly enough) and Spiders.

Go stand on top of a ladder with a spider on your dick.  DO IT!

Can I do that while on fire, and being shot too?  SWWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEET :kylielaff

[Tauntaun]

Heights (except when in an airplane oddly enough) and Spiders.

Go stand on top of a ladder with a spider on your dick.  DO IT!

Can I do that while on fire, and being shot too?  SWWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEET :kylielaff

[CajoleJuice]

Sexual contact/tension

[Raban]

I saw it on a TV show once where contestants had to go through a cave and squeeze through this tiny hole that was submerged.  I did a quick paint to illustrate:

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That's some scary shit to me.

looks fun as hell to me, but I don't think anybody is gonna challenge me to climb into a tiny hole at any point in my life.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Cotton balls

[chronovore]

A lot of you guys have listed just "heights," and then aren't clear on whether or not it counts.

If you are on a tall building's roof and standing near the edge, and a wind comes by and nearly flings you off the fucking thing, and you think, "Oh, that was scary," you're not acrophobic, you're normal. OTOH, if you step onto the roof and are in the dead middle of it, and suddenly expect that the building will twitch or an earthquake will come and toss you down, or that you might trip and stumble the 27 steps needed to reach the edge of the building and THEN fall, well that's probably an irrational fear. Maybe.

[Tristam]

A lot of you guys have listed just "heights," and then aren't clear on whether or not it counts.

If you are on a tall building's roof and standing near the edge, and a wind comes by and nearly flings you off the fucking thing, and you think, "Oh, that was scary," you're not acrophobic, you're normal. OTOH, if you step onto the roof and are in the dead middle of it, and suddenly expect that the building will twitch or an earthquake will come and toss you down, or that you might trip and stumble the 27 steps needed to reach the edge of the building and THEN fall, well that's probably an irrational fear. Maybe.

Man, I feel a lot better now. I was thinking about listing heights because I was imagining that I'd be scared if I were on top of a narrow beam a couple thousand feet in the air. Because if I were afraid of heights I'd feel like a wuss.

[Raban]

A lot of you guys have listed just "heights," and then aren't clear on whether or not it counts.

If you are on a tall building's roof and standing near the edge, and a wind comes by and nearly flings you off the fucking thing, and you think, "Oh, that was scary," you're not acrophobic, you're normal. OTOH, if you step onto the roof and are in the dead middle of it, and suddenly expect that the building will twitch or an earthquake will come and toss you down, or that you might trip and stumble the 27 steps needed to reach the edge of the building and THEN fall, well that's probably an irrational fear. Maybe.

Man, I feel a lot better now. I was thinking about listing heights because I was imagining that I'd be scared if I were on top of a narrow beam a couple thousand feet in the air. Because if I were afraid of heights I'd feel like a wuss.

?

[Joe Molotov]

A lot of you guys have listed just "heights," and then aren't clear on whether or not it counts.

If you are on a tall building's roof and standing near the edge, and a wind comes by and nearly flings you off the fucking thing, and you think, "Oh, that was scary," you're not acrophobic, you're normal. OTOH, if you step onto the roof and are in the dead middle of it, and suddenly expect that the building will twitch or an earthquake will come and toss you down, or that you might trip and stumble the 27 steps needed to reach the edge of the building and THEN fall, well that's probably an irrational fear. Maybe.

If I think about being on a high place, my palms start to get sweaty and my breath quickens.



I went here once, but it made me 

[Bloodwake]

I'm afraid of failure. Too bad I've probably already reached it.

[Bildi]

Then it's time to embrace it.

[Raban]

Why are people so spooked out by heights? It's such an irrational fear. Just because you have a fear of tall buildings doesn't mean the second you get on them the odds are tipped horrifically against you and it'll collapse or you'll fall from the roof. The chances of extremely tall buildings or structures located high above ground simply falling apart from some random miscalculation or stress over years is preposterous. There are bridges in a nearby town that have existed for longer than 200 years, and cars still drive over them at top speed today. Granted, they're smaller, but they're surveyed and kept in check just as much as ones that are extremely massive.

[fistfulofmetal]

i'm afraid of men covered from top to bottom in cotton balls.

[Bloodwake]

Then it's time to embrace it.

Well, I think I might have got kicked out of college due to the fact that I haven't responded to my email in three months. At this point, I will just claim I did it on purpose rather than out of apathy, get a job at a GameStop and reapply to somewhere that I'm not totally miserable at.

I am not afraid of poverty, luckily