Do you have a phobia?
 

Do you have a phobia?

I have a crazy, extreme fear of heights. Acrophobia.

Snakes that are within striking distance. I can watch them if they're slithering away or being securely held or behind glass but I got bitten once, so I hate them.

I also hate lightning because I got hit by lightning the same summer.

Poisonous snakes!!! I did trail hiking all winter but now that they’re out there slithering around…NO.

People are always like, just stay away from them. But what if I come up behind one unexpectedly- I don’t see it until the last minute and then it strikes me? In the middle of nowhere with only SOS phone service?

Nooooooo

Wow! That’s wild! That’s pure bad luck right there. That summer was not on your side.

Yeah-about the lightning, I was struck while sitting in my car. People will say you can't get hit while in a car but we found that there's a type of lightning called ball lightning that can go through glass, and did it ever. I heard this crash and there was a flash of bluish silver in the car.

What a 16th summer that was.

What’s that like being struck by lightning? I’m just curious to know what it feels like.

All I remember is the flash of bluish silver and a huge slam against the back of my seat, which threw me forward. If I got an electrical charge, I can't remember it, although the cop told me that the rubber tires might have blocked that. He must've seen it before.

Lmao! Have you been bitten or stung in the past or something? You have entomophobia according to google. What happened with the tick situation? How’d you know it was a tick back there if you couldn’t see it? What about harmless insects like a grasshopper or cricket? You scared of those too? Lol
That’s interesting then. I’m saying that because when I was a center manager in an actual store of ours, one of my customers wanted me to make copies of original pictures of his surgery scar from a lightening strike. Like you, he said he didn’t remember being struck either. He said he just remembered walking across a field, and then waking up in a hospital bed. In the pictures, where it struck him was a small wound, but on the opposite side of that wound, it was a large wound as if it went through him and out the other side. He had multiple surgeries and “graphs” done. That’s insane.

HEIGHTS and SNAKES—period. I could never live above the 6th or 7th floor in high-rise. And snakes—just NO! I’ve tried; I even touched a huge boa once, but I had to grit my teeth doing it. The way they move…just freaks me out!

Ewww, they move like skinks--which I also hate. Nasty pendejos.

You know...that ball lightning came through the back windshield making a small hole and blasted big time through the front windshield. When it was over, I looked around at the back and lines were running out from the small hole. Then the whole back windshield fell in.

Driving in a parking garage.

Bridges — especially when I’m stopped in traffic on one. Sometimes I can feel them shudder or vibrate a little. That’s very creepy, to me.

Preach! That sounds about right with me too. Once I get to a certain height on a high-rise, it’s a wrap for me.
Lmfao!

Dude! Fuuuuuuuck that @ your wife’s giant scorpion. I feel you there. Hayle to the naw. I hope she doesn’t pick that thing up like that.
Wow! Your description and my customer’s are exact. I don’t know how true it is, but based on my conversation with him, he’s read that lightening strikes can depend on a person’s chemical makeup too. I’m not sure if that’s based on factual information though.

Bridges though I am given to understand that actually an anxiety issue. Have tried twice with psychologists to get passed it to no real effect.

You know the one over the Mississippi on Highway 10 :eek:? Where you can't pull over?

When I lived in Michigan, the worst experience I had on a bridge was the first time crossing the Mackinac Bridge to Mackinac Island. Crossing it at night it was pitch black on both sides of the bridge. So I didn’t know we were on a bridge until I saw the first main suspension part, which was dimly lit and creepy looking. I was petrified going across it because there was nowhere to stop or pull over and it was really long. Yikes! :(

I don’t have a problem with bridges as long as they’re not too high up. How high is that Michigan bridge? I heard nice things about Mackinac Island. I’d like to take my girl there but if that bridge is high as hell, that might pose a problem Lol.

It’s sort of high. Yes, it’s lots of fun. I enjoyed it.

The Mackinac Bridge is only 200 feet above the water.

Only???
Sort of???

200 feet is more than 10 stories up. On a bridge where I can’t pull over or turn around and can’t see shit at night, with a height phobia? Forget it Lol

Which one? The Twinspan between New Orleans and Slidell? Because ... eep.

Well, it's a bridge. It's five miles long. It's not going to be 10 feet above the water. But, if you still want to visit Mackinac Island, you can take a ferry from the shore without crossing the bridge.

Then the ferry it is Lol

At Baton ROuge? Oh hell no! There is a ferry though it takes about an hour longer....

I have no choice but to drive it as my sister lives in Nola. Thank God she lives in Uptown and not the West Bank! And it's flat except for the part for boat to go under. It's 30 feet higher than the original one that Katrina blew away!

I meant the one in west Louisiana but here's a great view of the one to NOLA in the last scene of the Haunted Mansion movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0KbMpbyaRs

"Oh, keep it down! Oh, keep it down!"

The Mackinac bridge connects the upper and lower peninsulas of Michigan. Ferry or plane is the only way to get to Mackinac Island and there are no cars allowed on the Island. That bridge is very high and 5 miles long and I had to drive it once myself when it was raining. I always stay on the inside lane if I have to drive it. They do have a service you can pay to drive your ca r for you if you can't bring yourself to drive it. It closes if winds are too high.

Storms. I cannot handle thunderstorms for some reason. It could be that I was in Costa Rica as a kid during a severe storm (like several lightning strikes sort of thing) or the overall loud noise. I've gotten better with it over time but I still get nervous with big storms to this day

I'm afraid of bridges too. And spiders. And probably bats after having had one in a house I was staying in when I was doing my occupational therapy fieldwork at a state psychiatric hospital in rural northern Michigan.

Fear of vomiting! :(

Well, that puts it lower than the Millennium Force :p
Yes. This. I had no idea you could catch a plane to the island though. Lots of fudge shops on the island which I loved. Hated manure dodging though lol
lol
Hilarious! This made laugh so hard!

This is the bad thing about living away from the city. Happened just now. It’s 3:44am and at that time, in this house, it’s like a box of chocolates — you don’t know what you’re going to get (or see on the wall) Got up to get a drink of water and saw this (smaller but still big) on the wall. :eek:
https://youtube.com/shorts/ZCuwquOMseE?feature=share

Yeah, I went to a psychologist for about 4-5 months for that one. You know what - it only takes 5 minutes to get across it...and I thought is was like 20 or more!

Lol you kill it?

I haven't driven over the Mackinac Bridge since that poor woman was blown over the rail in her Yugo. That was in 1989...I just Googled it to check.

I've also been struck by lightning, when I was 20. My bedroom had a sliding glass door going out onto a deck overlooking our backyard pool. I had the glass door open a bit during a thunderstorm and someone had left the metal pool dipper pole resting against the deck, pointing right at my slider. The lightning came through the screen. It was SO loud! I was lying on my back in bed and was thrown straight upward all the way to the ceiling. I wasn't hurt, but I was very scared. My parents thought I imagined it, until the next morning when my mom saw the pool dipper pole and found out our stove was blown out. So now I have a fear of closing windows when a storm is coming.

Nah, that was a fail man.

I ran, it got away.
https://youtu.be/bRV4d9LCawU

Lol that spider is more scared of you than you are of it.

I have hesitated greatly over sharing this, but I have a fear of gas stoves. I can handle gas grills and gas ovens, but the idea of using the burner is terrifying to me. I think I know the origins of this fear, but I did have to confront it when I moved to Chicagoland. There were gas stoves both in our first and current apartments.

I thought I had tamed the fear until fairly recently. I use the oven, and an induction burner and that works for me. I have a tempered glass atop the burners, and that's where the induction burner is.

I somehow caught my top on the knob marked Power Boil. The flames shot up several inches, and while my top didn't catch fire, I completely freaked out - screaming and crying like a maniac! Let's just say that Dear Husband now realizes that my fear is every bit as genuine as I had feared.