Weird phobias
 

Anyone have any really odd phobias?

Mine:

BONES.

No, I am not kidding. I'm terrified of them and also grossed out by them. And I have no idea why.

I know I've mentioned this before, but I am deathly afraid of markings on the bottom of swimming pools. Lane lines, grates, drains, designs made from tile, it doesn't matter, I won't go near it. If I need to go to a part of the pool that would involve passing over a marking, I won't do it. I'll get out of the pool, walk around the pool deck, and get in on the other side.

I try to avoid escilators when I have my hands full. I can't stand taking one and not being able to hold onto the rail...I feel like I'm going to fall backwards or something (scary)!

Going up escalators are no problem...but it takes me a loooong time when I'm going down one.

Sort of like BetaRose, except not stuff in swimming pools. It's suken ships/logs/etc in lakes/oceans. If I don't know it's there, no problem. But if I see a log or big rock or something, I can't swim near it.

But I can't stand just seeing pictures of underwater wreckage! I guess I could never go scuba diving...

stairs. i have been known to trip up stairs, trip down stairs. i'm just a wreak when it comes to stairs. people are always breathing down my neck when i go up or down them b/c i'm so slow and careful. AND I MUST BE HOLDING ONTO THE RAILING!!!

yikes i'm weird

I have this strange fear of any type of slipping. I mean, like just slipping on some ice to skidding my car. Even though I'm pretty sturdy if I get the sensation that I'm about to slip I freak out...therefore making me slip and fall :o

I will not ride in a car without all the doors being locked.

I'm scared of my basement... it's unfinished and it has all of our stuff stored down there, and it's just messy and our washer and dryer are down there so I have to go down there, but I always run back up immediately... once my mom shut the door and turned off the lights and I was screaming... she didn't know I was down there. I think I've seen too many movies where a killer was hiding in the basement or something... I've vowed to have a finished basement and my washer and dryer upstairs when I have a house.

VOMITING (it's called emitophobia, I believe)

Me puking or anyone else puking.

I think I fear it more than death.

Roller coasters..

Probably not so much anymore. Haven't been able to go to a theme park in a looong time (working weekends makes that tough).

Bridges...I am afraid that the bridge will collapse when I am driving across it.

Like KEPike, I am terrified of driving over water! We used to go to Florida all the time when I was younger and I'd freak out when we we were driving out to the islands. The year my parents surprised me with a convertible was one of the worst!

This, of course, did not make going to school a lot of fun, as we drove over the Mississippi to go to Dubuque all the time. I freaked out on the bridge and had to drive on the inside lane - I about had a panic attack when they were doing construction and had to drive on the outside. GPBoy and my sisters would be mean to me sometimes and drive on the outside when I was a passenger so I'd be even closer to the water! :eek:

I have a strange one - gas stoves! If I walk into a house, and can smell a gas stove, I am as nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs until I leave! I am SO afraid that they'll explode, someone will catch on fire, or that everyone will die because of the fumes. I cannot even begin to think of trying to cook on one. A Home Ec teacher once tried to make me, and I went completely hysterical!

With all my geriatric clients, one of the first questions I'll ask a family of an Alzheimer's client is "Is there a gas stove?" and "Is the pilot light working?"

Oh man! I thought I was the only one who was afraid of that stuff!!! I think it prevented me from learning to swim very well. When floating around on my back, I'd always freak out that I might be floating over the drain or something and then I'd tense up and not be able to float any more. I'm glad I'm not the only one with this fear...make me feel less silly. :p

I am so scared of spontanious human combustion. Not just that I might combust but that anyone I know might. My brothers always always tease me about it but it totally freaks me out.

I hate any surface that is shaky or wobbly in any way. Especially chairs and tables that are uneven and shake from side to side. This fear goes back to when I lived in CA and went through the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, also known as "The Big One." After I was traumatized by that as a kid, I have hated shaky things with a passion. I hate being in portable classrooms, I hate it when someone sits behind me and shakes my desk by tapping their feet on it, I will switch chairs in class until I find one that has 4 even legs, the same with tables at a restaurant (I will move, or get coasters to try to put underneath to steady it).

A funny joke that my friend played on me because she knows my fear:
My freshman year roomate took my bed (which was up on cinderblocks) and took 2 of the cinderblocks away and just balanced the bed on the remaining 2...the top left and the bottom right. So the next time I went to go sit in my bed, the entire thing collapsed, I started screaming hysterically and my roomates just sat there laughing. I still have yet to get her back for that. Luckily she's my roomate again this year...any ideas? ;)

Static electricity shocks!! I hate this time of year when you pull off your coat and touch something metal and it shocks you. The former Mr. tinydancer would purposely drag his feet across the carpet and then poke me with one finger and shock me. I wanted to knock his block off!!:mad:

Knives. :eek: :eek:

It makes me nervous when other people are using it...like last night, my friend used a knife to cut a piece of tape (don't know why)..I was standing on a chair..and she had the knife pointed upwards.. I couldn't take my eyes off of it cause I keep thinking of me falling on it..

Funny thing is, I dont have a problem when I'm using one, just when other people are!!

I have the same fears as Dionysus (vomiting) and Honeychile (gas stoves, but not as much I as used to be).

I also have a fear of flying in small planes. When I lived in Fayetteville, I had to fly in those thing between Fayetteville and Dallas. It was scary. Last year, I flew from Albuquerque to Phoenix in one of those small jets to catch a connecting flight (an Airbus 320) from Phoenix to JFK and I was scared s***less.

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I am also very afraid of knives. I won't use sharp ones if I can help it. And when they are sitting and need to be washed I will do all the other dishes and make a different sister do the knives. This made dissection in science really difficult cause I was afraid of the scalpels.

I'm scared to death of guns...I'm always afraid that they're going to go off, even if I KNOW there isn't a bullet in it. Which is strange, I don't know where this fear came from, because I grew up around guns and know how to use them/how they work. I guess what I'm more scared of is whether or not the person who's holding the gun knows what they're doing and knows all the safety precautions, but still....guns just freak me out.

I also have a fear of those large mack trucks when I'm driving - behind one or next to one. I'm afraid I'm going to get sucked under the truck or that he's not going to see me and cross into my lane and squish me.

I don't like people touching my knees.

And, finally, I don't like anything covering my face, ESPECIALLY my nose. HUGE fear of suffocation (it took me a loooong time before I would ride in an elevator).

Oh, and I won't ride in a car without all the doors being locked either. :)

I know, I'm a freak. ;)

I used to be afraid of getting on escalators first when I was with people - I used to think my parents would leave me and just let me go up or down and run off. I had to get over the escalator fear, as the law school has an escalator, and it really is the most convenient way of getting up/downstairs.

I'm deathly afraid of lizards, geckos, etc. I almost touched one the other day and again this morning. Almost gave me a panic attack.

My weirdest fear is that I'll get really fat and end up one of those faceless stomachs that ends up on the evening news in a report about obesity.

I'm impressed! I have never known another person with the gas stove phobia before! :eek:

Showering too close to the drain

I would REALLY prefer not to be in wide-open spaces, such as huge parking lots or festival-style concerts.

I hate bridges. I can deal with driving over them, but in Georgetown, there is the Key Bridge, which can't be more than a quarter of a mile long. I can't even step ON the bridge, much less walk across it. (It's over water.)

I am also scared of clowns. The are very scary. We were at the mall, some group was collecting money for something, and one of the collectors came up to us dressed as a clown. I kept weaving behind my family, trying to stay away from that thing.
My family thinks it is funny and loves to point clowns out to me!!!

-wendi

The dark.
I don't mind when I can see some form of light such the street lamp light coming through my window. If I'm in a room that's pitch black, I freak out. I won't go into a room that doesn't have any windows because, if the power goes out, I'll be in pitch black. If I have to be in a room without windows, I get really antsy.
My family and I took a trip to Tennessee (I think it was in TN) about 10 years ago and we were going through some underground caverns. I was completely freaked out the whole time. At one point, they turned out the lights on us and I grabbed my dad's hand and just started screaming. When they turned the lights back on, everyone was looking at me really weird.

axes

mice and rats

driving over water (I don't mind small bridges). There is a bridge in my home state (The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel in Virginia) that scares the sh*t outta me

guns

edited to add my #1 phobia: Needles...I am SO not a shot person

My other phobia is............

THE DENTIST!!!

AHHHH!!!

You have no idea! I HATE HATE HATE the dentist. I had a BAAAAAD experience at one about 7 years ago and ever since, I have this extreme phobia. If I hear the sound of the drill, I go into a major panic attack. I was watching Finding Nemo with some Phi Mu Alpha guys the other day and the dentist scene came on and I literally went into the fetal position and started crying.

I forgot to add that I have a phobia of some lazy boys or any chair where the back falls backwards. I went to a movie theater once, and it was dark...there was no back to the chair I chose to sit in (and I didn't see it). So I go to sit back, end up falling backwards, and have been afraid of falling backwards in a seat ever since!

how can there not be a back to a chair in a movie theater? that's pretty ghetto ;)

I am deathly, shaking, piss myself afraid of handlebar mustaches. The move Gangs of New York kept me up for three nights. Picture the carnie that runs the Tilt A Whirl- absolutely terrifying.

I am deathly afraid of going down escalators. Going up is ok but I think the whole going down the escalator thing goes along with my fear of heights because you have to look down to get on.

I'm afraid of flying over large bodies of water, being raped, getting fat, dying before my time, a few things i cant mention here but will be happy to mention in PM ;) , and becoming so uptight that I lose my sense of humor to where I dont smile anymore.

Well, i have a new phobia now, thanks to my trip to state college.

I'm scared of flying.

Seriously, i almost died in a two-propeller coffin in the Nitanny(sp?) valley. We came over the mountains into the valley into something like 30 mph winds.

Have y'all ever been to Disneyland and ridden Star Tours? That's EXACTLY what it was like. Trapped in a little box, going up, down, left, right, fishtailing, etc. It got so bad that i was clutching the back of the seat in front of me saying Hail Mary's for all i was worth. Had i had a rosary, i'd have busted out a serious session.

The entire time i was in the air on the way back to Rapid i was as nervous as i've ever been in my life.

This wasn't my first time flying before, or even my first time in a small plane. That was just the single worse flight of my life. Then i start thinking about how the chances of being in a plane crash are pretty small, but every time you fly, your chances of being in one go up slightly. Add to that the changing of planes if you have connecting flights, and it's like Russian Roulette.

At least, that's how i saw it.

Kitso
KS 361 miles i'll be driving from now on

I forgot to mention frogs. I hate frogs; they scare me!!!!

I'm not even too crazy about Kermit the frog.

My first fear isn't too weird:

I'm afraid of falling backwards when I sit on the top of a set of bleachers at the park. Which means if I promise my friend I'll watch their baseball or tennis match, I make sure I get there extra early in order to get a seat in the middle!!

But this fear is weird:

I'm afraid of open cabinet doors and dresser drawers. I will go around and close every single door and drawer before I go to sleep, otherwise I will lie awake all night long. The worst part of coming to college was my room - the closet had a shelf that was open and it creeped me out!

I'm also deathly afraid of my basement....when I was five I was so strongly against going down to the basement because you had to go down all of the stairs before you could turn any lights on....I made my dad put a switch at the top of the stairs and now you can turn on every light in the basement before actually going down!

I'm afraid of amputees. Mean, I know, but that's what an irrational fear is...

I am afraid of falling on subway tracks. I am getting better though.