Do you have a phobia? What is it?

[DiamondAthena]

Reading this makes me realize I really am not afraid of much, but the one thing I am afraid of is being stuck in a nightmare where I'm afraid. Typically, I am quite brave to the point of being stupid in dreams. I take on the biggest, scariest home invaders while my husband and child run to safety But sometimes I have nightmares where I am afraid and I know it's a dream but I can't wake myself up and those dreams can keep me up all night from fear of them "coming back".

I just moved into a new house and I think subconsiously I might be scared of someone breaking in cuz I dream about it often

[excelblue]

Don't think I have any real phobias, even though there are some things that I really fear:

1.) Driving -- first time I ever drove my parents let me have at it before I had my permit, just as luck would have it, a tire blew up. I can still drive, but I can't be comfortable unless I give it 100% attention: no radio, nothing in coffee holder, cell phone off completely, no small talk with passengers, and both hands on wheel with conscious scanning of all gauges. Oddly, I don't have the same issues when I ride on the bike on the same roads, despite the fact that I've actually been seriously hurt on bike accidents but never in a car accident.

2.) Anything without predictable results -- this stems from my work with computers; if I don't completely fireproof everything, something catastrophic will go wrong. Before I do anything, I do a thorough risk analysis and even come up with what to do in the least likely plausible cases (eg. I even have a plan for what happens if my apartment burns down suddenly). When this analysis becomes to complicated, I simply don't do the thing in question. You can imagine a ton of things that I simply won't do (i.e. dating).