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Does anyone else have any funny and irrational fears?
Example: I'm afraid of cans of biscuit dough. I'm afraid that one day my quest for buttery goodness will have me losing at a game of biscuit roulette. I will be opening a can, which will explode, and I'm left looking at the stumps where my hands used to be.
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#1
That everyone everywhere can read my mind. It's actually really annoying.
Final score:
37points
Deutschland Mädchen 2 years ago
Omg! I have the same fear! It would be SO embarrassing if people could ahh
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#2
Spiders. Where I live, the United Kingdom of UK, there are no spiders that can physically hurt me, so why am I so freaked out? Arachnophobia makes sense if you live in Australia, when every little creature is poisonous, but where I am? Nope. Ridiculous.
I do remember a theory that spiders were extra-terrestrial in origin and that is why so many people are afraid of them, spiders not literally being otherworldly. And it makes sense to me. Yes, I know it is not a serious theory.....
Final score:
33points
AW 2 years ago
For me it's only small spiders I really don't like. Tarantula? Cute and fluffy. Daddy long leg? I rescue it out of the bathtub. Small cardinal spider? Destroy at all cost. My reasoning: if I can keep an eye on it, it's safe. If they can vanish in a blink of an eye, not happening 🤷♀️
#3
I'm always anxious when I look at people with long fingernails doing any precise tasks, especially the ones requiring pressing or prying. I can't help but expect that their fingernails will snap or rip off leaving bare, bloody meat on the fingers. For the very same reason I can't grow my own nails too much.
Final score:
30points
#4
I AM TERRIFIED OF THE OCEAN. The ironic part? I'M FROM MALDIVES! I can literally go to a crossroad and whether I look left or right, all I see would be waves. I'm mainly scared of drowning I suppose. So, to get over this irrational fear, I'm going to a swimming competition tomorrow.😬 In. The. Ocean. Wish me luck!!
Final score:
30points
#5
I'm afraid of escalators and by extension moving sidewalks or amusement ride/ tubing conveyer belts.
Now... the story to explain it. When I was a kid, my shoelace got stuck in an escalator. My shoe got really tight and it was freaking me out. I tried to tell my mum but it was loud and busy so though she could feel me moving she couldn't hear or see what the problem was. Out of nowhere, a guy going the other way could see it, he jumped over the barrier, grabbed me, snapping the shoelace and ran me off the escalator. My mum thought I was being kidnapped and freaked. When he explained what had happened, she was grateful as I could have been seriously injured. I was 3.
To this day (26) I still avoid escalators and if I must take them I have to psych myself up to get on or off. I don't dare walk on them and I grip really hard on the handrail the whole time.
I also will say that they are less irrational than being afraid of sharks as more people die in freak escalator accidents than in shark attacks (thank you shark week for that random fact)
Final score:
25points
#6
I have the fear of looking up.
There is a name for it but I forgot what it was. It only applies if I am seeing nothing but sky. It makes me feel like I am going to suddenly fall to my death, even if I am standing on the ground.
Not terrified to do it but it makes extremely uncomfortable.
It's a weird one.
Final score:
23points
Veronica Rabbit 2 years ago
I have this, but only if I'm at a high elevation. Most people would get scared if they were up really high and looked down, but for me, looking down makes me feel safer because I can see the ground. I just can't look up!
#7
That my fan will fall on me in my sleep and the blades will chop me up.
Final score:
20points
#8
Finally! Somewhere I can shine. Well, if anyone reads, or even upvotes it.
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I can't wear anything around my neck--scarf, necklace, even turtleneck--because I'm afraid if it's caught on something it'll cut off my head.
Final score:
20points
Marilyn Russell 2 years ago
Well, I guess it’s possible. Didn’t Isadora Duncan die when her scarf got caught in a car’s wheel? At least that’s what the movie showed.
#9
I got locked in the room with a corpse when I was like 6 I think. I was in there well over an hour before they found me. I just sat in the chair and stared at the dude worried if I took my eyes off of him he was going to get back up. Due to this I don't like corpses. I'm not scared of them in the sense I'm going to scream, but my heart starts to race any time I need to go to a viewing and I try to avoid them where I can.
Final score:
18points
loyalhufflepuff07 2 years ago
Um how did you get locked in a room with a corpse?? Are you okay??
#10
No idea what caused it but I have an irrational fear of something coming out of the power sockets at night and zapping me. If I get up in the night it is very hard not to run to the bathroom and then run back to bed and jump into bed to avoid touching the floor. I also struggle to have my feet on the floor if there is a thunderstorm, not sure what will get me there.
And clowns, those dudes are terrifying despite never having seen such classics like IT.
Final score:
17points
Yay Pandas! 2 years ago
Yeah, I don't know how clowns got to be cute people to have at small children's parties. That makeup? That weird hair? The weird clothes? Uh, nope.
#11
Balloons. Logically I know that there's nothing to be afraid of but they're like little explosions waiting to go off. I avoid any & all balloons whenever possible.
Final score:
17points
#12
When boarding an airplane, I must touch the outside of the plane with my right hand as I step onboard. Otherwise something bad might happen. It is the only thing like that I do.
Final score:
16points
tara 2 years ago
Ahhh yes.....or kissing your pet rat good night....4 times. Until 4 isn't enough..it must be 4 sets of four...but that would CRAZY 'cause it's only twice...so then it was four sets of four sets of four sets of four. OCD can be a very time consuming spiral. My rat, Bean, on the other hand was very patient with me :)
#13
I fear small children with a passion
Final score:
16points
Krystal Keener 2 years ago
Your fear of small children is a passionate fear or you fear, specifically, small children with a passion?
#15
Portraits on walls creep me out. Just eyes in general are freaky and portraits or pictures with eyes escappily at places I’m not use to creep me out
Final score:
15points
Marilyn Russell 2 years ago
I remember playing this Peter, Paul and Mary album when I was a kid and their eyes on the cover followed you around the room. Or so I thought…
#16
Bridges. I don’t know why but whenever I am on one I think it will randomly collapse
Final score:
15points
#17
Balls being thrown at me, like towards my face
Balloons popping by my face
Heights, even just watching a movie when they are looking down from a skyscraper or something it makes me physically sick and I have to turn away
Final score:
15points
#18
I have a fear that what I see/experience as reality is just my mind playing tricks on me and that some day my mind will suddenly show me the "real" reality -but at a time where I can't avoid being badly hurt or even "unalived" ( as I think BP prefers to call it). Example: I think I am out for a walk in the sunshine in a park.... but in reality I am out on the ocean about to drown.
Example: I think I am sitting on a bus listening to music.... but in reality I am falling down from a cliff.
It's weird but I've always had this fear.
Final score:
15points
#19
The older I get the more fears/phobias I seem to have, but, lately it's driving on any roads with a sped limit over 50mph. Also worked in emergency room will NEVER ride anything that doesn't have a roll cage
Final score:
14points
#20
My biggest fear is wasps but my most irrational fear is children wearing makeup. I don't know what it is about seeing a young kid in makeup but it creeps me out. That scene in the movie Bad Grandpa when the kid enters a beauty pageant is both extremely funny and unnerving.
Final score:
14points
Deutschland Mädchen 2 years ago
I was stung by a wasp once- I will now do whatever i can to avoid them
#21
You know those big wind turbines? They scare the shite out of me. I KNOW someday they're gonna become self-aware, come down off those poles and chop everyone to bits.
Final score:
14points
#22
I am afraid of any nuclear disaster. I am so terrified that I know exactly how to survive. Whenever I go to a new space I plan how I would know, and how I would survive. For example, on my first day of middle school I identified how I would be able to tell (aka I identified all the windows so I could see the flash), where I would go (the gym), and how to help others. I even have a plan for if people don’t make it in in time, they would be radioactive so they couldn’t come into the gym with the non contaminated people, so they would have to go to the multi purpose room
Sry it’s a bit long
Final score:
13points
#23
Wide open flat areas, and long tunnels with multiple points of entry
Final score:
12points
Fluffy mommy panda 2 years ago
Long tunnels 😳 long dark tunnels........ I'd be scared of that. No way would I go in alone. Hell no and I bring a weapon anything. Probably more then one.
#24
Geckos
Final score:
11points
#25
That people and inanimate objects can read my mind. I can't touch people, touch the same object as them, or stand on the same floor tile as them if I'm having bad/intrusive thoughts. If I'm touching something like a door handle or a button or the sink knob I have to hold on to it until I finish the thought so it has context.
Final score:
11points
tara 2 years ago (edited)
Oh yes....I hear ya on this one. I hate intrusive thoughts :( Sometimes when I used touch something I would silently count to four. Even now when I Wake up in the middle of the night and absentmindedly scratch my leg or arm or something, I count to four before I can stop.
#26
Eels... Something about those... dreadful faces... I can't stand them.
As for a story of how bad this "fear" is {first, I'm 7'4 and I was 33 years old at the time of this story.}
I went to the zoo with my baby brother for his birthday and headed over to the Fish Tank area.
There was a walk-through glass tunnel with...
You guessed it... EELS...
Just swimming and poking out all over.
My brother had to clutch my hand and let me bury my head into his shirt/Jacket so I wouldn't see them while going through the tunnel, Because every time I tried valiantly to "man up" and get close... I started crying and having a panic attack.
Final score:
11points
Marilyn Russell 2 years ago
How about sea lampreys? The first time I saw some of them squished up on the side of a tank at a sportsman’s show sure freaked me out. And they can be in our lakes - scary!
#27
I, still to this day, cannot watch the movie ET. The part when he’s making the Reese’s pieces float terrified me as a child.
Final score:
10points
#28
Lizards will consume my soul... I go into panic mode everytime I see one. As a side note however, I reaaaalllllyyyy love snakes.
Final score:
10points
#29
Im scared of the color yellow
Final score:
10points
#30
Showers. Yes, I take them regularly, but having to hold my breath while the water hits my face wigs me out. I think it's an extension of my fear of drowning, but my husband thinks it's hilarious to tell people I'm afraid of the shower.
Final score:
10points
Deutschland Mädchen 2 years ago
Just curious- do baths cause the same reaction since you don't have to really get your face in the water?
#31
I'm a single mom of 2 babies and terrified that someone will just sneak into my house and unalive us.
Final score:
10points
Yay Pandas! 2 years ago
I worry about my family the same way, when I have to leave and they're still in bed.
#32
You know when you pull back on s rubber band and shoot it at someone? Yeah, I am always afraid of that happening to me. I don't care if someone does it with a ponytail holder, but the idea of it happening with a rubber band scares the c**p out of me. One of my friends found this out last year and I kept flinching away when he would pull it back and he thought it was hilarious. He said it was like repellent against me.
Final score:
10points
#33
I have a fear of bridges after watching something on History.com. just nervous that they're going to fall out from under or break from over me.
Final score:
9points
Roadkill The Brave 2 years ago
I was given a fear of bridges by one of my mom's ex's. She had D.I.D and had her personalities shift while we were on a bridge over a river and suddenly my mom was dealing with a 7 year-old freaking out trapped in a 30 year-old's body. She had to wrestle her out of the drivers seat and into the passenger seat. So yeah - I developed a fear of bridges after that. I was actually 7 at the time. I feel you.
#34
Dogs. When I was young one...didn't necessarily "attack" me, but lunged at me. Now I'm afraid of dogs.
Now that I think of it, this doesn't really fit the title of the discussion post, does it? This fear is pretty rational.
Final score:
9points
Fluffy mommy panda 2 years ago
I'm afarid of big dogs because of this same reason and because I seen one as an adult almost attack someone too. I'm sorry it scary.
#36
horses...Eff horses man.
Final score:
9points
Fluffy mommy panda 2 years ago
I love horses to death but.......they are big and that makes them scary to me. I've even rode one but it got uncontrollably and I fell off and it keep running. I'm just scared they will kick me or walk on me.......
#37
I forgot about my second one because I don't allow them in my house...
Pictures of people. I'm convinced that they can see me from wherever they are. TV doesn't bother me, but a picture of my nieces or nephews terrifies me.
Final score:
9points
#38
Dolls. Like the old ones, and the "fake baby " ones. When I was younger, i had to sleep by my aunt. The moment i was begining to fall asleep, i saw it. A porcelain doll on the wardrobe. This empty look terrified me, and i couldn't take my eyes off it, because i was scared it could move and get on the bed. Animatronics, puppets (on strings) also scared me.
Final score:
9points
But Nobody Came. 2 years ago
a person i know has an obsession with terrifyingly real looking baby dolls. they look so real, omg im freaking out typing this-
#39
I am always paranoid that my glasses will fall off when I am looking over the edge of a bridge or ferry boat.
Final score:
9points
Marilyn Russell 2 years ago
Well it could happen if they are loose. I’ve lost a couple pairs of prescription sunglasses when I dove into a lake forgetting I had them on. You can buy this tubey glasses holder string thing that will keep them securely in place when you encounter those situations so you don’t have to worry. I still have my pair I bought when I went white water rafting on the Ottawa River.
#40
I am so much scared o' spiders 🕷️. Jeezz!
Final score:
8points
Marilyn Russell 2 years ago
My husband is so I’m the spider remover person. You should have seen the size of the fishing spider I found in my basement this summer. Huge! Trapped it in a mason jar and put it near my goldfish pond.
#41
i'm afraid of big table lamps and going into any 7-eleven type store. don't know why. i'm also afraid of heights, yet i love skydiving.
Final score:
8points
#42
I have an irrational fear of hairy fruit. Kiwis, peaches, coconuts, etc. Produce of any kind growing hair like fibers freaks the hell outta me.
Final score:
8points
#43
Super intense claustrophobia. I always like to be on the outside of groups of people and even looking at pictures of like mobs or large crowds makes me nervous. If I can't see a door from where I am, i feel trapped.
Weirdly, I also love sitting in tiny cozy spaces as long as I can get out really easily and quickly anytime i want to.
I'm also afraid of heights. And ladders. Omg i LITERALLY will not even stand on the top step of a four-step step ladder. Those spiraled staircases with spaces in between the steps are also a big challenge for me
Final score:
8points
#44
Bunk beds I can't sleep in the top or bottom I'm always afraid I'm going to fall off or get crushed or crush someone else terrifying
Final score:
8points
#45
I’m really scared of belly buttons
Final score:
8points
#46
I have irrational fears
They’re not funny though. Most of them are connected to my mom because she wrecked me. She reflected so many bad concepts onto me, like one time when I was 11 she was complaining about her weight.
My stomach looked bigger. I was scared that I’d blow up like a balloon.
One time, I was 12 and she noticed we had the same pant size, except her waist was 1 size bigger.
I didn’t have hips yet, I started falling into a bad place.
Eighteen days ago, I was nearly kicked out because my mom is transphobic but since that’s politically incorrect, she tried gaslighting me into believing that someone must have hurt my feelings for me to think about such “adult matters”
She was the only one who ever hurt me.
Ever.
Because she wanted me to be what I wasn’t. She wanted me to be her perfect daughter.
Final score:
8points
Marilyn Russell 2 years ago
Oh gosh, please seek the help of a Counsellor as soon as you can. These “experiences” can affect your whole life, the decisions you make, the people you let close to you… CPTSD is a real and terrible thing. I know.
#47
Hotel corridors. Analog horror fans don't act slick you know exactly what I'm talking about.
Final score:
8points
#48
Wormy things with legs - grub worms in particular. I don't know why, and I know they don't bite, but I don't want to touch them. This also includes millipedes and centipedes, but mostly because of how creepy they look. And millipedes smell terrible if you squish them.
Final score:
7points
#49
Bridges. I don’t know why but whenever I am on one I think it will randomly collapse
Final score:
7points
#50
I don't like moths. I can hear them fluttering around, but I usually can't spot them. It gives me the w*****s. I don't mind snakes or spiders or stuff like that, but send a moth after me and I cringe.
Final score:
7points
#51
Dogs, despite the fact that I have one and love her to death. All other dogs are demonspawn, though.
Final score:
7points
Marilyn Russell 2 years ago
That is truly sad. Sounds like hypnotherapy might be good for you though.
#52
I used to have a fear that someone would strap rockets to my bedroom and make my room take off into space so I would fly up and freeze to death.
Yeah, kinda strange. It was because when I was a child, I went to a space museum, and they had this thing where you have to dress up the astronaut in appropriate clothes for space. Me, being like 5, dressed him up in random stuff like shorts. The sound of the astronaut freezing to death and me watching it happen was freaky to me.
Yeah, that was weird.
Final score:
7points
#53
i have a fear of hanging crucifixes on my walls. too many horror movies as a kid. also terrified of heights. that’s why i’m short ;)
Final score:
7points
#54
Butterflies. Yes, butterflies.
My family thinks it’s hilarious. I don’t know, it’s just something about their creepy legs and the fact that they fly way too close to me for comfort. I used to like them, we’d go to a butterfly garden occasionally and I’d always try to catch them, but we went recently and I was nervous the entire time, especially when a butterfly came flying in my direction.
Final score:
7points
Veronica Rabbit 2 years ago
Any large insect can be pretty freaky. Personally, I can't stand dragonflies!
#55
Honestly I’m terrified of doctors
They just creep me out and it just feels scary and wrong to have someone else looking at my body, especially the private parts. Love them for saving people, but hate having to go to them
Final score:
7points
#56
Wasps. My family says it’s dumb and irrational lol
Final score:
7points
Marilyn Russell 2 years ago
Well if they sting you, your fear is justified. But try not to panic when you see one and stop moving around out of fear because that may get you stung more than if you remain still and calm.
#57
I am so scared of mirrors for literally no good reason. Like idk, they just freak me out like I can’t look in a mirror or anything. Apparently there’s a psychological thing where if you look at yourself through a mirror in a dimly lit room after you stare at your face for a while you will start hallucinating. Even the smartest people do it. You can’t control it. Idk, someone test it out for me, I can’t do it. 🪞🫣
Final score:
7points
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
I’m afraid of mirrors because it feels as though my reflection will start moving on its own independant from me
#58
being home alone, its just a scary thought that a killer is going or come or something.
Final score:
7points
Vanessa Steis 2 years ago
I know that feeling. I do enjoy being alone for a while, as I can do as I want to,turn the music on and clean through the house, but after a while I get anxiety someone might break in,or is already in the house.It's worse when it's dark.
#59
Needles
Final score:
7points
Moried Elventouched 2 years ago
Oh my gosh YES! I have a panick attack in the car ride to wherever we're going to get shots and cry when we get there. Like, until we leave. 😰
#60
I am terrified of bandaids and stickers. It freaks me out how they can be stuck to you at anytime without you knowing. Like if someone is wearing a bandaid I won't touch them at all. Or if a little kid offers me a sticker I literally can't take it.
Final score:
7points
#62
Cream - Yes I’m scared of this dairy product and I have no idea why. I don’t even like thinking about it. It makes me feel weird. I know it’s a silly phobia but the thought of eating it is unbearable. Or if someone uses the cream from a can it’s like nails on a chalk board to me and I have to look away too. I do like yogurt though!
Final score:
6points
#63
public bathrooms are gross and i never know which one to use because i could pass as both male and female which has given me really bad gymnophobia ("really bad" as in i rarely use the bathroom and shower fully clothed)
Final score:
6points
#64
Excavators. I am sure they are secretly sentient and will suddenly attack me.
Also tractors with very big wheels.
I'm 45.
Final score:
6points
tara 2 years ago
I babysat for someone and their wood furnace was in their connected garage. The garage was FULL of big trucks and machines like excavators and loaders. I was SURE they were going to turn on and run me down. I ran the heck outta there and never checked the fire again...Thanks Maximum Overdrive!
#65
Airplane bathrooms, its so hard to open the door when you're trying to get out and I get unrealistically scared that I'll be locked in there forever, and that the toilet could suck me into a dark abyss in the plane. Yes, I know none of this could happen, but some of those childhood fears just don't go away!
Final score:
6points
Yet Another Thomas Moore 2 years ago
Huh, I find planes to be rather calming to me. Including the bathrooms.
#66
I am 20 and still afraid of the dark. I can not sleep with out a light on. I think it is because I have a very big imagination and get thinking monster or something is going to come and get me when I am try to sleep.
Final score:
6points
Vanessa Steis 2 years ago
I'm 35 and I am too. I don't need a light to sleep, but I can't stand glass doors and windows when it's dark behind there. I always have the feeling someone or something is in the darkness and watching me.
#68
Sometimes I aways feel like a bad accident is gonna happen. Like a bad wreck or a shooting. Or someone gonna break in and kill me and my family. Sometimes it not that bad other times. It frightening to the core I don't why. Like just crazy stuff that has happened. I think I just have aniextiety and when I go places sometimes I think something bad might happen. Because sometimes bad things happen. And I don't want to see my kids get hurt......that my biggest fear. My family getting hurt. Aways aways worried about that a lot. Sometimes not. But sometimes......I know it is strange.
Final score:
5points
#69
Butterflys and moths. If they get near me, I freak out. The worst part is actually having people see... 😒
Final score:
5points
#70
I’m afraid of shower heads, and I have been for my entire life. Luckily I’ve gone from screaming and crying when just thinking about them, to just having an intense feeling of dread. I do take showers, don’t worry, but I can’t look at the shower head while doing it, I have to be quick (I probably don’t shower for more than four minutes at a time but I do make sure I’m clean), I can only shower at night, and I have to have music on.
I’m also afraid of change. I’ve been worried before that if I leave a room, and then come back, the furniture might be rearranged or the walls might be a different color, or that one day I’ll wake up and something will be slightly different. This fear is very mild but I thought I might include it.
Terrified of heights. Scared of what might happen once I die, especially since I’m not religious. Mildly afraid of texting. I have to check several times to make sure I sent my text to the right person. I’m worried that my reply isn’t what they want to hear, or that my tone might not be read correctly, or that the contact or phone number I have saved isn’t actually the person I’m trying to reach, even though it always is. I prefer talking in person, but that’s not always feasible.
I’m afraid of all insects, specifically a certain kind of caterpillar. I can never remember what they’re called, but they’re a kind of moth, they’re fuzzy and yellow, have two black antenna on the front and one on the back. I can’t even look at pictures of them. When I was younger, we went camping, and all the frogs were gone. Usually there were so many frogs that you couldn’t go anywhere without stepping on one, and they screamed like dying kids at night, which is probably why I’m also uneasy around frogs now. But instead of the usual frogs, there were now these f*****g caterpillars, and they were everywhere. They were on the tent, in the tent, on my clothes, in our food, just everywhere. And their heads would fall off and gather and in clouds at your feet…not to mention they had acid on their feet. And no one else was scared of them. It’s been years and I’m still absolutely horrified by them. They went away after a few years (thankfully, because they were also killing the trees with the acid in their feet), but then the frogs came back.
I feel like I have a good sense of humor about all this, but oh my god do these fears suck. Sorry for the long post, feel free to ask anything.
Final score:
5points
#71
I’m from frightened of toothbrushes. It’s the sound they make that I simply can’t bear and turns me into a whimpering ball of fear. I can’t talk about them, look at them in the supermarket (I’m also from the United Kingdom of UK) or watch any form of advert where people are brushing their teeth.
I have to use an electric toothbrush as the motor sound masks that awful noise of scraping bone.
Final score:
5points
#72
That the refrigerated biscuit tube will pop open while I'm peeling the paper off. Freaks me out
Final score:
5points
#73
That while stuck in the Mammogram machine there will be an emergency, like the building catches fire or something to that effect, and I'll have to practically rip my own breast off to get out of the machine and escape the building.
Final score:
5points
#74
I fear that my teachers have cameras in my house and they are always watching me. Anytime I pass where I feel they are, I flip them off with my pinkeys and ask them why me.
I think I need mental help ;-; Any suggestions?
Final score:
5points
Kamar kruz 2 years ago
Maybe search your house a few times? it might not help. Try looking around your room and putting a blanket or towel or some type of fabric on the floor, then you can tell if somebody moved it. (If you do that then you should tell your family.) I think it's highly unlikely that your teachers are spying on you, but try whatever makes you feel better. We pandas are here for you!
#75
Terracotta pots. I get anxious around them for no reason at all. If they're glazed, then it doesn't happen. Just the plain brown gritty ones.
My heart is pounding just typing this up!
Final score:
5points
#76
Fish. I am incredibly scared of fish. no clue why, no clue where it came from. I don't leave near the beach (the closest one is like a 3 hour drive).
I went on a vacation to Florida once. beautiful clear blue water, white sand, no washed up seaweed. it was amazing. But, because the water was clear I could see small silver fish in the water. I ended up staying high up on a float for hours because I wouldn't touch the water. my dad has even threatened to take away my phone if I didn't try to swim.
needless to say, I don't like swimming anymore
Final score:
4points
tara 2 years ago (edited)
I am afraid of fish too!!!! The smaller the scarier! When I Was a kid we had goldfish in my bedroom. The tank was too small and I Didn't know, I had a few fish in it, but I guess they were cramped and jumped out. Some were saved....some were not and I found them dead and dried out a few days later when we came home from visiting for the weekend. One morning I woke up and one fish was halfway across the floor on it's way to my bed!!! (He died) I figured out the tank sizes so they were happier (they ended up getting a whole pond to swim in all summer), and got a top for the tank, But to this day I CANT go in a pet store where there are tanks of fish. And if someone is taking fish out of a tank (At a pet store or at home to change the water etc.) I can't be in the room....or the building, I'm afraid they might jump out and need me to rescue them but I'll be too scared to save them and they will die cause of me. :(
#77
I am scared that if I go up a castle tower , high hill or really tall building I will fall off.
Final score:
4points
#79
I’m scared of fog patches that are at ground level. They freak me out and I hate having to drive through them. I also don’t like the dark or deep water where I can’t see the bottom (mostly the ocean).
Final score:
4points
Key Martin 2 years ago
I also hate deep, dark water. I will not swim in a swimming pool unless I can clearly define the bottom and walls from the deck.
#80
I am deathly afraid of birds, not small birds but chickens on up….
Final score:
4points
#81
Putting bleach anywhere. Ever since I learned about mustard gas I thought there was any kind of lethal gas that could be made with some good ol clorox and O2
Final score:
4points
#82
No noise. we have no idea why but when theres no noise in the room we are in, we freak out. After we are out of the room we look back and laugh.
Final score:
4points
#83
I hate crowds. Too many people and I feel like they’re all staring at me. Sometimes there are so many people I feel trapped. If I can’t see the door or have to squeeze past a bunch of people I don’t like it and will try to get out of there as soon as possible.
Final score:
4points
Charlotte m 2 years ago
I think that’s social anxiety but you should get a professional instead of trusting me
#84
Elevators. You could get stuck and go crazy. Either way, I just can't trust them.
Final score:
4points
#87
Dogs and more recently the sound of silver on silver. Like the sound of keys jangling or bracelets and stuff like that. It stems from the fear of dogs (cynophobia) where i would get very scared when I heard the sound of a dog collar jangling, and now the two fears have separated so I will get very anxious if i hear silvery noises even when there is no dog! In fact, i would say the fear of silvery noises is worse now then the dog thing! my cynophobia was more prevalent in my early childhood.
Final score:
3points
#88
Ants, i despise ants, my skin crawls just by imagining them on me, dunno if its a phobia, but i can't stand ants, and massive bodies of water also like Dams, ( pools no problem, ocean, as long as i don't try to swim in it no problem, a dam or a reservoir.... my vertigo kicks in and i feel like my balance is gone, its really wierd ).
Final score:
3points
#89
Anything with more than 4 legs... the way they move just creeps me out so much that I scream shake uncontrollably, or even throw up
Final score:
3points
#90
I wouldn't say this is necessarily entirely irrational, but it's certainly an odd one. I've (F13) recently started my freshman year of high school, and I've had my hair cut extremely short since fifth grade. It's just easier on the whole. However, that combined with the fact that I tend to prefer sweatpants and hoodies to even t-shirts and shorts (or the fact that I hate almost everything to do with the color pink) means that I have MANY anecdotes about being mistaken for a guy. So here's one of my top three fears: That one day, some girl will think I'm a guy and try to ask me out or ask for my number. I can't even imagine the embarrassment that would happen in that scenario.
Final score:
3points
#91
I actually have a phobia of sorts of crash test dummies. I'm a child of the 90's, which (as some of you know) had some creepy television commercials. The car commercials that were featuring safety used crash test dummies to demonstrate. As a child, I found them disturbing and the result was a recurring nightmare where murderous crash test dummies took over the world and the last thing I would see is a child dummy trying to strangle and eat me after it killed my family. It always stuck with me and even now, at 36 years old, I cringe and squirm at the sight of a crash test dummy. I really hate them.
Final score:
3points
#92
I'm afraid of heights. This might not seem irrational, but I'll explain. Standing on ladder precariously. Fine. Being in a perfectly secure building near a window. Holy c**p no! Lol
Final score:
3points
#93
Also, I hate going underground. And anything with glass. Glass bridges. Will definitely break. Glass lifts. Why would I want to see how they work? They'll break!
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3points
#94
I have two
1) bike riding. I had a major accident and haven’t been able to ride since.
2) semi trucks. I’m afraid of being squashed by them. And I have claustrophobia so that doesn’t help
Final score:
3points
Izzi C (Submission author) 2 years ago
Oh also I have a major fear of falling. I’m fine with heights, but falling terrifies me
#95
Caterpillars!! Boy howdy do they give me heebie jeebies!!
I'm also afraid to hang anything on the wall above my bed, thanks to reading Flat Stanley as a child. I'm in my late 40s and have not been flattened by a picture yet, but I don't want to take any chances.
Final score:
3points
#96
Octopodes!! (plural of octopus) I get so nervous whenever I'm near them, when I go to the aquarium (quite often; i love the ocean) i cant go into the octopus section without freaking out. I think this fear was caused when i was 5, i went to the aquarium and i remember seeing a video of a kraken destroying a bridge. I GOT SO SCARED! Later that night, i had a nightmare me & my family and friends were on a bridge and each getting individually 'unalived' by an octopus. And also I think theyre gonna pop out of nowhere and drag me down with their tentacles and sucker things. Eeekkk and also they're way too smart, and they look like aliens-
Final score:
3points
But Nobody Came. (Submission author) 2 years ago
I should add that I think they're amazing, I just can't really stand them.
#97
Mirrors or blank screens (as in tv screens or computer monitors), particularly in dark rooms. Some part of me always expects something to crawl out of them.
Final score:
3points
#98
Cut fruit! The sight of it makes me sick. I don’t know if it’s trust issues or what, but I just can’t!
Also mandarin peel. Cannot touch it at all.
Final score:
3points
#99
I still think my mom will find out anything and everything.
Final score:
3points
#100
I'm afraid of getting old, getting frail and being alone. I don't have kids and I probably won't have kids in the future. What if my partner dies before me and I'm alone and old? The older you get the less your body works and thinking about my future "golden years". It freaks me out and gives me anxiety. Up to the point that I start crying.
Also seeing older people,especially ones that are feeble and have problems walking for example, really gets me.
Final score:
3points
Elizabeth VanDyke 2 years ago
Those "golden years" ain't so golden. Getting old is not for sissies.
#101
Getting my nails painted. Weirdly doesn't apply to toenails ┐( ∵ )┌
Final score:
3points
#102
Wood
Especially wet wood
I think it comes from those awful little ice cream cups, with the tiny little wooden spoons. I was always terrified that I’d get a splinter in my mouth 🤮
Final score:
3points
#103
I have the fear of looking up.
There is a name for it but I forgot what it was. It only applies if I am seeing nothing but sky. It makes me feel like I am going to suddenly fall to my death, even if I am standing on the ground.
Not terrified to do it but it makes extremely uncomfortable.
It's a weird one.
Final score:
2points
#104
I'm seriously terrified of a zombie apocalypse - so much so that it was over of the reasons I learnt to drive!
Final score:
2points
#105
I am terrified of people my age and small kids
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2points
#106
yes I am mortified if sitting on an overpass in my car surrounded by traffic just idling.
Final score:
2points
#107
I have PTSD from workplace bullying so I have been unable to return to any workplace, even as a volunteer. Can't handle loud environments with too many people - even shopping or excursions also trigger me. I don't get panic attacks any more but I do have to have a quiet lie down after such experiences.
In response to many of the fears expressed in this list, unless they can be traced to a present life source, then they may have a past life source. Past life regression is a proven assistance, as can meditation. Love to all!
Final score:
2points
#108
Giant flora and fauna.
I’m dead serious. It’s ridiculous. Fortunately though, it’s not something I stumble across everyday. In fact I was 20 before I realised I had this stupid fear. At first I didn’t even understand what was happening; one moment I was walking into the giant vegetable competition tent at a local fair, and the next I was outside on my hands and knees having a panic attack…
Through trial-and-hyperventilating-error, it turns out it’s really specific too- only the vegetables *in proportion* set me off…
A unreasonably long, but very skinny carrot doesn’t phase me at all. But show me a perfectly proportioned carrot as thick as my arm? Existential dread. Palpitations. The overwhelming urge to run away.
A few years ago I was in Vegas in a very nice hotel. I happened upon a chocolate-dipped strawberry the size of a child’s fist. I threw-up a bit in my mouth and started to cry.
Giant animals don’t evoke so strong a reaction, but they do give me a wicked case of the heebie-jeebies, making me sweaty and shakey. Just *the perception* that an animal is oversized is enough to do it. I was having a lovely time at the petting zoo until my daughter pointed out that the capybaras looked like ‘giant Guinea pigs’ and… I ran. I am ashamed to say I abandoned my firstborn and was over the fence in seconds. So now Capybaras have joined giant tortoises in the absurd category of cute animals I have to ‘psych myself up for’.
I’m in my late 30s. I have a good degree. Last week my children witnessed me yeet a punnet of grapes across the kitchen :-/
Final score:
2points
#109
Railings. On balconys, anywhere high up. Because they CAN give in so you WILL fall.
Final score:
1point
#110
Mirrors or blank screens (as in tv screens or computer monitors), particularly in dark rooms. Some part of me always expects something to crawl out of them.
Final score:
0points
The most creative and witty username known to man (Submission author) 2 years ago
Dang it, accidentally double posted. Ignore this one lol.
#111
Giant flora and fauna.
I’m dead serious. It’s ridiculous. Fortunately though, it’s not something I stumble across everyday. In fact I was 20 before I realised I had this stupid fear. At first I didn’t even understand what was happening; one moment I was walking into the giant vegetable competition tent at a local fair, and the next I was outside on my hands and knees having a panic attack…
Through trial-and-hyperventilating-error, it turns out it’s really specific too- only the vegetables *in proportion* set me off…
A unreasonably long, but very skinny carrot doesn’t phase me at all. But show me a perfectly proportioned carrot as thick as my arm? Existential dread. Palpitations. The overwhelming urge to run away.
A few years ago I was in Vegas in a very nice hotel. I happened upon a chocolate-dipped strawberry the size of a child’s fist. I threw-up a bit in my mouth and started to cry.
Giant animals don’t evoke so strong a reaction, but they do give me a wicked case of the heebie-jeebies, making me sweaty and shakey. Just *the perception* that an animal is oversized is enough to do it. I was having a lovely time at the petting zoo until my daughter pointed out that the capybaras looked like ‘giant Guinea pigs’ and… I ran. I am ashamed to say I abandoned my firstborn and was over the fence in seconds. So now Capybaras have joined giant tortoises in the absurd category of cute animals I have to ‘psych myself up for’.
I’m in my late 30s. I have a good degree. Last week my children witnessed me yeet a punnet of grapes across the kitchen :-/
Final score:
0points
#112
Kaboomboom!
Final score:
-1point
Michelle Miller 2 years ago
I am terrified of moths. Just the idea of those little hairy bodies with those little feet touching me can make me run screaming from a room. Stupid I know
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Deutschland Mädchen 2 years ago
I have this fear that I'll say something a spill a secret without realizing it or that something I write will somehow be different once my teacher reads it
Gilmore Girls 2 years ago
The scraping of metal on plates. I get literal shivers. And the feeling of wood. I hate them touching my mouth. I HATE IT!!!
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
I got a weird fear of pineapples. My aunt told 6 year old me not to drink water after having pineapples or else you may “cut” your tongue. Since then I’ve been afraid to eat any kind of pineapple anywhere. I can’t have pinapple flavoured stuff as well
Deutschland Mädchen 2 years ago
I have this fear that I'll say something a spill a secret without realizing it or that something I write will somehow be different once my teacher reads it
Gilmore Girls 2 years ago
The scraping of metal on plates. I get literal shivers. And the feeling of wood. I hate them touching my mouth. I HATE IT!!!
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
I got a weird fear of pineapples. My aunt told 6 year old me not to drink water after having pineapples or else you may “cut” your tongue. Since then I’ve been afraid to eat any kind of pineapple anywhere. I can’t have pinapple flavoured stuff as well
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