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Thread: What is your Phobia?
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2016-12-30, 08:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Very far from any ocean
Re: What is your Phobia?
I kind of agree with the sunscreen. Anything that's kinda pasty and comes out of a tube just weirdos me the heck out. Which has made hygiene a tough issue my whole life, because I hate being dirty, but the only cleaning products available are slimy and gross XD
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2017-01-01, 06:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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2017-01-02, 08:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2016
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I get pretty messed up by heights, spiders, and deep murky water. But the thing that really gets my heart racing is when I hear noises that sound like they're made by something intelligent (such as breathing, foot steps, or even the intentional or unintentional movement of objects that shouldn't move on their own.) and I know that I'm the only one around. Just gives me a sinking feeling in my stomach, even though it doesn't bother me as much as I used to.
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2017-01-03, 02:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2017
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Other people and heights. I'm just fine climbing anything up to an essentially arbitrary height, but seeing anyone else near an edge that's even five or six feet tall seizes me with the utmost dread.
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2017-01-09, 02:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2016
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I have a strong phobia for spiders. (Who doesn't?)
Also for the deep sea and space.
A shameful phobia of dolls.
And (this is linked to space and the sea) a phobia for gods, cosmic entities, giant monsters. Note: I don't believe these exist. Yet i can't watch drawings of these without instantly putting it away. (Thanks Lovecraft.) It's fun to write horror stories about though.
And heights. Can't forget that classic.Last edited by LordVonSteiner; 2017-01-09 at 02:04 AM.
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2017-01-11, 09:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2017
Re: What is your Phobia?
Cats and mouses
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2017-01-12, 03:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2017
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- England
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I have a massive problem with insects and arachnids, which is a strange cross between fear and aggression (one time I tried to dropkick a spider, if you can believe that). I do also have a slight fear of the dark, but nowadays it isn't too bad so long as I'm not suddenly plunged into the inky blackness of an unlit room at night.
Currently daydreaming about: big giant swords.
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2017-01-12, 05:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2009
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I used to be terribly phobic of spiders. But very, very slowly I grew accustomed to the idea that they're always around, and they eat flies, which are objectively more harmful/dangerous than almost all spiders, and now I can accept most of them.
I'm fine with the ones that have small bodies and long, fine legs, which is the commonest type around here. The ones with larger bodies, which scuttle about and jump - those still give me the creeps to some extent, although not so much that I can't handle them. (When you're the head of a family, you don't get the luxury of "not being able to deal with things". At the very least, I can either kill them or throw them out of the house.)"None of us likes to be hated, none of us likes to be shunned. A natural result of these conditions is, that we consciously or unconsciously pay more attention to tuning our opinions to our neighbor’s pitch and preserving his approval than we do to examining the opinions searchingly and seeing to it that they are right and sound." - Mark Twain
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2017-01-12, 06:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2014
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I used to be deathly afraid of seriously powerful thunderstorms, mostly out of concern for tornadoes. Now that I live in a place that has really big storms but no real risk of tornadoes I've mellowed out but I can't say honestly I wouldn't revert if I moved back to somewhere where that's a concern.
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2017-01-18, 10:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2017
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- The underdark
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Re: What is your Phobia?
mirrors. because i see wierd stuff. dont question it.
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2017-01-18, 03:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2010
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- The Rockies
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Bees. When I was two or three years old, I was playing in the driveway and I got stung on the throat by a bee. It started to swell up so bad that I began suffocating. The obvious conclusion is that I was deathly allergic to them. I've been stung a few times after that it's never been that serious, but still knowing that I almost died at an absurdly young age because of that kinda haunts me whenever I see them buzzing about their day.
Also cockroaches because they freak me the hell out, though at least I moved to a part of the US that they don't inhabit.Originally Posted by Traab
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2017-01-19, 07:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2017
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Funnily enough, I love snakes, spiders, crocodiles, toads, all those animals people are usually afraid of, but can't handle Pigs.
When i was a kid we lived in Papua New Guinea and my dad was a government vet. One day he took little 7 or 8-year-old me to a pig farm and we had to walk in between the stalls where these enormous, loud and smelly creatures were kept, and as we walked, they would hurl themselves at the sides of the stalls, thinking, maybe, that we were going to feed them.
We also lived on a cocoa plantation while there, and there were wild boars in the plantation. i still remember the talk our parents would give me and my brothers before we went for a walk in the plantation, about if we ran into a wild boar, to turn and walk casually away, and if it charged, to climb the fence or a tree and to 'help your little brother climb' as he was only 4/5. And i remember all the times we did run into wild boars and how HUGE and horrifying they were.
So now pigs, even little domestic piglets like Babe, put my teeth on edge and make me break out in a sweat.
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2017-01-19, 07:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2016
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- Fight! Fight! FIIIIIGHT!
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Re: What is your Phobia?
Water where I can't find the floor/ground. Effing terrifying.
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2017-01-19, 08:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2014
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- Ontario, Canada
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Yeah, fair enough.
I've been on a few short cruises, and I remember one time walking around when it was dark and there was nobody around.
I was suddenly very much aware that there were quite possibly kilometers of pitch black water beneath me, lurking in which could be almost anything.
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2017-01-19, 08:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2007
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- As often as possible
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Re: What is your Phobia?
1. Heights
2. Mirrors in the dark
3. Closet doorsGnomish Decker by me! You can find more of my work here!!! Also, my Tumblr, if you're into that
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2017-01-20, 08:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2016
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Last edited by WhovianBeast; 2017-01-20 at 08:05 PM.
If violence wasn't the last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.
A soft answer turneth away Wrath. Once Wrath looks away, shoot it in the head.
The longer everything goes to plan, the bigger the impending disaster.
Those who spell rogue 'rouge' will be the first to go when I am overlord.
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2017-01-20, 10:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2008
Re: What is your Phobia?
Spiders. Especially small ones. I've held big ones in my hands while in a Spiderman costume. 'But Ravens Cry!' you all type, why small spiders? Why not big ones?'
Well, I am glad you asked, as I will tell you.
It's because they could be on you, and you might not even know it!
Also, watching me walk through a spiderweb is hilarious fun . . . for everyone else.Last edited by Ravens_cry; 2017-01-20 at 10:31 PM.
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2017-01-26, 11:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2017
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- Germany
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Re: What is your Phobia?
For me, it's insects and other arthropods in general. The bigger and fatter they are, and the faster and more unpredictable they move, the less I like them. Of course, there are some more or less random exceptions: I have no problem with crustaceans. Also common house flies, because those things are so ubiquitous, and cellar spiders, because they never ever leave their web under the ceiling.
Too bad I live alone, so whenever a big ol' bug enters my apartment, I have to fight an epic battle of life and death, one versus one, woman versus monstrosity.
Also, injection needles and the deep, dark ocean make me uncomfortable, but I couldn't call that a phobia.
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2017-02-04, 11:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2017
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My only personal phobia 'Heights' not the distance from the ground but a perception of instability. I have no problem looking over a steep drop -IF- the footing is solid...
Visit the Grand Canyon and lean out past the safety rails? No problem. Step up in a chair and if it sway or flexes I start sweating bullets. The anxiety gets worse the higher off the ground and the less solid it feels under my body. It has gotten so bad that in fact my body refuses to cooperate climbing any higher (a pseudo-nervous paralysis where my legs locked and I could step down but struggle as I might I could not raise my foot an inch from the step to go higher).
Working around the house on a 8' aluminum ladder I brace my feet and lock them against the ladders frame so you could more easily knock the ladder over than you could drag me off it, resulting in such muscle tension that 5 minutes on a ladder drains me as much as 30 minutes of the heaviest exertion.
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2017-02-04, 03:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2012
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- Australia
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Re: What is your Phobia?
1. Phones. Phones, microphones, radios, anything I have to talk into. No idea why and it started sometime after I finished high school, if the phone would ring my heart would start racing, if nobody else picked it up immediately I would break down crying. I would hyperventilate at the prospect of having to make a phonecall. Didnt help that my birds at the time all started imitating the sound of a phone ringing. I've gotten a lot better with it these days, still cant stand it but my boss of my last job was really patient with me when I had to make phonecalls, and I started regularly getting on discord to talk with just 1-2 people at a time on voicechat to get myself used to it.
2. ....Aliens. Not sure where this one came from either, I let my imagination get the better of me sometimes. When I used to have my bed next to the window and would leave it open at night, I'd stare outside at the sky as I was falling asleep and would just imagine seeing a UFO flying by or something, then would freak myself out so much I had to hide under my blankets. I try to expose myself to more (scary) sci fi media nowadays in an attempt to desensitize myself to it.
3. Roaches. I can handle snakes and spiders (See: Australian), but cockroaches just freak me out beyond belief. Wetas are right up there too whenever I've gone to New Zealand to visit family, I blame my dad for telling me various horrible stories about them when I was a little kid that may or may not have been true.
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2017-02-05, 04:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2015
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- UK
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My most major phobia is needles. They terrify me.
I was mostly ok, until due to a hockey (the real one, not the one on ice!) injury, I needed to go to hospital and have an operation. The procedural injections were bad enough, but the block given for anaesthetic was the most painful in my life.
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2017-03-13, 11:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2014
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- Hastings, NE
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Bees....Just.....NOT THE BEES!
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2017-03-21, 07:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2017
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The Left Big toe.
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2018-05-06, 06:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2018
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I have a phobia of blood.
It is called blood injury phobia. I won't give a detailed description of this phobia, because anyone of you can Google it.
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2018-05-06, 11:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2018
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- Houston, TX
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I dunno if its technically a phobia, but I really don't like talking to people on the phone unless its someone I know really well. If I have to call a business or something I always have to kind of psych myself up for it first, or sometimes I find myself procrastinating just because I don't want to talk on the phone... :\
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2018-05-06, 02:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2017
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- ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
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I fear the ocean (you'd be surprised at what could maul your face off before you drown), but part of that is that I don't know how to swim...
Oh, and I also fear injuries larger than a scratch or a splinter. I mean, what do you do if you're not a doctor?
I also fear getting pregnant as a guy . However, having kids might be worse
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2018-05-06, 07:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2015
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I have haemophobia (fear of blood). Seeing people bleeding, or pools of blood, gives me the heebie-jeebies.
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2018-05-07, 05:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2017
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- Singapore
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I'm not afraid of blood, but I do feel faint when I see it or hear someone talking about it. I've actually fainted on four occasions.
I'm also afraid of golems. Specifically those woven from yarn, and infused with dark energy.
Basically thread necromancy.