Category: Getting to Know You
Hi I'm Dusty. Been using the Zone for about a month so I think it's time I opened up a little.
i really can't be doing with clowns. I don't know why. don't get me wrong I'm not physically scared of them but they really unnerve me. they're supposed to make people happy but I think it's those painted-on smiles that are there even when Bonzo or whatever he's called is really pissed off. Evil bastards, keep them away from me!
Anyway that's me telling you a bit about me, what's your irrational fear that no-one else gets? Not spiders, bees or anything tangible like that. come on, let's share ;-)
I'm afraid of cows and chickens...not sure why, though.
I am afraid of saunas i think i am in an aven when i go in there and i worry in kace i faint or something.
Also sanding somewhere without anything around to hold on skares me. I don't know why. Very strange. Also swimming. I had a lot of lessons but never learned.
I hate elavators...being by myself in them. I'm always scared that they'll stop in mid air, and will just fall down the shaft all of a sudden, with no warning. I'm also scared of that if they stop in mid air, I won't be able to get out.
Snakes in any form
The jewish holocaust frightenes the bejesus out of me.
I think it's more the deliberate arrogant cruelty that I'm scared of.
Not keen on lifts and hmm guns
I'm afraid of housework. can't imagine why, <grin>
I am afraid of changes. Like if I don't know what is happening. I have panick attacks. Though not as bad now.
hmm, chuh chuh chuh chuh changes...... Iiiiik, not liked. Um, I'm actually scared of panicking, which is rather odd, and scared of being scared..... rofl, yeh, i'm a freak, thank you..... Anything of the buzzy variety, death, loss of conrtol, not of people, of myself..... probably more, but dunno
I'm afraid of the boogie man under my bed.
Anyone else afraid of birds?
I don't mind birds in cages, but flying around! no no no no no no no! keep them away! I'm deathly afraid of them shitting on my head, or pecking at it. I don't even like seagulls.
Ha, Dusty, great topic. I couldn't imagine being afraid of birds, though--I love them.
All right, all right, my irrational fear ... and it's really irrational ... irrational to the point of being a little bit idiotic ... I can't stand Cush balls. Lmao! Seriously, those little fuzzy balls are demonically evil. I have no idea how to describe my fear of them, and it's not fear exactly, just ... ehh, I dunno. Ever since I was a little baby I've hated them, their texture mostly. I had nightmares about them when I was little. I'm not kidding. I'd dream that my bed was full of them or that I was hiding under my covers and someone was piling them on top of me and all around me, and once I dreamed that one was dangling from a thread on my shorts and I had to be really careful not to touch it. Oh, and I dreamed that my stepdad was chasing me with one and trying to make me touch it, and I was trying to scream but my voice was all hoarse. Lmfaolmfaolmfao! I'm a mental case, I know it. I don't have nightmares about them anymore, and haven't for years, but I stay out of their way and they stay out of mine.
When I was six or seven my aid determined to rid me of my fear of them, and she held all the rubber bandy things back and made me touch the ball itself, and then she said she was going to let them go and I screamed and ran. And she put one on the trampoline with me once when I was jumping, but luckily for me I had socks on and felt it bounce against my foot. And now that I have revealed to the entire Zone community what a spaz I am, I shall depart. Thank you. Lol.
Water Bugs. In case anyone doesn't know they are these big mother cockroaches. Like the size of mice. My daughter just told me she saw two of them in the house recently and one of them was pregnant. She's taking a nap now or I'd ask her how in the hell you know when a water bug is pregnant. Except that I wan't say it that way because she considers that cursing and we're not supposed to do that with each other - her rule, not mine. Anyway, I think I'm going to dream about water bug babies crawling over me. It's irrational because I don't think they are at all interested in human flesh.
wasps, bees, yellow jackets, anything that can sting. when i hear of a wasp or bee being anywhere near me, I'm terrified almost to death. something in meis screaming, no! no! no! I hate and fear them, wasps and bees are purely evil, and when someone is trying to kill it and misses, i'm in a hate panic, and I'm saying over and over in my head, die you little monster! die! die! die!all the time, I'm outwardly sitting there, frightened, angry and tense, trying not to move or breath or say anything, but just keep the fear and anger and tention inside of me. then when it's dead or goes away,l I can breathe a sigh of relief and i feel normal again.
wonderwoman
Ah wasps. Here's where a little eyesight can get you in trouble. If you happen to see a big dark blob sitting on a table where nothing has been for a while, grabbing it with your hand as a way to clean it off is a really really bad idea.
yeah, I can imagine. if you have no sight at all, you can hear the stupid thing, but the trouble is, no sooner than you hear the direction it's in, then it's gone to another . the same way with any other bee.
wonderwoman
direction
Cows can and do kill and they are difficult to predict
I don't think this is a phobia, as I only get nervous and/or react when directly confronted with this, and weirdly, medical stuff also interests me to read or hear about it. but I get really nervous right before and sometimes during medical procedures, even simple ones like shots, or if I get hurt at home, and someone is going to look at it because it usually means they'll touch it with something. Until almost 10 years ago, I actually used to cry when getting shots (just the usual vaccinations and TB/blood tests.) I also usually ask to go to the restroom when I know the time is close to see the doctor or to get a shot because I get that nervous, and Mom also notices that I tend to ask more questions and/or get tense. I've tried staying calm and not thinking about it, but as soon as I go into the room, I know what's going to happen, and it's hard to stay calm. I think part of it, for me, is that I can't see what's going to happen, even though I know. I think the only times I stayed calm were twice. Both times, the doctors told me exactly how shots were going to feel and were very calm and patient toward me. (and actually, one was where I was getting stitches for a cut on my finger, and the other was just before a dental surgery. But that could've also been because on the surgery one, they had put a numbing spray on my arm first.) Other than that, if I wasn't required to go for something else (like getting an, overdue by 5 years, tetanus shot, and a TB test for a summer camp I'd been promising a friend I'd go to with her), I don't think I would go to the doctor's if not for that.
I'm absolutely phobic about seaweed. Always have been I can't even walk on it with shoes on which is totally irrational.
i'm scared of anything buzzy, can't be in a room with a buzzy insect
Computers. Yeah I know, I'm using one right now.
I have an irrational, well, its not really irrational to me, fear of doing something new and difficult with the computer. I have this fear i'll really mess up one day, and everything wil l just crash, boom! I'm ok as long as it's just playing with check boxes, radio buttons, because all of these can easily be changed back if you don't change too many at once, but when it comes to things like the registery, editing files such as batch files or .ini files, uh uh, forget it. I turn cold and clammy just thinking about it.
wonderwoman
Agree 100 percent! Although I sometimes think if I so much as touch a computer it might break. I'm surprized this one hasn't. I hope not.
you should've seen me when i went to a friends house i use to know to see her computer before getting one. I let her do everything and was scared to touch it. And when I turned my computer on christmas day for the first time christmas morning, the first thing i did was accidently unload jaws, or get it to stop talking. I called her on the phone and said, I have one thing to say. she asked, what? and i almost screamed, Help! I told her i believed i had crashed jaws right off, and she said, you'll get him back, which i did, but those first few weeks on the computer were pretty scarey for me.
wonderwoman
nedles, medical procedures, bit scared of flying. boats, water, what lives in the water, that's to be expected as a lot of what lives in australian waters can hurt you. anything with more than 4 legs.
I. HATE. RATS. AND. MICE.
We are talking about an irrational coming apart fear/hate relationship here.
When I was a psychology student, we had to perform an animal training experiment with (you guessed it) white monster/mice.
I put off taking that particular course until it was either not graduate or take the damn course.
I tried to play the blind card, explaining to my lab partner that a poor blind person couldn't be expected to match wits with those creatures.
She told me she was irrationally afraid of them, and that if I didn't handle our experimental animal, it wouldn't be handled.
Eventually, I mastered my fear enough to reach out and grab the bugger behind the head. Oh my God! The panic I felt. That thing was nasty.
But, we named the little bastard, gave him human qualities that he never had, and built a fantasy about this monster that made him our friend.
On the last day, after all the experiment was done, I decided to give my new friend a drink of water before we put him to death. So I picked him up, and sat him in the water tray where he could drink his fill. The sucker turned around and bit me. And the fight was on.
I had to get a tetnas shot for that one.
Still hate them.
Bob
I hate mice, esculators, and fireworks. All these make me really nervous. I agree with Bobby. Don't like mice or rats or any kind of rodent.
I hate fireworks, the cause of my first panic attack. I also hate small crowded places because I'm chlostrophobic. I panic if a crowd of people and I are in close quarters and I can't get out.
doctors, nurses, hospitals, needles, thouigh to me, those fears aren't irrational.
wonderwoman
Buzzing insects MUST DIE! can't stand them
I hate anything insect because they buzz. Especially when they come near my ear, fear all the way, i almost go into convulsions!
Also, I'm afraid of not being contrr of my body and mind. And slimy stuff. ick.
fear of nightmares I know it sounds strange, but sometimes I can tell when I'm about to have one, and that's when the facial twitching starts, and I can't wake myself up.
I forgot to mention that I have a strange fear of false awakenings. It happens to me real bad. I think I'm awake but I'm not, and the cycle repeats itself for hours. I finally wake up, usually because I'm hyperventilating. sp
sounds creepy
needles, insects, rats, mice, things that live in Australian waters that can hurt you, birds, ants! keep them away from me!!!