Phobias?

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**Azza007**

What are yours? I was reading the thread on weird snake behaviour and it gave me a bit of the creeps when researching the type of snake mentioned. It got me wondering as to what other people have fears of. For me heights and small spaces seem to be my worst with snakes, needles and spiders are at some degree or another: can cope with small spiders and tattoo needles not any big spiders but getting better on needle front.

**Coolyo294**

Spiders. Words cannot express the hate and loathing I feel towards the hairy little fethers.

**susejo239**

Open doors. Once again, words cannot express how much I abhor the sight of an open door. Terrifying.

**Albatross**

Not sure if it's a genuine phobia, but I sometimes panic if I can't freely move my limbs. The thought of it makes me uncomfortable.

**Azza007**

susejo239 wrote:Open doors. Once again, words cannot express how much I abhor the sight of an open door. Terrifying.

That is certainly an unusual one, currently in my flat all the doors except bedroom and front are open, and normally stay like that for the most part.

**Howard A Treesong**

Not a phobia, but I intensely dislike the texture of sponge. Touching a sponge makes my skin crawl and I will physically shudder.

**Ma55ter_fett**

Heights mainly

I'm not really clostrophobic but if I can't move my arms and legs I freak out.

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Howard A Treesong wrote:Not a phobia, but I intensely dislike the texture of sponge. Touching a sponge makes my skin crawl and I will physically shudder.

Fine with sponges, but chalk... can't even think about even picking up a piece of chalk without shuddering.

**Ogryn**

Reading my threads? lol, but Green Tree Vine Snakes are harmless!

**snurl**

Ogryn wrote:Reading my threads? lol, but Green Tree Vine Snakes are harmless!

Until they bite you.

**lord commissar klimino**

Ma55ter_fett wrote:
Howard A Treesong wrote:Not a phobia, but I intensely dislike the texture of sponge. Touching a sponge makes my skin crawl and I will physically shudder.

Fine with sponges, but chalk... can't even think about even picking up a piece of chalk without shuddering.

cotton balls.....*cringe.* no phobias really...for a little i feared driving like the plague.

**RatBot**

I don't know about phobias, but I'm terrified of heights, don't like spiders (though it's not a debilitating fear) and (and this one is weird) large sea creatures that aren't whales, and I can actually trace the origin of that one; the natural science museum where I grew up has some kind of giant model of an ancient crustacean. It's actually only about three feet long, if that, but when I was five or six it looked more like 100 feet.

Ever since I saw that, I've felt very uncomfortable around large sea animals; even the giant eel in Mario 64 disturbed me a bit. Fortunately.... well, when the hell am I ever going to be around giant sea animals? (famous last words...)

**Ma55ter_fett**

Coolyo294 wrote:Spiders. Words cannot express the hate and loathing I feel towards the hairy little fethers.

Spiders I have found are eternal optimists and for this reason I like them, making their little webs in out of the way corners and behind the hot water heater.

They will never catch a darn thing back there, and the many many skeletons of spiders past attest to this fact.

But they still spin their webs there and slowly starve to death, and once a year I clear whats left of them out with a broom.

Actually maybe they arn't optimists, maybe they're just stupid.

**LunaHound**

Scared of spiders, height, and accidentally rolled up in my blanket when asleep.

**VI th legion**

I hate spiders and foam.

**alarmingrick**

Got to be heights for me. I've been 40' plus in the air on boom lifts and thought i would literally freeze up.
Heart stopping at times.

**poda_t**

worms and slugs and caterpillars. I've gotten used to them, and I can come close to a caterpillar, and it will make my hairs rise to needlepoints and try to kill the catterpillar, but I can come near it and be fine. I can't stand discovering a worm when I'm digging, and I have a special loathing for slugs. I will try to kill them if I can, but then I usually spend two minutes scraping my shoe against concrete to make sure I got all of it off.

**Jayce_The_Ace**

Spiders - 'nuff said.

I'm not sure if i'm arachnaphobic or not, because tiny ones I can ignore, medium sized start to make me feel very uncomfortable, and big ones just freak me out.
I'm honestly glad I don't live in a country that has 'effing huge tarantulas & similar, because in all honesty, if I came across one of those - I really have no idea what I would do.

**snurl**

It isn't a phobia but I have a healthy respect for angry bees.

**Jihadin**

Middle Eastern men in man robes. There's some good ones....but the bad ones can come out of no where.

**Mick A**

I'm alright with heights until I look up then its cold sweat time... (looking down has never bothered me)

Scorpions is another which I blame on watching 'The Black Scorpion' all on my own at night when I was about six...

Then theres needles that people stick in you and razor blades.

Mick

**Albatross**

Jihadin wrote:Middle Eastern men in man robes. There's some good ones....but the bad ones can come out of no where.

That's probably a rational fear, given your line of work....

**Jubear**

Mice I cant stand fething mice.

I am ok with spiders and snakes and any other animal but I fething freak out about mice.

**Jihadin**

Darn...your right...well...give me a bit more time to think of a creepy one

**SagesStone**

Heights, drowning (did once, got the image of it burnt into my mind and took a little while to actually willingly swim again as it would haunt me anytime I got near a pool or such, but did anyway (was 8 and my Mum had already paid for the swimming lessons (she didn't know it had happened) so I had no choice but to as there was no refunds

)) and crowds. All of which I deal with by concentrating elsewhere to the point they're not really there at all. Though height is the harder one for me.

As for stuff like spiders and snakes, like anyone else should be, cautious around them and maintain distance from the rather poisonous ones. The poisonous ones do mess with me though, if I spot one I need to remove it or know where it is.

**Jihadin**

Sharks...knowing how close sharks come to the shoreline. Doing flight training over seashores and seeing the sharks near beach goers in the water...

**sarpedons-right-hand**

Chickens.....they are Satans lapdogs sent too terrify and freak me out... The way they move, that 'bob bob bob' motion, the way they peck at anything without seeming too pick anything up and those eyes *shudders*....

The eyes are the windows to the soul, a Chickens eyes are gloss black holes that suck in light and time within a certain distance..

**SagesStone**

What about pigeons, they seem to have the chicken movement down well?

**sarpedons-right-hand**

Pigeons? Nah...they are just flying rats. Chickens are malevolent, evil creatures. They should all be roasted, fried, BBQ'd and poached until none remain. A world wide culling is the only way...

**Waaagh_Gonads**

Used to be sharks.

Whe I would do triathalons it didn't matter how fat or slow I had to swim, but I had to be between 2 other competitors.

**Jihadin**

That fear of being eating alive by a fish...