this is a good idea for a thread and will be a good thread i can already tell
what are some phobias you have clockcrew?
i, for one, have a crippling fear of STD's and AIDS and stuff and i get myself tested, like, too regularly. seriously. and AIDS tests are NOT fun.
Walking down stairs
Cuts on hand and finger
Crossing busy streets.
I often wonder to what degree certain fears are innate / socially constructed. witches are still a very real thing today. why have we stopped fearing them? have they jinxed us?
heights
choking/stuff touching my neck. The little bib thing at the Dentist's is the worst.
fear itself
Quote from: clockradioclock;1921727I often wonder to what degree certain fears are innate / socially constructed. witches are still a very real thing today. why have we stopped fearing them? have they jinxed us?
I think there's an innate fear of the unknown and that void is filled up with things you pick up during childhood. I for one can trace my three fears back to things I saw on television. Witches: short scary snippet that I wasn't allowed to watch further. (Which only kicked my imagination in overdrive of course.) Ghosts: TV show about some scary photograph with the apparition of dead fighter pilot at his own grave. Falling: TV show with a segment about a guy that wanted to trim a tree with a chainsaw from a wobbly ladder and he fell and the chainsaw impaled his chest.
With growing knowledge about witches and ghosts and the world at large I stopped fearing such nonsense, however the fear of falling is still there. I can't climb a step ladder or even stand up on a chair without feeling apprehensive, while I remember climbing trees before I watched that show.
A friend of mine has a crippling thing of bigfoot and anything that looks similar to it. We were watching the Tenacious D movie and he flipped his shit :(
Got a half-phobia of tarantulas. They terrify me and I have recurring nightmares about them yet I'm constantly watching videos of them on youtube.
I'm not a fan of caves or dark basements and things like that. I'm not one for crawling around in creepy holes full of spiders and shit. Other than that, there's not really a hell of a lot that scares me these days.
Oh, and sometimes when I'm washing my face or hair or whatever and my eyes are closed I get kind of panicky. I saw some movie when I was a kid where a guy slips a snake into a tub while this woman is washing her hair and has her eyes closed and it bites her and she dies. It kind of stuck with me.
It's not like they're crippling though. If my brain wants to misfire a little I'm not going to let it ruin my day.
Self-diagnosed crippling social phobia. commitment. etc. the uuz (usual)
I don't have any phobias.
you must have an intense fear of being funny, itd explain why you never are.
i'm sorry i just wanted to go all the way there for once. i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry
Hey, I like Boomstick.
Quote from: WrenchClock;1921747A friend of mine has a crippling thing of bigfoot and anything that looks similar to it. We were watching the Tenacious D movie and he flipped his shit :(
The tragedy here is that Tenacious D teaches that Sasquatch is not only a friend to all people, but an amazing drummer.
I have a phobia for crowded places.
just that one.
Quote from: RobClock;1921782The tragedy here is that Tenacious D teaches that Sasquatch is not only a friend to all people, but an amazing drummer.
He's also my father and he's going to protect
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I'm mildly somniphobic due to my night terrors, and I don't know if it's a true phobia, but I hate long fights (I fly 28 hours annually. That's 14 miles continuous, uphills both way). Other than that, I'm pretty hard to scare, if you don't consider getting startled.
i hate dogs but i dont know if its a fear as much as its a burning desire to kill them all
oh also i'm afraid of elevators. like deathly afraid. my family used to go stay in hotel in chicago around the fourth of july every year and we'd stay on the fourteenth flour and every trip up and down i would take the stairs. like no shit.
Quote from: PlaneClock;1921821and shitty music
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Always scared of getting people angry at me, and then they're raging at me, and everyhing I say or do is predictable to them, or they go "OH DON'T DO THAT WHOLE THING" and times when i feel like fighting with others for no reason, like, I fear them as a rational man because I know when the feeling over takes me I won't be rational.
Also a big phobia is bombs dropping, 2012 actually being true and all those people being right, that I'm drinking too much coffee and thinking about my future.
Quote from: AMPEEEM;1921866Also a big phobia is bombs dropping, 2012 actually being true and all those people being right
Think of it this way, if it does happen, there is nothing you can actually do to save yourself. So try to not worry about it.
Spiders
Heights
Trying new things
Being unable to breathe
Gore
and like, a bajillion other things but those are the big ones.
Quote from: Buttplug;1921868Think of it this way, if it does happen, there is nothing you can actually do to save yourself. So try to not worry about it.
Yeah, but lets say the ground splits apart on 2012: There will at least be a few minutes for all those 2012ers to say AH-HA! and I'll have to go "wtf", that would suck.
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I'm afraid of heights and water in many of my dreams, but in real life I love those things. I have no idea why this is.
I just have a huge fear of death, dying and being dead. The concept of being a dead dude one day and having to perish in our universe which will go on to exist (maybe not exist but at least something will "be") for an infinite amount of time while I won't be able to witness it and my time on earth will look like peanuts compared to the endless amount of time
That and a huge overpopulation of angry bugs/spiders/bees surrounding me. Like if I were to suddenly find myself between a million spiders coming at me, that would suck ass. I'm fine with spiders as long as there are only a couple but when there are thousands around me, I feel like I would lose control over them and that creeps me out
But really death though. Huge fear of death. Like insane huge
I've got two friends who are afraid of revolving doors, but the one's only scared of them when they're the revolving doors you find in New York subways.