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Do you have any phobias/irrational fears?

  • 04-05-2013 10:49PM
    #1
    fussyonion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,823 ✭✭✭


    I have an irrational fear of moths.

    I scream like a banshee if I see one in my house and I won't sleep in the bedroom if I know there's one lurking.

    Spiders don't really freak me out, unless they're swinging on their cobwebs hovering over my gob as I lay in bed, big googly eyes fluttering their lashes at me.

    What's your phobia or fear?


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  • #2
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 13,856 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Not mine, but I knew someone who would freak out at the sight of a banana. We never figured it out but the two best explanations were either a bad sexual experience or the reaction of an Atheist in the face of an indisputable truth. We never found out which.


  • #3
    slowburner
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,228 Mod ✭✭✭✭slowburner


    I have an irrational fear of phobias.


  • #4
    kingcobra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 835 ✭✭✭kingcobra


    I have an irrational fear of an irrational fear of phobias.


  • #5
    Smidge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    I am terrified of the dentist.
    So much so, that the mere thought of having to make a visit to the dentist turns the contents of my stomach to instant arse gravy.


  • #6
    fussyonion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,823 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    Smidge wrote: »
    I am terrified of the dentist.
    So much so, that the mere thought of having to make a visit to the dentist turns the contents of my stomach to instant arse gravy.

    :D


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  • #7
    BillyMitchel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,324 ✭✭✭BillyMitchel


    Dark sea water. I scream like a 2 year old girl if something touches my leg.

    Bugs in general.


  • #8
    SickBoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,574 ✭✭✭SickBoy


    kowloon wrote: »
    Not mine, but I knew someone who would freak out at the sight of a banana. We never figured it out but the two best explanations were either a bad sexual experience or the reaction of an Atheist in the face of an indisputable truth. We never found out which.

    I know that person! There cannot be more than one person with this phobia right? :)


  • #9
    DazMarz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,493 ✭✭✭DazMarz


    Spiders... absolutely freak me the fúck out. I'm beyond terrified of them. I've held scorpions, snakes, lizards... not a bother.

    Spiders tho... No... Just... No. horrible, creepy, crawling, slithering awful things.


  • #10
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Sour milk freaks me out.


  • #11
    Hownowcow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭Hownowcow


    Sour grapes.


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  • #12
    Butterface
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 731 ✭✭✭Butterface


    Spiders.

    Oh, and hairy nipples.


  • #13
    herisson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,676 ✭✭✭✭herisson


    Butterflies, fish and clowns. :o


  • #14
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,086 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Do you get many banshees in your room OP?

    I think that would make for a more interesting thread.


  • #15
    gammygils
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,577 ✭✭✭✭gammygils


    I have a terrible fear of snakes. That's why I live in Ireland.
    The only reason! Thank you Saint Patrick


  • #16
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Heights.
    Baked Beans.


  • #17
    orestes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭orestes


    Pixie-Fairy wrote: »
    Butterflies, fish and clowns. :o

    I knew it wasn't just me!


  • #18
    Saganist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Saganist


    Was once hit in the knee by a stone from a lawnmower and seen in coming all the way, age young, maybe 11 or 12.

    I don't like lawnmowers. :/


  • #19
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Oh I dont think heights are an irrational fear


  • #20
    Rayne Wooney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,134 ✭✭✭✭Rayne Wooney


    Fecking spiders, I used to be a fearless bast*rd when it came to spiders when I was around 8.

    Then I remember when I was 12 overhearing my auntie telling my mam about a friend of hers who went to the doctor because she had sort of a blockage in her ear after waking up one morning. The doctor gave her some eardrops and told her to come back in a week if it was still there. She woke up one night because she felt like she had pins and needles in her face, but in fact it was dozens of baby spiders that had just hatched out of the egg in her ear.

    That story is the reason for my fear of spiders, and why I check the room before I sleep.


  • #21
    Ihatecuddles-old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,785 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles-old


    I'm trypophobic, afraid of small clusters of holes. Crumpets are absolutely terrifying :(


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  • #22
    Gorilla Rising
    Closed Accounts Posts: 381 ✭✭Gorilla Rising


    Flying. And I consider that perfectly rational!!!! :D


  • #23
    Hollzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 354 ✭✭Hollzy


    Elmo from Sesame Street :/


  • #24
    Steve O
    Closed Accounts Posts: 595 ✭✭✭Steve O


    Ladders, I really ****in hate them.


  • #25
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 13,856 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    SickBoy wrote: »
    I know that person! There cannot be more than one person with this phobia right? :)

    I've only met the one, and unless our ancestors were hunted by an unusually mobile form of the fruit I don't think it's going to be a more common phobia than, say, spiders. ;)


  • #26
    Aidric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,591 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    Jellyfish. Making me feel uneasy sea swimming since 1985.


  • #27
    Hownowcow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭Hownowcow


    efb wrote: »
    Heights.Heinz
    Baked Beans.

    FYP


  • #28
    belcampprisoner
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 698 ✭✭✭belcampprisoner


    Charles haughey coming back from the dead


  • #29
    Galadriel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭Galadriel


    SickBoy wrote: »
    I know that person! There cannot be more than one person with this phobia right? :)

    Mmmmmh, I know that person also


  • #30
    orestes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭orestes


    I'm not scared of heights, but I'm scared sh1tless of being able to see through what I'm standing on. Not just those glass floors on boats and at the top of tourist towers and stuff, but sets of stairs where you can see between the steps or where the steps have holes in them like railway bridges.


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  • #31
    fussyonion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,823 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    Edz87 wrote: »
    Do you get many banshees in your room OP?

    I think that would make for a more interesting thread.

    Only banshee in my room is the one looking back at me in the mirror on a Sunday morning after a night on the vino!
    Wild hair, pale face..the lot.


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