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Do you have a completely irrational fear?

  • 11-12-2015 11:33PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,037 ✭✭✭


    Is there any particularly stupid or silly fear you have? Something that's just nonsensical and you know should't bother you, but it does.

    For myself it's Sharks, namely Great White Sharks, but only really in video games. Anytime I'm playing a video game which I know has a Great White Shark that's gonna bloody well leap out at me it freaks me out and I'll put off playing the game until I get over it.

    Funnily enough, Sharks when swimming in the ocean have never been of any concern to me.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


    Being abducted by grey aliens.

    Seriously.

    I think watching Close Encounters of the Third Kind did bad things to my mind when I was 4. Being pulled out through a dog flap like that little boy. :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,308 ✭✭✭Irish Stones


    Until some years ago I could have got completely freezed and paralysed at the sight of a spider, whatever its size.
    In the last four or five years I have got over the fear for the smaller ones and for those called daddy long legs. But any other spider can freeze nearly to death! :eek:
    I cannot understand how some actors can let those chubby and furry big spiders walk on them in the movies!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    Social situations.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 414 ✭✭kettlehead


    Needles/injections.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    Moths, i just freeze up. Horrble things.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,601 ✭✭✭Gaygooner


    Heights - but I don't think it's irrational - I could fall to my DEATH!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,533 ✭✭✭ArnoldJRimmer


    I once worked with a girl who was absolutely terrified of bananas. One evening while out having food and a few beers, a funny fcuker we also worked found a banana and decided it would be hilaroius to wave it in her face. She went absolutely hysterical, it took ages to actually stop her crying. And yes, this is a thing

    http://www.fearof.net/fear-of-bananas-phobia-bananaphobia/

    I'm not fond of either rats or injections, but I think those are fairly standard fears to have


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Being crushed by an unmovesble object


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 361 ✭✭jazz101


    I'm absolutely terrified of mirrors and screens (laptop, TV, computer etc.) in the dark. I never go to sleep without putting a jumper over my mirror and my telly.

    Always think I'm gonna see something in them, and being schizophrenic, I usually do.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,356 ✭✭✭Into The Blue


    The scale of huge ships scare the jasus out of me! They're just to big and top heavy not to tip over!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Anything near my neck, even jumpers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 361 ✭✭jazz101


    Anything near my neck, even jumpers.

    I suppose you're not much of a fan of cakes either then?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 254 ✭✭forestgirl


    Butterflies.,orange and black butterflies, its just so bad


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 254 ✭✭forestgirl


    Butterflies.,orange and black butterflies, its just so bad


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭NomadicGray


    People repeating themselves


  • Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I hate spiders and rodents, but I don't think that's irrational since they're all evil and diseased and steal your soul and stuff.

    I'm very afraid of getting lost, which is less of a concern with sat nav. I used to have nightmares about getting lost in strange countries at night and having to sleep in the car. Its specifically something to do with not finding the way home, I think.


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


    When I was a kid I used to be terrified that the Loch Ness Monster would come over from Scotland and tramp on my house. With me in it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 898 ✭✭✭seamusk84


    Going through a cave and being in a tight space squeezing through. Then getting stuck.


  • Moderators Posts: 52,296 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Unleavened bread. Sponges. Street names with more than 1 vowel in the name. The coriolos effect. Betamax videos. Numbers with sharp corners. That my car is plotting to steal my toes.

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,439 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Delirium wrote: »
    Unleavened bread. Sponges. Street names with more than 1 vowel in the name. The coriolos effect. Betamax videos. Numbers with sharp corners. That my car is plotting to steal my toes.

    Mother of Jeebus , from unleavened bread to your car stealing your toes ?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 654 ✭✭✭spud82


    Ryan Tubridy


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭Summer wind


    Maggots and spiders. Sweet Jesus I can't even look at rice in case it moves. Absolutely terrified of maggots I would just drop down dead if one was near me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    Not locking the door/closing the windows when I go out.

    I've never not locked the door/closed the windows before I go out, like ever, but every time I leave my house, walking away, I'm gripped by the fear I did and thus I've left the place open to a burglar of some sort, so I have to run back and check, and then leave again, and then possibly check again if I don't remember.


  • Posts: 19,174 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Hate flying insects, those daddy long legs, butterflies, especially moths!!! Hate those horrible feckers with their hairy bodies and sticky legs!
    And birds.
    Aaaarrgghhhh!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Fish. Wouldn't go as far as phobia, but certainly the idea of swimming with fish or having to touch a fish sends shivers down my spine. And conger eels. **** me. I can look at photos online, but in an aquarium they freak me the **** out, like they're plotting to eat me. I actually quite like aquariums otherwise.

    I've gotten more relaxed but I remember as a kid there was a home movie on who's been framed or something where a young kid is holding a fish upwards by its tail. It's wriggling and flopping about and then flops into his mouth. The fish's head in the child's mouth. I felt sick and the thought of it kept me awake for weeks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 551 ✭✭✭leavingirl


    spud82 wrote: »
    Ryan Tubridy

    +1


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,126 ✭✭✭BrianJD


    Wind Turbines! I think it stems from the Pink Floyd marching hammers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,199 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Getting impressions in the Dentist.

    Give me all the needles and fillings etc but do not put that stuff in my mouth and make me feel like I am choking on it and cannot breathe or swallow. Sorry but that's mine.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    I have an irrational fear of life-saving medicine.

    Totally irrational I know but hey what can you do? Apparently we're all f*cking eejits who have no control over our fears.

    Let's just hope I never get sick.........


























    ....... atishoo!


    uh-oh!


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,687 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Gaygooner wrote: »
    Heights - but I don't think it's irrational - I could fall to my DEATH!!!
    That's a totally irrational fear all right.

    Me, I'm afraid of the floor,











    because that's what kills you.


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