What's Ye ~ Less Usual ~ Phobia ?

Stigura · 30-04-2016 12:11AM #1

This could be quite interesting, I imagine ~ in between the usual barrage of AH wise cracks

What I mean, by the title question, is like; Other than heights, flying, spiders etc. Anyone got any more unusual ones?

Mine, eg. is wet land, where I can't see my feet for vegetation! :eek: Fcuk That!!!

Simply having to exist, rurally, has hardened me to walking through knee deep rushes. Though, I do prefer it if the ground's dry.

But, a year or two back, I had cause to enter a reed bed beside a lough. That ticked All my fcuking boxes! Eight foot high reeds all around me. Nothing to grab at then, if I went face down in that wet, spongy stuff I was trying to walk on, with my unseeable boots.

Couldn't see where I was. No one else knew I was in there. And, what if a fcuking Wild Boar erupted out of somewhere and came at me?!? (Yes; I've also had a life long 'Thing' about wild boars too. Nasty, scary fcuckers!) I had to get the hell out of there, before I flew into a blind, hair whitening, screaming fit and had a cardiac! Never again!

What gets Your ring piece screwed down like a rusty vice grip?

Esel · 30-04-2016 12:14AM

Dying in your sleep.

And flying spiders.

Gunslinger92 · 30-04-2016 12:16AM

I know a lad who is genuinely afraid of hedgehogs

I don't like the feeling of velvet, it kinda freaks me out, but not enough to call it a phobia.

Antar Bolaeisk · 30-04-2016 12:22AM

Hippomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

Not really though, I'm wont to be rather sesquipedalian myself.

I'm bloody terrified of needles!

Esel · 30-04-2016 12:24AM

Hedgehog needles made of velvet.

30-04-2016 12:24AM

I can't really describe mine. Certain things like the belly of a tortoise, honeycomb, that awful condition where a person has too many teeth in their mouth. So you could say it's how certain things look that sets me on edge.

Another weird one is the wreckage of a ship. Freaks me out.

Antar Bolaeisk · 30-04-2016 12:26AM

Deleted User wrote: »

I can't really describe mine. Certain things like the belly of a tortoise, honeycomb, that awful condition where a person has too many teeth in their mouth. So you could say it's how certain things look that sets me on edge.

Another weird one is the wreckage of a ship. Freaks me out.

Trypophobia?

JanaMay · 30-04-2016 12:28AM

Quarries freak me out.

Stigura · 30-04-2016 12:30AM

Gunslinger92 wrote: »

I know a lad who is genuinely afraid of hedgehogs ...

Sorry; I just had this mental image of him and I, in that reed bed. Me jokingly asking if he realises the place is crawling with hedgehogs. Then a big rustle. Much screaming. Soiling of oneself and chest clutching .....

Esel · 30-04-2016 12:34AM

Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »

Trypophobia?

Tripe

and onions.

30-04-2016 12:34AM

Sponges.
The type you wash with!
Set my teeth on edge, mouth gets watery!
Can't be in the same room as one.

Writing this has made my mouth full of water......

30-04-2016 12:34AM

Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »

Trypophobia?

I'm scared to open that link in case a bunch of weird looking pictures pops up at me.

maudgonner · 30-04-2016 12:34AM

Deleted User wrote: »

I can't really describe mine. Certain things like the belly of a tortoise, honeycomb, that awful condition where a person has too many teeth in their mouth. So you could say it's how certain things look that sets me on edge.

I've heard of something like that. It's called Trypophobia (fair warning, there's an image on that page that might set you off), a fear of irregular patterns or clusters of small holes or bumps. Things like seed heads, sponges, bubbles, pomegranates and...honeycomb

ETA: Damn! Beaten to it

30-04-2016 12:36AM

maudgonner wrote: »

I've heard of something like that. It's called Trypophobia (fair warning, there's an image on that page that might set you off), a fear of irregular patterns or clusters of small holes or bumps. Things like seed heads, sponges, bubbles, pomegranates and...honeycomb

ETA: Damn! Beaten to it

OMG!
Thats it! I can't stand the honeycomb stuff! That pattern freaks me out

Stigura · 30-04-2016 12:36AM

bubblypop wrote: »

Sponges.

Writing this has made my mouth full of water......

Swab it out with a sponge! :pac:

30-04-2016 12:38AM

maudgonner wrote: »

I've heard of something like that. It's called Trypophobia (fair warning, there's an image on that page that might set you off), a fear of irregular patterns or clusters of small holes or bumps. Things like seed heads, sponges, bubbles, pomegranates and...honeycomb

ETA: Damn! Beaten to it

I think yourself and Antar are right. Eeeek. Even reading that word "cluster". Vomit.

Antar Bolaeisk · 30-04-2016 12:38AM

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm scared to open that link in case a bunch of weird looking pictures pops up at me.

I think that's a different phobia...

30-04-2016 12:39AM

This is so strange. My feet are going ninety and my face has become flushed! I knew I wasn't fond of such things but Jaysus I'm all in a hape now.

30-04-2016 12:41AM

Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »

I think that's a different phobia...

Antar Bolaeisk · 30-04-2016 12:45AM

Deleted User wrote: »

This is so strange. My feet are going ninety and my face has become flushed! I knew I wasn't fond of such things but Jaysus I'm all in a hape now.

Crap, really sorry. I didn't mean to help trigger your phobia or anything.

The King of Moo · 30-04-2016 01:07AM

Butterflies indoors.

They flap their wings too fast and fly straight at my head.

30-04-2016 01:09AM

maudgonner wrote: »

I've heard of something like that. It's called Trypophobia (fair warning, there's an image on that page that might set you off), a fear of irregular patterns or clusters of small holes or bumps. Things like seed heads, sponges, bubbles, pomegranates and...honeycomb

ETA: Damn! Beaten to it

Hm, I am a bit skeptical if it's really a fear of patterns or clusters, I can look at honeycomb or any of the other examples with no reaction, it's when they are photoshopped to look like some sort of awful worm disease that it becomes a problem, without the insinuation that there is something inside the cluster it is harmless, at least for me

30-04-2016 01:09AM

The King of Moo wrote: »

Butterflies indoors.

They flap their wings too fast and fly straight at my head.

+1 and those moths!
Jaysus, the hairy bodies and sticky legs!
Urgh, makes my spine shake thinking about them.
Puke

maudgonner · 30-04-2016 01:14AM

bubblypop wrote: »

Jaysus, the hairy bodies and sticky legs!
Urgh, makes my spine shake thinking about them.
Puke

Huh, this could be a description of my ex...

Esel · 30-04-2016 01:22AM

Stigura wrote: »

Sorry; I just had this mental image of him and I, in that reed bed. Me jokingly asking if he realises the place is crawling with hedgehogs. Then a big rustle. Much screaming. Soiling of oneself and chest clutching .....

The vision of two nervous lads in a (reed) bed. One of them says something guaranteed to freak the other lad; they clutch each other. Soiling optional.

Garda checkpoints.

Tax audits.

Starving pigs (a la Snatch).

Last orders.

Confession.

Extreme Unction.

Being born (again).

Being hacked.

Tankslappers.

Drowning kittens.

Pissing myself (again).

Blood in the bowl.

Growing old.

Dentists with hand tremors.

Out of tune singing.

People who clap on 1 and 3.

Monday mornings.

Too late warnings.

Incorrect use of apostrophe's.

Summer wind · 30-04-2016 01:26AM

I can't look at rice at a hot food counter. If I look at it for more than 5 seconds I imagine it's a huge pile of moving maggots. I feel sick even thinking about it. Also wood lice or spiders I would die if one of them crawled on me. Oh god I feel itchy now.

Ciderswigger · 30-04-2016 01:27AM

I have trypophobia, there's no way in hell I'd open that link. Stuff like honeycomb, the inside of peppers (all those seeds), abstract art with certain patterns... they all make me physically ill. I'm not sure if it's a recognised clinical phobia in the medical field though, not that I care cos it weirds the bejesus outta me and that's enough.

Esel · 30-04-2016 01:48AM

Not slagging (well maybe a bit):

Trytophobia.

Fear of not getting up.

30-04-2016 02:17AM

I can't bear nail files. I can't stand to be in the same room as somebody filing their nails. I don't know how anyone can do it, the sensation is just......eugh. And that horrible scraping sound..... *shudder*

And if anyone has a scratchcard, you will use a coin to scratch it. Because I would sooner rugby tackle you to the ground, grab the ticket from you and rip it to shreds than allow you to scratch it with your nail. *shudders again*

On a semi-related note, I started learning guitar as a teenager but couldn't keep it on because I couldn't bear the sensation of my fingertips on the strings.

So yeah, situations that involve fingernails/fingertips experiencing some form of friction. That's my weird phobia.

Junkyard Tom · 30-04-2016 02:18AM

Balloons. Understandable, I guess, because my wicked Stepmother tried to smother me with a balloon in my sleep but I successfully punctured the murder weapon with an oddly protruding milk tooth.

Esel · 30-04-2016 02:27AM

Horse's head
In the bed

Chewy steak
Give a break

Fingernails too short
To pick out that tune
Words ending in -wort
That man in the Moon

July, and June.

What's Ye ~ Less Usual ~ Phobia ?

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