What's Ye ~ Less Usual ~ Phobia ?

Hugo Stiglitz · 01-05-2016 12:11AM

Anything to do with the sea freaks me out.

Stigura · 01-05-2016 12:11AM

Surinam Toad 'giving birth'; Trypophobics worst nightmare, on LSD.

Beautiful!

Andrewf20 · 01-05-2016 12:15AM

Not being able to touch the ground with your feet while out in the sea. Jellyfish also.

Hugo Stiglitz · 01-05-2016 12:17AM

Andrewf20 wrote: »

Not being able to touch the ground with your feet while out in the sea. Jellyfish also.

Seaweed touching your feet.

Drexel · 01-05-2016 12:20AM

tomwaterford wrote: »

Crabs...(not sti type)

They freak the sh1t outta me the way they scurry about with the crab hands (??)...
I do go to beach and had even the sight of dead ones washed in gives me the heeby jeebies

I'm not too gone on scorpions/lobsters etc....don't mind pictures but any them nature programmes where I see them like live....just fcking hate it

I'm the same with crabs. Cannot stand them

I've had recurring nightmares of someone chasing me with a big massive one for years.

I also have a bit of a fear of suds. I will spend most of my shower rinsing to make sure there is none left on my body when I get out. If I'm drying myself and notice any on me I have to get back into the shower for another rinse.

fima · 01-05-2016 12:47AM

Drexel wrote: »

I also have a bit of a fear of suds

Go on ..

Can you not do the washing up?

Esel · 01-05-2016 04:05AM

Shint0 wrote: »

Snap!
I could never walk through Trafalgar Square. I always had to walk around it.
I'm not so bad around birds now compared to when I was younger but I still could never touch one or pick one up. My heart nearly stops if one ever gets into the house through an open window. At least we get a fancy title for all our suffering - ornithophobes :cool:

Does you eat chicken? Turkey? Eggs?

Cows. The ones with guns.

Heaven and hell. Rebirth.
Karma and amrak.

Amtrak.

Shint0 · 01-05-2016 08:02AM

Esel wrote: »

Does you eat chicken? Turkey? Eggs?

Cows. The ones with guns.

Heaven and hell. Rebirth.
Karma and amrak.

Amtrak.

No

No

Possibly maybe

Only once going to New Jersey. You might have a point there.

DrPhilG · 01-05-2016 08:51AM

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

Holy crap, I have that! Never understood that it was an actual phobia.

I once saw a fake picture that claimed to be a horrible disease that some woman had contracted, but in reality it was a seed pod like that photoshopped onto the side of her chest.

That image freaked me out for months, I couldn't shift it and got a queasy feeling every time I thought of it.

CantonasCollar · 01-05-2016 09:03AM

Lifts, lucky I work on the first floor.

tomwaterford · 01-05-2016 09:51AM

Drexel wrote: »

I'm the same with crabs. Cannot stand them

I've had recurring nightmares of someone chasing me with a big massive one for years.

When we younger we used go to the beach playing hurling and the little sh1ts of cousins used chase me down with them and of course gangly me would fall over eventually and they'd pelt me with them

*should be said we're best friends nowadays

Conor Bourke · 01-05-2016 10:46AM

I've a fear of mayonnaise, it repulses me and on more than one occasion I've walked away from a deli counter and left my order behind me because the person serving was careless and let mayonnaise get into my food

Years ago I heard someone talking about weird phobias on the radio and getting a paper cut on your eyeball was listed. At the time I scoffed that it was a ridiculous phobia but then not long after, my sister threw a book at my face (we love each other really though) and my first thought was of a paper cut to the eye :eek: freaked the bejaysus out of me. Realised then that I've a phobia of eye damage.

I'm a nurse, as a student I was supposed to do a six week long placement in the Eye ward, including ophthalmic theatre. I was worried sick about it, I really didn't want to go there, didn't know how I'd cope for six weeks but thankfully at the last minute there was a change of plan and I got sent elsewhere. The relief was phenomenal.

I'm fairly needle-phobic too, but obviously only when it comes to myself. Can give patients injections, take blood etc but if anything has to be done to me I get ridiculously anxious

Diabhal Beag · 01-05-2016 10:50AM

I get actual anxiety looking directly radiators. Apparently I hit my head off one as a child in playschool and was pumping blood so that would explain it. Can't stare for more than a couple of seconds.

lawlolawl · 01-05-2016 01:06PM

I don't like museums of natural history. Taxidermied animals or "posed" animal skeletons freak me out badly

Same goes for wax works/dummies/mannequins.

I feel sheer panic around any of them. And those animatronic Dino Live type things? Can't be anywhere near them.

KatW4 · 01-05-2016 01:11PM

I have loads

I have an extreme phobia about getting injections/blood taken. My whole body feels like it's shutting down, I start to sweat, I go weak and I cry. I hate them so much.

I also act the same way when I have to fly but the reaction isn't as bad and I am getting better at controlling my fear when flying.

Bananas make me squirm. I hate the smell of them, makes me feel sick. I can't touch them and some of the children in school know this and come up with bananas to be opened just to see my reaction. Evil little gits

The other one is mice and rats. I can't stand the way the run around. I'd move out of my house if there was a mouse in it.

I think I'm just a big baby really.

Hugo Stiglitz · 01-05-2016 02:17PM

I always flinch when turning on the gas at home. I half expect it to blow up when I flick the switch. Probably doesn't help to be smoking a cigarette when I do it.

Hugo Stiglitz · 01-05-2016 02:19PM

KatW4 wrote: »

The other one is mice and rats. I can't stand the way the run around. I'd move out of my house if there was a mouse in it.

I think I'm just a big baby really.

I'm with you on that one, Kat! They freak me the **** out!

We had a load of them here a few years back, and they were in my bedroom too. I would hear them scurrying around on the floor at night. I had to sleep with a tracksuit pants on and turn them into my socks.

01-05-2016 02:19PM

I hate rats, mice and spiders but those are usual enough.

My most unusual dislike is cotton wool. I can't touch or use it without cringing, it's like nails on a chalkboard and a fork scraping a plate put together. Ugh.

Hugo Stiglitz · 01-05-2016 02:22PM

Candie wrote: »

I hate rats, mice and spiders but those are usual enough.

My most unusual dislike is cotton wool. I can't touch or use it without cringing, it's like nails on a chalkboard and a fork scraping a plate put together. Ugh.

I'm the same with corduroy pants! Gives me shuddering goosebumps if I touch them.

01-05-2016 02:23PM

My cousin freaks at the touch of velvet or velour. I bought him a cover for his Ipad and he can't use it because of the flocked inside lining. He literally squeals if he touches it!

failinis · 01-05-2016 02:35PM

Candie wrote: »

My cousin freaks at the touch of velvet or velour. I bought him a cover for his Ipad and he can't use it because of the flocked inside lining. He literally squeals if he touches it!

I have that as well! Certain textures make me squirm, and yes, squeal as well

wakka12 · 01-05-2016 02:37PM

I think fear of wild boar is a fairly rational one! They are highly aggressive even when unprovoked and can easily tear chunks out of you with their tusks and they weigh a tonne, best to steer clear!

The King of Moo · 01-05-2016 02:42PM

Candie wrote: »

I hate rats, mice and spiders but those are usual enough.

My most unusual dislike is cotton wool. I can't touch or use it without cringing, it's like nails on a chalkboard and a fork scraping a plate put together. Ugh.

Candie wrote: »

My cousin freaks at the touch of velvet or velour. I bought him a cover for his Ipad and he can't use it because of the flocked inside lining. He literally squeals if he touches it!

I can't touch either cotton wool or velvet.

I've always been really frustrated about being repulsed by the feel of velvet, as it's always held up as a beautiful, smooth texture, that I used to think there was simply something wrong with me for not liking the feel of it.

muddypaws · 01-05-2016 02:48PM

Boat hulls, no idea why, just freak me out. Speed boat chase scenes in films, where they go past big ships scare the hell out of me, I have the shivers now just thinking about it.

01-05-2016 02:49PM

The King of Moo wrote: »

I can't touch either cotton wool or velvet.

I've always been really frustrated about being repulsed by the feel of velvet, as it's always held up as a beautiful, smooth texture, that I used to think there was simply something wrong with me for not liking the feel of it.

While I avoid touching cotton wool at all costs, I'm not actually keen on the texture of flocked fabric either.

I was a bridesmaid at a Christmas day wedding once and the dress had a bodice of dark red velvet. I spent the whole day trying to touch off myself as little as possible (Oooh, Matron!).

Icky.

ToddyDoody · 01-05-2016 03:09PM

Condiments. Vinegar, ketchup, mayonnaise. Salt and Vinegar crisps = death.

Stigura · 01-05-2016 05:28PM

wakka12 wrote: »

I think fear of wild boar is a fairly rational one!

Thing is; Much the same may be said of Bengal Tigers too. Yet, I never experience any dread of encountering any of them in the middle of Noel's rough pasture.

Gunslinger92 · 01-05-2016 05:40PM

You know the spongey stuff that you find inside the cushions of some couches? I hate that stuff so much

Hombre Lobo · 01-05-2016 05:44PM

Metal handles on doors and windows.
Any time I approach them I feel uneasy and don't know whether to gingerly grab it or tap it with the back of my hand first to find out if I'm going to get shocked.

Hugo Stiglitz · 01-05-2016 06:00PM

Hombre Lobo wrote: »

Metal handles on doors and windows.
Any time I approach them I feel uneasy and don't know whether to gingerly grab it or tap it with the back of my hand first to find out if I'm going to get shocked.

I'm extremely static, I almost always get shocked. I can never get used to it.

What's Ye ~ Less Usual ~ Phobia ?

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