Silly things you're scared of

Nebb

What are silly things you are scared of, or have a weird irrational aversion to?

I sometimes wake myself out of a doze at night because I realize I didnt check the ceiling - I have to turn on the lights and inspect the ceiling before I can get back to sleep. Im so concerned about spiders crawling on me in the night.

I dont like driving with my car doors unlocked. Im convinced that someone will steal my purse out of my car at a stop or something. I realize thats pure silliness.

What about you?

Blueyed228

Any body of water that isnt a pool.  That itself isnt weird, but the reason I am afraid of them is sharks.  I am convinced sharks can live in fresh water.

adamar15

ET.  I was forced to watch it repeatedly when I was young and it still scares the shiiit out of me. 

brandichamberlain

I hate walking up stairs if there is dark behind me.  I have somehow convinced myself that something will jump out and get me. 

I also do not like to swim in any type of water I can't see through (I want to know how deep and what is in there).

Nebb

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[QUOTE]ET.  I was forced to watch it repeatedly when I was young and it still scares the shiiit out of me. 
Posted by adamar15[/QUOTE]
Im pretty sure ive only seen ET once. I remember it clearly. I saw it at my aunts house and I know at the end I bawled my eyes out and I was embarassed even though I was just a little kid. I dont know why I never saw it again but I dont recall any time other than that time.

AllAboutTheBenjamin

I am deathly afraid of moths.  This is legit.  A few weeks ago a moth flew into our house and I friggen flipped ass until BJ killed it.  I'm also deathly afraid of bees.  A bee flies by when I'm taking the dog for a walk or something and I'm telling you - the fear is paralyzing.  I feel like my entire body just freezes up and if I don't compose myself I'll just collapse into a pathetic puddle on the ground.

Also I'm afraid of the dark.  WHATEVER.

I'm a nervous traveler.  I can think of a billion ways to die while I'm traveling somewhere, be it by car or plane or whatever.  Plane rides are getting worse the older I get.  And every time I take a long road trip I always imagine someone smashing into me, a truck running me over or like a tire falling off or exploding or something else equally crazy.

LesPaul

I won't step on a manhole cover. 
And clowns are creepyasfuck.  But that one is not irrational.

Peekseviltwin

Blue - I'm pretty much terrified of murky water for the same reason.  And I studied sharks.  Bull sharks terrify me most.  Those biiitches don't let go.

I'm also scared of getting in trouble.  Don't ask me why, but if there's ever a time where I might be in trouble/getting a talking to, I start shaking.

LesPaul

AATB - do you get the Miller moth invasions every spring?  We're in the middle of it now, and they are EVERYWHERE.

maratea

Pancakes that aren't round (DON'T JUDGE ME). It's stupid, but I can't eat them because I feel like something is wrong with them.

I don't know if this is irrational, but I turn into a crying baby when I see one of these (warning: creepy crawly):

pkontk

Spiral staircases.  Really any stairs you can see through make me nervous (like those metal grate ones) but the spirals especially.

Revolving doors, although that's gotten better (my sister got her head stuck in one once.)

Throwing up.  I realize no one enjoys it, but I am irrationally afraid of it, so much so that I'm sure there have been several nights of drinking that throwing up would have made me feel better, I had the spins and all that jazz, but I physically kept myself from doing so because I hate it that much.

SEWF

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[QUOTE]<strong>I hate walking up stairs if there is dark behind me.</strong>  I have somehow convinced myself that something will jump out and get me.  I also do not like to swim in any type of water I can't see through (I want to know how deep and what is in there).
Posted by brandichamberlain[/QUOTE]

<div>This is me, too. I turn on the lights in the hall if I have to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. I used to run up the basement stairs when I was little, because I was afraid a monster would be after me.</div><div>
</div><div>I can't take a shower if I'm home alone. I'm afraid I won't hear someone come into the house.</div>

AllAboutTheBenjamin

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[QUOTE]ET.  I was forced to watch it repeatedly when I was young and it still scares the shiiit out of me. 
Posted by adamar15[/QUOTE]


I actually love this movie but a good friend of mine growing up was <em>deathly </em>afraid of ET.  At a sleepover once someone was teasing her with the "phone home" stuff and the poor girl just about had a damn coronary in her sleeping bag.

I didn't really fully understand the movie til a few years ago, lol.  All that government shiiit?  Holy balls.

Nebb

I have this really stupid fear that when we arent home sometime and leave vin alone someone is going to break in and steal him. It doesnt matter that the alarm is on, or that we will only be gone for a shrot period of time. I am still convinced it will happen. I get so damn tense over it.

Nebb

OH FML MARA!! i hate those hate hate hate hate hate

KateJ10

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[QUOTE]Spiral staircases.  Really any stairs you can see through make me nervous (like those metal grate ones) but the spirals especially. Revolving doors, although that's gotten better<strong> (my sister got her head stuck in one once.</strong>) Throwing up.  I realize no one enjoys it, but I am irrationally afraid of it, so much so that I'm sure there have been several nights of drinking that throwing up would have made me feel better, I had the spins and all that jazz, but I physically kept myself from doing so because I hate it that much.
Posted by pkontk[/QUOTE]

<div>WHAT?</div><div>
</div><div>holy shiiiiiiit.</div>

LesPaul

I have to lock the car doors too, Nebb.  I'm convinced a carjacker is waiting at every red light, or someone will open the door and take my purse off the passenger seat.

LetsHikeToday

I'm scared of public restrooms. I'm afraid someone is in the stall next to me, standing on the seat, ready to attack me.

brandichamberlain

Jurassic Park gave me nightmares for months.  I can not watch them to this day.

SEWF

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[QUOTE]<strong>I won't step on a manhole cover</strong>.  And clowns are creepyasfuck.  But that one is not irrational.
Posted by LesPaul[/QUOTE]

<div>Oh, this, too. Or vent grates on the sidewalk. I'm afraid they'll have rusted through and I'll fall in.</div>

lbarr088

Sleeping with the windows open.  My side of the bed is closest to the window and if it's opened too much I'm afraid that I'm going to wake up to someone reaching their hand through the window.  

Also, when it is dark out I get creeped out if the blinds aren't drawn.  

brandichamberlain

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[QUOTE]I'm scared of public restrooms. I'm afraid someone is in the stall next to me, standing on the seat, ready to attack me.
Posted by LetsHikeToday[/QUOTE]

Now I'm going to be paranoid of this!

Nebb

If I have to pee at night, i always sort of mentally prepare myself to see someone standing out in the hallway. JUST IN CASE. Im terrified of one day seeing something - a ghost, a real person, whatever.

AllAboutTheBenjamin

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[QUOTE]AATB - do you get the Miller moth invasions every spring?  We're in the middle of it now, and they are EVERYWHERE.
Posted by LesPaul[/QUOTE]


OH GOD.  THOSE ARE THE WORST.

True story - when I was little, the farmhouse we lived in had no AC.  My parents had a window unit in their room.  We came back from a road trip, gone maybe two weeks or something?  Anyway, my little sister and I ran up to the AC unit in my parent's room because it was so hot, and we turned it on - at that moment, HUNDREDS OF MILLER MOTHS DESCENDED UPON US LIKE A HAIRY BLACK BLANKET FROM HELL.  I can't believe I lived through that, lol.  My poor dad was killing moths in the bedroom with the door shut for like two hours.

LesPaul

OMG, Mara.  Step on that thing!  I hate spiders and centipedes.

maratea

I also don't like creaking houses or creaky wooden gates. That's how horror movies start out. Our house creaks all the time because it's old and of course, I wig out at every tiny noise.

KateJ10

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[QUOTE]Sleeping with the windows open.  My side of the bed is closest to the window and if it's opened too much I'm afraid that I'm going to wake up to someone reaching their hand through the window.   Also, when it is dark out I get creeped out if the blinds aren't drawn.  
Posted by lbarr088[/QUOTE]

<div>
</div><div>Similar to this- I get creeped out by sleeping with our bedroom door open. It feels too exposed. H wants it that way so I gave in, but I prefer it to be shut.</div>

brandichamberlain

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[QUOTE]I'm scared of public restrooms. I'm afraid someone is in the stall next to me, standing on the seat, ready to attack me.
Posted by LetsHikeToday[/QUOTE]

You can  add this to the list of things I am now afraid of from this thread!

calixtine

Bees are scary little devils. 

Clowns will kill you.  Its a proven fact- see John Wayne Gacy

These are both completely rational fears, I believe.  My irrational fear is that, I'm a little afraid of the dark.  Sometimes I won't open my eyes when I'm lying in bed because I'm convinced I will see a monster in my room.

LetsHikeToday

I also don't swim in bodies of water other than swimming pools.

Nebb

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Silly things you're scared of : OH GOD.  THOSE ARE THE WORST. True story - when I was little, the farmhouse we lived in had no AC.  My parents had a window unit in their room.  We came back from a road trip, gone maybe two weeks or something?  Anyway, my little sister and I ran up to the AC unit in my parent's room because it was so hot, and we turned it on - at that moment, HUNDREDS OF MILLER MOTHS DESCENDED UPON US LIKE A HAIRY BLACK BLANKET FROM HELL.  I can't believe I lived through that, lol.  My poor dad was killing moths in the bedroom with the door shut for like two hours.
Posted by AllAboutTheBenjamin[/QUOTE]
When I was a kid my mom was a career woman in Toronto so I had to stay at my grandparents house during the week, and they were hoarders. Something my grandpa brought in the house had moth larvea in it and it got all through the house and there were moths and larvea everywhere. To go to bed at night, I would have to get on my bed and search the ceiling for both to make sure nothing would fly at me or fall on me in the night. To this day, I cant handle months.