Irrational Fears

baystateapple

Haaa I'm sorry I walked away from this thread and didn't see the responses.

Two reasons, one rational, the other irrational.  The rational reason is because I tripped on one when I was four.  I was at the mall in a longish-dress and I stripped and fell down.  The irrational one is that I was always afraid as a kid of catching my shoelace or something and being dragged underneath.

ZombieNates

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[QUOTE]3am I don't know why but I refuse to get out of bed and freak out when I am awake between 3-4am.  I forgot who/how/where but I was told that it was the devil's hour or witching hour or something like that when spirits are most likely to come out "and play" or whatever spirits do.  Eff that I want to be asleep and unaware during that time thank you very much.  When I am awake during that time I swear I see and hear things.  
Posted by lbarr088[/QUOTE]
From that movie where the girl gets possessed! The lawyer keeps waking up and having crazy scary things happen to her. ::shudder::

AATB, sometims H just shuts me down and refuses to "play the what if game." He says I can what-if even the most positive things.

ghowlett

Most of these don't seem that irrational to me, so I'll humilate myself with this one: sharks in pools.  Everytime I swim in a pool, I have to give myself a little pep talk about how impossible it is for a shark to be in a pool.

musicalsunlight

I'm always afraid that I'm going to get in a terrible car accident when I have my pups in the car with me. More because I want to save them, not myself. This probably stems from that fact that a guy ran a red light and got me into an accident when Tory was in the backseat. She was in her kennel but if she hadn't been, my slamming on the breaks would've probably made her fly into the windshield.

Brandi0714

I'm also irrational fearful of H dying young.  I think about it often and it scares me.

Girlie1030

Jeez Boobs, your brain scares me. 

musicalsunlight

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[QUOTE]Most of these don't seem that irrational to me, so I'll humilate myself with this one: <strong>sharks in pools.</strong>  Everytime I swim in a pool, I have to give myself a little pep talk about how impossible it is for a shark to be in a pool.
Posted by ghowlett[/QUOTE]

I read this as "sharks in poop" at first and I was like wtf are you eating. <img src="http://cdn.cl9.vanillaforums.com/downloaded/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-sealed.gif" border="0" alt="Sealed" title="Sealed" />

lbarr088

Carrie, I have no idea.  I don't remember this was almost 14 years ago.  All I remember was that you sit in a circle in the dark a certain way and you could "feel" what they called these babies or kids or something nibbling your toes.  Also, there was a reaaaally old locker in the locker room that apparently the devil himself hid in.  Yup those girls scared the ish out of me.  Yet I loved them.

musicalsunlight

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[QUOTE]I'm also irrational fearful of H dying young.  I think about it often and it scares me.
Posted by Brandi0714[/QUOTE]

Me too.

willywally5

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[QUOTE]I also think a lot about something happening to H. If he has just left the house and I here sirens a few minutes later I have to fight the urge to call him to make sure he's OK.
Posted by ILoveMilkDuds[/QUOTE]

<div>Also a fear of mine. Of course, it really happened to us. I SAW the emergency vehicles headed toward his crash. I said a silent prayer for all involved (always do, as many of the EMT/FF's are our friends) and here they were going to save my H. </div><div>
</div><div>I still freak a bit when I hear sirens. </div>

[Deleted User]

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Irrational Fears : I think seeing something like that totally affects you though. Like I replay seeing the bridge collapse before my eyes ALL THE TIME. It was like a special effect from a movie.
Posted by musicalsunlight[/QUOTE]
Yeah, it's a deep-seated fear now because of that imagery. I can't imagine seeing something like that happening in real time.

AllAboutTheBenjamin

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[QUOTE]I'm also irrational fearful of H dying young.  I think about it often and it scares me.
Posted by Brandi0714[/QUOTE]

Uh, yeah.

Luckily I have that covered, since I forbade Ben to die before I do.

MyUserName1

Cockroaches terrify me.  I think that's pretty irrational, but I cannot handle their very existence on this planet.

Count me in on the other people driving fears.  I am continually watching everyone else on the highway to make sure they aren't about to kill me with their idiocy.

willywally5

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[QUOTE]Cockroaches terrify me.  I think that's pretty irrational, but I cannot handle their very existence on this planet. Count me in on the other people driving fears.  <strong>I am continually watching everyone else on the highway to make sure they aren't about to kill me with their idiocy.</strong>
Posted by MyUserName1[/QUOTE]

<div>So with you on this. People are so damn dumb.</div>

Carrie81677

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[QUOTE]Carrie, I have no idea.  I don't remember this was almost 14 years ago.  All I remember was that you sit in a circle in the dark a certain way and you could "feel" what they called these babies or kids or something nibbling your toes.  Also, there was a reaaaally old locker in the locker room that apparently the devil himself hid in.  Yup those girls scared the ish out of me.  Yet I loved them.
Posted by lbarr088[/QUOTE]

Okay, that sounds totally horrifying. I would have been screaming and crying and running out of the room.

I also don't like to sleep with a necklace on because I'm afraid I'll strangle myself in my sleep.

DMoore421

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[QUOTE]Since FFF is dying...what are your irrational fears? And I mean stuff that is truly irrational, not like being afraid of snakes or spiders or something. I am absolutely terrified by those fortune teller machines that you see in arcades or fairs. You know, like in the movie Big? When they light up and move and then spit out a fortune. Omg they just absolutely haunt me. The show Big Brother had one in their last season in the house and when it lit up and talked, I wanted to cry.
Posted by musicalsunlight[/QUOTE]

I am terrified of escalators - will take an elevator over an escalator any time -    have gotten a little better if i can prepare to get on an escalator - but if it is a surprise - it's almost full blown panic attack time - no reason - I just HATE them

baystateapple

I don't know if this is a rational or irrational fear (it seems irrational right now when everything is okay), but since the situation comes and goes...

I'm afraid of my sister dying young.  She's been sick for about seven years now, in and out of treatments and hospitals etc.  And I'm afraid of what would happen to my parents.  My mom is not going to be able to hold it together without her (she's  much closer to my sis than she is to me) and my father lost his shiiit this past week when his best friend's daughter died of leukemia.  I can't even imagine how they'll be if my sister goes before them.

Damn that got depressing.  I'm sorry.

rsanna

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[QUOTE]Haaa I'm sorry I walked away from this thread and didn't see the responses. Two reasons, one rational, the other irrational.  The rational reason is because I tripped on one when I was four.  I was at the mall in a longish-dress and I stripped and fell down. <strong> The irrational one is that I was always afraid as a kid of catching my shoelace or something and being dragged underneath.
</strong>Posted by baystateapple[/QUOTE]

This was me when I was little.  For some reason I had it in my head that if you didn't walk off the escelator that you would get sucked under it.  I always jumped when I get to the top to get back on safe ground.

DMoore421

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[QUOTE]Being squished between two semis on the highway. <strong>Contact lenses, because the idea of putting something on my eye freaks me out</strong>. Sewing machine needles piercing my hand.
Posted by midgetthemighty[/QUOTE]

I used to be the same way - and finally got contacts when i was like 22 - can't imagine not having them now - they were so much easier than i thought they would be

Carrie81677

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[QUOTE]I don't know if this is a rational or irrational fear (it seems irrational right now when everything is okay), but since the situation comes and goes... I'm afraid of my sister dying young.  She's been sick for about seven years now, in and out of treatments and hospitals etc.  And I'm afraid of what would happen to my parents.  My mom is not going to be able to hold it together without her (she's  much closer to my sis than she is to me) and my father lost his shiiit this past week when his best friend's daughter died of leukemia.  I can't even imagine how they'll be if my sister goes before them. Damn that got depressing.  I'm sorry.
Posted by baystateapple[/QUOTE]

So sorry to hear about your sister's health.  And really, I don't think it's an irrational fear at all.

LesPaul

Oh, and I'm terrified of something coming through the windshield and decapitating me.  Or the windshield itself coming loose and decapitating me with one giant slice.

dandelionsgirl

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[QUOTE]Do I smell CHILDREN????? 
Posted by willywally5[/QUOTE]

<div>I let out a little scream when I saw this and my office mate stared at me.  This guy used to give me nightmares.  I can no longer watch Chitty Chitty Bang Bang</div>

MrsMack10612

I don't know how irrational it is; but all the talk about the world ending completely freaks me out.

FI loves to watch what he calls crackpot TV and sometimes it's the shows about the end of the world and the Mayan calendar stuff.  I just can't watch.  I get on the verge of full blown panic attacks.

baystateapple

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[QUOTE]Does anyone remember the Goosebumps books? They scared me when I was a kid. Like, a lot. But all the cool kids read them, so I would read the first two pages and the last two pages, just so when kids talked about them, I could pretend I was brave enough to read them too. I don't know what that had to do with anything. But we are talking about fears, right?
Posted by cfaszews25[/QUOTE]
I didn't really read Goosebumps (my sister did), but my BFF and I used to scare the crap out of ourselves by reading the Fear Street books. 

ootmother2

Just about any bridges over water scare me but suspension bridges are the worst.

And being trapped in my car underwater.  Those are probably related

[Deleted User]

Re: the witching hour/3am, according to Ed and Lorraine Warren it's true.

Re: escalators, that fear isn't totally irrational. There have been some gory escalator accidents.

I worry that I'm going to break my neck in my sleep and end up a quadriplegic.

DMoore421

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Irrational Fears : I have a glass punch with a slicer dealie on the other end to slit the seat belt in my console. Never needed it, thankfully. 
Posted by willywally5[/QUOTE]
I have one of these too - but it is in my console as i cant find any place to stick the sticky pad thingy that came with it - not sure i would find it in my console though - especially if i was in a panic -

Carrie81677

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[QUOTE]Does anyone remember the Goosebumps books? They scared me when I was a kid. Like, a lot. But all the cool kids read them, so I would read the first two pages and the last two pages, just so when kids talked about them, I could pretend I was brave enough to read them too. I don't know what that had to do with anything. But we are talking about fears, right?
Posted by cfaszews25[/QUOTE]

I remember them, but didn't read them, because I don't like to be scared.  There was a book I read when I was about 10 called "The Dollhouse Murders" that STILL haunts me.  The premise was that this girl had a dollhouse that was a replica of the house she was living in, and the dolls would move by themselves, reenacting the murder of her grandparents years earlier.

rsanna

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[QUOTE]Does anyone remember the Goosebumps books? They scared me when I was a kid. Like, a lot. But all the cool kids read them, so I would read the first two pages and the last two pages, just so when kids talked about them, I could pretend I was brave enough to read them too. I don't know what that had to do with anything. But we are talking about fears, right?
Posted by cfaszews25[/QUOTE]

Musu's first post actually reminded me a of a Goosebump book.  It was like the Carnival of Terrors or whatever and there was a creepy scene (if you chose it, because it was choose your own adventure) with a fortune teller machine thing.

DMoore421

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[QUOTE]Toilets freak me out sometimes.  Only because I remember watching an episode of Rescue 9-1-1 as a child and there was a freaking Boa coiled up in someone's toilet.  Apparently it somehow squeezed itself up the pipes and everything from the sewer.  I always perform a snake check, especially if I know it might be awhile.  
Posted by lbarr088[/QUOTE]



Speaking of rescue 9-1-1 - there was an episode when a kid ( well teen ) got his tongue stuck in the freezer because he stuck it out and it stuck to soemthing metal inside  - i am always afraid that will happen to me