Fears - what everyday things are people scared of

Submechanophobia, I have it too

I’m with you on this one. When I started a new job I wanted to get to reception on ground from floor 2 but I accidentally pressed the B for Basement as it was the one at the bottom. When it opened it was pitch black it smelt like a cellar and I was bashing the door close so quick, I literally panicked. It was the feeling someone could’ve been stood in the dark right by the door and I wouldn’t know! 😩

Things submerged in deep water. Especially if it's partially submerged.

ships' hulls, oil rigs, the stilts on a pier etc

The grates at the deep end of the pool 😵

Thank you for your kind words @BooneyBeautifuland @LSTMS30555. It means a lot.

Toads and Spiders

Huge industrial pipes on inside walls
Baths or even swimming pools (shudder) filled to the brim

Heights, confined spaces, nasal piercings and wet tea bags- yuck!

Many elements of cooking, particularly frying in oil (fire risk) and using noisy appliances like blenders (feel like they will chop my fingers off). Cooking in front of others is a big fear too.

I am so much better than I used to be but I still find everyday cooking so stressful.

Oh no, apologies. Funny enough, DD was talking about The Globe last night, so that's why feathers were already on my mind.

I had two or three hamsters as a child (one at a time). One of them bit me quite badly. They have razor-sharp teeth!

You wouldn’t have seen me for dust!!! Just the thought is making my skin crawl!

Small talk. Big talk.

Bit of megalophobia, too.

Murders/rapists/predators
wasps/hornets
Rodents
large swooping birds
taking off/landing on a aeroplane

Not so much a fear but an irrational dislike is the digital time 23:23. Or slightly less. 11.23.

Any other 23: time is fine or 11: it happens regular !

Loose wet hair in the bathroom. Can cope if it's dry, can cope with wet in the kitchen etc but in the bathroom makes me wretch!

Black hairy spiders, think its the way /speed they move!! The ones like daddy long legs no issue at all, will pick up and move them.

Terrified of frogs/toads and grasshoppers. They make me scream.

Also cannot stand caricatures of people such as puppets eg the punch and judy type, was it thunderbirds from the 60s? In the same vein, clowns, drag queens, upside down mouths/ chin faces. They don't make me scream but really dislike them.

Heights, spiders, any insects really with the exception of lady birds and moths.

Dark doorways.

Our DS had a hamster. Dh would talk to him, feed him etc but couldn't even dream of holding it! It's the thought if 'the little paws '!

This is so sad. I can't even begin to imagine what you must be going through. My maiden name is Jewish, but not obviously so. So much hate in this world.

When I was 17, my friend dragged me off to see Salome at The Globe in London. There were lots of topless women and feathers! The feathers were everywhere! Am pretty sure there were also lots on the floor and seats when we arrived, presumably from the previous performance.

Yes, I am not keen on bats. They seem to have no sense of direction. One summer many years ago, my cousin came to stay and one got into the back bedroom where he was sleeping. He had to chase it out with a broom!

Birds, but only birds of a certain size and type. Robin or bluetit size is fine and find them very cute. Blackbird size or larger fills me with absolute revulsion and horror, especially if the eyes are ‘beady’. I think it goes back to seeing a dead bird of this size as a child- it had been eviscerated by something, and I can remember being absolutely horrified by its innards. Poor thing.

I also think that they have an oily, sort of ‘crunchy’ look about them which I dislike. I have a recurring nightmare that a goose or albatross breaks into my house and smothers me with its horrid, greasy body (I have no idea if they are actually greasy). I’m aware this is totally irrational.

I’m also horrified by anything with a torpedo-like, tapered shape that moves in a ‘gliding’ manner through any medium. Sharks, submarines and large ships for example. But particularly jumbo jets, there’s this horrendous video of a jet coming in to land and it swoops low over a beach, and it makes me feel ill. I went to an air show once (god knows why given my particular fear) and there was a Boeing manoeuvring around low in the sky, I went all faint with fear and had to leave. Airports are a problem, I don’t like being inside planes or in close proximity to them from the outside either. I’ll avoid driving routes that take me near airports because the planes fly too low for comfort. It’s completely irrational, but they cause me to feel absolute terror. Small, Spitfire-size planes and helicopters are fine!

I'm scared of the tube. Especially in rush hour. In fact any mode of public transport when it's very busy.

I used to be scared of fire extinguishers when I was a child. And toilet brushes. I'm not crazy about either of them to this day!

I'm scared of having my body or face waxed by a stranger. In fact most beauty treatment bar hair colour, cut and style I don't enjoy the process of at all.

I'm scared of financial products like pensions, mortgages, loans etc and I don't understand taxes and things like that at all. It's just completely alien and intimidating to me.

Toilets

Bits

So sorry you feel that way. Please try to ignore the negativity/anti semetics 🇬🇧 🇮🇱

Zips. I only like coats with buttons or press studs.

Escalators.