Is there something completely “normal” and everyday that gives you the chills for no apparent reason?

[Dontate]

Whenever I hear the jingle from an ice cream van I get that horrible swoosh of anxiety but I just got a particularly bad one!

I was upstairs, with all the windows open, when I heard a jingle which sounded extraordinarily loud and sort of echoey. It really sent shivers down my spine and made me feel very on edge.

Is there anything relatively “everyday” which sets you off?

So many things:

Belly buttons
Hoop earrings
Tomato ketchup
Dawn French
for starters.

Having my blood pressure taken.

Inject me, take my blood - I'm all good but the sight of a BP machine (especially hospital ones) makes me want to leave the building. Not sure how I managed 3 pregnancies

Sweet wrappers, they make me go all funny inside.

Paper napkins for food. Can’t eat from them, feel very sick.

Pulped fruit of any kind makes me very distressed.

In a similar vein to Saucery, paper straws. I can't stand the thought of having wet soggy paper in my mouth. That being said, I will use one if I have to.

Hand dryers in toilets. I'm fine with hairdryers and things like that, but in an enclosed space where other people are/have been, I hate hate hate them.

There's a particular hair style that makes me feel sickly and cringe inside. No idea why, it's almost a phobic response, I just can't bear it.
I have to look away if I see it.

The Rag an Bone/scratch metal man

@PomBearWithoutHerOFRS

There's a particular hair style that makes me feel sickly and cringe inside. No idea why, it's almost a phobic response, I just can't bear it. I have to look away if I see it.

You can't leave us hanging! What is it??

Pylons in an empty field

@PomBearWithoutHerOFRS

There's a particular hair style that makes me feel sickly and cringe inside. No idea why, it's almost a phobic response, I just can't bear it. I have to look away if I see it.

You have to tell us which one….

Meat - raw or cooked, just smells like the slaughterhouse.
Fishing - when the poor fish is dragged out of the water with the hook in her mouth, makes me shudder.

Empty swimming pools 😱

The National Anthem. embarrassed The drum roll at the beginning makes me go all cold inside and I have no idea why.

I can trace it back to when I was about 10 (back in the days when the TV had 'closedown', lol) and feeling really anxious, on the odd occasions I was allowed to stay up that late, that I had to get out of the room before the programmes ended and the National Anthem started up. But I've no idea why it scared me then either.

Also when I was about that age, newsreaders' facial expressions as they delivered the news (really steely and grim, not fairly relaxed like they are now) used to scare me, and occasionally something will trigger that feeling in me even now. Last night I watched something that recapped on Princess Diana's death, and Dermot Murnaghan's face as he announced it gave me a split-second flashback to that feeling.

Milk in a plastic cup

My husband taking his belt off and sliding it through the loops. He has never been anything but kind and gentle, I have no memory of a belt being used on me in the past but every time I get a horrible shiver of dread and fear.

He tries to remember to take it off in the bathroom now!

creosote tanks

Wet face flannels and butter. (Not together!)

@GiantGoose

Empty swimming pools 😱

Also, full swimming pools with a cover on.

Cold shoulder tops.

I didn't say which one because a lot of small children have it and I don't want to upset anyone whose DC does.

Flies bashing against a window pane.

I was the same with the ice cream van music, it’s like a horror movie.
One thing does make me laugh about it now though, I read about this woman and she was in having her smear test and there must have been an ice cream van nearby, and every time she opened her legs, the music would play. Everyone was in fits laughing. Reading about that helped with the ice cream van music for me.

You have to tell us the hairstyle though, is it slicked back hair like Johnny Nogerelli in Greese?

Railway lines and also the hissing as a train approaches, especially when the train isn't in sight.

I get the ice cream van anxiety.

It's a throwback from being a child.
The ice cream van actually stopped in the road at the top of our road at the T junction, but it came down our road (cul de sac) to turn around. We lived in the very end house.

We had a mad dash to ask mum, get money and run up the road before he drove off.

We didn't always make it :(

Those flesh coloured money bags for around your waist also, they make me flinch.