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

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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?

I can identify with so many of these on here!
Scaffolding full stop, hate walking near it/ under it and hate following lorries carrying it as @DDiva said.

Long toenails on absolutely anyone ugh

Gosh, after reading all these I’ve realised that there are loads of things that unsettle me!

Seeing swings still swinging when they’re empty is another one. Well, they don’t unsettle me so much as make me feel inexplicably sad.

Children on the shoulders of anyone, but especially adults. Gives me irrational fear.
Papooses give me fear too.
Anybody apart from me hiccuping makes me very very angry 😡🤷🏻‍♀️
I don't like walking under train bridges.
Im getting better at going over bridges over water.
I don't like the feel or smell or play doh 🤮 it makes me feel sick......

The song golden brown.

Walking up stationary escalators. The steps feel weird underfoot and too steep. They are unnerving.

The Beatles - just their distinctive sound makes me annoyed and miserable. Same with Neil Diamond.

Feet slapping in Flipflops makes me all shuddery.

The shelf in continental toilets. I find seeing my bodily excreta displayed on a little ledge really disturbing. Doesn’t bother me seeing it at the bottom of normal toilets.

Chips with curry sauce or gravy. Makes me feel queasy just thinking of how soggy the chips would be and that they’d not be like chips are meant to be.

The soft spot on newborn babies skulls

Dogs being walked with the lead on the collar instead of a harness

Boston dog robots

Huge massive walking robots such a Titan the robot who appeared on Big Brother (the one that Josie won). He toured shopping centres and theme parks. We happened to be at the Trafford Centre when he showed up next to where we were sat eating. We kept our distance as I'm afraid of robots. He came straight up to us and started calling us fatties for eating. Scary and embarrassing 😳

Wet wood. Like lollipop sticks or cutlery. The feel of it on my fingers or in my mouth. Ugh.

Fingerprints and the thought of anything scraping against them, like a nail or something, or two fingers pressed together.

Veins and anything pressing on them as well. Disgusting.

People drumming their hands to a song in their head or drumming on the steering wheel in the car. DH does it and I want to punch him in the face

People biting their nails or picking their nose. Oh God, so gross 🤮

People kneeling and sitting back on their legs … can’t cope with the thoughts of varicose veins forming

Wild fungus in forests or on grass 🤮

Roots., even the word. Roots/nest .. those words arrgghhhh

People cracking their knuckles

Bruce Forsyth creeps me out for some reason

People walking close behind me when I’m walking down the street. Makes me feel like I’m being hurried along which makes me irrationally angry.

Ice cream cones, especially when they get wet and soggy.

I've thought of a couple more...this one is hard to explain but the inside of a hot air balloon when inflated terrifies me for some reason. Looking up into that vast empty space with all the colours and patterns on it.
Also the inside of a windmill, looking up into it.
God I'm odd 🤣

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Longtime, that is one of mine too. When I was a kid there was an hot air balloon event at our local park. They had laid an empty balloon out on its side and had set up these big fans to inflate it so people could walk inside. I remember freaking the fuck out and refusing to go inside. My mum was trying to coax me in (dragging me by the hand actually) but I put up a big fight and she let me stay outside while she took my brother in. I was panicking that the fans would break and the people inside would get trapped and be unable to escape.

Water Towers, can't look at them.

Heh, that reminds me of my bouncy castle fear as a child. I think one time I went on one as it was being let down, the operator didn't realise and the towers started falling in...well, they look big and scary when you are four. I needed a lot of reassurance to go on one again, that it wasn't going to be let down while I was on it!

One I really can't stand today is whispering. Like someone counting under their breath to themselves or talking quietly to someone else. It's right at the edge of my hearing and I feel myself straining trying to hear and just being irritated by it when I'm trying to do something else.

Another fear I had as a kid was chimneys after I saw a mill being demolished when I was very small. Used to walk right past one and look up, and cry because I thought it was falling over onto me.

‘Snow’ on the TV, in the days when it switched off overnight. I’ve never been able to stand the end of things; I can never watch the last episodes of my favourite TV shows unless I know I’m going back to the beginning straight away!

I hate DH emptying the dishwasher and crashing all the plates and dishes about. The smell of wet dishcloths - I refuse to have them in the house.

That really thin, tissuey layer that onions have. Makes me shudder.

Automatons make me shudder too - I'm convinced one day one of them is going to turn around and look at me.

Halloumi cheese

I feel carsick if I hear Coldplay or ABBA.

But weirdly I love the film Muriel’s wedding.

I used to feel queasy painted red toenails, but I seem to have grown out of it.

I still struggle to be in the vicinity of bananas, though.

*queasy about

@Literarydevice totally understand what you mean about the Beatles!

Bruce Forsyth creeps me out for some reason

Me too @Firebird83

In fact, a lot of those 'BBC national treasure' types creep me out. But Bruce Forsyth was one of the worst. I didn't like seeing his face.

Gene Wilder, especially as Willy Wonka.

Charlie Stayt - the BBC Breakfast presenter - his eyes are just slits.

@ShesAPeachSconeBob sounds terrifying, I couldn't have gone inside it either !

And also a massive NOPE to the deflated bouncy castle. I'd have had a fit !

I actually like Abba but Money, money, money gives me scary flashbacks to a concrete 1970s shopping centre. Not sure what happened there or even if I want to know.