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?

Those big pine trees planted in straight lines when there's nothing else around for miles. Gives me the horrors.

Guinea Pigs. They have always given me the horrors.

[quote Dontate]@AColdDuncanGoodhew if you ever come to my house, and lift the sitting room floorboards up, you’ll be horrified!

My late dh had a strict fluid limit, so to get around that he ate ice lollies like they were going out of fashion. In our sitting room, someone who lived here previously had cut out a section of the floorboards to access the cavity space below (I used to hide the dc’s Xmas presents down there when they were small - was a fab hiding place!). Dh used to post all his lolly sticks down there - there are literally thousands of them down there![/quote]
AAAAAARRRGGGHHHHHH!

Herringbone flooring.
Lines close together...can't eat mushrooms for this reason or look at an upside down slater (woodlouse). Just yeuch.
Men tensing their muscles then kissing them ugh.
Neck fat on men.

@vampirethriller

Those big pine trees planted in straight lines when there's nothing else around for miles. Gives me the horrors.

Trees freak me out when I think of them as big plants

The feeling of a lolly stick on my teeth or a plastic spoon scraping on a yoghurt pot always makes me feel horrible, like my teeth are too sensitive and my mouth has too much saliva in it.

Starlings. Their feathers 😳

I'm not in the UK, in the village where I live they test the fire station siren (sounds like an air raid siren)at 12 noon every Saturday.
It makes me jump and feel dread every week.

Being in a stationary car with heavy rain beating on the windows and roof. Brings back memories of being left in the car as a child while my parents dashed into a shop to buy something. Was always left with my brother so wasn't alone. Makes me feel really uneasy.

Toenails not all toenails, specifically long thin toenails on the big toe. They look like claws on top of some people’s toes. They are usually also sort of humped in shape if that makes sense. Apologies to anyone with such toenails I know it can’t be helped. I would never dream of mentioning it IRL.

Trees freak me out when I think of them as big plants

I can go one further than that. When I was a student we went for a visit to a pathology lab and they showed us their specimen jars. One was the interior of a lung sprayed silver. It looked like a miniature Christmas tree and ever since then I have seen trees as lungs in a literal sense.

@growinggreyer

Trees freak me out when I think of them as big plants

I can go one further than that. When I was a student we went for a visit to a pathology lab and they showed us their specimen jars. One was the interior of a lung sprayed silver. It looked like a miniature Christmas tree and ever since then I have seen trees as lungs in a literal sense.

Yikes!

Coffee shops with no windows, tucked into a corner inside other shops, like Dunelm mill (there's no way you'd get me in one of them for a coffee). And I love a coffee shop normally.

Tourniquets.
Due to chronic illness I often have to have bloods taken, the needle doesn't bother me, the Tourniquet freaks me out.
I'd be a crap junkie.

Those ‘spacer’ earrings, so that people have large holes in their ears. They actually make my stomach roll. DSDs partner has them and I ended up crying (so embarrassing) the first time we met him because I was stressing over telling him that I had a problem with them, and couldn’t look him in the face the whole time we were with him.
(Bless him, he is a wonderful lad, and 3 years on he covers them every time we see them)

Ginger cats, my aunty had a particularly vicious one.
Anadin, as a dc I had earache a lot and dm used to give me anadin, I couldn't swallow it so had to chew it, foul.
@CheshireCats I'm with you on Guinea pigs, and rats tails, make me want to vomit.

Pampas grass makes me feel hopeless and depressed and that life is not worth living

Low flying aircraft terrify me.
The bottom of boats.

Watching old family videos, particularly of children, for the same reason @FKATondelayo mentioned.

Makes me shiver.

Crowds of people clapping along with songs, it gives me awful cringes.
Also, this has not happened to me yet but I've heard that sometimes people clap at the end of a film at the cinema.
Noooo, I'd honestly run out.

Totally agree with the ice cream van noise and the electricity pylons in empty fields, they make my heart pound. Also trees that have been struck by lightning. There’s one in a field near me and if the field is empty I absolutely can’t cut through it and have to walk the long way round.

Oh and dinosaurs, now they've got drawings of them with feathers on, I find them very unsettling

The name Hannah.

The underside of boats.

Hands on jeans.

@AColdDuncanGoodhew

Ooh I cant even say trypophobia cos then all I see in my mind are those google images!

I never used to have this, it only reared its ugly head when I was browsing some bags and seen one with an “ostrich skin” design and bang! Utter disgust.

Wahhhh it’s happening now, the horrible crawling feeling

Everyone I told that I hated clusters and small holes thought I was mad. I was so glad when I found out I wasn't alone.

I hate the balloon clusters that are so popular now. Horrible things.

Another vote for pylons! Hideous things! And I was going to say dolls but that’s a very common fear. I was glad that DD wasn’t massively into them.