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?

Oh also I agree about bagpipes! Give me the rage. I don’t understand why they seem so popular. Not that keen on trumpets either but they don’t cause the same response.
Also seagulls. I love birds in general but they are so huge and bold and I always feel like they are watching me/ plotting something

I was about to post and say you all sound like loons it then I realised that the following make me feel queasy:

1. Evenings in early spring when the sun is shining lazily and the birds are starting to chirp again. It should feel joyful but it makes he feel a bit sick.

1. Second staircases in a house. I have recurrent dreams about them, where I know I have to go down them, they are the 'inferior' servants stairs I guess and they creep me out. There is a backstory to this and it involves my grandmother's house and her punishing me but I cba to go into it here...!

1. The ice cream can sound resonates with point 1 and early spring evenings as a child.

1. Holes and clusters... eeek.

I'm the same EssexLioness I find it absolutely terrifying driving over bridges. Had to turn back when I went to the Clifton suspension bridge because I couldn't drive over it.

People on stilts
Fairgrounds
Claudia Winkleman's fringe

Oh and open staircases … always imagine myself falling from the top, splitting my head open and dying in a pool of my own blood! I have too vivid an imagination I think. And things hanging half off eg a plaster/ scab/ child’s tooth. That stage when a child’s tooth is coming out, and hanging by a thread or two, genuinely makes me retch… feeling I’ll just typing it.
Going to stop now but could probably think of another dozen! 😬 I’m not actually as much of a wuss as I sound, promise.

@Chickpeasorchips sorry to hear that. For me it’s something about the wires themselves, more than the water below. So it’s not a fear of falling or the bridge collapsing. Can’t really explain it exactly, but the wires are so big and make me feel really tiny and vulnerable somehow. 🤷‍♀️

I have had a couple of clothing items and an ornament that just werent "right".
After a couple of days, put them in a bin outside. Didnt think it was enough to put them in a bin still in the house.

They could have been cursed. It felt like that anyway, so I didnt take any chances.

Ken Dodd! I have to leave the room if his face appears on the TV!!!

Walking over pub cellar covers. I’m convinced I’m going to fall through and break both my legs.

The music to the Antiques Roadshow. It gives me that ‘shit it’s Sunday night and I haven’t done my maths homework’ feeling, and I’m 47.

@Longtimeagonow46

People on stilts Fairgrounds Claudia Winkleman's fringe

Funny you should say that!

I was in a haridressers this week, and the hairdressers said that her fringe gets on their nerves!

@lightand I'm glad I'm not the only one

The seeds inside a bell pepper. But even worse, when there’s a baby pepper inside a bell pepper. Revolting.

See also baby cacti sprouting off big cacti.

I used to have the worst nightmares about ice cream vans and a childcatcher........ and the music it played was always that Summertime song by Mungo Jerry. If it ever comes on the radio or the TV, I can feel my heart start racing. I had that awful bloody nightmare so many times while pregnant and used to wake up sobbing.

@Tangledtresses

I think the sirens in the late 70's was a flood warning? We were in London bear Hammersmith and had a lot of flood warnings then...

Didn't live in a flood area . There were no factories nearby (which I'm sure a teacher tried to pass them off as). The school was smack in the middle of rows of terraced houses. ...Oh and the cemetery! Could have been the hospital that was once close by, maybe?

Those big bridges with the big diagonal cables on them (can't remember what they are called). When I was living in Cologne there was one called Severinsbrücke spanning the river Rhine and it used to make me all uneasy

Sponges
Those spacers in ears. I once had to sit behind someone on a busy bus who had them but I had to stay as there was no where else to go. I was traumatised.

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@LunaNorth oh god yes the Antiques Roadshow tune. I'm sure there were others on a Sunday too such as Bergerac etc. There was nothing worse than the queasy Sunday feeling. Still get it now 😬

@LunaNorth

Walking over pub cellar covers. I’m convinced I’m going to fall through and break both my legs.

The music to the Antiques Roadshow. It gives me that ‘shit it’s Sunday night and I haven’t done my maths homework’ feeling, and I’m 47.

I know someone that happened to when they 7. Broke quite a few bones.

Sunday night tv too - yes, tales of the unexpected and that's life I seem to recall

Wooden sticks to stir coffee. And people stirring their drink then licking them. In years to come they'll find them dead sitting in a chair with tongues lolling out of their mouths full off splinters.

People biting their nails, not only the filth they're ingesting but the clicking sound when they bite through the nail 🤢. Mind you I can't even cut my nails and have to file them as the sound makes me shiver.

When they massage my head at the hairdressers. I have a real urge to punch them to make them stop.

Blue water shopping centre makes me feel sick. If I stay there too long I feel panicky and I get a headache.

People jangling keys or change hurts my ears and makes me feel angry.

Tomato ketchup
Mick hucknall.

Buttons

People (usually men) using the word “females” when referring to women. I know it’s correct but it irritates me for some reason.

Glitter

@Dontate

😁 at the smear woman/ice cream van music! I really empathise with lots of these!

I’ve just remembered as well that, when I was a small child, the village my grandma lived in still used the old air raid siren. I’m not sure what for (this was the early 70’s so not used for actual air raids). I can vividly remember the feeling that hearing that siren gave me.

That still sends shivers up my spine, and I'm too young to have heard it during the war.