Anyone else have a weird phobia?

[HangingOver]

I understand why lots of people have phobias of things that are associated with actual risk, pain or things that have left an evolutionary stamp on us due to being poisonous e.g snakes and spiders.

Can anyone tell me why I am paralyzingly scared of empty swimming pools and, most of all, octopus.

Octopus in particular I have a genuinely ridiculous reaction to... If I force myself to watch a video of one within seconds my palms start to sweat and I feel sick rising.... It's almost more like an extreme disgust reaction than fear.

Tell me your bonkers phobias please.

My husband has a phobia of blu tac and he has no idea why. He can't trace it back to anything but it just terrifies him and its definitely a weird one.

Being trapped or restrained, for example handcuffed, held by someone, or on a roller coaster when the harness locks over Me. It's not even normal claustrophobia because I'm fine with tight spaces unless there is even the slightest chance of getting trapped in them. Weird

Milk.

Freaks/grosses me out

If I have to buy some to cook with as an alternative won't work I hate hate hate seeing it in the fridge.

If customers request it to put in theor coffee at work then I have to get them to do the sniff test as I can't. If it's off I make the customers ir another staff member shove it in a bin outside.

If its blue top I won't even touch an open bottle

Still water, emptying swimming pools, ships in dry dock, ladybirds and I've realised over the last couple of years I have tryptophobia too. Also a big problem with things that grow or spread through something else like moss or roots visible through soil.

@CeliaCanth

Balloons. They look painfully swollen and I hate their rubbery squeakiness.

Ditto!

I dislike hole clusters but not phobia

Similar is the idea of the finger like projections / villi in the small intestine.

Horrifying

@FigureofEight

I dislike hole clusters but not phobia

Similar is the idea of the finger like projections / villi in the small intestine.

Horrifying

That that are all pacKed close together or at least I assume they are

@Gruffalogrinch

I don’t know if these are classed as phobias, but they definitely give me the boak; crumbs (sinister fuckers) butter/jam on the worktop and Other People’s Fridges - the smell 🤮. I can just about tolerate the smell of my own fridge. Also cleaning out lunchboxes. Anyone sensing a theme here? 🤣

Definitely with you on lunch boxes.

I can just about do it when I've made the kids lunch but when their dad has done it and added the horror of frubes I'm done in.

Belly buttons and people bending their ears forward. 🤢

Used to have a thing about mirrors, meant I was the only 30 year old without a single one in the house, not even the bathroom!

Got better and I now have them, but not in the bedroom, that would be a step too far!

@Fckingfuming even just reading that has made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up! I’m dreading my DD being old enough to go to the zoo and want to go in the reptile house as I genuinely can’t do it! I wouldn’t want her to know I’m terrified. Also I didn’t know they could shart (why would I I guess!?)

Rice. Pudding. 🤮

Mirrors/windows in the dark/anything reflective and I don't know if it's a phobia because it's very specific and weird but any noise that slowly increases in volume so for example if a person is talking calmly then gradually gets angrier or even DIY work that starts slowly/quietly then increases pace and volume leaves me a shivering wreck.

Don’t know if it counts as a phobia but I feel physically uncomfortable if everything in the house isn’t in order. Can’t sit down and relax until it is.

Catching anyone picking their nose, usually another stationary Driver, horrifies me and I have to turn away incase he ( 100% male sorry ) decides to eat it 😫
Also, the fear of finding the contents of someone's nose on public transport, seating/tables etc..
Continuing the theme: walking along and narrowly missing the contents of someone's nose/throat on the pavement 😥

Canal locks, pictures of ship wrecks underwater and seeds in melons!

Antique merry-go-rounds/carousels. Plinky plonky music, with creepy wide eyed & stretch mouthed demented horses. If we go anywhere where there is one, it sends shivers down my spine. A visceral reaction.

Really not keen on eels or lamphreys. Had actual nightmares about both, I blame my late FIL who watched endless episodes of River Monsters. Okay with snakes etc...

Balloons - can't be in the same room.

Cotton wool - feel like I'm going to choke.

Heights - not necessarily precipitous height. Even when I know I'm at height, for example in a mountain village, I can't even walk down the main street without thinking that I'm going to 'fall off' and drop into an Alice in Wonderland endless hole. I have to hold onto someone or something to stop me falling. Just the knowledge that I am so far above sea level makes me completely petrified. I feel like I'm teetering on the tallest skyscraper window ledge. It's debilitating.

Bin lorries freak me out. It’s the crushy chompy jaw thing on the back.

Slugs

Woolly jumpers and frogs

Dolls. Esp the old type with opening and closing eyes. Also the ones that say MAMA...oooh. I can't bear to be in the same room.

Owls. They look like mass murderers. I hate owls. They look evil. And their eyes. They're Clearly plotting something sinister.

Underwater machinery, like wave machines 🤮

Porcelain dolls. I was screaming when one from the storage cupboard dropped on my leg and it's hair was everywhere and it was face down. My husband brought them home from a house clearance thinking they were worth loads of money. One was a nun and I was screaming lots. He put them safely away after that.

Also hate spiders.

And a fear of being burgled.

I have been burgled before too, so......