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.

Its not a phobia completely, more an intense aversion but - cigarettes. [shiver]. Seeing people smoke makes me feel vomity. Cigarette butts make me feel like I will faint. That has now extended to that awful bubbling sound vapes make. I feel genuinely really ill and shaky.

I have the holes thing. Like you say it's not a scared thing, it's like, makes you feel uneasy and sick!
Can i ask where you've all seen these drained swimming pools? 😂

@TheVolturi

I have the holes thing. Like you say it's not a scared thing, it's like, makes you feel uneasy and sick! Can i ask where you've all seen these drained swimming pools? 😂

We saw one in Greece many years ago, it was derelict and when I was walking past it I went all shivery...

@flapjackfairy yep, revulsion sounds about right.

daddy long legs
bits in the kitchen sink plughole

@SirChenjins yes!! I'd forgotten the name. Once googled it and cried 😂

Trypophobia isn't just for holes, its for bobbly things as well. I can't stand them either.

@HangingOver

Hard to explain but it's something to do with some things being puffy and oversized and other things being disproportionately tiny. One of my recurring nightmares as a child involved a great big foot on a teeny tiny piano pedal. Niche, I know!

Whoa. Hang of you've awoken something reeeeeeeally deeply buried in my brain here. Tell me more about these nightmares. I actually think I had a similar sort of thing. But in my case.it was something like a tiny pencil or needle being squeezed in a big spongey fist....this is so weird!

Alice In Wonderland syndrome. It’s not widespread but more common in children. I had it many times from the ages of 9 to about 13. Usually when I was running a mild fever, but not always. Large bags of Lego falling over and needing to be picked up but then being so tiny in my massive hands was a recurring one.

@Thelnebriati

Trypophobia isn't just for holes, its for bobbly things as well. I can't stand them either.

This is me, fine with hole, bobbly organic clusters, nope. I wouldn’t say it’s s phobia more a revulsion and a compulsion to squash/get rid of. Swarms of bees, seeds in a bell pepper, little round clumps moss on a roof, any sort of clumped fungus. I literally want to squash it if stamp it out with my foot my neighbours have lots of circular moss on their garage roof tiles and I just want to get a fish slice and scrape it all off .

There you go. I’ve set the weirdness bar high, beat that 😆

I also hate mechanical things under water that swimming pool recently s as ll over social media that the astronauts train in with all the mechanical crap down there 😧 and generally large bodies of water at night. Hate walking alongside a beach at night, the cold blackness of the water is frightening!!

@dropitlikeitsloth

I also hate mechanical things under water that swimming pool recently s as ll over social media that the astronauts train in with all the mechanical crap down there 😧 and generally large bodies of water at night. Hate walking alongside a beach at night, the cold blackness of the water is frightening!!

Yes same here, along with empty swimming pools, I can't even look at a photo of the Hoover Dam it sends me in to a panic...

There is something truly creepy about half submerged mechanical objects.

Yes what is it that makes it so creepy, is it all the areas you could get caught and tangled in perhaps? I find it terrifying.

@dropitlikeitsloth

Yes what is it that makes it so creepy, is it all the areas you could get caught and tangled in perhaps? I find it terrifying.

Do you remember that British bloke who swam across the Hoover dam? He was lucky to make it out alive by all accounts, the underwater turbines create a huge suction pulling you under, I have nightmares thinking about it, it's horrible..

Cello tape. Like I don't mind using it but if it gets stuck to me anywhere above my wrist on my skin I literally freak. It's like I think it won't come off. But honestly freaks me right out.

Polystyrene cups.

Wooden cutlery.

Paper/card straws.

Clusters of holes and sharks. Don't know why sharks but they absolutely terrify me

@shas19

Clusters of holes and sharks. Don't know why sharks but they absolutely terrify me

I think being terrified of sharks makes you very normal lol

Flour and cotton wool. In my head they're both "squeaky" not sure how else to describe it!

not sure if it's a phobia but i have had strong revulsion from some buildings, structures.
i got stuck in the entrance doors to the brompton oratory as i was overwhelmed by all the twiddly bits.
i've since heard it's called baroque. overly ornamented to me.
i got pushed in by some american tourists behind me, otherwise i would have fled.
also dislike large, esp old discoloured, structures made of small bricks/ blocks. eg liverpool cathedral, viaducts, railway bridges.
no problem at all with st paul's cathedral, large stone blocks, well-kept, clean and bright.
i have forced myself to stand under a brick viaduct and look through the internal arches, which is horrid. they get smaller. and the plinths.

Goldfish and reptiles