What's your irrational phobia?

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Oil rigs & wind turbines for me 😬 what's yours?

Oh god! Me too! Particularly massive municipal ones. Where there’s a massive slope down to the deep end 🤮
And tiled areas generally. I hate tiles…

Ultra fit and entrepreneurial great white sharks make it to the Mediterranean, infest the English Channel and finally make it into our water supply services. Then a big one rears up its head and bites your bum off when you are on the loo!

Cotton wool and escalators

Slip roads 😬

I’m actually so glad I read this thread for this comment

i thought I was the only one

and I use London public transport so I’m always panicked tjwt I’ll fall down/up them
my anxiety about it makes me light headed so I’m more likely to fall

I just think they’re petrifying and thought I was the only one

I don’t even really like the levelled ones at the airport

Thank you for replying and well done for getting through it! Could I ask how you cope when your daughters are sick please? I think I'd be terrified of the sickness bug years and them potentially passing it to me...

Cauliflower ear 😂if I ever get bashed on the side of the head, or sleep funny and my ear feels sore I'm terrified I'm going to end up with cauliflower ear. It takes up far more of my daily thoughts than it ought to!
(I'm also scared witless of spiders and enclosed spaces)

Dentists.

Utter phobia. Don't mind injections. It's the torture equipment, drills etc. Millimetres from nerves that service your head. Teeth in general actually. I can't even look at them for thinking about the nerves and how dentists want to hurt or disfigure me.

I'm rational in all other areas of life. Sorry to any dentists on here you torturing psychopaths

I don't mind oil rigs and I love wind turbines, but electricity pylons turn my stomach though, they really freak me out.

Also, the M50

You can get stickers to put on your window that make bird strikes less likely. Sometimes they are just stunned and will come round after a few minutes.

I'm claustrophobic which I know is a mainstream fear but mine is OTT

@LowbrowVictoriana Yes pylons for me too 🤢

Ladybirds, but only because I got covered in a swarm of them in Southport 1976. My Mr Whippy turned red

High level WCs
Water pipes
The wave mechanism in swimming pools
Walking through tunnels and under bridges
Being in multi-storey car parks
People standing behind me

TBF they're not irrational but they have a massive impact on my life.

Glad it's not just me. I cannot be within 20 feet of one.

Trypophobia- 2 of my dcs have it too, to varying degrees

Tractors

Pylons is another one. Cannot cope with that buzzing noise.

Wet bread

Empty swimming pools and disused hospitals.

Now I've read this thread I realise also... high level cisterns and large underwater machines for me too

Ugh

Am with you!

Interesting quite a few people said toilet cisterns

Burning alive! I mean I don't even want ti be cremated because of it but having seen the price of a burial I think I will have to bite the bullet... or leave my body to science!

Not a fan of heights and avoid multi-storey car parks (and can't park on the outside edge if I have to use one)

Egg custard
Proper freaks me out, just the sight of it

The thought of being underground - pot holing type of things

Some holes, but more the pattern - like termite nests, or fungus, or coins stuck in a decaying tree trunk. Rank. Why do people do that? Makes me itch

Car washes.

Bridges that move about when you walk over them, especially if you can see down through them to the water below (shudders).

Clowns - I think this stems from when one came to my infants school when I was 5 or 6. It was his clown shoes - they were those ridiculously long thin black ones, and the thought of him having such long feet inside those shoes horrified me. I was so used to having my own feet measured for shoes, I assumed he did too and his toes went right to the end.