Strange things that give you the heebie jeebies?

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Was chatting about this with some friends recently. Lighthearted!

I have an irrational fear of sunflowers. They're HUGE! I also go a bit cold when I drive past big industrial structures like cooling towers.

Anyone else get the jeebies over something strange?

Me too!
Exactly those roads too!

Oh yes caving or any sport in a tight space. I can't remember the name of the winter sport where they're squeezed into a tube and sent hurtling downhill. Then there's kayaking as I'm terrified of rolling and being stuck in the kayak under the water. And those tiny subs.. I can't even look 😩
I went on a school trip somewhere in primary - Portsmouth maybe? and we went on a submarine and I felt like I couldn't breathe and that I'd be trapped forever.

WRT the warm loo seat one, I remember something in Robert Graves’s autobiography Goodbye to all That, where he describes the custom of ‘fagging’: a prefect/older boy enlisting the assistance and friendship of a younger one. Among the younger boy’s ‘duties’ was to warm up the loo seat. Shudder…

That curling sport thing gives me the creeps. Also speed skating where the skaters are all dressed in a tight one-piece with one hand behind their backs. Disturbing.

Sponges with little holes in. Escalators in London tube stations freaked me out so much so my parents had to plan journeys which didn't involve stations with those installed. Oddly enough I was ok in department stores with them!

@Words Trypophobia I have it too. Clusters of tiny holes, thick black lines/ cracks 🤮

Gills and scales on fish.

Large bodies of water.

The sound of a metal spoon scraping on a bowl.

When I step on a descending escalater I close my eyes for a few seconds. I spent six weeks in bed once with vestibular neuritis I couldn't stand. Finally I got antibiotics which worked. Physiotherapist then to reorient my vision . Two years after this I finally went down an escalator.

I now have an amusing vision of all of us with the same aversion, driving in convoy along the elevated section of the M5, all of us with eyes fixed strictly front and holding up the traffic!

I don't like walking through long creepy soulless corridors with no windows or breaks in them to see anything at all,

Find them a bit /quite weird.🤔

Ugh gills. Even worse those exteroir gills thingies on axolotls. Creepy things they are.

Looking out of a window into the dark, in case someone appears. This actually happened to me once and it scared me SHITLESS. I already had the fear so this was terrifying as I was just thinking about it happening.

Humans with non human heads (eg shapes or animal heads)

Yes I have the "holes" thing & can't/won't google - Tryptophobia or Trypophobia - it's
Even get twinges when I see displays of the bottom of wine bottle all stuck on a wall together - and m&s had a newspaper ad showing a whole garlic head sliced across the middle🤦🏻‍♀️

Do not read Chuck Palahniuks swimming pool story in Haunted (i think) OMG

Yes, the dry scrapey thing

Me tooI always think they're going to cast-off & the hook will embed itself somewhere in my head

Yes🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️Trypto or Trypo phobia (can't google) it's grim

Trypo or Tryptophobia - I can't google obvs because images appear immediately - it's grim

I've just said that about a gazillion times tooI have it & can't google obvs - it's grim

And they often feature in murdery stories too

Me too - even reading about it🤦🏻‍♀️

Really pronounced Adams apples on a man. Yuck yuck yuck

This too

Huge white wind turbines in the sea. Reminds me of monster triffids in some scary sci fi.

Thick polyester leggings. I feel I’m in a weird plastic straight jacket.

What is a riser?