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?

The sea and anything submerged in it! Like buoy's and the underside of ships!
Don't get me started on figure head's

Horrible.

@BanjoOnThePorch Awful yes!

Sticky labels 🤢
Pylons

Coins of any sort. Even hearing them jingling makes me feel queasy, having to occasionally tough them is a nightmare.

The green bit of tomatoes. It's the texture!

Also, hulls on ships. Not that I see them often but catching the ferry and being alongside the huge ship before boarding - something about the metal rising up above me but also being under the water really gives me the heebies. I love being on a ship though!

Polystyrene, particularly when it comes as packaging. The squeaking it makes is hideous!

Water towers are evil.

Pylons and wind turbines, don't like the way they dominate the landscape in a weird alien way. Think this may be down to the influence of reading /watching a lot of Scifi as a child.

I used to hate driving along motorways in the dark and rain when I was little, because the large overhead lights had beams that seemed to reach down like 2 tentacles towards the car.

Submarines, or anything as it submerges into the water. I hate it when the cameras do that. Weirdly OK once things are under water unless it's very deep and dark, mainly just the submerging bit.

Windows with open curtains at night, because you can't see what's / who's outside, but know that anyone outside can see you. Also something very uncomfortable about seeing your own reflection superimposed onto the dark outside.

I'm pretty solid on most things, but what gives me the absolute fanny-wobbles is driving over a high bridge or on an elevated section of motorway. I feel as though I'm being drawn towards the edge. So if you see someone driving in the middle lane over the Humber Bridge or the section of the M5 outside Bristol, and they are staring straight ahead with a fixed expression - sorry, it's me.

Long nails make me feel sick and they don't even have to be that long. Just anything past the end of the flesh on the finger. I bite my own right down and cannot let any of them grow.

OMG I thought I was the only one who hated this!!!

all the above and touching wooden spoons - they all make the inside of my mouth get goosebumps.

Reusable plastic😖
Like picnic sets, toddler plates or plastic drinking bottles...even worse if they have straws, and if those straws are chewed I may throw up in my mouth a bit.

Feeding DC was a nightmare especially as my other heeby jeeby is mushy food....
Uggggh shivers.

All plastic plates, cups, cutlery etc were removed as soon as they stopped throwing things.

Strangely single use plastic is OK. Eg a bottle of coke. I just believe the other harbours germs somehow in the plasticy crevices😬

Argh, me too! I once saw an episode of “Do You Know?” On CBeebies about the pumping mechanism for a water slide at a leisure centre and it made me feel a bit queasy.

Are you familiar with r/submechnophobia? Great source of the heebie jeebies!

Husband is that you on MN??

Glad I'm not the only one affected by polystyrene, it's the noise and the feel of it!

Lofts, never been up one in my life.

I get irritated by people wearing long sleeve tops with one sleeve rolled up to their elbow and the other one down, if that makes sense.

Aquaducts or big railway arches always make me feel a bit panicky, no idea why. If I'm driving an unfamiliar route and unexpectedly have to drive under a big brick, arched bridge it makes my heart hammer and I feel sweaty. I really don't like weirs or canal locks either.

Polystyrene

Wet wool

Hairs loose in water like when you're washing your hair etc

Squeaky eye - anyone else get that? Just happens randomly?

I don't know how to describe this but certain types of puppets or animations where they're meant to look 'real' iyswim? Like Polar Express for example or an advert that was on for a while where the people had knitted faces. Does anyone know what I mean?

I went on this bridge years ago and was beside myself with terror! Couldn't sit in the car while we crossed, thought I'd have a better chance out of it if we plunged into the water beneath! 😂
https://www.middlesbrough.gov.uk/parking-roads-and-transport/public-transport-and-getting-around/tees-transporter-bridge/

Chalk & blackboards.

Flappy things - birds, fish, moths, butterflies.

Following a full car transporter really gives me the heebie-jeebies!

Ticks, those horrible little bugs 🤢

My fanny may never be the same again after looking at that.

Another one for holes, I was putting a solar light on my palm tree yesterday and was horrified to see the trunk was a mass of raised holes. Some had a single frond type thing growing out of them 🤢.
Clusters of barnacles on whales.

Driving past woodland at night. The darkness, the stillness, the car lights lighting up the trees & casting sinister shadows. I used to imagine all sorts as a kid.

Dams
Waterfalls
Those lakes with a drain in the middle
Stairs without risers
Cellars
Nuns
Moths
Cockroach's