To have such a weird phobia?!

[WinterSnow]

I am terrified of nautical things, old style diving suits and ship figureheads being top of my list, I actually feel sick and dizzy if I know one is nearby, do you have any weird ones?

Psammead - i have something like the hair thing if i am swimming. if a hair gets wrapped around my finger in the swimming pool, i freak. mid-lane i stop, frantically raking at my finger to remove the hair. must piss everyone else off but oh god. it makes me panic like mad!

Not orgasmically I would hazard

archie - That's wrong, wrong, wrong. EWWWWWW. (rolling fags with toes I mean). Oh god, and I've just realised that after that he must have put the fag in his mouth.

That's actually made me feel a bit sick.

Labels in clothes. There's a TV advert on at the moment which caught me out the other day, with a woman with the label sticking out of the back of her jumper, I have NO IDEA what it's advertising because I can't watch.

I cut them out of all my clothes. Can't dry myself with towels that have labels on in case they touch my wet skin.

Will stop typing now as thinking about it is making me squirm.

TiredMonkey
I never saw it myself

Haha you would think I would be with enjoying the starfish shape! Sadly not the thought of my toes touching while being tied up is terrible! I constantly walk around with my toes spread out , boys I nanny call them 'monster munch toes'.. Harsh I think!

I have a phobia about jam, particularly the jam in doughnuts. It's the way it lurks there.....

Work colleagues bring in doughnuts on a weekly basis. I had to explain why I never ate them, as per the above. They think I am quite mad now

Apparently some people like sucking toes and have fetishes and so on.
Remember that Fergie woman?

Balloons - I'm better than I used to be, but they make me sweat.

Room full of toddlers with balloons - utterly terrifying.

DD is 17 mo and as you'd expect she likes balloons, so I need to either overcome my phobia or endure the guilt of subjecting her to a balloon-less childhood.

I also have a HUGE fear that, when I'm asleep, someone will grab hold of my foot from the end of the bed. I have had this ever since I can remember. I can never sleep with my feet outside of the duvet for that reason, I always have to keep them hidden.

You might be lucky - she might have the same phobia.
Wonder if there is anything genetic at all about them? Doubt it somehow

Hatesponge, I have to have all of myself tucked under duvet too. Because duvet is obviously great protection against anything likely to be in my bedroom grabbing at limbs. I cut the labels off it. Duvet labels are HUGE.

EndoplasmicReticulum
Just think how big a duvet label looks to a child!
They all seem to love them though

Feet!
Spiders, all bugs infact. Terrified.
Standing still on grass
Flushing the toilet. (not that I dont obviously, but I have to be able to get the door open in lightening speed so that whatever it is cant get me?!?)
Not seeing the bottom of the swimming pool - a shark is living in there i fucking know it.....why else would they make in so dark? huh? why? No explination!
Closing my eyes in the shower - Always imagine that when i open them IT will be handing me the towel! (Has anyone seen that film?)

Yes, I am a freak

Get the swimming pool. When a child my Uncle had an outdoor pool with dark patches on the floor. Would I swim over them? No
Still won't swim over dark patches in the sea.
Congratulations everyone you have managed to allow me to recognise that I have a phobia. I have never trusted those types who say, "its good to talk about things" Now I know why. Just like shrinks and there regression to childhood to find out how abused everyone was.

op - you'd struggle at our huse we have a cupboard full of diving suits!

i'm not keen on puppets - marionette (sic) style ones and those antique baby dolls which dont have a scalp just an emty bit with hair are horrid

sungirltan
Do you remember the jadderman ad? V creepy but I found it totally compelling. Friend of mine (85) has a book from when he was a child full of that stuff - weird

Snakes and Birds for me..............I screamed the whole bus station down a few months ago when a pigeon flew into the perspex wall and then flapped near my face.......... My ds loves shouting for me and then watching my reaction when i see a snake on the telly. Grrrr.......... My late dh actually stopped me carrying his dinner in on a tray once to him as he thought id see the snake on the tv, scream and his dinner would hit the deck!!

no whats jadderman?

lottie - a sparrow managed to kill itself flying into our glass balcony wall a while back -that was quite grim

Ive just remembered something else that freaked me recently, it was an ad for a tv programme with a man running like mad whilst be pursued by a man playing a flute and a man banging manically on a drum. Really gave me the heebiegeebies!!

Frogs and toads - real ones, plastic ones, pictures of them ....... results in complete and utter meltdown from me - screaming, hysterical crying, shaking and sweating - the works.

I know how mine started - I accidently mowed one - It jumped out of the long grass and it screamed (so did I to be honest) - and yes they really do scream (honest).

It jumped, I jumped and the rest they say is history. Moved house and one of the provisions for prospective houses is that NONE of the neighbours were to have a pond or I wouldnt even view the house.

Irational ? No I dont think so because I KNOW THEY REALLY ARE ALL OUT TO GET ME ! The rest of you are all obviously stark raving bonkers !

check on google images

The Judderman sungirl. "Beware the Judderman, my child, when the moon is fat" it was an alcopop advert.

China dolls, you know the type they sell in the back of Take a Break and the like. I used to live near a shop that sold them. I can still picture their non blinking eyes watching me as I would walk past the window. I always had to cross the road to avoid it.