Feeling nauseated after googling Trypopophobia

[Thepowerof3]

Blaargle, I feel all hot and dizzy now why can't I leave well alone!

[mignonette]

Nada to that. I had no adverse reaction even though I am wearing a Mohair cardigan too. I am clearly devoid of imagination ...

[maddening]

so is it any holes - why all the photos with holes on ? Is this what a sufferer imagines?

[CalamityJones]

It's hard to explain to someone unaffected. The groups of holes just make me feel very distressed and sick and uncomfortable. Things being IN the holes are when it gets really bad (such as lotus seed pods, or those bastard frogs that keep their babies on their backs). It's all about the clusters..

[HappyYoni]

Lumps are worse than holes!

[jennieflower]

Surinam toads

[ToysRLuv]

I wonder if it's like a visual way of causing vertigo with patterns?

[ToysRLuv]

Surinam toad

[quirrelquarrel]

Aw cmon, you all love it really

[MyBoysAreFab]

When I was younger my mum had a Readers Digest cookbook. In it there was a picture of cherry clafoutis. Not holes I know, but the same idea - it made me shudder every time I saw it.

Also these big dried pods that people use in flower arrangements which have holes in them - make me shiver.

There was a thread on here not so long ago which mentioned it, and I couldn't believe that not only was it not just me, but that there is actually a name for it!

[MollyHooper]

Ugh, I hate seeing cherry clafoutis.

I can't believe people eat them.

[HeffalumpTheFlump]

I don't understand it, but that made me feel very very sick. What causes the disgust reaction? It wasn't a conscious thought, I just started to feel like I was going to throw up. What the hell is that about??

[CheckpointCharlie]

toys I think you have it, it made me feel queasy and a bit dizzy. Never worried about it before but it is very alarming!! Why?!

[TheOneAndOnlyAlpha]

I don't get it myself, but apparently it's an evolutionary reaction to poisonous plants and animals. The more deadly the more holes. So you lots would do well in the jungle. I'd be tucking into a poisonous holey fruit.

[MollyHooper]

DH had a sort of delayed disgust reaction. He couldn't stop thinking about the pictures, like Ehric said intrusive thoughts later that night after seeing them.

I think it may have been due to me being slightly crazed after googling it, then making him google it and a bit going crazy again.

I always had nightmares of my hands/teeth being covered in holes as a child so those images triggered something big with me.

[TooOldForGlitter]

See I have always had this particular phobia but never knew it was an actual phobia until mn. I used to have to smash barnacles off rocks as a child because I couldn't stand the holey-ness of them.

[TooOldForGlitter]

(Anyone remember when polos brought out, mini polos? My sister used to put a handful in her mouth and show me her tongue just to ick me out. Evil)

[ToysRLuv]

I think it could be also the patterns and swirliness that cause a physical reaction like vertigo. Actual vertigo related to fear of heights, spinning etc. is, according to my understanding, at least partly caused by visual feedback of surroundings, e.g. depth. Visual feedback can be something really "coded" and "shortcutty" as in only a swirly pattern of dots, as our brains will then translate this coded data into a "complete picture" of "depth" or "spinning".

[mmmuffins]

I have trypophilia I suppose- I really enjoy looking at the holes and really want to pick things out of them!

Had no idea this sort of thing made people so ill.

[ShootMeNowPlease]

There was an article about this in New Scientist last week (complete with picture of lotus seed pod that makes me shiver!). Apparently it's because lots of nasty poisonous creatures have those kinds of repeating patterns.

I never knew till I read the article that there was a name for how I felt about some things. Tripe is another one - the honeycomb patterning - urgh. Feel distinctly ill just thinking about it.

[MollyHooper]

I had blocked those out TooOld...

They were horrible.

[ToysRLuv]

So it could be a combination of vertigo and survival instincts with regard to rotten fruit..

Does anyone remember the pitted, enlarged tonsils on Embarrassing Bodies?