How have you coped with your worst nightmare?

[anahata]

Hi all

Posting here for traffic. I talked to a friend this morning. She has a 3 month old. Friends sister was visiting. She cannot cope with vomit. Picked her niece up for a cuddle, made the fatal mistake of holding her baby niece above her face. You can guess the rest. Baby vomit in her hair, all over her face, including her mouth, and down the inside of her top.

Friends sister was gagging and came pretty close to vomiting .

So, what's your worst nightmare, and how did it happen??

[nancy75]

I also can't cope with any kind of insect/spider/flying thing, don't like birds and do not allow dd or dp to touch me with their feet. If I see any sort of insect in the house I have to get dp to remove it and then I have to clean where it has been ( and wash my hands a lot) I once picked up a bug by accident and couldn't eat for a few days because my hands didn't feel clean. Writing all this down I realise I sound a bit odd!

[MooseyMouse]

Empty swimming pools.

They're fucking awful. And there's a picture on the Internet of an empty swimming pool with old desks and chairs dumped in it. Aaaaagh.

[KeithRichardsPetCat]

Butterflies and moths

I was in labour all night was actually seventy two hours and it was so warm. Midwife opened the windows. Despite me begging her not to. All the moths came to visit. All of them. Every single month in NI was in my room that particular evening

Now imagine moths; the big fluffy ones with flappy wings, and cross them with Angry Birds. They pelted at me - I was stuck on the bed with the monitor strap on me

I cried. I screamed. I tried to fling myself off the bed and I threw up

Husband closed the window and started batting them with the cardboard pan things. While I threw up and growled at Valerie the midwife

Valerie didn't go near the window again

[MooseBeTimeForSnow]

Being evacuated from my home together with approximately 90,000 neighbours because of a wildfire. It's a month later and the fire is still burning although our city is safe. Luckily, my home is still there. Many of my friends lost everything.

[31weeksgone]

Moose

Mine is cotton wool, can't stand the feeling of it, sends shivers down my spine, argh and I'm petrified of the dentist too, I swear they go hand in hand from them putting the little cotton wads in my mouth as a child. Blehgghhhh

[Glastokitty]

You all should never visit Oz, as we have lots of pretty much mentioned here. Spiders, birds (including attack magpies, and penguins), cockroaches, sharks, empty swimming pools, ships keels (huge shipyard nearby), moths, lots of people's toes in thongs, huge cockroaches, fish everywhere, I could go on!

[CoolCarrie]

We had spiders the size of a mans hand where we lived and my dh couldn't go near them, so it was left to me to deal with them! Used a plastic box over them and out door & over the wall to our crap neighbours! My friend can't even say the word, she calls them spanners and calls me sort them out.

[MoonriseKingdom]

Wasps. As a child was very scared of them but naively believed that if I kept still they wouldn't sting me (thanks dad for that not so top tip). Age about 9 I was wearing a flowery dress on a hot day. One came near me and I froze. It landed on my chest then flew up to my chin. It then crawled up my chin and stung me twice on the lip at which point I swatted it away. Strangely it totally cured my fear.

Cockroaches. Age 16 there was a tank of some huge foreign variety of them in a lab where I did biology. One day I decided to overcome my fear so was inching closer and reached out to touch the glass. At which point my friend sneaked up behind me and suddenly tapped my shoulder. I woke up on the floor having passed out. Still hate them!

[GoBigOrange]

I hate bugs. Weirdly, I am okay with Spiders as long as they don't actually get on me, but cockroaches and crickets give me the heebie jeebies big time.

I live in the Southern US, so cockroaches can be a problem here. DH and I have some rental property which some extremely unhygenic tenants have lived in. One lot let the infestation get so bad that when DH opened the front door after they had been evicted, the roaches on top of the door literally showered him (I ran away screaming, DH showered for about three hours while I thanked my lucky stars I hadn't been first through the door) and once the bug-spray man had been through there was a thick crunchy carpet of the disgusting things dead on every surface.

On another occasion some tenants called us because they couldn't get their oven to work. DH went to see what he could do, oven wouldn't turn on so he tried to see if the built in broiler would switch on or if that was broke too. It did heat up. Though when he realised he was roasting a colony of roaches living in there he wished it hadn't! The whole oven was full of the horrible things, and was probably why it wasn't working!

I'm not sure what is more revolting to be honest, the way some people live, or the bugs which move in with them!

[Toddlerteaplease]

Rodents and birds are my worst nightmare. I hate it when birds fly over me and my sister still reminds me (16 years later) that I left our cat playing with a semi dead mouse while I ran around the house screaming. If my cats ever brought me a present my dad would have to drive 30 miles to sort it out Coz I'm such a wuss. Fortunately the local wildlife has nothing to fear from my very thick cats.

[FedUpWithBriiiiiick]

Climbing up or down rocks or stone stairs. I think there's a phobia name for it.

I live in NI, the iconic and beautiful Giant's Causeway is a source of panic for me. The most non-sectarian tourist location in the country, and I can't go without a Valium

[FedUpWithBriiiiiick]

I might just add that I'm not scared of heights or flying or anything, just uneven rocky surfaces and the climbing thereof.

[Loulou0]

I've had a severe phobia of moths since I was a child, I don't remember but my dm tells me that some teddy bears got infested and that was the start of it. Re worst nightmare.. Last year I felt a lump in my robe pocket. Put my hand in and picked up the lump to find I was holding a huge, hairy moth. I obviously screamed, ran and had humongous panic attack. Now I have another phobia- stuff in pockets. FFS.

[FurryWalls]

at the windscreen wiping blue tit

I have a huge fear of underwater machinery. A wave machine is my idea of hell. I accidentally swam past the grate that covered the workings of it in the deep end of a pool once. Never swam away from anything so fast in my fucking life. It's a fear of the thought that all that machinery is just lurking in the dark, under the water, and will suddenly start working and doing stuff down there

[pearlylum]

People dying in my arms is not pleasant, It;s happened to me twice.

[DragonMamma]

Trypophobe here too - when it was doing the rounds on social media I had to give it a wide berth.

[Packergator]

furrywalls I didn't know that I had that fear until you brought it up!

[KenDoddsDadsDog]

Hard boiled eggs. I can make myself sick just thinking about them . Anyone eating eggs makes me retch , have to excuse myself.

[FurryWalls]

Sorry packer. Make sure you don't google 'underwater wind turbines'

[Oysterbabe]

I'm scared of spiders. I once picked up some tights that had been on the floor and pulled them on. I felt something moving on my leg and saw there was a big spider inside the tights, partly squashed against my leg and wriggling around. You could have heard me scream from space.

[pearlylum]

KenDoddsDadsDog No. Don't say that about eggs. Eggs are the best. DD can eat 5 in one sitting.
Poached, fried, scrambled, even raw dipping rare cooked beef in a Japanese sukiyaki.
Hard boiled in a picnic with a twist of salt. Scrambled softly sitting on toast, runny yolks, even pickled or curried, i love all types of eggs.

[Mandatorymongoose]

31weeks

Cotton wool is mine too. Hateful stuff. The thought of it getting caught in my nails makes me want to cry. I'm supposed to use it at work sometimes, I just substitute for a gauze pad.

DH hates buttons, especially if they are loose or just decorative. He's not a fan of clowns either, I went to the circus last week he didn't want to come.

[Ratbagcatbag]

Another tripophobe here too. I cannot under some of the images shared.

Moths, if they're flying. I can appreciate their beauty if they sit still. If they fly my direction I really have a panic. Daddy long legs the same.

My really odd one is stickers, they make my skin crawl. I have no idea why, plasters are fine, but sticker books give me the heebie jeebies I have a three year old too, it's bloody difficult to buy craft packs that don't contain them. I've never found anyone else that has this.

[TormundGiantsbabe]

Slugs. They make me heave. I accidentally picked one up once. And I stood on another one in bare feet. I still feel the need to cut off the fingers and foot that touched them to get rid of the sensation. I used to have to walk to work in the dark and I could see their shapes on the paths but it was too dark to see them properly. I was terrified of standing on them. I hate their colours, the way they can go short and really fucking fat or long and thin. And they're bloody everywhere. Picked up a flower pot the other day and a massive fat fucker was all scrunched up under it being unnaturally fat.

Absolutely fine with snails though.

[pouncehill]

I have a terrible phobia of watching things do with the sea or underwater.
Just a video of waves crashing against rocks makes my legs feel like jelly and I feel really sick.

However I love swimming, especially in the sea I just hate hate hate videos of it