To ask you what illogical thing freaks you out.

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I have an illogical fear of large empty swimming pools. It's totally irrational but I'd be too frightened to look at one let alone stand in it.

I just remembered a couple more!

I am another one freaked out by the veins in my wrists, and veins and blood in general.

I also am freaked out by pandas, it started a few years ago when they stopped looking like pandas to me and started looking like people in panda costumes (but we're definitely actual pandas!) freaked me the fuck out. It seems to be easing now and I can tolerate looking at them but for a while I had to leave the room if they were ever on tv. My friend has the same thing but with penguins, they look like people to her!

Chinchillas

Feet.
Metal bridges that you walk on, for some strange reason it means I can't catch my breath. My DH thinks I'm very odd!

Giant clocks.
Bells in bell towers.
Wish I could unsee that photo of the ship at the end of the street.
Now I'm also troubled by that school trip to the German falconry!

Things that aren't alive but move. Billy bass from years ago. Yuk

The universe here too. Totally freaks me out.

Also, I can't stand it when our light switches at the bottom of the stairs don't line up when I go to bed - there's a panel with about 6 switches (hall, landing, porch, etc) and will fiddle about for ages, turning lights on and off until they all match

This is fascinating! Had never heard of most of these. For me it's pretty tame, moths, woodlice, and can't leave my ears uncovered in bed.

www.colin-grainger.co.uk/reflections-of-the-past-4-the-monarch-the-ship-at-the-end-of-our-streets/
Something like this pipinandtog, must admit that scares me too.

Butterflies and moths urghhhhhh

Also rooms, any room in any building, that has more than one window that is not on the same wall. If one wall has several windows that is fine but if one wall has one window and the wall next to or opposite has one window (in the same room) I struggle to cope, I have been know to have panic atacks when I've had to go in a room like that, if we are driving and I see a house or building like that I feel queesy. It's only external Windows that bother me though, internal Windows or glass doors don't bother me at all!

I realise this makes me sound completely crazy

Another image in my head now, cupids game!

Waxworks. I have an irrational conviction that they're suddenly going to move and grab me as soon as I turn my back.

People walking on stilts freaks me out. It's worse when they wear those big long trousers over the top. The 'knee' bends on the wrong place. It makes me feel sick.

I also feel an uncontrollable rage when I see the buttons on Arran cardigans. You know the ones round brown with that sort of hot cross bun pattern. No idea why they make me feel angry but they do.

I have an illogical fear of large empty swimming pools. It's totally irrational but I'd be too frightened to look at one let alone stand in it

I have this fear too - there's actually a facebook page for sufferers which is called 'I have a BIG phobia of empty swimming pools'

They give me the absolute creeps - I can't even look through a window at one never mind get into one and I have had nightmares about them.

I also suffer from Trypophobia - which is a fear of small closely packed together holes - especially in natural structures. Shapes that elicit a reaction include clustered holes in items such as fruit and bubbles and holes made by insects. They make me shudder, and my skin crawls. The inside of fruits such as oranges, butternut squash and pomegranates create this effect too. It can be so bad that seeing the inside of a roadside hedge after all the leaves have been cut away gives me feelings of dread and revulsion. The only other person I know with this fear is my dad so we think it's genetic.

Seashells. shudders You don't know what's stuffed in them, dead or alive!! And that sickening crrrunch of a shelly beach underfoot, oh god it's revolting

Really deep water.
Open ocean...couldn't swim mid Atlantic for example.
Touching the sea bottom unexpectedly.
Being too close to a huge ship...I had to film one moored up from a RIB once and my senses were all over the place. Likewise in dry dock. I grew up on the water, my dad was a pilot etc so it's weird I have ship/sea related oddities!
Heights...I read about the lemming thing and how we all have the desire to fly subconsciously so worry I might throw myself off.
Polystyrene.
Holding anything in my mouth or teeth makes me retch hard.

Things trapped under things - leaves and sticks under ice, splinters under skin..

People brushing their teeth. Specifically the foam. Makes me want to throw up.

witsender, it is as though you are my twin with your water/ boat related ones.

Also hate large empty swimming pools (but am aquaphobic) I also cannot look at a picture, like the ones hanging in galleries of a large ship in the open sea, gives me that same "feeling" as the swimming pool!

Spiral staircases are the work of the devil but my really illogical one is rage inducing, not fear or sickness. Swans in fields. It really pisses me off if I see swans in fields. The bastards.

Shout out to the buttons on aran cardigan rage - that feels similarly bonkers and comforts me a bit.

Pants with animal or person pictures on them.

Butterflies, moths, birds and any other flappy winged thing around me. I'm fine watching them when I'm behind glass and they're free, in a wildfowl centre for example, but things flapping around my head freak me out.

Tails. I hate tails on mice, rats, gerbils etc. DD, DS and me went to a school zoo last year and I held the dragon, the boa constrictor and the tarantula, but when it came to the mouse I just freaked and dropped it and the woman next to me picked it up. I didn't even ask for a mouse on my lap, I was waiting for a rabbit!

Frogs - jumpy little shits
Worms - slimy little shits
and public speaking - arrrrrgh

oh yes and swimming pool floors!!! I'm a flip flop wearer too. Especially swimming pool toilet floors. I feel sick at just the thought.

Jecan I'm super impressed I've found someone else with a sticker aversion!! I agree completely on price stickers. I make dh remove them all although I can do it at a push. Proper stickers freak me out still. I have many more years of hell and dd is only 3!!