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To ask you what illogical thing freaks you out.

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cupidsgame · 30/06/2016 10:51

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.

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almapudden · 01/07/2016 15:14

I'm mildly trypophobic, I think I read somewhere that there's an evolutionary advantage to it, or at least an explanation as to why so many people have it.

I have an irrational fear of:

the word 'suckle';

mayonnaise when it isn't mixed with anything. My boyfriend sometimes pretends to eat it from the spoon and it makes me want to vomit;

and flying over water (not land).

exWifebeginsat40 · 01/07/2016 16:07

I'm sitting here mildly agog, all 'cotton wool? no..eyes? no..fish? no' and then someone said swimming pool toilet floors and I want to cry-sick.

weird, aren't we.

LastGirlOnTheLeft · 01/07/2016 20:18

That's ok Stratter. I'm sorry for sounding abrupt too. Smile I thought of another one to do with teeth...people scraping their forks along them when they eat. Envy

HelenaJustina · 01/07/2016 20:30

Other people's toenails, not children, only adults. Just thinking about that makes the hairs stand up on the back of my neck.

TondelayaDellaVentamiglia · 01/07/2016 20:32

my dad never liked to touch cotton wool, and my eldest is the same

my mum hates to touch chalk

I really don't like jelly...don't like how it glistens and moves and it always feels cold but clammy.

I'm also a bit feeble about fingernails and toenails, but only if someone has banged them, or stubbed a toe...somehow always imagine the worst, that the nail will be flappy, bloody and hanging off. Makes me feel a bit squirly just thinking about it.

Mrsraypurchase · 01/07/2016 20:54

Robots - specifically Titan the robot who is supposed to be 'entertainment'. I have literally run away and hidden when I've been at an event and this terrifying thing has turned up.

SylvieB74 · 01/07/2016 23:59

Moths. And there was the biggest ever one in my bedroom the other night, which kept jumping on my head :(

BenLinusatemyhomework · 02/07/2016 00:03

Trypophobia as well - yuck.

JeopardyMouse · 02/07/2016 00:06

Cornflour. The way it sort of crunches and squeaks when you put a spoon in. Eugh.

TakemedowntoPotatoCity · 02/07/2016 00:10

You know very occasionally the moon is very low in the sky, yellow and huge? Not just a bit bigger han normal but enormous. (It might have a special name like harvest moon but I'm not too sure about that) Anyway this freaks me out and I can't look at it. I get really unsettled.

JustBeingJuliet · 02/07/2016 00:33

Boats. And planes. I'll happily go on them so long as I don't have to look at them too much first! Toenails as well. Can't stand them being cut or painted and I once caught one with the razor and it made me want to vomit. Also adults dressed up with masks on freak me out. Wind turbines and pylons as well. Oh and the feeling of my hands on carpet or other fabrics. I cannot brush crumbs off my clothes or anything.

JustBeingJuliet · 02/07/2016 00:35

I forgot dams. I hate how all that water is held back behind that little wall. Makes me want to just run away. The sea scares me too; couldn't swim in it!

JustBeingJuliet · 02/07/2016 00:39

I keep thinking of more! Also hate going over those bridges which open in the middle.

KissMyArse · 02/07/2016 00:42

Wet crumbs.

Gives me the boak just thinking about them.

Pohara1 · 02/07/2016 00:53

Dolls. All of them. Chucky started it, but at least he's upfront about his murderous urges. Barbie's just gonna get me while I sleep.

And my cat does this thing with his claws. One by one, he draws them through his teeth. It looks and sounds creepy. He also makes this strange noise when he grooms, like he's spitting on himself or something. He watches me when he does both of these things.

MrsSippy · 02/07/2016 00:57

driving under a bridge when a train is going over the top... I know it sounds a bit specialist but there's loads of the buggers where I live... brings me out in a right clammy sweat!!

recall · 02/07/2016 00:58

driving round roundabouts - have a panic that I'm going the wrong way every time - have learnt to keep going although I just want break and shout sorry

bluebloom · 02/07/2016 01:54

Moths. Dry cotton wool or paperback books touched with wet hands. Horses- far too big. Hearing a car drive past & the handsfree phone is ringing out, always need to check with someone that they can hear it too, really freaks me out. Definitely regret googling trypophobia too.

Doinmummy · 02/07/2016 02:21

I thought I was the only one afraid of ships ! I can't look at the bottom of them - totally freaks me out.

I don't like wales or dolphins .

I can't look at someone if they are sitting on a chair with their feet on a poof and nothing supporting their knees just in case their knees bend the wrong way .

cosytoaster · 02/07/2016 08:44

recall I always have the urge to go anti clockwise round a roundabout, especially if it's quiet and I haven't got other cars to show me the way, I really have to think about it.

Forgetmenotblue · 02/07/2016 08:46

Certain sounds fill me with absolute dread and and panic. Any droning sort of noise, under neath the sound of something else : bagpipes do this and it makes me feel sick with dread and fear. Also certain chords and keys: can't bear madrigals or early anthems because of this, nor some kinds of country music. Is it called "sawgrass" or something? A kind of country music? The tones in it make me feel like I'm going to be sick. All shivery and weird.

HiKyle · 02/07/2016 09:03

The thing that most freaks me out is hot air balloons. I can't look at them in the sky, they make me feel sick and shakey. No idea why!
Also big things where they are not meant to be, like ships in dry docks.
I once saw a helicopter on a trailer being towed. It was so freaky!
I've also seen a blade from a massive wind turbine on the back of a lorry. It was too big!
I also can't stand seeing things like swarms or groups of insects/animals all crawling all over each other. Gross!

Notso · 02/07/2016 09:28

Ships out of water make my mouth go weird.

Big coils of rope do too.

Moths and butterflies petrify me.

Also I cannot think about eggs, milk or Honey or I can't eat them. I don't eat them as they are anyway but use them in cooking. If I think about it too much though it puts me off.

flirtygirl · 02/07/2016 10:16

Those videos or picture where fruit or objects have mouths. Just about cope with eyes but mouths make me sick.

Holes espescially deep or irregular, sometimes i can cope with crumpet and sometimes i cant go down that aisle in the supermarket.

If paddling always scream the minute i feel nothing under my feet, swimming pools and floors around then, dont mind empty ones but hate the drains, always have the thought that people are swimming in a soup of wee, hair and sweat.

Have to make sure wardrobe doors and drawers are closed before sleeping, the darkness of gaps freaks me out.

Also legs inside duvets and bed edges, if hot and leg not under duvet then light on to maintain all body parts within the edges of the bed.

Spiders

Fluff in corners of anywhere but buses trains and public places are so bad i no longer look down and if i drop something then someone else has to pick it up for me.

Push all buttons with my knuckle like calling a lift or crossing road as cant use my fingertips as normal and thats on a good day, a bad one will mean standing like a loon until someone else comes along to push the button.

The gaps in bushes, blades of grass and undergrowth, the dark gaps.

Pores even my own.

Old toys like the ones piled up at carboot sales or in charity shops make me feel sick.

People walking big dogs or big dogs in cars. In cars i imagine them biting off their owners head and last week saw a huge dog in the boot, the back window was oval and eye shaped, it was beyond freaky.

Holding sticky or sweaty hands, my dds know ill hold their wrists to cross the road if theres a hint of stickiness or ill wet wipe their hands and still cant hold then until they aer dry.

Cracks, why oh why did someone put that picture up the thread, my dds laugh at me as i turn that foot cream advert over as seeing it means i cant eat.

Yes im wierd but i was crying with laughter over cows, for some reason that and balloons and have me thinking im qudte normal after all. And cake bar, the next time im scared im thinking of that, this thread has made me feel happy like im not alone.

DurhamDurham · 02/07/2016 10:19

The stringy stuff that is tied around joints of meat. It's bad enough when it's wrapped around the meat but when it's cut off and bunching up like lots of little worms it makes me feel sick.

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