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.

openmindedsceptic ....no visits to my bathroom for you then!

Things in my hair....bugs, clips, hairbrushes, tongs .....it bring me out in a cold sweat in case they get stuck!

Large ships in dry dock. They really do not look right out of the water.

Space and the world ending billions of years into the future I can't watch space programmes as I find the views stunning but it's always X is gonna happen ... Billion years time but don't worry because Y will happen .... Billion years before that

Those really giant extractor fan things the just look like huge tunnels. Terrify me. I'm scared of most things that are bigger than they should be.

Clusters of things that occur in nature. Like swarms, or scales. Frogspawn for example.

This will sound really stupid, but things in places they don't belong.

Like a hairbrush on the sofa or in the kitchen, a single daisy in otherwise clear grass, a glove laying on the ground outside.

I've got no idea why but my stomach turns into knots and my adrenaline starts rushing and I get dizzy and sweaty for a moment or two

I'm bizarre though and it is exhausting inside my head as there's constantly things that don't belong in the places people put them!!

Wrists. The veiny bit. I can't touch my wrists and can barely look at them

What an interesting thread. I have the usual logical fears, Heights, Fire, Deep water, Spiders.

Belly buttons are my illogical one, I think it is fear of it coming undone, especially stressful during pregnancy when they are really put to the test.

Balloons, they scare the shit out of me and everyone thinks it's hilarious to throw them my way.

Also dry cotton wool, urgh makes my skin crawl.

Pencils also freak me out, I can't touch one because I constantly get the image if someone slamming my head down on one while its in my nose, and just typing that has made me want to throw up (and currently holding my nose closed)

Corners - sounds nuts, but I hate corners, they hurt my eyes.

As you can tell by my username............Most things!!!

Oh and a new one is wind turbines..... No idea why.

Haha, I saw the title and came on here to comment 'empty swimming pools'! Also, swimming pool drains and filters. I actually enjoy swimming, but am soooo picky about which pools are scary or not.
Also, bathrooms without windows terrify me. And sensor lights in rooms without windows! I'm not scared of the dark. These are completely stupid, irrational fears.

krazipan No! I haven't seen Luther! Dare I start? Will I never sleep again? 😅

Another one for polystyrene. The feel of it makes me squirm and the noise!!!! Quite thankful that it doesn't seem as prevalent in packaging of children's toys nowadays.

I also hate it if anyone opens an umbrella indoors. I am not superstitious or in any way in to woo type stuff but this one seems to have got deep into my subconscious from somewhere.

Bandages on fingers! My knees buckle. Even if it's not covering a wound I feel sick looking at them.

Feet, cotton wool, people touching my ears or trying to speak near them (like whispering), open water and cows.

Yet I manage to masquerade as a normal functioning human being somehow

Sounds of people brushing teeth. Clocks ticking.
Also hate lip stick

Holes, clusters of holes.

The name for it is Trypophobia.

Had it since I was a child, my mother's natural sea sponges she kept in the bathroom and the potpourri with the lotus seed pods were my fucking nemesis growing up.

lighthouse i've been in a dry dock underneath a cruise ship. it was amazing, but i can see the discomfort it might induce.

i have a phobia of things that are bigger than they ought to be - like giant paperclips, great big novelty pencils etc. i used to have nightmares as a child where either i was trying to hold tiny things in my suddenly giant hands and it's somehow translated to a scale-based phobia. there's something a bit like it called Alice in Wonderland syndrome but it doesn't exactly fit. it's horrible, and people find it hilarious to find enormous upscaled things and show them to me.

ugh.

Feet. I don't even like my own.

I remember when I'd just had DS in hospital and I asked the midwife for some wipes and she told me they only provide cotton wool and water. So I ended up pouring the water onto the cotton wool so I didn't have to touch it while it was dry . She must have thought I was nuts.

Spiders
Stray hairs
Dogs

Boats out of water freak me out too.

I also have a very irrational fear of my kids' eyes falling out when they take their swimming goggles off.