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'm another with Trypophobia! I thought I was going insane when it started 😂

Viaducts. Creepy big bastards.

Tunnels and being underground. All that weight of the earth pressing down. Even worse, tunnels underwater. This includes the ones you walk through in big aquariums.

I would never go in the Channel tunnel, and I hold my breath when we go through the Dartford tunnel.

Heights. Chair's my limit. Heights in films make me go cold and sweaty, and even the ones in cartoon games scare me.

The sea.

Spiral staircases (i think i fell down a set in haunted house as a child and i've hated them ever since)
Floating staircases (i hate the gap between steps i feel like im going to fall through the gap or somethings going to suck/drag me through it)
The thought of a towel or anything cotton being in a mouth rubbing my teeth, giving me goosebumps just thinking about it
Normal fears include spiders and heights although i would love to go skydiving!

oh yes, mirrors. i can't have a mirror in a room i'm sleeping in and cover them in hotel rooms. at night if i need to pee i keep my eyes on the floor when washing my hands, just in case.

My sister is scared of people with big heads.

Artificial lakes; silent ocean liners; woolly jumpers touching bare skin (on me or if I see it on other people); teeth.
Ugh.

Anything with tiny little holes in it like pomegranates : there was a thread on here recently, there's a name for the phobia. Felt sick at the photos in that thread, wished I'd never seen them! Ugh.

Public speaking.

Canals.

Heights.

Dolls, mannequins, stuffed animals....anything that looks like it could just suddenly move and get me!
Clowns - what are they hiding behind that big painted face?
Polar Express style animation...you know the stuff. It looks like real people but is a cartoon but I love most other animation.
Also terrified that i will get tin foil stuck in my teeth!! It has never happened but scares me so much it makes me feel sick typing this.

Reservoirs.
Viaducts and aqueducts, or more specifically the huge Victorian brick arches.
Buoys in the ocean, especially the ones with bells. Horrible.
Canal tunnels.

Another one here for empty swimming pools.
Vast expanses of material, eg very big curtains, parachutes, hot air balloons ( I could get trapped).
Organ pipes in a church.
The strings inside a piano, especially the thick ones.

Stairs with no riser. I'm convinced my foot will slip through and my shin will snap clean in half.

I can't stand the feel of porridge or Nutella on my skin. It's like proper revulsion. Maybe because I don't like either to eat & so can't lick it off?

What's really funny is:
I don't like clowns or holes - so nod to myself at those.

Yet, when I read about ships or viaducts - I think "bizarre"

Compelling stuff.
Might have to google trypophobia again - it's been a while,
or colorophobia.

I'm new to mumsnet, and thought I would be reading and joining in with sensible discussions.
So glad I was wrong.

pippintog you have no idea the madness you've entered

What's really funny is:

I don't like clowns or holes - so nod to myself at those.

Yet, when I read about ships or viaducts - I think "bizarre"

Topcat I know what you mean. But I can kind of understand it.

The ship thing especially.

Too big.
The hull is un-nerving
But mostly feeling I get is un-natural

marmite I wasn't scared of ships before but after seeing those pictures I feel quite unnerved.

I don't like windows at night. I am sure one day I will see a face with hands pressed to the window staring at me.

I also am terrified of Ferris wheels. Shudders.

I'm frightened of all these things now.
I was alright before.

Especially the ship at the end of that street.
What if you just went out, and it was there when you got back?

Hair in a sandwich. It's not illogical in theory but I only have to have the thought that a hair is in my food to gag and can't eat it. Checking makes no difference.

Milkyface. That's exactly what happened to me. Never given ships a second thought. Read a post on here insisting that they were scary, looked at a picture and felt quite uncomfortable.

And have been morbidly fascinated ever since. They are just so big.

ratbagcatbag it's reassuring to find another person with a phobia about stickers. Very glad my kids have outgrown them but was always on edge when they were little & had a sticker book in case they stuck them somewhere I wasn't expecting - shudder
I can just about cope with fruit stickers. The worst is price stickers on things you buy that then don't come off easily. Especially on crockery - then dh has to wet it to loosen it. I have to leave the room & feel ill even typing that.

They're just not right marmite Blergh!

And for whoever said belly buttons coming open.... I don't have a fear of 'normal' ones but my son has an umbilical hernia and I fear the potential for it... Erm.. Popping? Shivers!

Anything (e.g. the corner of a sheet of paper, the toe of a sock) caught in a drawer or door - I feel as though my fingers are being crushed, and have to open the drawer/door and tuck everything in neatly