Things that give you the willies

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Inspired by another thread, what are things that give you the willies?

My biggest one is houseboats.

desperately hoping other people get the willies too

Thinking about what's outside of space (endless space). Nope.

My landline ringing. Having blood drawn.

Diggers, tractors and other machinery unmanned and abandoned - had nightmares as a kid of them coming after my town like an army!

Walking(running) up the stairs at night.

Closed down steelworks near me that you can drive alongside seperated only by a metal fence you can see through for about two miles on way to a boatyard.

Looking through a dark window from inside knowing someone/thing outside can see you.

Parkour and Free-running.
How can they just throw themselves off buildings as they do, confident that they are not going to slip and fall?!
Watching them makes my knees physically twinge!

A couple of years ago, we went for a walk in a pine forest. I got absolutely freaked out by so many things...all the pine needles underfoot felt so spongey and like I might sink into them. I kept thinking how easy it would be to get lost in there...it was all skeletal, no leaves on the lower parts of the trees, just bare bark. Then DH stepped off the path into a bit of bog that almost sucked his walking boot off...and also the silence in there, apart from the wind blowing high in the trees, it was muffled silence and I really didn't like it and had to leave.
I have no desire to ever enter one again!

The birds from the Kia ora adverts in the early eighties. . . Cotton wool gives me the absolute willies. But those birds. . Nightmares only stopped when I had my first child. . Mainly due to lack of sleep...

Cotton wool
Sitting on a sandy beach
Slithery soap on my hands
Skin on rice pudding
Eating an orange

The Lenor/Comfort patchwork people Darren and Lisa give my sister the creeps.

@VenusClapTrap synaesthesia fascinates me, I've known two people with the colour association thing (one of them said my name was green) and they both said music has colours too. The other one has a really strange concept of time and says it has shapes. I think I might have it to a small extent, as I strongly associate smell with colour, but I don't "see" the colours.

And so I don't hijack the thread, another vote for the skin on rice pudding, it makes me heave.

The skin on peaches against my teeth, bleeuuggh.

Potholing and caving, why would you put yourself at such risk?

Pulling hair from the bathroom sink, especially when loads more comes out from inside. Did it today and couldn't stop retching

The bath, not the sink! Loads of my hair comes out when o wash it ..

Electricity pylons and power lines.

The buzzing and crackling makes me cringe.

I hate walking underneath them so much

OMG. I love pulling hair out of the bath plug

Same with plughole hair. We all brush our hair before washing it to remove all the loose stuff,but it still gathers, it is more manageable though. Same with the retching

Also, other ddogs poo's! My own,no issue, helping a friend with their ddog and picki g their poo...[boak, boak, boak]

*my own [ddog poo]. Not...well..mine obvs!

The bottoms of boats, like the hull bit. It actually makes me go dizzy if I think about them too much, especially the massive ones.

Moths/daddy long legs/etc flying around me, especially if I have bare skin - I think it stems from walking around the building and a butterfly crashing into my face.
White knuckle rides. Did one at Drayton Manor and realised why they are called white knuckle rides. NEVER EVER AGAIN.
Tatoos

That final moment at the top or bottom of an escalator when you have to decide how to get off (without falling flat on your face)

I was the same with other babies' poo. My own baby, I didn't even wrinkle my nose; other people's babies, I'd be trying not to heave the whole time.

Loads of these examples are disgust rather than fear, surely? I hate fly eggs, they totally gross me out. I'm not afraid of them, I'm utterly repulsed by them.

I think that's where trypophobia comes from as parasite eggs are usually laid in clusters, not unlike sunflower seed heads or honeycomb to look at.

Space is another one. I can't stand thinking about how vast it is and how insignificant we are in comparison.

It gives me shivers watching programmes about it.

When you put a Hoody on, and the Neck hole is small, and you panic trying to pull it back over your head 😖

Wet Wool

Watching the adrenaline Junkies hanging off Cranes and them walking on really High things!

Being sticky under my chin, at the bend on my arms or behind my knees - especially if it was orange juice or a fizzy drink. The thought of it makes me feel faint.
Unlit buildings at night - even our house; we leave the hall light on at night to accommodate my fear of being in the dark. Was never worried about being outside at night until I read the Savenake Forest story.

I hate having sticky hands. If I peel an orange I have to wash my hands before I eat it. The thought of the sticky residue on a Calpol bottle (from the good old days when it had sugar and tasted nice) makes me shudder.