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Things that give you the willies

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Isshebeingserious · 15/11/2018 21:24

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

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Cthulwho · 15/11/2018 22:10

Watching my bump when baby starts rocking all over the place. It's like that bit in Aliens when Ripley has a nightmare that she has a chestburster.

craftymum01 · 15/11/2018 22:10

Drain hair

Petalflowers · 15/11/2018 22:10

Fish on fish counters which still have their eyes

bananafish81 · 15/11/2018 22:11

Oh god wobbly teeth

My stress dream is the teeth falling out dream

Where my teeth are wobbly and fall out when I touch them with my tongue.

I'm always so relieved when I wake up and check they're all there.

Except once where I had an inception style dream within a dream. Where I woke up from the dream and my teeth WEREN'T there. FUCK.

I was both relieved and freaked out when I really DID wake up after that one! (Complete with full set of teeth)

yolofish · 15/11/2018 22:11

eyes, or more specifically, people who can touch their eyeballs/eye surgery/etc.

newrubylane · 15/11/2018 22:11

@Isshebeingserious were you listening in on my conversation in the pub re. the phone calendars? (To be fair, my friend's objections to phone calendars were more practical than willies-related, but still, that's spooky!)

Onceicaughtafish · 15/11/2018 22:12

Another vote for cotton wool. also loose teeth. And can I throw hobey bees out there too. Bumble bees are fine, but honey bees..

Lurleene · 15/11/2018 22:12

Probably the same sensation as the cotton wool - I can't wear wool gloves as the thought makes my teeth tingle in a bad way. I remember touching the edge of a shopcounter whilst wearing gloves and it makes my mouth all funny. This was nearly 40 years ago!

AdaColeman · 15/11/2018 22:12

Black ostrich feathers.

Isshebeingserious · 15/11/2018 22:12

newrubylane

You’ve made my night that I’m not alone!!!!!!!!!!!

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The80sweregreat · 15/11/2018 22:13

Seeing bacteria on the TV = when they show a petrie dish or something and all the bacteria start to multiply - makes me feel ill.

CoraPirbright · 15/11/2018 22:13

When you get water on the cuff of your sleeve - urrgh!

When you have a rough bit of toe nail which snags on the duvet cover - double urrrgh!

peonysandhotcrossbuns · 15/11/2018 22:14

The row now I grew up in (and left age 17)

ANiceLentilHotpot · 15/11/2018 22:15

Does anyone ever get that feeling when you’re about to drop off to sleep and it feels like you’re shrinking/the rooms getting bigger?

Me and DS both get this. I don't get it very often any more but when I do I like it as it reminds me of being a child.

Dark water gives me the willies though.

peonysandhotcrossbuns · 15/11/2018 22:15

I'll try again.
The town I grew up in (and left when I was 17)

AgentCooper · 15/11/2018 22:15

Definitely deep water. The ocean. Octopuses. Those bottom feeding creatures.

The Mariana Trench. Oh God I don't want to think about the Mariana Trench.

elfycat · 15/11/2018 22:15

The top surface of open water.

I scuba dive (once I got past the general fear of wild water and got under it) and I'm happy underwater when I can look around. But when you surface and wait to get out....

Got caught in a current once in open water in the Red Sea (no danger) and drifted a little. It meant we were the last ones collected by the boat and I had to stare at the top of the water for about 15 mins while the boat drove round picking us all up. I hated thinking of what was under me and I couldn't see. If I'd have been allowed to duck back under a foot I'd have been fine.

Lulette · 15/11/2018 22:15

Yes to drain hair!

Also loo brush holders which accumulate water at the bottom and... just ewww

Bombaybunty · 15/11/2018 22:16

Monkeys. Nasty little monkey fingers.

SpeckledyHen · 15/11/2018 22:16

Piercings especially on eye brows.

chickenloverwoman · 15/11/2018 22:17

The smell of kidneys frying.
Someone picking their nails
Very high/deep stuff the to y glimpse I got of watching that guy jump off the ultra high balloon and freefall omg gave me nightmares for days. And I turned it off after a nanosecond!

Bombaybunty · 15/11/2018 22:17

And wooden ice Lolly sticks touching my teeth. Or wooden spoons.

Isshebeingserious · 15/11/2018 22:17

lulette

What about the water that accumulates in tooth brush holders?

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SirVixofVixHall · 15/11/2018 22:18

Ugggh yes, cotton wool. The dryness of it is wrong. The thought of biting it *shudder
The underside of ships. Piers. The water swirling around things like bridges. Deep dark water.
The feel of cobwebs. Robots. Pushing cuticles.

Shirleyphallus · 15/11/2018 22:18

For anyone else who gets the big space / little falling asleep thing there is a whole Reddit of people discussing it, I had no idea others got this

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/DoesAnybodyElse/comments/2ivhbf/dae_feel_this_huge_sense_of_scale_before_falling/#ampf=undefined