What is your strange phobia/fear?

[jonesyyy]

Following on from a thread where OP doesn't like wind turbines.

For me I can't stand walking past high buildings. I get so dizzy and frightened!

Almost passed out once as a child walking past Blackpool Tower..

Deep water, above waist height really. I can only swim a tiny bit(even after 18 months of adult swimming lessons) so have 0 water confidence.

Also outer space weirds me out, I think it stems from the old superman movies where the bad guys were trapped in essentially windows and then sent spinning in space for eternity, it properly scared me as a child. The idea of coming untethered from a ship had just floating in nothing is scary!

cockroaches

Looking downstairs when I go to the loo at night. Just in case I see something that shouldn't be there

Birds, most birds, but the worst ones are pigeons. They always seem to dive bomb at my head. Once I was in Covent Garden with DP around Christmas (quite early in our relationship) and a pigeon flew towards me and I put my hands over my head, crouched down and shouted “Incomiiiiiing”

Terrified of eyes. Absolute nightmare when people find out, people don't understand that I will immediately vomit if they start touching their eye. Other than that, I'm good. I'm the one who will tackle any burglars in the night while DH hides.

Peacocks and their feathers. Properly phobic of them.

Wrists veins and eyes squick me out- the thought of touching a pulse - or hearing a heartbeat, too - makes me nauseous and shuddery.

Another person weirded out by human things underwater. Submarines are terrifying! I work with someone who is afraid of things underwater. So seeing a boat on the sea is fine. Seeing the propellers of the boat under the waterline would terrify him!

Radiation in general and radiotherapy in particular. This stems from being present while a friend of my godmother talked incessantly about her "radium treatment " making it sound like some sinister torture. Given that this was in 1961, her assessment was probably largely correct. This phobia haunted me for years, giving me nightmares and making me afraid to go to bed. I got no help from my parents; my dad laughed at me and my mother called me a morbid little cow. These days it isn't so bad because the machines are so fast and precise, and treatment times pretty short. If I had to have it however I think I would be very scared and would have to ask them to help me through it.

Ostriches frighten me

@32ndofFebtober Yes! With you on that one

OwlBeThere

Same here- Buttons - I can't even type the word without cringing.
The only B I am ok with is a toggle type

The Button Tin of my childhood terrified me and its been with me since. Sewn on buttons are OK - its loose ones I cannot abide. I can't explain

Sinkholes. And we get quite a lot round here (although they're only small ones, not "maneating" ones but still...).

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The word figure.
The song "Mr Sandman'

Ships in dry dock.
The thought of what's in the seas Rivers oceans ect.

People walking on stilts
Scarecrows
Kangaroos 🤮

I second mirrors. Like a portal to eeeeh! I have none in my house.

Car transporter lorries! You know, the things with three cars on top deck and three below? All bouncing about back to front urgh.

They are normally restricted to the inside lane on motorway and I will pull to OUTSIDE lane to pass, if they are in middle lane I cuss like a bar steward to pas!

Even my kids take the pee and I can't explain it, it's just-not right! 😁

Lenticular pictures. You know the ones that change picture if you move them? Can't cope with the feel of them.

DS's love to wind me up about them, and if we see one in a gift shop of something they run their nails up and down them to make the noise. Utter bastards

The Muppets. Especially Beaker. Ergh! In the same vien, Spitting Image puppets. It freaks me out to think I would be stuck in a room with them and they'd come to life! Argh!
I also don't like skeletons. Freaks me out to think they are inside of us.

Holes. Clusters of holes. Make me vomity.

Bananas 🍌😑 everything about them is just gross - the smell, taste, texture, people eating them 🤮 the skin, the way they bruise and just to add insult to injury they STAIN clothes WTAF. No, no, no. Can’t stand to touch the bloody things.

Ketchup. The smell, texture, even seeing the word is gross. 🤢🤢🤮

Peas! I can't stand them. Even seeing them up close makes me feel nauseous.

Mumsymumphy Yes! I totally hate Ketchup too.

The smell of bananas also repulses me.

Another person here with a phobia of sharks in swimming pools. For me it's an empty full swimming pool that triggers it even though I know it's completely irrational. The local pool as a kid had a big drop off in adult pool (it sloped down and then it was like a cliff edge right into the deep end As it was also the diving pool if that makes sense?) And i think that was that deep drop and that it 'could' open up that first brought on the phobia!