To ask you what your irrational fears are?

[VladmirsPoutine]

Been reading about the new iPhone and seen it's triggered trypophobia in some due to the cameras on the back. And in light of IT Chapter 2 coming out a few days ago I rediscovered my fear of clowns.

What bizarre things terrify you?

Outing if anyone on here knows me but my most irrational fear is water slides, I'm always sure the door will be shut at the bottom and I will be stuck, they don't even have doors!

Have plenty of other fears, tents, going downstairs in the middle of the night, nice, lots of usual suspects.

Although no fear of lots of holes, one of the few things I'm not bothered by.

Birds in general. Particularly pigeons, closely followed by seagulls. Pigeons know and home in on on me .

Monkey puzzle trees. I've hated them since I was a child. The branches look like big creepy fingers drooping down. There are other trees I'm scared of too. I also hate being in a position to look down at the tops of trees, for example from the top of a hill. It just feels wrong.

i have a phobia of sick- mainly other people being sick.. heart beating fast thinking about it!

@englishrose1320 I am so with you on the slides thing. I always worry about the bottom being blocked. I also dont like tunnels you have to crawl through for same reason.

Flying. First time I flew I couldn’t believe their was no parachutes I said to DH if he’d of told me I’d of brought my own

Cantilever stairs.
Driving on flyovers/long bridges

That I will accidentally swim too far out and end up with miles of sea full of god knows what underneath me. Alternatively, that the sea will suddenly suck back and I will be standing on the exposed sea bed full of massive rotting ship hulks and dying marine animals and things will look out at me from within the hulks.

I used to be hysterical about snakes, if one came on the TV even if we changed the channel I 'knew' it was still there, one of the Blackadder series was awful.
However I got a job in a school where they kept lots of animals, the tech came into the room where I was teaching 'Excuse me, just looking for one of the little snakes that's got out', on the corridor near my room was a huge tank with a python, Monty naturally, and I forced myself to stand in front of it and watch it. I wouldn't say I'm comfortable with them but at least I'm not as bad as I was.

Ladders - even those little two step ones make me sweat
Tall buildings/structures - not being up them, but knowing they're nearby! If I ever drive up the A1 to Newcastle (very rare these days) I have to blinker my right eye (safe, I know) until I've DEFINITELY seen the angel of the north and I DEFINITELY know where it is so I can kind of focus on it as I drive towards it. Same with other tall buildings, either in the distance or nearby, I have to know where they are so I can look at them directly. Eg - coming out of Charles de Gaulle-Etoile metro station in Paris I have to ask whoever I'm with to tell me exactly where the arc de triomphe is in relation where I'm standing/direction I'm facing, so I can turn around and stare at it without it 'jumping out' at me. And at Canary Wharf I take a minute to look at the ground before confronting the skyscrapers 🙈

Spiders boring but very very true.

Also Komodo dragons, I watched a program on them as a small child and since then I’ve been terrified ones going to come and eat me in the night. Absolutely terrified of them 😬

Stairs. I have to go very, very slowly and have a death grip on the rail. Don’t know why just think I’m going to tip forward and fall to my death.

@englishrose1320 Did you read the Faraway Tree books as a child? There was one bit where the door at the bottom of the tree was wedged shut and everybody got stuck on the slippery slip. I remember it being pretty upsetting when I was 6. Could be the root of a few phobias, I'd have thought!

Mice / rats for one. But worse is I'm constantly terrified of my D.C. dying. I'll walk over the overpass and in my head the overpass collapses taking me and D.C. with it. Or I'm crossing the canal and someone pushes me and D.C. into the river. Or I'm scared I'll wake up and she's stopped breathing. She's nearly 18 months and yet...

Whales - especially killer whales. If they’re on a david Attenborough type documentary I tend to have to go into another room

going down escalators I have bad balance and I don’t like how I don’t have control. Steps you can take you’re time on

@DrVonPatak
lol im realky glad u said that, until ur post i thought i was the only one!!