To ask what are your odd phobias and fears?

[Pricklypear12]

I'll start:
-large bodies of water (hate swimming)
-those moving walkways at airports (?!)
-large taps/plug holes

Does anybody else with trypophobig find it compulsive to look at triggers? I don't do it all the time, but if I show someone examples online, I then can't stop looking at them. Despite how hideous they are.

I'm also afraid of wind socks.

And some of the muppets.

I'm old and have talked myself out of most of them which suggests that, in my case, they weren't actual phobias. An actual phobia is much harder to deal with.

Pipes, oversized tyres, ships, shipping containers, air ducts, freight trains and the like.

The sea at night
Jelly
Being sick

@EyeDrops and @ItchyScratch Does it extend to chocolate buttons?

Balloons - especially if someone is touching one I get really panicky so I find TGI Fridays too stressful!

@eckhart Fortunately not, for me. Except the box my aunt got me once out of curiosity that were shaped like actual buttons, I couldn't eat them.

@ItchyScratch High five back!! People think I'm so odd for it. They just make me feel ill. Uuurghh!

Mine have already been mentioned.

1. Frogs and toads (I even got the heeby jeebies writing that)!

1. Massive things, particularly statues and those wind farm windmills up close.

1. Large expanses of water. I’m not too bad going to the seaside for a paddle but I don’t like reservoirs and the thought of flying over the Atlantic gives me the horrors.

I hate collections of holes (trypophobia) things out of place underwater (specifically large mechanical items like shipwrecks or planes or cars - apparently called submechanophobia) and also ladybirds. Ugh.

Moths. I’m fine with butterflies.

Up escalators, especially in tube stations where they're longer than usual and feel never ending. The rectangular advertising signs on the walls going up disorientate me and I feel off balance, I can't get on unless I can see that there'll be someone standing behind me because I always feel like I'm going to fall backwards.

Spiral staircases
Stairs which are open between the treads.
Stairs (and it's hard to describe this) that aren't enclosed and go much higher than a couple of flights.
For instance, I'd love to do this in New York (in the picture) but I know that I couldn't manage to go higher than a flight or two.

I clearly have a problem with going up flights of stairs, going down is okay though.

Chewing gum. Especially when left in ashtrays it's vile and making me sick just thinking about it :(

Used to have a real issue having my photo taken... shaking and hyperventilating. Much better now tho!

Slugs, snails, worms, baby dolls!

Death
Diseases
Water

@Eckhart
Nope choc buttons are fine.

They have to be plastic or metal and have the horrible holes in.

The smaller are the worst (as in some people think it’s funny to point out a gigantic button yet these have not much effect on me)

I gag When I see them and imagine them in my mouth. If I see one when I eat one I am put off my food.
I’ve literally had this since I was 3/4!

Makes clothes shopping a nightmare

PLUS they put them at the bottom of bloody duvet covers!!

Do you agree @EyeDrops !!?

Being lost in space. I don’t know why because I’ll never ever go into space but the idea of just floating away until I starved or ran out of air, or became crushed by a force terrifies me.

I honestly couldn’t bring myself to watch that Sandra bullock film about it, and I will never watch a space film if I can avoid it.

Lifts. Am always convinced the door will close on me.

I find hairs in food absolutely repulsive and I can't eat the rest of the dish if a hair is found in it and will get quite mad about it

Urgh this thread is making me anxious, especially the link to reservoirs (why did I click?masochist!)
I'll add: submarines emerging from the sea. shudder

Wasps and polystyrene

@user1469104844

YES! The amount of times I've had it thrust at me by "friends" thinking it's funny! Not so funny when I start throwing up, though.

Upside down number 8 makes me feel queezy. I have no idea why. It’s like I have my head under water.

Go on - beat that! Although a colleague was treating someone who had a phobia of yellow balloons (just yellow ones).

Pregnancy (I have severe Tokophobia)!