Let’s talk stupid and random fears, for a laugh

[WheelieBinPrincess]

To have a break from people being up in arms about pancakes or being vaporised in a nuclear war, let’s talk really random fears.

I’ll start. Sometimes in the middle of the night, I think a rat might swim up the bowl while I’m having a wee and nip my bum.

Also when I’m walking near a body of water, I think, what if I throw my handbag in there? And hang on to it a bit more tightly.

If I have bare feet on the floor while I’m watching a horror movie, they’ll get attacked. Socks are fine.

I'm scared of gunneras- ridiculously giant leaves... they creep me out... no idea why... always worry they will attack me!

Trains. Ominous, they are.

Also, bean juice. I mean, I'll cook the beans in the juice but it has to be sieved off afterwards. It can't possibly go anywhere near my plate!

Also, food that I'd happily scoffed down minutes earlier touching my hands once the plate is in the sink. It makes me a bit scritchy.

I always put the light on if going for a wee at night because I’m scared of a shark or snake biting my bum.

If I hang my foot over the edge of the bed, something will grab it.

I can't be anywhere that water should be and isn't. The thought of standing in an empty swimming pool gives the the absolute fucking willys
Weird Alert....

i have pogonophobia(fear of beards)

its not a fear as such as im not scared.it just turns my stomach every single time

every time i see excess facial hair and especially beard it turns my stomach and i start gipping

ive offended so many random men as just walking past is enough to start.its an automatic reaction

Looking in the mirror of a night in case I'm not there, facing backwards or someone else is there with me.

Bit like your handbag OP -
Sometimes when I'm dropping off to sleep I'll think about being in a plane crash in the sea & the water rising... Eeeerrrgghhh. It gives me the willies even typing that.
I'm sure I drowned in a previous life.

Pomegranates. Hate holes in stuff, makes me feel weird inside. Crumpets, omg. Yuck

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Also deep water and heights, classic fears.

I have a phobia of fictional ghosts. Not real ones, just ones in films and books.

So tell me I'm in a haunted house... no problems. A ghost story... I freak out. Comedy ones are usually OK. But even in kids books I sometimes get worked up. I even managed to freak myself out writing a ghost story at school.

I'm scared of mayonnaise and salad cream. Dreading DC growing up and liking it and then potentially wiping it on me.

I do like garlic mayonnaise though, doesn't make much sense at all.

@dipdye

Pomegranates. Hate holes in stuff, makes me feel weird inside. Crumpets, omg. Yuck

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Also deep water and heights, classic fears.

I think that's called Trypophobia - do not do a Google image search!

Tiny holes in things. Awful. And any underwater machinery. So oil rigs, underwater cables, stuff in reservoirs.

If I'm in a swimming pool I refuse to open my eyes under water in case I see a great white shark

@Ponoka7

Looking in the mirror of a night in case I'm not there, facing backwards or someone else is there with me.

Yes! We have a big mirror in the hall and if I get up in the night to go to the kitchen for a drink (not putting lights on etc), I will do a big performance of not looking in the mirror.

I also can't take the plug out if I'm still in the bath. I'm not even sure what I think will happen, but still.

Im really creeped out by melting snow. It looks like chewing gum after it goes weird in your mouth. When that happens it makes me want to vom.

Also the bottom of a swimming pool opening up for the shark underneath it to come out and kill me. Don’t know why it’s under the pool? Or how it is kept? But it is a fear.

Re the holes in things…. I read on her once about that awful toad that has lots of holes in its back and keeps its babies in them. I googled it. Do not do this.

I have a fear of things being too heavy to be where they are and breaking things.

So I think about how much the bed and mattress and dh and I weight and will it break the floor.

I cannot go in the loft and if anyone else does, I have to go downstairs so I'm not listening to them moving around up there.
I worry about the weight of dishes and food etc when putting things away in the cupoards - not helped at all by the fact our friends went out one day, then came back to find their cupboard had spontaneously fallen off their kitchen wall.

Clowns.

I'm a fully grown adult but they freak the hell out of me. There is something so sinister about a grown man or women dressing up as a clown. It's a disguise. My mind goes straight to child abuse etc.

I know I sound batshit crazy but I can't get past it.

@Ponoka7

Looking in the mirror of a night in case I'm not there, facing backwards or someone else is there with me.

That's made me feel ill 😳

Balloons like ffs Balloons! They are squeaky and randomly go bang I freak out so badly the lady in McDonald's came over with them the kids waved her off frantically saying nononono! She backed away like we were insane 😳 🤣

DH hates toads, he’s genuinely petrified. Twice on holiday we’ve come back to the room and found a huge one loitering on the mat in front of the room. It’s like the fox in fleabag. Might have to google that toad…..

Oh my god absolutely the shark thing.

It was family folklore that at Center Parcs, the metal grills at the back of the pool were where they kept the sharks, and they’d let them out at night 😂

To this day I cannot put my foot on those grills 🤣

Tomatoes and anything tomato-adjacent such as baked beans.

Bellybuttons - both my own and those of other people.

Terrified of used teabags, lucky DH & I just have coffee.
Whenever I see a plane in the sky I worry its going to just drop, I'm not scared whilst actually flying though.
Also scared of crows, they look evil. I'm sure they're known as the devil's messengers. I may have imagined that though 😂