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.

@LittleSnakes

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

Yes to the underwater machinery. I think top of my list of fears is sunken ships. So stupid, but even looking at videos of people exploring the Titanic gives me the shivers, I would never. I was once on a kayak in a 'graveyard' for coast guard boats. Not by choice. Had an absolute meltdown when we need up drifting over the deck of a half sunken one 😱

As a child when I flushed the loo in the night I had to be back in bed before the flush stopped making a noise or a witch would fly out and get me. I am 43 and still get that little shock of fear at my parents house when I wee in the night.
As an adult I'm scared of glass floors, metal floors with holes in, ladders and anything else I can see through when I stand on it. If I want to go up a ladder I have to close my eyes, I'm fine with heights but can't face looking down and seeing the floor.

@FuckThatBullshit

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

This is me except it's because I'm terrified of seeing the grate at the bottoms of the pool that's going to suck me in if I get too close

Scarecrows. They're evil and move when you're not looking.

I'm the person child locks are intended to protect, if I sit in the back of the car I always think I might open the door and fall out onto the motorway

The toad is called a pipa pipa toad. There’s even a YouTube video of it.

Google earth freaks me out. I think it’s the fact that you don’t know what you might see when you start scrolling around.

Also the sea, not like the beach. But the big sea, where it’s just fucking sea for miles and miles and it’s ridiculously deep and dark and who knows what the fuck is going on down there.

It’s just unnecessarily big. No need.

Also holes, again similar to the sea thing, who knows what’s down in the dark hole. Putting your hand into a dark hole in the wall, huh nope!

These aren’t phobias as Such, just things I really don’t like.

There’s an overpass near me which has loads of signs warning your to keep away from the parapet, high winds etc - the barrier is MORE than adequate to the point where actual climbing would be involved in order to fall over it, and yet every time I walk over it I’m genuinely frightened and keep as close to the middle as possible. There is absolutely zero chance my fat arse could be blown anywhere. It’s ridiculous.

Submerged man-made objects. Not just machinery, but sculptures and the like. Oil rigs. Sunken ships and buildings.

It's called submechanophobia. Likely ties in with my thalassophobia.

nippy yes to ship wrecks. Even just knowing they’re there is weird. Same with submarines.

I always have intrusive thoughts I've that - like if I'm on a bridge I am ways scared that I'll throw my phone or bag off of it into the water. Same on boats. Even worse now with my engagement ring, I feel like it's going to fly down every drain, get lost on every beach or get scraped up on any wall I walk past.

Also have extremely bad trypophobia - to the point where I was so ill I canceled clients the day I saw "the nipple" photoshop and made the person who shared it almost cry with the diatribe I sent them on fb. Don't Google it.

I can’t open my eyes if I wake up in the night in case there’s something stood there. I did once and there was some freaky black creature stood their with gold lines all over it’s body just looking round my door at me then it ran at me and I couldn’t move or even scream. I’m sure it was some form of waking nightmare but still freaks me out.

Rice.
I am scared of rice. I won’t explain why because telling scares me even more. Rice is terrifying.

The impulse to throw your hand bag off the bridge is a known phenomenon- l’appel du vide - the call of the void.

Another one here who strangely and very specifically thought a witch would fly out of the toilet at night and get her. I wet my bed regularly as a child. Sorry mum. Now I do use the toilet at night, of course, but don’t flush under the guise of ‘water saving’ … well it is ennit.

@DrMadelineMaxwell

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.

OMG, I think about this too. Weirdly, furniture around the edge is ok because it's supported by the walls but furniture in the middle of the floor is scary

I didn’t know that dean. I got obsessed with thinking about massive underwater cables once when I heard that they existed. So creepy.

@Wicker73

Rice. I am scared of rice. I won’t explain why because telling scares me even more. Rice is terrifying.

The impulse to throw your hand bag off the bridge is a known phenomenon- l’appel du vide - the call of the void.

Ah!!! I knew there was a term for it but I’d long forgotten what it was! Thanks

Slugs. Because if you get slug slime on your fingers, it will never, ever come off. I was told this by a kid in my class in infant school, so it's obviously true. I dont actually mind snails, in fact I quite like them, but slugs make me feel ill.

Also i am very afraid of zombies. No idea why. I spend all day with really monstrous humans, but they don't scare me...zombies make me cry!

@Smorgasbordbaby

As a child when I flushed the loo in the night I had to be back in bed before the flush stopped making a noise or a witch would fly out and get me. I am 43 and still get that little shock of fear at my parents house when I wee in the night. As an adult I'm scared of glass floors, metal floors with holes in, ladders and anything else I can see through when I stand on it. If I want to go up a ladder I have to close my eyes, I'm fine with heights but can't face looking down and seeing the floor.

Oh my god, you've just reminded me that as a child I couldn't have my bum uncovered in bed, as the witches might see! (Turns out a circle of cuddly toys is the best protection!)

The word "sprout" as in, "they've started sprouting".

Makes me think of tiny holes and things growing inside them and then like growing out of me.

Likewise "cluster" as in "a small cluster of homes". Bleurghhhhh.

I am terribly shuddery and itchy now.

*Holes

I am not scared of estates

Plane loos and the thought that I might get sucked out of the plane . I know this is mad, but have managed a nine hour flight to Canada without going , just in case.

That the squirrel that terrorised me for 2 days by getting into the house and not leaving but rustling, eventually revealing itself and being removed with a broom by DP, will return. I've seen it (probably not it) in the garden, and now won't leave the back door open when I'm not in the room. To be fair, that one is almost reasonable.

Sinkholes. No previous traumas. I just cannot stand the thought of them. Seeing photos of them with half a car poking out and broken water mains and a building hanging over the edge… no.

@mowly77

Another one here who strangely and very specifically thought a witch would fly out of the toilet at night and get her. I wet my bed regularly as a child. Sorry mum. Now I do use the toilet at night, of course, but don’t flush under the guise of ‘water saving’ … well it is ennit.

Haha, where did we get these mad ideas from?? We don't flush for a wee in our house either though I'm not sure that directly relates to the witch fear cos we do it during the day too.

@HeadacheEarthquake

I always have intrusive thoughts I've that - like if I'm on a bridge I am ways scared that I'll throw my phone or bag off of it into the water. Same on boats. Even worse now with my engagement ring, I feel like it's going to fly down every drain, get lost on every beach or get scraped up on any wall I walk past.

Also have extremely bad trypophobia - to the point where I was so ill I canceled clients the day I saw "the nipple" photoshop and made the person who shared it almost cry with the diatribe I sent them on fb. Don't Google it.

That photo is the work of a very sick mind. I saw it 15 years ago, and it still occasionally pops into my head 🤮