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.

@Googlecanthelpme

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.

I’m the same with Google Earth, I can’t watch the zooming in bit and like you it’s the fear of what you might see.

Maps in general - particularly atlases and those horrible satellite photos (I think it’s the combination of colours -vibrant colours against a dark background (like insects)). I’m ok with small sections of roadmaps though.

I also hate driving to places I don’t know so maybe this is all linked.

Not me but I saw on Instagram someone said they were scared of the bath falling through the celling when they were sat in it 😂😅

Oh I've thought of another one. Submarines. They're absolutely horrible. I always imagined a submarine as a jolly, yellow contraption full of people wearing striped t-shirts and those bubble-type helmets. Not the case. Those big military submarines terrify me, not necessarily because of what they carry, but more the fact that they LURK.

I can’t close my eyes in the shower, because of shower demons

@Mummysgirl12

I don't know if I am missing something so I want wisdom or advice from the crowd.

Two rescues, treated like royalty. One began being aggressive to the other (newer) dog. We hired a behaviourist, it all was linked to food. At the time we were feeding Forthglade and it isn't nutritionally complete so my dog was hungry....then aggressive.

We then found Pooch and Mutt but it will cost me £3a day to feed them which feels expensive. They're both under 10kg.

My dogs LOVE roast chicken. I bought a roast chicken, 1.9kg from Asda which was £2.80. I will roast it later, have some of the meat for my dinner, maybe DH too (he is fussy and doesn't eat much) and then boil up the meat and carcass, add rice, peas and broccoli and this could make a good 4 days worth of meals especially if I couple it with the dry food they refuse to eat unless it's with roast chicken.

Is this bonkers? Time isn't the issue, I WFH and no kids.

Rice has no nutritional value to dogs.

But you are not unreasonable to cook for them. I cook for mine.

Porridge, diced veg, then meat, sardines, mortadella occasionally. A raw egg each morning. Any suitable leftovers or peelings. Raw bones.

So funny so many have the shark fear from toilets and swimming pools! Thought that was only me, this is what happens when you watch Jaws alone when you are 7 and don't understand how sharks live 😂, I can't go on the sea either and as I've heard about people flushing pets and think about rats in sewers I worry all sort will come up my loo and bite me, only at night though?. can't stick feet out of bed either in case someone grabs them! Jump a foot from people just walking into rooms!? ..escalators..i won't let me kids on them as just feel I'm going to fall or jump?! ...err what else? Oh! Clowns yes for sure.. hideous things...and driving over bridges! Might randomly crack in half you see! I'm ridiculous 🤣

@CallMeDean

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.

Having googled submechanophobia, I'm now watching an underground surge tank fill up. Jeeeez! I can't stop watching! Also scared of the underneath of big ships, the older the scarier. Plus water towers.

Glasses (of the drinking variety) being too close to the edge of a table. I get extraordinarily stressed by that and have to move them.

Watching someone snoop where they shouldn’t in a film or TV. I can’t watch it, again I become extraordinarily stressed.

Tortoises and turtles. They are revolting to look at.

When I was a kid there seemed to be a fashion for staircases in shops to have open risers.
I had nightmares about falling through them. They still make me feel slightly queasy if I walk up one.

I sometimes get scared by trees, if they're particularly tall or wide.

@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.

Every time I have a bath, I worry about falling through the floor!

I can't step on a manhole cover of any kind because I'm convinced it will collapse as I put my weight on it.

I hate driving through tunnels where there's two lanes as I'm convinced I'm going to swerve accidentally into the wall or the other lane.

The toilet thing I get. My DM would always drill it in to us that we had to close the toilet lid after using it in case a rat came up the u-bend.

Yes to wave machine grills - they will suck me in and drown me.

Very deep water or swimming near rocks in the sea. Nasty, toothy things will be hiding ready to bite me.

I didn't like going past windows at night-time as a child and am still not keen as an adult. Things might be lurking in the dark and looking at me.

Level crossings, especially rural ones.

Railway lines hissing when a train is nearby but out of sight - very eerie.

Freight trains 😱

Next door's dog. To be fair that's not irrational as he's a fierce looking b'stard.

When walking down stairs or an escalator I'm afraid I'm going to trip and fall the whole way down.

I've actually managed to fall UP a couple of escalators but not down any yet 😂

Sunflowers, crumpets and pomegranates look disgusting. I´ll eat the sunflower seeds once off the flower and the crumpets and pomegranates, but must admit that i force myself to deseed them, they look absolutely disgusting, but taste lovely. Empty wasps nests, beehives.
Machinery underwater, harbours, grids in swimming pools, standing in an empty swimming pool, wells, caves.
Kiwi skins. I always thought it was just me, so this is an eyeopener.

Small lifts. Big lifts ok - if I get stuck, not so bad. But tiny phone boxish size lifts- no.

Escalators - I grip on really tight. When I younger I heard of someone falling and getting their hair caught and they were scalped! I think of this every single time.

Anything with holes . . . ugh

Foot out of bed - no something will grab it

Walking over those metal doors in the pavement. I think they are the entrances to pub cellars or basements. I'm convinced it won't be locked properly and I will fall down.

Oh and dreaklocks. They give me the shivers. Someone sat in the seat in front of mine years ago and I was so horrified I had to move away and stand all the way.

My one principle for life is that there must always be someone between me and the deeper sea if I'm swimming, preferably a stranger, so that the shark will eat them first.

Old cars, God knows where that comes from, like the cars that were driving around in the 70s when i was a child, Triumphs, Austin Allegros, Ford Granadas,( my husband had one for a while)😱 etc, the headlights and registration plate look to me like a face!
There was once an old Bedford van that used to drive through our village when I was a kid and I was terrified of it!
On the same theme scrapyards with old knackered cars piled up with their headlights broken / missing. Gives me the horrors.
I'm 50 years old and it shows no sign of leaving me.
And my mum was absolutely terrified of headless dolls!

@HunterHearstHelmsley

When I'm a passenger in a car, I'm always really worried I'll reach out and slap the back of a cyclists head. I have no idea why. It's like I'm convinced my body will randomly do it.

😂😂😭😭😭

@Ophanim

Now I feel I need to know the nipple thing. A quick google search just brought up women photoshopping pictures of men’s nipple on to their own.

It was this awful photoshop of a lotus water Lilly pod superimposed on a nipple (and was described as a nipple full of worms because that's what the seeds looked like)

I'm terrified of inadvertently showing my knickers. Either that my skirt will become tucked up or the seam on my trousers will have split without me realising. I've been known to take an extra jumper to tie found my waist when wearing untested trousers, just in case it happens.