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.

Those paints of foxes dressed as humans. Oddly they are often in hunting outfits

Fantastic Mr Fox is a very unnerving film

Alice in Winderland is very disturbing too

*Wonderland

When I was little I was terrified I was going to get eaten by bears if my parents put the jungle duvet cover on my bed.

Potterbore was the book a Reader Digest book

It had many strange stories I loved the book

Not quite the same but strong winds make me feel like I'm falling or in danger. This has increased to using hand dryers or hair dryers or now big lorries driving past me when im on the pavement. If anyone knows what this is, I'd be delighted to know!

If we're waiting at a crossing I sometimes need to grab the post to steady me as i feel like im falling. It's quite terrifying but also hilariously absurd!

Gosh, I have found my people! Sharks and swimming pools, check, foot out of bed, check and witch coming to get you when you flush the toilet, check although this only weirdly applies at my parent’s house and not my own!

I have found my gang lol
I watched something about spontaneous combustion as a child and it always worried me since
Piers terrify me I can't swim too well and always think they are going to break
But maggots are my worst , oh dear god the sight of them
On the tele , anything 🤢🤢🤢🤢

Spontaneous combustion
Lava bombs
Bermuda triangle

And..
quicksand
Edges (HATE being close to an edge of any kind)
Escalators
Glass lifts

@MrsDeadpool

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

good god woman never hang your foot over the edge of the bed!!! dont you know thats what the monsters want and are waiting patiently to grab it.

Also melting. That comes from a poster of The Incredible Melting Man that used to be in the window of the local video shop where I grew up. Shudder.

Polar Express makes me cringe, I have to leave the room if we stumble across it at Christmas - the faces are stuff of nightmares

I also hate it when trains are moving next to a platform, I'm scared it will suck me under. I used to hold my DDs hand really tight and stand as far back as possible. Its absolutely terrifying when they come zooming through a station and don't stop!

Yes..and usually early morning walkers like me. When I'm out in the woods with my dogs I go through an entire scenario: So, how do I describe the location of the body? Will I have to guide the Police back there? Will I scream? Will my dogs go crazy? Will I be told not to tell anyone else? Will I need counselling?
I always imagine it will be a suicide hanging, think my dogs are barking at a squirrel and look up...😟

Sorry, my quote about the fear of finding a dead body didn't work

In fact anything where faces aren't real faces (clowns, masks, dolls etc) freak me right out. I guess I definitely suffer from the Uncanny Valley sensation

When I go for a wee I am often gripped with a sudden panicky fear that I am actually asleep, my life is a dream, and I'm just endlessly pissing the bed somewhere. I hope it's not the case, though.

@XenoBitch

Cruises ships. I have never been on one, but when visiting a seaside town and seeing one out at sea... I try not to look at it. Something that big and manmade should not exist. They give me the creeps.

Cruise ships are dwarfed by some of the container ships and supertankers out there.

@BluesCluesToo

Horses. Too big. Worried they will speak to me. Terrifying.

Don’t read the Narnia books.

The overflow pipe in the bath, while I'm in the bath. I can't put my toes anywhere near it for fear that when I move them, there's going to be a whopping great spider leaping out.
Yet I don't fear a whopping great spider leaping out if my toes are no where near it.
I have a fear of spiders, whopping or not, yet I do my best to keep cellar spiders in my house because they kill the whopping great big ones.

Used to think that when I'd go into a public toilet that I'd find a dead body behind the door. Talked myself out of that one though.

Also have a dislike of people who are dressed up in an animal costume although somehow managed ok at Disney World. Maybe because I knew the characters but if someone comes up to me dressed as a random giant rabbit then they had better hang onto their carrots. Just saying.

Tunnels and big high bridges frighten me too.
I think they're going to collapse on me and either burying me alive or drowning me.
If I'm a passenger I have to close my eyes and pretend I'm not really there until we reach the other end.
If I'm driving I usually reach the other side with white knuckles and a dry mouth.

Woolly jumpers. Cant stand the feel of them against my skin but weirdly am compelled to rub them against my teeth for the horrific squeak.
Also in childhood chalk on blackboards (child of the 80s).
Those slinky toys that walk down the stairs make me feel a bit sick.

Cotton wool. Makes me feel all funny and puts my teeth on edge. The thought of tearing balls of cotton wool is another level of fear - too much even to bear thinking about. Just the thought of it makes me feel disgusting and totally freaked out.

Dry toothbrushes, can't stand thought or feel of them.

Getting stuck in a pipe, pothole cave etc, can't look, watch or read anything where I could get stuck. I blame Stephen Kings Running Man for that. I can't even reach under beds or the bottom shelves at work incase I get stuck under them..