What things are you scared of that seems ridiculous to other people?

[harlacem0507]

Thought I would start a (hopefully) interesting thread on what fears people have that aren't your 'typical' fears most people get! So forget the dark, spiders and heights!

I have typical fears most people do, for example my biggest one would be bees/wasps but that's quite common, but this one is a strange one (or so other people say!)

I live in Bedfordshire and there are two hangers, called the cardington hangers/sheds that are used for various things, including film sets, and they absolutely terrify me. Google if you're interested, but you'll probably think what's the deal? I can't even explain it myself but having spoken to my partner I think it must be the size of them? I also don't like that they are so isolated and where I live, I'll drive round the corner and I won't see them until they are in my face and it honestly makes my heart race. I avoid them as much as I can. The worst time was when it was foggy and I couldn't see them when I normally would and I felt sick because I knew they were there but couldn't see them. Maybe I need help😂
So what's yours?

Oh god I cannot cope with free solo climbing at all, or those people who climb up the outsides of buildings. I always think about how their mum must feel as well. Ig anything like that's on telly I have to get out before I do myself an injury from physical tension.

I feel so many of these are deeply biological and evolutionary in nature. Some are very obviously behavioural like the ones associated with shocking public info films of the 1980s but many are just weird yet strangely common, or common but related to danger: we would be a hopeless species if we had no inbuilt fears. My not very bright dog has some pretty sensible fears and they have not all come from exposure.

Maybe grossed out rather than scared... But I absolutely hate the sight of dentures 😬 My SIL's late hubby used to display his in a glass near their bathroom sink. Fair enough it's their bathroom but I'd be literally walking into the bathroom with my eyes shut so I couldn't see the horrible things, when we visited!

Tunnels (road ones mainly, the tube is ok).
Spiral staircases that go underground.
Deep end of the swimming pool.

There might be a theme 🧐

Ice lolly sticks and coffee stirrers give me the heeby jeebies

Funnily enough, I had a huge fear of getting a neurological condition once, as a teenager. I had a massive anxiety filled time during the CJD scare, and was convinced I had it .

The irony was that i had a head injury a decade ago, and was injured by an off label antipsychotic after, so.now have a damn movement disorder 😕

Not at all illogical. It's called White Coat Syndrome. I had to buy a blood pressure monitor and sneak up on myself to take my BP at home (over a period of a fortnight usually) in order to keep getting HRT prescribed.

Loads of regular fears but a few odd ones the metal strips in doorways? The screws? If they come loose? I feel it's going to strip the skin off feet?

Oh no this has reminded me of another one - those old-fashioned filing cabinets with cardboard file pockets that hang on metal horizontal strips. Touching the metal strips or even worse if one touches my fingernails gives me the absolute heebie jeebies.

Shaun Hutson or something like that. I read it as a teenager. It stayed with me. I salt the bastards, my mum taught me to do that. Odd mother daughter bonding time but hey ho.

Jesus I can see what you mean! They are rather malevolent!

Also wind turbines!

Ceiling fans! Always think somehow my hair will get caught.

On those lines, polystyrene cups. Do not accidentally bite into one, your teeth and brain will remember for ever.

Hair in my food or lying not attached to a body 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

I can’t watch this. The idea that there was a whole TV programme about that guy who climbed without any ropes. I just thought that was like a form of torture and why would you do that if you had people who loved you? I actually thought it was bordering on psychopathy.

Me too

Slugs and snails I’m fine with all insects and spiders, can hold anything else really but had a horrible experience when you and I can’t cope either them. My ex bitch of a boss made this big thing one day when a child brought a huge one into my class and I freaked out as I wasn’t expecting it. I was nearly in a full blown panic attack and she was like “well I’M not scared come put it in my office” point scoring bitch!

I was a bit freaked out when I went into an empty milk silo once and more recently at the Grand Canyon, I would have said I’m fine with heights but there was something about it that freaked me completely out.

stairs with gaps in between them, and escalators😩

Are you me?! I have loathed baked beans ever since I can remember, and I detest buttons, horrible slimy wee things. My clothes are all pull on or zipped. The only button is one on a cardigan I knitted, it's wooden so I think that's why I can tolerate it.

I also have a fear of dark windows i.e. when it's dark and the curtains or blinds haven't been pulled. I close ours as soon as it's getting near to dusk. DH knows this, and will do the same wherever he is in the house. It's the fear of seeing some sort of shadowy reflection in them.

Similarly, I also hate mirrors in the dark. I can't look in them, in case the darkened reflection looking back isn't me. It's some sort of primeval fear, I think.

Locomotives, especially steam trains.. or any sort of old industrial machinery.

Falling asleep when really tired and you can feel the moment that sleep is pulling you down. Feels like death.

Gaps in teeth

Paternoster lifts. But that's quite rational really.

Yes, I have this.
GP took my BP in the surgery and it was 190 over some other high number. Gave me a machine to use for a week. Took a few days for it to settle. I called 111, and they gave me tips on how to relax etc.

When I pick my meds up at the pharmacy, I sometimes get a nudge about having a BP check. i say no... as they will be calling an ambulance if I have it done there.

I think most people haven't remotely understood the OP