Fears and Phobias

[Runwildboys]

And did you find yourself needing to go to the bathroom and clean up afterward? That's scary as hell.

No, I've had worse scares, but that's one I'll always remember. Lol

 

[lukin2006]

My biggest phobia is being picked or stepping on a dirty needle. I always walk looking at the ground...

 

[GMO415]

Chicks with another appendage

 

[CouchCoach]

I have Arachnophobia. It all started when one night while I was sleeping. I was sleeping on my back and turned my head to the side and I felt something hairy touching my face. I opened my eyes and it was a very large tarantula on my pillow which was now touching my face! It completely freaked me out!

Anyhow, I went from laying flat to airborne and had the light switch turned on before I even touched the ground.

Ever since that day, I haven't been keen on spiders. When the movie Arachnophobia, I lost a bet with my brother and his payment was I had to go see the movie with him. It was rough to watch in the beginning when they started showing the spiders, but after a while I got used to it and it wasn't as bad.

Dr. No must have given you nightmares. I had to look away, it was making my skin crawl. If I'd had your experience, you could have added Somniphobia, fear of sleep, to my list and I would have been sleeping in a diver's suit.

 

[Tabascocat]

I have stated that spiders creep me out. Well, I had a run-in with one last night. He was big and solid black, one of those muscular looking ones.....no hair. I went to grab my copenhagen and he was just sitting on it.

I screamed, jumped then the wife started in on me being a sissy. I won't stand for an invader and went Macgyver on it! That sucker scrambled into a small hole beneath the granite ledge just above the sink. I put on some surgical gloves and went to work.

I first got a small piece of wet napkin and shoved it in the hole. Then, I squirted in some toothpaste for good measure to finish the plug. After 15 minutes of searching for some packing tape, I placed four layers over the filled hole. That bastage will have to find a new exit because I got this one on lockdown!

 

[YosemiteSam]

Dr. No must have given you nightmares. I had to look away, it was making my skin crawl. If I'd had your experience, you could have added Somniphobia, fear of sleep, to my list and I would have been sleeping in a diver's suit.

I've ever seen Dr. No. I suppose I will pass on possible future viewings hah.

 

[Runwildboys]

I have stated that spiders creep me out. Well, I had a run-in with one last night. He was big and solid black, one of those muscular looking ones.....no hair. I went to grab my copenhagen and he was just sitting on it.

I screamed, jumped then the wife started in on me being a sissy. I won't stand for an invader and went Macgyver on it! That sucker scrambled into a small hole beneath the granite ledge just above the sink. I put on some surgical gloves and went to work.

I first got a small piece of wet napkin and shoved it in the hole. Then, I squirted in some toothpaste for good measure to finish the plug. After 15 minutes of searching for some packing tape, I placed four layers over the filled hole. That bastage will have to find a new exit because I got this one on lockdown!

Remind me not to ask you to spackle my walls.

 

[CouchCoach]

I've ever seen Dr. No. I suppose I will pass on possible future viewings hah.

That was the first Bond film and the first thing to hit me upon reading your post. I actually had an involuntary rigor just reading your post.

 

[CouchCoach]

I have stated that spiders creep me out. Well, I had a run-in with one last night. He was big and solid black, one of those muscular looking ones.....no hair. I went to grab my copenhagen and he was just sitting on it.

I screamed, jumped then the wife started in on me being a sissy. I won't stand for an invader and went Macgyver on it! That sucker scrambled into a small hole beneath the granite ledge just above the sink. I put on some surgical gloves and went to work.

I first got a small piece of wet napkin and shoved it in the hole. Then, I squirted in some toothpaste for good measure to finish the plug. After 15 minutes of searching for some packing tape, I placed four layers over the filled hole. That bastage will have to find a new exit because I got this one on lockdown!

Excellent work as I would have just unloaded my 12 gauge 3" Mags into the hole and had to have a repairmen out. Probably overkill but anything else that was in that wall, had no biz being there either. I believe in being thorough when it comes to spiders.

Last year, I stepped into the grass to pick up some dog poop, because I collect it, and a little black spider crawled across my toe and bit me. Didn't really hurt but when it began to itch, it was worse than 10 mosquito bites. It seemed to go away and then returned a couple of weeks later and itched like crazy. Happened another time. It must take a long time for that venom to dissipate.

My wife's cousin got bitten by a Brown Recluse on the abdomen and had to have surgery and 2 skin grafts. Terrible ordeal.

 

[TheBigEasy]

I have Acrophobia - not to the point that I freak out over any situation where heights are involved (such as being in tall building), but I will freak at being outside on or near a ledge, even if it's one I realistically have next to no chance of going over. When I was younger I briefly dated a girl that was into skydiving, and one day I told her I would do it to, but when we went the plane they used was having repairs done. I never went back, but I've often wondered if I could have gone through with it. One side of me tells me that I wouldn't have backed down once actually getting in the air, but I really can't say that with full convictioin.

A lot of the other phobias on the list are things that I'm mildly uncomfortable with, but I don't think anything that I'm irrational about or affected by enough to call it a phobia.

Before getting into this company/industry (plastic injection molding), my current boss used to repair antennas for a living. Now, a lot of you are visualizing the old rabbit ears on that old TV but I'm talking about radio tower antennas. Some as high as 200 to 300 feet. He said all that he was given was a safety harness that you would clip onto a ladder rung, climb, clip and so on until you reached the top. Didn't matter the weather unless there was lightening in the area. He said that one of his first jobs was at 2 in the morning, it was freezing rain and the wind was gusting upwards of 30-40mph. He said that during windy days, the towers could sway as much as 10 feet side to side at the top.

He absolutely loves telling me these stories because I'm not a fan of heights. I would have quit that job after I climbed the first ladder rung even if it meant that I would be homeless and living in a cardboard box.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Before getting into this company/industry (plastic injection molding), my current boss used to repair antennas for a living. Now, a lot of you are visualizing the old rabbit ears on that old TV but I'm talking about radio tower antennas. Some as high as 200 to 300 feet. He said all that he was given was a safety harness that you would clip onto a ladder rung, climb, clip and so on until you reached the top. Didn't matter the weather unless there was lightening in the area. He said that one of his first jobs was at 2 in the morning, it was freezing rain and the wind was gusting upwards of 30-40mph. He said that during windy days, the towers could sway as much as 10 feet side to side at the top.

He absolutely loves telling me these stories because I'm not a fan of heights. I would have quit that job after I climbed the first ladder rung even if it meant that I would be homeless and living in a cardboard box.

I'm a ham radio operator. I know exactly what you're talking about.

 

[CouchCoach]

Before getting into this company/industry (plastic injection molding), my current boss used to repair antennas for a living. Now, a lot of you are visualizing the old rabbit ears on that old TV but I'm talking about radio tower antennas. Some as high as 200 to 300 feet. He said all that he was given was a safety harness that you would clip onto a ladder rung, climb, clip and so on until you reached the top. Didn't matter the weather unless there was lightening in the area. He said that one of his first jobs was at 2 in the morning, it was freezing rain and the wind was gusting upwards of 30-40mph. He said that during windy days, the towers could sway as much as 10 feet side to side at the top.

He absolutely loves telling me these stories because I'm not a fan of heights. I would have quit that job after I climbed the first ladder rung even if it meant that I would be homeless and living in a cardboard box.

LMAO, when I managed a radio station in Baton Rouge, we had an 1100 foot tower located between BR and Hammond. We got hit by lightning and instead of my 65 year old 100lb engineer waiting for the crew to arrive, he climbs the tower to assess the damage, which was total.

I got out there to meet the emergency tower crew and asked where Sam was and the foreman points straight up and just gives me this look of incredulousness. Sam is coming down and is at the 1000 foot mark and my heart is in my throat. When he finally gets down, I run over and hug him and immediately begin to reprimand him and these 4 guys that do that very thing for a living are all staring at him in awe. He just smiles at me and says "what's the big deal"? I tell you one thing, no one in that station of 20/30 something's or other stations when they heard about it ever referred to him as an old man again.

The next morning, the foreman told me Sam did save some time and they had ordered all the replacements but was I aware of just how he knew what the damage was? I said no, how? He said Sam was in the transmitter building when the strike came and it sent ball lightning down the line into the shack. When ball lightning comes down the wire, it destroys the wire, comes out in the shack and must burnt itself out by rolling around in the shack. That had to be one of the scariest moments anyone can experience and then he comes out and goes up an 1100 foot tower? He told me his men hadn't stopped talking about Sam and 2 of the guys were Mexican and had given Sam the name of Cajones Grande. He said he'd never seen anything like that in his 20 years in that line of work.

Interesting part about that and heights is that the foreman was Native American and they were employed a lot to build skyscrapers, towers and tall bridges because they did not have a fear of heights.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

I'm terrified of people cracking their knuckles.

 

[YosemiteSam]

I'm terrified of people cracking their knuckles.

Okay man, you're a quack.

 

[Xelda]

Oh, they've got a word for it. Necrophobia. I grew up across the street from a cemetery and refused to be outside after dark. I'm not afraid of the dark, but the dead people and marble as the sun is setting or moon shining on the headstones. My ex and I went to a Civil War area in Mississippi. The sun started setting as I was looking at a marble memorial, I started hyperventilating, jumped in the car and said "let's get out of here".

I was crawling under our house when I was young and got caught between the hardened dirt and a support beam. I learned then and there that I was claustrophobic. I had to grab my composure and squirm out before my chest tightened up and I lost control of the situation. I'm extremely claustrophobic and avoid anything that might trigger it. No watching it on TV.

I'm a needlephobic and known fainter as the nurses call it. I don't mind shots, but a needle going into my veins will take me out. I can't watch it on TV either. I avoid doctors because of this and will only go once the pain is unbearable. I had to give blood and told them about the impending drama. They had me lay down as one nurse supervised, the most experienced nurse prepared to draw blood and two on the other side to distract me. Another woman came in to have blood drawn and saw the majority of the staff with me and asked why she had to sit in a chair if I got to lay down. The nurse waved her arm my direction and said "she's a known fainter". Another nurse thought she could handle me. I sat up, she had already cleaned the area, had the band around my arm with me pumping a ball and asked "How's the weather outside?" right as she stuck me. I screamed "I DON'T KNOW!". Another nurse comes running in thinking there's trouble and sees me slumped down in the chair like I've just ridden across Texas on a three legged donkey. Needless to say, I never stop for a blood drive.

Hemophobia. Momma asked for help her after her dental surgery. She started vomiting blood so I ran outside and laid down. It was sprinkling rain, the concrete was cool and the world had stopped spinning. I was given a dishonorable discharge. Friends know better than to have me in an ER with them if they're bleeding. Medical staff don't like for people to slide down walls and lay on the floor.

Definitely ophidiophobia! My ex was watching a nature channel as I was doing laundry. I came around the corner and there was a snake slithering across the screen. I froze in my tracks. Suddenly another snake jumped out and bit that one on the head and started pulling it back into the pits of hell. When the second snake bit the first snake, every muscle in my body went limp. He couldn't stop laughing at me. I'm whispering with every breath "change channels, change channels". I didn't know the bass turds were cannibals. They just can't be trusted. The only good snakes are the ones that have been dead for thousands of years.

I have another one, but Runny would just post pictures of it. It's labeled a phobia, but it's more of a repulsion to the images.

 

[Xelda]

I have stated that spiders creep me out. Well, I had a run-in with one last night. He was big and solid black, one of those muscular looking ones.....no hair. I went to grab my copenhagen and he was just sitting on it.

I screamed, jumped then the wife started in on me being a sissy. I won't stand for an invader and went Macgyver on it! That sucker scrambled into a small hole beneath the granite ledge just above the sink. I put on some surgical gloves and went to work.

I first got a small piece of wet napkin and shoved it in the hole. Then, I squirted in some toothpaste for good measure to finish the plug. After 15 minutes of searching for some packing tape, I placed four layers over the filled hole. That bastage will have to find a new exit because I got this one on lockdown!

That story cracked me up!

 

[SlammedZero]

How about fear of time?
I for one does not like as much as I can to know the time and date I have no idea why but i had this feeling since i was a kid.

I find this incredibly interesting. Time is technically an illusion. It is an artificial construct of human mentality. I'm curious how time passes for you since you take less time to measure it vs. most other humans. It's all about perspective.

 

[SlammedZero]

Anyways back on topic, I am borderline arachnophobic. I HATE spiders. I am the biggest wuss when it comes to them (my wife has to kill them for me). I do whatever necessary to not enter crawl spaces. They just creep me out. Like 2 weeks ago there was a HUGE one in my garage. It was in there lifting weights and doing pull ups on my jet-ski handle-bar until I walked in and scared it off. My wife had to come in, track it down, and kill it.

 

[Runwildboys]

I find this incredibly interesting. Time is technically an illusion. It is an artificial construct of human mentality. I'm curious how time passes for you since you take less time to measure it vs. most other humans. It's all about perspective.

See, I don't consider time to be a human construct. The concept of measuring and recording time is absolutely human, but time existed long before we arrived, otherwise things would grow and die in random order.

 

[YosemiteSam]

I find this incredibly interesting. Time is technically an illusion. It is an artificial construct of human mentality. I'm curious how time passes for you since you take less time to measure it vs. most other humans. It's all about perspective.

Time is a dimension and it can stretch and constrict based on energy levels. (Time dilation)

Our current way of measuring time is based on all effects on time at the surface of the Earth.

The faster you are moving, time for you slows down. So for instance, if you were on Earth and I got in a ship that could travel 90% of the speed of light for 1 year. when I returned, you would be much older than I would be. I don't recall the exact conversion, but something like. I would spend 1 year traveling, but when I returned. You would have experienced 2 years of time passing.

The other is gravity's effect on time. The Earth has a small amount of gravity and our time is based on that. If you were falling into a blackhole's event horizon. Someone watching you fall in, would see you stop and never actually fall in. The reason being is, time would slow so far down for you that they wouldn't see you moving at all. Even though you would still be falling in and possibly splat!