Fears and Phobias

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YosemiteSam said:
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!
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Yep. Even time related to someone standing on Earth passes measurably slower than someone a few hundred feet above the surface.
 
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I wouldn’t say it’s a fear(because I swim in ocean and go on boats), but something about deep water and stuff that is in deep water sort of creeps me out. I see pictures of statues under the water and it just seems to strange.
 
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Xelda said:
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.
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Dayam girl, I didn't mean to start flashbacks, I just thought it would be interesting to see what phobias posters had and if we would make some fun of them and take the focus off my wussy self.
 
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SlammedZero said:
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.
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I really feel uneasy knowing the time and date. I try my best unless I have to to avoid knowing the date and time. It was one of the reasons I stopped watching TV long time ago.
Time to me is the core of our existence you take time this universe as it is will collapse. Time is a change and I don't like any changes I have no control over.
How time passes for me? I usually don't feel time has past that much or fast until I see the changes around me.Some events like movies or famous people etc.. i will know about them some years later.:)
Is that good or bad I have no clue but at least it makes me more relaxed.
 
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CouchCoach said:
Dayam girl, I didn't mean to start flashbacks, I just thought it would be interesting to see what phobias posters had and if we would make some fun of them and take the focus off my wussy self.
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Almost single handedly, I have taken the focus off you. I haven't told everything or you'd become Rambo by default.
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My phobia is when the Cowboys are ahead less than a td and the other team gets the ball with 2 mins left in the game... :eek:
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I HAVE THAT ONE TOO! I think it's called Refereemistrustia, JustDieAaronRodgers or WTHLinehan.
 
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Shinaoi said:
I wouldn’t say it’s a fear(because I swim in ocean and go on boats), but something about deep water and stuff that is in deep water sort of creeps me out. I see pictures of statues under the water and it just seems to strange.
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Well, I have that too. I don't trust stuff under water.
I also avoid antique furniture. It doesn't matter how well built it may be, it belonged to dead people Billy Bob Thornton has that one as well.
 
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Xelda said:
Well, I have that too. I don't trust stuff under water.
I also avoid antique furniture. It doesn't matter how well built it may be, it belonged to dead people Billy Bob Thornton has that one as well.
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You are safer bobbing up and down in the Pacific Ocean than driving through any major cities downtown at 3am :grin:
 
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Xelda said:
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.
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You really think I'm that mean???

Come on, tell me what it is. Tell me. Tell me! TELL ME!!!
 
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