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Completely irrational fears thread

 
  

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Mazarine
01:28 / 17.03.03
A thread in which to share our twisted phobias which have no known source, and mock one another accordingly.

I sincerely and intensely believe that all horses and ponies are up to something. Together. A massive conspiracy. They're gonna start finding bodies any day now with inverted-U shaped marks in their crushed foreheads, and then you'll see. You'll all see.
 
 
A
02:01 / 17.03.03
Sarah Michelle Geller. And that Thing she's married to. I don't know what they're doing, but it's evil, and I fear for all of our lives.
 
 
Baz Auckland
03:29 / 17.03.03
I used to be terrified of getting tuberculosis, but I was reading too much D.H. Lawrence then.
 
 
Thjatsi
03:45 / 17.03.03
Plants scare me. I know it's silly, but I'm sure that they somehow realize that we animals exist and that we're living off of them in a parasitic manner. I don't like being in areas where I'm surrounded by plants, and I absolutely despise houseplants. I know they're sitting there thinking, "You might be on top now buddy, but in a couple million years we're going to evolve and wipe every creature without chloroplasts off of this miserable planet."
 
 
Shrug
05:25 / 17.03.03
Its not so much a fear but I have a strong dislike for wool touching my finger nails, I don't know how it began, but it always sends shivers down my spine> completely irrational, I know.
 
 
Shrug
05:26 / 17.03.03
Oh and Mazarine- I hate horses too, one bit me on the neck when I was five- I only wanted to hug it.
 
 
doglikesparky
06:01 / 17.03.03
Babies.

I don't get them at all even though presumably I was one once. Don't remember though so my folks could be lying to me about it...
They scare the crap out of me with their beady eyes and puffy cheeks. I know they're just thinking "Yeah, buddy, that's it, just a little closer....before I puke and shit on you..."

And the drooling!! Where does it all come from?
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
09:52 / 17.03.03
Left Behind-style Fundies, because they've managed to take a religion preaching peace, love and understanding and rationalised a reason to be complete fuckers to everyone on the planet, and still go to heaven when they're done! Bastards!

Oh, and the IT section at work today. Because they've decided today is the day they have to do maintenance on the library management system. So we can't do anything... including booking people on the Internet using the new booking program that is reliant on the library system which isn't working. I knew I should have skived off today...
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
09:53 / 17.03.03
IT departments scare me.
 
 
that
10:59 / 17.03.03
Mould. Ugh. Sends shivers down my spine.
 
 
Quantum
11:51 / 17.03.03
Babies and Ponies. You're so right...
 
 
Quantum
12:29 / 17.03.03
damn. You'll just have to imagine a picture of a really evil baby flipping the bird.
 
 
pomegranate
13:52 / 17.03.03
I used to be terrified of the number thirteen (triskadekaphobia, IIRC), but I made myself get over it cos I was about to *turn* thirteen. Of course this was over ten years ago. (ten? egads.)
One thing I'm irrationaly afraid of is getting a ticket for jaywalking. Even tho I'm prob'ly more likely to get hit by a car while doing so, and I don't fear that. And I fear it just cos it would REALLY piss me off.
 
 
lolita nation
17:06 / 17.03.03
frogs
 
 
Jack Fear
17:15 / 17.03.03
Quantum: Is it this one?

 
 
Jack Fear
17:18 / 17.03.03
And anybody who listened to This American Life this week knows all about the Fears of Your Life.

I'll link to the RealAudio when it's available: honestly, folks, this one is unmissable.
 
 
deja_vroom
17:43 / 17.03.03
A have a friend who gets paralyzed with panic everytime he goes out and by chance he gets his arms wet. If drops of water fall from the ceiling in his arm (any of them), or if it's raining... etc. We used to get him really pissed sprinkling water on his arms when he wasn't looking. He would jump to the ceiling and try to punch us. Fucking paranoid bastard...

As for me, well...


Brrrrrr...
 
 
Potguns
18:16 / 17.03.03
My teeth getting stuck together, lockjaw or whatever. That episode of the Simpsons where Homer has to wrench his teeth open with a fork will make me feel ill for hours. I dont even like writing about this cos it involes visualising it happening.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
18:49 / 17.03.03
Moths. Clowns. And Milk. (only on its own, in stuff it's fine.)

And spiders, but that's not irrational because THEY ARE EVIL.
 
 
that
19:25 / 17.03.03
Clowns - every sensible human being is afraid of clowns. And those fucking bastard scary ventriloquist's dummies. Jesus caterwauling Christ.
 
 
Cosmicjamas
19:35 / 17.03.03
Hey, that looks like my son flipping the bird! And, no, before you ask he never puked or shat on anyone!!

My personal phobia is water tanks. Specifically the kind that lurk in attics and hold cold water. Especially if they're made of zinc. I can even come over a bit squeamish if I see a plasterer's zinc bath left unattended. An ex-boyfriend attempted to analyze me over this phobia, I think he kinda got near the root of it when he started describing dead birds floating in a water tank...bleurgghhh!! But I've never knowingly been traumatised by any tank-like episode. So, who knows?
 
 
Laughing
22:07 / 17.03.03
Cockroaches. Each and every one of them is a vessel of Satan.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
22:18 / 17.03.03
Human hair. Mine, or anyone elses'.

Makes me gag and really creeps me out.

Eg in my cleaning job, don't mind doing much more unplesant/tiring/dirty jobs, but taking hair out of baths has me close to throwing up at times.
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
22:19 / 17.03.03
Armed intruders in my house, specifically IRA members. I suppose in one sense that's not actually irrational, but given that the likelihood of it ever happening is precisely zilch, I reckon it counts. At one stage, we had to cut down a large tree which stood near the house, and I found it quite hard to sleep because it had been my escape route.

Other than that, crane flies, and getting certain things on or near my hands - chalk dust on blackboards, dried potter's clay, schoolroom floor-tiles. And going down steep stairs (not as daft as it sounds - it's exacerbated by the difference between my glasses-vision and non-glasses-vision can make it hard to judge differences when I look downwards and the feeling is very disconcerting - but I really don't like them anyway).
 
 
Tryphena Absent
22:34 / 17.03.03
Stairs. Walking down or up stairs makes me feel particularly unbalanced. It's like vertigo but not because I'm not scared of heights. There are certain flights of stairs that I won't go near, usually you can see through them or they have gaps between each individual step. When they close the escalators on the tube for maintenance work I tend to stand and look at the vile stairs for a long while before I tentatively bring myself to walk down/up them. Who invented these hideous things anyway? What a stupid idea!

(Cholister- my housemate has exactly the same fear as you- clowns and ventriloquist's dummies!)
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
22:40 / 17.03.03
The worst stairs or steps are ones going into attics, don't you think? They make me the wobbliest.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
22:52 / 17.03.03
Always wooden and clattering, rickety in fact, attic stairs are awful. However the worst staircase in the known world is actually in a Wetherspoons pub in Cardiff. Misted glass steps with great big gaping holes between them and set in the middle of a giant room. Far too much space between and around the bloody things and guess who can't walk up them?!
 
 
Taliesyn
23:48 / 17.03.03
Bathrooms. And sleeping with the curtains open. I blame this on too many horror movies at a young age, and my big brother.
 
 
Persephone
00:03 / 18.03.03
Damn it, my fears are rational!

*sob*
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
06:21 / 18.03.03
The whole clown thing- I remember feeling very vindicated on this one when I read a book about John Wayne Gacy ("Buried Dreams", I think it was called)- professional clown, serial killer in his spare time. It confirmed everything I've ever thought about the red-nosed, floppy-footed wankers.
 
 
Unencumbered
07:49 / 18.03.03
The worst steps I've ever encountered are the ones leading to the very top of the dome of St. Pauls Cathedral. They're the steep metal sort with holes in, so you can look down and see right past your feet to the floor. Brrr!
 
 
Cherry Bomb
07:53 / 18.03.03
dark basements. Or dark stairs leading to anywhere dark. Always spooky!
 
 
Hattie's Kitchen
08:01 / 18.03.03
Tomatoes.

Don't mind them in pulpy mashed form, like with pasta, or ketchup even, but raw tomatoes scare the bejesus out of me. Especially when they're sliced. Bleurgh.
 
 
A
08:19 / 18.03.03
I share your lockjaw fear, Potguns. I often have dreams about getting my teeth stuck otgether, or grinding them so hard they break. Scares the buggery out of me.

Bananas are kinda creepy, too.
 
 
Quantum
13:34 / 18.03.03
Hypodermic Needles, Blood and the inside of my arms. So blood tests are fun...
(BTW Yes! That's the evil baby! Look at his eyes! He KNOWS you're afraid!)
 
  

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