Do you have any phobias?

[Elliot]

I personally am really really freaked out by needles. Whenever i get an injection or a blood test i can't look at the needle itself go into my skin otherwise ill faint. its really irrational and stupid but w/e. I'm also kinda terrified of spiders. wbu?

[Liam-]

Clowns and spiders, both dreadful things

[Crimson Dynamo]

Its not a phobia as such but I cannot abide velvet or coarse felt. It makes me shiver to touch it. I also would hate to get my nails cut and then touch velvet. vile

:shudder:

[The Slim Reaper]

Its not a phobia as such but I cannot abide velvet or coarse felt. It makes me shiver to touch it. I also would hate to get my nails cut and then touch velvet. vile

:shudder:

That's really weird, I had that as a child. My old Doris had a velvet coat and especially my nails going near it gave me the heeby-jeebies.

I've mentioned that to a few people over the years, and they've all treated me like I just escaped from somewhere, so I'm glad I wasn't the only one!

Also, heights. I ****ing hate heights. Just playing Assassins Creed used to make my hands sweat as i climbed those towers.

[Crimson Dynamo]

That's really weird, I had that as a child. My old Doris had a velvet coat and especially my nails going near it gave me the heeby-jeebies.

I've mentioned that to a few people over the years, and they've all treated me like I just escaped from somewhere, so I'm glad I wasn't the only one!

Also, heights. I ****ing hate heights. Just playing Assassins Creed used to make my hands sweat as i climbed those towers.

the worst thing is that hideous green stuff that flower arrangers use - flower foam

i could not bear to handle that

[Underscore]

Dark, spiders, mushrooms and the open sea.

[Vicky.]

Only vomit. **** knows why..its odd really.

[Tony Montana]

Only Snakes and Spiders

[bots]

anything that flies

[Crimson Dynamo]

Only Snakes and Spiders

how many snakes have you actually seen in your life?

[thisisdanny]

Needles, dentists, hospitals

[RileyH]

Spiders & the dark

[caprimint]

Dentist
Water
Small spaces
Moths
Bees/wasps

[Cal.]

Spiders
Snakes
The ocean
Small spaces
Heights
Public speaking

[Vicky.]

how many snakes have you actually seen in your life?

:evilgrin:

[Mitchell]

Water

[Crimson Dynamo]

Clowns and spiders, both dreadful things

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/84/ff/aa/84ffaa83cdd3a01d8aa04936d9eca90f.jpg

clown spider

[caprimint]

:joker:

[Tony Montana]

how many snakes have you actually seen in your life?

Loads on holiday a few years ago

Unless I've misunderstood your question and you're asking me for the slang term, in which case I've seen a lot of snakes in my life

[Crimson Dynamo]

being afraid of water, heights, dangerous animals is not so much a phobia as natural selection

the humans who were not died out thousands of years ago

its normal

[Livia]

None. I was frightened of spiders as a child but I can pick them up now.

[JerseyWins]

Not really... some slight fears but nothing extreme enough to call a phobia.

RileyH I guess

[SherzyK]

Heights and snakes. Human snakes and snake snakes

[LaLaLand]

Big house spiders (even though I have a pet tarantula that does not phase me in the slightest, odd)
Cats
Vomit (myself spewing or being around people who have a bug or something)
Falling from heights
Wasps

I think fear of getting sick tops them all though (I don't mean like common stuff, I mean serious illness).

[Shaun]

Someone explained it in a post on a previous version of a thread like this, where there's this phenomenon where you're really intimidated by giant things... like my idea of pure hell would be being at sea and then a whale swims underneath the boat, or being stranded and a ****-off-massive-cruise ship comes out of nowhere.

Ah I just found it: Ashley. posted about it before. It's called megalophobia. Things like giant clouds / pyroclastic clouds coming at you (I think that's a pretty fair thing to fear, though), underwater wreckage, wind-farms... *shudder*

[Oliver_W]

I don't know if this counts as a phobia, or some kind of ridiculous OCD, but I have a fear that all my teeth are gonna be knocked or ripped out. Like - I might be able to go on a rollercoaster, and something in my brain says "NOPE! you might rattle around too much and lose all your teeth!" or I might avoid an uneven floor in case I trip and land on my mouth, or I might not go into the club in case someone's bad dancing makes them slam into me ... this doesn't happen every time I would have walked across a wonky floor or be about to go into a club, weeks can go by without the thought crossing my mind, but when it does then that's that, it's like a physical barrier.

I used to have a phobia of needles (to the point where pins on a birthday badge mad me nervous) but in the past few years I've had a tumour removed and heart surgery, so about a zillion blood tests, biopsies, fluids put in my arm to show up during scans, and god knows what else so I'm just used to them now ... every cloud ...

[Oliver_W]

Big house spiders (even though I have a pet tarantula that does not phase me in the slightest, odd)
Cats

My mum's the same, her explanation is that tarantulas don't look or move quite like the "scary" house spiders, and are more like multi-legged hamsters. I disagree but see her point.

[LaLaLand]

My mum's the same, her explanation is that tarantulas don't look or move quite like the "scary" house spiders, and are more like multi-legged hamsters. I disagree but see her point.

Yeah this is exactly it with me too.

I don't see my tarantula in the same way as a regular spider because they're big and "fluffy" and slow moving, it's more "an animal" than "a spider".

Whereas those big monster UK house spiders we get go like the clappers and there's something about their long thin legs that just, ergh! :nono:

[Jessica.]

Butterflies, moths, mosquitos, fleas, spoiled food, mold, maggots

[Daniel-X]

The dark, wasps and birds. (not birds just flying around, I mean when they’re walking on the floor or pet birds in cages)