[LaLaLand]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

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!

[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 ...

[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)