asymmetrical shapes, with wiggly edges especially give me a disgusted kind of feeling. a good example is photos of amebas, they make my heart drop and i get extremely anxious and i feel a visceral sense of disgust.
recently, i got some defective contact lenses and the edges became wiggly after one day of use. it was sort of like a cartoon daisy but there wasn’t a symmetrical pattern. waking up and seeing that when i went to put my contacts in made me get a stomach ache and i was upset for a while afterwards.
when i look up things relating to this, usually trypophobia comes up. i have similar feelings and reactions towards seeing the little holes all together but this is a worse feeling and i can’t find anyone else talking about it!!
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The way that you’re describing it is textbook phobia, but I’m not sure what this one would be called. I know the feeling since i have a phobia. It is your brain instantly going into fight or flight response.
I have trypophobia but I also understand this!! I get not quite as intense but uncomfortable, a little queasy, that skin crawling feeling whenever I see roots that mold to the shape of a pot or something. Not sure how to explain it, but like if you’re changing a plant from one pot into a bigger pot and you pull it all out with the clump of dirt still in the shape of the pot with the roots all pressed up-eufhhhhhhhh. Roots in general (not tree roots though) make me a little nervous but when they’ve got that shape to them 🤢
I’m viscerally disgusted by spiral columns in architecture. Makes me sooo uneasy.
When I was growing up, around 12, completely bald heads did this to me, if I saw one on tv it would make me feel exactly how you described. Thankfully it only lasted about a year, looking back I guts it was some weird hormonal thing as I’d had no trauma etc. but if I think back about it I still get that sense of how it felt even though I no longer get triggered.
Conclusion: the human brain is weird.