Aquariums. Especially being in those underwater tunnels. I have a fear that it’s going to explode while I’m walking under it. I’ve been to the aquarium twice in my life and never again
That someday I’ll be asked to participate in a trust exercise in which someone closes the door on me while I’m inside an industrial washing machine and then starts the cycle.
Lobsters, spider crabs, coconut crabs, and camel crickets. Too many legs, too long antennae, big sharp big ow, big bug hate big bug I hate them they should be little and crunchy not big and juicy with big ow hands that can bite your toes off. Bugs shouldn’t be that big. I know crabs and lobsters aren’t bugs but these things look close enough to camel crickets that they’re bugs and I hate them hate them hate them hate them hate them hate them hate them hate them. I almost had a panic attack at the Gatlinburg zoo when I saw the sheer size of the spider crabs and how they were just staring at me like they wanted to kill me and they could have if they were allowed to roam free and I hate them hate them hate them
Every time I hear a plane or helicopter flying over I think THIS IS IT and the louder it gets the closer it is to smashing into my house and taking out the entire street.
Every damn time. Every day/night at the same time for 10 years lmao I never learn
I swear to you, one jump scared me as a kid on my uncle’s porch when we were leaving his house and ever since they freak me tf out.
I’m getting better though. Instead of waking my family with horrified whispers at night when I inevitably see one, recently I managed to catch one in a glass & shoo it outside, without the 45 minutes of dread/ panic of having to kill it.
Needles. It doesn’t hurt. It’s not about it hurting or what’s going into my body. It’s the needle itself. I can’t even watch medical shows. I’ve had teeth filled without anesthesia. I like the idea of a tattoo but will never get one.
Ice on the ground. I will cross the street to avoid a tiny patch of ice and one time asked a stranger to hold my hand to get past a small patch of ice. I hyperventilate when I see ice.
Growing up, I had a fear of popcorn ceilings. I feared one of the pieces would fall into my eyeball. I had this fear for over a decade. Then, the last night I was in my childhood home (we had sold it and were closing on it) it fucking happened. Right into eyeball.
Well… dealing with panic disorder I believe that if I go across the bridge in my city into that next town over I’ll not be able to make it back as I’ll have an episode and it’ll overcome me and I won’t be able to operate my vehicle properly. Agoraphobia at its finest 🙁
The Heffalumps and Woozles bit from the Winnie the Pooh movie.
That whole scene was just so deeply unsettling and scared me so bad when I was a little kid. That’s like a fear core memory. I’m in my late 20s and I’m still terrified of the fucking heffalumps and woozles.
Literally fast-forwarded that scene when I showed that movie to my toddler last week. Nope nope nope.
(There’s some trippy bits of Fantasia that also still unsettle me.)
My biggest irrational fear is mascots..really any suit (sadly including furrys even tho they look extremely cool in their suits), I’ve had this fear forever. I was in Queensland going on the monorail for the first time I was about 3-4 and Elmo and Cookie Monster came out, I had the worst panic attack of my life so I hid under the table and was clawing into my dads leg lmao
I can stand on a high place until the end of time, but the second I look down, petrified. I’m not afraid of heights- I’m afraid of falling from somewhere high up.
So… It was irrational until a week ago but my husband and I drive alot as there’s nothing to do really so our date night is driving around literally and so but we would joke around about like you know I wonder how many people like went blind from driving on a dirt road and a rock came through well passing another car like probably nobody right??
We’re fucking driving not even a half a week ago maybe a week ago we’re driving and this black truck going 50 miles an hour passes by and a rock flies through my fucking my driver side not even the windshield through my driver side window bashes off of the windshield and hits me in my fucking eyebrow so… Long story short don’t let your irrational fears become rational because I don’t know what to do now when I go on a dirt road drive with my window down up scary as fuck I will say!
My own basement, which has no windows/doors to outside my house, in the dark. Like specifically that someone could be camping out/living down there waiting to get me..
I fear that the garbage disposal will turn on when I place my hand to make sure there isn’t anything other than food scraps in the drains I always use a spoon first to make sure it doesn’t just magically turn on.
Not irrational: but I always stomp on the fingers of work gloves and dish gloves before putting my hand in. (This also goes for shoes that have been outside or just haven’t been worn in a while) I grew up in an area with black widow and brown recluse.
“They don’t bother you unless you provoke them..” (said in the mocking, under the influence Kristen Wiig airplane voice from Bridesmaids)
Bull. Fucking. Shit. Literally everyone I know who has ever been stung was minding their own business. My own daughter was quietly drawing with chalk and stung out of nowhere. Kill them all.
“…but they’re world’s food supply would collapse..” meh.
Heights, I was born with this awful phobia of heights. It’s so bad that I can stand on anything above three feet without getting nervous. And it caused me to be afraid of the escalators as well. It’s just plain annoying and awful but I can’t even fix it. Though I do have to say I’m a little better now than when I was little (like I can get on little roller coasters or some of the ride that go a little higher off the ground just no big coasters)
mannequins. too humanoid and why the hell do they HAVE to be lifesized? i walk by them and i instantly get chills and goosebumps (yes, i know there’s a doctor who episode on this concept, no i did not develop the fear from said episode)
Going down on an escalator. When I was a kid I would be paranoid I would trip and my hair would get stuck in it and I would get scalped alive before anyone could help me
I am afraid of clowns. It started when my mom hired a clown for my 7th birthday party. I know it is an irrational fear but there is just something terrifying about the crazy hair, the makeup, the baggy pants, the taste of the penis, and the oversized shoes.
That my tongue is somehow going to get caught in the blades of my blender. I can’t explain why or how this started but the thought crosses my mind every damn time I blend something. 🤣
Sporadic Fatal Insomnia. I stumbled upon this YT documentary about a family that stopped sleeping and died months later. Found out not only is it familial, but it also can happen to people sporadically. Less than 50 people have been diagnosed with it tho 😢
I read somewhere that many highway head-on car crashes are suicides disguised as accidents. Sometimes I am driving down the highway and see a car approaching and think, what if they pick me? Then the next car. Then the next. Lol
That one day while driving, someone will discard their cigarette butt in the lane next to me and it will land on my car and cause my gas tank to catch on fire and then my whole car will catch on fire and I’ll die.
Snakes slithering out of the toilets. There is one friend of mine, whenever i make fun of her she sends my those reels where snakes comes out of toilets and since then it has became biggest fear of mine
Submarines. Being hundreds of meters under the sea, surrounded by water that wants nothing more than to come crashing in and kill me? No thanks. Plus, there’s no hope of rescue. A submarine goes down, it usually goes down with all hands.
Jellyfish. I don’t even live near water. It also doesn’t matter if it’s the harmless moon jelly or something like the man-o-war. Whenever I’m on vacation at the beach and I spot a single jelly I am not getting into that water again
Comments
Losing everyone i love
Clowns. I know they are just sad people in heavy makeup but they still creep me out.
Grasshoppers. I think A Bug’s Life may have scarred me
Hoplophobia.
Airports..not the buildings..but driving there..parking..getting there on time..getting lost..missing my flight etc.
Being the only person in a swimming pool… because sharks.
One day of having to drink water instead of alcohol
Ducks
Abyss.
Aquariums. Especially being in those underwater tunnels. I have a fear that it’s going to explode while I’m walking under it. I’ve been to the aquarium twice in my life and never again
Ladybugs
People
Quicksand.
Also that someone will throw themselves in front of my car.
Ventriloquist dummies talking by themselves
Flamingos. There’s something about them I find unsettling.
Bridges
Buying lunch from a school cafeteria
Someone always being in my backseat when I’m driving
Any couch I don’t know the history of
Bees
Acrophobia
Dying. Death
I’ll die specifically from a snake bite
That I will live my life not being known by anyone.
It’s too late to fear this anymore lol.
Basketballs make me feel uneasy.
That someday I’ll be asked to participate in a trust exercise in which someone closes the door on me while I’m inside an industrial washing machine and then starts the cycle.
Loving someone only to lose them in the most horrific way possible. Its easier to just not fall in love. 😐
Lobsters, spider crabs, coconut crabs, and camel crickets. Too many legs, too long antennae, big sharp big ow, big bug hate big bug I hate them they should be little and crunchy not big and juicy with big ow hands that can bite your toes off. Bugs shouldn’t be that big. I know crabs and lobsters aren’t bugs but these things look close enough to camel crickets that they’re bugs and I hate them hate them hate them hate them hate them hate them hate them hate them. I almost had a panic attack at the Gatlinburg zoo when I saw the sheer size of the spider crabs and how they were just staring at me like they wanted to kill me and they could have if they were allowed to roam free and I hate them hate them hate them
That my house/apartment will burn down and my kitty won’t get out 🙁
That one day, there will be a shark in a pool I choose to swim in.
Literally impossible, but it stems from a nightmare I had when I was really young.
Every time I hear a plane or helicopter flying over I think THIS IS IT and the louder it gets the closer it is to smashing into my house and taking out the entire street.
Every damn time. Every day/night at the same time for 10 years lmao I never learn
Moths.
I swear to you, one jump scared me as a kid on my uncle’s porch when we were leaving his house and ever since they freak me tf out.
I’m getting better though. Instead of waking my family with horrified whispers at night when I inevitably see one, recently I managed to catch one in a glass & shoo it outside, without the 45 minutes of dread/ panic of having to kill it.
Driving with my window open and a bird flying in and it’s beak impaling my temple 🫠
Sharks. I don’t live near the ocean. But those things freak me the hell out
Needles. It doesn’t hurt. It’s not about it hurting or what’s going into my body. It’s the needle itself. I can’t even watch medical shows. I’ve had teeth filled without anesthesia. I like the idea of a tattoo but will never get one.
Vomit
Doing it. Seeing it. Being around it
The front of large ships.
Those black and white, shifty-eyed, smiling cat clocks have always freaked me the Hell out.
Roaches, I fucking can’t even look at a picture
Ice on the ground. I will cross the street to avoid a tiny patch of ice and one time asked a stranger to hold my hand to get past a small patch of ice. I hyperventilate when I see ice.
If there is a book/page/magazine that has some animal like a poisonous snake, or a shark, etc I won’t touch the paper/their picture.
Small holes. I have trypophobia. 🙃
Growing up, I had a fear of popcorn ceilings. I feared one of the pieces would fall into my eyeball. I had this fear for over a decade. Then, the last night I was in my childhood home (we had sold it and were closing on it) it fucking happened. Right into eyeball.
Surgery.
It’s a phobia and I know it’s a phobia; I had to get a procedure done so I just powered through.
That was hell. I hated that. So much.
Well… dealing with panic disorder I believe that if I go across the bridge in my city into that next town over I’ll not be able to make it back as I’ll have an episode and it’ll overcome me and I won’t be able to operate my vehicle properly. Agoraphobia at its finest 🙁
Worms.
Dying on a toilet.
The Heffalumps and Woozles bit from the Winnie the Pooh movie.
That whole scene was just so deeply unsettling and scared me so bad when I was a little kid. That’s like a fear core memory. I’m in my late 20s and I’m still terrified of the fucking heffalumps and woozles.
Literally fast-forwarded that scene when I showed that movie to my toddler last week. Nope nope nope.
(There’s some trippy bits of Fantasia that also still unsettle me.)
The bridge collapsing under my car.
This thought only occurs to me if I have to stop on a bridge, like if traffic is backed up.
Tornados, every big storm
Tarantulas. I can’t even look at picture of one them without freaking out. Their face just scares tf out of me
Anything revolved around puke
I don’t know if it’s irrational. However, my kids choking and no one being there to help them or not knowing they are choking from the other room.
that someone will blow a massive glob of snot into a tissue and they open the tissue and try to put it onto my face.
saying hi to the beautiful women in a very public space with audience awaiting my embarassment
My biggest irrational fear is mascots..really any suit (sadly including furrys even tho they look extremely cool in their suits), I’ve had this fear forever. I was in Queensland going on the monorail for the first time I was about 3-4 and Elmo and Cookie Monster came out, I had the worst panic attack of my life so I hid under the table and was clawing into my dads leg lmao
Insects crawling into my asshole
intertia
I can stand on a high place until the end of time, but the second I look down, petrified. I’m not afraid of heights- I’m afraid of falling from somewhere high up.
Being locked in a box and tossed into the ocean
So… It was irrational until a week ago but my husband and I drive alot as there’s nothing to do really so our date night is driving around literally and so but we would joke around about like you know I wonder how many people like went blind from driving on a dirt road and a rock came through well passing another car like probably nobody right??
We’re fucking driving not even a half a week ago maybe a week ago we’re driving and this black truck going 50 miles an hour passes by and a rock flies through my fucking my driver side not even the windshield through my driver side window bashes off of the windshield and hits me in my fucking eyebrow so… Long story short don’t let your irrational fears become rational because I don’t know what to do now when I go on a dirt road drive with my window down up scary as fuck I will say!
My own basement, which has no windows/doors to outside my house, in the dark. Like specifically that someone could be camping out/living down there waiting to get me..
I fear that the garbage disposal will turn on when I place my hand to make sure there isn’t anything other than food scraps in the drains I always use a spoon first to make sure it doesn’t just magically turn on.
Not irrational: but I always stomp on the fingers of work gloves and dish gloves before putting my hand in. (This also goes for shoes that have been outside or just haven’t been worn in a while) I grew up in an area with black widow and brown recluse.
That the chiropractor will just snap my neck and take my belongings.
Bees/wasps/hornets.
“They don’t bother you unless you provoke them..” (said in the mocking, under the influence Kristen Wiig airplane voice from Bridesmaids)
Bull. Fucking. Shit. Literally everyone I know who has ever been stung was minding their own business. My own daughter was quietly drawing with chalk and stung out of nowhere. Kill them all.
“…but they’re world’s food supply would collapse..” meh.
Heights, I was born with this awful phobia of heights. It’s so bad that I can stand on anything above three feet without getting nervous. And it caused me to be afraid of the escalators as well. It’s just plain annoying and awful but I can’t even fix it. Though I do have to say I’m a little better now than when I was little (like I can get on little roller coasters or some of the ride that go a little higher off the ground just no big coasters)
I don’t like walking on the grates over subways. I’m quite sure one will fail and I’ll plunge to my death underground, right in front of a sub.
Stupid wasps. But not bees…
Driving along then getting shot by angry people in cars passing me.
Snake being in the toilet when I open it
mannequins. too humanoid and why the hell do they HAVE to be lifesized? i walk by them and i instantly get chills and goosebumps (yes, i know there’s a doctor who episode on this concept, no i did not develop the fear from said episode)
Going down on an escalator. When I was a kid I would be paranoid I would trip and my hair would get stuck in it and I would get scalped alive before anyone could help me
My biggest fear is Trump. I don’t thnk it’s irrational, either.
I am afraid of clowns. It started when my mom hired a clown for my 7th birthday party. I know it is an irrational fear but there is just something terrifying about the crazy hair, the makeup, the baggy pants, the taste of the penis, and the oversized shoes.
Being called for jury duty. I live in constant fear. Checking the mail is a nightmare.
Fish in open water like lakes of the ocean. I’m fine with sharks, stingrays, jellyfish, etc., but fish freak me out.
That my tongue is somehow going to get caught in the blades of my blender. I can’t explain why or how this started but the thought crosses my mind every damn time I blend something. 🤣
I fear that my apartment will be an awful mess when I die
actually being watched through the screen when i’m watching a movie or scrolling online.
Sporadic Fatal Insomnia. I stumbled upon this YT documentary about a family that stopped sleeping and died months later. Found out not only is it familial, but it also can happen to people sporadically. Less than 50 people have been diagnosed with it tho 😢
Going to the hospital for life-saving services and not having my legs shaved 🙄
Stopping in traffic on a bridge or in a tunnel. Always positive that “The Big One” will hit at exactly that moment.
I read somewhere that many highway head-on car crashes are suicides disguised as accidents. Sometimes I am driving down the highway and see a car approaching and think, what if they pick me? Then the next car. Then the next. Lol
Getting cut in the throat by another person while ice skating.
That if i look out of a window at night someone will be looking back. I do NOT look out of windows at night.
snot… it makes me physically ill and I will NEVER willingly touch it!
That one day while driving, someone will discard their cigarette butt in the lane next to me and it will land on my car and cause my gas tank to catch on fire and then my whole car will catch on fire and I’ll die.
Not being able to vote as a US citizen with a different name from my birth certificate.
Oh. Wait….
Mirrors.
I’ve seen some shit, you’ll either believe or think I’m crazy, and I just don’t trust them.
Snakes slithering out of the toilets. There is one friend of mine, whenever i make fun of her she sends my those reels where snakes comes out of toilets and since then it has became biggest fear of mine
Sitting on the top floor of a double decker bus and it tips over.
The school crossing guard has memorized my license plate and is plotting to find out where I live so he can kill my entire family while I sleep
That one day I’m going to end up stepping on a grate that’s not gonna hold up under my feet. Seeing too many horror stories I guess.
Also “how to get to Bell’s Canyon”. That has haunted me ever since I heard McBallen talk about it.
Submarines. Being hundreds of meters under the sea, surrounded by water that wants nothing more than to come crashing in and kill me? No thanks. Plus, there’s no hope of rescue. A submarine goes down, it usually goes down with all hands.
Jellyfish. I don’t even live near water. It also doesn’t matter if it’s the harmless moon jelly or something like the man-o-war. Whenever I’m on vacation at the beach and I spot a single jelly I am not getting into that water again