phobias

[Rongi]

we all got irrational, weird phobias. what are yours?

i find spiders extremely creepy, especially hairy ass tartantuallas. but that's not really too irrational. my most irrational one is wrists and veins. for some reason i find bulging veins really creepy and gross, especially the the veins found on the wrist.

[Supafly345]

The ocean; it is in an enviroment I have little control in, and is filled with monsters.

Marionettes: goddam I just can't stand these things. Must have been something from my childhood that did it, and did it well.

[Jomb]

you must have really enjoyed the Dolls and Puppet Master movies!

[Moobs]

Ice skating, because someone fell over in front of me, caught the back of someones skate and slit open her chin :(

And then I slipped in her blood :(

[jin]

Ghosts. ;<

Or, as a phobia- the possibility of ghosts! ;o

[ArrowX]

The open water, most ecpecially open ocean water, I'm afraid of 70% of the fish in the ocean. Most escpecially the South Sea Coneshell Snail

[EisigerBiskuit]

Drought; that's all I can think of, since I love water.

[ItalianStereotype]

I used to be afraid of ghosts, but the place I live in is haunted :o

[Esuohlim]

A house burned down in my neighborhood when I was 9 or so and I remember the shape of what was left of the house still standing, all charred and jagged, scared the fuck out of me. I went through a phase for about two months where every time I would be gone from the house for a while, like at school, I would be worried to death that my house wouldn't be standing there when I got home. :(

So, yeah, fire. :(

[ItalianStereotype]

I guess my actual phobia is a fear of germs.

and old things.

[MLE]

Phobias:

- Falling (includes ladders, airplanes, or not using safety equipment like seatbelts)
- Being abandoned
- Centipedes and Silverfish(everything else is fine. I love millipedes, tarantulas, and snakes)

and i have this really weird one that keeps recurring in dreams. My teeth falling apart and just disintigrating. it always bugs me a whole bunch when i wake up too. :<

[MetalMilitia]

I have a phobia of smoking marajuna. Ever since I quit I have been scard that if I ever touch it again I will turn back to how I used to be.

I also have a phobia of catching AIDS from, a blood transfusion or stepping on a needle in a park or something. I know that the virus cannot survive just kicking about on a bit of metal somewhere but it still scares to be think about it. Especially as catching it basically gaurantees that your parter will get it too, so not only have you fucked yourself but you have also fucked one of the people you care most about.

My teeth falling apart and just disintigrating.

I've had that dream a few times too :o

I just looked up what it means on internets and apparently:

"Your dream may be a message that an important milestone is occurring and urging you to face the inevitable. Losing teeth in dreams may also symbolize a desire to return to the security of childhood..."

"Teeth falling out suddenly or all at once may symbolize fear of things that are beyond your control. Permanent teeth do not come back - you may fear or be facing a major loss. You may fear victimization; without teeth, you can't bite back. Animal teeth in dreams represent aggressiveness."

[Pub Lover]

and i have this really weird one that keeps recurring in dreams. My teeth falling apart and just disintigrating. it always bugs me a whole bunch when i wake up too. :<
I have that one. :(

[red8ge]

I have a phobia of heights, and becoming blind :(

[Esuohlim]

and i have this really weird one that keeps recurring in dreams. My teeth falling apart and just disintigrating. it always bugs me a whole bunch when i wake up too. :<

This is actually a very common dream (if you Google "teeth falling out" all the results pertain to dreams). Apparently it represents "a need to use knowledge and information that you have in your life".

Really helpful analysis isn't it :eek

I've always thought it meant that your were currently really insecure about something in your life, but dream interpretations are a bunch of hooie :(

[King Hadas]

I have a fear of uncovered windows because when I was a kid my living room had a huge window sitting right behind are TV and at night my overactive imagination would convince me monsters and shit were gonna walk by it, one time I was so scared that one of the skeletons from Jason and the Argonauts was gonna walk by that I actually cried myself to sleep.

[Sam]

and i have this really weird one that keeps recurring in dreams. My teeth falling apart and just disintigrating. it always bugs me a whole bunch when i wake up too. :<

I have that dream but it's not about my teeth falling out on their own, I'm usually pulling them out of my mouth, or breaking them out of my mouth, or they are getting busted out of my mouth. :(

P.S. I had it 3 days ago.

[executioneer]

i'm ascared of being electrically shocked (esp. by static electricity)

[MLE]

My dream is popular!

[Mr. Vagiclean]

rubber bands stretched and aimed at my face :(

Roaches, especially when they are all upside down and FUCK

[AChimp]

I've dream about my teeth falling out! :eek

I also used to have this weird dream about a really bump rock when I was little. I dunno what it was about, because it used to freak the shit out of me, but not anymore.

Funky bugs also bother me. You know. The kind that are huge.

[Rongi]

my wrist is really itchy and i'm too afraid to scratch it :(

[MLE]

CENTIPEDES

y'know the ones with the long-ass legs :(

[executioneer]

i on a semi-regular basis(once a year at least) have a dream where i suddenly realize how to fly and i am always EXTREMELY dissapointed when i wake up >:

[MLE]

same here :< :< :<

it's always "ohhhhh, THAT'S how you do it :rolleyes WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THIS BEFORE?"

[executioneer]

exactly :(

[Rongi]

i have that stupid dream where you're suddenly without clothes in highschool or public and are extremely embaressed

supposedly it means you're afraid of humiliation

[executioneer]

what about the one where you are captain kirk on a away mission and you have sex with a volcano woman

[Rongi]

no my dreams are never that cool :(

[MLE]

http://www.i-mockery.net/mockwar2k5/images/house_centipede.jpg

*cries*

[Rongi]

it's not too cliche though. it's never like my math teacher saying "mr.sansone you're not wearing any clothes!". i'll usually look down and there will be nothin there

[Rongi]

http://www.natsci.org/images/Images/Mexican%20Fireleg%20Tarantula%20.JPG

ew gross get it away!!!

[MLE]

pretty tarantula :<

[Sam]

Ants. :tear

They are so small and crawly they make me nervous and if I'm around them I always feel like they are on me and keep checking myself for them because I keep imagining I feel them.

[MLE]

i feel that way with CENTIPEDES :< only the little house ones that are actually not able to bite you usually. i don't mind the poisonous ones too much :<

PS - it's the legs :<

[executioneer]

never go to japan they have huge ass poison centipedes there

[executioneer]

oh wait you're not scared of the poison ones n/m

i hate EARWIGS >:

[Rongi]

just looking at that god damn tarantula gives me the shivers. if that thing ever came into my room i'd jump out of my window :(

[executioneer]

http://212.84.179.117/i/Earwig.jpg

FUCK YOU, MONSTER FROM HELL >:

[MLE]

i never liked them either.

i used to love praying mantises. I used to play with them when i found them in the summer. Sometimes i'd find ones almost 5 inches long. One summer, one bit me, and it wouldn't let go for at least 10 minutes. I've been scared of them ever since, too.

[Rongi]

when i was a kid i was always afraid of earwigs going into my ears. for weeks whenever i went outside i'd wear earmuffs :(

[executioneer]

i've never seen a praying mantis for reals :(

[executioneer]

now i want to get one and put a blue vest on it >:

[Rongi]

one was on my windshield about 4 years ago. my sister was so scared she refused to leave the car till it went away. she was in there for like a half hour

[Sam]

when i was a kid i was always afraid of earwigs going into my ears. for weeks whenever i went outside i'd wear earmuffs :(

THE WRATH OF KAHN. :(

[Seven Force]

Gay people. :tear

They are so small and gay they make me nervous and if I'm around them I always feel like they are on me and keep checking myself for them because I keep imagining I feel them.

[MLE]

YOU HAVE TOO MUCH TO ATONE FOR.

Next time I hear from you, you best be apologizing.

[ArrowX]

I would cry if I went to japan, they have Giant Hornets :(

Ever cince I watched a show on dicovery of 15 Hornets wiping out a hive of 30 000 honeybees I'm too scared to EVER go in japan

[Esuohlim]

I read in a world records book that they have spiders in South America the size of your head :x

Ever since I learned about that Bloody Mary crap I've been a little weird around mirrors in pitch-black rooms.

[MLE]

Those are called bird eating spiders. I want one :< They're actually as big as a dinner plate. 12" i think is the usual for them. (sorry rongi)

[Supafly345]

i on a semi-regular basis(once a year at least) have a dream where i suddenly realize how to fly and i am always EXTREMELY dissapointed when i wake up >:That means you are sleeping on your arms or that you lie perfectly still while you sleep.

[GADZOOKS]

I was afraid that Ted Danson was still hiding in the unlit bar after the final episode of Cheers.

[the_dudefather]

i never really had the nightmare about being in school with no clothes etx, but i have had the one about being in school with no shoes on before

anyway, actual phobias:

Milk. and cream. the stuff grosses me out for no real reason, and even thinking about it while seeing it for too long almost makes me dry wretch..

[Sebra]

I've had my fair share of shit that freaked me out growing up. Aliens, Satan, The slime guy from Ghost Writer, you name it. I've gotten over my fear of ghosts not too long ago. I was in the shower and turned around and the curtain rod was floating. I thought, "Hu...Wha...That's not spooky at all."

The one thing that still freaks me out is spiders.

[the_dudefather]

oh yeah, Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds freaked me out as a kid as i had a dream where the fox girl was stuffed like the mother in psycho. easily the scariest dream i have ever had (or at least the aftermath of which when the them stong starts....)

[ziggytrix]

heights, snakes, dark & isolation, insanity, fear, bees, wasps, bears, cows, ferrets, illness, strangers, not knowing what to do, semi-trucks on the highway, small-town cops, crackheads, vagrants, wild dogs, raccoons, large flocks of birds, amusment park rides, rats....

i could go on and on.

the best thing tho, is head on confrontation of the fear. i had a pet snake, for example. picking it up was like... well, like jumping of a really tall bluff into a lake or whatever. quite the rush. it doesn't really cure me of the phobia, but it makes it more managable.


i never have the 'naked in public' anxiety dream. instead i get the 'i'm in a play and i have no clue what my lines are' dream. and the teeth one - i've had that too - tho it's REALLY rare that i have bad dreams. the worst tho is when you just have the fear. you don't know why, but you are terrified, and you try to scream or shout for help, but no sound comes out, and then you feel a rushing sensation, like falling, sort of, but not quite. it's really hard to describe, and probably different for different people, but they're called "night terrors" and they happen during a different part of the sleep cycle than normal dreams and nightmares. only ever had that once or twice tho.

[Guitar Woman]

Why cows?

[Dole]

I have no phobias. Various bugs freak me out, but not enough to be a phobia.

I've known some people with kind of weird phobias...a girl I worked with freaked out at the insides of tomatoes, another had a major fish phobia.
I remember seeing a guy on telly with a major celery phobia - proper shat himself when presented with some.

[ziggytrix]

Why cows?

i don't trust anything that big and that dumb.

i guess most of my list is about irrational distrust moreso than actual phobia, though. those things all make me nervous... the only one that makes me dizzy and sick is heights. even completely enclosed, like when i went to the top of the world trade center in NY, just walking up to the window, feeling the sway of the building... it was like being on a roller coaster. or when we got out and looked over the bridge at, um, i think it was the rio grande gorge... i ws doing ok til i realized that tiny little thing i could just make out was a truck at the bottom. the sudden realization of just how far down it was made me go pale, and i had to get off the bridge til my head cleared.

[Womti]

http://www.i-mockery.net/mockwar2k5/images/house_centipede.jpg



I dont like these little guys too much either. but this is a nightcrawler, not a centipede. it is still just as scary in my book. the worst in my opinion is when you see those huge nasty-looking mosquito things I dunno what they are but they are CREEPY

[Moobs]

i don't trust anything that big and that dumb.


:tear

[ItalianStereotype]

http://www.i-mockery.net/mockwar2k5/images/house_centipede.jpg



I dont like these little guys too much either. but this is a nightcrawler, not a centipede.

uh...

http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/iiin/node/107

[Ninjavenom]

I'm always afraid that if an elevator's cables snap, i'm fucked. Also, large spiders.

[Rongi]

instead i get the 'i'm in a play and i have no clue what my lines are' dream.

i occaisionally have those. i had one dream where my director decided to bring back a show we did in the past, but not have any rehersals for it and the show was to open in 5 minutes. another one was the director kept changing everything and making the show really elaborate, like that episode of family guy.

[Jomb]

I once had a dream that my garage was being used as a roller-rink and it was dark with no lights so i could'nt tell who was skating with me, and when i stumbled out of it my uncle peeled his face off and was a strange woman. It was very scary.

[executioneer]

http://www.i-mockery.net/mockwar2k5/images/house_centipede.jpg



I dont like these little guys too much either. but this is a nightcrawler, not a centipede. it is still just as scary in my book. the worst in my opinion is when you see those huge nasty-looking mosquito things I dunno what they are but they are CREEPY

nightcrawlers are those big worms you buy at gas stations you creep not centipedes >:

[MLE]

look up house centipede on google image search and all you'll get are those nasty fuckers.

[maggiekarp]

I heard that the teeth-falling-out dream means you grind your teeth in your sleep. I have them, too.

I also have dreams were my bed turns into a giant vat of cockroaches and other bugs, but that's because my little brother eats in my room and leaves crumbs in my bed >:


I'm afraid of the dark and heights, and am frightened by dead things if they surprise me or are falling apart. I can dissect a frog if I can make fun of it, but I'll never get used to the idea of kittens' heads sometimes falling off :(

Also, if I see something creepy at night it gives me a hard time falling asleep, like a spinning, laughing head or backwards-music.

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[Marc Summers]

I'm deathly DEATHLY afraid of bees, hornets, wasps, etc. and I've had a few nightmares recently where there are a bunch of bees around the house (not a huge swarm with mad buzzing, but probably about a hundred). I try to get rid of them by swatting or spraying, but they get BIGGER as I piss them off more. Eventually they get big enough to the point where I desperately start stabbing them one by one with a knife and that doesn't kill them, and they start buzzing more with the knife stuck in them up to the handle and I can see more of their features like their eyes and the veins or whatever on their wings and they get even bigger and angrier and I just freak out and lose all composure :(

And I had another dream where I was able to breathe fire. It was like your flying dreams where it's like "ohhhh that's how you do it". I had to take the biggest breath possible, and blow hard enough so that the air rushing from my mouth criss-crossed a few inches from my mouth and at the point where it flipped was where the flame started. It also gave me a weird kickback, where it actually felt like I was blowing into a vaccuum somehow.

That made no sense, but it made sense in my dream :/

[executioneer]

wasps give me the creeps but they don't really really scare me :( i odnt like that they lay eggs in things and then the eggs hatch and eat from the inside like in Alien :(

[WhiteRat]

Zombies. As a kid I frequently had nightmares about running very very slowly away from zombies. As I got older I had weapons such as shotguns to fight back at the zombies, but there were always too many of them and I would abandon fighting and start to slowly run away as in slow motion. I've always enjoyed zombie movies but for some reason they are the most frequent and worst nightmares I've had.

Also i've had many dreams which had me getting shot in the stomach.

[Marc Summers]

Oh ya I also had this bizarre sequence of falling dreams that all happened within a week.

1. There is this giant concrete slide starting at the top of Griffith Observatory, and there are tons of people from all walks of life sliding on it. Girl scouts, nuns, you name it. It was probably about 30 feet wide. On my way down, there is a random guy who is stopped and is reading from a Reader's Digest. I swerve to avoid him, and sail over the edge, just barely missing some flagpoles I tried to grab on the way down.

2. I'm supposed to kill Lara Croft for some reason. We both start whacking each other with funnoodles in this small pond, but hers is more whip-like than mine. She stops and asks me to follow her up this long trail. At the top is a cabin overlooking a cliff with some ocean at the bottom, and there are a couple of mean-looking guys inside. I end up being pushed out of the cabin to my doom.

3. I'm riding my bike, and there's this guy chasing me in his car. I turn my head to see how close he is, and end up hitting this very specific RV that always parks on my street. I fly high into the air, and hit the ground. I remember thinking to myself while in mid-air "This is not a dream. This is real." Spooky. :eek

4. I'm standing in the back of this very long line on a carpeted hallway floating in the middle of space, but there's still gravity. All of a sudden, people put their arms on the shoulders of the person in front of them, and start running like hell. I barely catch the waist of the person in front of me, and I hang on for dear life as I'm dragged on the red carpet. I eventually lose my grip and fall into nothingness after bouncing on the hallway a few times.

[SUFFER]

Im afraid of order and perfection
if everything is going right for too long I get suspicious
Im just used to dysfunction , so if it doenst appear every now and again I get nervous and wait for something fucked up to happen

im also afraid of familys that seem to be picture perfect
like those "leave it to beaver familys"
actually anyone in general who isnt a little off in some way kinda freaks me out , i always think theyre hiding something .
but then again i am from New Jersey
so im sure that may explain alot also

[xbxDaniel]

Cats, I have this fear of them going feral on my ass and just scratching and tearing away at my skin. When I was a little kid, I saw a woman with a cat and the cat stared at me then fucking pounced on this 5-year old and just scratch away at his face. That messed me up pretty bad I guess.

My neighbor's had a cat for a couple of years now, and it likes me and all, but I tried to pick it up once and it's claws popped out and he hissed at me, so I threw him so he wouldn't bite me. God.

[Matt Harty]

i have the agoraphobia :(

[glowbelly]

i'm askeered of spiders and i fuggin hate silverfish (the bugs).

i used to freak the funk out in elevators, but i'm better about those now.

my biggest fear is finding my kid dead in his crib

[Fathom Zero]

I'm afraid of being left behind.
Seriously.

[executioneer]

Cats, I have this fear of them going feral on my ass and just scratching and tearing away at my skin. When I was a little kid, I saw a woman with a cat and the cat stared at me then fucking pounced on this 5-year old and just scratch away at his face. That messed me up pretty bad I guess.

My neighbor's had a cat for a couple of years now, and it likes me and all, but I tried to pick it up once and it's claws popped out and he hissed at me, so I threw him so he wouldn't bite me. God.

this is happening because you do not have a soul :(

[xbxDaniel]

:(

I'm also afraid some of the people from this board will take it upon themselves to come down to my place and beat the shit out of me.

That means you Willie.

[executioneer]

I NEVER BEAT PEOPLE UP :(

oh hey that's a phobia of mine too :eek i am afraid i will lose control of my towering rage and start killing everyone in sight :eek

[MLE]

http://www.i-mockery.net/mockwar2k5/images/SEVENeek.gif

[ArrowX]

I agree on the grounds that willie scares the living shit out of me.

[executioneer]

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[EisigerBiskuit]

Drowning, I forgot drowning...

[Esuohlim]

Oh shit, I was swimming around the deep end of a pool when I was probably eight and I got my leg trapped at the bottom of the ladder, too far down to get air, for about half a minute. I seriously thought I was going to die. :(