Silly phobias that linger from childhood? Clowns are a given O_O

[chickpeaz]

Fish. The smaller, the scarier. And if they're pale colored or white? Forget it. I'm getting sick just typing about it.

Totally random, I know. It started 20+ years ago -- I had a really, really, really frightening nightmare about a fish. Two days later I read the EXACT same thing in a book -- like someone got in my head and wrote down my dream -- and it scared the bejeebers out of me. Ever since I've had scary fish dreams a couple of times a year. I freak out in pet stores, and I had a full-blown crying, shaking, heart-racing, panic-attack-meltdown at the Pittsburgh Zoo trying to walk past the walls of albino catfish tanks. Why do they put the penguins on the other side of the catfish? I just wanted to see the penguins!!

Never did see the penguins.

I've gotten better with time; I've forced myself to watch River Monsters over and over again till I can sit through an entire episode without wanting to vomit. Thank you, Lord, for Jeremy Wade's amazingly calming and charming accent. But it's been a big challenge.

 

[chixie]

being upside down... I frek if some one holds me up side down or I am on a ride at the fair that goes upsidedown(only rode one ride in my life that went upside down and will never do it again)

 

[Winggedheart]

I'm OCD: and have a phobia against tornados, lol. Never even seen a real one face-to-face in my life.

I'm very paranoid, about pretty much...everything, particularly germs and bad weather. I check locks on doors, the weather report, and look out the window repeatedly. Oldly enough, I don't fear all germs. I get out in the dirt all the time, but if the flu (especially the throw-up bug!) is going around I have to carry wipes and wash my hands repeatably.

I also straighten things a lot---the OCD I guess, but that's not a phobia. My only real phobia is tornados; I'll start freaking out soon as the window picks up and the sky gets dark.

**Edited to add more. *Shrugs* Figured I might as well go all the way, yah? Lol.

 

[dewey]

Chickpeaz, I'm glad it's gotten better for you...you're brave to watch river monsters. Chixie, someone in my family can relate totally relate to the being upside down thing. Winggedheart, yours reminded me of dreams I used to have of trying to outrun them but feeling like my feet would hardly move!

 

[Winggedheart]

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I hear that. I have tornados a lot in nightmares.

 

[chickenX]

deep water.
i can't even look at photos from the deep ocean - it creeps me out to a level i can't handle.
as a kid i would avoid certain pictures in national geographic or nature books if i knew it was dark deep ocean.
today i *can* look at such photos - but not for long.

weird eh?!

 

[chickpeaz]

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There is a photo that makes its way around the 'net from time to time of an iceberg, taken from the surface of the water...you can see the little tip of the iceberg above the water and below is the bulk of the iceberg and it's HUGE and goes down into the depths. I don't know if it's a real photo or a fake thing or what, but it gives me the willies! I can't look at it without getting this weird knot of fear in my stomach.

 

[welsummerchicks]

I used to have horrible nightmares about having to drive a semi tractor trailer up a really steep long part of the highway along the susquehanna river.

I started having that dream when I was about 5.

It still bothers me once in a while and I will get that nightmare again. I must have been a trucker in another life!

 

[AllTheseCreatures]

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My mom gets this too, she has a fear of water and things that are under the surface of the water. Like bridge pilings, sunken boats, large rocks . . . She has said the pictures of icebergs give her the willies too.

My silly phobia is train tracks.

 

[E.M. Silkies]

Ok...mine is odd. When I was little I was terrified of the shower. They still kind of freak me out a little. I'm ok with my own shower in my own bathroom. It's all the others that I'm paranoid about...