CONFESS!!!! Do you have any phobias? What's yours?

[LynneSin]

I have a severe phobia of electrical storms/electricity. I mean I know I have to use electricity everyday but I'm always paranoid I'll shock myself (did so once as a kid) and for some bizarre reason when there is an electrical storm I have to unplug EVERYTHING!!!

I also have a mild fear of revolving doors and elevators. I'll use them but if there is an alternative I prefer it. I really hate when someone tries to cram into your section of a revolving door :grr:

[skygazer]

1. My mom was petrified of lightning

She'd unplug everything in the house and wouldn't let us get near the windows.

My only real phobia is water in my face. I'm leery of water anyway (as in swimming) and if someone splashes me in the face, it's freaks me out. :blush:

[LynneSin]

2. My mother was the same exact way

and now I do the same thing

:scared:

[skygazer]

6. Lightning doesn't bother me a bit

And I've been struck by lightning. Go figure. But water freaks me out and I think it's because I nearly drowned when I was 8. I don't know why one would terrify me and the other wouldn't but there's no logic in human emotion. :shrug:

[DS1]

3. stepping out of an elevator the same moment the cable snaps

which causes the elevator to fall behind me and cut me in half

yeah, i think about that a lot

[ohiosmith]

9. No shit! Something very similar to that happened to a guy in Edmonton, Alberta in the late 80s.

I worked for the firm that owned the building.

[DS1]

10. a similar thing happened to a surgeon in a hospital where he got

caught in the door, it refused to open, then it went up and sliced him in two

on a related note: Can you believe that in this 2 floor office I work in, people take the elevator DOWN?

[ohiosmith]

4. Ferris wheels. When I was 3 or 4 my drunk as shit dad took me on one.

When it stopped at the top, he stood up and rocked the seat until I threw up.

I do go on them occasionally but never really enjoy it.

[Mad_Dem_X]

14. I can ride on them, but

don't even THINK about rocking the car!

[1gobluedem]

5. I am afraid of birds

All due to the movie 'The Birds.' My grandparents let me watch it when I was nine years old and that night a bird got into my bedroom. It finished me off completely; am still afraid to this day.

[Sequoia]

18. I knew someone like that.

Same thing, but her older sister took her to "The Birds". We were walking back to my car from lunch and she stopped and was looking up at the roof of a building. I asked her what was up and she pointed to the seagulls and I told her they were not going to attack her so she jumped right in the car.

[taterguy]

7. Snakes, especially ones on motherfucking planes

[jonnyblitz]

8. heights and I HATE HATE HATE phones and phone chatting.

not sure if the phone thing is a phobia though.

[scarlet_owl]

11. Spiders. I am VERY arachniphobic.

[Arkansas Granny]

17. Spiders do it for me, too. I'm better than I used to be and I don't

go out of my way to kill them, but if a spider invades my living space, you can count on it becoming a dead spider with few exceptions.

[ElizabethDC]

12. Heights - especially really tall escalators

Elevators don't bother me, so long as they're enclosed (i.e., no glass). When I'm in a glass elevator, or a really tall escalator, I get really bad vertigo. I don't like the feeling of openness around me. But airplanes and tall bridges don't bother me. So I have kind of a selective fear of heights.

[Mad_Dem_X]

13. Heights and deep water

Needless to say, I have never dived.

[LaraMN]

15. Heights, but not that I will unwittingly fall from them,

rather that I will go *nuts* for a split second and jump. I've always hated the feeling I get when I'm high up and I get these "I could jump from here..." thoughts that I really don't mean.

[ForrestGump]

39. I get that, too, sometimes

It's a kind of vertigo.

[Connonym]

16. I'm pretty sure I couldn't list all of them

but I'm glad that I'm not the only one afraid of revolving doors. My daughter laughs at me every time I go to the library and ignore the "Please use revolving door" sign and enter through the regular door. I'm sure if they knew how much it scared me the librarians wouldn't care that I didn't use the revolving door, right?

[LynneSin]

32. Would you believe I tried that today and security blocked me and said....

...I had to take the revolving door.

I have to wait until everyone is cleared away before I'll go thru one

[Connonym]

33. SERIOUSLY?!

I'd be pissed.

[meegbear]

19. A fear of CONFESS!!!! threads ...

and making spelling errors in my posts, forcing me to edit it.

[Beer Snob-50]

20. bats

last year at a boy scout campout we had one flying around the bunks we slept in. freaked me out! i quietly walked out of the bunkhouse and waited patiently for things to calm down.

[Crazy Dave]

21. People farting or hacking their lungs out....

...in revolving doors or elevators :mad:

[LostinVA]

22. I can't drink after someone -- it sickens me -- literally

And heights.

I also used to be afraid of driving through the state of Delaware, until I realized it wasn't a real state.

:pals:

[LynneSin]

35. Stop posting under your girlfriend's DU account

you stinking Giant fan you!

[HEyHEY]

23. bears

[Lyric]

24. Too many, actually.

And real phobias, too--the kind that make you nearly mindless with terror, and all you want to do is GET AWAY.

Mine are:

Certain flying insects (bees, wasps, hornets, yellowjackets, beetles, mosquitoes, locusts, cicadas, etc.)

Getting too close to a semi-truck on the interstate. I will literally have a panic attack. This stems from a previous trauma where a big rig lost its brakes behind us while coming down a mountain, and was less than 2 feet from our bumper until he made it to the runaway truck sand ramp. We were boxed in and had nowhere to go, and he kept blaring his horn like he expected us to FLY out of his way or something. It was horrible.

Strange people knocking on my door. I won't answer the door at all if I look out the window and see someone unfamiliar.

[Sequoia]

28. Don't watch this movie then:

"Duel", 1971




Author: SmileysWorld from United States

I can recall vividly watching this movie as an ABC movie of the week at the tender age of six.Very few movies at that time in my life had the ability to captivate me.Duel was one of the fortunate few.We have a mild mannered businessman,excellently played by Dennis Weaver,on his way to a very important appointment.Suddenly,there is trouble ahead in the form of a ruthless tanker truck driver.For unexplained reasons,the truck driver singles out David Mann(Weaver)as the recipient of whatever rage and torment possesses him.Along the way,we have an apparently unsympathetic diner crowd,among whom this mad truck driver may have mixed in with while David was freshening up in the diner's restroom.Which one of them is it?Did he ever come in at all?Did he just linger outside,adding to David's torment?Then,there is the lady at the Snakerama,whose reptile displays are leveled when the truck driver realizes that David is trying to notify police in her phone booth.David ends up searching for strength he's not sure he possesses in order to combat this unseen menace.I love the idea of the driver never being seen,as the unseen is often more frightening than what is thrown in our face.This film may have been made for television,but it played like something you would see in a movie theater.I understand that it was in fact,released in theaters in England later on after Spielberg added some more footage.I am envious that they got to see this Hitchcock like thriller on the big screen.I consider it a grand edition to my DVD library.Great stuff.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067023/

It was an ABC movie and very scary too. Spielberg's first movie.

[driver8]

25. Sharks!!!

As a result of my fear of sharks, I have a phobia of being alone in the ocean and not being able to see what's below me.

The thought of that drives me crazy.

[Sequoia]

26. When I was in San Antonio in August I remember how terrific they were.

All the other gals were cowering under their beds and here I was jumping for joy at the light display. Maybe you should read a bio of Nikola. Lightning was his thing and one of the, if not the, greatest inventors of all time. I read his bio and was amazed. Not that it would cure your phobia but you'll be knocked out. It might be a Horror story for you!

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51T1YQA794L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

[Sequoia]

27. As a child I was terrified of quicksand. Just thinking about it gave me nightmares.

I was 7 or 8 when I saw one of those old western tv shows where the "good" guy sat astride his horse and watched the "bad" guy beg for mercy as he slowly sank to his death. I cried all night and didn't get over my phobia until I was 10 or 11. I feared my dad would walk into the woods and sink although in the area of NC that I lived in there was no quicksand for miles and miles around. Finally one night I decided that if I died I'd go to heaven (now I'm not so sure since I'm a bad girl). And no more fears after that.

[LynneSin]

38. when I was a kid I was terrified the hill our house was built on was an active volcano

Mind you I grew up in rural PA but what did I know?

[Sequoia]

41. It could've been back in the day.

Like 1,000,000,000 years ago. I watched Nova last night.

[stellanoir]

29. The noise created when styrofoam is touched.

I've goose bumps just thinking about it.

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

30. Actual phobias

1) death
2) flying
3) public speaking

I'm also scared of walking through tall grass where I can't see what is on the ground and being in water that I cannot see what is below me but they aren't actual phobias.

[LSK]

31. Flying in airplanes

[BarenakedLady]

34. Making phone calls

Small talk with acquaintances/strangers

:crazy:

[ElizabethDC]

36. Ooo - me too.

I *hate* calling people. As a matter of fact, I need to call and make some appointments today, but I keep putting it off because I don't want to pick up the phone!

[BarenakedLady]

42. Yup

I have several of those calls to make too. :scared:

[Phentex]

37. Deer and horses. I won't go near them if at all possible.

The deer have run AT me and the horses just give me spooky looks.

(shudder)

[Zavulon]

40. Subway platforms.

I won't get within ten feet of the edge unless a train is there and I'm boarding it.