Irrational phobia thread. Tooth brushing, foil biting, what's yours?

[Mysterie]

slaters (the bug) is probably mine

when i lived with my parents in the cellar there was always like 3 slaters i would find dead/alive on the carpet and it really gave me the shits

i hate those things so much

 

[hellocatastrophe]

really the feeling of dragging my fingernails over anything that isn't smooth. wooden things and paper are the worst. it makes my spine tingle just thinking about it. iiiick.

another thing i hate is silence when i'm trying to fall asleep. i have to have a radio or tv speakers on, just some kind of sound. when it's silent while i'm trying to get to sleep, i feel like the room is closing in on me.

i'm also not keen on the dark when trying to get to sleep. when i was little i couldn't fall asleep unless it was dark. if i had a lamp on, it freaked me out. the thought of being able to see something coming to get me scared the hell out of me. i preferred not to be able to see anything. now it's the opposite and i hate the dark when trying to get to sleep. again, it feels like the room is getting smaller.

my most irrational fear of all is zombies. they're not even real and i'm absolutely terrified of them coming to get me. however, i love zombie films. but i always have to watch something animated directly following

 

[lostNfound]

Fucking Centipedes, man.

Human Centipedes?


Oh, and as entertaining as this thread is it makes me feel less odd and much more normal than all you weirdos

 

[Apostacious]

Elevators; insects; the sound of loose carpet threads being pulled out of the carpet; being tickled when I don't want to be tickled; exacerbating any sort of background/underlying condition that I am not yet aware of; accidentally inhaling anything that is burnt; spontaneous erections in inopportune moments (as well as saying the worst possible thing at an inopportune moment): (speech class/significant others' family gatherings); and so on.

 

[fizzle]

This thread makes me think of the movie Amelie, where they go through and talk about all the random things the people like and dislike.

I am petrified of (even the thought of) ocean water where I can see the bottom. Like even if I'm in a boat and I can see rocks and seaweed through the water, it really freaks me out.
Even just thinking about it now has raised my heart rate and I feel very uncomfortable.

This seems backwards from what I would expect, I've heard of people being afraid of water when they cant see the bottom because they dont know what could be in there, but I've never heard of it the other way around. This may be a silly question that you may not even know the answer to, since these are irrational fears, but do you know what it is that makes you uncomfortable about it?

A very random thing that makes me very uncomfortable is sort of hard to explain, its like empty honeycomb texture, this is the best picture I could find to kind of show what I mean

NSFW:

I guess repetitive holes of a similar size and shape... the best description I can think of is empty honeycomb... just looking at things with that kind of pattern and texture sends shivers up my spine, its like nails on a chalkboard, but for my eyes.

 

[Samadhi]

Oh fizzle i have the same phobia, but of fat circles that form when water has been poured in a pan that's had something fatty frying in it and left to cool. For some reason it sends shivers down my spine as well and in the past, i've been known to plead with other people to empty/clean the pan - it's one of the reasons why now, i'll never leave water in a pan to soak overnight - and i always fill a pan up with detergent and water and clean it straight away. I don't know what it is about how it looks, but it freaks me out. My partner has a t-shirt that's so old, a heap of small tears have appeared around the shoulders and the top of the back - it looks like a large number of small mouths or something and i can't look at it, it again fills me with a sense of utter dread (as do the fat circles)

My sister has a phobia of crumpets:

She can't even look at them without running out of the room.

 

[Volundr]

I have a weird thing with belly buttons... I can't touch my own belly button, just creeps me out, feels horrible. I hate it when anything goes into it or I have to specifically clean it etc

 

[n3ophy7e]

This seems backwards from what I would expect, I've heard of people being afraid of water when they cant see the bottom because they dont know what could be in there, but I've never heard of it the other way around.

Hehehe yep, this is why it's so weird!!

This may be a silly question that you may not even know the answer to, since these are irrational fears, but do you know what it is that makes you uncomfortable about it?

It's a very reasonable question to ask, and I honestly don't know the answer. I never had any traumatic beach or swimming experiences as a kid or anything. I am and always have been a really strong swimmer and have never been afraid of water in general. So I really don't know!

My sister has a phobia of crumpets

Heehee yep that is a bit weird! :D

 

[hatchling]

I used to be scared of going up my stairs at night in fear of someone running up and stabbing me in the back. It didn't even need to be dark inside my home for me to refuse going downstairs if no one else was.

Also, nail filing or the thought of someone biting those pink erasers makes me cringe.

 

[hatchling]

I saw every single drawer, cupboard, door, pantry, ...basically anything that could open, was opened.

Holy shit man, that's scary! I just got chills reading that, I think I'd actually piss myself if I walked into that alone! I also cannot stand when doors are halfway open but it's not scary or creepy for me, more of just a nervous tick. I also cannot fall asleep with the door open and if I am sleeping I will immediately wake up if someone opens my door, no matter how little or quietly.

 

[addictivepersona]

^ Yeah, here's hoping I never have to walk into a house with everything open ever again. My mom thinks it's so fucked up that I want doors either all the way opened or all the way closed. (She has no idea how much that break-in affected me. And she'd laugh if I confided in her.)

Maybe you can sense the pressure change or something when the door's opened?

 

[Bearlove]

I hate the noise that nail clippers make - that little pingy twangy noise and I hate seeing anyone use them :D

 

[Khadijah]

I CANT FUCKING STAND...I mean, There aint WORDS to describe how much this shit bothers me...To the point where even if i am in a snooty restaurant in a evening gown, i will still not be able to control my extreme discomfort when i hear it....

The sound of peoples forks or knives scraping and screeching on the plate when they eat.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

Seriously, that shit sends fuckin CHILLS thru my spine. Its worse than foil biting even. I try really really hard to keep it under control but it FREAKS me the FUCK out. My folks always tellin me get over it, stop actin like a baby, etc, and i really wish i could, but this shit genuinely , severely bothers me.

When i hear metal forks scraping against the plate makin that eeeeeecccch kinda sound....or when people PUSH DOWN SO FUCKING HARD with their knife when they cut their meat,and they pushin down and its grinding and screeching across the plate sawing back and forth, especially when its totally possible to EASILY cut it by just gently pressin down and cuttin thru it, i bug the fuck out. Why do you have to PUSH DOWN when you scoop up your food on your fork? why cant you hold it sideways, on a slant, and lightly scoop up your food instead of directly pushin the points of the fork right down onto the plate and then dragging it all over while it goes SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE and makes me get goosebumps all over my body and feel like Im bout to start foamin at the mouth.....

I dont know why people have to PUSH DOWN with their utensils to eat. Why cant they just use that shit to pick up their food and cut it with a normal amount of pressure that dont SCRAPE the knife/fork down on the plate and make that god awful noise?

It honestly embarasses me, the reaction that it gives me , becuz i really cant control it once it gets past a certain point....Little offenses i can put my hands over my ears and grind my teeth and try to chill out by humming a tune that blocks the noise out or somethin, but when somebody just KEEPS DOIN IT, and it aint just a little accidental scrape here and there but its just a constant screeching, I got to get up and leave , i seriously cant handle that shit. it really sucks eatin in a restaurant when somebody does this becuz if they do it really bad, I got to kinda suppress the shiver that runs down my spine and my scream of anguish when i hear it.... I really, really dont wanna be all crazy like that, i know its fuckin nutz...but i seriously cant help it..the sound, it sets off this physical , involuntary reaction in me....Worst fuckin torture ever...

 

[Fawkes]

^ lol!!

my boyfriend is the exact same way. we have these stone ceramic type dishes and inevitably, when i'm trying to get the last Cheerio, my spoon scrapes up against the bowl and he freaks the fuck out. it'll be the tiniest of "squeeee"s and he'll be squirming out of the room, with his brows furrowed, yelling at me like i just did the most unbelievably offensive thing and it'll take a minute before i realize, "oops, i touched the bowl with the spoon."

...and he laughs at me over the cotton thing.

 

[Unbreakable]

A very random thing that makes me very uncomfortable is sort of hard to explain, its like empty honeycomb texture, this is the best picture I could find to kind of show what I mean

I fucking HATE Honeycombs like you said... idk its the shape or something to it

 

[fizzle]

Ahh! Yea you should put nsfw tags on that so I can read this thread without cringing lol Glad to know I'm not the only one with the honeycomb thing though.

Lacey, I'm the same way... I HATE that sound. Thankfully I havent had that problem in restaurants to much, I think people are more aware when they do it there. Sometimes my sister will do it by mistake, then watch me cringe, then start doing it just for fun. It makes me nuts.

 

[_a_A_C_c_]

being without my cell phone/my phone running out of batteries.

i always have it near me in case there is some catastrophic event where i will need to call someone. i know that if some sort of major event happened, the airways would be jammed. and if it was something more minor, like my apartment being on fire, there are other things i should besides making a phone call.

its really rather irrational. especially since i hate calling strangers on the phone. i usually have to rehearse the call or write out what i will say before i call. even for simple things like calling to order a pizza.

 

[ArcsAngles]

I have to disagree with "foil biting" being considered irrational.

 

[fizzle]

^Why? I dont think there is any real harm that can come from it, but maybe you know something different?

 

[ArcsAngles]

If you have fillings, you have two types of differently charged metals... plus you have a fluid (saliva) to conduct the charge, so you have effectively created a miniature battery inside your mouth.

plus, why are you chewing on aluminum foil in the first place