Do you have any real fears?

Lux23

Getting older and people close to me dying.

kkdela6

electric fences

Dangerous Man

Drowning.

py2006

Lux23 wrote: »

Getting older and people close to me dying.

Yea getting old is a big one!

dirtypanties

Dentists

Fracturing or breaking a rib/ribs

Baggage handlers

chalkie 501

I'm afraid of cows,cant go within 50yards of one....they taste good though:p
My other half is afraid of butterflys!!

Pyr0

I have a mate who is afraid of underwater shipwrecks. They just freak him the f*ck out. He's also very unnerved around jelly babies.

danslevent

aujopimur wrote: »

I recently discovered I've developed a fear of heights even some that appear on TV, I don't know why, as I worked in consruction most of my working life and never had a this fear.

After I had a terrible holiday skiing I developed a fear of heights for a while during it and after. Even thinking about those chair lifts can get my head spinning :O

danslevent

Greentopia wrote: »

Me too! My Mum has had a few things wrong with her eyes-cataracts and now glaucoma and has had eye surgery a few times and not a bother on her. I dunno how she does it. I'd have to be knocked out before a doctor came anywhere near my eyes, so yeah my fear is something going wrong with my eyes.

Also spiders. The big hairy bastards. Number 1 reason I could never move to Australia. Dinner Plate spiders :eek:
There's a type of spider in the U.S. (forget what it's called but they're quite big) that rather than feel threatened and run for cover if a human comes near them will instead rear up on their hind legs and attack? :eek:

F*cking hate spiders

OH MY GOD! SICK!!! That is a nightmare come true

paddyandy

I remember a man saying he could'nt stay on a bus if he saw somebody wearing velvet he was very serious about it.He could'nt bear the sight of velvet.I could see 'say a coat hanging on a bedroom door appear to 'jump'in a poorly lit room.I found out we all have "floaters" in our eyes the optician told me and that's why.Everybody is afraid of something.

Ghost Buster

Duggy747 wrote: »

Cancer

Just feels like a lottery whether you get it or not considering the amount of "healthy-living" people I've known who've succumbed to it.

I hear ya. My Mother in law died last week after 69 years as a non smoker and eating organic and home grown for the last 30 years. Go figure.


But anyway. I used to be come paralysed with fear if i saw spider. I had it really bad. i have forced myself to over come it over the years. Im mostly ok now but my wife still has to catch the buggers if they are near me!

Lorrs33

Horseflies, I completely tense up when one is near me.

Why do they need to bounce around like that?!

cosanostra

I used to have a really bad fear of laser pens back when i was wee and they were all the rage! apart from that I would be very afraid of not being able to breath.

merengueca

Fish - dead or alive. I'd be uncomfortable with someone eating tuna near me, can't watch jaws/nature docs with fish and the thought of being near a live one would have me crying:eek:

ElishaR86

Spiders, cannot stand them. Couple of a*holes thought it would be funny to chase me with them and I actually cried I was so freaked out. Actually I hate all insects apart from wasps which is ridiculous since they're the ones that can actually hurt me...

And drowning

saorise

py2006 wrote: »

coffee?

Sure! Why not? And maybe we can go back to my place after??? :rolleyes:

py2006

saorise wrote: »

Sure! Why not? And maybe we can go back to my place after??? :rolleyes:

I'll get my coat and tooth brush!

paddyandy

An inner city government.

sunflower27

I'm afraid of heights. Stayed in a hotel in New York once and we were on something like the 28th floor. The room had sliding windows. It terrified me being so close to an open window and being so high up. We ended up keeping them almost closed the whole time, which was actually Ok as the place was lovely and air-conditioned.

And flying, hate that as well, obviously the height thing again.

Wolflikeme

Hospitals - I get week when I enter a hospital. The smell, the atmosphere of impending doom.

Spiders - they're so creepy and ugly and when they run fast it I freak out!

Theresa Dublin

spot on Duggy!

Theresa Dublin

Wolflikeme wrote: »

Hospitals - I get week when I enter a hospital. The smell, the atmosphere of impending doom.

Spiders - they're so creepy and ugly and when they run fast it I freak out!

For sure, HATE hospitals!!!!!!!

mattjack

LollieB wrote: »

Are you me??

I fcuking hate bananas & wasps! Bananas are unequivocally the most disgusting things! I hate the texture of them & the strings..blurgh..

I particularly hate those wasps who carry bananas around with them..

LeeHoffmann

loved ones dying.
injections.
insects and maggots generally but particularly anything that has a crazy amount of legs or crawl/squirms. (shudder-tastic...suddenly feel itchy:()
childbirth

paddyandy

It's all the white they always use that makes people uneasy.I advised a dentist about it and told him it's no wonder kids get frightened.They are cold places to look at.They need restful colours.

Vinta81

Waking up in the middle of having surgery.

HazDanz

I'm afraid of not living life to the full by being too complacent

theneed2rock

HazDanz wrote: »

I'm afraid of not living life to the full by being too complacent

Me too...I fear that when i die, i will somehow look back and say why didnt i do more!

HazDanz

theneed2rock wrote: »

Me too...I fear that when i die, i will somehow look back and say why didnt i do more!

It's depressing isn't it thinking that! Look at it as a good thing, it'll keep you on your toes

unitedrover

Fear of death. sends me into a panic.but it does show how valuable our lives are.

wild animals, bears,tigers,lions etc. All animals that could kill you.
poisonous snakes, large spiders.
Thankfully we dont have these in Ireland
Also, serious illnesses.
airplane crashes.
Heights especially bridges overroads.


All the same theme really.

softmee

I have to get drunk to get on plane. Every time I am affraid this particular one is gonna crash. Why it wouldnt?
Some random Ryanair flight.. then on the news :
"Dublin - Madrid flight 034 with 120 passengers on board crashed 20 minutes before landing, no one survived" - would that be so unusual. NO!!!
Why why why I just cant relax and enjoy holidays like all normal people do -why?

paddyandy

Loadz of them only a fool or a liar does'nt.

aoife_bennett

Getting the Big C. Dying. Snakes.

Also, I CANNOT touch the banister of an escalator.

py2006

aoife_bennett wrote: »

Getting the Big C. Dying. Snakes.

Also, I CANNOT touch the banister of an escalator.

All them lovely germs? :P

De Hipster

Until yesterday I no irrational fears, don't like wasps & don't react well to being stung but far from irrational fear

...however yesterday while driving I could see fork lightning hit the road in front of the car & then I drove in torrential rain & the fork lightning was still forming and striking in the area - I was petrified that the fork lightning would strike the car - never in my life been so traumatically frightened!

aoife_bennett

py2006 wrote: »

All them lovely germs? :P

Oh no, out of fear that I'll get an electric shock from it.

caitmb

Until reading this I didnt think I was afraid of much but found myself agreeing with loads of ye.....mostly on the dying theme,drowning,burning,buried alive. But have to also agree with the banana ones!! Bloody hate the look,smell,feel of them. As I work with kids I get asked for nana sandwiches all the time....yeuch! Tempted to tell them to trot....

Had sleep paralysis few times too,terrifying but short lived thank god.

Eroticfishcake

Babies..have never held one and they scare the bejaysus out of me.

Ledger

Wasps. I know, not very manly. Unfortunately i have to put up with a lot of them in work, empty drinks bottles and all...

saorise

softmee wrote: »

I have to get drunk to get on plane. Every time I am affraid this particular one is gonna crash. Why it wouldnt?
Some random Ryanair flight.. then on the news :
"Dublin - Madrid flight 034 with 120 passengers on board crashed 20 minutes before landing, no one survived" - would that be so unusual. NO!!!
Why why why I just cant relax and enjoy holidays like all normal people do -why?

ha ha ha, anytime i get myself into sticky situations i can hear the newsheadlines in my head

One time while living in Holland i went on my bike to meet a friend, the night before i was due home... anyway to cut a long story short... my bike broke and i wandered into someones back yard (looking for help - it was dark) when i came across 3 dobermans looking down at me, growling & licking their lips!!! :eek:

I froze, and could hear the news headlines in my head:

'Young Irish girl is mauled to death in Holland night before she was due home'

smokedeels

Open spaces, they make me dizzy

unitedrover

De Hipster wrote: »

Until yesterday I no irrational fears, don't like wasps & don't react well to being stung but far from irrational fear

...however yesterday while driving I could see fork lightning hit the road in front of the car & then I drove in torrential rain & the fork lightning was still forming and striking in the area - I was petrified that the fork lightning would strike the car - never in my life been so traumatically frightened!

I thought ud be safe in a car with the windows closed during lightning. Correct me if im wrong

Eroticfishcake

unitedrover wrote: »

I thought ud be safe in a car with the windows closed during lightning. Correct me if im wrong

You're wrong Ah well not really, it would shatter the glass but reckon it would have to strike same place a second time 'to get you'...then again, I could be wrong too

TheBody

I'm afraid of doing long division and getting a remainder!!! :eek:

miss no stars

allanb49 wrote: »

Bridges over water,

have no problem with heights on there own and am a fairly good swimmer.

How ever combine the two..

When I was 5 my dad thought it would be funny to hold me over o'connell bridge by the ankle and pretend to drop me. So the fear may stem from there.

Had something similar happen. Except it was in Malaysia, and my dad and his friend had an ankle each and dangled me above a big dirty creek. what was worst was the big feck off monitor lizard staring up at me like I might make a nice snack.

Greentopia wrote: »

There's a type of spider in the U.S. (forget what it's called but they're quite big) that rather than feel threatened and run for cover if a human comes near them will instead rear up on their hind legs and attack? :eek:

F*cking hate spiders

Wolf spiders? Had one bite me while I was in the US. Not pleasent and I can't say I would care for a repeat. Apparently brown recluses are also very aggressive and are poisonous.

Fears:

Heights (logical, I could fall. Heights make me dizzy therefore I really do risk falling). Didn't know I was afraid of heights til I went to a climbing wall and looked down from near the top. I froze.

Used to be TERRIFIED of big trucks and stuff. Busses too. Couldn't cross the street as a child without ending up in blind panic.

Cardboard/paper being torn. Makes me start retching, even the thought of it

Hospital air (not hospitals themselves). I feel like I'm gonna inhale disease. Again, I think this to be a logical fear.

unitedrover

Eroticfishcake wrote: »

You're wrong Ah well not really, it would shatter the glass but reckon it would have to strike same place a second time 'to get you'...then again, I could be wrong too

I guess none of us wants to be the ones to prove the theory.

pushki

tomato ketchup like aaaarrrgh!!!:eek::eek::eek::eek:

Bipolar Joe

I'm scared that now Simon Cowell is going to be cryogenically frozen, sh!tty televised talent contests will never end.

fedor.2.

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

I'm scared of heights because I get the near overwhelming impulse to jump. I'm scared of coincidences because that might mean that everything I think is right. I'm scared of being alone and I'm scared of people. I'm scared that one day I might be seen as a suspect in a murder or rape that I had nothing to do with and no one will believe me. I'm afraid of brain damage that will make me confused all the time and unable to know what's going on even more than I do now or that I'll become comatose but know everything that's happening around me and hear people speaking as they pull the plug because they think I'll never come out of it. I'm afraid that maybe the Devil does exist and I sold my soul to him by accident for something retarded and forgot about it or he wiped my memory and that when I die I might go to Hell. I'm afraid that every bad thing I've ever done will come back to bite me in the ass, all my lies and people that I hurt will find me. I'm afraid of dying without someone loving me or having someone I love in that same way die and then leaving me alone, and being burned because as unattractive as I am now at least I have no obvious physical scars so someone might want to be old with me, but if I do then that chance decreases even more, so I rarely leave my house or cook which also helps and aggravates my problems with people. I'm afraid of my own thoughts because some of them aren't nice and I worry that makes me a terrible person and even being aware that these thoughts make me a terrible person and not liking it doesn't help me morally. I'm afraid of sex and put it off for as long as possible in relationships because I'm terrible at it and then whoever I convinced to give me a try will laugh and I'll never see them again. I'm afraid that my Mom will find me and make everything difficult for me. I'm afraid of failing and being a failure so I stop trying and that makes my family pissy, but I'd rather have them think I'm lazy than a massive fuck up. I'm afraid that my hamster died because of me, or even worse that he actually WAS hibernating and I buried him alive.
















Also moths.

Also paragraphs. I like your username though.;) Love the bit bout the hamster too

Bipolar Joe

I thought a wall of text lent something artistic to the desperation of the list.