What's your phobia?

Still the water thingy.....

Mine is acrophobia (fear of heights) and my son has arachnophobia (fear of spiders).

so many phobias so little time.
Windows
Wide open spaces at night
Heights
Spiders
Car accidents
Meteor showers
the list goes on and on and on...

I don't have any. My sister is really afraid of spiders.

Totally losing time synch with society (slow motion).
Becoming the Devil.
Losing all ability to make a decision.

I can recall a couple past life drownings, but it still never stopped me from doing crazy stunts like trying to water ski from a sailing schooner out at sea, or jumping off 40' bridges. Often I do things because I realise I have a bit of fear about it, though quite a few others can do it. I still avoid things where anyone could be expected to fail.

Answering on line survey's..AAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Fear of needing to go to the bathroom when there's no place to go.

I don't particularly have one.

Heights and being locked in tight spaces.

I don't think I have any phobias

Clowns
Ballons
Spiders

(It goes without saying that I hate the book 'IT' by Steven King)

Pogonophobia- Fear of beards

I like beards!

Electric shocks, roller coasters and diving boards.

I hope so! You'd get a fright if you looked in the mirror!

That when I die, nobody will notice.

that only happened when I shaved my head

So, you wouldn't want us to throw you a birthday party with entertainment by Pennywise the Clown and Insane Clown Posse and during the party show the movie, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, is that what you're saying?

*shrugs* I don't know. I've got lots.

My greatest fear is regret. I don't think there is a specific phobia for this. My way of dealing with it is to refuse to regret anything. Every bad experience is a lesson. Grab that gusto! Go for it! Nothing ventured nothing gained!

aaaaaaaarggggggggghhhhhh!!!!! *runs screaming out of the building*

(ps. autumnlight will be along later and she'll be screaming too at your suggestion)

and don't forget - (if you press advanced stats) - you promised not to laugh at Biggles when she comes in later.

I already know what her phobia is and I certainly won't laugh at it. There is nothing funny about phobia, no matter what they are. The phobic reaction is very real to the person it's happening to even if we can understandy why. I didn't laugh at her when I first heard about it some time ago. I'm sorry I frightened you and autumnlight so badly, but I'm saddened that you didn't like my idea for the party. (I didn't promise not to make fun of you, now did I?) >

People who tamper with time travel. They might create a reality where giant fish wear teddy-bear outfits and rampage cities.

Did you ever see the episode of Mr. Bean where he climbs up to the very top of the highest diving board at the public swimming pool and acts all cocky like he's going to jump 'til he actually walks out to the edge..looks down and has this full body terror collapse crawling clinging vertigo reaction. That's how it is for me, no matter the height...a full physical reaction I seem not to be able to control.
I've gotten over the water in my face thing pretty well. I still don't like to be splashed in the face suddenly and I sputter and choke if I get water up my nose. It's pathetic. I can swim though....and I'm sure I could save my own life if faced with a watery predicament.

One man's phobia is another gurl's turn on!

That frightens me as well!

I've seen that episode. You'd never get me up on a diving board. Not only am I scared of heights, but high, narrow places in particular. I also get very uneasy going across bridges on foot, but that may relate to when I crossed a suspension bridge across a creek (one of those with ropes and boards like you see in the movies) when I was 5. The kid ahead of me kept making it sway back and forth!

Dear Zim - Don't use the time machine! - love, Zim

Gosh I know I shouldn't - but I am just gonna crease myself laughing when Biggles comes in.

DON'T YOU DARE! She has no more control over her phobia than your clown one!

Dogs

I'm writing a story called Stage Fright Theater, where people go up and attempt to conquer there fears in front of an audience. I got some good ideas here. I imagined everyone's fears up there onstage, and some of them just won't work. (Sorry, Cain, can't help you with that one!)

well..i'm scared of clowns...i don't know why, i know its stupid, but i hate clowns!

I don't have one.

Speaking in public!!! Job interviews!!! secondary is wide open spaces -- makes me uncomfortable.

Heights. I have a panic attack whenever I get too high. I've even had a panic attack coming down a steep flight of stairs. I can't even stand seeing a view from high up on TV, it makes my stomach turn. Pretty sad huh? I just can't handle it.

Don't know Mr. Bean. Can't dive without doing very painful belly flop either. pin-drop cannonball off bridge was painful when water pocket collapsed at head level. More fear on second jump when possibility of pain was no longer speculative. Repeat of pain with altered technique. Conclusion - stop. Later that afternoon two people were hauled away with back injuries (water was 10' deep at best).
One friend commented a couple years ago that I stand in the water like a stone-pillar, as if the waves weren't even crashing over me. Can't surf either. Tried it when younger and 3 leopard sharks started swarming around my flea bitten legs - back in the 'jaws' days. That had me nervous.

Spiders. I would react more calmly to a snake landing in my lap than to a spider descending on me. In fact, I was trimming some hedges one Fall, and a spray of thousands of baby spiders rained down upon me as I stared in disbelief, and then proceeded to do a screaming flailing jig like one possessed! It was the Spider Dance, and I'm sure it was hilarious to onlookers!

I am even terrified of them when they are dead, and would rather wipe up my cat's vomit than have to pick up a dead spider with a paper towel.

My husband is also afraid of spiders, but out of machismo, he comes riding in on a white stallion to defend me whenever he hears that particular scream from me that means SPIDER!!!!!! LOL LOL LOL LOL

Oh, yes, and how could I forget that I am claustrophobic?
I can do things like ride in an elevator, but if it is packed with people, I have to force myself to remain calm until I get off, and sometimes that's hard.

I can usually control it to some degree if I try, and though I suffer, I can control myself in a tight backseat of a car, but it is always MUCH harder if the place where I am is dark and I can't see outside, and if it came to crawling through a drainage pipe or something, I might be able to do it if my life depended on it, but only if I did it fast and without allowing myself to react.

I once tried to walk in a narrow dark space between two walls, and 3 steps in started losing my nerve, and started to breathe too fast, and had to get out quick! Am shaking just thinking about it.

I bet I could train myself to relax, and beat this thing, if I tried hard enough.

Ok, I'm watching 'raider of the lost arc' right now and am reminded that i'm rather nervous of snakes unless theres a window between us. I have touched them before. My brother used to keep them (fortunately I'd moved out by then) and i have a cousin who will let rattlers crawl over his bare feet.

um, used to be spiders but i got over that. so...nothing i guess.

what? meteor showers are grrrreeaatt!

how about...eternal life in the lower mental/spiritual frame?

You know me too well. I had refrained from typing that. It's more of a meaningless dread, than fear though.

Hey someone else is scared of clowns. 'aznangl' - I've never heard that name before. We just need autumnlight now and we got us a posse.
re: Biggles. I shall sit here with my hand (both hands) firmly planted over my mouth.

1)I don't know about phobias but I feel uncomfortable in crowds and in tight spaces.
2)I also have this odd fear/love of heights. I am scared of heights not because I am scared I may fall but because I am scared I might jump. And no I am not suicidal. It has nothing to do with wanting to die or anything.
3)I am scared of long bridges. I used to have this nightmare when I was a child that we were driving over a bridge and it was crumbling behind us and trying to suck the car down with it but we were to fast and always made it across.
4)I also can't take a crap in public restrooms unless I have the runs and then it does not matter cause you have no control to hold it.
5)I am deathly afraid of spiders.

This is embarrassing

I have a phobia of..........
















.....buttons.

Actually, I don't consider it to be a technical phobia - they don't scare me as such. It's more a disgust mechanism. I want to throw up when I see them. There is no way I could wear them.

My nightmare is having to eat one. A close second is having one touch my bare skin.

Watching "War of the Buttons" was like watching a horroe movie for me. That scene where all the buttons go showering down from above.......

And the strangest thing is, I'm not unique. Button-phobia is documented.

My brother has that phobia. Everytime he realises there's nowhere for him to go he panics and feels like he has to go. He also has real trouble peeing if he knows he's about to go somewhere where there are no toilets because of the pressure.

Poor kid

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Mandy, What would you do if you were in the situation of needing to go to the bathroom when there's no place to go.

If you and kate could see me now! lol I feel so terrible! I'm nearly wetting myself. lol I'm sorry but I tried not to but you know how when you're not supposed to laugh it just makes it worse. lol lol lol lol lol lol Oh, I'm so sorry! lol lol lol lol

*runs away and hides under the table before kate comes back*

Never mind before kate comes back!!!

Come here you!!!

Not a phobia as such, But I really dislike having my head under water.

Buttons... that just defies explanation. heights, spiders, snakes, water is all understandable as they can kill you, and it makes evolutionary sense to be wary of such things. But buttons... why?

And you had better stay that way young man!

You should be ashamed of yourself Dino. You promised not to laugh!

Did you get him?

A phobia is an *irrational* fear - not a rational one.

Besides, like I said, it's not strictly a phobia......

He's still running

Actually, I was watching the movie Dinosaurs and there was a huge meteor storm. It was scary.

Heights, dark basements, brushing my teeth, many others

my fear is simialr. it is about constant reincarnation, with little progress.
heres a joke fer you. what do you call it when a cowboy dies and gets born again? reintarnation!

meteor showers are great. we should have one every day.

That doesn't concern me. In my mind, we live for reincarnation with no better destination possible. With that argument, I shouldn't mind going back to sleep, but I like to not lose my memory, including events from millenium past. I'm beginning to suspect the cyclic nature is necessary too. That something like telekenesis wouldn't mean as much if I hadn't been in a lull. Frankly, that experience seems almost irrelevant in spite of the recent slump. I'm too jaded I guess. Things don't happen for me unless I'm ready to accept them without blinking an eye. Catch-22.

ooh, cosmic sperm.

Yeah, but if they were hitting earth and burning everything...that's what scares me.

Ask again later, with your username attached and I'll give you a truthful reply.....

If I see him I'll grab him and tie him up. Then we can decide what to do with him (rubbing her hands together and cackling like a witch) >

I'm watching Temple of Doom as I type. I usually watch Ally McBeal, but not tonight.

I am scared to death of spiders. I was bitten by a black widow several years ago and had to have shots and get it lanced and all kinds of terrible things. It was very painful. Plus, I have a scar from where they had to cut out all the skin and tissues that it killed. Needless to say, I freak out when I see a spider.

I saw on the Discovery Channel or a channel similar that the average person will swallow 7 spiders in the course of their lifetime and never realize. They say that spiders will crawl into your mouth while you sleep. Now, that's a scary and gross thought, isn't it. I didn't sleep good for weeks after I saw that. This is one time in my life that I don't want to be the "average person". LOL

Do I know you? You've rolled right in here as if you've been here all along. I'm happy with that though.
The inevitable introductory question.. Who is B. Labonte?

Many phobias are *rational*, in the sense that you can see why they are part of the human personality and how they came to develop. Buttons, meteor showers etc, in this regard are irrational. They serve no purpose. Being afraid of heights or water can save your life. Being afraid of meteors won't ever save your life.

wow

Did he say what his phobia was? >

thats even cooler

they are plenty rational in the sense that they were created by memory, perhaps a scary movie during childhood about meteor destruction, or past life experience of being killed by one.

during my younger years i was very pissed at the concept of reincarnation. i didnt want to do it again, memory or not.

Have you ever seen the film "The Cube". It's a low budget sci-fi film from a few years back about a group of strangers trapped inside a series of interconnecting cubes that contain deadly booby traps. I only mention it because they use the buttons on their overalls to suck on as a means of keeping their saliva flowing.

PS - You probably have no fond memories of 'Button Moon' either.

I have seen that movie. I quite liked it except some of it was pretty cheesy. But I must have blocked the buttons bit from my memory!

CLOWNS! > Also balloons and spiders.

+ Biggles - there's supposedly a sequel to 'Cube' in production called 'HyperCube'...

*peers in to read the above text* Damn they're plotting allsorts *runs off*

Biggles, quick! GRAB HIM!

Well then, make your next universe one in which reincarnation doesn't exist. I haven't met anyone yet who would consider 80 years of tanning on the beach bliss. Pretty soon filing hamburgers and arguing morality start to seem more appealing. If you have thoughts on something better, make them happen now. It's your love for creation that matters. How you maintain that through lifetimes is up to you.

right i understand the whole concept of 'decide what you will...and have it' i argue that point with my mother, or rather she argues it with me. for her it is very easy to believe that life is exactly what you make it. i have troubles with the concept though i don't deny or embrace the truth of it. if it were really that easy, we would all have different lives.
i decided long ago (in this life) to never be reincarnated again, however i may have changed my mind (thank god for that power). the more i live, the more i like life, little by little. but there was a time when i desired only total ultimate perminent non-existence.

No, you don't know me. I did just roll in here as if I've been here all along, though! :) I just try to make myself at home wherever I am. And, be warned, I can talk about ANYTHING and EVERYTHING. I've got a big mouth. LOL

Bobby Labonte. I take it your not a Nascar fan!?!? He is a Nascar driver on Joe Gibbs Racing Team and is sponsored by Interstate batteries.

There are few of hundreds subjects that have surfaced here that I haven't had something to say about, by my emphasis is on metaphysics.

I have the reverse arguments with my mom. I have to point out to her how interactively alive our environment is. She believes in calm while I favor intensity.
My guru said enlightenment may take 1000's of lives, some respond with that long, and others with oh, that short. Since my realm changed, and again and again. I took reincarnation to be a metaphor for what can happen within one life. But now I also know it refers to exactly what it traditionally means as well.
We get what our underlying ego asks for. Some of us are aware of that ego. People want things like conflict, I'm afraid. We do all have different lives, though i imagine you mean different from what they have now. We get what we believe in. Most people aren't willing to believe they can get what they want, and certainly not without blood, sweat, and tears. You haven't believed it yet yourself, and yet you have a lot more knowledge of the supernatural than most. When I made the breakthrough, I was told I was one of about 50000 on the planet. It seems to me that a large percentage of people have my understanding, but then since it's my wish to have colleagues, I might meet these folks disproportionately.

I was in the middle of a reply and the power went out.

I think biggles aversion to buttons isn't all that weird, if she developed it in early childhood. That's when people make a fuss about it being a choking hazard, and that's when imagination is most active. If her experiences and imagination led her to have that aversion as a kid, it's not surprising that she still has it.

Then we should dress up and lie in wait for him - with spider-shaped balloons.......

I think it was inherited - my mum doesn't like them either (though she isn't as bad as me). We think she probably used to have a particular expression on her face when she was dressing me in buttoned clothes (she often did) that I picked up on at a very early age. I can't remember not hating them - I've never wanted to play with them like other people used to.

Then we are going to throw him a BIG party with Pennywise the Clown (from IT), Ronald McDonald and Bozo the Clown performing as well as special musical guest Insane Clown Posse and we'll show the kiddies a movie-Killer Klowns From Outer Space We'll decorate with spider-shaped balloons (filled with REAL spiders-non-poisonous of course). Remind me to tell my son to stay away as he has a fear of spiders as well.

I've actually been diagnosed by a spychiatrist as having a phobia of school. I dropped out 3 years ago, my freshman year. I'm going to college in the fall w/ my GED. Highschool is an un nesesarry step.

i felt close to it before, and if reincarnation is truth then i tell you i am one of the elders, which explains my frustration.

The question remains, what do you hope to achieve? Zen buddhists suggest the path is the destination. If you feel you've been through it all, start something new; or were you hoping to retire?

*stands on top on a tall building* na-na na-na na! You can't catch me I'm the gingerbread man!

Why non-poisonous? >