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What's your most irrational fear?

Brain of J.LoBrain of J.Lo Posts: 3,259
edited November 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
I'm terrified of eels. I don't know why. I just am.
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  • bostonloubostonlou Posts: 2,849
    i'm afraid of being afraid
    Don't Believe Everything You Think
  • Brain of J.LoBrain of J.Lo Posts: 3,259
    bostonlou wrote:
    i'm afraid of being afraid

    That's just one more way in which you remind me of FDR.
  • bostonloubostonlou Posts: 2,849
    i fear that people here really think i like them and want to be friends ;)
    Don't Believe Everything You Think
  • TrailerTrailer Posts: 1,431
    Brain of J.Lo wrote:
    I'm terrified of eels. I don't know why. I just am.

    How often do you come in contact with eels that you would be terrified of them??haha I eat them every once in a while at my local sushi spot :D

    When I was in Japan I ate at this restaurant and they had eels swimming around in a tank. Whenever someone would order some eel, they would pull one out and chop some of it off and serve it, and then throw the rest of the eel back in the tank. The eels would still be alive, so there were eels swimming in there with half there bodies chopped off!! Basically your worst nightmare:D:D:D
    Whoa, chill bro... you know you can't raise your voice like that when the lion's here.
  • PJGARDENPJGARDEN Posts: 1,484
    I guess this belongs under irrational. It's really weird. I'm scared that I'm going to wake up in the middle of the night, stand on my bed, and hit my head on the fan while the fan is going. I think I had a dream about that one night and now I always think about that when I wake up in the middle of the night.
  • CateetoCateeto Posts: 377
    I have a strange fear... I'm afraid of people touching my veins. It makes no sense. It's not like anyone is just going to go under my skin and rip them out. But yet, I can't have anyone near my veins... So I basically DO NOT let people touch my wrists or neck. Again, makes no sense... But I cower every time.

    Unless I get to know the person. Then it's okay for them to touch my wrists or neck... But not too much :p
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  • GreenTeaDiseaseGreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
    similar to eels, I've been afraid of earth worms since I was born. it's an earth worm, it can't do anything! But I still stay as far away from them as possible.
  • in_hiding79in_hiding79 Posts: 4,315
    bostonlou wrote:
    i fear that people here really think i like them and want to be friends ;)



    Awww man..:(
    And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...,"
    "What a stupid lamb."
    "What a sick, masochistic lion."
  • hippiemomhippiemom Posts: 3,326
    I am virtually fearless, because cancer puts most other fears in perspective. Things that used to scare me no longer do. But there's one I just can't get past, and it's so stupid ... centipedes!

    One little bug and I lose my mind completely ... I'll run, scream, climb on things, I'm totally helpless.
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    wow

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSCotdOh5WY

    :eek:
  • mole1985mole1985 Posts: 1,119
    A friend at work is scared of glitter, not joking it really freaks hime out.
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  • GetALifeGetALife Posts: 563
    Isn't the fact that I would recognize it to be irrational a way to rationalize it and make it disappear? If not...I'm afraid of an everyday working life, that I have to and can't get out because of the material pressure...I've just finished my studies and have to face it...i'm getting panic about the thought having so much time filled with work and maybe not the power to do more than that in life, being tired in my free time, thinking of the next day, not being able to enjoy the free time, ignoring sleep, getting weak and frustrated...so I'm afraid also of my way not to be able to deal with little money so to become more independent from that pressure and maybe get rid of the fear...

    ...yes, I will take psychotherapy...
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  • Ms. HaikuMs. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,293
    Sharks. Watching Jaws when I was 9 or so scarred me for life.
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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    i have no fears, rational or irrational.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • SPEEDY MCCREADYSPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 25,886
    nothing creeps me out more.....than...
























































    the cincy setlist............
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    Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
  • GetALifeGetALife Posts: 563
    catefrances wrote:
    i have no fears, rational or irrational.

    Oh, is that the beginning of my therapy?

    "1st step: Denying"

    or

    "I will get the power over my fears when I deny them!"

    or

    "Lalalala..."
    2000: Hamburg
    2006: Berlin
    2007: Munich * Düsseldorf
    2009: Berlin * Manchester * London
    2010: Dublin * Belfast * Berlin
    2012: Amsterdam I & II * Berlin I & II * Stockholm * Oslo * Copenhagen
    EV 2012: Amsterdam I & II
    2014: Amsterdam I & II * Milan * Trieste * Vienna * Berlin
    EV 2017: Berlin
    2018: Amsterdam I & II * Prague * Krakow * Berlin
    2022: Berlin- Vienna - Prague - Amsterdam I - Amsterdam II #
    2024: Berlin I & II

    ~~~

    “It is curious that while good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, few of them seem to notice that the one (and only) guaranteed way to prevent all the suffering of their children is not to bring those children into existence in the first place.”
    ― David Benatar - Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence


  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    GetALife wrote:
    Oh, is that the beginning of my therapy?

    "1st step: Denying"

    or

    "I will get the power over my fears when I deny them!"

    or

    "Lalalala..."

    no. i just don't have any fears.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • jimed14jimed14 Posts: 9,488
    I am really freaked out by windmills.

    seriously.

    We fly into Ontario airport every year for Coachella and then take the 10 down to Rancho Mirage where we stay for the festival ....

    When we pass all those windmills ... man, I get all jittery ... especially the huge ones that sit on top of a hill .... so, you're driving and the road curves to the right, and then there's a windmill in front of you, and it looks like you're driving into it ... really ... freaky ... they are coming to get me ...

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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    jimed14 wrote:
    I am really freaked out by windmills.

    seriously.

    We fly into Ontario airport every year for Coachella and then take the 10 down to Rancho Mirage where we stay for the festival ....

    When we pass all those windmills ... man, I get all jittery ... especially the huge ones that sit on top of a hill .... so, you're driving and the road curves to the right, and then there's a windmill in front of you, and it looks like you're driving into it ... really ... freaky ... they are coming to get me ...

    http://www.terragalleria.com/images/us-ca/usca9768.jpeg

    ok unless you are a bird, that's pretty irrational....;) :D
  • QuarterToTenQuarterToTen Cincinnati, Ohio Posts: 3,642
    mice...

    i can squash any bug known to man,
    but mice just freak me out for some weird reason.
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  • failedpersephonefailedpersephone Posts: 3,424
    Rats. I freeze at the MENTION of Rats...
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    failedpersephone wrote:
    Rats. I freeze at the MENTION of Rats...

    huh, i kinda like that song.....;)
  • thunderDANthunderDAN Posts: 2,094
    snakes...I run away like a little school girl
  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    Bears.
    They are always at the top of the THREAT DOWN list.
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  • AmentsChickAmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    I'm afraid of birds...mostly of them dive-bombing. Though, my ex's mom had birds and she used to put them on my shoulders all the time. I didn't want to say anything...you know...because it's my boyfriend's mom. God I hated that.

    I'm also desperately afraid of needles going into my veins, either to draw blood or for an IV. It's not unjustified, though. I have horrible veins and they can never do it on the first try. I get stabbed no less than 3 or 4 times...then they have to DIG to get the vein. Then they have to give up and use the 'butterfly' needle (which is for kids). Yeah, I'm 27 and I cry from the pain/trauma!!!! :(
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  • failedpersephonefailedpersephone Posts: 3,424
    cutback wrote:
    huh, i kinda like that song.....;)


    I can't listen to it...but I understand it's pretty funny/awesome


    I have a friend that makes "rat" noises and it freaks me out. I don't even like typing the word...
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  • Fighting HellfishFighting Hellfish Posts: 3,170
    PJGARDEN wrote:
    I guess this belongs under irrational. It's really weird. I'm scared that I'm going to wake up in the middle of the night, stand on my bed, and hit my head on the fan while the fan is going. I think I had a dream about that one night and now I always think about that when I wake up in the middle of the night.

    Aw, jeez, I never thought of that, but now it's got me terrified. And I don't even have a ceiling fan. I do have a weird fear though. I have a reverse fear of heights. If I'm standing somewhere high, say a rooftop, and look up at something higher, maybe a taller building or something, it kinda freaks me out, makes my legs buckle.
  • AllieAllie Posts: 2,908
    failedpersephone wrote:
    . I freeze at the MENTION of ..

    me too. Notice I deleted the word from your post.
    "...like a word misplaced, nothing said, what a waste.."
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  • SoonForgotten2SoonForgotten2 Posts: 2,245
    SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
    nothing creeps me out more.....than...



    the cincy setlist............


    I fear every third SPEEDY post because it will inevitably be a complaint about the Cincy setlist.

    Let it go, mate.
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  • Brain of J.LoBrain of J.Lo Posts: 3,259
    bostonlou wrote:
    i fear that people here really think i like them and want to be friends ;)

    Whatever, lou.

    You'd be lost without us. You know it, and we know it.

    Now you just need to accept it.

    :p
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