What's your most irrational fear?

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  • Butterflies, moths, grasshoppers...any bug with wings really.
    Anything that lives in the water, including plant life. Things like frogs, alligators, turtles and the like are okay...just the ones that have to stay underwater are bad.
    :o
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  • AnonAnon Posts: 11,175
    kc_pj wrote:
    I don't like balloons... in particular when there's a chance of them popping.
    hey you're not alone- me too!! when i was younger, it was definitely a big fear, but now its just more of an uncomfortable feeling.
  • pretextpretext Posts: 1,294
    sharks making their way from the ocean to a swimming pool. ever see the one where Jaws attacks land-locked Sea World? <shudder>
  • I hate being in water that I can't see the bottom of. It freaks me out not being able to know what's down there around my feet and legs and what harm it could do to me.
    she was underwhelmed, if that's a word
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    I hate being in water that I can't see the bottom of. It freaks me out not being able to know what's down there around my feet and legs and what harm it could do to me.
    In what possible sense is that irrational? :p
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • Jeremy1012 wrote:
    In what possible sense is that irrational? :p

    Good point. Here's an irrational one: my ex left me for some dude who is big on martial arts and wants to be in the CIA. So I irrationally fear that one day we will cross paths in some dangerous situation and he'll pull some Jason Bourne shit and make me look like a chump in comparison, right before having me arrested for high treason and saving the entire US in the process. So I irrationally fear being a lame number two to a villian in a real life Arnold Schwartzenegger movie :)
    she was underwhelmed, if that's a word
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Good point. Here's an irrational one: my ex left me for some dude who is big on martial arts and wants to be in the CIA. So I irrationally fear that one day we will cross paths in some dangerous situation and he'll pull some Jason Bourne shit and make me look like a chump in comparison, right before having me arrested for high treason and saving the entire US in the process. So I irrationally fear being a lame number two to a villian in a real life Arnold Schwartzenegger movie :)
    Hah, that's more like it! :p
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • My irrational fear is heavy construction equipment. Excavators, road graders, huge dump trucks.

    I had a dream as a kid where I was hiding behind an excavator and it slowly came to life, sensed I was crouching there, and began turning it's giant bucket toward me to eat me. I couldn't escape or back away and woke up at the last instant, so terrified I've not been able to look at those machines the same way since.

    :confused:
  • prismprism Posts: 2,440
    prism wrote:
    flying monkeys


    damn the Wizard of Oz. even when I'd watch it with my kids when they were growing up i'd hide my eyes and ask them to tell when the flying monkeys part was over so that i could open them again.

    ever since I can remember those flying monkey bastards would sometimes appear in my nightmares too

    some things never change :D
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  • StellaStella Posts: 283
    GetALife wrote:
    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...

    I completely understand where you are coming from. I finished a degree, and thought the same thing..so much time filled with work. So now i am doing a PhD = similar to work, but still with some flexibility... ease on into full time work that way.

    I'm afraid of being stuck. This has led me to fear going in elevators, planes, trains, small rooms with doors that go all the way to the floor/ceiling. it sucks.
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  • moths
    wah
  • Chimps.
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Chimps.
    Chimps are 5 times as strong as a grown man and like to go about in gangs in the jungle gang-raping and murdering their own. That's not an irrational fear :D

    Unless of course you are scared of them at all times. When they aren't around.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Chimps are 5 times as strong as a grown man and like to go about in gangs in the jungle gang-raping and murdering their own. That's not an irrational fear :D

    Unless of course you are scared of them at all times. When they aren't around.

    *nods*

    I'm even scared to look at pictures of them... they completely repulse me :o
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
  • *nods*

    I'm even scared to look at pictures of them... they completely repulse me :o
    And it still mystifies me, over a year on, apparently. :p And I still hold them up as the pinnacle of nature. :D
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  • MayDay10MayDay10 Posts: 11,754
    eating/smelling seafood.
  • Kidney stones. Never had them, no reason to believe I ever will. But I'm scared of the thought of the damn things hurting me when I pee.
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