What's your most irrational fear?

Brain of J.Lo
Brain 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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  • bostonlou
    bostonlou Posts: 2,849
    i'm afraid of being afraid
    Don't Believe Everything You Think
  • Brain of J.Lo
    Brain 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.
  • bostonlou
    bostonlou Posts: 2,849
    i fear that people here really think i like them and want to be friends ;)
    Don't Believe Everything You Think
  • Trailer
    Trailer 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.
  • PJGARDEN
    PJGARDEN 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.
  • Cateeto
    Cateeto 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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  • GreenTeaDisease
    GreenTeaDisease 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_hiding79
    in_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."
  • hippiemom
    hippiemom 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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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    wow

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

    :eek:
  • mole1985
    mole1985 Posts: 1,119
    A friend at work is scared of glitter, not joking it really freaks hime out.
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  • GetALife
    GetALife 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. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,376
    Sharks. Watching Jaws when I was 9 or so scarred me for life.
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  • catefrances
    catefrances 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 MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 26,862
    nothing creeps me out more.....than...
























































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  • GetALife
    GetALife 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


  • catefrances
    catefrances 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
  • jimed14
    jimed14 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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  • norm
    norm 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
  • QuarterToTen
    QuarterToTen Cincinnati, Ohio Posts: 3,649
    mice...

    i can squash any bug known to man,
    but mice just freak me out for some weird reason.
    Nice shirt.

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