GTKY - Silly Fears

[khopec]

I want to know your silly fears...the ones you know are ridculous but you can't get over them.

I can't sleep with the closet door open in fear of the boogeyman...I swear...I read Stephen Kings short story Boogeyman when I was 12 and I have not slept with a closet door open since.  I also make sure DS's closet is shut.  DH thinks I am ridiculous but I will seriously have a panic attack if the closet door is open when the room is dark.   Please tell me someoen else has a totally irrational fear...

[prairiegirl]

I'm afraid of thunderstorms... Hate thunder and lightening.

[mrsnorris]

Big moths. Needles. Large manufacturing plants and energy plants have made me really uncomfortable since I was a kid. I hate driving past them. They feel ominous.

[Chrisse]

When I was about 6 or 7, I saw one of those late-night Nostradamus documentaries about how the end of the world would come about, etc, and I literally walk around today as an adult, sure that the end of the world is right around the corner.

This is probably why I have prepper tendencies.

Where the hell were my parents when I was watching that crap?

[minervamae]

Falling. It manifests in a number of ways. I can't walk near the edge of anything. I can't sleep with my back toward the edge of the bed. I hate walking on manhole covers or grates in the sidewalk or street.

[puffandstuff]

I'm afraid of being abducted by aliens. I know it's really silly.

[sosayweall]

I am afraid the ceiling fan is going to fly off the ceiling and cut my legs off.

[Deleted]

Snakes!

[cdseno]

I have an irrational fear of bridges. When I was younger I had a reoccurring dream that I fell through the slats on a wooden bridge and fell into water. I have a hard time driving ad walking across them.

Also water. I like to swim but I am so afraid of drowning that it ruins it for me.

[mrsnorris]

Feb 11, 2015 14:59:38 GMT -5 puffandstuff said:

I'm afraid of being abducted by aliens. I know it's really silly.

DW is kind of always hoping she'll get abducted by aliens. I always ask her why she imagines it would be a good experience. She fancies herself Arthur Dent or something.

[DirtyLurker]

It freaks me out to think that someone might be able to read my mind. Not anyone in particular, just the fact that some people claim they can do this. What if they're near me and I don't know who they are?! NO!

[Deleted]

Bugs of all kinds (including and especially moths), mice/moles (whatever the cat brings in), and car accidents are my big things. Although car accident fear isn't really silly. My natal chart has my mars in the 9th or 10th house in conjunctions with some other planet (I can't remember)....basically I need to be afraid of accidents happening bc I could have a violent death (yikes). I am also generally freaked out by mirrors and clothes hanging on doors when I get up at night to pee. #activeimagnination

[yogini kiki]

I have an irrational fear everytime I pass an open space that a deranged Nell type character will abduct me and be violent.

Also spiders.


chickapeeeeeaaaaaaaa.....chickapeaaaainthemishmayyyyyyyy

^^Nell

[mfsunshine]

Driving on/through bridges/tunnels. It is actually bad enough that I will make DH drive if I know a big bridge or tunnel is coming up.
Spiders and those fuzzy 1000 legged bugs!!!!!

[DirtyLurker]

But Nell was really sweet!!!!

[blinkme182]

House fires- specifically back-draft.. You guys. when I saw that movie- the thought that fire could essentially hide, eat all the oxygen in house then when you come home, open the door BOOM! massive explosion!!! OMG!

I didn't open the door first for YEARS!!! I still think of it!


Bridges, specifically over water. I have such a fear of being in my car and going in the water, or having a bridge collapse, you can imagine how this fear exploded when the MN 35W bridge collapsed. A bridge I travel on VERY often, less than 20 min from my home!

[DirtyLurker]

I still hate that people say I look like Jodie Foster though. Nell might have been a sweet character but she was ugly as duck.

[DirtyLurker]

FUCK I never mean duck, damn phone. Also, I never mean Damon!

[blinkme182]

I'm also afraid of a home invasion and that I'll have to somehow save my kids from a burglar.

I'm afraid of getting locked/stuck/trapped somewhere and no one finding me. I always wonder when I'm late for work how long until my boss calls my husband to look for me. what if I'm hurt somewhere and no one notices until the end of the day and it is too late.

OH-- and the stairs, I'm always afraid I'll fall down my stairs and break my neck!! (Death Becomes Her)


OK. I have lots of fears of something traumatic happening to me.

[yogini kiki]

I always mean Damon.


I am afraid of evil Nell...the one I have made up in my head.

[blinkme182]

I have so many stupid fears!! ugh.

Spiders and grasshoppers, I REALLY hate grasshoppers, they have such sticky gross feet! they get stuck to you. ick!

Quick sand! for real, when we were kids we ALWAYS talked about it, and you NEVER actually see it. but the fear is real. I saw a meme once.. let me try to find it. summed up my life!

[blinkme182]

IMAGE! POST!!!

DAMN

Fail... whatever. it basically said that growing up I always thought quicksand was going to be a much bigger problem than it really is. 

[DirtyLurker]

Am I really the only one afraid of mind readers?

[annapunkalunka]

I'm afraid of vomit. SO afraid. I haven't thrown up since 6th grade. I will do absolutely everything in my power to not puke. DH throws up often. I go hide in a corner of our house with my fingers in my ears screaming so there's no chance of hearing anything.
I hope I handle it differently with my kids... My poor, poor kids....

[khopec]

I though of another one...swimming in a lake/river/ocean where you can't see the bottom. I have the worst thoughts of what is below me.

Also peeing in said lake/river/ocean and having a candiru (fish that are attracted to urine) swim up my pee hole.

[yogini kiki]

Feb 11, 2015 16:13:48 GMT -5 DirtyLurker said:

Am I really the only one afraid of mind readers?

If someone read my mind they would see this:



and I feel like that could only lead to me getting candy.

[mrsnorris]

Feb 11, 2015 16:13:48 GMT -5 DirtyLurker said:

Am I really the only one afraid of mind readers?

If someone I knew IRL could read minds I'd be totally freaked out. DNW! But if random people on the street could I don't think I'd care. Most of my thoughts would be pretty boring.

[acarpediem]

I have so so many weird fears.
1. Swimming in the deep end of the pool by myself. The episode of "are you afraid of the dark" really fucked me up. I always think I'm going to get sucked into the drain.
2: Seeing Bloody Mary in the mirror. When I was young, some mean girls trapped me in the bathroom in the dark and screamed Bloody Mary. I can no longer be in bathrooms without light.
3. Lizards, snakes, spiders..ehh the list could go on.
4. Being pushed in front of the metro train. A man bumped into me once when the metro was arriving and I was way too close to the edge.

Ugghh there are way to many to list.

[Chrisse]

No Nell gifs?

[jules1614]

Totally afraid something's under my bed- I check sometimes-and I can't look in mirrors at night. I also always think someone's breaking into the house.