St. Valentine's Day, for some reason, seems like a good time for this...

A thread for anything that freaks you out, makes your skin crawl or causes you to flinch despite otherwise steely nerves and mature composure.

One of mine: single disembodied hairs of unknown origin found in unexpected places. Of course, in food is the worst, but yesterday I found a hair stuck inside a blockbuster dvd case. *shiver* *twitch* It makes no sense, but I'd rather deal with a snake than a strange hair.

I don't much care for cheese skin either. Ya'know, the membrane that forms on the surface of cold queso dip. Bluh.

Feel free to admit here your shameful secret fears.

Having a cockroach lay eggs in my ear while I'm sleeping and then having the newly hatched young burrow into the soft skin at my temple.

Premature Ejaculation

The sound of paper being torn slowly frightens me.

When I was a kid I was terrified of the Joker from the batman TV series and Geishas becuase they had very white skin. I had nightmares for ages about those freaky ladies with black black hair and white white skin. When I saw them I used to get jumpy and experience a chemical taste in my mouth.

Totally over it now though for some reason.

I'm irrationally afraid of not fathering children. Something really weird about *me* being the last of my line should I not produce offspring. There's a lot of pressure there.

Any WGB females want to mate? lol, just kidding!

I have a fear of heights, but not of the altitude, as much as the desire to jump.

That kind of freaks me out.

Cockroaches, period.

Over here, all of them fly.

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Originally posted by Crash:
I have a fear of heights, but not of the altitude, as much as the desire to jump.

That kind of freaks me out.

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You too? I can't stand too close to the edge of a roof or cliff unless their is a fairly tall wall, because I have this creepy feeling that I'll fling myself over at any moment.

But my really irrational fears? I'm not going to air those in public, thank you.

Ihave the cliff thing too. I also get uncomfortable when driving by gasoline tanker trucks.

I'm afraid of dieing in my dreams, loseing a bar fight, never sleeping again and me or my girlfreind being assaulted by the police.

My ex roomate is afraid of mid level heights, 8 to 15 feet, something about being injured without being killed.

"You too? I can't stand too close to the edge of a roof or cliff unless their is a fairly tall wall, because I have this creepy feeling that I'll fling
myself over at any moment."

I owned a place that was on the 12th floor and had these huge floor to ceiling Bay windows. I couldn't go near them to look down into the street below because all I could think about was the sensation of falling through the sheet glass and into the street. I get all knotted in my stomach and my palms start to cold sweat, whenever I can "perceive" heights. This happens to me in some 3D games, like Half Life 2. The part where you are running underneath a bridge along these skinny girders threw my stomach for loops.

going to prison.

eh? oooooooh ir-rational. well...never mind then.

My fears are entirely rational.

If you don't fear the pod-people, then you're the irrational one, bucko.

I have a passle of irrational fears. I'm not going to go through all of them, cuz you'll think I'm strange, plus I've done a fairly good job of supressing most of them since high school. Most of this stuff comes from the fact that my mom is borderline neurotic, and I was raised in an environment of oppressive fear. Yeah.

I have all the basic ones: heights, water, crowds and so forth. The most pervasive one, and the one that causes me the most frustration and outright pain, is weather. I have no idea where it came from. As a child it mostly manifested as a fear of thunder. We didn't get heavy weather in the mountains of north carolina, but I was deathly afraid of getting struck by lightning. I used to hide from it. I distinctly remember curling up into a fetal ball behind the living room couch and quivering during one storm. This was in high school. Yeah. Not a pretty time for me.

This is something I've almost gotten over. Not really, but almost. Formerly I wasn't even able to function in the presence of heavy weather. Now I can at least operate, and carry on conversation and stuff. This is one of those things where I wish my parents had gotten me the help I so obviously needed when I was younger. *shrug*

I don't think I got many left anymore but when I was a kid I was completely afraid of earthquakes even though they never happened where I lived. For some reason, I always imagined the earth just cracking open beneath me and getting swallowed up. I blame the Superman movie where Louis Lane's car gets burried. Now that I live where earthquakes are abundant, I don't even think about it anymore.

Oh, yeah, sure, you wants us to expose ourselves here, right? So you can send some beautiful girl wearing a wetsuit and a bear costume head to scare me to death, right?

My address is in my profile ; )

Dude...
I'll second (or third or forth) the fear of jumping. Just thinking about it gives me vertigo. I actually like the view from high places, but I usually visualize myself going over.

In college I was on an outside balcony on the third or fourth floor and a couple guys were tossing a football next to the dorm. They were probably about 20 feet out from the wall and I tried watching but I couldn't because the ball came up to eye level and I could see myself stepping out and trying to catch it. SHUDDER...

BTW Shadoth, where in western NC? I lived in Boone for 4 years and I am going to Asheville this weekend for a mini vacation.

That heights thing makes me sweat, too, even if it's in a movie, or I'm just thinking about it. Doesn't help that I have a depth perception problem, so 10 feet can seem a lot higher than it is, to say nothing of 100.

That thing about throwing yourself over the side that Crash, colin and others mentioned - I know that feeling as well, and it never fails to weird me out - after all, it's not like I have a reason to do it (thankfully).

So - heights, and BEES - that covers the major ones.

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Originally posted by pulp:
Cockroaches, period.

Over here, all of them fly.

Where is over here? I've encountered some of those. Big ugly mugs that sound like army helicopters.

The heights thing gets to me, too. But I like it. There's a hotel in San Fran, can't recall the name, but the 48th floor has a segment of hallway, maybe 10 feet, that is floor to ceiling glass on both sides. Vertigo-rama.

Just outside Asheville. Little town by the name of Black Mountain.