Irrational fears - what scares you?

I don't like elevators...

YIKES!

#1 - Mice and/or Rats

#2 - Clowns

#3 - Midgets

Clowns (I blame Steven Spielberg for that - stupid Poltergeist clown!)

Snakes - the only good snake is a dead one, as far as I'm concerned.

Monkeys - they just. scare. me.

Zombies.

OMG the "It" clown. Hands down. Clowns in general, but that one *shudder*

And snakes. I can't even look at pictures. I absolutely panic at the mere thought. (I am certain they are stalking me just waiting for the chance to attack) Irrationality at its finest folks.

Rowan said:

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OMG, I'm with you...I was outside pulling weeds once and I'm convinced a praying mantis was stalking me. The thing crept up on me and it was WATCHING me!! I moved and the little alien head swiveled... I had to go inside.

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THANK YOU!! My hubs thinks I'm crazy!!!! (There is one that only comes out when I'm outside and only I see it!!!)

Clowns. And eels.

That's scary shit right there.

People being sick.

Heights, spiders, insects? No problem with them, but god help me if anyone vomits near me.

AnonymousWriter said:

People being sick.

Heights, spiders, insects? No problem with them, but god help me if anyone vomits near me.

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Kids cured me of that one, LOL I can eat while they are yakking next to my chair now.

I have a total paranoid fear of ventriloquist dolls. Literally, my heart starts pounding and I feel sick when I see one. I think it was brought on by watching a black and white movie as a young kid, where the dummy is fricking evil.


Hate mannequins as well, but not as bad. I think it’s anything that looks life like, but isn’t.

Clowns to, especially robotic ones you get encased at fairgrounds, the ones that cackle at you.

So this a treat *sweaty palms, racing heart, brief panic attack*

roaches. *shivers*

Clowns as well.

Sharks. Which doesn't seem irrational until you realize that I think about them even when swimming in a pool.

In 1998 I was a student at Rutgers and during summer took the urban adventure class that met on Fridays and trekked out into different areas of NYC.

One class trip was to the World Trade Center. We got a tour of an area roughly five-six floors below street level, near where the bomb went off in the 1990s. I told my teacher afterwards that it unnerved me to be so far down with so much building on top of me...
and he tossed it aside, saying, "You have to ask yoursef why you have such an irrational fear."

Even on the GWB - I have to be on the top deck. I don't like being under... the Hudson River via any tunnel or stopped under a bridge. Makes me anxious.

Tomato Ketchup.

Another class trip involved a walk across the Brooklyn Bridge - I had no problem with that, and would have sailed through it enjoyably had someone not told me about a cable that snapped off years ago and killed someone ...

I'm afraid that a hand is going to reach out from under the bed and grab my foot if I let it dangle off.

I'm afraid to open the curtains when I'm home alone at night...because in the back of my mind I think I'm going to see a giant scary face looking through at me.

I'm afraid to swim in murky water because I'm convinced there are dead bodies in there, just below my feet.

I'm afraid of those stupid screamer e-mails that everyone sends out at Halloween.

Basically, I'm afraid of being startled.

My top three fears:

1. Clowns.

2. Clowns.

3. Clowns.

I'm pretty sure I'm scared of other stuff, too, but everything pales in comparison to clowns.

I have sidonglobophobia (phobia of cotton balls) and sialophobia (fear of spitting).

I'm weird.

kayleamay said:

I'm afraid to open the curtains when I'm home alone at night...because in the back of my mind I think I'm going to see a giant scary face looking through at me.

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Ooh, like that scary ghost-kid in Salem's Lot? ::shivers::