What Is Your Phobia?

[Cyrus]

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What Is Your Phobia?

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[MicroBob]

Sometimes heights, but especially bridges (I'm okay with flying though).

Driving or riding across bridges I've finally gotten better at but it's taken me awhile. I had to close my eyes when I was a kid and we would cross a bridge on a family vacation or something.

The bridges across the Ohio River in Cincinnati just freaked me out and I would sit there trying to will the driver (either my mom or my dad) to move over to the left-lane (away from the edge of the bridge).

I have had dozens of dreams (probably 100 or more) where the bridge just ends, or gets narrower and narrower and you are just trying to make it across on two narrow tracks, or is a ridiculously steep and curvy incline and then incredibly dangerous descent, etc etc etc.

Now that I live in Memphis I still have similar dreams. Except that some of them will involve crossing the Mississippi River into Arkansas, instead of crossing the Ohio River into Kentucky.


I've also had dreams of a super long (but low and not scary) bridge from Alaska to Hawaii (and a different one from Seattle to Hawaii).
And another about a long bridge from NY to England.


On a different topic: my subconcious kind of rocks (when the dreams aren't scary).
I frequently remember my dreams and I think they are usually pretty interesting. Sometimes really telling. Other times just downright odd. Better than TV at least (most of the time).

[Morrek]

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You hit one of mine right there. Those [censored] look angry, that picture is enough to make me feel a little weird. I'm not sure where it came from, as I've never actually been stung by a bee or yellow jacket or anything. I've got no idea how much it hurts, and I know I don't mind needles at all. I think they just look disgustingly creepy, and I'd have done the same as you did.

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Pretty much my thoughts exactly. I think it might be because one of my friends when I was a kid was allergic to them and got stung once when we were in the woods with school. A teacher had to call an ambulance and everything. I'm thinking it's more than this though but this is all I can think of right now

[suzzer99]

I have the usual spiders and public speaking (although I can deal with both if I have to).

The only weird phobia I have is any kind of awkward situation/confrontation where someone is put on the spot who isn't in on the joke, or is about to be confronted with something and we know it, but they don't. Doesn't matter if it's live or taped, real or fictional, tv, radio or even print. Classic examples would be when Howard Stern ambush fake interviews someone, when local reporters confront the scammer mechanic, those Daily show goofy interview segments, most reality shows, a lot of the stuff in Curb Your Enthusiasm. The entire Ali G show is out obviously.

Basically the kind of stuff you want to watch between your fingers. I simply can't handle it unless I'm hammered or something. It's like nails on a blackboard to me (except that actually doesn't bother me). Luckily with Tivo I can watch most of say the Daily Show interviews, then just skip over the awkward moment. But if I'm watching it with someone else I have to grit through it. If it's really bad I will get up and go to the fridge or something. I forced myself to sit through a whole episode of Average Joe, which is basically one gigantic awkward situation, when I was over at my friend's house. I just wanted to see if I could do it and what it feel like. I got through it, but it wasn't fun. The moment where the hot girl sees all the shlubs and realizes she's been had - just about did me in.

I've tried to guess why I seem to have this impulse stronger than most. I think it could be because my parents fought a lot when I was little, before getting divorced when I was 5. No violence but I remember a lot of yelling. I think maybe it's that tension of the moment before the fight erupts--will it or won't it happen--that triggers some kind of heavy anxiety in me. That's the working theory anyway. It's always the parents' fault.

[HLMencken]

Saw one of these bad asses in my house when first moved to southwest... never saw one again but thought about them coming in un der the door all too often...

[Vehn]

weird. I have the exact same phobia, the only thing I scared of is bees. One comes near me I freak. I have no idea why really.

Also a few years ago I was also at valley fair with my ex and I'm holding a drink. I can tell there's something going on out of the corner of my eye and she calmly says "give me your drink". She takes it and its covered with bees and I uh get the hell out of there.

[Utah]

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weird. I have the exact same phobia, the only thing I scared of is bees. One comes near me I freak. I have no idea why really.

[/ QUOTE ]lol. Imagine looking up and seeing 100 of those angry little things flying in your living room. I am still freaked even though they are gone. I had trouble sleeping last night because I kept seeing them in my head. Like I said, yesterday was a really really bad day to have a bee phobia. lmao.

[New001]

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weird. I have the exact same phobia, the only thing I scared of is bees. One comes near me I freak. I have no idea why really.

[/ QUOTE ]lol. Imagine looking up and seeing 100 of those angry little things flying in your living room. I am still freaked even though they are gone. I had trouble sleeping last night because I kept seeing them in my head. Like I said, yesterday was a really really bad day to have a bee phobia. lmao.

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That freaks me out just thinking about it. I found a dead wasp in my place a couple weeks ago, and it was pretty freaking big. Mean looking bugger. Then, maybe a weak later, I found a living spawn of it, but maybe half the size. I just hope there's not some giant wasp nest that's getting ready to erupt. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[suzzer99]

Just be glad you don't live in Japan with these guys:

[HDPM]

I hate you for posting that. I detest wasps, bees, etc.. all types. The only time I have been stung is on a golf course when I stepped on a small nest and got stung maybe 3-4 times. But it doesn't matter, I was scared of them before and after. One time I was eating lunch with a bunch of guys from school. It was fall and the yellowjackets were all trying to get inside as they do when the weather gets colder. So they were in the restaurant and it was bothering me. One dude was a nut. Former special forces, had been in plenty of jungle terrain, desert terrain with disgusting creepy crawlers, etc... He starts killing them with his fingers. Just takes his fingertip and smushes down on them. I asked how he could do that. he said with his distictive accent "It's just a f---ing bug man." No, it isn't. It is a disgusting scary deadly fying beast. [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]