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#22
07-30-2006, 09:14 PM
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Re: What Is Your Phobia?
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People. I fear most public situations where I don't know everyone. I don't meet people well. [/ QUOTE ] wait wait wait... someone on an internet poker message board with a lack of social skills? say it isn't so..... 
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#24
07-30-2006, 09:56 PM
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Re: What Is Your Phobia?
I think suzzer's 'phobia' (if it can be called that) is really interesting as well as the theory as to how it developed.
I don't particularly care for such shows but it's not like I have to leave the room or anything. However, almost anything horror-movie related I have to leave. Even commercials for a movie like SAW or just accidentally skipping past a single scene of Silence of the Lambs can be pretty unpleasant for me. I tried to joke about how silly they were when I watched 1 or 2 of them with friends when I was a kid. But they were really freaky to me and really disturbed me. One night we were playing poker and also watched Cujo. A couple of the guys were really into Stephen King and somewhere in there mentioned the movie Christine. I was like, "Wait a minute. He does a movie about a killer car, and then does one about a killer dog. What's next? Herman, The Killer Poker-Chip??"
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#25
07-30-2006, 09:58 PM
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Re: Chrematophobia
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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). [/ QUOTE ] I googled "Dream Interpreter" and found this "BRIDGE A link between opposing or different emotions, desires, directions. A way to deal with difficulties. The bridge Often signifies changing from one phase of life to another. So it can mean leaving something behind, like youth. Another meaning is that of a link between people, such as someone you love, or work. A link between yourself and opportunity."
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#27
07-31-2006, 12:12 AM
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Re: What Is Your Phobia?
This is mine as well - my brother got stung twice when I was very young, and since then I fear bees of all kinds.
I'd never been stung until high school - I was watching the Big Lebowski for the first time and walked out on it 3/4ths of the way through to mow the lawn. I feel like that was God's way of showing my horrible error.
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#28
07-31-2006, 12:33 AM
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Re: Chrematophobia
Potentially interesting twist on fear of heights ...
I am not afraid of heights, per se, I am afraid of an urge that I am going to toss myself from whatever the height is, be it a bridge, tall building, etc. I don't have a suicidal thought in my meager brain; but just thinking about walking across the George Washington Bridge (which I did when I was younger) makes me very nervous, as I picture myself grabbing the railing and throwing myself over. Weird.
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#29
07-31-2006, 12:48 AM
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Re: Chrematophobia
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I am not afraid of heights, per se, I am afraid of an urge that I am going to toss myself from whatever the height is, be it a bridge, tall building, etc. I don't have a suicidal thought in my meager brain; but just thinking about walking across the George Washington Bridge (which I did when I was younger) makes me very nervous, as I picture myself grabbing the railing and throwing myself over. Weird. [/ QUOTE ] Not that weird. See Poe on "The Imp of the Perverse."
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#30
07-31-2006, 12:51 AM
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Re: Chrematophobia
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[ QUOTE ] I am not afraid of heights, per se, I am afraid of an urge that I am going to toss myself from whatever the height is, be it a bridge, tall building, etc. I don't have a suicidal thought in my meager brain; but just thinking about walking across the George Washington Bridge (which I did when I was younger) makes me very nervous, as I picture myself grabbing the railing and throwing myself over. Weird. [/ QUOTE ] Not that weird. See Poe on "The Imp of the Perverse." [/ QUOTE ] I just read that story and recognized the thought in niss's post but couldn't remember where I read it. I thought it was something from Kundera - thanks for clearing that up.
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