Phobias

[kirennia]

I have what I guess you can call a fear of flies but that's about it. I'll scale most heights, walk home through lanes at night, catch spiders, feed snakes, just can't stand flies or I guess any flying insect which is small enough to fit into either my nose or my ear...yes that's right...my ear. See where this is going?

It all stemmed from one night a few years ago, sitting down eating a meal as you do when a fly landed on the table in front of me (later found out it fell from a small cobweb in the light fitting). It then turned at me, bounced off my forehead, then my temple, then went for my ear. I instinctively shoved my little finger in my ear and stupidly, it pushed it out of reach of any tweezers or anything.

For the next 5 minutes I had this fly trapped in my ear beating against my eardrum before I finally drowned it with cooking oil. I had to go to the hospital to have the bastard syringed out from my ear. To make matters worse, after the fly itself came out, the doctor pulled out what I can only now assume was a ball of wax. A perfect spherical ball which looked surprisingly like an egg.

While it sounds funny now (including to just about every doctor that ever reads through my medical history), it's not impossible for that sort of thing to send people do-lally. I'm generally quite a calm person but I was just about ready to start breaking just about everything I could see around me while it was there, words can't describe how bad it felt. Of any injury I've ever sustained, this was by far the worst.

Any flies come near me now, I go into a feral rage and hunt them down til they're dead.....pure and simple.

 

[Damini]

Great. Now I have a phobia of flies.

 

[Billargh]

To make matters worse, after the fly itself came out, the doctor pulled out what I can only now assume was a ball of wax. A perfect spherical ball which looked surprisingly like an egg.

How can it be perfectly spherical, but be like an egg aswell?

 

[Salonin]

Stick insects are what does for me! I would probably chop my arm off if i had one walking up it! Feel sick just thinking about it.

 

[Damini]

You'd have liked our old stick insect, Twiggy, then. He escaped once, and we found him a few days later. Some time after that, we discovered the kitchen writhing with baby sticks. Behind the boiler looked like a scene from Aliens, every inch of it smothered with tiny pods. They looked a little like mini stuffed olives. Hundreds of the feckers.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Nothing much....a girl being "late", fathers, shotguns. The usual stuff.

 

[Salonin]

Haha i would be out of there in no time. Another one slightly more odd is the feel of ice cream sticks or those wooden forks you get from the chippy on your tongue.

 

[mikasaka]

Don't really have a major fear of anything.

However, if theres a spider in the house I will refuse to get rid of it, I'd prefer it to stay on the wall than squash it with something. Just imagining trying to squish a spider with a broom whilst it runs up the pole and then up your arm is terrifying

Wasps, I just try to dodge them. I probably look like a retard when a wasp flies around me, look like i'm dodging punches or something. But then the arm flapping begins ^.^

The one thing I have probably ever feared the most are criminals lol. When I was younger, had a really bad experience and ended up making sure my parents doors were ALWAYS locked. I was litterally shit scared of anything happening again. Weren't nice ^.^ I'm over that now though.... I think xD

 

[tris-]

You'd have liked our old stick insect, Twiggy, then. He escaped once, and we found him a few days later. Some time after that, we discovered the kitchen writhing with baby sticks. Behind the boiler looked like a scene from Aliens, every inch of it smothered with tiny pods. They looked a little like mini stuffed olives. Hundreds of the feckers.

Stick Insects - Main

all about them

apparently its been reclassified from fruit to insect.

 

[Damini]

BUMP!

Last night as I was settled down in the lounge, playing Katamari, hanging out with my sister, I felt a lump on my side. It didn't hurt, but it felt like a skin tag. Horrified at how old and nasty I am, I had a look.

It was a tick.

Attached to me.

Drinking my blood.

Its nasty little tick head buried in my side, its fat arse engorged on a steady supply of *me*.

As I said earlier in this thread, I have a phobia of parasites. However, unlike trying to run away from my head when I had hairlice, this was on my side, so I leapt up, screamed, and then became paralised at a weird angle, whimpering and crying, shaking and sweating. My lovely wonderful sister managed to remove it, and it took me about another five minutes to stop weeping.

How disgusting is that? I had a TICK. Bleurgh.

Last night I had a dream that ticks attacked my face at my wedding

 

[Wij]

Eww. Fumigate

 

[TdC]

ugh how awful! being fairly active and often outdoors in the woods I still wonder why I haven't had one yet. maybe they don't like me? Will says that the Deer Ticks in sunny Scotland can get as big as your head!

Spoiler

 

[Malecheon]

sunny Scotland

A mythical place that only exists 1/365th of a year ?

 

[TdC]

strangely the last two times I was over in Scotia I got a sunburn. also, Will gets faint when the temps go up like really high...say > 15C ^^

 

[Will]

Oi, it's sunny here right now!


My feet are cold.

 

[TdC]

a sunny 3C?

 

[Chilly]

it gets sunny in the arctic too.

 

[Malecheon]

Oi, it's sunny here right now!

Teedles, you need to turn down the UV lamp in Will's dungeon, he's getting confused again.

 

[TdC]

have no fear: Will needs no external influences to be confused

 

[mycenae]

Poor you Dam....must have come from the cats.

 

[Jupitus]

Poor you Dam....must have come from the cats.

Or Teh Kenneh...

 

[Yoni]

Since I have been living in NL I have discovered a few new phobias or things that will completely make me freak out...:
1] Traditional dutch oompah music gives me feelings of wanting to commit mass murder, I even shake now
2] I am scared in fact terrified of the stairs in my house (having fallen down them a few times)... I had to go down them in a particular way (preferably not on my arse) or I stop go back up and go back down again in the way I need to... I have even seen myself sleeping on the sofa because I don't want to go down the stairs in the morning :|

 

[TdC]

I thought last time you claimed you skidded down on your head? surely the viking has fixed the hole in the wall by now?

 

[TdC]

while in this thread btw:

I have the screaming heebie-jeebies if a wet shower curtain touches me. Dry it's fine, wet it makes me die inside

 

[00dave]

while in this thread btw:

I have the screaming heebie-jeebies if a wet shower curtain touches me. Dry it's fine, wet it makes me die inside

in some of the barrack blocks I've lived in if the shower curtain touches you you needed to head down to the clap clinic

As I type this post I am surrounded by the corpses of my enemies.......Spiders!!! 4 of them!!! all at once!!! and they're huge!!!

 

[Zenith.UK]

I'm uncomfortable in crowds of people. I can cope with it as long as I have prior warning to steel myself up to it.

I have a peculiar phobia related to crowds.
I can't stand airports.
Aeroplanes are fine and I don't have a problem with flying... just the airports on either end.
It's a combination of crowds, overt security and police officers walking around with weapons. Any one of them I could cope with, but put all three together and I turn into a gibbering wreck. I get the full-on panic attack. Palpitations, cold sweat, tingling teeth, dry mouth, the feeling that Im going to die unless I get out of there right now. It's part of the reason I've not flown in 20 years.

 

[Fweddy]

There's a large dead spider on my desk. It's slightly macabre but it discourages people from coming over and giving me work to do.

 

[TdC]

I can't stand airports.

Airports are in fact the most stressful places you can be outside of a war-zone. It's been researched and everything!

 

[Insane]

Airports are in fact the most stressful places you can be outside of a war-zone. It's been researched and everything!

I thought they corrected that lately to "being in the same office as Teedles when he hasnt had any coffee" ?

 

[Damini]

My tick bite STILL hasn't healed. It's utterly grim. I have come to the realisation that this is not going to count towards one of those "Once you face your fears you realise how irrational they are" things.