Any one have any wierd fears? [Archive] - Comic Book Resources Forums

robbieglenn

07-14-2009, 11:10 AM

I was talking about this with a person from work and she said she has an extreme fear of plastic buttons. I laughed but then I realised that I have xylophobia; a fear of wooden objects. I freak out over toothpicks, wooden lolly sticks and things like that

So....anyone as wierd as me?

Nightstar1441

07-14-2009, 11:13 AM

So....anyone as wierd as me?

Nope...it's only you :rolleyes:

Actually the wife is afraid of ceiling fans - I dunno - I don't get it :confused:

robbieglenn

07-14-2009, 11:14 AM

Nope...it's only you :rolleyes:

Actually the wife is afraid of ceiling fans - I dunno - I don't get it :confused:

Haha, just wanted to know if anyone else has irrational fears. I gotta admit, thats the first time Ive heard of a ceiling fan fear.

Shellhead

07-14-2009, 11:22 AM

Nope...it's only you :rolleyes:

Actually the wife is afraid of ceiling fans - I dunno - I don't get it :confused:

If a ceiling fan is just spinning around normally, that's okay with me. If the ceiling fan is wobbling while spinning quickly, I don't like it. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a phobia, but when heavy object seems like it might fall down in the near future, I try not to sit too close to it.

KiFF86

07-14-2009, 11:33 AM

I found out I have a fear of bugs. I went in to a Butterfly house at a Zoo and damn near had a panic attack, when I was 15.

That and dogs and clowns but those are pretty normal.

mgs

07-14-2009, 12:03 PM

slugs are both fascinating and disgusting to me!! :eek:

Jelloshots

07-14-2009, 12:12 PM

Porcelain dolls.

They are the most creepy, evil looking abominations I have ever laid my eyes upon.

Typo Lad

07-14-2009, 12:26 PM

I somehow managed to convince my kid that I wa sterrified of little blue flags.

Dom

07-14-2009, 12:34 PM

I'm afraid of being forgotten.

thespianphryne

07-14-2009, 12:35 PM

I'm afraid of being forgotten.

Good thing you showed up when you did.

Kees_L

07-14-2009, 12:40 PM

I find my fears pretty basic.
Like weird-ass deadly snakes or fubar tropical aggro insects disgust me.
Oh and rabied Lyme-carrying ticks.
Old sweaty coots on slippers with toes going everywhere.

Whenever I'm on high points or near busy traffic, minding somebody's kids, any possible mishaps and wrong-goings are being forcefed into my mind in full effect. But I guess that's for keeping me on guard.

Also I hate sinking my teeth into tinfoil. Not that such would be an urge. But I just seem to keep reminding myself to never bite aluminium.

Kees_L

07-14-2009, 12:41 PM

I'm afraid of being forgotten.

I'll try and remember that, Dom.

StoneGold

07-14-2009, 01:22 PM

So....anyone as wierd as me?
I have a fear of misspelling weird.

Ontir

07-14-2009, 01:38 PM

I don't know if this qualifies as "fear" or "OCD," but I can't have my toes under the kick for the bathroom vanity. I know it's bizarre and irrational, but if my toes are under, I have this feeling of certainty that the vanity will drop into the floor, guillotineing my toes off.

Ludicrous, but there it is.

robbieglenn

07-14-2009, 01:41 PM

I have a fear of misspelling weird.

oh, my bas

StoneGold

07-14-2009, 01:44 PM

oh, my bas

You did that one on purpose!!!!

Athena Bast

07-14-2009, 02:36 PM

I can go to bed stark naked but will from time to time wear socks to bed because I'm scared of my toenails getting caught on a loose thread and being pulled out. Same goes with using one of those poofballs in the shower. I have to wipe in the direction of the nail growth so again they don't get caught and get yanked out.

Also, I've developed a fear of bells and alarms from having lived in a building where the fire alarm was pulled when someone had nothing better to do, or when some yahoo set the garbage on fire.

Oh yes, I also have a huge fear of fire. Makes cooking anything that doesn't involving boiling a total freak out for me.

mattbib

07-14-2009, 02:49 PM

StoneGold

07-14-2009, 02:55 PM

This isn't very interesting to the thread, but no major phobias. Just call me

http://www.cardscomicscoins.com/usrimage/star14120.jpg

Monty_Cristo

07-14-2009, 04:12 PM

lake monsters .............

dupont2005

07-14-2009, 04:57 PM

i have a lot of phobias varying in severeness, usual stuff like heights, crowded areas, bridges, ladders, reptiles, spiders. i guess my weirdest one is my fear of putting things in my ears. this includes q tips especially because i am afraid of putting one in my ear and sticky wax far enough inside my ear pulling the cotton off the stick and me not being able to get it back out. i had a hard time getting into the habit of wearing my earplugs at work because they did not have a cord attached guaranteeing me they would come back out

Michael P

07-14-2009, 05:04 PM

I occasionally wake up in the middle of the night paralyzed with fear of vampires.

dupont2005

07-14-2009, 05:05 PM

another big one for me is fingernail length. i clip my nails nearly every day because when i was about 5 or 6 i was walking down some stairs and my overgrown thumb nail bent backwards because of the railing. no severe pain or anything, but a major case of the heebie-jeebies and i still don't like thinking about that day. i'm squeezing my thumbnail to hold it together as i type this. so now i always think if my nails are too long that will happen again

mgs

07-14-2009, 05:08 PM

I can go to bed stark naked but will from time to time wear socks to bed because I'm scared of my toenails getting caught on a loose thread and being pulled out.
..............
Oh yes, I also have a huge fear of fire. Makes cooking anything that doesn't involving boiling a total freak out for me.
OHHH!! I hate when a random, jagged nail gets caught!

And, if I may be so bold, what's your deal with fire? My dad has the same thing with it, and similar to you in that he won't go near anything that's cooking or whatnot, because his dad got caught up in a big fire that took a large part of his life, and he had like 90% of his skin grafted or something. Odd, cause one of my uncles on his side was also like Assistant FireChief of NYC many years back.

schwamp

07-14-2009, 05:48 PM

Deep water. If I can't see the bottom, I freak.

mgs

07-14-2009, 05:59 PM

Deep water. If I can't see the bottom, I freak.
:confused: can you swim? and have you ever been in an ocean?

Monty_Cristo

07-14-2009, 06:11 PM

I occasionally wake up in the middle of the night paralyzed with fear of vampires.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9d/South_Park_Vampire_kids.png
:confused:

Michael P

07-14-2009, 06:13 PM

Oh, not the modern pussy vampires. I'm talking Max Schreck in Nosferatu vampires.

Sabrina_Fried

07-14-2009, 06:57 PM

crazyredlady

07-14-2009, 07:05 PM

I posted this years ago in this thread (http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?p=1532482#post1532482)...

My only real phobia is these things:

http://globalretailsolutions.dollardays.com/images/w24/image2/022479c.jpg

If I'm in a drug or department store and walking up an aisle that has a lot of these hooks holding items on the walls...well...I just feel like they're going to poke me in the eyes. I find myself squinting or shutting one eye just to be able to look at the items on the wall. And then I get away from that section.

then it's a darn good thing you don't work in the store I work in....we gots tons of them (bwwaaahahaha):biggrin:

hm, I don't think I've got any irrational fears, but if I'm locking up the branch shop where I work and it's late autumn and the haunted house props are all on display down there I do get the willies once in a great while. Especially when I'm alone.

And I have a weird thing about spiders. I can stand near them outside or they could be in the windows outside and I'm fine, but they even so much as set one foot on me I freak.

GeneralReadingMan

07-14-2009, 08:28 PM

This isn't very interesting to the thread, but no major phobias. Just call me

http://www.cardscomicscoins.com/usrimage/star14120.jpg

You want us to call you

Daredevil the man without fear Frank Miller John Romita Jr. ?

That's a helluva long name

schwamp

07-14-2009, 08:30 PM

:confused: can you swim? and have you ever been in an ocean?

Yeah, I can swim, but not fast enoughFOR WHATEVER THE FUCK IS DOWN THERE! Pools are no problem, but deep is another thing. Serious, I get into a little panic if I'm in for more than a minute or so. I can water ski, but falling is real bad. I can't wait for the boat to turn around. and, yeah, I can do the beach, but it feels really different to be body surfing or something where I can feel the bottom. It's sorta the point here. It is not based on rationality, just freaks me out. I do notice myself staring at the water beyond the breakers. Dunno what I'm looking for.

schwamp

07-14-2009, 08:34 PM

I don't know if this is a fear per se, but 10+ years of working retail and office-based customer services has left me both unable to let a telephone ring without answering it...and dreading talking on the phone. Basically I have been conditioned to associate phones and their ringing with verbal abuse...and the threat of unemployment with not answering the phones fast ENOUGH.

I know, I know...I need a better job. One that does not involve phones in any way.

Sabrina

That's so funny. My wife had to answer phones for years as part of her job. Now when the phone rings at home, she'll just stare at me and won't move a muscle when the phone rings. It's MY job now, she will not pick up, EVER. She'll talk to you after I screen the call, but she just doesn't want to pick up..........

Typo Lad

07-15-2009, 04:17 AM

Suzannah ahd to condition me to not answer the phone before the second ring.

sHayden

07-15-2009, 04:31 AM

I won't go to bed with socks on. I have this idea that that causes me to have nightmares.

wonderdrummy

07-15-2009, 05:45 AM

i know it's a pretty scary thing but i'm constantly worried about zombies. but not watching zombie movies, i can deal with that, it doesn't scare me at all. i mean, in real life i'm constantly planning my best survival plan for whatever given location i'm in: ways to prevent zombies from getting to me, places to hide, best objects for incapacitating any zombies who should manage to get to me, ways to get around without getting attacked, and the list goes on. i blame max brooks for bringing out the zombie survival guide, it's got me thinking of the best logistics for any given situation despite the prospect of any actual zombie invasion being slim to nil. i think i'll tell him this at comic-con, i believe he's doing signings. either that or we can discuss the best escape routes from the convention centre should there be an outbreak at the con. aw man, i think i've just ruined comic-con for myself with an irrational fear of how perfect it would be to release a zombie virus like ResEvil, or if a stray zombie should happen to wander in and bite someone.

dammit...why did i have to start thinking about this!

Calybos

07-15-2009, 05:54 AM

Going to sleep with my feet uncovered... I don't mean socks, I mean the sheet has to be over them. Exposed feet will lead to instant, horrible death.

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Tages

07-15-2009, 06:02 AM

Cannibalism and premature burial.

It doesn't help that while I find both disgusting and horrible in ways I can't find words to describe I'm also intensely fascinated with both.

Super-Skrull

07-15-2009, 06:26 AM

I'm unnaturally afraid of the garbage disposal.

I'm 36 and it's only been in the last few years that I've been able to put my hand down one, and that's only if it is unplugged and no one is standing by the sink, because I can't stand the thought if it turning on with my hand down there. Also, I struggle watching other people stick their hands down a disposal either.

Additionally, when I use it, I have to shield the drain with a plate or bowl for fear of something sharp and/or deadly coming shooting out. There was this movie in the 80's with Cliff DeYoung and Joey Lawrence called Pulse where the mom gets killed by a shard of metal shooting out of the disposal. That pretty much scarred me for life.

I wish I was making this up.

TShark82

07-15-2009, 06:33 AM

The Dolls that look like little people with eyes that feel like their following you around a room.

Minkie

07-15-2009, 12:32 PM

I know, I know...I need a better job. One that does not involve phones in any way. Sabrina

Dorothy Parker used to give a ringing phone a disdainful look and say, "What fresh hell is this?"

robbiesme233

07-15-2009, 01:24 PM

I can't think of any for myself but...
My mom is afraid of sitting under TV stands in waiting rooms.
She's paranoid about everything though!

EZMOHR

07-15-2009, 01:25 PM

Sabrina_Fried

07-15-2009, 05:27 PM

Praying Mantis. They scare the hell out of me. I don't mind bugs, snakes, spiders, whatever....but I see a praying mantis and I run like a pig-tailed school girl. They just scare the hell out of me.

Appendicitis. Since I can remember, I've always been scared of appendicitis. I'm petrified if I get a stomach ache, or whatnot..cause I immediately think I have appendicitis. I've always been scared of it, and just don't know why.

I've had appendicitis. When they operated on me they estimated I was less than half an hour away from a burst appendix. The pain is obscenely bad, but very localized. But afterward they make you eat a lot of ice cream and soda pop (you are on a liquid diet for awhile until your GI system kicks back into gear again). I had it back in the day when you still had to spend a few days in the hospital afterward. These days its practically outpatient surgery.

Sabrina

Big Red Spider

07-15-2009, 06:35 PM

Slugs. Snails are fine, but slugs make me run like I'm being shot at.

Someone already mentioned them on the first page so it's not weird.

RolandJP

07-15-2009, 08:14 PM

Women bodybuilders.

Schornforce

07-15-2009, 08:38 PM

Add me to the folks who aren't fond of answering phones. I hate having to call people and will often put it off as long as possible. I dunno why.

Slugs are icky to me, but not really scary unless I have to touch them-- same for worms and any other creepy crawlies (aside from certain bugs I think are cool).

I always hated stairs with nothing behind them. Particularly cellar stairs like that where someone could hide and snatch at your feet as you walk down the stairs... *shudder*

I also still have an irrational fear of boogeymen-ish creatures... probably hearkening back to very vivid nightmares I had as a li'l kid.

Cody H

07-16-2009, 01:01 AM

You want us to call you

Daredevil the man without fear Frank Miller John Romita Jr. ?

That's a helluva long nameDDTMWFFMJRJ for short.

Used to have a localized fear of elevators when I was a kid but I got over that somehow. Closest thing now would be insects or spiders larger than a housefly (bees and wasps don't bother me, however). I'm especially freaked out when they can move relatively fast. Oh, and I used to have the one about going to sleep with my feet outside of the sheets. That one went away too, though.

howyadoin

07-16-2009, 01:09 AM

I've very paranoid about injuring my hands, but that does some logical basis, considering what I do for a living.

And what I do for pleasure, I guess.

Minkie

07-16-2009, 01:23 AM

I've very paranoid about injuring my hands, but that does some logical basis, considering what I do for a living.
And what I do for pleasure, I guess.

Reminds me of the Pee-Wee episode where Jombi, the disembodied head in a box genie, receives a package in the mail. He tells Pee-Wee that he ordered a pair of hands and vanishes with the package saying, "There's something I've always wanted to try..."

Yep, that was a Saturday morning show with some late night Saturday themes.

dupont2005

07-16-2009, 01:26 AM

i have bad dreams every night:frown:

JolietJake

07-21-2009, 04:48 PM

Sliding down a bannister only to discover (too late) that it's been replaced with a giant razor.

vcassel

07-21-2009, 05:44 PM

not afraid of personal injuries from guns or getting hit by a car or anything like that, but big, impersonal cataclysms freak me out. things i have no influence or control over like asteroids, gamma ray bursts, a tsunami. once in a rare while i feel incapacitated with fear over it.

LewMoxinsghost

07-21-2009, 06:18 PM

I've very paranoid about injuring my hands, but that does some logical basis, considering what I do for a living.

And what I do for pleasure, I guess.

Ever see that old 1981 movie with Michael Caine The Hand ? You might not want to...

yeah... :eek:

that used to give me nightmares...

Actually, truth be told, I saw this special on Alien abductions on Unsolved Mysteries when I was a kid and I have never been the same since.

Fabian

07-21-2009, 11:08 PM

I can go to bed stark naked but will from time to time wear socks to bed because I'm scared of my toenails getting caught on a loose thread and being pulled out. Same goes with using one of those poofballs in the shower. I have to wipe in the direction of the nail growth so again they don't get caught and get yanked out..
I used to have to wear socks for bed but because of the toenail thing. I just saw that scene in Pet Cemetary as a kid where the killer baby cuts the ankle of the old man and he was walking around barefoot.