BS: What is your irrational fear?

Subject: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: *Laura*
Date: 22 May 05 - 06:20 PM

It's my theory that everyone has an irrational fear. Or several.

I think mine is possibly Daleks. (not that irrational some might argue - except the don't exist!) I mean the old daleks - not the stupid one from the new series.

I'm also scared of clowns. But not as much as daleks.
And swimming in sea water when I can't see the bottom - but I think that's more instinctive than irrational.
I do know someone who's scared of cheese -greaters - that's a proper irrational fear!

What is your irrational fear!?

xLx

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: *Laura*
Date: 22 May 05 - 06:22 PM

I meant cheese-graters - but you knew that!

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 22 May 05 - 06:22 PM

dentists.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 22 May 05 - 06:23 PM

and injecktions, and hopsitals.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: Peace
Date: 22 May 05 - 06:38 PM

I have the irrational fear that I will win a lottery and come into $20,000,000. I would love to overcome that fear. In fact, I would love to face it and move on to other fears that are irrational.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: dianavan
Date: 22 May 05 - 07:18 PM

I used to be afraid of bats but since then, I have learned more about them and I think they are interesting. I still don't like it when they get into the house but I am no longer diving under the table.

Laura - What is it that you think is on the bottom of the sea that is so fearsome? I don't think that is an instinctual fear. I've never been afraid of sea creatures, real or imaginary.

Sir John - I am thinking you must be diseased and have a mouthful of rotten teeth. True or false?

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: GUEST
Date: 22 May 05 - 07:30 PM

That I will let go on a big dipper ride just as it goes over the top bit.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: John O'L
Date: 22 May 05 - 07:34 PM

Spiders and heights.

There's nothing more terrifying than being bailed up by a huge spider while I'm on the roof cleaning out the gutters.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: freda underhill
Date: 22 May 05 - 07:35 PM

spiders and heights - ditto.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: LilyFestre
Date: 22 May 05 - 07:54 PM

Hmmmmmmmmmm....I'm thinking that if it feels like fear to me, it's not irrational!   :P

Michelle

My list includes:

Planes
Fire
Doctors/Medical
and the number 10

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: GUEST, Ebbie
Date: 22 May 05 - 07:58 PM

I'm with LilyFestre here! If I fear something I will come up with a good reason for it.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 22 May 05 - 07:59 PM

I have an irrational fear of being boiled alive. I hate hot tubs and even hot baths. Luke warm is fine, thank you. Perhaps I was a lobster in a previous life.

And I don't mind swimming in deep water when I can't see the bottom. It's when I can see the bottom and it's way the hell below me that bothers me. Snorkling over extremely deep clear springs creates the illusion that I'm flying instead of swimming and, while I swim okay, I can't fly worth a damn.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: Peace
Date: 22 May 05 - 08:06 PM

I also have a fear of enclosed spaces. (I have done some confined-space rescue, but I did NOT like it one bit. Wanted to puke when I got out. I don't understand it, really. Have no fear of heights--have walked the edge of a four-story (why do I want to spell that 'storey'?) and it didn't bother me at all. Even the thought of going splat on the ground below was no big deal. But tell me I have to go into a cave or very tight culvert and I ain't a happy camper. Don't know why. I'll go, but I won't like it. Later, I may puke, but if I'm doing so in open space, hey, that's cool by me.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: number 6
Date: 22 May 05 - 08:22 PM

LilyFestre .... number 10 ???

Irrational fear ... of driving my car, then losing all concept of where I am.

sIx ... do not to fear of this number

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 22 May 05 - 08:32 PM

LF, your post was tenth.

Uh oh!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: Alice
Date: 22 May 05 - 09:02 PM

snakes and heights

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: GUEST
Date: 22 May 05 - 09:03 PM

An obscure, unknown technician gets my strings get wound too tight.

At the height of musical ectascy they spring/sprang/sprung......leaving the orgasmic moment unfulfilled.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: kendall
Date: 22 May 05 - 09:10 PM

Being buried alive.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: sixtieschick
Date: 22 May 05 - 09:46 PM

Confined spaces.
Being locked in a confined space with a neocon.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: freda underhill
Date: 22 May 05 - 09:53 PM

sixtieschick - Being locked in a confined space with a neocon is a RATIONAL fear!! :-)

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: harpgirl
Date: 22 May 05 - 09:53 PM

I have an irrational fear that the house will be burglarized before I have a chance to clean it up. I also have an irrational fear that I will hit turbulence in an airplane just as I am about to pick my nose.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: Bill D
Date: 22 May 05 - 09:57 PM

Ever since I gave up being worried about *monsters* under my bed about the age of 10, I haven't had many fears. There's a lot of things I wouldn't like, but none that seem to fall into that category. The only thing I can think of that I have ever dwelled on and sort of dreaded is being injured...like in an auto accident...in very cold weather. Somehow I fret about the cold more than the injury.

I'm careful of spiders & snakes that I don't know, but I'm the guy they call to toss 'em out. I can climb things and stand on high edges and crawl into tight places and swim and ride in airplanes and go on ALL the crazy rides at the amusement park.

I guess I just have learned that reasonable caution and understanding work pretty well. (Of course, I have never fallen off anything high, or been bitten by a spider or been trapped in a cave...etc...)

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: harpgirl
Date: 22 May 05 - 09:58 PM

I also have an irrational fear of walking in the woods with a basket of goodies, dressed in a red cloak.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: harpgirl
Date: 22 May 05 - 10:00 PM

My dog and my son both have an irrational fear of the vacuum cleaner.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: GUEST,Hoover
Date: 22 May 05 - 10:05 PM

Wonder why?

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: LilyFestre
Date: 22 May 05 - 10:18 PM

WYS....Yeah..I noticed that...LOL!

Number6.....the number 10 and I do NOT get along. I used to think it was just coincidence, my family thought I was nuts until they saw the pattern....ok..here goes...on the 10th

My father died
I was 10 when he died
My car was broken into
My wallet was stolen
I got sun poisoning
A friend called me (only) after swallowing a deadly amount of medication
My best friend died on 9/9/99

How much closer to 10 can we get? Yeah..that's just some of it....freaky, but true.

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: Peace
Date: 22 May 05 - 10:21 PM

Michelle, you're hooped if you ever use binary.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: freda underhill
Date: 22 May 05 - 10:23 PM

When i was 22, my house was invaded by Special Branch, who searched everything and took a number of things (magazines, various publications). Nothing illegal was found, no charges were laid, no reason was ever given. for a number of years I had nightmares about secret police coming to the door and breaking in. I always woke up in terror as the door broke down and they entered.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: GUEST,Rapaire
Date: 22 May 05 - 10:26 PM

Irrationality. Scared to death of it.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: LilyFestre
Date: 22 May 05 - 10:57 PM

Okay, so we all have irrational fears....I can't speak for anyone else, but I've done some odd things to keep myself away from the thing that scares me.

To avoid the number 10, I have given up airline tickets and took the bus instead. I won't travel on the 9th, 10th or 11th. I even put off surgery about 3 years ago because they had it scheduled on the 11th.

I also have the uncanny ability to look at my digital clock at 10:10 at least once a day. Weird Weird Weird.

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: GUEST
Date: 22 May 05 - 11:16 PM

shitting my pants in public

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 22 May 05 - 11:24 PM

Spiders and enclosed spaces.

I can understand what Brucie was saying there - I don't think there's any way I could ever do something like potholing and can only admire Brucie for the fact that he will go into small spaces, in spite of the fear.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: Peace
Date: 23 May 05 - 12:15 AM

Wasn't by choice, jacqui. But the other fellows were tied up cutting the side of the car with the guy inside the overturned vehicle. Just enough room for me to squeeze in--and there I was for the better part of a half hour holding his rear end up so he didn't move. He was just inches away from a broken neck or back. When we finally got him out he was basically OK. I mentioned to him that just because I'd had my hand on his arse for a half hour was not an indication that we were going steady or anything. He smiled. Worked out that he's lots better now. Saw him just a few days back. We waved. Nice feeling. Good to see him out and about, too. He was close to quadrapalegia (sp?), IMO. That scared me more than the confined space.

There are always one or two things that give people second thoughts. We have a guy who is terrified of heights. I watched him go up a ladder to help a fellow firefighter who'd become 'stuck' in the rungs of the ladder near the rooftop of a building we were dealing with. Only forty feet--which from the ground looks like nothing. He helped get the guy untangled and right side up, then came DOWN the ladder one rung at a time, v e r y slowly. Shaking every step of the way. He did it with his eyes closed. Said when he got to the ground that he was too scared to look. I don't know that feeling, or the one about spiders, but I do understand them.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: heric
Date: 23 May 05 - 01:07 AM

Kelp scares the beejeezus out of me when I am swimming.
Kelp is beautiful when I am diving.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 May 05 - 01:26 AM

Kendall, I just remembered a sensation I have gotten all my life- the feeling of having sod pressed on my chest and I know it's going to crush me. I remember times when I had to avert my eyes from alongside the road when they had netting spread there to keep the banks/boulders from moving. Logically speaking, I have no reason to feel any alarm about it.

In my opinion, ONLY , we sometimes have bleedthroughs from another time, another place...

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: Peace
Date: 23 May 05 - 01:30 AM

I agree with that, Ebbie.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: Boab
Date: 23 May 05 - 01:33 AM

As a V.A.D. member of the British Red Cross, I shared with many of my colleagues the dread of an incident which would involve removal of the driver or occupants of a crashed /burning vehicle, and finding yourself pulling HALF a body from the vehicle. It never happened, at least among our detachment.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: freda underhill
Date: 23 May 05 - 01:37 AM

ebbie - re In my opinion, ONLY , we sometimes have bleedthroughs from another time, another place...

my youngest daughter, when she was aged around three, said "I was burning, wasn't i mum?" (she has never been burnt in this life!)

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: Peace
Date: 23 May 05 - 01:47 AM

Boab,

There is nothing irrational about that fear. Glad it never happened.

BM

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 23 May 05 - 03:02 AM

Premature burial (mine) and small people.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 May 05 - 03:08 AM

A 2 1/year, after telling me that he "used to fly" his own airplane, told me that he had died "one time"; when I, in a casual tone, asked him, Oh, what happened? He said, The airplane was burning. They didn't get me in time.

This is in Alaska where there is a higher percentage of small plane pilots than anywhere else in the US.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: *Laura*
Date: 23 May 05 - 06:20 AM

I don't think small spaces is an irrational fear. I don't like them either but I would have thought that was quite rational.
The sea water thing - I don't know - I guess that's like fear of the unknown or something? But quite irrational to many people I guess.

(but Daleks still win hands down)

xLx

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: GUEST
Date: 23 May 05 - 09:19 AM

Closed spaces. I freaked out in a closed MRI. That's the first time I realized I was claustrophobic. Since then, I can't stand to think about it. In the book "Angels and Demons" there's a scene where the hero gets trapped under an overturned sarcophagus. I knew he'd get out since the story was only half finished, but I had to skip over the whole chapter. I also couldn't get through a piece in a recent National Geographic about the deepest cave in the world - somewhere in Russia or Siberia - some of the pictures gave me the willies. I still haven't finished the article and probably never will.

My real irrational fear, one that I got over, sort of, is vines. I saw too many horror movies as a kid, and I know that you shouldn't turn your back of vines. They'll sneak up and grap you and possibly eat you. As a park ranger, I forced myself to get used to them, but I still don't like them. I saw a movie a few years ago with Christopher Lee playing a fortune teller who uses tarot cards to foretell miserable deaths to four different people. One of the stories concerned carnivorous vines taking over a guy's house and winning in the end. There was a small plant peeking up through the boards in the deck by my back door at the time. Within a few days it had taken over the whole deck. It really creeped me out.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: RangerSteve
Date: 23 May 05 - 09:21 AM

The above bit about vines was from me. I forgot to log on.

Ranger Steve

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 23 May 05 - 10:05 AM

Heights -- but only if I have nothing to hold onto. I have no difficulty looking over the wall of an overlook or balcony, or out the window of an airplane. But I was once literally paralyzed with fright on trying to go up a railingless staircase in a church tower, and once, on crossing a bridge on a pedestrian walkway that had only a grating for a floor, I couldn't move without holding onto the railing, so that my hand was filthy by the time we got across. It has gotten gradually worse with age: I visited San Francisco in 1972, and went up the summits of Twin Peaks (no railings, and somewhat exposed) and down again with no anxiety. 25 years later I had to have a friend hold my hand to go down.

--- Joe Fineman    [e-mail]

||: Parent & child is host & guest plus warden & prisoner. :||

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: kendall
Date: 23 May 05 - 10:26 AM

Falling or being pushed into a well head first.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 23 May 05 - 12:24 PM

saying something silly and being held up to public ridicule.

thenks to my fellow sufferers on mudcat I am fighting this phobia on a daily basis

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: frogprince
Date: 23 May 05 - 12:33 PM

I'm much like Joe F. about heights; with me, even standing on a little step stool and reaching up to change a lightbulb can make me shakey. But no discomfort whatever riding down the Grand Canyon with the mule walking the very edge, or on a hot air balloon ride. I just don't trust my own balance a bit at any height at all.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: heric
Date: 23 May 05 - 12:51 PM

I'm becoming that way with heights, but I think it is entirely rational. If people ask if I have a fear of heights, I think to myself "Do you mean do I understand gravity?"

I don't have a fear of enclosed spaces, with one exception which I was too scared to even discuss previously. I have a terror of being trapped with my knees bent, so that I can't straighten out my legs. Terror.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear?
From: Donuel
Date: 23 May 05 - 04:14 PM

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