Irrational Fears

Does anyone have any strange irrational fears.

I have a fear of driving under bridges.. a few reasons I’m scared someone might try and commit suicide and land on my car.. or someone might throw something from the bridge and hurt/kill me. This is only if I’m driving on the motorway and if I see someone standing on the bridge I pretty much freak out and change lanes.

I have a fear of driving next to trucks..the wheels freak me out so I either change lanes or pass it real quick.

I have a irrational fear of putting on heaps of weight overnight… it’s weird I hate getting on the scales I’m scared it’s going to go back to what it used to be..

Fun.

I don't know if it's irratonal, but chair lifts are utterly terrifying.

We also have bridge between buildings that's 6 stories up... Once or twice I've had to stop halfway and grab the hand rail to compose myself and prevent a total meltdown.

insects with too many legs

whats too many - anything over 4

edit: since a certain threads appearance I now cannot pee in a urinal, or anywhere outside of my home

With you on that one, and driving in tunnels...especially in tunnels while next to a truck! :eek:

The cross city tunnels here are awful, they go 80m deep (not that deep really, I know) and all trucks use them, and you're not supposed to change lanes unless it's to get into the exit lane...found ourselves in middle lane with a fucking great big B_Double truck on each side once...thankfully I don't drive so I could just close my eyes and go to a happy place

Dropping phone/keys/wallet down the crack of the lift doors

-Spiders, rats and a variety of insects can fuck right off

-Getting trapped on a bus
-Busting for a crap and not being able to find a toilet (probably more a lack of toilet paper fear) cose I can shit anywhere

-Some entertainers (people like the Wiggles, over dramatic super happy stage people, Jackie Clarke)

-Driving towards the Terrace Tunnel in Wellington, past the high rise apartments with a big drop off off the Motorway).

What thread was that? I'm not scared of bugs/insects, but would much prefer that anything with more than 4 legs stayed the fuck away, too!

All insects have 6 legs

I often check to make sure I am wearing trousers when I leave the house, because I have a terrible fear that I have forgotten to put them on.

God's honour.

Not the ones I've been torturing

whilst this is true I don't want to seem like I am anti insect hence my four leg rule

Black people ldo :>

Pastafarian drivers.

I fear nothing.

Shitty generic music.

As a not-that-young-anymore Polynesian woman, there is nothing irrational about this at all

overnight?

Yeah bro, *literally* overnight :>

Pretty much true.

Wake up one day and I'll be all booty and in a muu dress.

http://www.decalofashion.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/homer_muumuu.thumbnail.jpg

like homer

My Catholic upbrining also ensures I have a healthy fea of the paranormal despite not actually believing in any of it, even silly things like girls doing seances (sp?) makes me uncorfatble to the point where I will inisst they go elsewhere or disrupt it until they have to.

upside jono, small boys are easy prey and all ok

*good times*

Mathematics

I hate driving under overbridges too.

And sometimes I still think 'argh ghost!' when flicking off the last light in the house as I head to bed - yes, I run.

Most people never conquer fear

Haha, I dislike walking over overbridges - hopetoun, bond st etc.. I'm always paranoid for some reason that I'll drop my phone/bag/whatever over the side in a fit of stupidity. I drop shit all the time tbh so it might be a rational fear.

I have this irrational fear of losing my self control.. Like, I'll be sitting in a meeting or whatever, and suddenly I think "OMG What if I suddenly decided to throw this glass in front of me through this window.. What if I decided to stand up and scream FUCK YOU at everyone, and what if just thinking about this is enough to make me do it, and I can't control myself.." and then I can't stop thinking about it and fear that by merely thinking it I might just do it.

I'm still scared of the dark lol will sleep with a light on :/ how lame!

I did have an irrational fear of spiders until about three months ago, huntsman spiders run rampant in our back yard so meh I'm kinda over it.

I also have a fear of sponges... they give me the heebie geebies. god knows why.

Awww I still haven't seen a huntsman yet

I've had my lawn mowing shoes outside for a while though... maybe I should check them?

I really need to research all of Australia's dangerous insects/arachnids etc. I kinda get freaked out a bit when I see spiders, but only because I don't know how what the poisonous bastards look like. If I know I'm not going to get hurt then I'm sweet with them, even intrigued a bit. They're cool looking things sometimes.

All fears are irrational

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hahahhahaha are you serious?

Oh wow, that is good.

At least you could rock out sthing ace:

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

But no. Go with the twee motivational poster - hell, even that's too generous - go with the convenient yet nonsensical corporate motivational speech, that's the one.

hahaha!

Not sure if it's a fear technically, I mean I'm not 'scared' of looking under beds, but after seeing Pet Sematary waaaayyy to young, whenever I have to look under a bed, a tiny part of my brain always thinks there is a chance an undead toddler is going to slice thru my achilles tendon...

film festival crowds

actually thats a rational fear

Large paperclips. They give me the heebies and I can't touch them, they remind me of bugs for some reason. Normal sized clips are fine, just the big ones.

Deep water also. Even though I can swim fine, I hate the water being over my head. I like touching the bottom.

Winner!

haha, that is a goodie

Yeah its fucking weird. My smart ass friend sent me one in the mail once, cheeky!

ARGH, I hear you there, that scene creeps me out more than almost any other horror movie scene and I LOVE horror movies...second would be the pencil stab into the soft fleshy part of the ankle in the first Evil Dead movie...it's an ankle thing!



That's awesome! I stand on balconies and wonder "what if I just jumped off..." but it's not so much a fear as it is a sick desire to feel that rush

We're not that bad off in Victoria, most of the really bad ones like a warmer climate...2 main ones of concern here are White Tails and Red Backs

Huntsmann aren't poisonous, but they get big, they move fucking fast and jump!



What's the behind the clock, bro?

I had a friend who got one tangled in his dreads.

Worst.

awesome

Dave if you ever want to see huntsmans come over to my pad We have a seven legged one living in our laundry he's pretty rad... Think the freakiest one was the one above my son's cot Mum had to get him with the vacuum cleaner because me and the boy were too chicken shit lol!

Seriously how arrogant is that paperclip though.. what a fucker

Looks more like a "I just busted out a dirty sanchez" than arrogant ! :>

it looks like someone I know who is a arrogant fuck so maybe that's why... but yeah he's got his chill on a bit haha

Andrew?

pardon

Ahaaha!
Just one more reason not to have dreads imo

my girl wont walk over any man hole covers or similar things on footpaths she will walk around them or will straight out refuse to carry on if the route doesnt allow her to pass.

Nossy had the best hunstman story, I don't want to retell it because I might not do it justice, resist probably knows it better than me.

my fear is looking through old treads and coming across quotes like this...

kris_b said:

Zenith is such a wee cutie pie I'm getting all clucky and mothering.

Goodness.

I have this irrational fear that activity on biggie.co.nz is not only diminishing to just one forum but to one or two threads only on one forum

Had one on our bedroom curtain not long after we first moved here. They're actually pretty big.

I look at it and all I see is Peter Griffin.

I have a fear of popping balloons. Although I gather that isn't all that uncommon.