Your irrational fear.

[game-lover]

I wanna say the dark but really it's more dark spaces.

At night, I always turn on just about every light because I get all weirded out and uncomfortable when I see a door open and just straight darkness inside.

You can associate it with looking down the stairs to the dark below... I guess it's like that. It just unnerves me. I need to see what's in or down or up there! Lights on! My closet in particular has no light so when I go to bed, it's always closed first and foremost. I can't focus because I'll be too busy staring at the damn closet and the unknown of the darkness. Nevermind that I was just in there a few moments ago.

Or a window where it's night and so dark you can't really see that far out. Also spooky and why all blinds are shut at any and all times.

 

[LaughingAtlas]

Small, fast, airborne things, because I'm not sure if it's an insect, a scrap of paper, or a hallucination. Sortof a fear of completely losing my mind and no longer being able to determine 'reality' from random fever-dream delusion, making me quite unable to do much of anything beyond probably getting killed because I think a nearby cliff is a portal to the upside down chocolate factory or whatever. Seems like an unpleasant(ish), if unlikely way to go. Still, every time I see something wiz by, I wonder for just a split second. Thus: I hate summer a little bit more.

Also: Dark-haired girls, moreso if pale.

Spoiler: Perhaps you can guess the reason?

Pretty much that. Oddly, I didn't find Sawako (or whatever the girl in The Ring's name was) half as scary.

 

[pearcinator]

Lifts!
It's just a metal box being pulled by metal string.
A metal death box
Everyone has explained how it's super unlikely to die in a lift and they're lovely and safe but I still don't like it. They make me wanna cry. I will only go in one if I have to.

Here is proof that elevators are safe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfPe9YJTIU4&feature=related [/youtube]

An elevator won't fall if the cable snaps. The only bad thing that can happen is if it breaks down...

 

[Zantos]

My friends tell me that my fear of woodlice is irrational. Fuck those guys. Woodlice are like three steps away from these guys

When that happens, irrational fear my arse. Where is your god emperor now?

 

[Relish in Chaos]

Snakes, even the harmless ones, or just certain snake-like animals. They?ve scared the shit out of me for as long as I can remember. I can?t even look at one without chills going down my spine and having to turn away. And stupidly watching Snakes on a Plane because my brother was watching it in our bedroom didn?t help things either. Once, my friend was chasing me around the park with a slow-worm, and he thought it was hilarious, but I got so pissed off with him I threatened to leave the park.

Death. It?s pretty much the embodiment of ?the unknown?. No-one alive knows death feels like or what happens afterwards. I don?t believe in an afterlife. I?m not sure about reincarnation. It?s most likely complete unconscious nothingness, but it?s hard to imagine?well, life just not being there. Even if I?m not happy about my own right now.

Failure. I have low self-esteem, so I think that I?m bad at pretty much everything and have no hope for the future. I absolutely brick it when I think about starting sixth form next month. I don?t know how I?m going to survive, and I?m ridiculously clumsy and impractical.

And this is probably the weirdest one: grapes. I don?t know why; I just can?t stand looking at the things. My mother once forced me to eat some and I just threw up. I mean, it?s not so much a fear as it is a strong revulsion.

I can't walk past lawnmowers without covering my face because I always think that a stone or something will get caught in the blade and hit me in the eye. I don't even know how it started.

Have you ever watched The Final Destination?

 

[J-meMalone]

Helplessness, failure, and humiliation.

I know that feeling. A lot of people don't quite understand it since everyone has it at some level.

But I know for myself it can be almost a paralysing fear. It takes a huge amount to get me to do something I feel I'll fail at. I'd rather not try at all. I know it's backwards but I can't stop myself.

And humiliation... I feel I'll change people's views of me permanently and will never be able to have friends thanks to it. Thus leading to the next bit.

I'm also scared to be helpless, specifically that I will put myself into the state. It will probably never happen, but I'm still terrified of it happening.

Well for me I first recognized my fear of being helpless only just a couple of years ago when I was in college, although I'm pretty sure I've always had it; but it was when I was trying to follow along in class and I'd fall behind for whatever reason, either the computer wouldn't cooperate or I just couldn't find the right menu option (it was a course in Multimedia BTW) or something else would go wrong and of course the instructor would just keep plowing on ahead and if I couldn't get help right away I'd get almost panic attack level anxiety.

Ah I've had that happen to me, the only time I've come close to hyperventilating, had to consciously try not to. Maths is terrifying when you don't understand it...

 

[Zantos]

My friends tell me that my fear of woodlice is irrational. Fuck those guys. Woodlice are like three steps away from these guys

Spoiler: Tyranid!

When that happens, irrational fear my arse. Where is your god emperor now?

It's okay. THe Necrons will purge the galaxy of them soon enough.

[sup]Then they'll purge the galaxy of us >_>[/sup]

Speak for yourself, I intend to find a way to be permanently surrounded by Grey Knights. I did once apply for that job in the Inquisition. Well, the night before my first job interview I dreamt I'd applied for the Inquisition, close enough.

 

[Durgiun]

That SCP-173 is somewhere in my home at night whenever I need to turn off the lights and go to bed.

For those of you lucky enough not to know who I'm talking about let me alleviate your blessing:

http://images.wikia.com/creepypasta/images/b/b9/SCP-173.jpg

Or Slendy. Him and 173 are interchangable to me.

 

[AngloDoom]

Horses. They're cute when they're young and they're majestic when they're fully grown, and for me they are utterly terrifying throughout.

Seriously, it took me years of trying to touch a horse and when I did I felt like I'd climbed Everest. One day I want to ride a horse, but something about them makes me want to run away: even wobbly foals wanting a polo and a hug scare me more than a dog that once chased me out of a farm, teeth bared.

 

[Sandjube]

Fuckin' whales. Stop being so goddamn big, shit.

 

[Arina Love]

Fruits that may have worms in them like apples, cherry and so on. i generally don't even eat them but if i really want to, i dissect fruit thoroughly and make sure there is nothing there.

 

[Sandjube]

Driving a car.

Driving, I'm almost 25 and don't even have a learners license yet because the idea of driving a car terrifies me.

My friends think it's irrational. I don't, but then most people on the planet seem to drive, so maybe it is.

Weird coincedence

Woah, very weird coincedence indeed, driving not mentioned at all then all 3 of us mention it at once xD

That is quite weird. When people ask me why driving terrifies me, I don't usually tell them. But a major part of it is that when I was growing up, I was with a friend and his Dad driving along the motorway to go see a movie in the nearest city and suddenly he got a cell phone call. He got me to reach across from my seat and steady the wheel (since I was in the front passenger seat) while he answered it and we hit the barrier in the middle and bounced from it. I thought I was going to die and having that happen when you're eight years old is a scary thing.

He got mad at me and took me home for getting a giant scraping mark across the side of his car, I was grounded for a month by my folks.

Oh and also driving. 19 and I have 5 hours towards my L's =< (In australia you have to do 100 hours of driving, I got my L's when I was 17).

I hate anything with wheels, my legs are just not meant to be off the ground I swear. The few times I have driven I've almost crashed, and my friends ALL think it's sooooo cool to do stupid stuff in their cars like slight fish-tailing and shit, and that freaks me out too. And then one time when my friend WAS actually driving normally and all, we flew off the road into the gutter, swerved back on and barely missed a head on colllision, just because of some like, loose rubble on the side of the road he didn't see (it was dark).

So yeah hate cars. Can't drive myself and being driven is just as bad. Fuck yeah.

To be honest I'm pretty sure I will die in a car crash.

 

[J3bba]

I'm really afraid of failing, which is inconvenient for me cause it stops me trying new things.

 

[EHKOS]

Garbage trucks and loud noises. The latter due to autism, some of my senses are very sensitive.

 

[Hoplon]

Irrational fear of Channers.

They look infectious...

 

[Toshiooh]

Trypophobia, fear of fleshy clusters of holes.

Normally it doesn't get in the way of anything but in borderlands the Rakk Hive really grossed me out. Also it's not really a phobia since it doesn't interfere with my life but still... euch

 

[Aurora Firestorm]

Spiders. Fffghhgghadks. Freaking spiders.

I'm arachnophobic to an extreme; not only am I afraid of them, but I can't get near them, or anywhere I think they might congregate (my basement is panic-inducing), and if I see one and it disappears under furniture or something, I will stay out of the entire room because I know it will pop up on my computer case or on my chair or something.

 

[Quazimofo]

I can't walk over an odd number of drains, it would really stress me out if I did.

yeah, those and the grates over the subway really make me feel like im going to fall through.

also, heights, because i simultaneously want to feel what its like to fall so far, but i dont want to die from falling so far. so until i go skydiving, this is going to be a major fear, maybe even afterwards, but hey, i'll have gone skydiving, which is crap-your-pants scary and awesome.

and finally, any body of water deep enough for me to fit in, but i cannot see the bottom. i keep imagining some bigass sea monster coming outa nowhere and eating me. or a shark, really anything with a large enough mouth for me to fit in.

 

[BOOM headshot65]

loud noises. The latter due to autism, some of my senses are very sensitive.

Having Aspergers, I know how that goes. I was fasinated by trains when I was younger...but couldnt get close to them unless they stopped because the sound of the cooling units (the REALLY loud parts) and the horn hurt my ears.

Irrational fears: Heights, unless strapped into something. Rollercoasters are fine. Standing on the ledge of a skyscraper? Panic mode!

Blood, unless caused by military, guns, or its my own . For instance, I cant watch "Final Destination" unceasered without feeling sick because of the blood and gore.....so I change it to "Saving Private Ryan" and think "Ah, thats better." as someone gets turned to paste by a tank shell.

And this may be more of an Irrational hate, but:

Hippies. The closer to the sterotype [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippies], the higher the hate meter goes. I just...I dont know. I dont hate anyone without a good reason (dictators and criminals have a good reason), but...I hate them. Not "I really mean dislike.", I HATE them. Although now that I think about it, it may have something to do with thier drug use, thier embrace of "free love", and thier oppositoion to the Vietnam War. Um........is it bad that I literally saw red when I typed and thought about that last one...or that I find the idea of smacking a hippie with the butt of a rifle appealing.

 

[AlmostLikeLife]

Heights. I don't even know why, just can't get close to the ledge of a roof or a cliff. Which usually makes me the odd one out if I'm on a road trip and we stop at a "scenic overlook."

Scorpions. Can't hardly even think about scorpions without getting a shuddering feeling. Little bastards. Thankfully, I'm in a region where they are barely seen. That is, unless someone has it as a pet.