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By *andyfloss2000 OP   Woman
over a year ago

ashford

In my new job I have to cycle past a cemetery to get there! At 3 30 in morning! It's the same one I had to walk past to get home from town as a teenager! I still dare not look sideways and pedal extra fast! Crazy! As the living are more scary than the dead! What's your fear? X

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Komodo Dragons

Thankfully, there aren't that many on the outskirts of Manchester

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Polystyrene.. awful bloody stuff

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

Of looking behind my after I've locked my back door at night, and seeing a face staring at me.

If there was anyone out there my dogs would have gone mad at them.

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

When I was very ill, quite a few years ago, I couldn't leave the house because I was scared that gravity would just stop being, and I would float away.

One of the worse times of my life.

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By *andyfloss2000 OP   Woman
over a year ago

ashford


"When I was very ill, quite a few years ago, I couldn't leave the house because I was scared that gravity would just stop being, and I would float away.

One of the worse times of my life.

"

x

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By *andyfloss2000 OP   Woman
over a year ago

ashford


"Polystyrene.. awful bloody stuff "

The noise it makes? X

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By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks

Girl at work hates scouring pads.

Cannot be in the same room as one and will not go in the Office kitchen because of it.

It’s real fear you can see in her eyes.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When I was very ill, quite a few years ago, I couldn't leave the house because I was scared that gravity would just stop being, and I would float away.

One of the worse times of my life.

"

I kinda understand this

If I travel by plane, I feel like I am floating / weightless and I lose sensation in my legs

AFAIK it's anxiety driven

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Butterflies, moths and spiders are my phobias.

Her x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Needles and balloons

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By *andyfloss2000 OP   Woman
over a year ago

ashford


"Girl at work hates scouring pads.

Cannot be in the same room as one and will not go in the Office kitchen because of it.

It’s real fear you can see in her eyes. "

Must stem from somewhere ! X

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By *andyfloss2000 OP   Woman
over a year ago

ashford


"Needles and balloons "

My dogs hate balloons! X

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By *hilledGuerillaMan
over a year ago

In the monkey house

Sea snakes. To the extent I cannot watch them on tv. Normal snakes, not an issue. I’ve had pet snakes, held 8 foot pythons and boas, but sea snakes petrify me.

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By *andyfloss2000 OP   Woman
over a year ago

ashford


"Butterflies, moths and spiders are my phobias.

Her x"

My 2 girls scream like they being murdered if they c a spider in their rooms I have to rush in with a glass and card to save the poor things! X

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By * Sophie xTV/TS
over a year ago

Derby

I hate moths because they fly around your head but my irrational one is werewolves....

Specifically The American Werewolf in London.

I cant even listen to Blue Moon because of it.

Stupid film!!!

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By *andyfloss2000 OP   Woman
over a year ago

ashford


"I hate moths because they fly around your head but my irrational one is werewolves....

Specifically The American Werewolf in London.

I cant even listen to Blue Moon because of it.

Stupid film!!!

"

Ohh yes moths they fly right in my face when in bath as very bright in there x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Polystyrene.. awful bloody stuff

The noise it makes? X"

The noise. The look. It's like the devils weapon against me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Happiness

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Carousels. I dont know if it's the music or some kind of repressed memory but they freak me out!

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By * Sophie xTV/TS
over a year ago

Derby


"Happiness "

That's because you're weird and delusional

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By *riendly older leggy wifeCouple
over a year ago

london

An empty purse

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Butterflies, moths and spiders are my phobias.

Her x

My 2 girls scream like they being murdered if they c a spider in their rooms I have to rush in with a glass and card to save the poor things! X"

I could remove a spider with my spider catcher grabbing thingy BUT a butterfly or moth in the same room as me is a screaming, panicking major problem.... and that's just my boyfriend trying to calm me down

Her x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm not sure I have any full on petrifying phobias. Saying that, there are an awful lot of things in the world that I haven't come face to face with to know if I'm truly terrified of them.

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By *olden PoleMan
over a year ago

Kent

For me it’s the under side of ships.

I love ships specially Royal Navy ships but anything below the water line actually makes me go funny.

Can’t explain why but it’s horrifying to me.

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over a year ago


"For me it’s the under side of ships.

I love ships specially Royal Navy ships but anything below the water line actually makes me go funny.

Can’t explain why but it’s horrifying to me."

I get that too, but it's a weird dizzy sick feeling, not a scared feeling.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Men with long finger nails who aren’t classical guitarists.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Backless stairs.. They freak me out, i think it stems from being young and having the feeling of falling through the gap

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By *olden PoleMan
over a year ago

Kent


"For me it’s the under side of ships.

I love ships specially Royal Navy ships but anything below the water line actually makes me go funny.

Can’t explain why but it’s horrifying to me.

I get that too, but it's a weird dizzy sick feeling, not a scared feeling."

Yes exactly that.

Take the Cutty Sark in Greenwich for example. Even tho she’s in dry dock, if I go close to her and see the her keel then I’m light headed and have to walk away.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The sea or any large bodies of deep water

I nearly drowned on holiday in a pool around the age of 4 so could be why

Swimming pools and stuff are fine. But the Sea or vast lakes really make me uncomfortable

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

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Canals for me but I'm not sure how irrational it is, in that there's a good reason for it.

I have to avoid walking anywhere near one which is absurd so yeah, maybe it is irrational.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Moths

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

snakes and scorpions

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By *nmgCouple
over a year ago

Liverpool

Spiders.

There is NO place for spiders in a civilised society.

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By *indergirlWoman
over a year ago

somewhere, someplace

Moths, and play slime

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London


"When I was very ill, quite a few years ago, I couldn't leave the house because I was scared that gravity would just stop being, and I would float away.

One of the worse times of my life.

I kinda understand this

If I travel by plane, I feel like I am floating / weightless and I lose sensation in my legs

AFAIK it's anxiety driven"

I hate that feeling. It's why I can't go on rollercoasters or fast rides at the theme park.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Snakes and heights

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

Walking next to the tube track on a platform. I feel like I'm going to fall over.

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

Choking on food.

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By *ampshirehotwifeWoman
over a year ago

Hampshire

Spiders!!!!!

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By *aul DeUther-OneMan
over a year ago

Sussex

Just the sight of old style razor blades and flat razors give me the creeps.

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By *indergirlWoman
over a year ago

somewhere, someplace

Oh and heights

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By *WillowxWoman
over a year ago

Oo err Devon

Mirrors in the dark.... Like there's gonna be something in the other side lol...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don't like seeing crocodiles on television and I'm scared of the dark.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Clowns. It’s ridiculous. I know it’s a man underneath but I am terrified.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Clowns. It’s ridiculous. I know it’s a man underneath but I am terrified. "

I’m scared of you

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By *andyfloss2000 OP   Woman
over a year ago

ashford

Think deep down most come from an early fear mine is deffo from walking past that cemetery after dark as a teen! Un curtained windows used to b the same but got over that one! My dad used to shine a torch under his chin at our little kitchen window when he came home from his late shift!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Clowns. It’s ridiculous. I know it’s a man underneath but I am terrified.

I’m scared of you "

Everyone is. I’m actually not at all scary

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod

over a year ago

East Sussex

I'm terrified of windows with no curtains after dark. I sometimes house sit for a friend, they have no covering at their kitchen window and I can't go in there after dark

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Think deep down most come from an early fear mine is deffo from walking past that cemetery after dark as a teen! Un curtained windows used to b the same but got over that one! My dad used to shine a torch under his chin at our little kitchen window when he came home from his late shift! "

I can kinda get that

I lived in a house when i was maybe about 12. The previous owner had hung himself in the garage and we didnt find out until we had bought the house. Was a proper old rickerty thing aswell with old wooden beams ect. Used to keep wood for the fire in there and i used have to go in at night.

Was proper nightmare fuel

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By *andyfloss2000 OP   Woman
over a year ago

ashford


"I'm terrified of windows with no curtains after dark. I sometimes house sit for a friend, they have no covering at their kitchen window and I can't go in there after dark "

I used to make myself go in but not look at the window then gradually look at it for longer each time till I'm ok with them now!maybe I should look into the cemetery x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Clowns. It’s ridiculous. I know it’s a man underneath but I am terrified.

I’m scared of you "

very wise

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

DOLLS it’s like they watch your every step

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Snakes but only after being bitten by an adder and hospitalised! So maybe not that irrational!

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London


"I'm terrified of windows with no curtains after dark. I sometimes house sit for a friend, they have no covering at their kitchen window and I can't go in there after dark "

My house only has curtains in 2 rooms. When I walk up the stairs I imagine someone watching me from the downstairs window.

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By *arker secrets 321Man
over a year ago

West Bromwich

Clowns and spiders

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Aldershot!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Snakes but only after being bitten by an adder and hospitalised! So maybe not that irrational! "

I heard snakes is quite a normal one though in general.

Something about it being hardwired in us from whatever we evolved from as they would of been one of our natural predators

Like most babies will show higher stress levels when shown pictures of snakes like they just inherently know they are bad news

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Snakes but only after being bitten by an adder and hospitalised! So maybe not that irrational!

I heard snakes is quite a normal one though in general.

Something about it being hardwired in us from whatever we evolved from as they would of been one of our natural predators

Like most babies will show higher stress levels when shown pictures of snakes like they just inherently know they are bad news"

Wouldnt surpise me actually if it was the same for spiders. Not being a predator as such, but being bitten by one probably wouldnt of been good news when we where proto-humans especially as a child

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By *not123Couple
over a year ago

sp1

Spiders. Hate the things

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By *uliette500Woman
over a year ago

Hull

Heights over water.

I am not scared of heights over land and I'm not scared of water but mix the two and I get palpitations.

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod

over a year ago

East Sussex


"I'm terrified of windows with no curtains after dark. I sometimes house sit for a friend, they have no covering at their kitchen window and I can't go in there after dark

My house only has curtains in 2 rooms. When I walk up the stairs I imagine someone watching me from the downstairs window. "

That would frighten me. I know it's daft but I imagine a face looking in at me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I'm terrified of windows with no curtains after dark. I sometimes house sit for a friend, they have no covering at their kitchen window and I can't go in there after dark

My house only has curtains in 2 rooms. When I walk up the stairs I imagine someone watching me from the downstairs window.

That would frighten me. I know it's daft but I imagine a face looking in at me "

What about when the dog senses something in the darkness but you don't?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Heights - but irrationally so as I get older

Even standing on a chair makes my legs shake - and going down escalators makes my stomach lurch and all I can see is me losing balance and cracking my head open

As a youngun I did a sky dive and a bungee jump - admittedly the only good thing about them was that I was still alive afterwards but I didn't have the fear I have now.

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London


"Heights - but irrationally so as I get older

Even standing on a chair makes my legs shake - and going down escalators makes my stomach lurch and all I can see is me losing balance and cracking my head open

As a youngun I did a sky dive and a bungee jump - admittedly the only good thing about them was that I was still alive afterwards but I didn't have the fear I have now."

I think that's because as we get older our inner ear decays and we find it harder to stay balanced.

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London


"I'm terrified of windows with no curtains after dark. I sometimes house sit for a friend, they have no covering at their kitchen window and I can't go in there after dark

My house only has curtains in 2 rooms. When I walk up the stairs I imagine someone watching me from the downstairs window.

That would frighten me. I know it's daft but I imagine a face looking in at me

What about when the dog senses something in the darkness but you don't? "

My dog stares at the kitchen window. Scares the life out of me even though I know he's listening for foxes.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Heights - but irrationally so as I get older

Even standing on a chair makes my legs shake - and going down escalators makes my stomach lurch and all I can see is me losing balance and cracking my head open

As a youngun I did a sky dive and a bungee jump - admittedly the only good thing about them was that I was still alive afterwards but I didn't have the fear I have now.

I think that's because as we get older our inner ear decays and we find it harder to stay balanced. "

Good point!

I also have flat feet and am ridiculously clumsy - so falling over is a real fear.

I didn't consider the ear thing though x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Heights and talking on the telephone.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Trypophobia! I hate it. I was recomended to expose myself to it in order to get rid of the disgust it produces me, but I find it too hard.

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By *indergirlWoman
over a year ago

somewhere, someplace


"Heights - but irrationally so as I get older

Even standing on a chair makes my legs shake - and going down escalators makes my stomach lurch and all I can see is me losing balance and cracking my head open

As a youngun I did a sky dive and a bungee jump - admittedly the only good thing about them was that I was still alive afterwards but I didn't have the fear I have now.

I think that's because as we get older our inner ear decays and we find it harder to stay balanced.

Good point!

I also have flat feet and am ridiculously clumsy - so falling over is a real fear.

I didn't consider the ear thing though x"

It's a triad of things, eyesight, inner ear and muscle flexibility... All get worse with age. Oh the boring stuff I learn at work

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By *ollymollWoman
over a year ago

Stockport

Talking on the phone is one of mine too.

But usually my fears are imaginings , that my brain for some unknown reason comes up with, about bad things happening to my children.

Whatever the worst thing imaginable is, my brain will run through it in real detail and it terrifies me.

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