Irrational Fears

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  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,492 Member
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    ToniLeeAnn82 wrote: »
    Oh I have a story.. I don't know if it is an entertaining one, but I am going to tell it anyway. So, I was about 4 or 5 years old, and my dad was watching the Exorcist. For some reason, he decided to let me watch it with him and the older kids... Great dad, Great! :wink: So, afterwards, I asked my dad if that could happen to me, and with the most sincere look on his face, he said, " I don't believe it will happen to your sister, but you, yes." Great sense of humor, dad! Thanks! I went a very long time afraid I was going to get possessed.

    What if he wasn't joking?
  • bojack3
    bojack3 Posts: 1,483 Member
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    That the amateur porn I made in 98' will resurface.....
  • RastaLousGirl
    RastaLousGirl Posts: 2,119 Member
    edited April 2018
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    Motorsheen wrote: »
    ToniLeeAnn82 wrote: »
    Oh I have a story.. I don't know if it is an entertaining one, but I am going to tell it anyway. So, I was about 4 or 5 years old, and my dad was watching the Exorcist. For some reason, he decided to let me watch it with him and the older kids... Great dad, Great! :wink: So, afterwards, I asked my dad if that could happen to me, and with the most sincere look on his face, he said, " I don't believe it will happen to your sister, but you, yes." Great sense of humor, dad! Thanks! I went a very long time afraid I was going to get possessed.

    What if he wasn't joking?


    Than that would mean I had a screwed up life, and now I think I need to get psychiatric help. Because, nothing is what it seems.
  • orangegato
    orangegato Posts: 6,570 Member
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    SabotageinStilettos wrote: »
    orangegato wrote: »
    SabotageinStilettos wrote: »
    Pretty self explanatory, what are your irrational fears?

    I have always being afraid to lick an envelope for fear that somehow I would papercut my eye ball. Until self adhesive envelopes became a thing, I would only ever tape an envelope closed.

    Peel and seal envelopes are a thing already

    That’s why I said until they became a thing I would tape envelopes closed. Reading is a thing already too.

    I clearly need more sleep :laugh:
  • go_cubs
    go_cubs Posts: 1,183 Member
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    Clusters of holes
  • orangegato
    orangegato Posts: 6,570 Member
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    I have a fear of my kids dying from cancer or a major car accident or anything really.
  • Just_J_Now
    Just_J_Now Posts: 9,551 Member
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    orangegato wrote: »
    I have a fear of my kids dying from cancer or a major car accident or anything really.

    Me too. I also have a fear of dying before they're completely independent without me as I KNOW it would devastate them and I can't bare to even think of them hurting or suffering.
  • Just_J_Now
    Just_J_Now Posts: 9,551 Member
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    I have a fear of ALL pitbulls I don't care how lovely or friendly their owners claim they are. I do not want them around me.
  • Just_J_Now
    Just_J_Now Posts: 9,551 Member
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    SabotageinStilettos wrote: »
    Just_J_Now wrote: »
    I have a fear of ALL pitbulls I don't care how lovely or friendly their owners claim they are. I do not want them around me.

    My youngest was bitten in the face by one when she was about 3, I want nothing to do with a pit bull since then.

    Oh MY Goodness. I've heard so many horror stories, I just cant trust them. I know dog lovers will frown on this but it's always, "oh no, my dog is so friendly blah blah..he/she won't bite...blah blah" until it does and takes someone's eye out. No thanks. I'll keep my distance from them.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,874 Member
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    Bees
  • JeepHair77
    JeepHair77 Posts: 1,291 Member
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    Just_J_Now wrote: »
    SabotageinStilettos wrote: »
    Just_J_Now wrote: »
    I have a fear of ALL pitbulls I don't care how lovely or friendly their owners claim they are. I do not want them around me.

    My youngest was bitten in the face by one when she was about 3, I want nothing to do with a pit bull since then.

    Oh MY Goodness. I've heard so many horror stories, I just cant trust them. I know dog lovers will frown on this but it's always, "oh no, my dog is so friendly blah blah..he/she won't bite...blah blah" until it does and takes someone's eye out. No thanks. I'll keep my distance from them.

    Nah. I'm a dog person, but I think most "good" dog owners will respect someone else's discomfort/fear, and they won't allow their dogs to run up to strangers and/or jump on them. People who dismiss you are jerks.

    I've got two "scary" looking dogs: one GSD/Husky mix, who is giant and kind of intimidating, and a smaller Heinz 57 with brindle coloring who is sometimes mistaken for a pit bull (I don't think she's got a significant amount of pitty in her, but what do I know?) I'll never let them go running up to a stranger unless that person expresses a clear desire for some doggy attention.
  • AngryViking1970
    AngryViking1970 Posts: 2,847 Member
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    spanish_liza wrote: »
    Clusters of holes

    Yeah, me too. Do not Google trypophobia.
  • Just_J_Now
    Just_J_Now Posts: 9,551 Member
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    JeepHair77 wrote: »
    Just_J_Now wrote: »
    SabotageinStilettos wrote: »
    Just_J_Now wrote: »
    I have a fear of ALL pitbulls I don't care how lovely or friendly their owners claim they are. I do not want them around me.

    My youngest was bitten in the face by one when she was about 3, I want nothing to do with a pit bull since then.

    Oh MY Goodness. I've heard so many horror stories, I just cant trust them. I know dog lovers will frown on this but it's always, "oh no, my dog is so friendly blah blah..he/she won't bite...blah blah" until it does and takes someone's eye out. No thanks. I'll keep my distance from them.

    Nah. I'm a dog person, but I think most "good" dog owners will respect someone else's discomfort/fear, and they won't allow their dogs to run up to strangers and/or jump on them. People who dismiss you are jerks.

    I've got two "scary" looking dogs: one GSD/Husky mix, who is giant and kind of intimidating, and a smaller Heinz 57 with brindle coloring who is sometimes mistaken for a pit bull (I don't think she's got a significant amount of pitty in her, but what do I know?) I'll never let them go running up to a stranger unless that person expresses a clear desire for some doggy attention.

    Thank you. I especially hate when the owners let them wander around outside without a leash, even if the owner is outside. If the dog is not on a leash you do NOT have full control of them. I can't stand ignorant dog owners. I actually like dogs but I am afraid of the big intimidating ones with lock jaw.
  • AnnieH_4512
    AnnieH_4512 Posts: 1,421 Member
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    SabotageinStilettos wrote: »
    SuperOrganism2 wrote: »
    SabotageinStilettos wrote: »
    SuperOrganism2 wrote: »
    SabotageinStilettos wrote: »
    My husband goes on overnights every once in a while for work. I’m already afraid of my house even when he’s home but when he’s gone I have an irrational fear that I’m going to get up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom and find the toilet seat up.

    My wife does this as well. I should probably look into that.

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    jk that's me. She does go out of town, though...and the house gets super creepy at night when it's all quiet.

    Worst ever was this come to find out...fox and it's friends/kids or who knows that was running amuck outside.

    Jesus when you want a gun and don't have one. Like Jesus...where's the lighting bud? Shoot that one plz!

    They are so freaky with their barks.

    My house was a confederate hospital during the civil war. Come spend a quiet night here and try not to get creeped out.

    Oh I get it...I'm a pretty...well, ardently non-super-naturalist...well, have been for the last decade or 20 years or so...

    But there have been some creepy moments in my adulthood that made me wonder. Lights and ceiling fan come on at 3:30 am, exploding light bulbs...repeatedly, *kitten* toothbrush of all things creeped me so hard would turn on late at night.

    I ended up throwing it out of the window :D

    I'm kind of changing out of my hard-atheist phase and becoming more like a process-philosophy person...perhaps panpsychism of a kind (Einstein was this btw...it's not crazy (always a winning line). Spinoza...big thinkers. Mind as *everywhere, everything*. It's more common in Eastern thinking...Hindu, Buddhism...seems crazy in the Aristotelian tradition, then long history of firm dualism...our language and culture has these thoughts and philosophies embedded)

    I had this pagan buddy who quit a high paying software development job to go study ghosts...no *kitten*. He's listening to static from graveyards and doing all kinds of weird things as part of this off-shoot...idk even foundation? Thing...from Duke. Anyway...he became a ghostbuster lol.

    I had a lot of real discussions with him...and I will not say that I would follow in his footsteps, but I'm actually really happy that somebody is doing this kind of thing. It just makes me happy.

    We did briefly talk about ghosts in my philosophy stuff back in college...philosophy of science...which is awesome stuff imo. But, it seems it would be rather hard to ever determine the difference between a ghost and...well, who knows?

    Latent psychic abilities.

    There would be no apparent difference.

    I have absolutely heard, seen and experienced things is this house and my husband has had some experiences here too. There are rooms that I just refuse to go in alone. We’ve had several offers to have paranormal investigations done but honestly, I would just rather think I know what’s going on than to know. If that makes sense. I’ve never experienced anything malicious or negative here and truthfully, the scariest thing about this house is the electric bill. But when I’m all alone here, the creaks and groans of an old house seem creepier.

    My sister and I were heavy into our Ouija board when we were young. I don’t know if it’s because of that, but a lot of creepy things went on there! Voices, things moving on their own, lights turning off on their own, etc. My mom finally had a priest come over and bless the house, and nothing strange happened after that.

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