Senseless Fears

I'm not too crazy about spiders if I can't identify them at first glance. Thanks Brown Recluses and Black Widows for forever making me paranoid of spiders.

(My wfie's uncle just got bitten by a Brown Recluse for a second time less than a week ago. The wound it left looks pretty d**n painful.)

It is painful!!! And I had muscle pains throughout my body for 24 hours several days after being bitten. Just comes on out of the blue like you got a flu bug suddenly.

A new fear of mine is being nuked by over zealous `world leaders`

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Oh, thank the gods! I'm not alone in the fear of losing my teeth. Seriously, I have reoccurring nightmares about loose or missing teeth. I'm sure it means something...

Supposedly it means you feeling worried about your attractiveness, or are embarrassed about something.

I also heard that it was related to feeling guilty about something.

I'm going to go with the first one, as it's hard to embarrass me anymore and I have nothing to feel guilty about.

Oh!! And thanks to the "creepy friend" GIF thread, I remembered my completely irrational fear of toys and dolls coming to life. I blame Chucky for this - I saw the movie when I was 6 or 7 and got so freaked out that I put all my dolls in the trash that night. I can watch the most horrific movies and not bat an eyelash...but put a freaking animated doll in it, and I'm out of the room in a flash...Gah, even thinking about it makes me want to never sleep again.

I had the losing teeth dream about a year or so ago - two times in one week, but not since. Twice in one week was enough to send me searching for "the reason." The thing I kept finding was a fear of aging/getting old - and/or - getting sick with something you can't control or cure. There were other possible reasons as well, but those are the two I remember.

It is a disturbing dream for sure, and I still think about it once in awhile - followed by a quick hope/pray/wish that I didn't just will it to make a return showing.

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The other night, I was putting the grill away in the garage, and this giant wofl spider came out to say hello. The thing was about 2 inchesl long ay 3/4 of an inch wide. You probably would have freaked. I said live and let live. It's eating other bugs if it was able to grow that big. He's doing me a favor.

Outside I would be ok with. Grossed out, but ok. But not in my house. I think it was a nursery web spider. I put my hand in a really thick web one morning because I couldn't see it in the dark, and I was opening the back door to let the dogs out. Same type of spider had made a web from the doorknob to the bench next the door. I couldn't wash my hand long enough.

MAybe you shuold have cut it off. It touched spider web y;know? :bigsmile:

I'll have to remember that for next time, but then you won't get to choose left or right.

Neither of those would be my first choice anyway! :bigsmile:

O! :bigsmile: