irrational fears

I posted this before, but ill give some new people nightmares xD

I am ungodly scared that I will be on the toilet (very vulnerable!) and a spider or bug will appear.

Best way to describe it so people know what I mean:

OMG This is the same for me!!!! FREAKY!!!

I have this irrational terror that one day I'm going to look in a mirror, and there's going to be someone or something horrible standing behind me. Horror movies are definitely not my thing. :frown:

Do you have an irrational fear?

I ~don't~ mean being scared of heights or snakes - those are actual things people are often confronted with. I'm talking bat *kitten* crazy fears over things that will never ever happen.

I have two.

1 - When I'm at the zoo, I am terrified my kids will fall into the hippo pool. (hipposRDangerous - you totally remind me of this) No, my kids aren't scaling the pool enclosure or anything, but it's pretty much the only thought in my head while standing there.

2. - When driving by any body of water, I fear the car will go in and I'll be faced with 3 kids in car seats that I will have to somehow hold my breath and save them all - AFTER the car is totally filled with water (mythbusters taught me how to get the door open underwater) and it scared the crap out of me. Like cold sweat fear.

as a zookeeper, you are totally right on the dangerous part. however, if the hippos have been raised in captivity, as most have by now in the US, they would probably me much more afraid of someone coming in with them than protective. They are terribly neophobic creatures, and do NOT like anything new in their enclosure. At my zoo we have even been trying to train the hippos to "kiss" paper and canvas for valentines day painitings to sell, and they are so scared of the paper they wont even come out of their water!
but as a general rule and something that frustrates me EVERY SINGLE DAY....do NOT stick any body parts into any enclosure, ever. You are right to be paranoid! They will eat you

Do you think about these things when you're not near water, or um - hippos? I mean, being fearful is normal, human, and well, good. I get all psyched when I watch jellyfish on tv week but I don't truly get my hackles up until I'm wearing fins and a snorkle. If you find yourself getting in a cold sweat when you and your kids are in no danger, you might......bring it up to your doc and see what she thinks.

I was very, very ill as child and I had a lot of painful tests done, picked up an infectious pathogen in hospital, had an operation, went into anaphalactic shock once, had my lungs fill with fluid at night for two weeks and no one knew why. I could swallow two pills at a time without water at 11 years old, I was on so much medicine. Not to mention the inhalers.

My point is this: I'm healthy now. But I' became so irrationally fearful of disease that I would irrationally think a nurse would mess up giving me a shot and accidently give me a disease. Or I would freak out a little if someone touched me. I'm smarter than that but I couldn't help it. Started anti-anxiety meds and after about a month - I have chilled out a lot. Just a thought. I hear this is actually a pretty common thing so no reason for you to feel bad about it.

Elevators, I have dreams about them falling with me in them and me dying.

CLOWNS ! I HATE THEM!

Along that same line anything with a mask.

the look of tiny clusters of things (holes, bumps, ridges) freaks me out - for example porous things like the inside of a bone
taste buds, the look of skin under a microscope, honeycombs, and so on
oh and the scales on fish which leads to me to my fear of fish lol

Holy monkeys... I thought I was the only one. It also has to do with positive and negative spaces of things - ocelot fur, stretched bacon fat, weirdo cracks in plaster where it gaps, etc. If there is a contrast of light(er) and dark(er) in some weird pattern, it freaks me the eff out. The inside of an ant hill... ummm....

I also have this irrational fear that everything I've ever said and or done I've made up somehow. I can deal with my fear of falling but not being a fake by mistake.

Mice and sewer rats.

I have an absolutely IRRATIONAL fear towards them. I had rats in our house growing up, but only ever came out when I was home alone. And they came from our toilets. So I cannot sit on a basement toilet without checking the toilet thoroughly and flushing first then using it. And the lid HAS to be closed!

My fear is similar to the one mentioned above except I'm afraid that when I sit on the toilet that a snake will come up underneath me. (I actually heard on the news about this once and, of course, that didn't help the fear any.) I always look before I go and I lift the lid very carefully. I'm, also, afraid of cabinets that close to the ground...like lower kitchen cabinets. I just have this fear of opening one and something, like a snake or creature, coming out of it. I don'tput anything in the bottom cabinets that I have to use very often so that I don't have to open those cabinets very often.

Clowns, prosthetics, and basements are the first things that come to mind.

There's a list!

1) can't go ice skating in case I fall and someone skates over my fingers and chop them off.
2) that my boyfriend has been killed because he's late home from work and I can't get him on the phone
3) a rat will run up the toilet when I'm sitting on it.
4) that I'll injure myself in the shower and not be able to walk and paramedics will have to break down the door and I'm naked and I can't move... Oh the shame! (in this nightmare I had hairy legs too)
5) getting tomato sauce or butter on my hands freaks me out.
6) phlegm, hate it, even hate the word
7) (this is the weirdest) that I accidentally pick up a razor instead of my toothbrush and shred the sh1t out of my mouth!!

Yes I am a weirdo!

7) (this is the weirdest) that I accidentally pick up a razor instead of my toothbrush and shred the sh1t out of my mouth!!

Actually, I sort of feel the same way.. but instead of it being a razor, I fear that at some point I'll have a sewing needle in my mouth, or that it'll be in food (y'know, how like at restaurants people find weird things in their food).. and that it'll go through the roof of my mouth or down my throat and get caught.. Ugh!

Refuse to drive behind any vehicle carrying anything that could possibly fly off and impale me. Anytime this happens I immediately change lanes and if that is not an option I slow way down until I can change lanes.

Looking out windows at night is so scary to me, I always feel like something or someone will be looking back at me. It really freaks me out yet for some reason I am drawn to do it.

Riding roller coasters or pretty much any amusement park ride with my children. Ok they are 17,15 and 11 but I am so afraid they are gonna fall out, so I use whatever limb I can to stretch over them as if my arm or leg would save them in the event of an accident. Now the only one who will sit next to me on a ride is my 11 yr old the other 2 are like "I don't wanna sit by her" lol

I am scared my teeth are going to fall out! lol I have to count them every morning

I can't park next to big vans (like utility vans).. for some reason I am convinced someone will grab me, throw me in it, and drive away. Sometimes my fiance parks next to them and I get out on HIS side because I am terrified to get out of the car with one next to me!

WATER BEDS. OMG. I'll never ever ever ever sleep on one nor will I ever sleep in a room with one. I feel like I'd fall asleep on it, it'd somehow RIP OPEN and I'd drown in my sleep. Also, if I had to be in the room with one I wouldn't even sleep on the floor because again, I'm scared the bed would rip open and all the water would rush to the floor and drown me.

I'm... weird. LOL

These. They are big enough to eat birds. If I found one in my house, I'd burn down my entire house. It's really the only way to be sure it's dead.