Have you got any irrational fears?

[starone]

I was just reading an ancient article which gave the example of a boy who was afraid of dolls - I misread it for dogs and couldn't think why it was supposed to be irrational. Anyway, it seems that every time he saw a doll he would scream. If there was one in a shop window his mother would have to drag him past. Very strange! My only fear is that I cannot get on an escalator in spite of much urging by various members of my family, I have to use the lift or the stairs. No way can I face that moving staircase.

[mrs_overall]

Being locked in a room alone with mollykins

[dotty.]

a Zombie attack when I am low on petrol, any other time and i am sorted.

[tiggerblue10]

Worms!

[scotman]

I have a bit of a problem with spiders.

[jake-the-peg]

I'm mid 40's have a background in professional science, 5'11" 90Kgs, hold a black belt in karate.

And I cant stand spiders!

[tiggerblue10]

Spiders seem to be a popular fear but I wouldn't call that an irrational fear. I once knew someone who had a fear of bananas!?

[scotman]

Tigger

I think it is irrational to be queasy around something which cannot possibly do me harm.

[starone]

That's definitely one tigger.

[sherrardk]

I knew a rugby-playing, male PE teacher who was scared of balloons.

[micmak]

Caterpillars. As a youngster my father was a keen vegetable gardner. We were over run with the blighter's. It got so bad that the local council ordered a "Burning Day" When all the neighbours started the fires the caterpillars started to move. Within the hour you could not see out of our windows, both up and downstairs. All you could see was green. I was terrified, and still am.

[tiggerblue10]

There are some spiders that are poisonous and the fact that they are skuttle around quickly brings out the fear in people. The same with snakes and mice although mice are not venomous. Funnily enough I don't have a fear of any of these creatures. The one that I do have a severe irrational problem with is worms. I can't even look at one without screaming and feeling sick.

I'm not keen on balloons either Sherrard.

[tiggerblue10]

I don't like catepillars either Micmak. Same with maggots, grubs, larvae, slugs, snails etc.

[Eve]

I was thinking about this the other night!

I can't stand watching people drink milk. I don't know what it is, I will have it in cereal, hot drinks etc... but couldn't drink a glass of it and couldn't watch someone else do it. Reminds me of a random coffee first date where we went to Starbucks and he ordered a glass of milk...it was only ever one date (not for the milk think, I'm not that shallow haha!).

I have a fear of standing too near to the edge of a Tube platform when the tube train is coming in case I get pushed off...very irrational! I'm fine otherwise, if anything am looking over as used to watch the cute little tube mice in the morning at Tottenham Court Rd on the way to work. I'm not really like it with normal trains.

I also have a wierd one about a powerful falling waterfall, I think it comes from watching one of the Superman films when I was little, one where they are round Niagara Falls. It's about being at the top and the risk of falling in or getting pushed or being pulled over. Random, I know! It's wierd as I went to Niagara Falls last year and it was all fine, not as I thought it'd be and even went on the Maid of the Mist and stood right by the top of one of them. It's wierd, more of an in my head fear!

[sherrardk]

With Jenna on the tube thing - but there are some right nutters about so it pays to be vigilant!

[starone]

Just discovered that there is already a thread before mine about irrational fears. Sorry about that. But how strange that two people would think of the same thing on the same night. Is there such a thing as coincidence?

[tiggerblue10]

Looks like there was another thread about irrational fears earlier on.

To add to that I hate furry fruit like peaches and apricots. My hairs stand on end if I bite a furry fruit.

[micmak]

When we have cabbage for dinner I insist on preparing it. I cut it leaf by leaf and examine every one. Wash it in salt water and then examine again. Otherwise I would not / could not eat it.

[boxtops]

Mine used to be pink food - I was very sick as a child after eating stirred-up pink icecream, and it put me off pink food for years. Strawberry cheesecake, blancmange, anything like that, was a complete no-no - taramasalata, anything bland and pink, I just couldn't eat it. I'm better now!

[tiggerblue10]

I wouldn't be able to clean a cabbage for fear of seeing something wriggle on it. Once when little, I was half-way through a plum and saw something wriggling inside it. I threw it to the other side of the room whilst screaming.