Fear of right wing extremists taking over the world
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Me too, thanks
Long loose hair for some reason
Heights. There was some movie or show where people were hanging from a skyscraper window after an earthquake, and I regularly have vivid nightmares about it. Itβs not to the point of a phobia but a really strong fear. I went up the Seattle space needle with my husband, and he was clowning against the glass while I was only able to stay in the middle. Had nightmares about him falling or me falling off it ever since.
There is a case of someone clowning against the glass and falling down with the glass and dying from it. So.... Fear validated?
Edit: Gary Hoy was the dude. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Garry_Hoy
I'm afraid of drinking through a straw. I'm convinced (against all logic) that I'm going to inhale it and choke.
However, I recently started drinking through a straw again at my dentist's recommendation, to protect my teeth from carbonation. I have a set of reusable metal ones. They don't trigger my phobia at all. Maybe the texture makes all the difference.
I'm horribly afraid of heights and can't even stomach a normal wall climb (like with a harness and everything) without quivering like a leaf.
Also most BIG bugs, especially if they have a lot of legs... though I think I'd probably be fine with a tarantula, for some reason. No idea why. The small ones are usually fine, minus wasps and hornets.
I'm kind of afraid of the dark too, but it's also not really about the darkness itself. I'll find myself vividly envisioning things like a snarling wolf suddenly lunging from the darkness to tear my throat out, or a large, unhinged man sneaking up behind me, or some shit like that. It usually only happens outdoors in rural areas where nights are much darker, which allows my imagination to run more wildly than usual. Thankfully, I live in a city now.
nice try Freddy Krueger, or jigsaw, or pennywise or whoevery you are.
An ex was afraid of butterflies but not moths. They could explain what their were afraid of but not why it applied to butterflies and not moths.
My SO loves butterflies but is afraid of moths.
Iβm not afraid of either. Iβm afraid of being incapacitated though, so things like ledges or working under a car makes me uneasy.
I don't know the official name of this fear, but seeing the world spin around me makes me shut down (say goodbye to driving around roundabout highway exits, carpark roundabout ramps, jet boat spins, etc.). Even typing this out is hard.
Ironically, I (think) I would be ok if the spin is counterclockwise.
Fear of losing my teeth. Spent about 5 years with dental braces, teeth pulled (permanent and baby to make room), and oral surgery to have a tooth exposed to pull down slowly in place over time. I have some fucked up dreams, but nothing disturbs me more than one where my teeth are breaking, cracking, loose, or falling out. Maybe it is a bit of dental PTSD.
Wow, I had the exact same situation, including having the tooth that had to be pulled down into place. I still have dreams that I'm wearing headgear, or I'll dream that I bite into an apple and a tooth comes out.
I grew up in the country with an in-ground swimming pool that we heated with a solar cover. When the cover was retracted/rolled up Bullsnakes would hide inside. There were quite a few times when they'd hastily slither out unexpectedly, and I've been pretty freaked out by snakes ever since.
I weirdly have a fear of spiders, but only irl. And am relatively fascinated by them when viewing them on pictures/video.
My biggest fear is that the Nintendo Switch 2 won't be able to dispense coffee.
Corny jokes aside, germs.
I used to be afraid of looking at mirrors at night. Idk what it's called, spectrophobia maybe? Well, anyway, one night I took acid and happened to look at a mirror while blasted off my mind. Staring at it felt so disappointingly mundane that I laughed at myself for expecting anything to go wrong. Lost my fear permanently.
Not weird
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Yooo me too! Moths freak me out more, but butterflies are pretty close. I usually just hide under a big blanket whenever a moth makes it into my apartment and let my husband handle it, but he recently moved out for work. I only cry a little bit when I have to confront them myself π
I also can't stand Jellyfish to such a degree that I refuse to go into any open water. Even stuff like lakes and Rivers, which probably don't have Jellyfish, but the idea just freaks me out too much.