What Is Your Biggest Phobia

[Parche]

Mine is heights

I Love flying, but heights are :scared: :scared: :scared: :hi:

[taterguy]

1. Losing my penis to a whore with disease

And anyone who thinks I'm serious hasn't listened to enough Pixies albums

[one mean sheath]

47. enclosed spaces.

claustrophobia owns my life.

oh, and bugs. i geek out about bugs. ick.

[lost-in-nj]

2. HEIGHTS

then throw in a bridge

and I am a bowl of jello







:hi:

lost

found
extreme fear

[mwooldri]

35. Speaking of bridges... my MIL hates them.

The Chesapeake Bay Bridge/Tunnel was too much for her. No hope of her visiting the Florida Keys then I guess... Outer Banks would be frightening enough.

Mark.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Death...

:scared:

[Parche]

4. My Dear CaliforniaPeggy

George Washington said "Death, it is a debt we must all pay"
And you still have lots of years left!!!!
:hug: :hug::hug: :hi:





"The great unknown: Limitless heavens crowded with sparking mysteries, challenging Man's curiosity. But the heavens are not oceans. Man cannot push a boat into its currents and set sail for the next horizon. The heavens are a mystery only science can solve, as it penetrates the unknown."

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. Panic attacks

The fear is the fear, not that which causes it.

[Debi]

6. Bigfoot -

I'm not kidding, I grew up in Montana (surrounded by the mountains) during the 1970's (remember all those bigfoot movies???) and am scared to death that I'll encounter one :scared:

[Lethe]

39. Most of the eyewitness reports say they are non-aggressive towards humans

but they apparently don't like barking dogs, and will kill them.

Here are some eyewitness reports from texas:

http://www.texasbigfoot.org/reports/report/state?state=TX#allRegions=screen

[Debi]

45. My high school sweetheart is part of the Bigfoot Research Organization

http://www.bfro.net/

Or at least was when he was living in California.

[redqueen]

7. I guess it'd be small enclosed spaces.

Mild claustrophobia.

[flvegan]

8. Heights.

Spiders are second.

Sharks third.

[panhead1961]

9. the dentist

while surrounded by bees

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. Medical procedures.

Doctors, hospitals, etc. scare the bejeebers out of me.

Heights, if there's no barrier between me and some vast abyss, e.g., Logan Pass in Glacier Park.

I used to be scared to death of flying, but I got over it using a rather drastic method: I took flying lessons.

[Pierre.Suave]

29. Interesting

I never would have guessed that last one.

[Genevieve]

Wow, my list is EXACTLY the same as yours.

Even the flying part.

(except I didn't take lessons - I chose to go on a tiny plane, scary ride instead,)

[BrotherBuzz]

11. Muddy bottoms

Muddy bottoms in lakes, rivers, bays, or oceans are full of phobias and should be avoided at all costs. Sandy bottoms are fine, but muddy bottoms give me the creeps!

[sammythecat]

36. I could have sat here all night

thinking about phobias and I'm sure I'd never think of that, but since you bring it up I have to agree. I'm assuming you mean when the water is dark and you can't see your feet but you sure as hell are aware of them.

I'm thinking of one lake we used to swim in when we were kids. The water had a lot of tannin in it so it was like swimming in very dark tea. Visibility was about 2 feet and the bottom felt like congealed diarrhea. Pretty unpleasant.

My best experience swimming anywhere was when I was at Lake Tahoe in the early 70's. The shore was the mountain side so the bottom dropped off very quickly. There wasn't much wading going on at that spot. If you were in the water you were swimming. The remarkable thing was how absolutely crystal clear the water was. It was more like flying than swimming. I could see the bottom in 50ft. of water like I was looking through air. The bottom was granite and sand without the slightest trace of any algae. Not a trace. It was explained to me that the water was cold enough that algae couldn't grow. Not only was it clear, but it was bright too because of the light colored bottom. The bottom was always clearly visible, and there was no way monsters could hide down there or sneak up on you.

[Orrex]

38. A gigantic, voracious amoeba would be nearly invisible even in clear water

Take that, Lake Tahoe!

[BrotherBuzz]

49. Voracious amoebas can't breed in lake Tahoe

their balls shrivel up and fall off because the water is so damn cold.

[Orrex]

55. That's what they want you to think.

These giant voracious amoebas manufacture their own antifreeze right there in their cytoplasm.

You've been warned.

[BrotherBuzz]

59. Is the antifreeze blue?

if it is, I'm concerned because that lake is the bluest lake I've ever seen, bar none.

[sammythecat]

51. Oh God!

First Jaws, and now this.

How can anyone be sure it's even a lake? It could be a gigantic, voracious amoeba that just LOOKS like a lake. My world keeps shrinking.

[NewEnglandGirl]

12. I don't know if it's my biggest

but I'm not crazy about being startled by a spider. The other day I was in a store and I picked up a crystal glass to look at it. There was a spider in it and I freaked and dropped it. (Broke it of course).:scared:

[Rhythm]

13. Spiders and Clowns...

So you can just imagine how freaked out i was watching "It" :scared:

[femmocrat]

14. Heights. nt

[Whoa_Nelly]

15. Drowning

Almost drowned in '73 in the Kaweah River.

Ever since then, I don't do deep water, and swimming in moving water (rivers, ocean) make me stay on shore.
I can go tubing, canoeing, rafting, but cannot swim in water that is moving.

[pokerfan]

16. Bears

[Danger Mouse]

54. i hit a black bear with my car one time...

[Phillycat]

65. That'll teach him!

[pokerfan]

68. It's a shame that animals don't have a greater phobia of automobiles

[My Good Babushka]

17. Public speaking

then heights,
earwigs, and
EVPs freak me out.

[aquaman]

57. I remember in college......

I put off taking the public speaking class as long as I could. Hated talking in front of people. Now I teach college, does not bother me at all. My how things change.

[DarkTirade]

18. Roaches.

No clue why. Bats, spiders, ect. I can handle just fine. But roaches freak me the hell out.

I'm more than a bit uncomfortable around bees and wasps, but that's just a reaction to the fact that I got attacked by an entire nest when I was a kid.

[momto3]

19. Spiders.

Even the teeny tiny ones send me into a panic. Also claustrophobic.

[Carnea]

20. Ice Cream Trucks.... NT

[siouxsiecreamcheese]

21. spiders

especially daddy long-legs, they look like creepy balls walking on hair strands:scared:

[madinmaryland]

22. Gorn and Parche. nt

[Ikonoklast]

23. Chuggo

I'm afraid that he may be real.

[Chan790]

24. Dogs.

All dogs. A toy poodle can send me into a panic attack.

[Generic Brad]

25. Getting stuck on a desserted island

And my companions are Ralph Reed, Tom DeLay, Grover Norquist, and Karl Rove.

[Orrex]

37. You're right--they'd steal all of the desserts

Those ice cream-hogging bastards!

[SoxFan]

46. The Smoke Monster would take care of them

[AccessGranted]

26. Heights, Burning and Bears

But not necessarily in the order.

[lizziegrace]

27. water n/t

[grannylib]

28. Arachnids. If it has eight legs, it had better be seafood drenched

in butter.

[Pierre.Suave]

30. Parche, I dont think I have any

I think the USMC beat them all out of me, now I am afraid of nothing.

and I am serious, I have no fear.

[Inchworm]

31. I'm there too..

until they are in my face lol

:hi:

[Pierre.Suave]

32. I was never afraid of the DIs either

they just never scared me. Pissed me off, yes. Made me hate them, yes. Scare me, no.

[mwooldri]

33. Blood and Bugs. Well some bugs.

If there's a movie with lots of blood and gore I can't watch it. Sorry but I'd get more benefit out of Kung Fu Panda than I would out of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

As for bugs - depends on what they are. Fleas and small flies are annoying and squishable. Medium sized flies are just annoying. Bees, wasps, horseflies - argh! And spiders - don't get me started on spiders!

Mark.

[swag]

34. The very idea of eternal life.

[nadine_mn]

40. Clowns and bugs - horror story of childhood trauma

when I was 5 we lived in trailer park in a swamp in Louisiana...we had moved there from MN...so I was unfamiliar with the nightlife.

Got up to go to the bathroom during the night (bare foot) and as I walked I heard and felt crunch squish crunch squish...

I had no idea what I was walking on then I felt the crawling on my feet...I screamed...my mom came running, turned on the light and the floor moved... hundreds of roaches shot off in different directions


shudder



Clowns....they are just creepy

[Fox Mulder]

41. I usually don't share that kind of information.

It can be used against me later.

:P

[galledgoblin]

42. centipedes

[WinkyDink]

43. Flying.

[Lil Missy]

44. Violence. n/t

[Broken_Hero]

48. "I think we are going to need a bigger boat"

:D aka, Sharks.

[Roon]

50. I have no idea why...

but I am scared to death of belly dancers.

[Sultana]

63. really

:o

[Roon]

64. Yeah

I think it's because they single out people and make them dance with them. I am afraid of being picked to dance.

[Danger Mouse]

52. wasps. i'm fucking terrified of wasps.

[Mutley]

53. Spiders.

:scared:

[Release The Hounds]

56. Assholes

[ElsewheresDaughter]

58. only one

cockroaches

[unsavedtrash]

60. dark water

I can not get in it. The ocean (right at the beach) is a bit better but not always.

[FloridaJudy]

61. Maggots

I'm not fond of heights, either, but maggots really creep me out. I don't mind snakes or spiders, provided they're not venomous.

My sister's always been scared of moths. When I was a little kid, I could bribe her to do anything by capturing any moths flying around the house. Now she raises silkworms. Just don't tell her those aren't butterflies...

[oedura]

62. Social interaction. (nt)

...

[tedoll78]

66. Snakes.

Even those small grass snakes. Hate 'em.

[Mendocino]

67. Drowning

I love being around water, swimming is no problem, I go white water canoeing, but the thought of dying underwater-yikes!