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On February 24 2012 17:01 stokes17 wrote: More interestingly it sounds like she has synesthesia. Its when one sensory input- hearing a word- causes stimulation of another sense - seeing a color- i think its pretty neat. eddie van halen has it too! ^^
Cheers for this. I looked up synesthesia with her this morning and that seems very likely that's what she has. There is a college here studying it so will send them an email and see what comes out of it. I very much doubt that she has OCD. Or at least if she does its so mild its not even noticeable. Thanks for the comments guys. Now if only I can figure out why shes scared of the spaces in between peoples fingers...
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On February 24 2012 01:27 CrtBalorda wrote:Show nested quote +
Lastly, for some reason I am uncomfortable with the number 292. It just... freaks me out. I have absolutely no explanation why, it just does.
Dude how on earth did you find that out and actuly remember it. Interestingly that number also went into my eyes really quick so I guess I have a very tiny fear of it. As for what I know aboute me I have a tiny fear of looking at lots of holes. I discoverd it when I watched the video linked from the thread talking aboute the swarm host on the same issue.
Haha, yeah it isn't that surprising considering I was born on February 29th. I lived overseas most of my life, so the date was always written as 29/2, so it always bothered me. I still prefer DD/MM/YYYY though .
Huh... actually that could be why I dislike/ fear it so much. I was always quite insecure as a kid because people were always talking about how I was only one or two, and I wanted to be grown-up. So I guess I grew to dislike leapyear, and that particular number combination. Just a theory though, I don't know.
EDIT: Oh yeah, and the reason that it went into your eyes quickly is probably because humans see things in threes first; as in, if you see four chairs, it will take you two "intakes" to fully understand there are four chairs. If there were three, you could glance and instantly be like, "Oh, there are three chairs."
That's what I have heard anyway.
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On February 23 2012 15:05 EGMachine wrote: I live in the constant fear that somehow someway somewhere at sometime someone will find a way to clone me and force my clone to fight against me.
I think at the creation of this most bad-ass of beings he and I would sense the others power. We would immediately fly towards the other and once together we would then truly understand the magnitude of the situation. "This cannot be! He is equally as awesome as I?" We would then brofist in a sign that we each recognize the other as an equally handsome bad-ass that he is, yet we would understand what we each had to do. There is not enough room in this world for so much greatness. A battle that would rage on for centuries would unfold in-which worlds would crumble. In this onslaught due to the equivalent perfection we would both eventually fall. The world would lose one of the most mediocre Zerg's to walk on the face of this world. That gentlemen, is my phobia.
and Poa..... Poa scares the shit out of me.
Can my phobia be a fear of this happening?
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I have an irrational fear of natural red heads.
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On February 24 2012 22:13 Yggdrazil wrote:When the CERN LHC began experimenting, i began to be afraid of black holes, strangelets, etc, even if, being a scientist, i know it's safe. So i was always checking the horizon, to the south (i live just north to the LHC) if "something wasn't coming".
I visited CERN over the holidays this year and a lady on the tour asked about this, I thought it was pretty hilarious but after looking around a bit online I found that this was actually pretty common. A teenager in Japan commited suicide the day they started the LHC too. Crazy stuff!
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I dont really have a phobia but I cant stand something getting in my eye or seeing someone do something to their eye like putting in a contact or eye drops. Even thinking about it makes my eyes water up, I have no fucking clue how people can get lasik eye surgery.
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Not sure why but I can't stand masks which just show someone's eyes and lips...
like this
I think it all has to do with this film The man in the iron mask, I don't know why but it was like the only film which scared the shit out of me... I could watch any horror movie, people dying in a painful way, lots of blood etc. but I can't stand watching this guy with a mask sitting in a dark cell... I remember 1 day after I watched the film I couldn't sleep for like 4 hours and I saw an image of this man on my cupboard lol. I couldn't close my eyes for a single second... and nowadays even when I see a simple mask made by a kid I get reminded of those images... Really can't desribe the feeling. Also thinking about putting a mask on my own face sounds like the most horrible thing I can think of.
Really weird phobia I know.
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i am afraid of spoiled milk.
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Does anyone know if "anatidaephobia" - the fear of being watched by a duck - is actually real?
edit. I dunno if it's much of a phobia, but I'm terrible at dealing with horror films, as I generally really live into the film.
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I get slightly uncomfortable looking at the black center of a sunflower
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Velcro, it's like nails on the chalkboard for me.
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I'm now fairly scared of canned objects with pull tabs. Ever since I got 5 stitches from opening one, I've opened like 3 cans since, all with significant preparation and perspiration.
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I have a phobia of TL Trolls. I tend to start crying in the corner when i see one.
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On March 09 2012 12:39 Whole wrote: I get slightly uncomfortable looking at the black center of a sunflower
I have this as well. Reminds me of bugs somehow.
Also I'm afraid of the redeads from Ocarina of Time, but everyone is, I think.
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I'm not sure what the cutoff for phobia is, so I'll list off some irrational things I'm afraid of and how afraid of them I am (0 being indifferent, 10 being the most terrifying thing I can imagine).
Clowns - 2 (when I was a kid I was genuinely afraid of them, I just find them mildly unsettling now)
Centipedes/Millipedes - 7 (maybe my only legitimate phobia- anything with more than 8 legs scares the shit out of me)
Deep Water - 4 (I can swim in lakes, but I need to psych myself up to initially get in, and I'm never completely comfortable- if i feel seaweed or fish it gets worse and I usually GTFO of there)
Cotton Balls - 4 (weirdest one, I guess- when I was a kid, I think I must have put one in my mouth- now my mouth gets dry and uncomfortable whenever I look at one, it's pretty unsettling)
I'm also afraid of heights, but I refuse to call it a phobia because I don't think it's irrational. If I'm in a plane or strapped in securely to something there's no issue. I think a healthy fear of heights is just a logical survival instinct.
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spiders. not real spiders. i am haunted by spiders in my dreams though i am not really too afraid of them irl. but i'll have a dream about them every now and again and i wake up and if anything touches me, be it wind, water earth fire i respond as though i had just been shot in arm with a firearm
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When I put my head in a sink when the water's on, I immedietly am terrified that someone will hold my head down and I'll drown in a sink.
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2 fears: Fear that I'll be late to everything. Fear of throwing up. I am just terrified of stuff on the inside coming out my mouth. This leads to germaphobia as I avoid anyone who I think might give me the flu. And I can't ride roller coasters.
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Trypophobia. Last time I talked about it on here, people laughed. One person insisted I was trolling. It's not just holes in flesh I fear (mostly infections or necrosis)... it's other holes. When you cook pop tarts too long and the filling oozes out of the little holes on the surface, I can't look at it. I have to throw it away immediately. You know when you're rowing a boat in a body of water, if you look down at your oar, you can see little "whirlpools" caused by your stroke. These freak me the fuck out. I actually can't stop staring at it, but I start swallowing and I don't know it's fucking weird. The pore all over my nose? I can't look at them for more than 3 seconds. Before you get curious, no part of human anatomy scares me, or even causes me to give pause, thank god for that. Sponges don't scare me either. But those fucked up frogs that carry eggs on their back and then the tadpoles BURST out of the frogs skin? I. CAN'T. FUCKING. TAKE IT. The bumps on the back, then the holes, the bursting... I can't deal. In addition, you know how you some sauce in a pot and soak it overnight, sometimes you get this scum skin on top overnight, but sometimes it's really white and really porous... I actually gag when I see this.
It's a really weird phobia. It's only certain holes on certain things... It's like only certain things remind me of rotting flesh. Sponges remind me of sponges. I guess I can see the pop tarts relation... red goo oozing from a pale surface caved in... But the little whirlpools in water? Who the fuck knows. It just bothers me how deep the hole is for how tiny and short lived it is...
Well maybe the Mrs. is right about therapy being a good idea
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On February 24 2012 22:13 Yggdrazil wrote: Since around 9/11 2011 (i think it began this date), i have not really a phobia, but generalized anxiety, which i feel as phobias.
Although it began in septembre 2011, in my conscious mind, it isn't related to 9/11 attacks, i wasn't ultra-shocked or whatever, i didn't cry, feel afraid or so when it happened. But it might not be a coincidence !
SO it began by the fear of loud jet sounds. Many planes were passing above my high school everyday, and every time i heard the sound of plane reactors, i had a panic attack, thinking it was a nuclear bomb, or the earth exploding, or whatever cataclysmic. It lasted for years and was very hard to endure (i always had the need to flee, to hide, and i was always putting my hands on my ears in order to not hear the sounds anymore, which made me look stupid in class or in the street...)
I actually still have panic attacks (around 4-5 a week) thinking a cataclysm may be happening....
The phobia since then has changed a little and now i'm not only afraid of loud reactor sounds, but also of vibrations and sounds caused by other engines (train, trucks, etc when they are loud and unexpected). Also, every time i have a vertigo i panic... and panic -> adrenaline -> vertigo .........
A few laters (and a few years from now on) added to that phobia other phobias :
When the CERN LHC began experimenting, i began to be afraid of black holes, strangelets, etc, even if, being a scientist, i know it's safe. So i was always checking the horizon, to the south (i live just north to the LHC) if "something wasn't coming".
Finally, i'm often afraid that the sun would explode or disappear, or our planet would be swallowed by an errant black hole, etc...
All in all, my phobias all concern cataclysmic events i couldn't control nor prevent, and i think i know what any psychanalyst would deduce from that...
It's been about 10 years now that i endure those phobias, making half a dozen panic attacks a week. I deal with it, hoping it will disappear one day (i heard this kind of problems can disappear around the age of 30).
This is called paranoia, and is documented extensively
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