Enclosed spaces are becoming an issue, lately
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Sleeping in a really tight bunk bed with a wall at arm's length (on the "open" side) didn't use to be a problem. Last year I discovered, it is now. I didn't sleep very much or soundly that night. Heights never were an issue but I do realise I'm becoming a bit more wary of them. In the sense of having to consciously tell me that it's not a problem in some situations (walking a ridge with 300m of nothing on either side or other similar things nobody needs to do). Also, in the wacko department of completely irrational fears: pigeons.
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I said heights but it doesn't stop me
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I've climbed mountains, walked trails where one misstep would mean a 2,000-foot plunge to my death, re-roofed houses. But my toes tingle the entire time.
I have a bit of claustrophobia too. My brother goes spelunking and his descriptions of passages where you basically have to wriggle through on your belly make me unable to breathe. Couldn't do that.
Used to be afraid of spiders, but got over it. I let them be in my house unless they happen to be a hobo spider, in which case they get trapped and moved outside, because their bite is NASTY.
they were driving some supercar which had what they call a "spoiler" that would automatically rise up when the car reached a certain speed. and force the car DOWN. I learned that this was necessary because over that speed the car would actually start to fly. It would be sucked UP by the vacuum created above it by its own speed. Intellectually I know that's how airplanes fly but this really brought it home to me. The art of landing a plane is not just bringing it back down to earth but getting the speed to drop enough at the right moment so that the plane stops wanting to go UP.
I don't know if that helps you but it helped me. So did hypnosis. I used to fear flying & now I love it.
I had a bad scare in an elevator myself
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I got into an elevator once that wouldn't let me out. It went up and down to several floors but never opened the doors for me now matter what buttons I pushed. Then it rocked back and forth for a while and dropped about a half a floor before letting me out back where I'd started.
I warned the people waiting not to take it that one, but several people got on anyway. I've always wondered if that elevator behaved itself for them.
I'm sure that this has nothing to do with my fears, though, right?
My phobia for wasps originated from when I was six years old, the class took a trip out to the countryside and we were served sandwiches with ham. Well, inside my sandwich there was a wasp, and as I took a bite the wasp stung me right on my tongue (and stayed there! It got stuck, so I had to pull it out myself and toss it away...ugh. And it was huge! Then again this was more than 16 years ago so my memory might be a bit fuzzy.) Ever since, I don't like eating outside anymore because of all the wasps here during the summer. I've got stung several times since, like probably everyone else, but having a wasp flying around inside your mouth at age 6 did it for me. Exterminate the wasps, I say!
Luckily I don't have an allergy for them, but I know some who do and if this would have happened to them, the outcome could have been severe.
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they always go RIGHT for the person who is allergic or otherwise does not want them around. Perverse creatures. I enjoy them myself, but I'm well aware that they have an evil streak. The whole toying-with-prey thing, maybe.
I think my biggest fear in life, really, is not having my freedom. Hence the claustrophobia. I don't fear dying. I don't want to die right just yet, of course, I still have things to accomplish, but the idea doesn't scare me.
I don't mind heights, or various creepy-crawlies, or dying in general (I can think of a fair number of ways to go that I would really rather not experience, but I don't actively fear them). But I really don't like the idea of things falling on me and trapping me. Cave ceilings, unstable buildings, whatever.
More seriously, I'm terrified of not being in my right mind and not knowing what I'm doing. That one probably comes from getting a concussion and remembering very little of what I did during that time. Imagination always makes these things worse.
Spiders. We used to find Black Widows in our house in California, and I
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found a really big one on my pillow right here in Ohio last summer. Don't like them, they are killers.
I used to fly back in the day when it was cheap and safe and fun. I have found that I have no desire or intention to ever fly again.
I have been alone for the past few years now. Sometimes I fear that I will be alone for the rest of my life. This does not sit well with me. I try to count my blessings every day and believe that something could happen at any moment to change this.
This is my biggest fear too. Wasps, hornets, yellow jackets - all the nasty, ugly-looking bugs that fly and sting people. I find it hard to concentrate on anything else if I am trapped in a room with one (as sometimes used to happen on a warm day at school...)
I also have a mild fear of heights. It has not stopped me from climbing trees, hiking on exposed, steep trails, doing rope courses, etc. but I am always nervous when I know I am very high up. Even when driving over bridges.
Oddly, though, I am not afraid of flying. I think that's a matter of having done it a fair amount, and understanding the physics.
I also have a mild fear of heights. It has not stopped me from climbing trees, hiking on exposed, steep trails, doing rope courses, etc. but I am always nervous when I know I am very high up. Even when driving over bridges.
Oddly, though, I am not afraid of flying. I think that's a matter of having done it a fair amount, and understanding the physics.
Many pilots have a mild fear of heights, including me, but as long as we know we're not going to fall out of the airplane, it doesn't bother us at all in flight.
I try to fight it, but if there is any chance that I could fall, I panic.
I remember one time, I went to Vegas and went up to the top of the Stratosphere. The window have a different design there. There are regular windows, then windows angled above and below. The ones angles above didn't bother me, but the ones angled under freaked me out!! I had a the paranoid fear that I'd trip and fall onto those windows below and they would break. I can't lean on bridge railings for the same reason. I have the unreasonable fear that the railing will give way and I won't be able to stop myself from falling.
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Spiders - If I find one in my home I tend to keep looking for it untill I have caught it and put it in a bottle of some sort and release it again some bloks away. So I guess ts more of a I-dont-mind-them-as-long-they-are-not-on-my-territory kind of thing.
Enclosed spaces Sterile areas, that include dentists, doctors, hospitals, vets. I have a lot of bad experiences that includes all that, most of them being tons of operations from I was a baby. I can be there but only if I feel really bad or if it really is neccesary. But it does give me coldsweath. Injections and watching myself or others getting injections or bloodsamples taken. Also I have a fear of throwing up.. [ Which I have to face 3 times on a daily basis as I am on medication and the pills makes me sick. [ Nausea ] ]
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