Hey Pandas, Do You Have Funny Irrational Fears? (Closed)

That everyone everywhere can read my mind. It's actually really annoying.

Spiders. Where I live, the United Kingdom of UK, there are no spiders that can physically hurt me, so why am I so freaked out? Arachnophobia makes sense if you live in Australia, when every little creature is poisonous, but where I am? Nope. Ridiculous.

I do remember a theory that spiders were extra-terrestrial in origin and that is why so many people are afraid of them, spiders not literally being otherworldly. And it makes sense to me. Yes, I know it is not a serious theory.....

I'm always anxious when I look at people with long fingernails doing any precise tasks, especially the ones requiring pressing or prying. I can't help but expect that their fingernails will snap or rip off leaving bare, bloody meat on the fingers. For the very same reason I can't grow my own nails too much.

I AM TERRIFIED OF THE OCEAN. The ironic part? I'M FROM MALDIVES! I can literally go to a crossroad and whether I look left or right, all I see would be waves. I'm mainly scared of drowning I suppose. So, to get over this irrational fear, I'm going to a swimming competition tomorrow.😬 In. The. Ocean. Wish me luck!!

I'm afraid of escalators and by extension moving sidewalks or amusement ride/ tubing conveyer belts.

Now... the story to explain it. When I was a kid, my shoelace got stuck in an escalator. My shoe got really tight and it was freaking me out. I tried to tell my mum but it was loud and busy so though she could feel me moving she couldn't hear or see what the problem was. Out of nowhere, a guy going the other way could see it, he jumped over the barrier, grabbed me, snapping the shoelace and ran me off the escalator. My mum thought I was being kidnapped and freaked. When he explained what had happened, she was grateful as I could have been seriously injured. I was 3.

To this day (26) I still avoid escalators and if I must take them I have to psych myself up to get on or off. I don't dare walk on them and I grip really hard on the handrail the whole time.

I also will say that they are less irrational than being afraid of sharks as more people die in freak escalator accidents than in shark attacks (thank you shark week for that random fact)

I have the fear of looking up.

There is a name for it but I forgot what it was. It only applies if I am seeing nothing but sky. It makes me feel like I am going to suddenly fall to my death, even if I am standing on the ground.

Not terrified to do it but it makes extremely uncomfortable.

It's a weird one.

That my fan will fall on me in my sleep and the blades will chop me up.

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I can't wear anything around my neck--scarf, necklace, even turtleneck--because I'm afraid if it's caught on something it'll cut off my head.

I got locked in the room with a corpse when I was like 6 I think. I was in there well over an hour before they found me. I just sat in the chair and stared at the dude worried if I took my eyes off of him he was going to get back up. Due to this I don't like corpses. I'm not scared of them in the sense I'm going to scream, but my heart starts to race any time I need to go to a viewing and I try to avoid them where I can.

No idea what caused it but I have an irrational fear of something coming out of the power sockets at night and zapping me. If I get up in the night it is very hard not to run to the bathroom and then run back to bed and jump into bed to avoid touching the floor. I also struggle to have my feet on the floor if there is a thunderstorm, not sure what will get me there.
And clowns, those dudes are terrifying despite never having seen such classics like IT.

Balloons. Logically I know that there's nothing to be afraid of but they're like little explosions waiting to go off. I avoid any & all balloons whenever possible.

When boarding an airplane, I must touch the outside of the plane with my right hand as I step onboard. Otherwise something bad might happen. It is the only thing like that I do.

I fear small children with a passion

I’m terrified of cheese graters.

Portraits on walls creep me out. Just eyes in general are freaky and portraits or pictures with eyes escappily at places I’m not use to creep me out

Bridges. I don’t know why but whenever I am on one I think it will randomly collapse

Balls being thrown at me, like towards my face
Balloons popping by my face
Heights, even just watching a movie when they are looking down from a skyscraper or something it makes me physically sick and I have to turn away

I have a fear that what I see/experience as reality is just my mind playing tricks on me and that some day my mind will suddenly show me the "real" reality -but at a time where I can't avoid being badly hurt or even "unalived" ( as I think BP prefers to call it). Example: I think I am out for a walk in the sunshine in a park.... but in reality I am out on the ocean about to drown.
Example: I think I am sitting on a bus listening to music.... but in reality I am falling down from a cliff.

It's weird but I've always had this fear.

The older I get the more fears/phobias I seem to have, but, lately it's driving on any roads with a sped limit over 50mph. Also worked in emergency room will NEVER ride anything that doesn't have a roll cage

My biggest fear is wasps but my most irrational fear is children wearing makeup. I don't know what it is about seeing a young kid in makeup but it creeps me out. That scene in the movie Bad Grandpa when the kid enters a beauty pageant is both extremely funny and unnerving.