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Decks 7 May 2018 10:47:32 31,014 posts
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To be fair you're from the colonies so it's a bit more understandable being scared of them.

Load_2.0 7 May 2018 10:48:30 33,582 posts
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Also.

Load_2.0 7 May 2018 10:48:54 33,582 posts
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Load_2.0 7 May 2018 10:49:12 33,582 posts
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That shit is happening all the time.

nickthegun 7 May 2018 10:54:36 87,711 posts
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I'm a massive hypochondriac, so if I smell smoke I don't think 'shit, something's on fire' but 'shit, I might have a brain tumor'.

Load_2.0 7 May 2018 10:56:11 33,582 posts
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Apparently the biggest indicator is if you are reading a passage of text and suddenly it ceases to make banana.

nickthegun 7 May 2018 10:59:06 87,711 posts
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Hah!

Wait....

Deleted user 7 May 2018 11:19:26

It's not really a phobia but human babies animated in ways to make them look like they're doing other things freak me out. They look so weird.

Rogueywon 7 May 2018 11:22:26 12,387 posts
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@DukeSilver That is truly horrifying.

Deleted user 7 May 2018 11:25:59

It's strange that it must have gone through focus groups and people thought it looked really cute and not creepy like something from a nightmare.

Rogueywon 7 May 2018 11:28:11 12,387 posts
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@DukeSilver Babies are fairly nightmarish anyway and should really be kept out of sight until they reach a less nauseating age. Maybe 24 or so.

Deleted user 7 May 2018 11:36:55

Imagine a baby that was adult human size. That would look like some sort of chubby balloon animal with a beach ball for a head and rickets.

KD 7 May 2018 11:38:16 3,575 posts
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@DukeSilver You must have loved that scene in Trainspotting then.

Had a girl over with a fucked up phobia, she couldn't put up with things floating in other things, freaked her out so was hard to work out what to cook and when she had a bath I was asked to pick the hair out that was floating.

Deleted user 7 May 2018 11:48:59

She'd have hated jizz in the water. (Working title for a Deep Purple song?)

Strangely I didn't mind the Trainspotting baby because that was supposed to be disturbing.

Fake_Blood 7 May 2018 12:21:12 11,093 posts
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I once read that the spiders freak us out because our brains are build to keep track of 4 limbs and 8 we can�t deal with.
But personally I think at some time in the past spiders were a serious threat to us and we�ve evolved this fear.

Anyone seen the b-movie Ticks in the 90�s?

UncleLou Moderator 7 May 2018 13:15:41 40,723 posts
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nickthegun wrote:

Decks wrote:
Evolutionary instinct to be scared of them innit. But yeah spiders are great.

You could make a case for us being able to spot and be wary of them but carrying on like a great big flapping vagina is pure conditioning.

That's not quite true though. Experiments with babies have shown that they react much stronger to pictures of spiders than of different insects.

And even if it was just conditioning, the question is still the same - why spiders? It seems to be a primal fear for many people, and psychology doesn't really understand why.

Tonka 7 May 2018 14:13:29 31,980 posts
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Swimming in dark water. If I can't see the bottom I rather not

Deleted user 7 May 2018 19:19:23

UncleLou wrote:

nickthegun wrote:

Decks wrote:
Evolutionary instinct to be scared of them innit. But yeah spiders are great.

You could make a case for us being able to spot and be wary of them but carrying on like a great big flapping vagina is pure conditioning.
That's not quite true though. Experiments with babies have shown that they react much stronger to pictures of spiders than of different insects.

And even if it was just conditioning, the question is still the same - why spiders? It seems to be a primal fear for many people, and psychology doesn't really understand why.

I'd assume it's because it made evolutionary sense at some point. Poisonous spiders being a threat to humans before we've wiped them out or something.

Deleted user 7 May 2018 20:22:41

Is anyone here scared of clowns? That's a common fear that makes little sense.

challenge_hanukkah 7 May 2018 20:41:39 14,400 posts
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That's a fashion thing. Like self diagnosing heart cancer.

Rodpad 8 May 2018 07:19:45 2,997 posts
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RandolphCarter wrote:
Oh, and trypophobia. It doesn't scare me like the above, but it makes my skin crawl. Especially seeing things like the dried husk of a ear of corn when the corn has been removed or a cross-section of a deseeded pomegranate.

I only recently realised that my lifelong fear of certain patterns was an actual thing and indeed Trypophobia. My first experience was a kid when I went to retrieve a football I kicked over to next door's garden. I noticed their conservatory glass had been totally shattered but was still in one piece. The pattern immediately created fear in my brain.

Now whenever I see something similar like weird mushrooms or freaky holes patterns, I feel really uneasy. The promotional posters for the latest American Horror Story are nightmare fuel for me.

sickpuppysoftware 8 May 2018 09:09:08 1,486 posts
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Tonka wrote:
Swimming in dark water. If I can't see the bottom I rather not

Don't go to Xcaret park in Mexico. It has a lovely little snorkling trail where you pottle around a little river type construction looking at tropical fish, having a pleasant swim etc. Towards the end the floor slopes away, the temperature plummets and you spend the next 10 minutes convinced a massive fucking Kraken is going to loom out of the darkness and snatch you away.

Eventually the underground cave finishes and the little river returns and you try to kiss the safe little fish for returning to you.

dmj 8 May 2018 09:28:44 1,081 posts
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I have mild vermiphobia. Mainly of earthworms, which is ridiculous. If they've somehow made their way onto the pavement I'll think nothing of stepping onto the road to avoid getting close to them. The thought of touching one makes me a bit anxious.

I've no idea where it comes from, but fuck them.

Innuendobot_5000 8 May 2018 09:32:13 238 posts
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Tonka wrote:
If I can't see the bottom I rather not

A. WISE. POLICY.

SolidSCB 8 May 2018 09:58:18 16,771 posts
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I've developed a bit of a phobia of lightning over the last few years.

I used to love watching it and didn't mind it at all, until a few years ago when a massive bolt struck the house next door to me at about 3 in the morning. I'd fallen asleep on the sofa and was woken up by the most intense bright light I've ever seen along with the loudest bang I've ever heard. I honestly thought we'd been bombed or an asteroid or something had hit us and I spent about 5-10 seconds absolutely frozen in fear waiting for the shockwave to end my life.

If that wasn't enough, about a year later I decided to walk into work as it was a lovely summers day. About 5 minutes away from work it started pissing it down and thundering out of nowhere and as I looked up, I saw a bolt of lightning form almost directly over me and then strike out towards the ground, hitting the ground near where I'd been walking maybe 1-2 minutes earlier. Same eerie intense light, sparks, the lot.

Not so much of a fan anymore.

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