I don’t know if it’s physically possible, but I sometimes think what if my office chair breaks and the hydraulic piston shoots through the seat and impales my colon.
Real Final Destination shit right there.
Possible trigger warning…
I read an article a few years ago about this happening in China. There were graphic photos from the ER which I won’t discuss here, but If I remember correctly it was a teenager and he actually died because it ruptured an artery in his colon or something like that. Ever since then I’ve always been ok with spending a little more money for a quality chair. Especially if it’s something you’re going to use every day.
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getting bird shit in my mouth. no, really. I have a recurring (but not frequent) “nightmare” about getting bird shit in my mouth through diverse accidents. there’s even an incredibly vivid taste associated with it that I can recall when I’m awake. I’m guessing that toddler me took a gamble for science and wound up scarred for life.
Irrational - being kidnapped and not having access to feminine products. Totally rational & terrifying- clowns.
Why is the last one the rational one while the first one is irrational?
Lots of people are afraid of clowns and I’m probably not likely to be kidnapped. Hope i didn’t just jinx it.
Oh. I was thinking in terms of severity, though for me, commonality would be reversed too. I’ve no clowns to fear, but kidnapping has its history if you ask me.
I don’t think the first one is irrational
I thought it was just one of those weird things to worry about until i read this. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/05/my-period-has-become-nightmare-life-in-gaza-without-sanitary-products
I’m irrationally afraid that I’ll push too many buttons with my pointer finger and eventually the fat pad will wear away and it’ll just be my fingertip bone with skin stretched over it. :(
Needles. I got allergy tested when I was little and they pricked my arms hundreds of times to see what I was allergic to. I was also super young do naturally I wanted to itch it, and they wouldn’t let me. It got to the point where they strapped my arms to the table and all I wanted to do was scratch the areas that they had poked me…
Maybe don’t do that to a five year old.
Yea I don’t like needles
I have the same fear. Watching the news during covid was horrible.
Nurse here. It’s curious. Some people with a fear of needles need to close their eyes to avoid seeing anything like you describe, and some of them HAVE to watch, because, for them, the anticipation and surprise is worse. Humans are weird, but I love you anyway. Also, I’m tired, and I just spent about one, full, uninterrupted minute laughing at your username. Thanks.
Aww. Thanks. Yes, I can’t watch when I have blood work done. I don’t get much sleep the night before, and while I am pretty sure I don’t have anxiety, I think I had an anxiety attack the last cat scan I had. They had to try a second time to get the iv in, and I went into full meltdown mode. Pretty sure I know what event in my life caused this, and there’s nothing I can do about it now. I have tried lots of things, keeping my mind occupied, headphones, breathing, it’s all out the window the minute they start wiping my arm with the alcohol. I know it’s irrational, and it hurts more to sub your toe, but something in my brain just goes apeshit when the needles come out. It really sucks.
Ask your doc specifically for a prn dose of Ativan or Xanax or similar the next time you have a test or procedure. It’s not too uncommon. There’s no reason a simple blood draw should have to ruin your whole week.
Thanks. I might have to ask about that.
Same. And then seeing someone I know with diabetes have to jab every day drove me nuts to think about in a way.
Hey fellow skin prick lemming!
Same here. Whenever I have to get blood tests I always ask for a gurney because if I get a glimpse of the needle entering me, I’ll faint and I don’t want to hurt myself or someone else.
I don’t love the feeling of the needle piercing my skin but it is beareable, it’s the visuals I can’t stand.
At the same time, I love tattoos and have some of them.
Mine is being stuck in another dimension. When I was a kid I was stuck in a multi layer dream and I think I was like 3 layers in before I was about to give up.
Some examples are movies like Room 1408 or Silent Hill.
I don’t think it can happen, but I’m always terrified of it. The closest real life example is disassociation (depersonalization or derealization) fuck that noise.
Yes also that.
3 layer dream?
5 layer dream tree with “fake waking up” thing and sleep paralysis is where it’s atI get stuck in dreams like that semi-regularly. They’re kind of traumatizing every time.
Sea monsters. Doesn’t matter that I’m a middle aged man who has been in dozens of lakes without incident. Every goddamn time there’s a constant “hey, something could rise from the depths and eat you right now. You never know!”
They don’t want to EAT you or anything, they just like to lightly brush against the side of your foot with a tentacle one time because they’re smart and curious, but shy.
Oddly shaped fruits.
I love fruits more than anything else in the world, but I am weirded out by tropical fruits with an odd shape and/or color (dragon fruit for example)
I hear you! Rambutans ( Nephelium Lappaceum) are a no go for me because of the outer texture. Pineapples are Ok
It looks like a virus, just looking at it gross me out haha.
Pineapple, I love. But we grew up with canned pineapple, so that’s why it doesn’t weird me out.
Do durians count? Those are amazing once you cut them.
Durian taste like wet onions with a bit of fruit to me. It’s like cilantro I guess, you either love it or hate it.
But durians do count for me.
This person is telling you lies
Which person?
Clowns
I know they’re just people in makeup, but I always fear them no matter how much I try to reason away the fear
What about mimes?
Mimes are fine by me, their acts are largely watch only and not as direct.
Besides, the fear definitely rooted from watching IT at about 8 years old
That I can’t have any thoughts that a future super intelligence would see as a threat.
Walking into a public bathroom that uses motion sensors and it’s dark when I walk in. Guaranteed comfort, you’d think? Nope, according to my brain, I’m probably going to find a body.
The worst thing about these (apart from all the dead bodies obvs.) is that the timer is never long enough for a decent dump. You’re just about ready to start cleanup and all the lights go out!
It sucked when work switch to motion. Makes it real obvious you were in too long if the light turns on when you walk out of a stall.
(This is a factory, so the first door to the sink section stays proped open)
Makes me think of https://monk.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Adrian_Monk's_Phobias
Being physically around people.
Same. It’s scary, because scientists still don’t fully know what they’re capable of.
Is this common?
Getting evicted. I don’t do anything wrong or break my lease in my apartment, and have never had a complaint against me but for whatever reason I get super freaked out when someone knocks on my door. Even if it’s just a delivery driver.
I remember one time I actually called off sick at work because I saw my landlord on my ring doorbell tape something to my door and I was literally worried sick. Started thinking I had to start looking for another place.
Turns out it was just a notice saying that they were going to give residents a free fire extinguisher in the coming days. All that panic for nothing.
I’m kind of weird. I can’t stand the idea of swimming in the deep ocean. It makes me skil crawl and want to run as far away as I can… despite loving the ocean. Just don’t make me swim in deep ocean waters.
I’m not sure if those first two sentences are connected. 😉 Anyway, that fear is called thalassophobia, and is very common.
Yeah. It’s so weird imagining that there is so much dark space below oneself, where anything could be lurking.
And stop moving, and you’ll sink deep down. No safeguard that stops you at some point. You’ll just sink and sink and sink.
That’s a perfectly normal and healthy fear, for those mortals who dare display hubris towards the endless sea shall be met with a fate most grim
Not too uncommon.
