What are your phobias?

[Eric Brooks]

- My bed in my room is up against the wall and I like to sleep with my back facing the wall. If my back is facing the opposite side, I get the feeling that something is going to come and get me from behind. So I sleep with my back facing the wall.

I have this, I also have sleep paralysis which contributes to not only needing my bed against a wall but some sort of light as well. Will not sleep in the complete dark, EVER

 

[Doctor Jones]

What? Do you have a nightlight or something?

It takes time to grow out of complete darkness but now I'm fine with it.

 

[Eric Brooks]

What? Do you have a nightlight or something?

It takes time to grow out of complete darkness but now I'm fine with it.

no I sleep with the tv on, usually on the channel you use to view DVD's so there's no static or snow or anything.

thinking about getting a night light though

remember, this is all because of my Sleep Paralysis (if you don't know what that is, it's a *****, I'll leave it at that). Occording to researchers, it's suppose to be the absolute scariest occurance a human could endure

 

[TheZink]

Other than fear or dying or loved ones dying:

I hate heights. Its not some abnormal fear where I get dizzy or nauseated when I am up high. I get on the roof of my house and walk around quite well. I love roller-coasters (expect certain ones, I'll come back to that) and other things of the like. What really gets me about heights is the actually FALLING. This is probably I will never go sky-diving or bungee jumping. Certain rides that are straight shots up an down I avoid. Stuff like that really freaks me out.

I also really dislike spiders. I won't kill them outside on sight or anything like that. I think they are mysterious and very interesting creatures, but I also think they are extremely creepy looking. When they are in my house, and crawling on or around me that is when I get the nearest blunt object to quickly kill them with.

 

[Doctor Jones]

no I sleep with the tv on, usually on the channel you use to view DVD's so there's no static or snow or anything.

thinking about getting a night light though

remember, this is all because of my Sleep Paralysis (if you don't know what that is, it's a *****, I'll leave it at that). Occording to researchers, it's suppose to be the absolute scariest occurance a human could endure

Damn, you're electric bill must be high. That sucks though.

I can fall asleep with the tv on too. It actually makes me go to sleep faster.

 

[OtherwiseKnownAs]

IT is a great film. You should watch it. Alone. On acid.

No. I've watched it before. Never again.

 

[SuperFerret]

I've got to disagree with most of you, I love spiders. (My apartment even had a slight infestation of them for a time.)

I'm terrified of birds. I don't mind bats, or even falcons, like hawks or eagles, but small birds like finches or pigeons, or god forbid big ones, like emus or ostriches scare the **** out of me. Ducks are alright, but not geese.

That's pretty much how I feel. Birds of prey I'm okay with, I tend to be more at ease around predatory animals than prey animals. Parrots freak me out too, and doesn't it suck even more that ostriches and emus are friggin' mean? Also, geese are *****.

 

[Raiden]

My phobias are height (but I'm okay if I'm inside the skyscraper) and bugs, like roaches, spiders, and anything disgusting. I also have phobia against reptiles like snakes and lizards. Another phobia is watching surgeries on human patients, esp. if it involves the eye. Come to think of it, I do have quite a few.

 

[SuperFerret]

My phobias are height (but I'm okay if I'm inside the skyscraper) and bugs, like roaches, spiders, and anything disgusting. I also have phobia against reptiles like snakes and lizards. Another phobia is watching surgeries on human patients, esp. if it involves the eye. Come to think of it, I do have quite a few.

Eye surgeries are always hard to watch, phobia or not. I love surgery, but watching an eye being manipulated like that is just creepy. Plus, I wind up blinking and twitching the whole time.

 

[CELTICPRED]

How can you love spiders?

ick.

I don't do it anymore, but I used to religiously check my walls and ceiling and area around my bed to make sure they were clear before going to sleep.

 

[[A]]

I don't do it anymore, but I used to religiously check my walls and ceiling and area around my bed to make sure they were clear before going to sleep.

Haha me too -- not under the bed, but the walls and ceiling

 

[Eric Brooks]

I don't do it anymore, but I used to religiously check my walls and ceiling and area around my bed to make sure they were clear before going to sleep.

I still do this. After having a freaking centipede run out from under the tv stand in my bedroom at full speed, that was it. Can't stand insects in my bedroom, no way to protect yourself when your asleep

never again

 

[Blindfighter]

I am afraid of small spaces.

 

[Chris Wallace]

Alligators & red ants.

 

[Doctor Jones]

I heard the average person consumes around five spiders in their sleep in a lifetime.

I think the number is wrong though.

 

[Wiseman]

I heard the average person consumes around five spiders in their sleep in a lifetime.

I think the number is wrong though.

I heard that's a myth

 

[[A]]

I heard the average person consumes around five spiders in their sleep in a lifetime

I think spiders know I don't like them -- so they bite me in my sleep. The b**ches

 

[Eric Brooks]

who knows, I heard it's true but they're no bigger than a spec of dust so it's not really that disgusting

 

[CELTICPRED]

I heard the average person consumes around five spiders in their sleep in a lifetime.

I think the number is wrong though.

My biology teacher said he thinks that would be 7 or 8 spiders a year, not over a lifetime.

 

[Trainwreck2100]

I'm afraid of Drowning

 

[SuperFerret]

How can you love spiders?

I hate ants and centipedes, which I also get in my apartment. The spiders pay their rent by eating those insectoid pains in my ass, thus I allow the web-makers to live in my apartment.

 

[Eric Brooks]

spiders eat centipedes? good deal, thought they just ate the smaller bugs

centipedes gotta be like a thanksgiving meal to them

I'm going to have to keep the spiders around from now on

 

[cryptic name]

snakes and more importantly, the ocean. which is strange because i've lived in california my whole life and live in a beach town, i also love to swim. but the ocean terrifies me. it's the vastness and the agelessness of it, i think. whenever i look out into the ocean at night i can just imagine something unfathomable rising from it. this fear is amplified by the fact that the ocean of my imagination is filled with sharks no smaller than Jaws, huge eels, giant squids, godzilla, and cthulu.

 

[CELTICPRED]

See, I don't see the problem with snakes. They look and feel cool.

 

[cryptic name]

See, I don't see the problem with snakes. They look and feel cool.

they're made of evil and scales!