What's the weirdest phobia you have? Or maybe the weirdest superstition ?

[Shotgun 1]

Arvoitus

***I have a strange aversion (perhaps a phobia, though I don't know a name for it) to things--usually circular shapes--in a particular pattern. It's hard to describe, but I remember noticing it back in the '80s or '90s, seeing a pair of jeans that had a lot of little holes in a deliberate pattern. And since then I've noticed it many other times - sometimes something in nature or some kind of man-made design. Makes me cringe.

The only thing I can think to explain it is that it reminds me of some kind of disease or something, though I don't recall ever seeing anything in particular that would have created such a trigger.

I did see an article a while back on NPR(?) about people having a phobia of holes, like on a honeycomb or something like that. I guess that's sort of similar though it didn't describe my aversion exactly. (Honeycombs don't bother me, but they are similar to the pattern that bothers me.)

I have something similar or well I wouldn't call it a phobia but aversion/disgust is more apt. Something like this or this (makes me want to throw up) makes me feel very uneasy. Someone came up with the word trypophobia to describe it but the DSM doesn't recognize it.

Yeah, those links kinda made my skin crawl.

[BlueSkiesDad 0]

My nephew once described his fear of heights by saying this, "When I look over the side, I feel like I'm supposed to jump off." So the whole edges thing makes sense.

I keep trying to get him to do a tandem. After all, that whole feeling like you're supposed to jump? Yeah, that's what you're supposed to do!

Think for yourself. Question authority.

[BillyVance 34]

BlueSkiesDad

My nephew once described his fear of heights by saying this, "When I look over the side, I feel like I'm supposed to jump off." So the whole edges thing makes sense.

I keep trying to get him to do a tandem. After all, that whole feeling like you're supposed to jump? Yeah, that's what you're supposed to do!

Show him this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwYN7mTi6HM

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[BigMikeH77 0]

promise5

Not sure I have one.

$50 bills. Won't touch em'. When I was in Iraq and would get some casual pay from finance, one time the girl tried to give me some $50's and I refused. Said I'd rather take it in nickels. She thought I was kidding.

[turtlespeed 226]

BigMikeH77

***Not sure I have one.

$50 bills. Won't touch em'. When I was in Iraq and would get some casual pay from finance, one time the girl tried to give me some $50's and I refused. Said I'd rather take it in nickels. She thought I was kidding.

I'll take all of them that you don't want.

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
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[Nataly 38]

Not so much any "weird" phobias, but fears developing in adulthood taking me totally by surprise... Surprising because as a kid I was pretty much fearless - I can't think of a single time in my childhood when I experienced fear. I'm not talking about jumping when someone yells "boo" at just the moment you least expected - that's a reaction... I'm talking about the panic and/or the sense of "oh shit" you get when you are doing something dangerous (perceived or real). Nervous, yes. Scared, no.

Things that have scared me as an adult: actually looking out the door for the first time (jump number 17, I think!)... At the top of a steep black diamond ski hill (I should mention I don't really ski, was struggling on the "bunny hill," and so had good reason to be afraid, but why at that precise moment and not before??? Fatigue??)... In a pool, paralised with fear (because I jumped in as a teenager, thinking swiming couldn't be so hard and woke up in the hospital because aparently when panic kicks in you can mistake the bottom of the pool for the surface and once you inhale water it's not so good - it's years later and I have since learnt to swim but every once in a while, panic sets in anyway)... On the motorcycle a few weeks back, scared myself shitless because I didn't want to incline the bike to take a very sharp turn - the turn scared me like hell!!! Totally ridiculous because I've taken that turn a million times before on a smaller bike and I *know* this bike is also perfectly capable of taking that turn. And even if I spooked myself and dropped the bike there was no traffic, I was going slow, and I was wearing all the gear - worst case scenario, a few small scratches on the bike... Nothing to freak out over.

Other things like that, where suddenly I have a crushing fear all of a sudden. Yes, it's not unhealthy to have a sense of how fragile our bodies actually are, but can't quite work out why these occasionally creep up on me. Maybe it's just me getting older (and wiser about danger)!!! Yep... That stuff would never have scared me when I was younger.

"There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse."
- Chris Hadfield
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[FlyingRhenquest 1]

When you're a kid you don't really have a sense of your own mortality. There used to be a park in Hawaii that had a very steep hill with a sidewalk going down. At the bottom there were some stairs and the sidewalk did a 90 degree turn and then another 90 degree turn about 15 feet away. I used to put skates on and go racing down that thing and do both the turns at the bottom like it was nothing. The same park had a rock face that went up about 100 feet that I climbed a couple of times. I could never understand why the adults got freaked out about it -- it wasn't even a technically difficult climb! It was practically a natural staircase.

These days I'm actually aware that I can break bones and stuff. I've been pretty conservative with the skydiving really, and don't plan on downsizing much past the 230 I'm flying now anytime in the foreseeable future. Plus I kind of like the ride down.

I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?