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 Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:31 pm
Alright, everyone has them. Even if you say you don't have any, you do. You either don't know what it is yet, or you have something you don't think is a phobia when really it is.
Me? From what I know, I am afraid of spider webs/cobwebs.
Sound strange? It's a very uncommon fear. Few people have it.
When I was four years old, I walked into the most gigantic spider web imaginable for a child of that age and size. Since then, I simply can't
tolerate the touch of spider silk. If one so much as touches a finger or the back of my hand I go nuts.
I'll keep brushing and rubbing the spot where it touched continually. Depending on the extent of the touch - whether it touched lightly or whether it got stuck to me, the brushing and rubbing of that particular part of me will sometimes go on for a bit. If a thread got stuck to me, I'd do it continuously for about 30 seconds, and then do it randomly for a couple more minutes. If it lightly touches, 30 seconds and no more. A WEB however, my word, couldn't tell you. It depends WHERE it got me. The face is the worst place I can say.
I don't even know the name of the phobia. I can't find it.
If anyone knows, please tell me. A website stating the information would be good too.
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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 4:16 pm
Gee Mel, that's gotta be tough. I can't really say I know which fear I got though...
But you know, I tried to look for a name to that particular phobia of yers and I didn't find anything. Maybe a site that is all about phobias might be more useful than wikipedia. rolleyes
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Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:00 am
Trust me I've looked all over the place for a name for it.
And what do you mean by "that's got to be tough"? I'm trying to determine whether that's genuine or sarcasm. It's not tough to live with a fear of cobwebs, but it's unnerving when I walk down my garden and find them all around me, or when I've walked around a corner and had one right in front of me. The last time that happened, I jumped back before it could touch me and swore LOUDLY.
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Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:40 am
I dunno really, anything that flys and is little. Bugs...I hate bugs.
I hate spiders aswell, small ones are ok though, the big ones...as long as they don't come near me I am happy.
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Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:20 pm
it's possible you've developed a sensitivity along the lines of an allergy due to the trauma from your childhood. I know fear of spiders is arachnophobia; I'll poke around and see what I can find.
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Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:22 pm
Oh--and my phobia is a fear of heights. I get awful vertigo and feel all woozy and sick when I look down from some great height.
When we saw the first LOTR movie and they got to the Bridge of Khazad-Dum, I got all big-eyed; my son leaned over and said "OK Mom, you're SO dead now, just... wait for the Balrog and make sure the lights get turned off, K?"
*wry grin* my in-laws thought it hilarious.
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 6:51 am
And you want to do the tall ships sailing? The does involve climbing the masts you know? You do have a harness on though.
You're saying I have a sensitivity along the lines of an allergy? Nah I just hate the touch of cobwebs. I keep trying to brush it off even when it's not there because I remember the sensation and want to get rid of it.
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 7:42 am
well, you know... for me at least, the only way to get over something is to face it. smile And what better way than by facing the vertigo... while doing something else I dearly love? I can see myself standing on deck, weighing options: climb up, with a harness, and experience some vertigo until my inner ear rights itself and I stop quivering? Or stay down here and be unhappy for the rest of my days at a blown opportunity? Put that way it becomes much easier...
As to the allergy/cobweb thing, it is entirely possible to develop a contact allergy under those circumstances. I'm not necessarily saying you did, but the very fact that you continue to rub for a long time afterward any part of you that contacted the web is a very telling thing.
I have a phobia about some kinds of bugs--city cockroaches, for example. I hate, loathe, despise and fear them, and prefer to kill them from a distance. We lived in an awful block of old, icky flats when my son was an infant, and one morning during breakfast I saw a bug crawling toward his baby seat at table. I had to kill it with my hand because there was nothing else to use, and I did NOT want my child touched by that--that-- THING! My hand itched and turned red and broke out within the hour, even though I washed my hands immediately (and a couple more times after as well). The doctor suggested a topical creme--and hypnosis to get over my fear of roaches.
It kinda worked. Now I just feel about them the way D feels about vampires. *grins*
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 2:20 pm
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Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 6:54 am
Umbrellas... ._.
Though, a phobia is pretty extreme in this case. Let us keep to a 'fear'. The ends of those needly things come about the height of my eyes. And as people usually don't really look where they walk over here, they might end up poking my eyes with it <.<;;
Heights
Says enough ^^;; I don't feel well on heights. The higher it goes, the worse it gets until a point I keep at least a meter from the border. And I get nervous. Dizzy as worst case.
But, it doesn't really prevents me from going on heights. I just don't go on heights if I can avoid them. 3nodding
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Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 9:58 am
Raven Blackstar ...The ends of those needly things come about the height of my eyes... Personally I have a fear of dogs. I can think of two possible reasons. One I was bitten by a dod once when I was young. It was not bad, on the knee, but frightening. Also when I was a very youn kid people told me that "dogs sense fear." Being a kid I took this too literally. If I saw a dog on the street I would get a bit of a startle and an adrenaline jump (normal I think), but instead of saying "oh it's just a dog" and getting over it I would believe that the dod just sensed my fear (I considered it a supernatural ability - I was just a kid) and would attack me. This of course made me more afraid, which only led me to believe all the more that the dod was sensing my fear and would attack me. This cycle ultimately led me to see dogs not as lovable family pets but viscious fear-sensing monsters out for blood. I guess it stuck with me. I always imagined that this phobia might seem silly to some. I saw for myself how silly I must seem to dog lovers once when I was still living with my parents. A friend of my younger sisters' came over and was terrified of our family cat. She wouldn't go near it. I had a hard time not laughing. That is how I must seem to dog lovers. JastaElf well, you know... for me at least, the only way to get over something is to face it. smile I agree with this and try facing my fear when I am around dogs (but never alone).
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Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 9:46 pm
I've been severely acrophobic since I was young. Still not too clear on what started it, because I still love climbing mountains and swings. All I remember is that when I was eight, my cousin Oliver came to visit from Germany and wanted to go up the Empire State Building and that he literally had to pick me up and carry me into the last elevator because I couldn't make my legs work, I was so scared.
Gah, I really need to get over this one. Then continue to be afraid of cats, ferrets, and rabbits.
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Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:20 am
Ok, lets see, my greatest fear is spiders (just like Ron, what a coinidence...). I'm OK with small ones, but if they're on me, or on something very close to me, i freak out. I won't even touch them with a tissue to squish it, i have to use one of my shoes because i know it won't touch me then.
I'm also afraid of any kind of bugs, besides flies, since i deal with them everyday. I HATE bees, wasps, ants, crickets, grasshoppers, etc. I don't even really like butterflies...
I'm kind of afraid of heights, but thats only if its really steep and I'm not strapped in, like on a roller coaster. Those I'm fine with, but i don't like steepness. And i don't like when theres a big staircase going straight down, like you can't see the end of it, or the end is in a shadow. You won't see me going down that staircase anytime soon. lol.
And I hate ANYTHING too light. Like light, bright colors, I don't preferably like the sun, and I don't like a light on in my room, but my mom makes me put one on....
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Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:45 am
Without the light on at any time of DAY, my room is like a grotto. I have to have a light on in daylight because otherwise it's difficult to see what I'm doing. I don't like things being too bright, but I'm comfortable with standard lighting if you catch my drift. That's unless it's a warm day outside as I'm somewhat vampiric by means of having cold skin (mainly hands and feet as I have raynaud's), rather pale skin, I dress dark and more often gothic (renaissance kind of style really), I have my own set of nicely pointed canine teeth, and if I go out in the sunlight (more if it's warm) I tend to burn within a few minutes. I'm more of a night owl as well. Don't get up till late usually, heh.
But that's nothing to do with fears. Jasta thought it was amusing how I'm afraid of cobwebs (not spiders at all), and use cobwebs as a reference with regards to how my plotline works in my writing.
Having no lights on in the room if you're watching tv or using a computer can really damage your eyes anyway. So, that might be one reason why your mother makes you put one on perhaps? Candlelight is serene, I find.
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Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:31 pm
I love candle light.... smile
I just found the whole cobweb thing ironic. Wasn't laughing at you at all. I hate the feel of them on me too.
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