• art
    9•3 years ago

    I have a fear of heights. That itself is not weird but the way it manifests. Step ladders, escalators, parking structures are nightmares for me. Ironically I’m fine flying. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

    • @unnecessarily@lemmy.ml
      2•3 years ago

      Stationary heights are the death of me. I’ve been skydiving and ride rollercoasters regularly, but catch me freaking out on the roof of a building or waiting in line for a water slide.

    • Sr Estegosaurio
      1•3 years ago

      Me too, I’m fine flying too. But the weirdest thing is that I’m also scared when I see someone near me in such situations.

  • Dessalines
    6•3 years ago

    Pickles. Everything about them is absolutely disgusting and just thinking about them gives me chills.

  • C​​​
    5•3 years ago

    Weirdest irrational fear: having something important like a phone fly out of a barely open window while in a moving vehicle - I sometimes have cartoon logic.

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
    4•3 years ago

    I have an irrational fear of flying. Despite knowing that planes are much safer than cars or many other daily activities, the idea of being stuck on a complex machine that will just fall out of the sky if anything goes wrong freaks me out. I think part of it is total lack of perceived control over the situation. The thought that I’m going to have time to contemplate my inevitable demise as the plane falls out of the sky is incredibly unnerving.

    • Dessalines
      3•3 years ago

      If you’re not used to it, being on a ocean-flight can really get to you… you’re in an inescapable tin can that can drop like a rock as soon as anything goes wrong.

  • Travis Skaalgard
    4•3 years ago

    Nice try, my enemies

    Lol no but anyway I have an irrational fear of wasps and I am somewhat afraid of heights (or as I like to put it at work, “extremely conscious of ladder safety”)

  • dinomug
    3•3 years ago

    The most horrible creature on earth… Flying cockroach

  • SudoDnfDashY
    2•3 years ago

    Tomatoes. I hate tomatoes with a burning passion. I audibly gasped in fear when I got a tomato on my burger the other day. This includes red sauce and ketchup, if I even see anything with a Tomato I instantly die.

  • CHEF-KOCH
    2•3 years ago

    That they make another spider-man, ghostbusters, Star Wars remake + reboot movies.

  • @m532@lemmy.ml
    2•3 years ago

    Planes and helicopters. Especially if I hear the sounds but don’t know where they are.

  • @unnecessarily@lemmy.ml
    2•3 years ago

    Something touching the tip of my nose. Just the idea of someone slowing bringing their fingertip closer to the tip of my nose is enough to trigger my fight or flight.

  • @seahorse@lemmy.ml
    1•3 years ago

    Underwater structures that are generally made of metal. Buoys, oil rigs in the ocean, reactor pools. I shudder thinking about swimming near anything like that.