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Posted by Andrei on Thu Jul 28th at 10:16am 2005

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get sucked under water into a pipe that narrows, getting wedged in the pipe, in the dark, and drowning .


You just described my worst nightmare. I once had a dream in which I drowned. Heck, i've died many times in dreams and it was kinda fun. You should have seen me splatter those rocks at the bottom of the ravine! <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">

And yeah, short legged spiders give me the freaks. Wasps and bees are OK, but bumblebees scare the crap out of me since I got stung by one when I was 7.






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Posted by Mephs on Thu Jul 28th at 10:44am 2005

1. Water, though I can swim. I get vertigo even standing NEAR a harbour.
2. Looking up at tall buildings, or being on them. As long as I can't see over the edge it doesnt bother me.
3. Not that I'll ever get there, but the infinate vacuum of space gives me the s**ts. That was thanks to a bad drug experience (on ecstacy of all things!) looking up at the sky. I'd be more afraid of being sucked off the earth than falling down on to it...


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Posted by DrGlass on Thu Jul 28th at 2:24pm 2005

Drowning would be the worst way to go.

I've been held underwater by people and been snagged while underwater, not fun. Just being able to look up out of the water, so close to the surface... yet you still know your going to die just a few feet from air. I cant even imagin what that first breath full of water would be like.




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Posted by Dark_Kilauea on Thu Jul 28th at 5:22pm 2005

I have a fear of losing control. If I don't feel in control of everything I just freeze up, which usually makes the situation worse.

Until Later...




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Posted by rival on Thu Jul 28th at 7:40pm 2005

i have a fear of falling from a great height, not a fear of heights but falling from them. almost nothing could be worst then falling from the Space Needle in Seattle and watching the ground coming then feeling for a split second and your bones shatter and crunch and your organ split and squash.

another thing that scares me is getting caught in some water weed in dark water and not being able to free yourself.

and the worst: being forced into an oven, physically being squashed in until you fit, then the oven being turned on. you sit there for several minutes and the temperature starts to rise. oooh....

but then again i would love to skydive and i loved that 20metre waterslide at the waterpark i was at yesterday! oh and i love to swim.




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Posted by parakeet on Thu Jul 28th at 7:50pm 2005

Really WIDE OPEN spaces O_o those places make me feel like im gonna get attacked from behind no matter where i am =/.



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Posted by Senshi on Thu Jul 28th at 7:58pm 2005

I think my worst fear would defiantely be being buried alive, I actually 'wouldn't mind' drowning, if it was a choice between drowning and being buried alive, drowning wins.

I'm a bit of a hypochondriac, I think I have cancer, but I've been reassured that I don't.



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Posted by DrGlass on Thu Jul 28th at 9:51pm 2005

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Really WIDE OPEN spaces O_o those places make me feel like im gonna get attacked from behind no matter where i am =/.


Never go to the forbidden city, its the most vast open space I've ever seen.




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Posted by Spartan on Thu Jul 28th at 10:18pm 2005

I can honestly say that I don't have any phobias. That doesn't mean I don't get a little worried about somethings but there isn't anything that you could do that would make me really really scared. I noticed that Lep said he was afraid of deep water like swimming in far out in the ocean. I use to be the same way when I was younger but nowadays I enjoy swimming far out in the deeper parts (I live 20 miles from the beach). Spiders also use to freak me out when I was younger but they don't bother me now. Same for heights and other things. I just got use to that kind of stuff over time. I lived New Mexico when I was younger and we use to take drives up to the mountains. The roads sat on the edge of cliffs and were really windy.






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Posted by DrGlass on Thu Jul 28th at 11:23pm 2005

I'm the same way, like I said before I can get myself worked up and scared. But no matter how scared I get I can still pear over the edge of a building or swim into the deep end of a pool.




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Posted by French Toast on Thu Jul 28th at 11:24pm 2005

I have overcome certain fears. I used to be afraid of the dark, but I have naturally gotten over that fear as I'm sure many others have.

I also was afraid of confined spaces. I once went with my family walking through these caves, and at some parts they were very narrow, and I would freeze. But I've gotten over that as well.




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Posted by Andrei on Fri Jul 29th at 11:34am 2005

I've noticed something strange: although I am arachnaphobic, certain types of tarantula (the huge furry ones) don't trigger my arachnaphobia yet a common garden spider (about 1/10 of the size and not even a quarter as dangerous) does.




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Posted by Crapceeper on Fri Jul 29th at 11:48am 2005

Maybe bacause the tarantula is not a local danger, whilst the common spider is really close - a phobia doesn't consider the dangerousity of a thing. But the intense of the fear of it.


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Posted by Agent Smith on Fri Jul 29th at 12:02pm 2005

Well when it comes to creepy crawly things that are highly venemous and lethal, Australia really takes the cake. We seem to have the highest proportion of most lethal creatures on the planet, which isn't very fun.



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Posted by Forceflow on Fri Jul 29th at 1:57pm 2005

I don't really fear hights, but when I'm close to an edge/ridge, I cannot help but thinking how h?rd I would smash the ground and what I would think during the fall. Not because I'm planning on killing myself, but just because death is so near ...

Of course, you don't jump over a fence to smash yourself on the pavement 7 doors down, but you - physically - could. That's a small twist in my brain I'm a bit curious about.



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Posted by LAzerMANiac on Fri Jul 29th at 3:59pm 2005

Personally, I'm not exactly the phobia kind of person, although I REALLY don't like maggots, you know, it's just how they...squirm..and...yeah. Also, I have a somewhat intense fear of sharp objects near my eye. You know if you walk down a hallway with some pieces of paper taped on the wall and they're only taped by the top, and they flip up from the wall as you pass by...papercut in the eye...uuuuuughhh.



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Posted by fraggard on Fri Jul 29th at 6:00pm 2005

Those of you who dislike cockroaches don't read any further.

I (may be) working with a few people to make some software tools for a studio. The stuff I work on is inside a classroom-plus-recording-studio with cameras, mics, and so on (for taping and broadcasting lectures). The entire room has soundproof padding on the panels. The material is made of some kind of fibre that's lightweight and is a matted set of those fibres.

Also, It's the rainy season over here, and roach populations generally increase.

Guess what, we just discovered that the roaches have taken a liking to the material on the panels. The place is CRAWLING with roaches. They are all over the walls, in the ceiling, above the doors, under the chairs, everywhere. This started suddenly over the past few days (guess I'm just lucky), and the rains have just started. They increase for the next month or so before the monsoon ends, and the roach population grows for a bit longer.

As a small example, they get startled when you switch on the lights. The studio has some pretty harsh lights, and they panic when you switch them on. Those that can fly do so and flap around wildly trying to head towards all the lights at once. Your head just happens to be in the way. The crawling roaches jump underfoot and run around confused. They try running in and out of walls and panels and generally stir up hell.

And I'm normally quite wary of cockroaches. I used to be s**t scared when I was younger, but luckily I got over that. I can only imagine how badly some people will freak out.

They're getting the walls treated with some anti-cockroach stuff now (So far it was just anti-termite and anti-wood-borer coating). Hopefully, I can do some real work once the roaches are sent away. Anyone want to trade places with me in the meantime?




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Posted by French Toast on Fri Jul 29th at 6:21pm 2005

Oh man, that sucks. The worst I have in my house is a couple mice in the basement, but they should be dead by now, I heard the traps go off last night <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">




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Posted by rival on Fri Jul 29th at 6:37pm 2005

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Oh man, that sucks. The worst I have in my house is a couple mice in the basement, but they should be dead by now, I heard the traps go off last night

in this house im staying in here in monroe theres rats in the walls. they crawl about at night and it has a creepy similarity to a person trying to crawl their way out...




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Posted by Andrei on Fri Jul 29th at 7:17pm 2005

Anyone here a clownophobic (coulrophobia)?





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