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I'm one of those people who think it's best to investigate the things you fear most in life to find out if you have anything to fear. For instance, it's okay to be frightened of sharks, say, but are they a threat if you live 100 miles inland? Are snakes really a valid fear to have if you live in the UK? How about scorpions or box jellyfish?

That giant spider in the bath is actually tiny when compared to the overwhelming size and power advantages you possess, but phobias skew our perceptions of size, meaning, intent and risk. For example, we have 3 snakes native to the UK; one is actually more of a lizard (the Slow Worm), one is shy and non-venomous (the Grass Snake), the other (the Adder) is only mildly venomous but so shy you'd have to really know what to look for in places left untouched or abandoned by man just to get a glimpse of one. Even then, it'd pretend to be invisible or simply wriggle away. It is not coming to get you in your bed.

Its got to be rats and wasps they are nasty things

the thoughts of lots of rats runing all over me
and the noses of wasps and them stinging is not nice iver

Mattdini wrote:Its got to be rats and wasps they are nasty things

If you sit in the back garden absolutely still and hold an apple core on your hand, wasps will come, nibble the core and fly off all without knowing you're even there unless you flap about and attack them.

Tomo wrote:

Mattdini wrote:Its got to be rats and wasps they are nasty things

If you sit in the back garden absolutely still and hold an apple core on your hand, wasps will come, nibble the core and fly off all without knowing you're even there unless you flap about and attack them.

your right there but I am one of them people that cannot stay still for long and I am all ways Moving about I get very fidgety and all so had bad experience by getting stung the wasps must like me ahahha. Its the buzzing noses they make when they go pass your ear and once you had bad experience its all ways the way and it knowing they do sting and how much it hurt but looking at it I think its not that pain full I had 3 kidney biopsy thats nasty and that does hurt lots of morphine for that one to take the pain away. so Meany people have told me not to make a fuss and the wasps will not touch you but me being me I will not listen ahas

The problem with phobias is that you're just not thinking 'umm now I'm bigger than that little spider, he really can't hurt me'. My brain, at least doesn't work like that. Phobias are irrational things.

You should see Dave trying to get on a plane, you have to get a couple of beers inside him before he'll even get near the flying tin can as he calls them, and then he squeezes my hand so hard on take off that it hurts. But then he can go belting down a hill at 60mph in a bike race in the middle of a group of 20 odd other bikes. I know which is safer of the two but it doesn't matter to him.

wasps are horrible.. not scary but they are malicious.. I love bumble bees on the other hand.. i like to pet them..

I love snakes.. used to own two 16ft indian pythons, a couple of scorpions and breed rats for the snakes!!

But I hate dolls!! Creepy things that make me shiver in cold blood..

I also fear the sea bed.. when I cant see what im walking on i get claustraphobic.. which is another fear I have.. I need to feel free otherwise I cant breathe

I.D Wrote:

But I hate dolls!! Creepy things that make me shiver in cold blood..


Ill second that they freak me out,the little china doll things. We have this china mask in the bedroom and when I wake up at night I swear it's looking at me and laughing and I'm sure I have seen it move on occasions.

Thunder and Lighning.... Problem really as it arouses the wife!!!

Iv kept rats as pets, theyre inteligent, inquisitive, playful, affectionate and very clean (suprisingly), but they do get a lot of bad press so i can understand why people have phobias of them.

Likewise with snakes, i keep one now. They get some much bad press in films for no real reason. Snakes are quite shy, they tend to keep away from people in the wild. A science test proved years ago, that you can make monkeys fear snakes but no leaves or flowers, so i believe there may be a biological componant. Reptiles have lived on Earth far longer than mammels. If you fear an animal , you keep away from it, so it may be the phobia is a defence mechanism against a potential threat.

That said, i used to hate spiders (like my mother and brother). Im over it now, having watched them, studied them and handled several taranchulas. But my mums not letting me have one as a pet unfortunatly

I have a phobia of roller coasters too, although i didnt as a child and i cant remember what made me afraid

I had a fear of roller coasters till I went on the Python at drayton Manor aged 19. It was so old I thought we would die and that feeling was brilliant!!

The wife keeps a butchers knife under the bed.. that scared me when I first started dating her.. especially the time some random girl called me at 3.30am while my girl lay next to me and this girl had called to tell me she wanted to come round and see me for a bit

I.D wrote:The wife keeps a butchers knife under the bed.. that scared me when I first started dating her.. especially the time some random girl called me at 3.30am while my girl lay next to me and this girl had called to tell me she wanted to come round and see me for a bit

lol - you never told me about that!

and when it comes to me and phobias i am very claustrophobic...my mates locked me in a cuboard knowing i was as well.....bast**ds

im starting to get used to the underground now as well - which is always good.....hate flying though.....

For me it would be flying, but I don't see it as a phobia. A phobia is supposed to be an irrational fear of something, but I believe it is totally rational to be afraid of piling as many idiots as possible into a large cigar tube, thundering along at millions of miles an hour thousands of miles above the very hard ground held up by AIR!!!! Oh and by the way in case of emergency don't use the parachute you haven't been supplied with, just stick your head between your legs in the 'crash position'. Yeah I bet that helps as you hit a mountain, we all know what thats for, to kiss your a** goodbye.

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I also hate high pitch noises, they freakme out. Like cats screaming, anything that shrills or unexplained high pitch noises that come from downstairs when you are trying to sleep

The flying phobia is very common and it isn't helped that whilst you're safe and stationary on the ground, they make you strap in, sit still and behave but as soon as you're umpteen thousand feet in the sky in that flying tube of gasoline, they let you get up and move all over the place - daft I call it. As for the other phobias, I was on a cruise ship last year and when we sailed close to Bermuda, the triangle player in the band just disappeared.......

Wasps!