I need your Irrational Fears

[TheKillingAlice]

I don't know, this is quite specific. I don't like windows or glass in general on doors.
When a window isn't covered from the outside - I live in Germany, most houses have proper, built-in shutters that you can roll all the way down, so you can clearly see them when you turn on the lights, as the shutters are right behind it and usually a light gray. But a window within your door or just a window without a closed shutter turns into a partial mirror when it's dark outside and bright inside, so my brain goes into haywire; I get paranoid that there's something there which isn't really there, and that makes me panic, even when I try rationalizing it. So, yeah, irrational fear.
I'm also arachnophobic, but I believe that's the most common fear around and not actually irrational; just a thing of evolution.

 

[Madkins]

I don't know, this is quite specific. I don't like windows or glass in general on doors.
When a window isn't covered from the outside - I live in Germany, most houses have proper, built-in shutters that you can roll all the way down, so you can clearly see them when you turn on the lights, as the shutters are right behind it and usually a light gray. But a window within your door or just a window without a closed shutter turns into a partial mirror when it's dark outside and bright inside, so my brain goes into haywire; I get paranoid that there's something there which isn't really there, and that makes me panic, even when I try rationalizing it. So, yeah, irrational fear.
I'm also arachnophobic, but I believe that's the most common fear around and not actually irrational; just a thing of evolution.

I don't have fancy stuff like that in a cabin in the woods in the US, but I'd say the glass thing is reasonable. someone's said mirrors in the dark, and another was when curtains don't cover windows when you're asleep. I tape my curtains in place myself. All pretty similar

 

[great_sloth]

No one stopping me so another one, heights like everybody else. When I stand next to the window or balcony from third floor or higher my feet goes on flood spree that probably could supply water to a small village in Africa, just kidding.

 

[Gray_Mann]

I CANNOT sleep unless everything but my head is covered in a blanket. I can be sweating my balls off, and it doesn't matter.

I'm not afraid of anything that I'm aware of in regards to late-nights or the dark or whatever. I can be in a pitch black room and feel nothing. I'm not concerned about monsters, attackers, or anything. Therefore I can't explain the problem.....but if even a pinky toe is out from underneath that blanket....than I'm not sleeping a fucking wink.

I can't explain it. It's not fear. I can't even explain it as aggravation because it's not like I get absurdly angry or anything other than the fact that I'm awake when I don't want to be. I don't know. I've never been able to explain it. Doesn't make any sense. If not fear or anger....why am I still awake because my feet aren't fully covered or something equally minor?

No idea. But luckily I have several king-sized blankets to avoid this issue.

 

[TheKillingAlice]

I don't have fancy stuff like that in a cabin in the woods in the US, but I'd say the glass thing is reasonable. someone's said mirrors in the dark, and another was when curtains don't cover windows when you're asleep. I tape my curtains in place myself. All pretty similar

It could be grounded in the same feeling, indeed.
Like, I don't scare or feel eerie easily. If there's a weird sound that seems too close for comfort, I'm calmly getting my gun and checking the clip. But my bedroom has a sliding door with a large portion of it being a glass window, for some fucking reason. Like, no. It's not even clear glass or properly frosted - it's got this weird mosaic type of thing going on, but all clear, so you can see, and it automatically looks as if something was moving, simply because of the light catching onto the squares. So, yeah, no - I put a door wallpaper over it, it had the perfect size.

 

[Madkins]

I CANNOT sleep unless everything but my head is covered in a blanket. I can be sweating my balls off, and it doesn't matter.

I'm not afraid of anything that I'm aware of in regards to late-nights or the dark or whatever. I can be in a pitch black room and feel nothing. I'm not concerned about monsters, attackers, or anything. Therefore I can't explain the problem.....but if even a pinky toe is out from underneath that blanket....than I'm not sleeping a fucking wink.

I can't explain it. It's not fear. I can't even explain it as aggravation because it's not like I get absurdly angry or anything other than the fact that I'm awake when I don't want to be. I don't know. I've never been able to explain it. Doesn't make any sense. If not fear or anger....why am I still awake because my feet aren't fully covered or something equally minor?

No idea. But luckily I have several king-sized blankets to avoid this issue.

I get it, I think, or it's because I sleep butt naked. Either way I gotta have my blanket, AC on at 61F and a box fan to drown out the noise.

It could be grounded in the same feeling, indeed.
Like, I don't scare or feel eerie easily. If there's a weird sound that seems too close for comfort, I'm calmly getting my gun and checking the clip. But my bedroom has a sliding door with a large portion of it being a glass window, for some fucking reason. Like, no. It's not even clear glass or properly frosted - it's got this weird mosaic type of thing going on, but all clear, so you can see, and it automatically looks as if something was moving, simply because of the light catching onto the squares. So, yeah, no - I put a door wallpaper over it, it had the perfect size.

Back many lifetimes ago I lived in a very large and old house. 280yo. Original windows, 20ft tall 4ft wide in most of the rooms. The first floor had the same kind of pattern you're describing. As i walked through the room it would look like other people were walking on the other side when it was dark out.

 

[pangmida]

Fear of… missing an exam.


Yes, I’m way past that age.
Yes, that’s me telling you I’m Asian without saying I’m Asian.

I still get dreams of missing an assignment. I've already graduated.

 

[Gray_Mann]

I get it, I think, or it's because I sleep butt naked. Either way I gotta have my blanket, AC on at 61F and a box fan to drown out the noise.

I sleep in boxers only, no shirt or socks or anything else.

 

[Madkins]

I sleep in boxers only, no shirt or socks or anything else.

Ah, see I did some time in some "not so nice" cities. Nothing says, you broke into the wrong house like a raging naked man with a boom stick pointed at them... and a shotgun...

 

[ElijahRyne]

I need to gather some irrational fears. It's paramount to what I'm doing, probably. I'll even share one of mine.
Porcelain Dolls, I hate those eyes.

Telephone poles. If one were to fall on me I would be dead, or seriously injured.

 

[Madkins]

Telephone poles. If one were to fall on me I would be dead, or seriously injured.

I ran facefirst into one once rubbernecking

 

[LiteraryWho]

No fight or flight response?

I have a pretty high startle response, but otherwise not really.

I suppose you could consider phone anxiety an irrational fear (i.e. I get nervous when I have to talk to someone I don't know on the phone), if you needed one for whatever dark magic you're up to

 

[Madkins]

I have a pretty high startle response, but otherwise not really.

I suppose you could consider phone anxiety an irrational fear (i.e. I get nervous when I have to talk to someone I don't know on the phone), if you needed one for whatever dark magic you're up to

It's only dark magic when i turn the lights off. This does explain why you never pick up the phone when I call. That makes me feel a lot better.

 

[LiteraryWho]

I CANNOT sleep unless everything but my head is covered in a blanket. I can be sweating my balls off, and it doesn't matter.

I'm not afraid of anything that I'm aware of in regards to late-nights or the dark or whatever. I can be in a pitch black room and feel nothing. I'm not concerned about monsters, attackers, or anything. Therefore I can't explain the problem.....but if even a pinky toe is out from underneath that blanket....than I'm not sleeping a fucking wink.

I can't explain it. It's not fear. I can't even explain it as aggravation because it's not like I get absurdly angry or anything other than the fact that I'm awake when I don't want to be. I don't know. I've never been able to explain it. Doesn't make any sense. If not fear or anger....why am I still awake because my feet aren't fully covered or something equally minor?

No idea. But luckily I have several king-sized blankets to avoid this issue.

Unironically one of the symptoms of autism, sorry you had to find out this way (j/k?). I've heard it's a sensory thing.

Used to be a roofer for a while. Also have climbed a few 100ft ledges and almost fallen down a 190ft cave. My shit still shakes when I'm high up

Based construction worker forumite.

Thanks for your service

 

[Gray_Mann]

Ah, see I did some time in some "not so nice" cities. Nothing says, you broke into the wrong house like a raging naked man with a boom stick pointed at them... and a shotgun...

Grew up in the Crown Heights area of Brooklyn, so I understand. I have several pieces in several places as well as melee weapons in unorthodox locations that I've been trained to use in tight spaces. I've only ever needed to use them in my own home once, and that was more me disabling a cousin of a friend who got too drunk and couldn't behave himself.

I refuse to sit near windows or with my back to doors even to this day. I also refuse to sit near the center of a room. If these things can't be accommodated, I don't sit down in that room. It's caused issues on several occasions.

 

[TheKillingAlice]

Back many lifetimes ago I lived in a very large and old house. 280yo. Original windows, 20ft tall 4ft wide in most of the rooms. The first floor had the same kind of pattern you're describing. As i walked through the room it would look like other people were walking on the other side when it was dark out.

Hell, no. I could never. Not in this lifetime.
But the house I live in is also quite old, so I wonder if this type of glass is just an old thing?

 

[Gray_Mann]

Unironically one of the symptoms of autism, sorry you had to find out this way (j/k?). I've heard it's a sensory thing.

The only things I was ever diagnosed with were ADHD and a so-called Mild case of ODD or Mild-ODD.
I've always wondered if Psychologists make shit up for whatever flavor of behavior they find problematic.

 

[Madkins]

Unironically one of the symptoms of autism, sorry you had to find out this way (j/k?). I've heard it's a sensory thing.

Based construction worker forumite.

Thanks for your service

Lol you make it sound more glamorous than it was. I hate heights still, never got over it. especially walking on 1 inch by 1inch beams in old 90ft in barns full of pitchforks and every sharp thing that goes in a functioning barn.

The only things I was ever diagnosed with were ADHD and ODD, and I question the ODD thing because most of the symptoms don't sound like me. That or the symptoms are so mild to not bear much thinking on.

ADHD as well. I bet 50% of people here are.

Hell, no. I could never. Not in this lifetime.
But the house I live in is also quite old, so I wonder if this type of glass is just an old thing?

I know it was the original glass. handmade and shipped from overseas. It was crazy before it burned down.

 

[CinnaSloth]

I fear:
When I relax and put my legs up (straight) on anything (coffee table, chair, ottoman, etc) and there's a gap under my legs. I feel as though someone is going to jump on my legs and my knees are going to go in the wrong direction. Even if I'm alone, I feel someone will come out of the mines to just break my legs.
Or when laying sideways, or on my tummy, and my legs dangle off whatever I'm laying on, I fear someone grabbing my legs and using whatever I'm laying on as a snapping point to break my legs, shins, or ankles.

when going to the bathroom, and being in the middle of ______,, looking up to see a spider slowly lowering itself above me.

Opening something in the kitchen that is only protected by cardboard, like cereal, or packaged noodle, and instead finding a rat, or roaches inside.

Waking up to know, I would be the one to give birth to the devil or the antichrist. lol
Which also goes with, waking up tied to a bed, with priests and nuns surrounding me, drowning me in holy water while chanting prayers to save my hellbound wicked soul. (which has happened.. and was horrifying as a child.)

I have plenty more, I just cant think of them right now, or remember younger me's irrational fears.

the rest are pretty rational imo:
drowning/ heights/ fires
clowns/ dolls
ghosts/ hauntings
witches/ swamp hags/ mountain hags
demons/ devils/ daemons
La Siguanaba/ La Llorona

 

[JayMark]

I'm afraid of nice boobs.
The doctor said the only way I can ever hope to get over my fear is exposure.