Week 9 ish: What is Your Irrational Fear?

Everyone has irrational fears. Mine is with keys. I've locked myself out of cars and houses enough times. I usually pause and do key checks in my pants or my hands before I close a door. I may often check even when I've decided not to lock a door. I also have extra keys in my wallet just in case I do lock myself out. It's a pretty harmless fear I guess.

I'd have to say the stupidest way I ever locked myself out of anything was when I was with three friends on a trip to see bands in a different city. The younger brother of a friend hadn't listened the first time I showed him, and wasn't holding the handle up when he closed my car door, so it wouldn't lock. Of course, I proceeded to show him and said, "No, you do it like this... *clunk!" Then we had to get a locksmith. What are your irrational fears?

Spiders!!! But its not totally irrational seen as though we have EXTREMELY nasty spiders living in this country.

I just cannot stand them - I don't care how small they are, I get completely petrified by them.

Well, it doesn't seem that irrational to me, but I'm deathly afraid of flying. It didn't start until after I became a parent, so it probably has something to do with that. For years, I just DIDN'T fly. That didn't make me very popular in my family, so now I have some medication for when I fly. Unfortunatly, that has to make someone in charge of "mom" when we travel, LOL.

I have a problem with odd numbers lol. I can't have my volume on the T.V on an odd number unless it's a multiple of 5. I think it's because I used to count a lot when I was a kid though by 2's and 5's and 10's. Plus if you were to count by an odd number you always end up with an even number (3,6,9,12) but when you count by evens you always get evens. So I think I logically assumed evens trumped over odds

Originally Posted by lizch6699

I have a problem with odd numbers lol. I can't have my volume on the T.V on an odd number unless it's a multiple of 5. I think it's because I used to count a lot when I was a kid though by 2's and 5's and 10's. Plus if you were to count by an odd number you always end up with an even number (3,6,9,12) but when you count by evens you always get evens. So I think I logically assumed evens trumped over odds

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That is a unique little quirk.

I'm afraid that I'm never going to get married, which is ridiculous because I am only 22.

I just don't want to have to go through life alone.. its hard.

Originally Posted by eupnea

I'm afraid that I'm never going to get married, which is ridiculous because I am only 22.

I just don't want to have to go through life alone.. its hard.

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Oh yeah, you've got plenty of time ahead at 22.

I'm terribly, terribly horrified of bats. We had a bat two summers in a row when I lived in NY that got into the house. Freeeeeeaky.

I have an irrational fear (at least I hope it is!!) that my friends don't really like me and they just hang around me for what I can do for them. Guess it comes from being the "smart one" in school who everyone went to for homework help...

Fears...Of Hieghts. I dont care how high it is. Im scared. My feet should not be off of the ground like that. Especially in planes..it just doesnt seem possible. Roller Coasters rock though...I wonder why that doesnt bother me. Great...nice job Leah, you got yourself afraid of roller coasters now.

Originally Posted by Hydroaxe

Everyone has irrational fears. Mine is with keys. I've locked myself out of cars and houses enough times.

I usually pause and do key checks in my pants or my hands before I close a door. I may often check even when I've decided not to lock a door.

I also have extra keys in my wallet just in case I do lock myself out.

It's a pretty harmless fear I guess.

I'd have to say the stupidest way I ever locked myself out of anything was when I was with three friends on a trip to see bands in a different city. The younger brother of a friend hadn't listened the first time I showed him, and wasn't holding the handle up when he closed my car door, so it wouldn't lock. Of course, I proceeded to show him and said, "No, you do it like this... *clunk!" Then we had to get a locksmith.

What are your irrational fears?

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I don't know how "irrational" this is. In your case, it sounds like it's based on reality.

For me, it's not an overwhelming fear, but I'm always afraid I'm going to oversleep. I'm a nightowl, so getting to sleep is difficult. Staying asleep is easy! So, to make sure I don't hit the snooze and oversleep, I've slowly developed a system:

Day off, or a day when I don't have to be at work until 3pm: I set one alarm clock on my nightstand. Also, a battery-operated one also set to go off five minutes later (what if the power went off!).

Day off, or don't have to work until 3pm, but I really don't want to sleep too late: First alarm clock on the nightstand, battery clock further away where I have to really stretch to reach it.

Day I have to be at work by 11am (early for me...remember I'm a nightowl), or God forbid I have to be somewhere even earlier than that: Nightstand alarm is moved to my dresser across the room, where I have to get out of bed to turn it off. Battery clock is set for five minutes later, and in the same location as for option two (see above).

You know, now that I write this out, it actually seems kind of crazy...please don't judge me!

That's not crazy. That's prevention at work!

Fire. I'm verging on OCD in my need to check around the house before I leave to ensure the oven and stove are turned off (whether or not I've used them recently), items unplugged, and things of the sort. I will not use my crock pot while I'm out for this reason, and also don't use my smell good plug ins when I'm not home. Perhaps as opposed to irrational, I'm just very..very precautious.

My irrational fear is of not locking doors!! I have to check numerous times that I have locked the house door and my car doors!!

I think it may have something to do with the fact that it's such an automatic reaction that I don't know I've done it, so feel the need to keep cheking until i'm SURE that I have! I can't settle unless I know!

I've even been known to leave the cinema half way through a film (which I don't do even if I need the loo!) to check that my car was locked!!

Vomit. It's okay as long as ti's me, but someone simply has to say the words "I feel sick" and I finish up in a panic attack. I think it comes from the fact that I was actually 7 before I threw up for the very first time, so that came as a huge shock for me. My little brother was a very sickly child and I didn't seem to cope to well with it. If Rune tells me he's hungover, I go sleep on the couch... irrational, but I simply cannot face it.

I am petrified of cows. I know they are around everywhere here but I can't look at them because I feel like I might faint. I get goosebumps all over, even if they are on TV because they just do something to me I can't even explain. I didn't used to be like this, we used to go to a farm every easter and they had cows and I didn't like them but I was ok, I think I've just convinced myself that they are big scary creatures and now it's just got out of control.
I can't even really be involved in a conversation about them because I just feel panicky. Anyway....Im starting to sweat lol.
I also have to put moisturiser on my hands as soon as I've washed them or had any water on them whatsoever otherwise I can't touch anything, even the cats. I have to take it everywhere with me and if I forget it I won't wash my hands until I can get my moisturiser. Mark says I have OCD but it's not as bad as that

Some of you are going to laugh at this, but I am TERRIFIED of a Michael Keaton. When I was a kid, I watched Beetle Juice. Well, I didn't realize that it was a comedy, and it scared the crap out of me. Im talking like when I was 5, so at that age you're easily scared. Geena Davis, Winona Ryder, and Alec Baldwin all kind of creep me out, but Michael Keaton scares the crap out of me. I still haven't seen the first two batman movies, and that movie multilpicity just scared me thinking about it.

-Jade

These are all fascinating replies. Some of these things I never would have imagined.

actually my parents dying.
I'm an only child, im not close with their family and im scared that i will go through the rest of my life as the cat lady!

Ive already been named as the Cat girl because of how much time i devote to kaylee and teufel haha!

So i would like to get married and have a child by the time im 25

Originally Posted by fwan

actually my parents dying.
I'm an only child, im not close with their family and im scared that i will go through the rest of my life as the cat lady!

Ive already been named as the Cat girl because of how much time i devote to kaylee and teufel haha!

So i would like to get married and have a child by the time im 25

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I can't imagine you being single forever Fwan. I think your fear is definitely irrational.