Phobias

[Ranger]

There are countless phobias out there from the normal to the outright bizzare. What are yours?

[Bonos-Girl]

public speaking/singing/playing music

i dunno why..i know they're not gonna attack me or anything....i just go really red and gte embaressed..i wouldn't say i was that scared of it though!

[Bawax]

i'm afraid of spiders, i see them and think "theres nothing wrong with them" but the moment one gets near me i get panic attacks.

thats about the only thing i'm properly afraid of, i have a few little fears but they've been beaten into me during my last 8 years. lol

[Bonos-Girl]

spiders are kinda weird at 11pm when your in the shower and they're crawling on the ceiling above you (trust me...it happened!!)

[Ranger]

I'm also an arachnophobic, totally through the fault of my sister who used to (grab me) and jump onto the bed to get away from the spider that scuttled across the room. It's mostly the tiny black ones that get me...they move so flippin' fast.
I also have a fear of roads...or rather of crossing them...

[Bonos-Girl]

the freakiest spiders are those tiny red ones you fin don brick walls...whats with them?!

[Frodo's Love]

*another arachnophobic enters* :wave:
I recognize your shower-incident, BG ;) It once happened to me and I was paralyzed...:o

[Polly Sandybanks]

I have some sort of phobia of dish rags. I hate them.. they're creepy. And they're full of bacteria too. Ugh! People never really change them either.. and they stink.
I use them because I have to, but urgh.

I don't like spiders either, but I'm not really scared of them. I just don't like when they get too close. ;)

I used to hate public speaking and all that too, but it got better. Right now I just don't care. Noone would care whether I got all red or not, so why should I? :)

Other phobias.. I suppose being locked into small places. Like being locked inside a room with no windows.. or like getting buried alive. I've always hated that and I've had lots of nightmares about that. Urgh.

[Bonos-Girl]

getting buried alive would suck..but i figure it'll never happen!! lol

[Bawax]

i don't discriminate between different types of spiders, i just get the hell away from them and then either throw stuff at them or vacuum them so they don't pay me any visits again. :)

i can handle them red ones on the walls though, they stay away from me normally.

i went through a period of being afraid of crossing roads just after someone i knew got run over, it must have been months before i was happy crossing them again.

[Bonos-Girl]

wow..your number of posts is a palindrome...ok..mjst shut up now! lol

couldn't you be kind and just take them outside?

[Ranger]

The shower incident happen to me quite often in the warmer days and it makes it worse since I watch the film "Arachnophobia" whenever its on TV.

[Polly Sandybanks]

When I see a huge spider (or actually.. I dislike the flying ones more than spiders.. those insects with wings and long legs, they suck blood) my first thought is to "get someone to take it as far away from me as possible.. alternative.. run".. but then I calm down and can't really hurt it. I'd rather just push it away with a long stick or something. But that's spiders, and not if they're too big.

With those flying things.. I'll hit them with whatever is close by. I have a cookbook at home that is great for those flying things and for mosquitoes. ;)

[Bonos-Girl]

mosquito? or daddy long legs...daddy long legs don't suck blood though...so probably mosquito!

[Bawax]

Originally posted by Bonos-Girl
wow..your number of posts is a palindrome...ok..mjst shut up now! lol

couldn't you be kind and just take them outside?

and potentially let them re-enter the bawax abode? ave you gone quite mad? ;)
they get squished and they deserve it, moths too but thats just a bit of fun, them things are so stupid. :)

[Bonos-Girl]

awwww.......i'm sure once you teach them not to come inside they will obey you! lol

why moths? what did they ever do to you...except maybe flutter really annoyingly! lol

[Cuiel Rilwen]

spiders...well I wouldn't keep them as pets, and the REAL big ones gives me the creeps, but I'm not afraid of the littleones we have up here north. I don't like being in tiny rooms, prefer even to stay out of solariums. Had a bad insident when staying at a hotel once, with the firealarm going off at 5 in the morning, scaring the hell out of me! Couldn't sleep easily for days, lights on, tense muscles everywhere. Being trapped I guess is my phobia!

[Polly Sandybanks]

Daddy longlegs, that's probably the ones. I think they suck blood.

I was hoping that maybe they didn't have things like that here in Germany.. then I noticed a big spot on the wall in the kitchen here in my flat, with blood and pieces of legs and wings.. from one of those huge ones. Urgh. I think I'll keep my windows closed this summer. :)

[Bonos-Girl]

i dont think they do suck blood....

[Bawax]

Originally posted by Bonos-Girl
awwww.......i'm sure once you teach them not to come inside they will obey you! lol

why moths? what did they ever do to you...except maybe flutter really annoyingly! lol

i could try running a spider obediance class, if it works i'll be a millionairre this time next year. ;)

i like moths in a way, they have a goal in life, fly to the moon. so why do it via my house? its not the quickest route, i'm certain of that. plus they flutter at me and i don't like things in my face like that. :)

[Bawax]

i don't think daddy longlegs suck blood, we always used to catch them when we was little and i never got bit once. :huh:

[Bonos-Girl]

i've never been bitten either and there was one autumn (it was autumn 99 for those who are interested! lol) there were loads at my school....none of us got bitten

[Polly Sandybanks]

weird.. I'm pretty sure that my sister got bitten once. Maybe that's just me though!? Could have been a huge mousqitoe (I really can't spell that name, Mene?). Well that's good if they don't suck blood.. I don't need to be scared of them. But I still don't like them.

I don't like anything with too many legs and eyes. Urgh.

[Bonos-Girl]

mosquito i think.

[Bawax]

Originally posted by Polly Sandybanks


I don't like anything with too many legs and eyes. Urgh.

never have i agreed with one sentence so much. :grin:

can anyone tell me why do these things with wings need 6 legs?

[Bonos-Girl]

so they can climb on ceilings and scare you!! lol

can you climb on ceilings B? thought not!! lol

[Bawax]

well maybe not but can they kill me with bug spray? :p

survival of the fittest, their just putting up a good fight. :)

[Ranger]

Yup BG got the spelling correct, P....sheesh...stop taking my job away from me people :) there was one time when I was tidying under my bed and I got right into the back of it to bring something out...this big *** spider sped out and scurried across the papers in my room...I jumped back, banged my head and screamed. It scared the heck outta me!

[Bonos-Girl]

speeling?! lol

what really scares me is when i'm watching TV or reading and i can see something moving outta the corner of my eye...

[Bawax]

i had a spider sit on my phone once, i couldnt; whack it so i called the phone in the hope that the vibration would scare it off. after 5 missed calls it left so i could hit it with my size 11's. :)

[Ranger]

Yes BG speeling...'tis a new word lol. It's corrected now though...the trpyo was never there :p

[YayBoromir!]

I don't have any phobias...though my Nan has extreme arachnophobia. You can actually see her hair stand on end when she thinks there's a spider in her house!

[Gatsby]

phobias: absolutley petrified of:
deep water
jellyfish
rats

god i hate them all, just thinking about them gives me the willies
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[Elleth]

I am extremely scared of heights and snakes. I can't even look at a picture of a snake without getting shivers.

[A! Elbereth]

Arachniphobia (sp?) I am terrified of Spiders...

I also have a fear of public speaking... I don't know what it's called... Social Anxiety, it is. pfbbt

[Catz]

what IS this thing with spiders?? theyre harmless.........well 95% of them are.......and im sure that most of them would just as rather stay out of the way of people.......particularly if that people is B waving his shoes about :rolleyes: lol
i love spiders.......theyre beautiful and fascinating........and if i could id own a few big ones.........bird eaters or Tarantulas.......heheh there was a scientist in Aussie who brought home a bird eating spider called Lola...........her husband said it was either the spider or him...........she still has the spider ;)
:catz:

[Mirkgirl]

I agree... I can't see why people freak out when they see a spider... they're many nastier bugs....
but however that's true... so many people are afraid of them... that's why Tolkien used them in his writing...

[YayBoromir!]

I'm not scared of spiders.. though I think I would be scared of Shelob...lol
I do have trouble with public speaking, especially as I tend to stumble on words when I read. I wouldn't say it was a phobia, though, I just don't like it.:(

[Frodo's Love]

Yes..... spiders ARE harmless... and still I'm nearly paralyzed when I see them suddenly in front of me or hanging right above me when I'm lying in bed... :o :rolleyes:
I also had problems with speaking in public, but I had to do that so often in the last four years that I got used to it after a while. But still I'm nervous at the moments right before I have to go out and speak to a group of people...

[Galadhrim]

S... p... p... p... piders!!! :elfeek:

Also, I don't know why, but I'm afraid of - I'm not sure how you would call it in English - the ocean floor, (?) bottom (?), or whatever it's called. It freaks me out to step on it, I never know what is down there... It terrifies me.

[Little Devil]

I don't think I'm really scared of anything, spiders are ok, love public speaking, heights I'm ok with, deep water and all that kinda stuff I'm ok with. I guess my phobia is fear itself...

[Bonos-Girl]

ooh...fear is a good one!! it would be so cool if i could say that..but unfortunately i'm kinda scared of public speaking and stuff...although i don't really nthink it counts as a phobia, its not like i'll be sick or anything if made to do it!! lol

i love heights....abseiling is soooo fun!!

[Polly Sandybanks]

Galadhrim.. I agree. The bottom of the ocean (ok.. not bottom bottom.. that's pretty deep down I guess :)) or of a lake is scary to step on. When I was younger I used to wear sandals sometimes just because I was scared to step on a crab or whatever.. even though there really aren't any crabs in the lakes I used to go in.

I'm not too fond of any insects. When I was in the States last summer we sat watching TV at Bramble's brothers house (Bramblerose Bunce at this forum) and all of a sudden I saw something really huge, black in the corner of my eye. I just thought.. "WHAT was THAT??". Then there was another one.. big black bugs or something.. they must have been at least 3-4 cm long :o and when we got out of the sofa and took the pillows out more came out.. there must have been about 7-8 or something, at least. Urgh!! I'm not scared of them, they're just creepy.

[Galadhrim]

I don't like your story, Polly. *shivers* Any insect that is over 1,5 cm long freaks me out. :elfeek: Forgot about that before...

[Mirkgirl]

I can't stand walking on seaweed... the feeling is awful.. but Im not afraid of it actually...

As to crabs.. one vacation I was when/where there were many crabs in the water... just look around and you'll see one... and no one got me even tho I sensed something running from under my foot couple of times... so it's not that bad...

I know that there is one poisonous animal (well one for Black Sea I think) that sometimes comes near the shore in the sands... I have even seen it (dead)... I still get shivers every time I step on something remotely sharp... it's not that dangerous from what I know.. but one can drown

[Gatsby]

i'm okay when i can see the bottom and it's under like 6 feet... but anything deeper just makes me want to cry... i couldn't watch 'the perfect storm... the idea of floating in the deep ocean for days just freaks the hell out of me
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[Celebrían]

Well, I'm not too fond of snakes. Even seeing them on TV makes me cringe. Other things I'm not too crazy about (I wouldn't call them phobias, becasue phobias are very serious), but anyway, I don't like driving over bridges (especially if they are over water). Last summer I think it was, a section of I-40 fell into the river in Oklahoma. It was awful. So that incident hasn't helped this "fear" of mine. I'm not a fan of enclosed spaces, either. The thought of lying in a tanning bed even for a few minutes freaks me out.

Well, that's pretty much it. Do I sound crazy enough for you? :grin:

[Frodo's Love]

Haha, Celebrían, you have to do a little bit more work to appear crazy to us, I guess;) lol
Snakes leave me quite cold, actually. But spiders...:o even when I see them on TV I'm getting nervous...
The bridge-incident doesn't sound very comfortable either...

[Bonos-Girl]

i used to be freaked driving on bridgesd over water....i still am when its my grandad driving...

[Ranger]

I really don't like it when my feet leave the bottom of the swimming baths, though it isn't quite a phobia I really panic when my feet leave the bottom. And I really hate fire especially when I have to light the oven manually, sticking your arm into the oven to light the are at the back with a math really freaks me out. When I was little I wouldn't go anywhere near sparklers and I hated fireworks...I'm ok now but I still don't like my hand going near sparklers even if I have gloves on and the fire can't go past the metal anyway...it didn't really help that I used to watch 999 (a RL emergancy programme) and see all these accidents that had to do with fire...

[Bonos-Girl]

i love fire :flamer:...pyromaniac? me?! lol

[Gatsby]

i would never have thought it bono! fire is cool in my book

random trivia: people are born with two phobias, the fear of the dark and of loud noises, the rest are learned
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[Enelya]

i have a quite severe case of arachanaphobia. i cant even watch tham on animal planet with out getting woozies
and i have to admit after watching Darkness Falls i have had a small light in my room on at night:blush:

[Mocha]

I have a looong list of phobias and what they mean, but it is really long...so would you guys mind if I posted here?
I promise you, it's pretty much entertaining, but I thought that it would be better to get your approval due to it being very very long

so what do you guys think? Should I or should I not?

[Enelya]

well that is what this thread is about right;)

[Gatsby]

go for it mocha
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[Mocha]

lol Enelya, you won't know what hit you when I post this...:grin:

FIRST PART:

A-
Ablutophobia- Fear of washing or bathing.
Acarophobia- Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching.
Acerophobia- Fear of sourness.
Achluophobia- Fear of darkness.
Acousticophobia- Fear of noise.
Acrophobia- Fear of heights.
Aerophobia- Fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airbourne noxious substances.
Aeroacrophobia- Fear of open high places.
Aeronausiphobia- Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness.
Agateophobia- Fear of insanity.
Agliophobia- Fear of pain.
Agoraphobia- Fear of open spaces or of being in crowded, public places like markets. Fear of leaving a safe place.
Agraphobia- Fear of sexual abuse.
Agrizoophobia- Fear of wild animals.
Agyrophobia- Fear of streets or crossing the street.
Aichmophobia- Fear of needles or pointed objects.
Ailurophobia- Fear of cats.
Albuminurophobia- Fear of kidney disease.
Alektorophobia- Fear of chickens.
Algophobia- Fear of pain.
Alliumphobia- Fear of garlic.
Allodoxaphobia- Fear of opinions.
Altophobia- Fear of heights.
Amathophobia- Fear of dust.
Amaxophobia- Fear of riding in a car.
Ambulophobia- Fear of walking.
Amnesiphobia- Fear of amnesia.
Amychophobia- Fear of scratches or being scratched.
Anablephobia- Fear of looking up.
Ancraophobia or Anemophobia- Fear of wind.
Androphobia- Fear of men.
Anemophobia- Fear of air drafts or wind.
Anginophobia- Fear of angina, choking or narrowness.
Anglophobia- Fear of England, English culture, etc.
Angrophobia - Fear of anger or of becoming angry.
Ankylophobia- Fear of immobility of a joint.
Anthrophobia or Anthophobia- Fear of flowers.
Anthropophobia- Fear of people or society.
Antlophobia- Fear of floods.
Anuptaphobia- Fear of staying single.
Apeirophobia- Fear of infinity.
Aphenphosmphobia- Fear of being touched. (Haphephobia)
Apiphobia- Fear of bees.
Apotemnophobia- Fear of persons with amputations.
Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia- Fear of spiders.
Arithmophobia- Fear of numbers.
Arrhenphobia- Fear of men.
Arsonphobia- Fear of fire.
Asthenophobia- Fear of fainting or weakness.
Astraphobia or Astrapophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.
Astrophobia- Fear of stars and celestial space.
Asymmetriphobia- Fear of asymmetrical things.
Ataxiophobia- Fear of ataxia (muscular incoordination)
Ataxophobia- Fear of disorder or untidiness.
Atelophobia- Fear of imperfection.
Atephobia- Fear of ruin or ruins.
Athazagoraphobia- Fear of being forgotton or ignored or forgetting.
Atomosophobia - Fear of atomic explosions.
Atychiphobia- Fear of failure.
Aulophobia- Fear of flutes.
Aurophobia- Fear of gold.
Auroraphobia- Fear of Northern lights.
Autodysomophobia- Fear of one that has a vile odor.
Automatonophobia- Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues - anything that falsly represents a sentient being.
Automysophobia- Fear of being dirty.
Autophobia- Fear of being alone or of oneself.
Aviophobia or Aviatophobia- Fear of flying.


B-
Bacillophobia- Fear of microbes.
Bacteriophobia- Fear of bacteria.
Ballistophobia- Fear of missiles or bullets.
Bolshephobia- Fear of Bolsheviks.
Barophobia- Fear of gravity.
Basophobia or Basiphobia- Inability to stand. Fear of walking or falling.
Bathmophobia- Fear of stairs or steep slopes.
Bathophobia- Fear of depth.
Batophobia- Fear of heights or being close to high buildings.
Batrachophobia- Fear of amphibians, such as frogs, newts, salamanders, etc.
Belonephobia- Fear of pins and needles. (Aichmophobia)
Bibliophobia- Fear of books.
Blennophobia- Fear of slime.
Bogyphobia- Fear of bogies or the bogeyman.
Botanophobia- Fear of plants.
Bromidrosiphobia or Bromidrophobia- Fear of body smells.
Brontophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.
Bufonophobia- Fear of toads.


C-
Cacophobia- Fear of ugliness.
Cainophobia or Cainotophobia- Fear of newness, novelty.
Caligynephobia- Fear of beautiful women.
Cancerophobia- Fear of cancer.
Carcinophobia- Fear of cancer.
Cardiophobia- Fear of the heart.
Carnophobia- Fear of meat.
Catagelophobia- Fear of being ridiculed.
Catapedaphobia- Fear of jumping from high and low places.
Cathisophobia- Fear of sitting.
Catoptrophobia- Fear of mirrors.
Cenophobia or Centophobia- Fear of new things or ideas.
Ceraunophobia- Fear of thunder.
Chaetophobia- Fear of hair.
Cheimaphobia or Cheimatophobia- Fear of cold.
Chemophobia- Fear of chemicals or working with chemicals.
Cherophobia- Fear of gaiety.
Chionophobia- Fear of snow.
Chiraptophobia- Fear of being touched.
Chirophobia- Fear of hands.
Cholerophobia- Fear of anger or the fear of cholera.
Chorophobia- Fear of dancing.
Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia- Fear of money.
Chromophobia or Chromatophobia- Fear of colors.
Chronophobia- Fear of time.
Chronomentrophobia- Fear of clocks.
Cibophobia or Sitophobia or Sitiophobia- Fear of food.
Claustrophobia- Fear of confined spaces.
Cleithrophobia or Cleisiophobia- Fear of being locked in an enclosed place.
Cleptophobia- Fear of stealing.
Climacophobia- Fear of stairs, climbing or of falling downstairs.
Clinophobia- Fear of going to bed.
Clithrophobia or Cleithrophobia- Fear of being enclosed.
Cnidophobia- Fear of stings.
Cometophobia- Fear of comets.
Coimetrophobia- Fear of cemeteries.
Coitophobia- Fear of coitus.
Contreltophobia- Fear of sexual abuse.
Coprastasophobia- Fear of constipation.
Coprophobia- Fear of feces.
Coulrophobia- Fear of clowns.
Counterphobia- The preference by a phobic for fearful situations.
Cremnophobia- Fear of precipices.
Cryophobia- Fear of extreme cold, ice or frost.
Crystallophobia- Fear of crystals or glass.
Cyberphobia- Fear of computers or working on a computer.
Cyclophobia- Fear of bicycles.
Cymophobia- Fear of waves or wave like motions.
Cynophobia- Fear of dogs or rabies.
Cypridophobia, Cypriphobia, Cyprianophobia, or Cyprinophobia - Fear of prostitutes or venereal disease.


D-
Decidophobia- Fear of making decisions.
Defecaloesiophobia- Fear of painful bowels movements.
Deipnophobia- Fear of dining or dinner conversations.
Dementophobia- Fear of insanity.
Demonophobia or Daemonophobia- Fear of demons.
Demophobia- Fear of crowds. (Agoraphobia)
Dendrophobia- Fear of trees.
Dentophobia- Fear of dentists.
Dermatophobia- Fear of skin lesions.
Dermatosiophobia or Dermatophobia or Dermatopathophobia- Fear of skin disease.
Dextrophobia- Fear of objects at the right side of the body.
Diabetophobia- Fear of diabetes.
Didaskaleinophobia- Fear of going to school.
Dikephobia- Fear of justice.
Dinophobia- Fear of dizziness or whirlpools.
Diplophobia- Fear of double vision.
Dipsophobia- Fear of drinking.
Dishabiliophobia- Fear of undressing in front of someone.
Domatophobia or Oikophobia- Fear of houses or being in a house.
Doraphobia- Fear of fur or skins of animals.
Doxophobia- Fear of expressing opinions or of receiving praise.
Dromophobia- Fear of crossing streets.
Dutchphobia- Fear of the Dutch.
Dysmorphophobia- Fear of deformity.
Dystychiphobia- Fear of accidents.


E-
Ecclesiophobia- Fear of church.
Ecophobia- Fear of home.
Eicophobia or Oikophobia- Fear of home surroundings.
Eisoptrophobia- Fear of mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror.
Electrophobia- Fear of electricity.
Eleutherophobia- Fear of freedom.
Elurophobia- Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia)
Emetophobia- Fear of vomiting.
Enetophobia- Fear of pins.
Enochlophobia- Fear of crowds.
Enosiophobia or Enissophobia- Fear of having committed an unpardonable sin or of criticism.
Entomophobia- Fear of insects.
Eosophobia- Fear of dawn or daylight.
Ephebiphobia- Fear of teenagers.
Epistaxiophobia- Fear of nosebleeds.
Epistemophobia- Fear of knowledge.
Equinophobia- Fear of horses.
Eremophobia- Fear of being oneself or of lonliness.
Ereuthrophobia- Fear of blushing.
Ergasiophobia- 1) Fear of work or functioning. 2) Surgeon's fear of operating.
Ergophobia- Fear of work.
Erotophobia- Fear of sexual love or sexual questions.
Euphobia- Fear of hearing good news.
Eurotophobia- Fear of female genitalia.
Erythrophobia, Erytophobia or Ereuthophobia- 1) Fear of redlights. 2) Blushing. 3) Red.


F-
Febriphobia, Fibriphobia or Fibriophobia- Fear of fever.
Felinophobia- Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Galeophobia, Gatophobia)
Francophobia- Fear of France, French culture. (Gallophobia, Galiophobia)
Frigophobia- Fear of cold, cold things.


G-
Galeophobia or Gatophobia- Fear of cats.
Gallophobia or Galiophobia- Fear France, French culture. (Francophobia)
Gamophobia- Fear of marriage.
Geliophobia- Fear of laughter.
Geniophobia- Fear of chins.
Genophobia- Fear of sex.
Genuphobia- Fear of knees.
Gephyrophobia, Gephydrophobia, or Gephysrophobia- Fear of crossing bridges.
Germanophobia- Fear of Germany, German culture, etc.
Gerascophobia- Fear of growing old.
Gerontophobia- Fear of old people or of growing old.
Geumaphobia or Geumophobia- Fear of taste.
Glossophobia- Fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.
Gnosiophobia- Fear of knowledge.
Graphophobia- Fear of writing or handwriting.
Gymnophobia- Fear of nudity.
Gynephobia or Gynophobia- Fear of women.

will have to post the rest in another reply cause it wont let me post more than 1000...

[Mocha]

SECOND PART:

H-
Hadephobia- Fear of hell.
Hagiophobia- Fear of saints or holy things.
Hamartophobia- Fear of sinning.
Haphephobia or Haptephobia- Fear of being touched.
Harpaxophobia- Fear of being robbed.
Hedonophobia- Fear of feeling pleasure.
Heliophobia- Fear of the sun.
Hellenologophobia- Fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology.
Helminthophobia- Fear of being infested with worms.
Hemophobia or Hemaphobia or Hematophobia- Fear of blood.
Heresyphobia or Hereiophobia- Fear of challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation.
Herpetophobia- Fear of reptiles or creepy, crawly things.
Heterophobia- Fear of the opposite sex. (Sexophobia)
Hierophobia- Fear of priests or sacred things.
Hippophobia- Fear of horses.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words.
Hobophobia- Fear of bums or beggars.
Hodophobia- Fear of road travel.
Hormephobia- Fear of shock.
Homichlophobia- Fear of fog.
Homilophobia- Fear of sermons.
Hominophobia- Fear of men.
Homophobia- Fear of sameness, monotony or of homosexuality or of becoming homosexual.
Hoplophobia- Fear of firearms.
Hydrargyophobia- Fear of mercurial medicines.
Hydrophobia- Fear of water or of rabies.
Hydrophobophobia- Fear of rabies.
Hyelophobia or Hyalophobia- Fear of glass.
Hygrophobia- Fear of liquids, dampness, or moisture.
Hylephobia- Fear of materialism or the fear of epilepsy.
Hylophobia- Fear of forests.
Hypengyophobia or Hypegiaphobia- Fear of responsibility.
Hypnophobia- Fear of sleep or of being hypnotized.
Hypsiphobia- Fear of height.

I-
Iatrophobia- Fear of going to the doctor or of doctors.
Ichthyophobia- Fear of fish.
Ideophobia- Fear of ideas.
Illyngophobia- Fear of vertigo or feeling dizzy when looking down.
Iophobia- Fear of poison.
Insectophobia - Fear of insects.
Isolophobia- Fear of solitude, being alone.
Isopterophobia- Fear of termites, insects that eat wood.
Ithyphallophobia- Fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.

J-
Japanophobia- Fear of Japanese.
Judeophobia- Fear of Jews.

K-
Kainolophobia- Fear of novelty.
Kainophobia- Fear of anything new, novelty.
Kakorrhaphiophobia- Fear of failure or defeat.
Katagelophobia- Fear of ridicule.
Kathisophobia- Fear of sitting down.
Kenophobia- Fear of voids or empty spaces.
Keraunophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.
Kinetophobia or Kinesophobia- Fear of movement or motion.
Kleptophobia- Fear of stealing.
Koinoniphobia- Fear of rooms.
Kolpophobia- Fear of genitals, particularly female.
Kopophobia- Fear of fatigue.
Koniophobia- Fear of dust. (Amathophobia)
Kosmikophobia- Fear of cosmic phenomenon.
Kymophobia- Fear of waves.
Kynophobia- Fear of rabies.
Kyphophobia- Fear of stooping.

L-
Lachanophobia- Fear of vegetables.
Laliophobia or Lalophobia- Fear of speaking.
Leprophobia or Lepraphobia- Fear of leprosy.
Leukophobia- Fear of the color white.
Levophobia- Fear of things to the left side of the body.
Ligyrophobia- Fear of loud noises.
Lilapsophobia- Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes.
Limnophobia- Fear of lakes.
Linonophobia- Fear of string.
Liticaphobia- Fear of lawsuits.
Lockiophobia- Fear of childbirth.
Logizomechanophobia- Fear of computers.
Logophobia- Fear of words.
Luiphobia- Fear of lues, syphillis.
Lutraphobia- Fear of otters.
Lygophobia- Fear of darkness.
Lyssophobia- Fear of rabies or of becoming mad.

M-
Macrophobia- Fear of long waits.
Mageirocophobia- Fear of cooking.
Maieusiophobia- Fear of childbirth.
Malaxophobia- Fear of love play. (Sarmassophobia)
Maniaphobia- Fear of insanity.
Mastigophobia- Fear of punishment.
Mechanophobia- Fear of machines.
Medomalacuphobia- Fear of losing an erection.
Medorthophobia- Fear of an erect penis.
Megalophobia- Fear of large things.
Melissophobia- Fear of bees.
Melanophobia- Fear of the color black.
Melophobia- Fear or hatred of music.
Meningitophobia- Fear of brain disease.
Menophobia- Fear of menstruation.
Merinthophobia- Fear of being bound or tied up.
Metallophobia- Fear of metal.
Metathesiophobia- Fear of changes.
Meteorophobia- Fear of meteors.
Methyphobia- Fear of alcohol.
Metrophobia- Fear or hatred of poetry.
Microbiophobia- Fear of microbes. (Bacillophobia)
Microphobia- Fear of small things.
Misophobia- Fear of being contaminated with dirt of germs.
Mnemophobia- Fear of memories.
Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia- Fear of dirt or contamination.
Monophobia- Fear of solitude or being alone.
Monopathophobia- Fear of definite disease.
Motorphobia- Fear of automobiles.
Mottephobia- Fear of moths.
Musophobia or Murophobia- Fear of mice.
Mycophobia- Fear or aversion to mushrooms.
Mycrophobia- Fear of small things.
Myctophobia- Fear of darkness.
Myrmecophobia- Fear of ants.
Mysophobia- Fear of germs or contamination or dirt.
Mythophobia- Fear of myths or stories or false statements.
Myxophobia- Fear of slime. (Blennophobia)

N-
Nebulaphobia- Fear of fog. (Homichlophobia)
Necrophobia- Fear of death or dead things.
Nelophobia- Fear of glass.
Neopharmaphobia- Fear of new drugs.
Neophobia- Fear of anything new.
Nephophobia- Fear of clouds.
Noctiphobia- Fear of the night.
Nomatophobia- Fear of names.
Nosocomephobia- Fear of hospitals.
Nosophobia or Nosemaphobia- Fear of becoming ill.
Nostophobia- Fear of returning home.
Novercaphobia- Fear of your step-mother.
Nucleomituphobia- Fear of nuclear weapons.
Nudophobia- Fear of nudity.
Numerophobia- Fear of numbers.
Nyctohylophobia- Fear of dark wooded areas, of forests at night
Nyctophobia- Fear of the dark or of night.

third and last part coming up next...

[Mocha]

THIRD PART:
O-
Obesophobia- Fear of gaining weight.(Pocrescophobia)
Ochlophobia- Fear of crowds or mobs.
Ochophobia- Fear of vehicles.
Octophobia - Fear of the figure 8.
Odontophobia- Fear of teeth or dental surgery.
Odynophobia or Odynephobia- Fear of pain. (Algophobia)
Oenophobia- Fear of wines.
Oikophobia- Fear of home surroundings, house.
Olfactophobia- Fear of smells.
Ombrophobia- Fear of rain or of being rained on.
Ommetaphobia or Ommatophobia- Fear of eyes.
Oneirophobia- Fear of dreams.
Oneirogmophobia- Fear of wet dreams.
Onomatophobia- Fear of hearing a certain word or of names.
Ophidiophobia- Fear of snakes. (Snakephobia)
Ophthalmophobia- Fear of being stared at.
Opiophobia- Fear medical doctors experience of prescribing needed pain medications for patients.
Optophobia- Fear of opening one's eyes.
Ornithophobia- Fear of birds.
Orthophobia- Fear of property.
Osmophobia or Osphresiophobia- Fear of smells or odors.
Ostraconophobia- Fear of shellfish.
Ouranophobia- Fear of heaven.
P-
Pagophobia- Fear of ice or frost.
Panthophobia- Fear of suffering and disease.
Panophobia or Pantophobia- Fear of everything.
Papaphobia- Fear of the Pope.
Papyrophobia- Fear of paper.
Paralipophobia- Fear of neglecting duty or responsibility.
Paraphobia- Fear of sexual perversion.
Parasitophobia- Fear of parasites.
Paraskavedekatriaphobia- Fear of Friday the 13th.
Parthenophobia- Fear of virgins or young girls.
Pathophobia- Fear of disease.
Patroiophobia- Fear of heredity.
Parturiphobia- Fear of childbirth.
Peccatophobia- Fear of sinning. (imaginary crime)
Pediculophobia- Fear of lice.
Pediophobia- Fear of dolls.
Pedophobia- Fear of children.
Peladophobia- Fear of bald people.
Pellagrophobia- Fear of pellagra.
Peniaphobia- Fear of poverty.
Pentheraphobia- Fear of mother-in-law. (Novercaphobia)
Phagophobia- Fear of swallowing or of eating or of being eaten.
Phalacrophobia- Fear of becoming bald.
Phallophobia- Fear of a penis, esp erect.
Pharmacophobia- Fear of taking medicine.
Phasmophobia- Fear of ghosts.
Phengophobia- Fear of daylight or sunshine.
Philemaphobia or Philematophobia- Fear of kissing.
Philophobia- Fear of falling in love or being in love.
Philosophobia- Fear of philosophy.
Phobophobia- Fear of phobias.
Photoaugliaphobia- Fear of glaring lights.
Photophobia- Fear of light.
Phonophobia- Fear of noises or voices or one's own voice; of telephones.
Phronemophobia- Fear of thinking.
Phthiriophobia- Fear of lice. (Pediculophobia)
Phthisiophobia- Fear of tuberculosis.
Placophobia- Fear of tombstones.
Plutophobia- Fear of wealth.
Pluviophobia- Fear of rain or of being rained on.
Pneumatiphobia- Fear of spirits.
Pnigophobia or Pnigerophobia- Fear of choking of being smothered.
Pocrescophobia- Fear of gaining weight. (Obesophobia)
Pogonophobia- Fear of beards.
Poliosophobia- Fear of contracting poliomyelitis.
Politicophobia- Fear or abnormal dislike of politicians.
Polyphobia- Fear of many things.
Poinephobia- Fear of punishment.
Ponophobia- Fear of overworking or of pain.
Porphyrophobia- Fear of the color purple.
Potamophobia- Fear of rivers or running water.
Potophobia- Fear of alcohol.
Pharmacophobia- Fear of drugs.
Proctophobia- Fear of rectum.
Prosophobia- Fear of progress.
Psellismophobia- Fear of stuttering.
Psychophobia- Fear of mind.
Psychrophobia- Fear of cold.
Pteromerhanophobia- Fear of flying.
Pteronophobia- Fear of being tickled by feathers.
Pupaphobia - Fear of puppets.
Pyrexiophobia- Fear of Fever.
Pyrophobia- Fear of fire.
Q-
R-
Radiophobia- Fear of radiation, x-rays.
Ranidaphobia- Fear of frogs.
Rectophobia- Fear of rectum or rectal diseases.
Rhabdophobia- Fear of being severely punished or beaten by a rod, or of being severely criticized. Also fear of magic.(wand)
Rhypophobia- Fear of defecation.
Rhytiphobia- Fear of getting wrinkles.
Rupophobia- Fear of dirt.
Russophobia- Fear of Russians.
S-
Samhainophobia: Fear of Halloween.
Sarmassophobia- Fear of love play. (Malaxophobia)
Satanophobia- Fear of Satan.
Scabiophobia- Fear of scabies.
Scatophobia- Fear of fecal matter.
Scelerophibia- Fear of bad men, burglars.
Sciophobia Sciaphobia- Fear of shadows.
Scoleciphobia- Fear of worms.
Scolionophobia- Fear of school.
Scopophobia or Scoptophobia- Fear of being seen or stared at.
Scotomaphobia- Fear of blindness in visual field.
Scotophobia- Fear of darkness. (Achluophobia)
Scriptophobia- Fear of writing in public.
Selachophobia- Fear of sharks.
Selaphobia- Fear of light flashes.
Selenophobia- Fear of the moon.
Seplophobia- Fear of decaying matter.
Sesquipedalophobia- Fear of long words.
Sexophobia- Fear of the opposite sex. (Heterophobia)
Siderodromophobia- Fear of trains, railroads or train travel.
Siderophobia- Fear of stars.
Sinistrophobia- Fear of things to the left, left-handed.
Sinophobia- Fear of Chinese, Chinese culture.
Sitophobia or Sitiophobia- Fear of food or eating. (Cibophobia)
Snakephobia- Fear of snakes. (Ophidiophobia)
Soceraphobia- Fear of parents-in-law.
Social Phobia- Fear of being evaluated negatively in social situations.
Sociophobia- Fear of society or people in general.
Somniphobia- Fear of sleep.
Sophophobia- Fear of learning.
Soteriophobia - Fear of dependence on others.
Spacephobia- Fear of outer space.
Spectrophobia- Fear of specters or ghosts.
Spermatophobia or Spermophobia- Fear of germs.
Spheksophobia- Fear of wasps.
Stasibasiphobia or Stasiphobia- Fear of standing or walking. (Ambulophobia)
Staurophobia- Fear of crosses or the crucifix.
Stenophobia- Fear of narrow things or places.
Stygiophobia or Stigiophobia- Fear of hell.
Suriphobia- Fear of mice.
Symbolophobia- Fear of symbolism.
Symmetrophobia- Fear of symmetry.
Syngenesophobia- Fear of relatives.
Syphilophobia- Fear of syphilis.
T-
Tachophobia- Fear of speed.
Taeniophobia or Teniophobia- Fear of tapeworms.
Taphephobia Taphophobia- Fear of being buried alive or of cemeteries.
Tapinophobia- Fear of being contagious.
Taurophobia- Fear of bulls.
Technophobia- Fear of technology.
Teleophobia- 1) Fear of definite plans. 2) Religious ceremony.
Telephonophobia- Fear of telephones.
Teratophobia- Fear of bearing a deformed child or fear of monsters or deformed people.
Testophobia- Fear of taking tests.
Tetanophobia- Fear of lockjaw, tetanus.
Teutophobia- Fear of German or German things.
Textophobia- Fear of certain fabrics.
Thaasophobia- Fear of sitting.
Thalassophobia- Fear of the sea.
Thanatophobia or Thantophobia- Fear of death or dying.
Theatrophobia- Fear of theatres.
Theologicophobia- Fear of theology.
Theophobia- Fear of gods or religion.
Thermophobia- Fear of heat.
Tocophobia- Fear of pregnancy or childbirth.
Tomophobia- Fear of surgical operations.
Tonitrophobia- Fear of thunder.
Topophobia- Fear of certain places or situations, such as stage fright.
Toxiphobia or Toxophobia or Toxicophobia- Fear of poison or of being accidently poisoned.
Traumatophobia- Fear of injury.
Tremophobia- Fear of trembling.
Trichinophobia- Fear of trichinosis.
Trichopathophobia or Trichophobia or Hypertrichophobia- Fear of hair. (Chaetophobia)
Triskaidekaphobia- Fear of the number 13.
Tropophobia- Fear of moving or making changes.
Trypanophobia- Fear of injections.
Tuberculophobia- Fear of tuberculosis.
Tyrannophobia- Fear of tyrants.
U-
Uranophobia- Fear of heaven.
Urophobia- Fear of urine or urinating.
V-
Vaccinophobia- Fear of vaccination.
Venustraphobia- Fear of beautiful women.
Verbophobia- Fear of words.
Verminophobia- Fear of germs.
Vestiphobia- Fear of clothing.
Virginitiphobia- Fear of rape.
Vitricophobia- Fear of step-father.
W-
Walloonphobia- Fear of the Walloons.
Wiccaphobia: Fear of witches and witchcraft.
X-
Xanthophobia- Fear of the color yellow or the word yellow.
Xenoglossophobia- Fear of foreign languages.
Xenophobia- Fear of strangers or foreigners.
Xerophobia- Fear of dryness.
Xylophobia- 1) Fear of wooden objects. 2) Forests.
Xyrophobia-Fear of razors.
Y-
Z-
Zelophobia- Fear of jealousy.
Zeusophobia- Fear of God or gods.
Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat.
Zoophobia- Fear of animals.


What will they think of next?lol roflmao roflmao

I hope they won't count this as spamming, it's just that they had a limit for every reply and it was not enough for my looong list lol

Have fun with them :grin:

[Ranger]

Okay...fear of writing?
Fear of women roflmao be afraid...be very afraid:angry: :elfeek:
I'm suprised there's not a fear of forgetting your fear...

[Gatsby]

some of those are nuts! can you imagine being afriad of numbers or walking? that would suck
out
gatz

[Bonos-Girl]

numbers? well..some peopel are afraid of maths! lol

yep..i couldn't really be bothered to read all of them....but..i might do if i'm bored at some point!!

[Ranger]

Oh yeah thats another one...a fear of maths...it didn't help that my teacher was really horrible...I'd literally go as small as possible in my seat so he wouldn't pick me in class...of course he DID pick me!

[Bonos-Girl]

we have horrible teachers (i just hope none of them are on here and recognise me....) but i still love maths!!

i think it must be one of those subjects that you either love cos you can do it, or hate because it seems impossible! lol

[Ranger]

I could do it if the teachers were alright...and could teach, cause that helps:) And now that I've left school I can do it...I just hated it at school.

[Mocha]

I have the WORST Sociology teacher ever. She makes it her job to run her nose into anything that happens in class. And she absolutely loves blackmailing us with our bad marks in her tests saying that she'd call our parents. Believe me, she does whatever she says she'll do.....I just hate her verymad pfbbt

Hmm I guess I'll make a new thread about "Teachers" lol

[Ranger]

Good idea!

[Mocha]

Done! lol

Just made a thread about it...
So back to this thread's title...do any of you guys have real phobias aside from just reading about the list I gave out? lol, to tell you guys the truth, I never read that list even though I've havd it for months...I'd always go "Yea, yea, I'll read it when I have time to spend or when I'm real bored" :P

[Bonos-Girl]

lol..glad to see i'm not the only one good at procrastinating here!!

[Mocha]

*gives BG a high five* now we have something in common lol

The procrastinating girls! hehe roflmao

[Enelya]

that was a very very very long list Mocha!lol and im sure youll be happy to hear that my life motto is procrastination too:thumbs: . i forgot to mention before but im also slightly scared of the farmers that live in the woods behind my house cuz theyre crazy :p

[Keverzwijn]

I know a guy who has a phobia about his belly button. He practically runsa way when you mention the word or poke him. Quite hilarious. And his girlfriend is afraid of pigeons.

[Bonos-Girl]

a weird pair! lol

how can you be scared of your own belly button?! lol

[Galadhrim]

Well, maybe he's not scared of his belly button. Maybe just the thought of someone doing anything to it freaks him out... Okay, that came out wrong... lol

[Little Devil]

Don't like pigeons, they sometimes freak me out. I like the phobia which is a fear of English coulture and England. lol ;)

[Bonos-Girl]

a fear of engilish culture and england!? thats just plain weird!! lol

[Mocha]

Originally posted by Enelya
that was a very very very long list Mocha!lol and im sure youll be happy to hear that my life motto is procrastination too:thumbs: . i forgot to mention before but im also slightly scared of the farmers that live in the woods behind my house cuz theyre crazy :p



lol, ooh Enelya! Join the club! lol so far we have me and BG in it, "The procrastination club" and the logo is "The procrastination club, where we always procrastinate our replies to threads" lol lol lol




roflmao @ the guy who's afraid of his bellybutton roflmao

One of my friends at school has a phobia of cats, you have no idea how afraid she is of the little cuties! She always says that I'm crazy for loving these so called "creepy crawlers" *pouts* They are not creepy, they are so wuvly and fluffy and their purrs and so cute! :catz:

[Celebrían]

I've never understood how someone could be afraid of cats, either. They are so cute! When I get some time, I'll look through the phobia list as well. :thumbs:

Mocha: you can add me to the procrastinators club! I'm the queen of procrastination! lol

[Galadhrim]

Cats are the lovliest animals. I love them. Little cutsie wutsies... :catz:

[Celebrían]

So that's how you spell "cutsie wutsie".... lol

[Enelya]

cats sooooooo are adorable:)
and mocha where is this procrastination club?cuz i wanna join it:whoohoo:

[Bonos-Girl]

we're all the people that can't be bothered to read the list of phobias now!! lol...i will read it at some point...honest!

cats are the cutest animals ever!

[Lyrkalas]

I have no idea how I acquired it, but I have a deathly fear of frogs, of all things. I can't look at a realistic drawing, photo, tv show, nothing without hyperventilating, crying, sweating, shaking.

The sound of croaking doesn't really bother me, but I have to be wary of anything hopping around. At some times, especially when camping or visiting the tropics it's been debilitating. My husband wants to try to get me over it but...blecchhh!

[Galadhrim]

Originally posted by Celebrían
So that's how you spell "cutsie wutsie".... lol

Better not follow my lead, I'm just guessing here... lol

[Celebrían]

lol I think it's a very good guess! ;)

[Little Devil]

I don't like fish very much, they kinda freak me out, we had this fish and I thought it was dead as it had been left for a couple of hours, but when I walked passed it it started flapping about, scared me half to death, fish are really creepy.....;)

[Gatsby]

you wouldn't like the town i live in... it's a practically a fishing town, can't go down any street with out hitting a fish market... i think fish is really gross... unless it's clam chowder, but thats a crustacean not a fish, hmm
out
gatz

[Enelya]

i love fish (to eat). but i agree LD fish are creepy, but im not afraid of them:thumbs:

[Lintefaniel]

I would say my phobia is spiders and snakes. But I am conquering my snake fear. I am doing it and I don't know why or even how...but I figure I could...Spiders I don't know if I need to...;)

Oh and there is one other one...I didn't even know i had..it's only minor but I do get bothered by it...
Automatonophobia.....Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues - anything that falsly represents a sentient being

That's pretty much it... I don't know if costumed people like the ones in Theme Parks count but they kinda creep me out too....pfbbt lol

[Bonos-Girl]

hehe..Pil is so scared of things like masks and ventroloquist dummies....did anyone watch the last series of jonathon creek? there was one with a massive ventroloquist dummy...she phoned me up afterwards almost crying....lol

[SindarinGirl]

Poor Pil! :( One time, we bought a Teddy Ruxpin bear - it had a tape player in it, and when you put the cassette in, the thing would move - the mouth, eyes, the head turned. It came with tapes of children's stories, but we put in Black Sabbath, Sex Pistols, anything Metal or Punk. lol It was really creepy to watch it "singing" Highway to Hell. lol

Lyrkalas, frogs! I love frogs! What about salamanders? Is it the hopping?

[Bonos-Girl]

hehe. i wanna see a teddy singing highway to hell! lol

[Lyrkalas]

Originally posted by SindarinGirl
Lyrkalas, frogs! I love frogs! Is it the hopping?

It's not the hopping, really. It's the way they look, their bulgy eyes, their body shapes, that bubble thing they do with their throats, their tongues--ooh, I'm getting the willies just thinking about it!

To share an experience, I was in the Philippines visiting family and, after a night dancing we got out of the car in my grandmother's driveway. I thought I was looking at a rock on the ground, then it hopped away! My cousin had to carry me into the house.

What about salamanders?
Spiders, lizards, snakes...they don't bother me. We had a whole menagerie of that stuff in our first apartment.

[Mocha]

My little sister has a fear of dolls with realistic eyes...

I used to be scared of a Grimlin doll when I was young, I used to think that it's eyes were following me when I moved across the room lol

Originally posted by Enelya
cats sooooooo are adorable:)
and mocha where is this procrastination club?cuz i wanna join it:whoohoo:

:hooray: now I have you, Celeb and BG as members of my club! lol roflmao
oh and to join, dear Enelya, you have to close your eyes and wish real hard....after that, you'd find yourself in the club! Let's just call it the "secret entrance" to it ;) ;) ;)

[Celebrían]

lol Excellent, Mocha!

I found out today that I have a fear of being put on the spot. I was doing a group presentation, and I was supposed to go next to last, but the first guy to speak said..."and now for the strategies portion" (it was my section). I promise you my eyes bugged out :elfeek: when he said that. So I gave my portion a lot sonner than I thought I would! It was awful! I was shaking visibly.....

[Enelya]

know how ya feel Celebrian, i get so nervous when im in front of a large group of people, and whats worse is that when i have to talk i tend to stutter:( (just the nerves)
Mocha, love the "secret entrance"lol

[Mocha]

hehe, trying to re-live The Hobbit thesedays...Does anybody know where I can find a fire breathing dragon? I couldn't find one at the supermarket, and they say they have everything *shakes head*

[Celebrían]

originally posted by Enelya

know how ya feel Celebrian, i get so nervous when im in front of a large group of people, and whats worse is that when i have to talk i tend to stutter (just the nerves)

Public speaking doesn't bother me, usually, but for some reason, just me being caught off guard was enough to make my blood pressure go up!

[Lintefaniel]

When I was a kid I was like that...cause I didn't want to screw up...but finally I just got over it...I would cry though...I was little...(real little)

[legolastheawesome]

blood.

hemophobia.

I am not afraid of my blood or fake blood or animal blood.

Anything other than that..sends me up puke lane.

[Celebrían]

Now that I think about it, seeing blood (real human blood) or surgery scars make me feel very faint. The first time I looked at my mother's scar on the back of her neck, I had to sit down. Okay, maybe it's not a phobia, because it doesn't scare me, but I'm scared of passing out, which is what I do when I see blood or scars....so maybe it is a phobia, indirectly. ;) :grin:

[legolastheawesome]

this kid who sits next to me keeps threatening to puncture himself to see me faint. (just like you Celebrian, I faint when I see blood, but I also am afraid of it) I think he is such a jerk. The only reason he doesn't do it is because I am really smart in that class, and he needs the answers. lol ;)

[Celebrían]

lol It's so weird, because I can watch Braveheart (I will say that "From Hell" made me cover my eyes a great deal :o ) and not flinch once, but if I see one of those real life ER shows, I can't handle it. My Dad couldn't handle the sight of blood, either. After he and my Mom went for their blood test before they got married, she had to drive back!

...and legolas, the next time that guy tries to pull that number on you, give him the wrong answers. :naughty:

[legolastheawesome]

it just might work!

you evil master mind you...;) lol lol lol

[Celebrían]

Hey, I do what I can.... :naughty: ;) lol

[Lintefaniel]

When I was a kid we lived on a military base in CA. Every year at Halloween someone would dress up as the Headless Horseman for Halloween. Before Sunset he would go around and pass out candy to the kids. However, after sunset he rode around the base (with permission of course) as he infamous Spook of the book....I was terrifed. The one time he actually trailed my mothers car home was the night I was not in the car thank goodness. I'm certain I would be a clinical case today if I had been....Just another part of that sentient being phobia thingy....:elfeek:

[Celebrían]

Gosh! I'm glad I didn't live on that base when I was a wee lass! That would have scared the crud out of me! I would be in the mental institute with you, Linte! :o :elfeek:

[Elbereth]

My phobias are:
1) Insects, spiders anything like that (and I just stayed in a converted barn where there were loads of spiders and woodlice in my bed)
2) being trapped
3) Dentists - possibly my greatest fear and now my wisdom teeth are causing me trouble. Hence I am drugged up to the eyeballs on paracetamol and trying to ignore it!!!!!!!!!

[Celebrían]

You could add "being trapped" to my list as well. That's never a good feeling to have.... :o

[Bonos-Girl]

being lost somewhere on my own with no money or way to get home. even being stuck in london would scare me....i'd probably end up walking the wrong way knowing me and end up in Surrey or summat...lol

actually...i might be un-panicky enough to find a shop that sells compasses to see what direction i need to go! lol

[Little Devil]

I hate that too being lost, especially at night at the station when there are loadsa drunken yobs and it's freezing cold, I've had that experience and it's not nice! ,lol

[legolastheawesome]

when I was little, and my mom would tale me to New York City so I can visit her workplace, I was afraid of losing my mom in al those people and then getting on the wrong train, and be taken to a place I had no idea about.....it scared me so much.

[Bonos-Girl]

once when i went to camden with friends i had to go home and they were all going to meet some other friends....and it was pouring down so camden station was shut (northern line is the deepesta nd gets flooded sooo easily..) so we had to walk to the next tube station. i can't remember what happened next but i think that station may have been closed too...so we randomly caught a bus...but it was in the rush hour so it took about 1/2 hour to go a few feet....then we decided to get out and walk...then we decided we couldn't actually be bothered and it got to the staion they wanted. i got off there as well and made my way to liverpool street on my own...in the rush hour....and then this drunk guy started talking to me so i ran away to a different carriage....it was actually rather amusing loking back on it..but i was so scared that i would never actually make it home alive! lol

[Little Devil]

I get that feeling, I was out in London with my family and we just missed the train by 3 minutes! So we though ok, well get the next one, but there were no trains for about 3/4 hours cos some idiot decided to chuck himself on the train tracks to kill himself somewhere so everything got held up. In the end got home at about 4 in the morning! I hate trains sometimes. :angry:

[Elf angel]

Height and big waves

[legolastheawesome]

i don't like big waves either...but they don't necessarily scare me.

I used to be scared of Pinocchio....i don't even know why...lol

[Celebrían]

I remembered another fear of mine: parking garages. I'm always uncomfortable when I have to go in one. I keep picturing the layers collapsing on top of each other. :o

[Little Devil]

legolastheawesome I used to be scared of Pinocchio too! I guess it was the puppet master mostly and I didn't really like puppets that much as they kinda freak me out. ;)

[Eáránë]

o gosh i hate those 2... wen my mom takes me 2 her work... sometimes cars r going by and the ground just shakes... and i kinda get freaked out by that... i really hate going up n front of class and give presentations... i did my hist. presentation about a month ago.. and i was so scared... my hist. teacher is a really weird/strict/not patient person and i had no idea of what 2 say... and wen i got back 2 my desk.. my heart was beating a mile a minute... and wen i gave my presentation last year on latvia (ya ya i know.. strange) my hands were so shaky and i thought i was gonna faint... especially wen its valentines day and all those balloons kinda distract u.. wen a balloon pops.. i guess u can pop any second 2... my other fear is driving up on mountains... i hate the fact that the roads r guarded by wooden rails and if u get in accident u either go off the mountain or run into it...*getting chills*

[legolastheawesome]

I have to get up infront of my Spanish class ALOT! okay, it's hard when you are up in front of the class, and you are speaking English, but now...YOU ARE SPEAKING A WHOLE DIFFERENT LANGUAGE!! and my spanish teacher counts more for the oral than the written work, and i am still not too comfortable going up in front of the class and it's almost may!

[Ranger]

Originally posted by Eáránë
my other fear is driving up on mountains... i hate the fact that the roads r guarded by wooden rails and if u get in accident u either go off the mountain or run into it...*getting chills*

We were in the Lake District once and my parents and I were going to some show really far out, there were a LOT of really steep hills and the car went halfway up one and started rolling down again! Right towards the edge...and I was in the back seat so I had a front row view :o

Another thing I really...really hate is zombies, when I was little I watched one of the night of the living dead movies (they were all stuck in this mall) and I had nightmares about it for ages afterwards! I don't know if it was just the zombies or that constant music in the background, the de dum de dum, de dum de dum, de dum de da da da da da de dum :elfeek:

[YayBoromir!]

OMG Ranger that sounds really scary! :o I've had one of those experiences...it was in Spain, and we'd taken the long way round (and got lost *cough cough*)
We ended up in a place called "El Tanque" which was like a very long, winding road through the mountains. We were turning a corner on the outside of the road, and all of a sudden, a bus came round (it was a blind corner). The roads were so narrow, and the bus was seriously tilting towards us, it felt like it would fall on our car and knock us off the side of the mountain (we were right on the edge of a sheer drop). Hair-raising stuff! :elfeek:

[Ranger]

So...next time you'll catch a plane :) (and not get lost ;))

[Enelya Tasartir]

i'm absolutely perrified of spiders, i can squash them because of the crunch, i can spray them coz they get angry so i cover them with a bucket, so they cant get out and wait for some one to come and help me, then if its a particularily big spider i pile books on the bucket so that it cant push its way out. I'm also scared of drowning, being buried alive ( did anyone see Crossing Jordan when she was ) and being in a car accident, and getting struck by lightning, (i'm really paraniod about that) and also not being able to sleep at night and. But yes i do leave the house and go outside, i'm just carefull. I even got my drivers licence first go.

[legolastheawesome]

my dad's friend HATES spiders...he absolutely despises them. He can't watch them on TV, and he can't even go into my cousin's room because he owns a tarantula. I wonder if he saw Spider-Man?

[Mocha]

My neighboor is terrified of cats....one day when I went to visit his daughter, who is only a year older than I am...I was carrying her kitty around, and I don't know why, but I wanted to talk to her dad so I went to his bedroom which he also uses as a living room of his own. Anyway, when I walked in with the kitty, he was laying on the bed talking to his friend when all of a sudden he started jumping on the bed and yelling at me to take the cat out of the room without realising the he still clutched the phone in his hands....it was so funny! :evil:

[legolastheawesome]

My friend is terrifed of dogs. I was walking home with her one time, and there was a dog that was behind a fence and it began barking. She screamed and ran straight across the street. Everyone thought that she was in trouble, so like everyone on the street came to help her, and when she said that the dog scared her, everyone blew it off and she was so embarrassed. She doesn't want to come to my house unless my dog is clear out of sight. But I guess that is the way she is.