GTKY: scaredy cat edition

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gabbagal

Hysterical! Unfortunately I am afraid of just about everything so it will be hard to narrow down a few. The first that came to my mind is the sheer terror I experience if I'm stopped at a light or intersection on even the slightest incline. I keep thinking that as soon as I take my foot off the brake, I'm going to immediately roll backwards into the car behind me. This has never happened, but I actually get physically anxious every time. I drive an automatic, but I have, on occasion, used my other foot for the switch-off thinking that fraction of a second I save by not having to move my one foot from brake to gas would actually make a difference.

MelissaMiso

@JimBobCooter I'm the opposite with the bedroom door. First I need it open so I can hear the axe murderer when they hack down the front door or I need to have a quicker escape if they come in through the window. Ha!

My irrational fear since 1996 has been ocean water. After going to Hawaii with my family and experiencing clear ocean water that you can see if a sea monster is coming to get you, I refused to go in the waters off Long Island. I started having weird recurring dreams about driving in our family's VW Rabbit onto floating piers and sinking. I'd be screaming in terror and the rest of my family was oblivious to our impending demise. In waking life, I would almost panic if I drove down a street with reeds growing on the side.

I tried to overcome this fear by taking scuba diving in college. The classes were held in a pool and we had the option of taking our open water dive to get certification. The dive was scheduled on graduation day but I could have rescheduled it. Needless to say, I chickened out. Ironically, a few years ago we purchased our home two blocks from the bay and it was IN the bay during Hurricane Sandy (flood stopped two houses past us).

Shoecrazysarah

The dark. I'm a full grown adult who still uses a night light!

Jmaddiso

Oh that's a hysterical image @JimBobCooter! I know how you feel with that one though! They always freak me out and i tend to forget (how, i'm really not sure!!) that they POP when ya open them! Lol!!

@Shoecrazysarah i'm WITH YOU!!!! My irrational fear is of the dark. I've been this way since i was a kid, and always thought i'd "outgrow" it. I think i was there until one October (with leaves rustling around...and it was creepy out) evening around dusk, somewhere around 99', i went down to the laundry facility in my apartment building to get our clothes. My ex husband (husband at the time) stayed up stairs with our sleeping infant son. I get the clothes in the basket, which is a tall basket, and i'm heading back upstairs. The laundry was across the driveway from our apartment. It's almost dark, and i have never been able to see very well at night (maybe that's the real issue), and as i start to cross the driveway, i see this guy hunched behind a big boulder and he starts making noises at me and growling, then comes running towards me. I am screaming bloody murder, hoping someone in the surrounding buildings hears me, or the husband will come save me, when i realize, while i'm poking the big basket towards him (like that will help!), that it is, in fact, my idiot husband. I've never been the same since. To call it traumatic is a bit much, but i am a SUPER jumpy person now because of that. Hence the EX part. He's an ass.

It's weird now though because my fiance and i go on this big camping trip every year with a good many people, and i meander around in the woods alone all the time. Day or night. And i'm fine. It's the city that freaks me out!! I just can't see what's out there.

lcwed

@gabbagal I drive a standard and I have that exact fear. If I'm driving an automatic I always put on the emergency brake even in park, hill or no due to my roll back paranoia.

I am afraid of dentists. I am squeamish at anything dental related. Drilling, pulling, etc. I cannot stand that tooth smoking commercial and always switch the channel or leave the room. I also cannot watch them in movies or references to them. I've put off going to the dentist even though I know I need to because of this.

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TAT2MAMI

@JimBobCooter - What is it with those packages that freaks me out too! It's like a Jack In The Box .. you just keep waiting for it to pop up! LoL .. Glad I'm not the only one.

I am super scared of snakes. I don't even like to see them on TV. As a kid, I used to have nightmares about piles and piles of snakes all slithering around. They just freak me the hell out.

mindaa

Just this morning one of the morning radio shows was taking calls from listeners who had found dead bodies... so of course now I'm going to be afraid of that, even though I've never really given much thought to it before

There are a couple overpasses that freak me out when I've driving them - I get visions of losing control, not making the curve and crashing through the guardrail

Davie813

I used to be afraid I'd find a dead body, too--I watched too much Unsolved Mysteries in my youth.  I'm currently irrationally afraid that I'll drop my hair dryer in the toilet and electrocute myself.

Astrabacus

Tank trucks. They terrify me. I'm paranoid that there will be a leak and I'll go skidding all over the road or that they'll be a spark in the engine and the entire thing will blow up. When I was five, and my mum was five months pregnant with Laire, we were driving behind one, it leaked and we went skidding right onto the other side of the road. It went the other way and blew up when it hit a tree. I can't remember it, but my mum tells me that it happened, so maybe not so irrational.

bumpuser10258960

These are absolutely hilarious and I can relate to several of them! I have an irrational fear of being alone in my house at night, particularly if I don't have the house lit up like 4th of July. I am rarely by myself anymore, but if I am, I often find myself running down a hallway (to get out of the dark) as if said axe murderer is chasing me.  

And when I'm driving and see a bag or box in the road, I constantly feel like there are body parts or animals in it and if I hit it, it'll fling body parts everywhere. 

Clearly I watch too much Law & Order.

CML11

I hate being alone in my house when my husband is away. My mind starts playing all these tricks on me and I swear those house "settling sounds"always sound as if someone is on the other floor. Creeps me out.

I have a strange fear of basements. I have no reason for it, but the old basements that are common in the houses in NH have rock walls, dim lighting and sometimes even dirt floors. I have absolutely no reason for it but I will have a full on panic attack if I have to go into one. I joke and say something must of happened to me in another life (not that I actually believe in that). We have a new house so this one has never been an issue here thankfully!