Funny Irrational Fears

LittleMissTimeLord · October 2015

I know similar threads have been created before (that's always the start of a thread that gets a positive response eh?) but I wanted to use this topic to get to know you beautiful ladies and share some laughs. With an emphasis on the funny and on actually ridiculous fears you have, not things like flu shots and pap smears and things that you (or a TTC newbie) feel the need to confirm with a medical professional. I'm talking about things that you think to yourself, and then step outside of your own body, stare at yourself, and go "really??".

Mine: I'm currently in the TWW. Today I wore a pair of new skinny jeans. When I tried them on at the thrift store, they fit great standing up. Turns out they're tight when sitting down. Regular tight. Like had a few burritos tight, not like OMG I CAN'T BREATHE TIGHT. And around lunch I thought "OMG WHAT IF MY TIGHT JEANS WILL PREVENT IMPLANTATION?! Should I go home and change?! Should I have worn leggings?! Should I have worn the boyfriend jeans instead?!"

So yes, today I briefly considered leaving work to change my pants to help promote implantation. I'm totally winning at keeping my cool during the TWW.

chrlyr · October 2015

My NBR irrational fear is of walking while carrying a knife or scissors or some other sharp object. I'm afraid I'll trip and stab myself.

WorkingOnMyNightCheese · October 2015

I feel like I've read enough and learned enough that most of my irrational TTC fears are gone, but every once in a while I'll have a moment wondering if what I'm doing is making me infertile or something, like drinking alcohol or caffeine. I know these are totally not doing that, but sometimes the brain goes to bad places after multiple BFNs.

The bright side? TTGP has made me so much more conscious of what I'm putting into my body in terms of food and drink, which is great!

housewifehobbyist · October 2015

@PocketFullofShells I'm orginally from a Philly suburb too (Bucks County) and I definitely get to deer-fear.

I'm 31 and fairly rational, I like to think, but I still turn on all the lights when I have to go downstairs at night because I think something might grab me in the dark.

Yailani23 · October 2015

My irrational fear is driving over bridges when there is traffic. I feel like too many cars stopped on it will somehow cause it crumble. :-??

riri111 · October 2015

I love this topic. My main irrational NBR fear that things go bump in the night. I also turn lights on so nothing gets me if I walk around my house at night. And yes to bridges! I only drive on the inner (left) lane so I won't "fall off."

coffeeandcupcakes · October 2015

I have a fear of sneezing while driving. I hate having to have my eyes closed while behind the wheel, especially if I am around other cars!

BioTeach84 · October 2015

My irrational NBR fear is getting stuck driving through a tunnel. I avoid them at all costs! I am also from a philly burb @PocketFullofShells and @housewifehobbyist

FloridaStanley · October 2015

Yailani23 said:
My irrational fear is driving over bridges when there is traffic. I feel like too many cars stopped on it will somehow cause it crumble. :-??

I have this one and the opposite fear as well. A bridge with no other cars? Nope nope nope

jennifer0428 · October 2015

I saw Halloween when I was WAY to young and now am scared of someone being in my back seat to strangle me when I get in the car. I still check the back seat before I get in! Spoiler alert: there has never been anyone back there!

JRB3 · October 2015

I am also in a philly suburb but in NJ! @PocketFullofShells @housewifehobbyist @BioTeach84
I hit a deer on 95 11 years ago and totaled my car. I was driving around with a box in my brokenwindow until I got a different car!!! Nobody was hurt thankfully!
I have a fear during TWW I shouldn't run or jump so the embryo won't fall out!!! I need help.

LadyMillil · October 2015

PocketFullofShells said:

Yailani23 said:

My irrational fear is driving over bridges when there is traffic. I feel like too many cars stopped on it will somehow cause it crumble. :-??

I get paranoid about getting in a car accident on a bridge

I have to cross a river to get to work. I can take a bridge or tunnel. I mostly take the tunnel because traffic is better. I have a fear of the tunnel collapsing while I'm driving through it. When I carpool with DH I take the bridge because it's closer to his office. I won't drive in the lane closest to the edge because I'm afraid of getting into an accident and my car going over the side.

MissAmeliaPond · October 2015

I feel like my fears about TTC aren't irrational... but everyone else does. See WTO threads... :-< I'm so much drama right now.

But my NBR irrational fear is spiders. Like, I can't even with them. I scream bloody murder every time one is in the house!!

Mlight28 · October 2015

My NBR fear is falling through grates on the sidewalk. I will go really out of my way to not step on them.

virginiaham · October 2015

Anytime the in-sink disposal is on, I'm terrified someone is going to lose a hand. Like H or I would ever stick a hand down a dark gross sink drain with the blades going, but still I cower. I blame it on a Stephen King book I read in 7th grade.

Eta because it's not a dish disposal

sboston06 · October 2015

All of the above are irrational fears of mine...hitting a deer, cutting my fingers off in a garbage disposal, falling through the grates on the sidewalk, driving off a bridge/bridge collapsing.

I very rarely remember my dreams, but for awhile, I was having the same recurring dream of my brakes failing and losing control of my car. I'm from a fairly flat area but one weekend DH and I went up to hilly Vermont and drove up a mountain. Not a huge one by any means, but big enough. When we were driving down, my brakes failed and I remember having the pedal to the floor and not slowing down. And the smell of brakes...you never forget that. We were nearing a stopping area and I pulled the e-brake, coming to a stop about 3 feet from the edge of the mountain. My brakes/tires were smoking - literally. I just started balling my eyes out and DH had to drive the rest of the way down the mountain (after the tires cooled down). I still get kinda panicky whenever I see highway signs with grades!

LittleMissTimeLord · October 2015

Oh and my NBR irrational fear:

We live in a condo so we have to take our garbage out to the dumpster and clean up dog poop with baggies. When I have dog poop or garbage to throw in the dumpster at night, I throw it in the dumpster as quickly as possible.

You know, so the murderer that is definitely hiding inside the dumpster doesn't have enough time to snatch me up. Obv.

Lulucooks · October 2015

Bridges

Considering the state of some our infrastructure it may not be so irrational

LittleMissTimeLord · October 2015

@PocketFullofShells I just imagined a deer walking up to you in a crowded place and tapping on your belly softly and saying "pew pew pew". It made no sense and cracked me up. Aaaaand now that Rage song is going to be in my head all night.

Edited because my app is removing sentences now??

addyplusone · October 2015

My irrational fear would be walking out to my car at night. Like I am just a few feet away from safety and someone is going to grab me. So silly.
@sboston06 My brakes went out on me on SR 26 here in Indiana when I was 7 months pregnant with DD. Talk about scariest moment of my life. Someone was on my side that day as I hit every green light to my mom's.

gonetothesea · October 2015

I am terrified of birds. ALL OF THEM. More specifically turkeys due to me being stuck in a coop with them when I was 14. They're so ugly and gross and mean.

KASG · October 2015

TTC related fear: that any sort of exercise involving jumping or moving really fast will impede implantation. The truth is that I just don't want to exercise. Also, fear of my dog stepping on my stomach, which he does frequently. He literally walks all over us in the bed.

NBR fear: I have several legitimate phobias, but one just irrational fear is fish. I went "snuba" diving (not scuba diving) and the guy broke some fish food right by me and all these fish swam to my face! I'm also afraid a bird will poop on my head.

noelietrex · October 2015

KASG said:
TTC related fear: that any sort of exercise involving jumping or moving really fast will impede implantation. The truth is that I just don't want to exercise. Also, fear of my dog stepping on my stomach, which he does frequently. He literally walks all over us in the bed.

NBR fear: I have several legitimate phobias, but one just irrational fear is fish. I went "snuba" diving (not scuba diving) and the guy broke some fish food right by me and all these fish swam to my face! I'm also afraid a bird will poop on my head.

Right there with you on the fish! I HATE fish. All of them. Even the small friendly kind at the beach. They're just disgusting and covered in slime and no eyelids ick! I panic and run around screaming constantly when we go to the beach lol

teamginger13 · October 2015

I'm afraid of flying..which doesn't seem like an irrational fear to me except my rational side knows it's irrational. I once had a complete melt down / panic attack on a plane which embarrassed the crap out of DH so now I medicate myself every time I fly

hboaz · October 2015

I am terrified of butterflies... :-?? *shiver*

Yailani23 · October 2015

PocketFullofShells said:

Yailani23 said:

My irrational fear is driving over bridges when there is traffic. I feel like too many cars stopped on it will somehow cause it crumble. :-??

I get paranoid about getting in a car accident on a bridge

Yes, that too. I think bridges in general are a fear.

bbrooke92 · October 2015

I HATE fish but if I could be any animal, I would be one. I HATE birds but have 23 chickens. & I love them all SO much. They're all so sweet. Yeah, I'm completely normal lol

KASG · October 2015

wait. you HAVE 23 chickens?? As in OWN?!

JournoGrl23 · October 2015

Most of you have mentioned irrational fears I get as well! I have so many that it's pretty ridiculous. I guess my top fears are spiders, swimming in the ocean with fish and my teeth falling out. That last one makes no sense because I have healthy teeth other than a receiding gum line I inherited from my mom but I have dreams when I'm stressed that all my teeth fall out and go down the drain. When I'm awake and flossing or brushing my teeth I always check to make sure that's not actually going to happen!

KASG · October 2015

ooh YES to the TEETH! I have DREAMS about them rotting or falling out, especially when I don't brush at night.

bbrooke92 · October 2015

@KASG bahaha yes! I OWN 23 chickens

EasterEggs · October 2015

teamginger13 said:

I'm afraid of flying..which doesn't seem like an irrational fear to me except my rational side knows it's irrational. I once had a complete melt down / panic attack on a plane which embarrassed the crap out of DH so now I medicate myself every time I fly

Me too!! I fly dozens of times per year and the fear never goes away. I think it's actually getting worse. I have bouts of feeling like I'm fainting, as well as crying, shaking, and a horrible sense of dread and imminent death. The smallest bit of turbulence causes my heart to race and my legs to feel like jelly. We had a flight this summer that did a go-around (aborted landing) just moments before the wheels would have touched down and I sent a text to my parents telling them we might not make it lol. It's truly insane!

kristismith95 · October 2015

I am a major hypochondriac. Every time something is sore or I start to feel something out of the ordinary I think that the worst thing ever health wise is happening. My doctor banned me from Web MD because I freak myself out too much. Also snakes. I live in Wisconsin where we have hardly any snakes anywhere, but I still have nightmares about them crawling in between me and DH at night.

AshleyGemini24 · October 2015

I'm 26 and still afraid of the dark. I logically know there is nothing to be afraid of. But still my fiance walks me to my car every night for work. I sleep with some sort of light when I do sleep at night.I guess My mind is like that of a 3 year old who sees vacuum cleaners as boogie men in the dark.

ShallowSeas · October 2015

@sd2012 I've had that same fear lol. I knew it was ridiculous but my mind still kept thinking of it. This isn't really an irrational fear of mine, but a couple months ago I had a dream that I just found out I was pregnant so I was really paranoid about 'shaking the egg lose' lol. In my dream, DH and I were driving down a bumpy country road and I was lifting myself off the seat so I wouldn't feel the bumps because I was worried I'd loosen the implanted egg and it would fall out...

My friend tried to get pregnant for over a year and finally did. She told me that in the very beginning she was worried that if she sneezed too hard it was shake it loose lol.

FiancB · October 2015

This thread made me think of this:

https://www.boredpanda.com/deep-dark-fears-comic-strips-fran-krause/

My favorite, made H and I laugh for days:

Now for me, when I was a teen and very much a virgin I was irrationally terrified I was pregnant. Oh, the irony.

I'm also a bit of a hypochondriac and nursing school is not helping. Every little twinge totally means I'm having a stroke or my liver is failing or something.

MrsRo731 · October 2015

@housewifehobbyist: I'm also from Philly suburbs - I grew up in Bucks

anj27 · October 2015

@JournoGrl123 I often have dreams where my teeth fall out - I looked it up once and they say it has to do with your feelings of losing control, which I think does make sense for me at least.

Edit: I'm so bad at tagging.

housewifehobbyist · October 2015

PocketFullofShells said:

Anyone from or currently in lower bucks? I'm not originally from this area (I grew up in the Lehigh Valley). It's such a different environment

I grew up there, moved out as a teen, and am dying to move back now that I'm in my 30's. H is all for it but our jobs keep us in NYC. Maybe someday!

jhems776 · October 2015

My biggest NBR irrational fear is being struck by lightning even inside a house. From childhood till today I cannot sleep through it and instead if it is bad enough will move away from windows. Until I was like 10 if the storm was bad I would go in my parent's room and sleep on the couch. I also will not take a shower in fear it will go threw the pipes and will wait in my car for a while if it seems lightning is striking close by. I know I'm crazy but I freak out really bad.

sldp123 · October 2015

*child mentioned*

This isn't really a funny fear, but it is irrational (I hope). I have a son from a previous marriage, and I sometimes worry that I will die during childbirth and he will have to live with his dad full time. DH and I have a very stable home and his dad just... doesn't.

I know I'm much more likely to die doing any number of other things, but sometimes I feel guilty taking on the extra risk by TTC. I know that sounds crazy though.

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