Reading the randoms thread talking about tornados and school shootings (which are very RATIONAL fears imho), what are some irrational fears that you have?
I'm terrified of things that protrude from a wall, especially like nails and hooks if they aren't holding or covering anything. My main fear is that someone will trip and snag their eyelid on a protruding nail. This fear actually almost came true a few years ago when DS got a cut from something sticking from a wall that was literally right next to his eye. Now I'm actually not so sure if it's even an irrational fear.
I’m terrified of being anywhere near people who are fishing. The concern is when they cast the line I will get caught with the fishhook and have to have it surgically removed.
This has also been a fear but it got worse when in college I had a classmate who had this exact thing happen - it went through his eyelid.
Sleeping with my feet hanging over the edge of the bed. I feel like something is going to take a nibble out of my toes.
Similar to this, sleeping with the closet door open. Even if it's open a crack, I can't fall asleep. I don't know what I think is going to jump out of there. LOL
Sleeping with my feet hanging over the edge of the bed. I feel like something is going to take a nibble out of my toes.
Similar to this, sleeping with the closet door open. Even if it's open a crack, I can't fall asleep. I don't know what I think is going to jump out of there. LOL
Yes! My kids never understand why I close their closet doors before bed. They never had a terrified of monsters stage like I'm still recovering from.
Post by Patsy Baloney on Aug 31, 2023 11:50:43 GMT -5
Aliens.
Which was irrational until about a month ago and then the government had to be like, “Look what I’ve got in this dusty old closet.” I didn’t want to know!
Heights. To the point that I can watch something on tv that shows extreme heights and my hands get sweaty and I get very anxious.
My car falling into a body of water. This is irrational mostly because where I grew up, this wasn't even a remote possibility. We didn't have any water. Where I live now has water everywhere, but the fear precedes me living here.
- The brakes in my car not working and having to slam into something to stop my car
One of my recurring dreams is that the brakes work but suuuuper slowly, so I'm pushing down the pedal as hard as I can but not going to stop in time.
I am a little bit afraid of getting caught in escalators. Like as I get toward the end I get a bit nervous and concentrate to make sure I get off ok, and god forbid people are standing in the way becase omg move do you not know that thanks to you I'm now going to get sucked down into the machine and mauled?
Heights. To the point that I can watch something on tv that shows extreme heights and my hands get sweaty and I get very anxious.
My car falling into a body of water. This is irrational mostly because where I grew up, this wasn't even a remote possibility. We didn't have any water. Where I live now has water everywhere, but the fear precedes me living here.
Same, and this was heightened when I had DD and worried that if we submerged I couldn't get her out of her carseat fast enough. So I bought this little tool that has a point you can use to smash a window and a slicer that can cut car seat or seat belt straps. I keep it in a little cargo net near my passenger seat that's easily in my reach.
Sleeping with my feet hanging over the edge of the bed. I feel like something is going to take a nibble out of my toes.
Similar to this, sleeping with the closet door open. Even if it's open a crack, I can't fall asleep. I don't know what I think is going to jump out of there. LOL
Closet ok. Door from a pen suite bathroom to hall ok, but not main bedroom door. My current bedroom door came with a deadbolt, and if H is not home, I may deadbolt myself in at night. But I’ll leave the windows open in my ground floor room (hence why these seems irrational)
Which was irrational until about a month ago and then the government had to be like, “Look what I’ve got in this dusty old closet.” I didn’t want to know!
Side note, I keep eyeing references to this and I have no idea what I missed. Even googling for news article I didn’t find anything that seemed unusual.
I don't know if I had any before reading this post....but now? Quite a few, lol.
Same! Oh god, why eyelids?
Mine is breaking my front teeth. I have always had a paranoia about it. I used to get very nervous walking down the stairs in my highschool because they had metal edges and i was afraid I'd fall and somehow break my teeth on them.
Heights. To the point that I can watch something on tv that shows extreme heights and my hands get sweaty and I get very anxious.
My car falling into a body of water. This is irrational mostly because where I grew up, this wasn't even a remote possibility. We didn't have any water. Where I live now has water everywhere, but the fear precedes me living here.
Same, and this was heightened when I had DD and worried that if we submerged I couldn't get her out of her carseat fast enough. So I bought this little tool that has a point you can use to smash a window and a slicer that can cut car seat or seat belt straps. I keep it in a little cargo net near my passenger seat that's easily in my reach.
I have one of those tools! It stays on my keychain though because I read that keeping it in the glovebox or console could make it harder to access in the event your car ends up in water. This idea worked fine when my car required the key fob to be entered into the dash of my car.
Now I have a car that's keyless, so the keychain stays in my purse. This is a worse place to keep it and I need to put it somewhere else.
Which was irrational until about a month ago and then the government had to be like, “Look what I’ve got in this dusty old closet.” I didn’t want to know!
Side note, I keep eyeing references to this and I have no idea what I missed. Even googling for news article I didn’t find anything that seemed unusual.