Your biggest irrational fear?

[julius]

What is yours?

When I was a kid, it was being out in the woods and seeing bigfoot or a ufo. Scared the shit right out of me. You couldn't catch me out in the woods late at night for love or money.

Now as an adult, my biggest irrational fear is being tied to an anchor, and dropped over board off of a boat in the ocean (thanks Dateline NBC for that one).

 

[MickZagger]

Being tied down and having a woodpecker peck on my chest.

Getting a million paper cuts and then sliding into a pool of lemon juice.

Having my nuts popped with pliers.

 

[julius]

Being tied down and having a woodpecker peck on my chest.

Getting a million paper cuts and then sliding into a pool of lemon juice.

Having my nuts popped with pliers.

sounds like a normal Saturday night for Mags.

 

[TradeNurkicNow]

all of them

 

[HomerLovesKoolAid]

Sliding down a 50-ft razor blade into a vat of iodine.

Being a woodpecker and being forced to peck MickZagger's chest.

Being confined in jlprk's armageddon bunker while he tunes in a Blazer game on the rabbit ears TV.

 

[riverman]

Having a big irrational fear would probably be my biggest irrational fear.

 

[jlprk]

I have recurring nightmares that this stacked blonde in a tight red miniskirt asks me to open a wine bottle she can't handle, and I'm grunting and kicking and getting a cramp in my neck but I can't twist it open.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

Aids

 

[PapaG]

Aids

Oh shit, you went there. It's almost being like struck by lightning if you're not of a few demographics.

Mine used to be dying in a nuclear war. The Day After taught me about this during the Reagan years. Shortly thereafter, after I figured out that a global nuclear was against America wouldn't happen, was the mini-series V, when I was afraid that lizards disguised as humans would start eating us all.

 

[MARIS61]

I have no fears of an irrational sort.

 

[crandc]

Well, some fears are rational.

As far as irrational, I would say my acrophobia. Yes, it makes sense to be afraid if a person is 50 feet in the air on a beam, but I get nervous on a stepladder. I get nervous in situations where I'm on solid ground but have the sensation of falling, for example, I can't lie on my back outside and look up at the sky.

Never be a skydiver, obviously.

 

[oldguy]

The feeling I'm always being watched. Like someone recording all my calls, e-mails, texts, tracking me everywhere I go. That someone is listening in on my conversations in my house and watching me through my webcam and TV.

Oh, wait....

Go Blazers

 

[julius]

The feeling I'm always being watched. Like someone recording all my calls, e-mails, texts, tracking me everywhere I go. That someone is listening in on my conversations in my house and watching me through my webcam and TV.

Oh, wait....

Go Blazers

ix nay on the atch way...

 

[The_Lillard_King]

Elevators . . . go figure

 

[Cryptkeeper]

The ban hammer.

 

[Eastoff]

I am a poor swimmer, so suddenly slipping and falling off of a dock while walking around on docks. We also take our dog, about 1.5yr, on hikes. I'm afraid of him being stupid and smelling/chasing something off the edge of a cliff.

 

[BlazerWookee]

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

That, and clowns.

 

[HomerLovesKoolAid]

Clowns are scary.

 

[BlazerWookee]

Clowns are scary.

Yep.

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

a naked fat women chasing me.

 

[HomerLovesKoolAid]

a naked fat women chasing me.

The topic was IRRATIONAL FEARS!

 

[Further]

I'm somewhat claustrophobic, although much better than 15 years ago.

Dropping a knife, ace, or any blade and accidentally chopping off my schlong.

I think that's it.

 

[Further]

a naked fat women chasing me.

how fat?

 

[RR7]

being eaten by a shark. not a fan of going in the ocean because of it, and doubt I'll ever be able to comfortably take any sort of cruise. When I've flown over any section of the ocean, my fear was the plane would crash,a nd I don't care about the plane going down, it's sitting in there, trapped, and having sharks swim aboard. My cruise line would sink, I'd be floating on the door like Rose, never letting go and sharks would swim up and say hello. I saw Jaws at a real young age and it screwed me up.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

oooh definitely sea creatures for me too

 

[speeds]

There's a scene in the movie Tank Girl (I know...) where the protagonist is forced into a narrow drainpipe with her arms at her sides. The thought of being stuck in a pipe in that fashion freaks me the fuck out and I dream about it sometimes.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

There's a scene in the movie Tank Girl (I know...) where the protagonist is forced into a narrow drainpipe with her arms at her sides. The thought of being stuck in a pipe in that fashion freaks me the fuck out and I dream about it sometimes.

there was an old goofy cartoon where goofy is changing his clothes at the beach in one of those turn of the century changing hut things and its really tight quarters in there and he ends up upside down and all cramped up and stuck, and at the age of 5, i knew if there was a hell, that would be mine

 

[3RA1N1AC]

for that matter, the mri machine is no fun at all, totally disregarding the deafening industrial dark house music and intense rattling vibrations

i was right on the edge of hitting the panic button for the last 15 minutes

 

[RR7]

There's a scene in the movie Tank Girl (I know...) where the protagonist is forced into a narrow drainpipe with her arms at her sides. The thought of being stuck in a pipe in that fashion freaks me the fuck out and I dream about it sometimes.

ugh, just your description of it made me really uncomfortable right now.

 

[BlazerWookee]

for that matter, the mri machine is no fun at all, totally disregarding the deafening industrial dark house music and intense rattling vibrations

i was right on the edge of hitting the panic button for the last 15 minutes

I fell asleep in one after about five minutes. Woke up feeling like I slept for 8 hours straight.