Thread: Tell me about your irrational fears and give an example.

I have an irrational fear that someone is reading my mind. I don't know why or what caused it.

Originally Posted by Mindraker

LOL, I would have FUN making my ATARI graphics mess up. I'd do all sorts of things to get graphics glitches. If I jiggled the on/off switch just right, the man in the "Pitfall!" game would float across the top of the screen.

I take it you've done this:

I have a few, but I'll post the worst one which actually interferes with my life here.

I have an intense, irrational fear of certain types of music and songs. Usually I'll fear it if it inspires certain emotions in me which I used to feel a long time ago but have gotten rid of. If I hear some sad song I used to listen to as a teenager or something, it forces me to very suddenly feel exactly as I did back then in detail, and it scares the shit out of me, especially when I've worked so hard for years to get rid of those feelings. It's not even a mere 'feeling', it's like the whole setting/mood/atmosphere comes back.

There are some types of music I just can't bear to hear, even if it's nothing I used to listen to, and I haven't even analyzed my reasons for fearing them all. If I hear one of these songs I'll need to get away from it, but it's terrible when I can't. For example, if someone else is showing me a song and I don't want to insult them by telling them I don't like it, or the song just comes on in the background in a situation I can't get out of. I'll usually just keep still, try not to think and get through it and to look calm, but in my head I'm just fucking screaming. Ex: Any type of music like AC/DC, Ozzy, etc. I have no idea why I can't stand to hear this. I know the music isn't 'bad', in fact it's good, but it sets something off in me that sends me into complete horror and I have no idea why. And it sucks because so many people like that music. Whenever I've told anyone that I can't stand it, they don't understand and just get mad at me and think I must be soulless or something for disliking this music that they love.

Only recently there was a situation where my parents wanted to show me and my bf a few of their songs. I decided to deal with it and stay there, but halfway through the first song I just couldn't anymore, I was in agony, and went outside for a smoke, then didn't come back until it was over. I felt terrible about it, since my parents intended no harm, they were just trying to have fun and I ruined it. My bf didn't understand at the time either. My parents knew I was upset but they probably had no idea why, they probably just thought I was being rude.

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Originally Posted by Daredevilpwn

Yeah tell me about irrational fears you may have. I will tell you mine. I get creeped out when the graphics of a video game mess up in a glitchy like fashion. I don't understand why I do but when some weird glitch happens that involves the graphics fucking up I find it disturbing.

lol, I can imagine this one. I wouldn't go so far as to say it's a phobia for me, but I do get a mild 'disturbed' feeling when it happens. You're playing a game as the developers intended, and then suddenly something goes terribly wrong and the world opens up or something. It just feels wrong, like it isn't supposed to be like that. You can sometimes keep playing with the glitch, but that just makes it worse, like the world is disfigured or something.

Originally Posted by Universal Mind

I have a fear that the government posts threads like this to find out what fears people have so they can know how to fuck with them when the time comes.

haha, everyone should just pretend to fear things that they love then. (We don't want to end up in room 101 with rats eating our faces or anything!)

Originally Posted by Woodstock

I have an irrational fear that someone is reading my mind. I don't know why or what caused it.

I've heard this from a few people now and am beginning to think it's quite common. I have that one too mildly. Or maybe it's severe, but I'm so used to it that I barely notice it. I almost always feel like I'm 'thinking to an audience', and I imagine someone far away hooked up to a machine where they're seeing through my eyes and being transmitted my thoughts. It makes it hard to do certain personal things. :/

I fear roaches. ESPECIALLY the huge flying ones. Hubby and I were in Hawaii a few years ago, eating outside at a fancy restaurant with other people in the medical community and the dug reps sponsoring the meal. Small roaches started flying around. I was very proud of myself because fear of looking like an idiot in front of those educated people kept me from acting as I normally would around roaches. I scream, run, then take off my clothes because I'm certain one has gotten down my shirt lol

I used to be terrified of elevator doors opening in between floors. When I was really little, living in some huge/high rise apartment in Puerto Rico, the elevator did that often.
I used to be terrified of a doll as well. She was a big one my mother had when she was little. It was some how automated to move with batteries or something. But I'd swear to this day that she tilted her head and winked at me with no power. I still have nightmares about her from time to time.

I'm afraid of losing my memory and not existing in any time or form... or having never existed to begin with.

I used to (and sort of still am to a point) be afraid of hidden cameras watching me. Like when I was little, I'd pick my nose or something and I'd be terrified someone saw even though I was alone in my bedroom
Mirrors and stuffed animals used to scare me. And dolls of any kind. I'd be okay unless it was dark and I was alone. I'd feel like I was being watched by evil entities or something.

Originally Posted by Zhaylin

I used to (and sort of still am to a point) be afraid of hidden cameras watching me. Like when I was little, I'd pick my nose or something and I'd be terrified someone saw even though I was alone in my bedroom

I was just going to say something similar until I saw this.

We're all just paranoid freaks, aren't we?