Hey Pandas, What Is Your Most Irrational Fear? (Closed)

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We all have our own little phobias. Personally, I never step on the manholes. Ever. I feel like they'll fall out from under me! Which may sound random but is actually the whole idea of this post.

What makes you feel all nervous even though there's no reason to fear? Roller coaster breaking? Aquarium glass shattering and waves and sharks crashing down on you? Please, do tell me! Let me know all your greatest weaknesses, MWAHAHA!!!

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I have an irrational fear that snakes will come out of the toilet.

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I have that same fear

One of my most irrational fears has to be escalators. It's not the going up or down that bothers me, but that moment when you have to step on or off the moving stairs. There's this unfounded worry that my shoelace might get caught, and I'll be pulled into the mechanism. I know it sounds far-fetched, and I've seen countless people use escalators safely every day, but that fear still manages to send a little jolt of anxiety through me

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This one might belong in the Totally Rational Fear category.

Heights , used to be storms

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Congratulations

Birds and butterflies. They're both just a big nope for me.

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Birds ok yeah that’s fine, but butterflies??!?!

That my leg will give way and I'll fall onto a busy road from the pavement.It may be because I had I intolerable sciatic pain in my left leg for a couple of years until I eventually had a discectomy. It took a long time to build strength back in that leg and it still isn't as strong as the other. I also live in a village with a fast road a narrow pavement.

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When driving in the night, I’ll see all the monsters, like sirenhead moth man a cucumber etc having a meeting on the side of the road. They suddenly stop talking and stare at me. A red light flashed and we just stand there staring, then the car turns into a potato with sprinkles on it and lemon juice. The mothman jumps up and takes my parents away and bye bye. I could go on forever but I’ll stop there

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I have a ton more fears like this. I know it sounds dumb but it legit scares me

Not being able to touch the bottom of a lake and pool suddenly when I'm expecting to. My mom took me down to the pool in a hotel we were staying at. The pool had "shallow end" painted on one end. I was also used to swimming in pools that had salt added for buoyancy. I wasn't a strong swimmer by a long shot, but I knew the basics, but I liked making sure my feet touched the bottom. I climbed into this pool on the ladder but when I stopped feeling rungs I tried to touch the bottom. Couldn't feel it so I tried harder. My toes just barely reached the bottom but my head was almost submerged. I panicked and climbed back out very upset and afraid realizing the whole pool was deep and that made it look scary and foreboding. I'm also afraid of empty pools and overgrown water parks. They look scary. Ah, and pool plugs. I'd never want to be in a pool when the pool is draining, getting sucked into the drain, and being swirled around in a whirlpool. That's how it was explained to me.

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That I'll be driving in a car and the windshield will disappear. All of a sudden the wind is pushing me back in my seat, I squint as little leaf flecks and dust sting my skin, I can't see, it starts to rain, the rain is blown in my face and fills the car, I swerve, and I hit a deer, and the deer comes into the car through the windshield and kicks me, and I crash the car, and the ambulance can't come because they're windshield also randomly disappeared. (or we all spotted an unfamiliar button on the dash and pressed it and the glass slunk down and we can't bring it up.)

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Wow, that's terrifying

When I was about 2 or 3 years old, I was utterly terrified of thr gap in my room between the skirting board and the wall. No seriously, I must have thought there was some sort of void down there just cos I couldn't see it. Was constantly worried about things that evidently wouldn't fit down there faling down it. Little kids are strange.

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What’s a skirting board?

I'm extremely paranoid about being watched. Case in point: every time I go into a bathroom, I do the fingernail test on the mirror to make sure it's not two-way glass (and, while googling something about the fingernail test, I just discovered that acrylic two-way mirrors can pass the fingernail test... great, now I'm going to be even more paranoid)

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I kinda thought the reflection was a perverted ghost or some s**t like that. Or wait, am I the perverted ghost?

Flat horizon lines. Honestly horizon lines at all freak me out, I need something to break the shape. It's terrifying and I have no idea why it scares me so much

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I can understand this fear. Is it similar to how scary it is when you're nearing a waterfall and you don't know how high it is?

I get really quite scared when I have a lot of runout traversing (runout vertically I’m fine with). Even though I’m climbing in a gym, and they wouldn’t make something unsafe. If I fall I’ll just fall into empty space. Funnily enough I have no problems trusting the gear.

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Dont take this personally cause of your name, but once when i was little i had a nightmare about octopi and ive been deathly afraid ever since. Like, DEATHLY deathly afraid. That and squirrels. Freaked me out ever since i can remember

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What?! Octopuses are my spirit animal, hence my username!! I mean I love squirrels too, but I did get very spooked by one when i was walking along a trail in the woods and one randomly landed with the most loud, audible thud less than a foot in front of me. It was so LOUD. It was okay though--it lay there for a second staring at me, just as startled as I was, before zooming away on fluff legs. Another time I was scared by a squirrel was when i reached my hand over a boulder (i was ten, and not really paying much heed to any danger at the exact moment) and accidentally touched one. I jumped back, it ran away, and then before I could even pick a reaction, my mom called me to get in the car and I rushed to obey. Forgot all about it within five minutes and then remembered it the next day and finally felt the delayed reaction shock.

Grasshoppers - they're just evil looking....and, I guess maybe the thought of Donald Trump somehow evading justice and getting re-elected...

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Suddenly waking up and realizing that I went into the future 1000 years and everything is wrecked, everyone is dead, and I’m the only living organism on Earth (this is what keeps me awake at nights :)

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Ngl that sounds kinda cool....wow am I that desperate to get away from people?!

Geese & drag queens. They’re both intimidating as f**k

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I'm certain the one reason why geese exist are to torture humanity 😭

That my office chair explodes as I’m sitting on it

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That should not have made me laugh so much 💀

I have so many I don’t know where to begin, boats, airplanes, escalators, cars,bikes, sheep, spiders,and so on

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The drain in the shower. There is something about it I just don’t trust.

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Fear of my toilet clogging when I use it, fear of heights, fear of falling, fearful that the work cr*p will take over the world in the next few years

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*Ignore the other one* Fear of my toilet clogging when I use it, fear of falling, fear of heights, fear that the woke cr*p will take over evrything in the next few years.

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Heights and falling are common, as a ninja, those don’t apply to me.

Opening a car boot when the garage door is closed

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I have this super irrational fear that one day, out of nowhere, a ton of bees will start attacking me

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Sounds horrific, my friend has a fear of bees to he ends up screaming everytime one gets close and we have to shoo it away before he runs off

Mushrooms, I don't know why I am afraid of them, I am only scared of real mushrooms, not video game mushrooms or drawings (I am scared of pictures though)

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If you use my fear against me, remember that I am the monarch of the ocean, I can't remember which one but the octopi 🐙 shall bow to me! 🧜🐈‍⬛

Deep water. It freaks me out-I don't know who or what is chilling underneath me.

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Won’t drive behind a car carrier, cement-mixer still mixing, log hauler.

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Another one of mine is that I'll have a nightmare in which I'm alone in a dark room, aware that I'm asleep, completely conscious, aware of time passing, but unable to wake up.

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Chickens.Once, my nana's chicken attacked me when I was 8 years old and I got a scar on my leg and he also tried to bite my finger off, they sure have those dino genes in them

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That would have been a rooster, they have large spurs on their legs that they use for defence. Don't worry, many people have been attacked by roosters, my daughter included.

Being kidnapped, rapped ,killed, and stuffed with drugs

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That's not really irrational, though.

trypophobia.

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fear of small holes if you don't know/want to google

Being swallowed up by a giant wave in the middle of the ocean.

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large, empty, inside areas.

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