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Login/Join to Participatethe henna lady
6,193 posts
Location: WNY, USA
I danced with my snake in a show on Sat night (last week) and ran into a bunch of people with (what to them is) an irrational fear of snakes.
For performance stuff in the past I have had to figure out what my irrational fears are, and defeat some of them.
I was terrified of microphones, for example. I treated them as if they would bite me.
What are your irrational fears?
Pele
Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir
"Oooh look! A pub!" -exclaimed after recovering from a stupid fall
"And for the decadence of art, nothing beats a roaring fire." -TMK
21 posts
Location: Melbourne
I used to freak out with fire around helium balloons. I just got images of everything just exploding. It was a real hit at birthday parties
Basu gasu bakuhatsu - because sometimes buses explode
1,584 posts
Location: Angels Landing, USA
Korean girls.
They just beat the living begezus out of me.
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Sparkely arty Mormon rainbow fairy
933 posts
Location: infront of you, United Kingdom
Escalators.
I cant walk past the top of one because i panic.
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officially expelled from BYU
195 posts
Location: Southern California, USA
Tight spaces that I can't get out of
Everyone forgetting that I exist
Falling from high places (really high, 8 foot unicycles don't count
)Letting everyone down
geez-o, I'm really letting HoP in on my psyche here. meh, might as well
"So Miss, I think you win the prize... A mormon egyptologist in a firespinning chat room... that's gotta be a record of some kind"
-NYC
Thanks, NYC,but I quit mormonism now XD
comfortably numb
2,676 posts
Location: The countryside, Australia
Balloons. I can't touch them with out cowering and whimpering like a child! I don't like them, I can't trust them, I can't blow them up, I can't tie them..I don't like the way they give people frights when they burst
.All things are beautiful if we take the time to look.
Pooh-Bah
2,084 posts
Location: melbourne, victoria, australia
one word......clowns
roarfire and jack...i know a few people who are scared of baloons, or 'those bangy things' as they've been fearfully refered to.
1,189 posts
Location: Edinburgh
Written by: KaelGotRiceSome people would pay a lot of money to get beaten by Korean girls.
Korean girls.
They just beat the living begezus out of me.
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1,803 posts
Location: Wonderland igloo, Vic, Australia
Korean girls - they beat the living begezus out of me, too.
Its a taekwondo thing.
.:Pink Exocutioner:.
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Watcher of 80s cartoons
665 posts
Location: Chepstow & Bristol, United Kingdom
Written by: 88Jack88
I used to freak out with fire around helium balloons. I just got images of everything just exploding. It was a real hit at birthday parties
You know that helium is a nobel gas right? And is therefore unreactive. Now if party balloons were filled with hydrogen then I'd be with you on this one.
Personally the only thing that I fear are Morris Dancers - there's something very unsettling about them.
>What do you think about the state of the Earth?
>I'm optimistic.
>So why do you look so sad?
>I'm not sure that my optimism is justified.
10,530 posts
Location: They seek him here, they seek him there...
"Carnies...small hands"
- Austin Powers
I hate lifts (elevators), but i can use them...sometimes, when feeling cocky, i can jump in them, but only for so long...
Im not into lage crowds either, dunno why, it might just be cos im insecure or something...
The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."
Pirate Pixie Crew Captain
8,428 posts
Location: Wales
I'm scared of things flapping around me like pigeons or moths. Totally stupid fear but I don't seam to be able to get over it no matter how hard I try. I am better than I was though. I don't run away screaming and crying any more.
I'm also claustraphobic. I got trapped in a toy draw when I was little, hiding from one of my brothers. It scared the bajeebus out of me and whenever I get trapped in small spaces that panic re-visits me and makes me go a bit freaky.
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Pooh-Bah
1,785 posts
Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
Snakes give me nightmares esp after seeing indiana jones with all those snakes everwhere...eugh
But is a fear of snakes really irrational? i mean they can bite you or strangle you to death and i'm sure fearing a painful death is rational...isn't it??
Clowns or anyone with facepaints or a mask on. I just can't look at them and i hate it when they try to talk to me!! Oh and those people in big giant fluffy costumes with the giant heads!....just thinking about them freaks me out
officially expelled from BYU
195 posts
Location: Southern California, USA
I don't understand why everyone hates on clowns...it just doesn't make sense to me. Maybe that's because I've been a clown, but that's not the point!
"So Miss, I think you win the prize... A mormon egyptologist in a firespinning chat room... that's gotta be a record of some kind"
-NYC
Thanks, NYC,but I quit mormonism now XD
Basu gasu bakuhatsu - because sometimes buses explode
1,584 posts
Location: Angels Landing, USA
Linz, you scare me sometimes.
Not irrationally though.
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Maker of the Cheesecake
174 posts
Location: Akron, OH, USA
well my roomate's ex was terrified of clowns... it was a combination of because of the clown doll in Poltergeist... And because as a child, there was someone who was kidnapping kids in her neighborhood, who was dressed as a clown. I've had other friends who were afraid of them because of the movie "it".
Me, I have an issue with ventriloquist dummies. I don't run in terror when I see one or anything, but I definately wouldn't want to be alone in a darkened room with one of them... I suppose it's just because of movies like Child's play, or all kinds of different episodes of tales from the crypt or the outer limits, where the dummy was possessed
, or really a mask covering an evil siamese twin , stuff like that...As far as snakes go, never was afraid of those, I have one as a pet, and she's my little angel. But I love bringing her out and watching big burly guys quake in fear that this tiny little cornsnake is going to gobble them up
What exactly do I have to light on fire to get you to notice me?
Pooh-Bah
1,785 posts
Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
don't get me started on those freaky ventriloquist dummies
*runs off in fear*
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,533 posts
Location: Hampshire College, MA, USA
priests. they scare me. not a big fan of the clergy, when they look at me, it feels like thier examining my soul and putting little red circles around the bits they dont like
-James
"How do you know if you're happy or sad without a mask? Or angry? Or ready for dessert?"
Maker of the Cheesecake
174 posts
Location: Akron, OH, USA
I was raised catholic, I don't want to know what my priest was drawing little red circles around...
What exactly do I have to light on fire to get you to notice me?
old hand
845 posts
Location: Adelaide, Australia
Snakes and even worms to the point that I can't even look at pics of them. Although Bens trying to help me get over it but its so hard. I get so frightened looking at the pictures. Its definately irrational fear for me though.
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197 posts
Location: Bolton
Old people. They're all small, old and wrinkly and glare at you in the street.
Damn the addictiveness of forums! (Or should it be addictivity?)
Christian Death Metal Anyone?
313 posts
Location: Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
My biggest irrational fear is lizards. They terrify me, like Arachnophobia but the lizard kind.
Otherwise i dislike silence, when there is no noise what-so-ever i start to freak out.
Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.
If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?
-- Steven Wright
comfortably numb
2,676 posts
Location: The countryside, Australia
Yeah I'd have to agree with the silence one too.
I freak out about moths...especially when you spray them and they go crazy and fly towards you like kamakazee maniacs!
And frogs....I can't go near frogs...like my fear of balloons I can't trust them....I don't know when they're going to suddenly jump and then I'll jump and squeal and run away! Lol
.All things are beautiful if we take the time to look.
.:*distracted by shiny things*:.
3,777 posts
Location: brizvegas, Australia
hmm...i think this has been done...as i thought this was the other thread...
but anyhoo...i'm scared of clowns & morris dancers!!
do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good to eat!
if at first you do succeed, try not to look too astonished!
smile! :grin: it confuses people!
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
OMG
SPIDERS! I won't even touch a dead one. *shudder*
I won't even touch a photo of one.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Pooh-Bah
2,444 posts
Location: Bristol !!!!!!, United Kingdom
Fireworks.
Gayle.....!
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,276 posts
Location: Oxfordshire/Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Spiders
Balloons (not as much now tho thanks to Bovril monkey)
Heights
... pretty much everything really. xxx
tHeReS gOoD aNd EvIl iN EaCh InDiViDuAl fIrE, iDeNtIfIeS nEeDs AnD fEeDs OuR dEsIrEs.
water based
5,125 posts
Location: melbourne, Australia
hights, but i use stilts, and rockclimb
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old hand
740 posts
Location: Darkest Bedford., United Kingdom
Rodents on my head.
I love mouses and stuff the rest of the time but not on my head!
Scottish people.
I understand that they are nice and stuff, but I always feel like I am in trouble when I talk to them. Except scottish ladies, they have really cute voices!
Being forgotten.
Easily done.
Oh-- and spiders of course! Although it kinda manifests as more of a genocidal hate than fear these days!*Kill-kill-kill--rargh*
Not fair, spider be so small and have eight legs, I want eight legs!
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422 posts
Location: London
Balloons - esp when they go pop....I freak out at parties when theres balloons people seem to get the need to pop them Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh but the worst is STICKERS i hate them esp when there peeling off Ahhhhhhhhhh I cry and throw up. There EVIL..............................................................
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Carpal \'Tunnel
3,533 posts
Location: Hampshire College, MA, USA
dogs. i'm not much of a dog peron. they're too egar to bite and lick
-James
"How do you know if you're happy or sad without a mask? Or angry? Or ready for dessert?"
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