[Harry Callahan]

Wasps and bees. Petrified of the bastards. Never been stung, just hope it never happens.

[dem503]

This isn't really a phobia as such, its more a general feeling of dread.

Basically I would be extremely anxious in a society where everything is automated. Of course such a society would run smoothly 99.99% percent of the time, but its the 0.01% that worries me. Of course it is no problem when say the letter sorting machine picks up two letters at once and sends them both to the same place. But when something like the opening event in the film Brazil (1985);

....task of trying to rectify an error caused by a fly getting jammed in a printer, which caused it to misprint a file, resulting in the incarceration and death during interrogation of Mr. Archibald Buttle instead of the suspected "terrorist", Archibald Tuttle.

When something like this happens the after events are basically 'Oh dear we have a bug in the system, we'll fix it and it won't happen again', but this does not excuse the fact that someone was killed for absolutely no reason.

[dem503]

(Original post by Miss O.C.D)
I have a phobia of statues I won't run and scream but they freak me out

Surprisingly common (well not exactly 1 in 10 people, but you are by no means alone). I bet you didn't appreciate the Doctor Who episode 'Blink'?!

[Lokzia]

Spiders/heights

My friend has a phobia of crisps if someone even eats them near her she flips out, its so funny

[Miss O.C.D]

(Original post by dem503)
Surprisingly common (well not exactly 1 in 10 people, but you are by no means alone). I bet you didn't appreciate the Doctor Who episode 'Blink'?!

I had nightmares for weeks after that episode! Brilliantly done but... scary shlit

[brittanna]

I'm terrified of frogs and toads. I saw one on the floor once and i just stood there frozen. I don't know if this is as extreme as a phobia, but i'm not a big fan of birds either.

[vickie89]

reptiles - in particular, snakes!

clowns - EVIL!!

small spaces/feeling of being trapped and unable to move/get out.

my weirdest one is an intense fear and hatred of Nettles - very bad experience when 3/4 years old where i fell down a steep bank full of nettles while wearing a floaty little party dress, which inevitably rose up as i slid downwards to the bottom and covered the majority of my body in very bad and excruciating stings - probably about 80-90% of me was covered in them and they have freaked me out ever since and im terrified of touching or going near them now.

[lindie]

Being struck by lightening. I won't go outside during storms or even sit in a room with windows while a storm is going on.
I used to not be so afraid of lightening, but then one day, two students at my university got struck by lightening...needless to say I'm paranoid!

[SmallTownGirl]

Ivy. You know, the plant. It's going to kill us all and you can't touch it. And if anything does it has to be throughly washed or it'll infect everything it touches and that'll infect other stuff and so one. The 'poison' doesn't get diluted by transferral. It just spreads. I'd rather walk in the road that risk touching it. People who know me are used to being dragged away from walls and hedges. I even panic if I see someone I don't know touch it. Even if they're on the TV.

There are other things (generalised anxiety disorder) but ivy is the worst.

[lindie]

(Original post by Cherriesxo)
I have a phobia of vomiting, which is a bit embarrassing. Strangely I'm fine when others are being sick but when it's myself I panic like crazy.

^This. I panic whenever I feel slightly sick because I'm terrified of vomiting.

[ashtoreth]

(Original post by SmallTownGirl)
Ivy. You know, the plant. It's going to kill us all and you can't touch it. And if anything does it has to be throughly washed or it'll infect everything it touches and that'll infect other stuff and so one. The 'poison' doesn't get diluted by transferral. It just spreads. I'd rather walk in the road that risk touching it. People who know me are used to being dragged away from walls and hedges. I even panic if I see someone I don't know touch it. Even if they're on the TV.

There are other things (generalised anxiety disorder) but ivy is the worst.

avoid movies such as day of the triffids

[Id and Ego seek]

(Original post by SleepySheep)
Wouldn't say that's an irrational fear

By sloths.

[Indian_Princess]

trypophobia (do NOT google it)

it's basically a fear of a cluster of small holes :L

[SmallTownGirl]

(Original post by ashtoreth)
avoid movies such as day of the triffids

Not watched it but I'm sure it wouldn't affect me that much. It's specifically ivy and a sense of uncleanliness associated with anything that has touched the plant, plastic plants, pattens or pictures of it. Or anything that touches something that has already become 'infected'.

[JamalAhmed]

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliopho bia - fear of long words!

[ashtoreth]

(Original post by SmallTownGirl)
Not watched it but I'm sure it wouldn't affect me that much. It's specifically ivy and a sense of uncleanliness associated with anything that has touched the plant, plastic plants, pattens or pictures of it. Or anything that touches something that has already become 'infected'.

wow!

i say that mainly cos i love those old houses covered in ivy n i cannot imagine how it must make u feel to have such a phobia!

movie is about walking carnivorous plants but i've also seen a dodgy horror that had sentient ivy in it (cannot recall the name to that one tho)

[rafishakouri]

Birds! To the extent that I can't go outside without flinching like a retard if a bird is nearby. To add insult to injury, I live in London, which is pigeon central!

[dem503]

(Original post by Miss O.C.D)
I had nightmares for weeks after that episode! Brilliantly done but... scary shlit

the sentence 'I had nightmares for weeks after that episode' should not be followed with an exclamation mark

Just a hunch, I'm guessing the 2nd/3rd episodes involving them weren't as scary? I felt them having a voice, and being able to see them move, just made them less like an unpredictable threat as they were in Blink.

Also, do the street performers who act like statues also freak you out? This pretty much happened to me when I was younger. I was not amused.

http://forgifs.com/gallery/d/201303-...ares-girl.gif?

[SmallTownGirl]

(Original post by ashtoreth)
wow!

i say that mainly cos i love those old houses covered in ivy n i cannot imagine how it must make u feel to have such a phobia!

movie is about walking carnivorous plants but i've also seen a dodgy horror that had sentient ivy in it (cannot recall the name to that one tho)

Everyone else finds it strange but it's just normal for me. I seriously can't see why no-one else is terrified of it.

[dem503]

(Original post by lindie)
Being struck by lightening. I won't go outside during storms or even sit in a room with windows while a storm is going on.
I used to not be so afraid of lightening, but then one day, two students at my university got struck by lightening...needless to say I'm paranoid!

the fact that you know people that have been struck by lightning statistically reduces the odds that you will be struck by lightning, you should be fine