"What are fears but voices airy?
Whispering harm where harm is not.
And deluding the unwary
Till the fatal bolt is shot!"
Wordsworth.
I love it when old quotations take on whole different meanings.
In reality - I really can't stand snakes. Totally unjustified I know, and I have tried to conquer my fear by holding one, but even when they come on the telly now (Usually with Steve "I'm so excited" Irwin) I turn away from the screen!
Originally posted by elvendreamgirlHeights are the only phobia I can think of off hand.
I hate spiders! Actually, I have evolved to the point where small ones aren't too bad, as long as they don't get on me, but big furry ones are awful! eeeew *shudders.
I am a bit claustrophobic as well. It isn't so much small places as the lack of fresh moving air.
Originally posted by jimmyb270I almost drowned when I was 7. I was in a pool with friends and family and parents all around. I was going around the edge of the pool when my hands slipped and I was in deep water (literally). I was only a foot or two under the water, but I didn't know how to swim. I remember just floating there looking up at the sky. Right before I passed out, my Dad grabbed me and dragged me out of the pool.
Me too, although for me it's an offshoot of claustraphobia. You can't get much more enclosed than having water [b]all around you.
*Shudder*[/b]
I used to have two fears:
Spiders.
I know it's unrational, but for some reason I can't even kill them. I just run. And I've been chased around a Kibbutz by someone with a dustpan with a tarantula on it.
Obviously, the Gimp (as we called him), paid for it dearly.
Heights.
This is one quite rational. It's not even heights which scare me (jumbo jets and rollercoasters don't scare me), it's the falling.
And I've been in some pretty disturbing situations:
- I've parachute jumped from 12.000 feet (40+ second free fall).
- I've hung by my fingers off a mountain edge in the Golan heights (without helmets, nets or anything).
- I've hung upside down out a window ledge...on the 12th floor.
So, when you next question my motives and behaviour, just remember that I'm a seriously traumatised person!!!
Anyways...I used to have 2 phobias, but since I've been frequenting the Spirituality forum...I have a third.
