Seatbelt-noise
I hate the sound seat-belts make when you chew on them. Yes.
I've always hated it and i really don't know why, just thinking about the noise makes my jaw hurt... WHY!?!
(Sister Paul has something in his pants on, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 19:36, Reply)

Socks
Yes you heard it here first...spiders , wet wool and socks*hides*
( Mykeyboy A massive, salty filing cabinet, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 19:33, Reply)

I have no fears
Apart from one really bad one (to make up for not having many).

Spider, I know they cant hurt me, but Im petrified when I see them. And its getting worse, last time I saw one I went into shock.
(Socks_of_war, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 19:30, Reply)

Mirrors and doorbells and scissors, oh my...
I can't sleep in a room with an uncovered mirror (or the people that live in the mirror will get me).

The doorbell and house phone remain constantly unanswered, although I am over my fear of email.

Potentially dangerous objects - knives, scissors, etc. - can never be left out or the ghosts can lift them up and get you while you sleep. Covering them with something heavy is ok, because the ghosts lack the strength to lift much. I did manage to inflict this one on my long-suffering girlfriend when she couldn't find the scissors she'd left out one quiet night and I looked at her with horror and whispered, "It's started!".

Oh, and horses. But that's not irrational.
(Zak is pleased with your offerings, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 19:24, Reply)

the moomins
gave me the creeps, not the cartoon but the origanal felt version, pink felt hippos and some weird thing thats lives in a hat and and and .....brrrrr makes me shiver just thinking of em, and the theme song! why oh why oh why did thay have to have such a weirdy haunting theme song??? im scared now...somebody hold me..

im also scared i'll drop dead whilest haveing a shit, and falling onto the wall urinal things, you know the ones, that step thing on the floor by it, stand on it or behind it? twallocked if i know. i try not void bladder or bowls in publich because of these reasons.
(poomin, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 19:23, Reply)

Black Toilet Seats
I have a friend who is deathly afraid of black toilet seats. We stayed at a hotel once that had a black toilet seat and she made me go into the bathroom and wrap it in a towel so that she couldn't see it. Even then she was still terrified to enter the bathroom.
(~~LJ~~, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 19:01, Reply)

oh, and something else
putting things tissue paper or wool in my mouth. Or cat food. Or piss. Or shit. I'm basically scared of myself, and the fact that the only thing holding me back from licking the stinking cat food off of the fork or necking a urine sample is because I don't want to. I fear that my mind, which has proven HIGHLY unreliable, is not a failsafe enough device to stop me doing mad things. This is insanity. I think too much. I will think less.

Oh, and soft toy stuffing material... it's like cotton wool but it has a certain lumpiness and impurity. And lumps deveoping in my duvet. Keeps me awake at night that one. But mainly just The Phanton Raspberry Blower (spazz back) and the fear of what only my mind is stopping me from doing.
( dotmund .co.uk, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 18:51, Reply)

I am obsessive
compulsive, i am afraid of touching my brother or any thing he may have touched, but i getting over it slowly.
I also feel sick when I touch polystyrene packaging or chalk or when I hear somone else touch them. I always try to avoid them.
Its probably not irrationa but im afraid of heigths because when im high up i always what to jump.
I am really terifide of speaking in public and alway make a fool of myself when i do.
( homonk, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 18:38, Reply)

I've been scared of seeing a television in the dark
ever since I saw The Ring.
(jmst, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 18:28, Reply)

Scissors.
Whenever I use scissors, no matter how carefully, I also see myself cutting into my hand. Freaks me out.
(Mr Lawrence, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 18:27, Reply)

Mekons!
My very first memory I can recall was getting horrendous nightmares after seeing the closing credits of the original Star Trek series (I know now). The combination of that theme music and the Mekon staring into the lens was a bit too much for an impressionable toddler...
( bnt what, me worry?, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 18:15, Reply)

Aaargh! my eyes!!
I'd like to say I fear nowt, but when i went for a contact lens checkup last weekend, there's a machine which puffs air on your eyes to measure pressure behind ur eyes or summat, and as soon as I was told to put my chin on the rest i started to panic.

I knew it was silly but i could not help it, i was well nervous. And every time it puffed air into my eye i jumped, even if i pushed myself forward, and even when the doctor counted me down for the puff, i couldn't stifle the jolt. I have images of my eyes drying up and falling out and shit.

In fact, i'm feeling uneasy just writing about that infernal machine.

brrrr.... that is all.
( fridge_magnet, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 17:27, Reply)

HOW
As a pup, I was terrified of the title sequence to 'How' (the original 70's version). The music and even the logo were enough to send me running for cover.

The worst of it was, my old man told most of my uncles and so whenever I'd visit my grandparents, they would terrify me by raising a hand and bellowing 'HOW!!'

Bastards.
(Green-Alsatian, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 17:23, Reply)

well
i'm not afraid of much,
except jelly fish
and spiders..
.ohh and porciline dolls (they are too real, i i think they may be planning on killing me in my sleep), and clowns (men in silly costumes and make up...even worse than wrestlers..plus i drove by one earlier and nearly crashed the car), and needles, and crows (its the eyes), mushrooms (umm saw a pic about 15 years ago of them growing from feet *shudders*)...
...umm mustn't forget change (i like things the way they are) and getting a job (that would make not having one a subliminal problem instead of me be useless and failing at everything i try)oh and my mother (..though i do have a reason as she points out all my flaws as a son with pure glee)
but otherwise i'm quite brave
(evil pete, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 17:17, Reply)

Jack the ripper
for some reason i'm scared of jack the ripper even though I'm not a 19th century prostitute so am probably quite safe. I used to think he'd come at me through my bedroom window so I hate closing the curtains at night in case he's there.
(cymrococh, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 17:10, Reply)

argh
cotton wool, and wooly jumpers.

just that squeeky noise, it makes me want to rip out my own throat and eat it.

Also when i was ickle in my old house, i used to run as fast i could down the stairs because i was absolutely sure there was a ghostly sketetal thing following me. or maybe there was.

I also can't sleep without the covers on, no matter how hot it is, i don;t know why, maybe for comfort, or maybe i'm just scared that some big hair monster with big feet, and an unclean anal region will attack me.

*shrugs*
( Snorty McBumhole YouTube.com/MinistryOfGeeks, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 17:05, Reply)

fear of cotton...
my girl friends brother is very afraid of cotton... so we rap all his preasnts in it, and put it in his bed, kind cruel, but what cha gonna do...
(Longshoreman, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 17:04, Reply)

Triangular tea bags
Namely of the PG Tips variety. I just hate the fact that no matter which way you drop them on the work surface, they always point upwards.
( propellerhed, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 16:57, Reply)

I am scared of
moths, I think they will land in my mouth as I sleep. Also, the constant banging into things. I am slightly embarrassed about this one.

edit - I see I am not alone
(multiple holiday forms, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 16:56, Reply)

Very irrational
When I was about 3 or 4, I used to be afraid of the "bong" noise when the Countdown clock stopped. I used to run and hide behind the nearest pair of cushions so I couldn't hear it.
(el pedro, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 16:48, Reply)

Fish
Fish give me the creeps. I will scream if I'm swimming in a lake and one comes near me. I can't look at dead fish without feeling sick or paranoid that it's soul will haunt me forever. I have nightmares about fish. I can't even go near the fish section of pet stores.

I won this fish at a carnival, and I kept him in a plastic cup. He jumped out of the cup and myself and my boyfriend could not find him for a few hours. When I did see the dead little goldfish lying on the floor, I nearly had a panic attack, (and almost gave my poor boyfriend a heart attack).
(pk, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 16:28, Reply)

Empty Swimming Pools
I have a recurring dream where I'm either in a swimming pool that is full and emptying, or a pool that is empty and starts filling up. Either way, I feel slightly nervous whenever I see a swimming pool that is empty in real life.
(Drodbar, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 16:28, Reply)

More wood...
My old boss, a relatively normal, confident man, freaked when he saw me put a wooden coffee stirrer in my mouth. He squirmed, but the only rational reason he could give me for not doing it was that I would get splinters - it's made of balsa wood or something really soft, and you can't have splintering drinks stirrers!?

I like the feel of wood on my tongue - oo-er!
(Scroatey, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 16:08, Reply)

Bunnies
Ever since I was young i have had a fear of albino rabbits. The little bastards seem to follow me everywhere I go and i am convinced they are forming an army that will one day attack all the major capitals of the world and eat everyones toes. I also have a recurring dream where white bunnies of varying sizes are chasing me, strangely the large ones are being ridden by domo.

I need help i know but just watch for the sinister look in the eyes.
( the art of xen Missing John Martyn RIP, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 16:07, Reply)

I have a fear of padded cells
Not really - but can you imagine if you went psychotic because of it and ended up in one?

And another thing - it's more likely than ever to happen after reading this board.

what do you think padded cells are padded WITH?????

Cotton wool?
(odysseysounds.com, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 16:07, Reply)

I have a terrible sense of fear and foreboding
that cotton wool is going to be the new Ice Cream van- stop it!
(Me and your sisters- at it. DVDs/Videos 10 quid., Wed 28 Jan 2004, 16:00, Reply)

spacker-hand wood conundrum.
I can't stand holding wooden lolly sticks (the kind you get in Magnums and the like)... it makes me shiver and my hand goes limp. I have to wrap my hand in something to be able to eat one, it's baffling.
( kingofpork is the king of pork, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:57, Reply)

No Fear.
I must admit that these days, I have NO irrational fears. Very little scares me. I can put up with wasps, to a point. I've never feared snakes, spiders, frogs or even horses.

I can't think of a single thing that would have me running and screaming...

But when I was at infant school, probably about the age of 7, I was tormented by a bully with half a packet of Polo mints. He had me convinced that he could/would turn me into an ant with these Polos, and I believed him (for a time).

I used to fear that magic antiform-inducing 1/2 pack of mints, I can tell you.
( Doctor When May your wife shat and chipper, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:56, Reply)

Cotton wool
I knew this guy (haven't seen him for ages now though) who has a terrible fear and hatred of cotton wool. Even brandishing a cotton bud at him from the other side of the room would prompt him to either

a) beat the crap out of you

or

b) charge as fast as he could out of the room

I never found out why exactly he was so afraid of cotton wool.
(Evil_Bill, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:50, Reply)

EYES
I have an irrational fear of eye-pain. If someone as much as mentions any form of eye-discomfort, it makes me feel nauseous. I could never, ever wear contact lenses. Push something into my eye?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

I'm wincing, and my eyes are watering from just writing this message! So I'm going to stop elaborating.
(Evil_Bill, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 15:46, Reply)