my biggest fear is a pretty run of the mill one.
Needles. Can't look at them, touch them, have them near me or even talk about them. Seeing them one the tv makes me queasy When I have to have injections, I get worked up beforehand because I know I'll have a panic attack afterwards. I get horrible roaring in my ears, go really light-headed, my vision goes black and I hyperventilate. Worse case scenario, I'll faint.
This stems from I think the meningitis jab I had when I was ten. I was fine before, during and after, whilst everyone else was freaking out, and then 15 minutes later, for no apparent reason, I fainted. I stood up to tell the teacher I had a headache, and next thing I remember, I was lay on the floor.
For the BCG (I so nearly didn’t have to have it, curse that last dot!) I scared the living daylights out one of the hardest lads in my year at school when he pointed somebody out to me afterwards and I told him I couldn't see anything. I then refused to have the Diphtheria, Tetanus and Polio jab in school, so my mum had to make a secret appointment at the doctors and spring it on me when I least expected it. I still had to be dragged in.
Its one of the reasons why I realised I'd make a terrible doctor. And yet, I'm still getting a tattoo this year as a present to myself on my 18th. No, I don't understand it either.

As an apology for length and lack of humour, I'll tell you about my second biggest fear.

I love horror films, can't get enough of them, and I love being scared. However, the only film I've never been able to sit through, and gives me the heebie jeebies just thinking about it now:
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Old and new versions. Scares the living daylights out of me. I don’t like mannequins, or ants either, but that film would have me curled up in a corner whimpering and covering my eyes. Last time I saw a small bit of it, I had nightmares for weeks.

Although, unlike most people, I really like spiders, heights and small enclosed spaces.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 11:04, 1 reply)

I don't understand the needle phobia
Just this morning I pricked myself by accident when sewing up a rip in some jeans. Needles are easy for me.

Hang on, there was one time when my stomach was turned by needles. I was watching my boyfriend get a mole removed, and they numbed him with a needle, all well and good, then when he was numb the nurse just starting pricking him with the needle over and over until there were little spots of blood all over. He just grinned at me, unable to see or feel it. I had to look away.
(AlfishKK, Wed 16 Apr 2008, 18:07, closed)