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Phobias
My worst nightmare (or phobia), is to be stuck inside a narrow and dirty tunnel. A sewer pipe, for example. The chances of me ending up in a sewer pipe is very slim, but I think about it so much that I feel as if I am training myself mentally for the big day.
I found a list of different phobias in Schott’s Original Miscellany. Here are a few:
Beards……………………….pogonophobia
Fall of satellites……keraunothnetophobia
Tickling with feathers…….pteronophobia
Sharks……………………….selachophobia
Clowns…………………………coulrophobia
Getting wrinkles…………….rhytidophobia
Going to school…………….didaskaleinophobia (Andie?)
I couldn’t find fish face phobia.
I have a balloon phobia. I guess it could be considered a fear of sudden loud noises, or the anticipation of them.
I’m a mess at children’s parties when kids are running around with balloons. I’ve also been known to walk out of stores if they’re filling balloons with helium.
Is there a name for this phobia?
October 25th, 2006 at 11:35 pmI just don’t like tiny spaces. Freaks me out! Oh, a beard phobia?!?!? So what is it called when you are obsessed with facial hair??? I might have that
October 26th, 2006 at 2:38 amMaybe they’re referring to the ‘beard phobia’ that cats have?
Check it out on the ‘Improbable Rsearch’ website: http://www.improbable.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html.
As for training yourself mentally for the big day… as a slightly paranoid child, I used to practice writing with my left arm instead of my right, in case the right ever got amputated, and I also used to practice jumping from a bed on one side of the room to a bed on the other, in case I ever had to jump across a ravine, or crocodile infested river, etc.
We had a lot of spare time in the country..!
October 26th, 2006 at 8:00 amTrina, I have that same ‘fear’ of loud and unexpected sounds. Balloons, of course, are the worst culprit. I cringe when a balloon gets close to a heat source. Loud sounds also cause actual pain in my ears, a very uncomfortable feeling.
I think pogonophobia may be part of the reason behind the so-called “Santa Clause fear” many children show at a young age.
October 26th, 2006 at 10:11 amthat’s so funny………..
when I was a kid, I lived in this really rural area, on a cul-de-sac. at the end of the cul-de-sac was a drainage pipe that went under my friends property to the creek that flowed behind all our houses and we spent HOURS in that thing when we were kids. it was a BLAST!
October 26th, 2006 at 11:25 amI’m all about claustrophobia (sp?). Hate small closed in spaces. I have even taken all of the interior doors out of my house except those on the bathrooms. Also I have a fear of heights. Well, maybe not a fear per se but definitely a high level of uncomfortable. Went to the Empire State Building once and could only get off the elevator and stand beside it. In Tokyo Tower there was a plexigass “window” in the floor and the bottoms of my feet ached just to see it. A small child was sitting on it getting his picture taken and I wanted to throw a rope around him and drag him off!
I used to have a fear of flying until I started working for my company, which provides services to the airline industry. Once I got a perspective on how many thousands of flights take off and land every day I just got bored with flying!
October 26th, 2006 at 3:14 pmTotaphobia.
Phobia of absolutely every thing.
Wow.
October 26th, 2006 at 5:38 pmIchthyophobia- Fear of fish.
October 26th, 2006 at 6:09 pmYou wonderful people make me raise my eyebrows all the time. Thanks for sharing.
Geoff: Never heard of that. Wow, really. Paranoia to the extreme.
Cyndi: Were there other people’s fallen hair and such debri in the play area? Gosh, a blast, huh?
October 26th, 2006 at 8:51 pmhehehe… Maybe. :D. May phobia would be…hmm…half afraid of the dark, half afraid of FAILING. Maybe going to school. I’m SO sorry that I didnt get to read your blog that much. I was in Hongkong and in my grandpa’s house. :D.
November 6th, 2006 at 3:41 amWestbrook says he needs to
“Of course he’s going to get by a couple of times, but I’m going to do my best to stay
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:20 ami have a phobia of pools full of pipes with dirty moss on them and fans around them. also spider
January 30th, 2009 at 1:19 pmI seriously fear & have a phobia of pipes like in a refinery or in power plant & thats where alot of the good paying jobs are. i have nightmares of walking thru a hospital & ending up in the basement of that hospital & seeing pipes & machines & i think i would instantly go into cardiac arrest if i came close to these places. i try looking at pics on the internet but i still get scared.
October 21st, 2009 at 8:24 pmMr. G and killer clown, I hear you, something about dirty pipes and being stuck in them. Aaagh!
October 22nd, 2009 at 8:28 pm