What do you have an irrational fear of?

An ex of mine always used to say 'hope you sleep well' it was like he cursed me as always had a restless night, 'hope you have a good journey' and I would be stuck on A303 for hours grrrr I used to say to him don't say anything and I did become irrational over it but the times he didn't say anything journey or sleep was fine. He tried not to but it was like everything he said happened in the opposite. I wonder why I'm not with him anymore LOL. Have no real fears otherwise that I'm aware of, perhaps slugs and creepy crawlies. Ellie :D

When I was at college I had a fear of bourbon biscuits I dont know why and even today I cant look at one with out feeling scared, I just made myself sound a right nutter lol

I have a phobia about spiders and just about every other insect you can think of but that's quite common so I won't go on about that (although people do think I'm loopy when I freak out when I see a fly buzzing around me)! I have an irrational fear of steps in underground stations. I don't know when I started having this stupid fear but I've had a car for 15 years and used the underground to get to work before that so it must have developed over time after that. I only use the underground a couple of times a year and when going down the steps I have to hold onto the side barrier all the way down and it takes me literally 3 or 4 minutes to get down these steps and is very annoying for anyone that I'm with. I can't explain it, I'm not particularly scared of heights. I just have this crazy fear that I'm going to lose my balance and fall. I walk down 4 flights of stairs every at work several times a day without batting an eyelid but put me near concrete steps in a train/tube station and I freak out! Ever heard anything so silly before? LOL

I have a phobia of grills on the ground. I don't like stepping, walking, or driving over them.

Everyone thinks I have a fear of flying. That isn't it at all. I have a fear of FALLING! Everyone always tries to rationalize it by saying I am safer in a plane then I am in car. Sorry but I have seen dozens upon dozens of people recover from car accidents. I don't know a single one who has fallen 15,000 feet and lived to tell about it. Until the day I evolve to where I can sprout wings on a whim, I will forever have a fear of falling.

That just tickles me somehow, that you're afraid of stickers. Makes me grin. Sorry, but true. For me, there are several things that I have an irrational fear of, if you can call fear irrational in the first place. Fear is fear, whether the source is real or imagined. I don't particularly like being wished sweet dreams, as I have a life-long tendency toward nightmares, and I don't want to be jinxed. Basements are another thing I don't like, and I don't know why, either. They do tend to be rife with things like water-bugs and spiders, but I don't think that's really it. Sub-basements are something I couldn't ever even go near! That idea is revolting, repulsive and terrifying for me. Cockroaches and maggots are another thing - I hate even typing the words, frankly and I don't want to look back and see them, either, here on the page. I can't watch anything on tv or in the movies that show them, can't hear about them, can't deal with them in any fashion at all. Nope, no way! And I don't like to fly either. I just know the plane is going to fall out of the sky with me on it. Churches are another thing I don't like and I know that sounds weird, but it's true. I don't call myself a christian or anyting else and churches sort of creep me out. Don't get me wrong, I have huge faith, but I don't claim any religion and I don't like churches. Heights are a bit iffy for me. I try to enjoy them, but my stomach tends to flip-flop. I want to like heights though, so I do try to make myself experience them. I sort of like the rush they give me. I think it's good to face our fears though and I find that sometimes just walking out the front door is a real feat. But walk out I do. Once I'm out, I'm fine, but sometimes it can be hard to turn that knob. Silly, huh? Maybe, but real enough. Let's see, what else? No, I think I have it covered - that's enough, isn't it? All those fears? Oh, yes, I also have a fear of auditioning, but I've done it and will do it again. I have a desire to act, and the only way to do that is to audition. It's really scary and puts you out there naked and alone, but it's so exciting too, and if you can get your throat to open up and words to come out, you're on your way. Good topic, p1kef1sh, one that everyone can relate to in many ways.

I'm not sure if its irrational or not, but grasshoppers and crickets. Do you remember the Adbominable Dr Phibes with Vincent Price? If you want to give me a stroke, put one of those in my bed before I get in it. It will definitely do the trick.

I'm not sure there's any such thing as an irrational fear. If you have that fear, then it is VERY real, and therefore VERY rational, even if only to you. I've already lived through every parent's worst fear, but I still have one that lingers. I am afraid when walking down stairs. I am not afraid of the stairs themselves, after all, that would be irrational ;). But I AM afraid of falling down the stairs. I have these horrible visions of falling and literally breaking my neck, and either dying or being unable to get any help (I guess if I did die, I would still be unable to call for help though, right? :P ).

I have a fear of the blood pressure macine at the doctor's office. Just the very thought of it makes me nervous. I will start to freak out driving to the doctors because of it. Of course, that makes my blood pressure nice and high by the time I get there. I agree that it doesn't much matter if you feel your fear is irrational. Fear, rational or not, all creates the same response from your body. For example, my fear of blood pressure machines stems from a problem I had during child birth when my BP got so high I actually had siezures. I also have a fear of the concrete wall on the freeway, for no apparent reason. Both fears are equally scary to my mind and body. Okay, maybe its me, but what on earth are bourbon biscuits?

I cannot stand superstores. You know, WalMart, SuperTarget, SuperKmart, the places that are the regular store mushed with a grocery store. I hate them. I'll go in there for the sundries if nowhere else has what I'm looking for, but I hate to do any shopping there, and especially my grocery shopping. Our local WalMart is a superstore, but our local Target isn't. I would rather pay more and shop at two separate places than go into one of these monstrosities. And I do pay more and shop at two separate places. It takes longer, it costs more (if you figure in gas and the pennies more per item here and there), but I say it's all worth it for me not to go to WalMart. It just gives me the heebie-jeebies to go in there, and I get so distracted by everything that I wind up spending my grocery money on things I don't need or want.

I don't like for any part of my body to be wet unless I have intentionally done something to make that part wet. For example, I can't stand it if I am getting ready and, after I washed my hands, I dripped some water on the counter and then, while I am working at the counter putting my makeup on, I rest my hand on that wet spot on my counter and now that part of my hand is wet. Ick! I don't know why that bothers me. Or, if my hubby washes his hands but, they aren't totally dry, and then he caresses my arm or something, it isn't his hand on me that bothers me, it is the wet he just left behind. I know his hands are clean and it seriously isn't about dirt or anything. It is just the fact that a part of my body is now wet when I had nothing to do with making it that way. So weird, huh?

Clowns and shadows of trees on walls.