Reddit, what is your biggest irrational fear?
Ok reddit, I want to know what you guys are afraid of. No, not the normal everyday fears, spider, snake, the dreaded flying spiders, no. I want to know what you are afraid of, that is completely irrational. Might it be can openers or giant cats in hats. I want the strangest fears you can possibly be afraid of.
Swimming in the lake. I'm afraid fish will bite my toes. Also touching seaweed.
Eating in front of certain people. I honestly don't know why. It's usually attractive females, I mean I just get nervous and start to think they're judging me or something. Totally irrational.
Needles. DO NOT LOOK AT IT.
Getting a paper cut on my neck. I always think that the paper is magically going to cut me on my neck.
for lots of redditors, it seems the irrational fear of guns.
I once got into this weird habit of spelling everything in my head. Like I'd think of a conversation or hear something on TV and start spelling it out. Then I became absolutely convinced I had done something permanent to myself because I couldn't make it stop. S-T-O-P.
I sleep in a bunk bed and sometimes I'm just waiting for some creepy home invader to stick a knive trough my mattress..
Hahah you're welcome ;) Also I put mine together myself (IKEA..). So I'm not quite sure how long this thing will hold me. I might wake up one day and find myself folded in my mattress on ground level with a broken back or something..
Single stall public bathrooms. Can't poop without the fear that the lock will fail and someone will waltz in on me defecating. At least in multi-stall bathrooms it's obvious that it's occupied.
I fear being blamed for doing something that I didn't do and then being sent to jail for it and rotting away in a jail cell, only to be released 20+ years later and having to adjust life after so much time in a cell.
I'm absolutely terrified that one day I'll be walking through a store and a mannequin will reach out and touch me as I pass by.
Cynophobia. (i am afraid of dogs). No real reason, never had a terrible experience. size or breed doesn't matter. Just can't stand being around them.
My mom is deathly afraid of balloons and those rolls in a can that pop when you open them.