I have a huge fear of being stranded in the ocean!!! I do not like all the vicious creatures down there! I am afraid of octopuses, squid, and other weird thingies. I picture myself drifting below water, slowly in the darkness, and then when I turn around, all I see is an enormous whale mouth opening up and coming my way. Then, suddenly... I'm gone. Wiped off of the face of the earth without a trace. Sometimes I even picture a swarm of unidentified sea creatures attacking me(I saw a special on the discovery channel about newly discovered sea creatures deep, deep, down below on the ocean floor). I know it is a little strange, but everyone has some type of fear or phobia.
2006-07-11 16:05:15 · 18 answers · asked by UVRay 6 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
I feel you! I almost can't bear to watch the movie Cast Away because of the scene when he's trying to get home on his home-made boat and a whale pokes up and looks at him. I can't stand the thought, or feeling of being stranded in the ocean. The vastness and unknown creatures freak me out. I'm the same way when I think about space, and the universe.
2006-07-11 16:11:28 · answer #1 · answered by believer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We used to go to Myrtle Beach. It has changed. Creatures never used to bother people, now they come a running, it appears. The stingrays have even gotten worse. We hear every year about sharks biting off arms, feet, hands, legs and that in itself plants a fear in all of us.
Yes it is warranted to feel in that respect of having, carrying a hugh fear of the ocean. I will tell you this, If I cannot see the bottom of the ocean clear then I do not go in. I refuse too swim anywhere where I can't see my feet or others feet. Least in the pool I have no worries of the unknown and known coming forward. Chlorine is far better than a shark is in my book..
2006-07-11 16:19:24 · answer #2 · answered by Lore 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, first of all I would stop myself the minute I found myself thinking of that. It sounds like a terrible nightmare.
Funny...as much as I LOVE being at the beach, I have a deathly fear of the ocean. I don't even know where it came from.
We have a swimming pool that I will get in, but I will not go under the water. Wierd huh?
So, no, I'm sure you're not alone.
2006-07-11 16:13:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you are normal. I fear the ocean too. The whole tsunami thing didn't help. I will not get in the ocean. I loved it as a child, but can't make myself get in it now. I see the shark movies in my head. It is also a big place that has a lot of things we don't understand. I am freaked out by space too. The irony is that we own a beach house.
2006-07-11 16:10:11 · answer #4 · answered by AfterThought 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My 4 year old saw a show about piranas. The next day he slipped into a puddle in the yard and screamed like the piranas were eating him. You shouldn't watch that stuff on TV till you grow up.
If you're an adult and the ocean freaks you out you need a shrink.
2006-07-11 16:39:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My son is afraid of the ocean, but in a different way. He grew up in a valley, with mountains all around, and all that space really freaks him out. Nothing as far as the eye can see! I think it makes him feel too small.
I love it, but have no desire whatsoever to be on it, away from shore. If anything bad happened, there'd be no one to help. Yikes.
But I do get panicky when I smell gasoline. No reason I can think of, but I've gotten out of cars (in a safe way!) and run to get away from the smell.
2006-07-11 16:18:46 · answer #6 · answered by LazlaHollyfeld 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and no. To sit and look at the ocean from even a beach or a bridge, for a long time, can cause a person to feel, deperessed after awhile.
2006-07-11 16:14:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm. Did you have some sort of bad experience with the ocean when you were younger? Dunno...I've always been scared of going under, but what you've described doesn't seem to be quite the same.
2006-07-11 16:12:43 · answer #8 · answered by Allison 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't like being in any deep body of water. I have to be able to see to the bottom to make sure nothing is going to grab my legs. For some reason jellyfish really freak me out too.
2006-07-11 16:14:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no because i know a lot of people who are afraid of the ocean. its mainly because they are afraid of drowning, or being left behind if they go swimming and the boat leaves them, and there's also the fear of sharks. and the fact that the ocean is humongous and they can get lost in all of it by getting swallowed by the huge waves.
2006-07-11 16:11:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋