My friends husband is scared of ANYTHING velvet!!!!....weird or what?!....what would make you go running for the hills????
2007-07-22 13:09:10 · 39 answers · asked by Michelle o 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Mine is the Great White Shark!!!!....YIKES....I know i`me NEVER gonna meet one....hopefully!....do you think that velvet and cotton wool is a worse fear????!!!!....LOL....x....it`s MAD how we all fear different things!....my son is 6 ft odd and is scared of a tiny spider!!!!....LOL!
2007-07-22 13:25:03 · update #1
I NEVER said ANYTHING about what you worship!!!!????....YIKES thats a strange answer, never mind tho, you got yer points hun!!!!
2007-07-22 13:27:12 · update #2
Gangs of Chavs
they are like wasps but human sized.
2007-07-22 13:34:58 · answer #1 · answered by Northern Spriggan 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You may think it's weird but I get the velvet thing too, if it's brushed the wrong way ugh, anyway my ultimate phobia would have to be small spaces, if I'm in a small caravan and someone locked the door I'd freak a bit but if there were more than two people and the space was feeling smaller I'm sure I'd faint.
People biting towels or velvet make my hairs stand on end, I love all snakes though, freaky deaky heh! ;0)
2007-07-22 20:20:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of our phobias (fears) have no basis in reality or if they are it's an exaggeration. Maybe when he was too young to remember he was wearing something soft like velvet or cotton and was caught in the zipper or was scratched by a diaper pin. So he wouldn't remember the experience just feeling soft and comfortable in the material, then pain.
I have a fear of heights, extreme dark and/or night, snakes and rats. My fear of heights came from falling off a roof. The dark from being told my deceased granny (she died at night) was only sleeping. The snakes from turning on a lamp in a girl scout camp & finding myself encoiled by a snake which no one knew wasn't poisionous and rats from horrror stories in N.Y. ghettos in the 70s.
Most of them I have worked hard to desensitize myself. But I still have problems with my fear of heights & extreme dark. I know statwise air travel is safer but a crash is more likely to be deadly. I also know if I can't see someone they can't see me either. Both of these have more to do with the fact I'm a control freak. I can't control the pilot's actions , nor the person that may threaten me.
There are weirder things to be paranoid of but they usually have a basis in more than just the actual item that scares them.
2007-07-22 19:18:50 · answer #3 · answered by syllylou77 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It used to be spiders! Even a photo of one would have me up on the nearest and highest work surface, sweating, shaking and crying my eyes out. But I got myself over it! I'm not saying my fear has completely gone, it's just that I'm not faced with so many any more, nor the places they usually hang out. YET I've moved to the part of the world that has the worlds largest spider and I had one in my lounge! It's like this, I see them less but when I do they're bigger & badder, whereas before I had a LOT of incidences with them dropping on me, running onto me etc in the UK and lived in paralyzing fear of them (i'd never step foot inside a garage or shed or sit under beer garden umbrellas....I was disabled by my fear).
Now it's spending the last days of my life in a hospital! That makes me want to run...all the needles and fussy staff, the awful beds and tests and food....or losing someone I love this way!
PS I also HATE MOHAIR! I can't speak aorund people wearing it coz it makes my teeth hurt!
2007-07-22 18:36:25 · answer #4 · answered by SEJ71 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The examiner who gives you your road test so you can qualify to get your driver's license. I can learn to drive. I drive pretty good, actually. The instructor told me the last four times we went out all I was doing was driving her to various things she needed to get done. I was being like her chauffeur. She said that is how well I was driving, but get into the car with the road test examiner from the state and pass the road test - I am still not there yet. I freak when I think about it. Can you imagine? I'm 64 and I have demonized the road test examiner.
Well, some people it's spiders, and some people it's dentists, and sometimes its fathers who are angry all the time or mothers who won't quit nagging, or dogs that bark next door, 'way into the night - but for me it's the road test examiner. He's my new boogie man.
2007-07-22 13:52:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My greatest phobia now is motorways. I will drive any long way round just to avoid them! I conquered my fear of heights by sitting on the glass panel at the top of the Blackpool Tower. I almost s**t myself, but I did it. Still can't stand flying though which I find odd.
2007-07-22 23:30:17 · answer #6 · answered by Somer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Worms and any wormy type creature e.g. maggots. Everytime I see one my body goes into automatic mode and I run off =(.
I remember one biology class where someone taunted me with a earthworm. I had no idea that I threw a scapel at him when I calmed down and got away from it (scapel missed if you're wondering).
hello_dave: ROFL! Nice answer.
2007-07-22 14:02:31 · answer #7 · answered by Equinox 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have a phobia for needles, but my hubby is so scared of cotton wool, he runs from it every time he sees it, almost as weird of a fear of velvet xx
2007-07-22 13:16:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hypnotherapy is probably one of the best ways to cure a phobia.
Your phobia has probably got a name, have a look at this list of phobias
http://www.hypnotherapistregister.com/Phobia%20List.htm
You will find some helpful information on the following link.
http://www.hypnotherapistregister.com/Fears%20-%20Phobias.htm
http://www.hypnotherapistregister.com/index.htm
2007-07-23 03:55:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can be scared of spiders, my fears seem to grow as I get older
2007-07-22 13:13:07 · answer #10 · answered by serious sarah 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋