What is a fear you have that can be seen as irrational?

Question

I have an irrational fear that a snake is going to come out of the toilet.

Bilboes · Accepted Answer

Dark waters.. Especially, if I know something is underneath me like a boat or an old building or something. Freaks my s*** out. It's very difficult for me to swim in lakes, and even to this day, the drains in big swimming pools that you can't see the bottom of freak my s*** out too, even though they are just drains..

ZamerZ · Accepted Answer

I have a classic for you: A great white in the swimming pool. I am still scared to swim on the deep end. And another one would be getting beheaded in my sleep by a helicopter crashing into my bedroom.

Anonymous · Answer

Deipnophobia. It's the fear of eating in front of others. It makes dating hard and eating in front of new friends harder as well. They say it's a social anxiety disorder than an eating disorder. However people who have had eating disorders can experience it too. But I don't have an eating disorder, yet I know I have social anxiety sometimes so yeah. In my head when I'm eating in front of someone, I just get really self-conscious like the person is judging me the entire time by the way I eat or how I eat. Then I just make myself feel so much anxiety that I cannot eat anymore. It's like that every time I eat with that new person. Eventually the person is going to start questioning what is going on and assume you have an ED. They might get concerned and start making sure you are eating. Honestly that makes it worse for me and most people with this phobia because them putting the problem in the spotlight makes me even more uncomfortable. It's like oh no my worse fears are coming true they think something is wrong with me. We just spiral into so much anxiety it is crippling. The person may be trying to help us but ultimately they're not helping because we are just so fragile that we are shattering even more. Eventually we just stop eating in front of people to avoid this all together or we try really hard to overcome it. However I eat just fine in front of family.

AaronKrieger · Answer

Mine are demonic old women. I watched many horror movies like Saw, Leatherface, Scream, Halloween, & stuff like that by the time I was 5. They somewhat scared me, but Insidious I was too young at 7 to see when it came out. Watching movies like Dead Silence, and both Conjuring movies didn't help either, lmao.

It's not to the degree it's a phobia, but that woman from Insidious or any notion of a supernatural/demonic old woman in a horror movie immediately gives me goosebumps. Also, that bitch has been the most consistent person in my worst nightmares and sleep paralysis ever since I've seen the movie.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/uhka72WDDtM

This scene made me hate sitting by hallways for a while 😂

Anonymous · Answer

Funny you posted a picture of a toilet, because I always think that a sewer rat is going to come out when I'm on the toilet. I don't know why? I heard it happens sometimes 🤷

Daniela1982 · Answer

Most people leave brown snakes in the toilet, not fearing they will come out. I don't mind snakes and bugs myself as I have dealt with them when camping for a long time. Maybe being abducted by aliens when camping when I am sleeping on the ground in my sleeping bag? I wanna see those little shits try it and I'll poke their third eye out and make them eat it.

Andres77 · Answer

Using a public toilet/Porta-a-john and the mess splashes up and hits me…🤢🤢🤢…🤮

noemiii · Answer

I have a weird phobia of wind turbines or anything that’s large and moving. Anytime I see a wind turbine it really freaks me out I hate being anywhere near them. Especially at night when they’re blinking in tandem in the distance. Terrifying.

Reem12345reem · Answer

I used to think that when I was a child , and if a man with knife sticks it into my butthole coming out of the toilet  but t wasn't a fear more like a thought , so that didn't stop me from pooping

Adaeva · Answer

A fear that the US will go too far and get us into a nuclear war. Just because my fear can be seen as irrational, does not imply that my fear is irrational.

purplepoppy · Answer

That's not irrational. Thousands are bitten by toilet snakes every year.

Sasha0426 · Answer

Actually, that’s a reasonable fear. Because they are known to do that in Florida or Australia. But, who knows these days? They can do that anywhere you go. Or spiders.

abc3643 · Answer

The square root of 2*Fear... (2 * Fear)^(1/2)

Shy_Steve · Answer

Approaching people I don't know and introducing myself. I'm probably not alone, But I still reckon it's Irrational.

gothbxtch · Answer

water, like to the point where i’m scared to put my head back in the tub

KrakenAttackin · Answer

When I was in the Navy I always had a fear that a wasp would fly into my oxygen hose and into my mouth after I sealed the mask on my face.

Anonymous · Answer

It’s not an irrational fear in Australia. It’s an actual thing here. I’m petrified of heights (like climbing a ladder) but I’m ok to fly 🤦🏼‍♂️.

CubaPirate · Answer

Snakes generally

Guanfei · Answer

Aliens. Or rather, meeting them. It's based on absolutely nothing, but it terrifies me.

007kingifrit · Answer

ketchup, get it away from me it is disgusting

Miah05 · Answer

Well now i have this fear too😭

sheikalana · Answer

I have the same fear as you.

Anonymous · Answer

Now I can't go to pee for 2 days.. thank you! 💀

RingOfFire · Answer

I have a fear of contracting a phobia.

DummyThiccFeraligatr · Answer

Needles. They make me faint.

Anonymous · Answer

I'm afraid of Alabama Black Snake

inhua · Answer

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