What’s your irrational fear?

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My irrational fear is explosions lol

I think I fear blowing up more than the average person. It crosses my mind at least once every other day.

I hate cooking with a gas stove.

I fear there will be a gas leak and my entire apartment will blow up.

I fear I’m gonna blow up every time I’m at a gas station.

I fear my vape popping in my face. (It happened to my cousin)

I don’t like propane, I don’t like butane, I don’t like any can of anything that says “flammable” because I think it’s gonna randomly blow up.

I would never light a firework.

Nothing. Nothing that could even potentially blow up. I’m good, keep it away from me.

I’m not afraid of dying from an explosion, I’m afraid of surviving one. Because then I’m gonna be missing limbs and my face is gonna be fucked up. No thank you.

I've seen videos of people houses just randomly blowing up and it literally keeps me up at night. I’ve had nightmares about it lol

FunkyMonkee · Accepted Answer

I don't think I have any, anymore. Up until about a dozen years ago, I was "afraid" of wild plants. Mostly because I didn't want to catch poison ivy and, until then, had no idea what it looked like except for dad telling me it looks like a mitten. I've been in forests a number of times and saw plenty of weeds that look like that but, every time I'd ask someone if that was poison ivy, they'd tell me it wasn't!
About a 20 years ago, my dad and brother mentioned that there's a lot of it growing in the back yard of our next door neighbour in her flower garden! So, I took a look at it to see what it looked like. A few years later, I noticed it growing in our side yard between those two houses so, I made it a point to try to dig that whole area up and get rid of the poison ivy. I was careful not to touch it but, accidentally did a time or 3 and had no bad reactions from it! Apparently, like dad and his mother, I'm not allergic to it! So, now, I just pull it out of the ground with my bare hands and I'm not afraid of weeds anymore.
Another reason for fear of weeds was a Lost In Space episode where Don & John were setting up the drill and a vine came up out of the ground, wrapped itself around Don's leg and dragged him into the sand pit it came from. I was only 8 or 9 years old at the time and thought plants could actually do that.

My other irrational fear was back when I was between 11 or 14 years old and started hearing all these "Paul is dead" rumours going around! SOMEHOW, I got it in my head that Paul was waiting for me in my parents' bedroom on the 2nd floor with a huge knife, ala Mike Meyers, and, if I didn't RUN up the stairs to my 3rd floor room, across the hall, Paul was gonna come out of their room and try to stab me with the knife! So, I was perfectly fine until I got up to the bottom of my stairs and then, I would scramble up those stairs as fast as I could on all fours trying to get at least to the landing most of the way up before he could come get me! Lol. Somehow, if I made it to the landing, he couldn't get me anymore and the last 4 stairs to my room, I just walked up. I mean, I KNEW he wasn't there but, for some reason, I imagined he was and tried my best to avoid him. WHY he wanted to kill me, I don't know!! I don't think this lasted more than a couple months.

DrPepper12 · Accepted Answer

Not completely irrational tbh. I feel that. Now mine? Can't have people behind me at a water fountain. Freaks me out & I feel completely distracted and vulnerable

petitedollbabee · Accepted Answer

Earthquakes. Even though I’ve never experienced a major earthquake, every time there’s even a slight rumble, my heart races and im up on my feet, ready to scoop up my baby and rush to a safe area incase the ceiling collapses. It comes from that fear being imbedded in me as a child. Anytime we had an earthquake, no matter how insignificant, my mom would SCREAM to get under the table or under a doorframe and wait for the quake to end. We have earthquakes often here, so over time it became a part of regular life. It got to the point where as a kid, if we had an earthquake in the middle of the night, I wouldn’t even wake up, I’d just sleep walk to the doorway and return to my bed when the quake finished.

Ez-Bri-Z_v2 · Accepted Answer

Going outside my house is a big one

I also have to close and lock all the doors (if possible) around me before I can fall asleep out of fear of being attacked in my sleep. (I'm a deep sleeper)

I used to be afraid of cooking on a gas stove, but since we moved up north and I didn't have a choice in the house we moved into, I got over that one a bit.

Being seen in general freaks me out a bit. Photos are generally ok, but being seen by people I don't know in person freaks me out and leads to my first fear listed.

NathanDavis · Answer

lmfao... believe it or not

I do have the same irrational fear but it doesn't happen quite the same way...

for me, it is just some times, random times when I will get this extreme (very short lived though) anxiety and I kind of panic with the fear that there's just going to be this big ass explosion... but as soon as it happens, it goes away

intense but very short lived, and then I just have this funny lingering feeling left for a full minute, lmao

and then, with everything else that involves gas, I am just extremely careful and conscious of it...

Screenwriter · Answer

Hmm... Justin, all of those flammable things are inherently safe. The incidence of houses blowing up from any kinds of gas leaks is infinitesimal... You gotta work on that one!!!

Mine is all my teeth falling out, plmmeting off a cliff and never hitting the bottom, or careening in a car off a causeway over water. and the car sinking in the water while I'm trying to struggle my way out underwater... You've all seen those movies!!! ... So, I guess all of mine are about losing control.

naartjie · Answer

I fear I’ll marry someone who cheats on me especially if we have kids together, even worse if I JUST had a baby.
My heart and my mind is extremely sensitive when it comes to relationships.
Being married to someone, 20+ years go by and they’ve been cheat and still are, I fear I’ll lose my mind and just shoot him and then me. Or maybe not me I’m not sure. Maybe I’d just stab him in the legs or chop his dick off.
Scary thing is, I’m not even joking. Being with someone that long and you have kids, you’ve given and loved them with EVERY bit of you, I don’t know if I’d recover and I’d probably go mental and probably stab him and it I didn’t have a knife I’d probably smash a bottle to use.
Don’t play with my heart and my life like that and you won’t have to suffer the consequences

Agape93 · Answer

Sinking into the dark parts of the ocean. The slow descent into the dark, the burning lungs, the pressure crushing you slowly, all while open to being attacked by sharks or slowly picked apart by an octopus or squid. Fuck no

jennifer_bloom · Answer

I believe phobias diminish in number and frequency when you down grade your sense and experience of pleasure, and if you vape or do legal weed, (which is legal in many places), it can lead to paranoia and psychosis. I know it’s not easy to live an austere life when entertainment is the currency of friend ship, but it might reduce your fears and phobias.

BrotherFalk · Answer

The bridge I am driving on collapsing. Though depending on where you live in America, this may be a real. amd present danger lol.

gemb00 · Answer

A flock of birds flying above or near me (only because I don’t want them sh! tting on me.)  Spiders because they’re ugly and unimportant. Unexplained pain in my body.

DishLady · Answer

I don't have one. I'm usually the person in my circles who talks others out of *their* irrational fears... perhaps I lost mine along the way.

ProbablyClueless · Answer

Heights used to bother me. And tall grass.  I've gotten passed heights, but there's something about tall grass that's always unnerved me.

NordicInScandinavia · Answer

Not irrational: To be victimized and blamed for it, because I'll be ending up doing the same. Dark period ahead in time.

Anonymous · Answer

Getting struck by lightning when outside during a thunderstorm. Sometimes, when you go out to run errands, the weather is fine, but sometime after, a thunderstorm brews.

Staximus · Answer

The house catching on fire and burning down while I'm sleeping, which I guess isn't really an irrational fear because I was in a hotel fire when I was a little kid

Anonymous · Answer

The "snuggles" bear. These commercials terrified me as a kid. I don't like this commercial to this day because of it.

Caroline91 · Answer

Heights. Definitely heights. Anything above 3 stories and I want to jump.

KittygosMeoWW · Answer

Going on a boat or even in the ocean… my biggest fear would be a tsunami or going in a submarine. I was scared af of the Nemo ride at Disney.

ienjoylookingatgreen · Answer

I fear when I take a green dump sometimes it's green when I don't eat enough

Manuelwe · Answer

I fear the up coming American civil war 2. Donald trump and elon musk are trying to do what putin failing to do. 're open a race and sexism wars

Anonymous · Answer

Spiders. Especially the poisonous kind. There are a lot at my parents country house. I’m not scared of wolf spiders though. They eat the bad spiders.

exitseven · Answer

I am afraid of heights. It did not happen until I was on my 30s.

andreasderjuengere · Answer

It's... having no beers in the fridge. Irrational, indeed :D

Iron_Man · Answer

Being stuck in a nursing home as an old man losing your freedom

MikeTheGreek1979 · Answer

Fear of heights or falling from such heights. I’m ok on plane or tall buildings. But on edge or if their no railing.

Anonymous · Answer

It's the dentist :P

libralove · Answer

A plane is gonna crash into my apt complex and kill me

sarah109 · Answer

I fear wasting time on relationships with fake people that do not have your best intentions at heart.

JamesRandiDebates · Answer

None. All of my fears are completely rational.

Anonymous · Answer

Making dancing videos, silly i know but i hate doing them.

Simslover92 · Answer

Snakes in the toilet.

Dargil · Answer

I only have rational fears.

Maven007 · Answer

Being weak as a woman.

Babygirl_S · Answer

My fear of CANCER is rational

lorenzomichael · Answer

Getting eaten by a shark while scuba diving.

Uglygaypoorcoward94 · Answer

Thats a sick fantasy you have

beefcakebradybatson · Answer

Waking up next to a fat broad !!!

James994 · Answer

Lepidopterophobia (Moths) and Arachnophobia

Professor-college · Answer

I'm not sure if I have any irrational fears

Priya99999 · Answer

I have a fear of abandonment

anmari2001 · Answer

Sharks

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