Daft irrational fears.
Discussion
Flying, spiders, supernatural things, mould on food and the Labour Party (joke for the News and political forum people on here) there are some irrational fears that people have and I, up to today when I was driving my Yaris from Sainsbury's to Tesco's, that I realise I have one. And it is really really irrational.
My fear is this.
Fear of the depth of oceans.
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Fear of the depth of oceans
I imagine me jumping off a boat, in the Pacific, for a swim. Now I would not be worried about the waves or the sea creatures etc, mid pacific there are few, but that actual depth of water beneath me. A dark, deep, deep depth to which I could get sucked into like a black hole.
I guess it is a bit like reverse vertigo where you cannot look over a cliff in fear of falling over it.
Has anyone else got this fear?
1) No
2) Yes.
3) Not until you mentioned it, thanks pal, I will never be able to hire a pedalo again.
Is it just me?
My fear is this.
Fear of the depth of oceans.
Perhaps bigger font is needed
Fear of the depth of oceans
I imagine me jumping off a boat, in the Pacific, for a swim. Now I would not be worried about the waves or the sea creatures etc, mid pacific there are few, but that actual depth of water beneath me. A dark, deep, deep depth to which I could get sucked into like a black hole.
I guess it is a bit like reverse vertigo where you cannot look over a cliff in fear of falling over it.
Has anyone else got this fear?
1) No
2) Yes.
3) Not until you mentioned it, thanks pal, I will never be able to hire a pedalo again.
Is it just me?
Gandahar said:
1) No
2) Yes.
3) Not until you mentioned it, thanks pal, I will never be able to hire a pedalo again.
Is it just me?
No. I will very happily jump off a boat into the ocean, unless it's in an area where I'm told it's dangerous. Once had mantas surface around a boat in he Indian Ocean and we all just jumped in with masks, snorkels and fins2) Yes.
3) Not until you mentioned it, thanks pal, I will never be able to hire a pedalo again.
Is it just me?
Draws my mind to those pictures of those holes in lakes that were put up a while ago...
https://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/...
https://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/...
Gandahar said:
Fear of the depth of oceans
I wouldn't call that an irrational fear because there are legitimate dangers associated with it. Same with flying, although I love flying (it's the other passengers I cant stand) I understand that there is some apprehension over an infinitesimal chance of an inescapable doom. We're humans and are hardwired not to like the possibility of death.
To me an irrational fear is one that has no obvious danger (mortal or at least bodily harm) attached to it like a social phobia or Agoraphobia (which is the fear of a specific type of environment, not just open spaces). It doesn't make them any easier to get over.
I hear what you are saying, and would agree that the thoughts of struggling around in the ocean with my legs dangling down into a column of water with many miles deep worth of large creature that could potentially chomp off my limbs is rather disconcerting.
However, for me a worse fear would be in struggling in a body of fresh water, maybe a river or lake or quarry hole, at a depth where stuff growing from the bed might touch my feet. I'd want to die right there and then just to get it over with.
However, for me a worse fear would be in struggling in a body of fresh water, maybe a river or lake or quarry hole, at a depth where stuff growing from the bed might touch my feet. I'd want to die right there and then just to get it over with.
I'm petrified of heights and feel the same about deep water if I can't see the bottom. Ive snorkelled in very deep water in Egypt and been fine because of very clear water, tried it in the Maldives and had an outright panic attack/get me f
k away from this moment when I ventured over the ridge. I think my fear is more to do with what might be fancying me for dinner rather than the actual depth though.
k away from this moment when I ventured over the ridge. I think my fear is more to do with what might be fancying me for dinner rather than the actual depth though.Whilst I don't like large bodies of water for the same reason...
I have a fear of swimming pools because of the potential of a shark attacking and eating me, even though I know that it'll simply never happen. My vision is either a shark (or maybe many sharks!) swimming up behind me and/or the bottom of the swimming pool falling away and into a shark-infested pool.
Because of this, I will continuously look under the water if I'm in a swimming pool, just to check neither of my scenarios are coming true*...
*I do accept that this sounds like a st excuse to allow people to perv at others under the water! 
I have a fear of swimming pools because of the potential of a shark attacking and eating me, even though I know that it'll simply never happen. My vision is either a shark (or maybe many sharks!) swimming up behind me and/or the bottom of the swimming pool falling away and into a shark-infested pool.
Because of this, I will continuously look under the water if I'm in a swimming pool, just to check neither of my scenarios are coming true*...
*I do accept that this sounds like a s
t excuse to allow people to perv at others under the water! No, but I get where you're coming from.
When I was small, I was scared that lorries parked on the pavement would topple over and crush me - they seemed bigger, rather intimidating and unstable the way the cab moved on the front suspension when the driver got in - so I would rush past them if I was walking past one on the way to school. Utterly irrational. Not scared of them now, just slightly intimidated by their size - when I'm driving I'm more intimidated by an artic rather than a tractor unit, though I feel more pressured by a following 6x2 / 6x4 than a 4x2. Am I barking mad?
When I was small, I was scared that lorries parked on the pavement would topple over and crush me - they seemed bigger, rather intimidating and unstable the way the cab moved on the front suspension when the driver got in - so I would rush past them if I was walking past one on the way to school. Utterly irrational. Not scared of them now, just slightly intimidated by their size - when I'm driving I'm more intimidated by an artic rather than a tractor unit, though I feel more pressured by a following 6x2 / 6x4 than a 4x2. Am I barking mad?
I had one to do with lorries when younger too, involving them parked up on the pavement but wasn't bothered about them toppling over.
I was scared of the tyres bursting. Irrational or otherwise it was a bit of a thing roughly between the ages of around 12-17; I'd happily go out of my way to avoid passing them.
I didn't/don't have thalassophobia but the thought of being stranded, especially at night, in the middle of the ocean with nothing or no-one for miles isn't a nice one.
I was scared of the tyres bursting. Irrational or otherwise it was a bit of a thing roughly between the ages of around 12-17; I'd happily go out of my way to avoid passing them.
I didn't/don't have thalassophobia but the thought of being stranded, especially at night, in the middle of the ocean with nothing or no-one for miles isn't a nice one.
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