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What's an irrational fear that you have?

Posted on 8/21/26 at 12:26 am
Posted by FAT SEXY
California
Member since Jun 2020
2539 posts
Posted on 8/21/26 at 12:26 am
One for me:

Sometimes when I'm driving down an interstate/highway with my windows down my subconscious fears a passing vehicle kicking a rock up and through my window directly into to my left eye at 376 mph

wbu
Posted by cajuntiger1010
Member since Jan 2015
14700 posts
Posted on 8/21/26 at 12:32 am to
Cats get out the house while I’m away
Posted by Morpheus
In your Dreams
Member since Apr 2022
7804 posts
Posted on 8/21/26 at 12:40 am to
That someone hurts one of my family members and I’ll have to kill somebody
Posted by Eightballjacket
Member since Jan 2016
8094 posts
Posted on 8/21/26 at 12:51 am to
When my sinuses are acting up and I can’t breathe through my nose, I have this irrational fear that something will happen that’ll prevent me from breathing through my mouth.
Posted by HoboDickCheese
The overpass
Member since Sep 2020
14320 posts
Posted on 8/21/26 at 1:25 am to
Lava
Posted by Chris_topher
Member since Sep 2012
8224 posts
Posted on 8/21/26 at 1:28 am to
VR headset heights
Posted by cattus
Member since Jan 2009
16060 posts
Posted on 8/21/26 at 1:36 am to
quote:

can’t breathe through my nose, I have this irrational fear that something will happen that’ll prevent me from breathing through my mouth.
Ever tried breathing through your ears?
Posted by BlueMoon59
Member since Mar 2014
83 posts
Posted on 8/21/26 at 2:08 am to
RATS. I can’t even see them on tv without being nauseated. Had a couple of experiences with them that fueled my exaggerated phobia. Even the movie Ratatouille gives me the creeps.
Posted by Brosef Stalin
Member since Dec 2011
42606 posts
Posted on 8/21/26 at 3:09 am to
bugs crawling in my ear while I'm asleep
Posted by PurpleandGold Motown
Waltzing Between the Raindrops
Member since Oct 2007
24863 posts
Posted on 8/21/26 at 3:25 am to
Sleep. I have somnophobia. I can sleep but I will wake myself up every few hours or so through out the night. Pills don't help. Anxiety meds help a little bit, but it is what it is.
Posted by RanchoLaPuerto
Jena
Member since Aug 2023
2462 posts
Posted on 8/21/26 at 3:29 am to
That I have an exam today but didn’t study. Still have that dream.
Posted by northshorebamaman
Mackinac Island
Member since Jul 2009
38577 posts
Posted on 8/21/26 at 3:29 am to
That I’m already in purgatory, reliving the same mundane hour on an endless loop, or strapped into a Matrix pod where my mind receives just enough stimulation for my body to power a rest stop shitter light along a virtual I-10. Maybe in AI west Texas or Virtual Los Cruces. Probably AI Beaumont.

These thoughts usually come to me at work when Journey, Chicago, Boston, REO Speedwagon, Cheap Trick or post-drugs Aerosmith play over the radio. And when I'm visiting the fam in 30A. Or just in Florida at all really.

At those points, eternal punishment stops feeling like theological abstraction.
This post was edited on 8/21/26 at 3:42 am
Posted by Hussss
Helena, AL
Member since Oct 2016
7903 posts
Posted on 8/21/26 at 4:02 am to
quote:

Sometimes when I'm driving down an interstate/highway with my windows down my subconscious fears a passing vehicle kicking a rock up and through my window directly into to my left eye at 376 mph


Same

Also have fear of heights severely

In an elevator in a high rise I think “what if the cables snap”
Posted by SallysHuman
Lady Palmetto Bug
Member since Jan 2025
25326 posts
Posted on 8/21/26 at 4:43 am to
quote:

Cats get out the house while I’m away


I used to have that fear with my bunny. I was terrified I’d leave her cage open and forget to pull the front door fully shut. Many a time I’d turn around up the road and go double check.

My other fear is waking up to a dead body next to me. I hope I die first- I don’t ever wanna see one of my loved ones dead.
Posted by Cheese Grits
Wherever I lay my hat is my home
Member since Apr 2012
63166 posts
Posted on 8/21/26 at 4:47 am to
quote:

What's an irrational fear that you have?


The bear eats me

Ole bear was just pawing and stomping my feet to tell me they were my spirit animal. Being by myself in the woods and awakened from my sleep in the middle of the night, I can now see my fear at the moment was irrational.
Posted by Shanegolang
Denham Springs, La
Member since Sep 2015
5117 posts
Posted on 8/21/26 at 5:13 am to
That I'll be attacked by a swarm of yellow jackets and killed by their stings. I have a huge wasp phobia that this obviously stems from.
Posted by Cheese Grits
Wherever I lay my hat is my home
Member since Apr 2012
63166 posts
Posted on 8/21/26 at 5:28 am to
quote:

bugs crawling in my ear while I'm asleep



You saw the show episode from the 60's or 70's?
Posted by Potchafa
Avoyelles
Member since Jul 2016
4659 posts
Posted on 8/21/26 at 5:29 am to
Being forced to eat a raw on and getting old.
Posted by Cheese Grits
Wherever I lay my hat is my home
Member since Apr 2012
63166 posts
Posted on 8/21/26 at 6:01 am to


When I see that avatar, keep thinking ...

First, you make a roux

OR

We makin burgoo today!
Posted by Allyn McKeen
Key West, FL
Member since Jun 2012
4951 posts
Posted on 8/21/26 at 6:02 am to
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That I have an exam today but didn’t study. Still have that dream.


I have something similar. I dream that I forgot to turn in my final work from an online class I signed up for. 1) I finished grad school at Berkeley in 1985. 2) I have never taken an online class ever. Yet, I still pop up going, "Oh, shite!"
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