Irrational Fears Full Of Weird That People Have

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mattstaff
Mar 13, 2020 12:00 PM EDT

Someone on AskReddit asked for people to describe their irrational fears. Reading through this list, it's fascinating to see what kinds of phobias and other irrational fears that we can pick up as we move through life. Things like underwater caves, or the fear that leaving a drink unattended in a room could result in the toys poisoning the drink. Now that's a trip. 

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  • 01
    Text - oonei028 • 1d 3 1 Award I'm scared that a bug is going to crawl into my hairdryer, and when I go to turn it on, it's going to shoot the bug into my hair.
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    Text - vadermaybelater • 1d Underwater caves, they freak me out and I'm not even a scuba diver.
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    Text - RotMGAbe • 1d That some toys in my room would "poison" any drink I left unattended, to turn me into a toy. Obviously nonsense, but I still don't leave drinks in there unattended.
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  • 04
    Text - SmiffyWalldorf • 1d Going to the bathroom with the shower curtain closed. I'm afraid of someone or something hiding behind the curtain and waiting to attack me while I'm vulnerable on the toilet.
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  • 05
    Text - The_Red_Pine• 1d Remember animorphs? The enemies in that series were slug people that crawled in your ear at night and took over your body, but you are still conscious in your head and can experience everything they are doing. So for like 5 yearsI slept in my bed and covered my ears with my blanket.
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    Text - lipscratch • 1d i wouldn't call it a fear, but flour makes me really cringe. if i'm watching a cooking show and people are touching flour or rubbing it on the table i have to shut my eyes. if i was making bread or something, i'll touch it, but i'll hate every second of it
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  • 07
    Text - DaCtAr_HoOs • 1d Im terrified of deep water. Im a strong swimmer. There is no logical reason for me to be afraid. But my mind says there is a giant ghost shark waiting to drag me down to the bottom of the lake and devour me.
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    Text - supergolum • 1d I have an irrarional fear of impaling myself on low metallic fences. You know those waist level fences with kind of spades on top? In my mind, I always slip or trip in my own shoes and jab one of them through my throat.
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  • 09
    Text - NarretTwist • 23h I fear swimming in bodies of water that I know have fish but I can't see them. So murky lakes and rivers are a no go, but crystal clear lakes and the ocean are fine. Once I can see the fish I'm fine with swimming. It's not being able to see them that I can't do.
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  • 10
    Text - nxnsmsl • 1d i have a weird fear i guess. I fear butterflies... is horrible and a lot of peoples think that I'm weird because of it.
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    Text - passedlives • 1d Landmines. I don't like to walk through random yards or field because landmines are scary. There has NOT been a war in my area for about a hundred and fifty years. Edit NOT in a war zone. Just slightly neurotic. Take back all your up votes
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    Text - SixFeetBlunder • 1d My Brother-in-Law is an avid fisherman, loves to fish and spends lots of his time out on the water. He's got a form of Ichthyophobia (fear of fish), he's not terrified of fish if he sees them and catches them. But if he's swimming in the water and sees any sort of fish near him, he loses his mind. He's terrified of the situation of being in water with fish
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    Text - HobGadlingson • 1d I'm afraid of being afraid. My brain acquires other peoples' fears and phobias easily. So I guess that's my irrational fear. As long as I stay out of other peoples' heads, I'm actually pretty fearless. And I have done some very dangerous things. No problems with heights or haunted houses or talking in front of a massive crowd. But if someone starts talking about their spooky feelings at an old nursing home or the time they watched baby spiders immediately eat their own
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    Text - burn-after-use • 1d I have a phobia of balloons. 9 times outta 10 when I tell people this they find a balloon and squeeze it and pop it right in front of me, to see if I actually have a phobia.
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  • 15
    Text - chrime711 • 1d Whales.. They are faaaar to big not to be feared when you see one in real life...
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    Text - Gorssky • 1d I have this weird fear that every time I go to clear out my body of waste, you know what I mean, I worry that l'm actually asleep and in reality am at work or in public just dumping my load in front of people. So every time I sit down on the toilet I have to pinch myself to ensure l'm awake and conscious. It's definitely the weirdest habit I have and I have no idea where it stems from.
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    Text - whylmcalledqueen • 1d Terrified of looking out windows or even really looking at windows at night. I'm afraid l'll see a monster or a set of eyes looking back. It's so bad that I close my eyes when closing open blinds at night or have my wife close them for me.
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  • 18
    Text - FloobLord • 23h I have a phobia of breaking the 4th wall. Mascots especially freak me out, but any situation where a live actor talks to the audience or comes down off the stage makes me super uncomfortable/ anxious.
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  • 19
    Text - pullin2 • 1d Hydroelectric dams. Specifically, falling off and somehow being sucked into the intake -- scratching feebly at the surface of a moss covered tunnel as l'm drawn closer and closer to giant whirling blades -- in the dark. I almost took a scuba class once, but found they did practice dives at a local hydro dam because of the vertical depth. I backed out, and the instructor tried to ensure me they were far away from the intake openings and there was no danger. I told him the same
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  • 20
    Text - gaydes69 • 23h I have a fear of driving next to a semi truck having the tire explode and getting decapitated by a chunk of rubber.
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  • 21
    Text - heresjohnny1921 • 1d I have tipulophobia, which means fear of crane flies
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  • 22
    Text - hunterleighhh • 1d Horses. I hate them, they're too big and clumsy. They could kill you by simply falling on you
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    Text - koolaid-girl-40• 1d Small clusters of things that are or look like they are multiplying/spreading. Like a small group of mushrooms growing on a tree or bubble algae or even some rashes. Just the idea of an infestation or cancer I guess. Makes me nautious and sweat.
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  • 24
    Text - TwoHeadedBoyTwo • 1d Rabbits terrify me. There's something about them that's vaguely satanic and seeing on fills me with an overwhelming feeling of fear and dread
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  • 25
    Text - extraordiberry • 22h I am genuinely scared by graphical glitches in games and other electronic media. I know it's just a harmless electronic device experiencing a malfunction but watching it happen in front of me is somehow like watching corruption. One time a few years ago I tried to play Donkey Kong Country on my family's ancient SNES, but when it booted up it only displayed a silent array of green, yellow, and brown squares. I got so freaked out that I muted the TV and immediately turn
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  • 26
    Text - juicy-aloe-vera • 23h I personally think this is a bit irrational, but one of my friends told me it makes perfect sense. I have a fear of my children being snatched from their beds or hurt by someone while they are sleeping. So I never ever let them sleep with the bedroom windows open. No matter how nice it is outside, the windows are closed and locked at bedtime. Their bedrooms are on the ground floor, which I think is why my friend said my fear "makes sense," but the main floor is high
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  • 27
    Text - roahir • 1d Fear of being pregnant.
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  • 28
    Text - tyler_bvbarmy • 23h We all share it so don't deny it, having a leg or arm hanging off the bed and fear something's gonna touch it, so I gotta keep my legs and arms in my bed in fear of that happening to me.
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  • 29
    Text - EleanorRigby96• 21h Mirrors. Well, more specifically, reflections. I can't sleep in a room with a mirror that is visible from my bed, and I can't stand sitting with my back turned to one. Looking in the mirror makes me very uneasy, but I'm very slowly getting more tolerant of the bathroom mirror since I have to style my hair in the morning.
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  • 30
    Text - knopflerpettydylan • 1d An aversion more than a fear perhaps but belly buttons. I don't know why or when this started but I can't even write this right now without physically cringing, sucking in my stomach at the navel. On the fear side being stabbed there - I randomly think about it sometimes and it interrupts my thoughts for at least the rest of the day
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    Text - dwhite10701 • 23h When my dad showed me how to change a tire when I was a teenager, he told me to make sure the jack was in a secure position. If it wasn't, the weight of the car could cause the jack to shot out from under the car and it could hit and injure someone. Since then, I always get anxious when walking past a car that's up on a jack and I speed up until l'm safely out of range.
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  • 32
    Text - BeaversAndButtholes • 1d Everytime I drive over a large overpass I get a moment where I fear it will collapse.
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  • 33
    Text - LulkEntity • 1d "White coat" syndrome. Basically if doctors talk to me for too long l'll pass out
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  • 34
    Text - heyitsvonage • 1d I fear being the dad who gets divorced by his wife for some stupid reason, and then I live in a shitty apartment while still being forced to pay the mortgage on the house, so my ex-wife, my kids, and their new stepdad can switch to a soy diet and turn into new age hipsters or something. This is an underrated horror movie plot I think lol
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  • 35
    Text - Buttleton • 1d Marionettes. You know, like the classic Thunderbirds? I've never had a bad experience with them, but clapping eyes on one in the wild is an immediate cold sweat and stomach churning. Friend tried to get me to go into a marionette museum with them once and I had a full blown panic attack
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  • 36
    Text - Sissonater • 1d I'm scared of waves. As a child I almost drowned in the deep end of a wave pool and now they scare me to the point where I refuse to ever go out on the ocean.
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  • 37
    Text - laato04 • 20h When I take an egg to crack it I am afraid that Im gonna open it and see an undeveloped chick inside. Every time i take an egg to crack it I start shaking and I sweat.
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  • 38
    Text - xaradevir • 1d Whenever there is a door that is slightly ajar, I worry that if I grab the door itself instead of a handle, the door will suddenly shut and cut off all my fingers at the knuckle
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