# Irrational fears

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irrational-fears/663218>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 11, 2013, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irrational-fears/663218 "2013-07-11T11:44:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![mehgs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/74df32/32.png) [@mehgs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mehgs)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irrational-fears/663218/61 "2013-07-21T00:01:39Z")

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> Tikkimouse Tikkimouse is offline  
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> When I’m bending to get clothes out of the dryer, my eyes are level with the upper edge of the opening and about an inch away. I always worry about a static shock leaping from that edge and zapping me right on the eyeball.
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> Silly me.

I thought that I would have the most random fear but I can’t compete with that

I am afraid of being hit by a carelessly wielded umbrella. Living in the Vancouver area, I am more convinced that my demise will come about from an umbrella spike through the eye or ear than from the often predicted earthquake.

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**Author:** ![IaMoDiNaRy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@IaMoDiNaRy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IaMoDiNaRy)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irrational-fears/663218/62 "2013-07-21T18:56:50Z")

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> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#):
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> That scene in the movie Kill Bill where Uma gets buried alive in a tight box.
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> Yeah, that.

This!

I absolutely cannot watch anything on TV or a movie that has a scene or storyline like this…

A friend told me about a book she read where a killer had abducted a girl. The killer drugged her and when she woke up, she was wrapped from head to toe like a mummy, arms wrapped tightly to her sides, legs bound tightly together, her head completely wrapped also except for a small hole to breathe through. When my friend was describing this, my heart started pounding and I had to tell her to “Stop! I don’t want to hear anymore!”

Just seeing or hearing about anything like this makes my heart start pounding and I get very nervous… Like now.

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**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irrational-fears/663218/63 "2013-07-21T19:02:26Z")

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Another irrational fear I have: talking to people on the phone. Well, maybe more of an anxiety than a fear.

I’d say I have an irrational fear of thunderstorms, but I count that more as a rational fear. Well, if I’m outside in them, anyway.

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**Author:** ![Alba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea666f/32.png) [@Alba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alba)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irrational-fears/663218/64 "2013-07-22T13:28:57Z")

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I have an irrational fear that I will lose a limb or my sight. That’s why I always read new developments in prosthetics.

I am really happy with the latest developments. The thought comforts me that when I lose a limb there will be adequate replacements.

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**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irrational-fears/663218/65 "2013-07-22T15:41:38Z")

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When I was five or six, I briefly had an irrational fear that my head would fall off.

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