I can’t touch cotton wool, especially not squeeze it. It seems to have the same effect on my as someone removing something packaged very tightly in polystyrene.
I know about the whole chewing on a dry towel thing, too. Happened when I had to pull the gauze off of a nasty wound on my leg, and it was all stuck on with dried blood. I did it in the bathroom, and knew pulling it off would hurt, so I grabbed the towel to bite down on (why?!?). However, the nasty sensation from the towel was far worse than the actual gauze thing. Felt like cotton wool but a kazillion times worse…
lieu posted this: Chewing on a dry towel. I have no explanation for this.
I KNOW exactly what you mean, and please don’t ask me to explain it. I think it comes from bathing and having to hold a towel in your mouth and do several other things (like put on clothes when you’re in the gym at age 12 or something) at the same time, but it makes me want to URP!
And also the sound of a crash, like metal, two cars hitting each other. And then sirens. And knowing I can’t do anything about it. But I still want to go and look. Eh, I’m a morbid sort.
Oh thank Cecil, I thought I was the only one with the teeth & dry towel shivers. If my teeth are wet I don’t mind it, but the sensation of the cotton on my dry teeth :shudder:
Also, foam rubber in general gives me the heebies. The sight of a big slab of it reminds me of when I was about 4 and my parents and I had gone to the store to get some foam rubber for something. And being 4, I thought the best thing to do with it on the way home was run my teeth over it. Warped my for life.
(The towel thing is probably an offshoot of the foam rubber thing, for me anyway.)
There’s this one trailer for a movie (I’ve forgotten the title). It show’s a guy reaching his hand into a garbage disposal to pull something out, and you just know what’s going to happen next…it just makes me shudder.
Metal scratching against metal, like a flipper cleaning off a short-order grill shudder. And that “Rocks Tonic Something Something” song makes my skin crawl.
Videodrome, where the chest cavity turns into a VCR…
Some of the scenes in the rather long but well developed indy film “Breaking the Waves” come close.
For some reason a loud “raspberry” in my near vicinity gives me a horribly unpleasant sensation in my sinuses. Accidently chewing on foil wrapping is another ewwie. Paper cuts or having to have my fingertip pricked are baaaaaad.
Ugg, anything going into or coming out of my ear or anyone elses. Good example, The Wrath of Kahn, when they put those mind control bugs in their ears. Shudder.
For me, the shivers start when handling wet wooden objects. For instance, when doing dishes and washing a wooden spoon…or taking a shower and using one of those exfoliating sponges with a wooden handle. ICK!
And include me with those who hate cockroaches, fingers on blackboards, and handling paper bags.
Mine is purely hypothetical as it has never happened.
A straight razor being scraped along my teeth. I have now idea how this image came into my head but I am having cold sweats as I write this. This is the though that keeps me up at night.
I just want to say that I tried to read this entire thread, but I only got about a third of the way down before I had to run screaming from my desk, clawing at my skin, yelling “Bugs! BUGS! GET 'EM OFF ME!!!”
Now that I’m all better (and I scrolled down to the bottom without reading anything), I can say that I am creeped out by the feel of squooshing cotton balls.