Who, me? No.
It’s obviously the open mouth of some land animal with a protruding snout like a horse or camel. The lower incisor teeth are at lower left. The orange rope is a halter around the head. The innumerable pink spiky things inside the mouth look like flesh, not teeth. The tongue is the light tan structure at the bottom just right of the edge of the shadow. You can see some upper molars on the far side (animal’s right). He(?) evidently doesn’t brush his(?) teeth very often judging from the dark brown tartar buildup on the bases of those molars.
Looking at size of the the flies near the halter and what appears to be the base of the eye socket at upper right I’m gonna guess it’s a camel. But that’s a guess, not a fact. IANA biologist or animal husbandrist.
Camel or dromedary was my guess too. Google confirms:
Feast your eyes: http://www.buzzhunt.co.uk/wp-content/2013/08/Inside-a-camels-mouth-2.jpg
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--6aQb3knj--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/19cmjjuv9x7lajpg.jpg
Apparently, it’s even possible to become a camel repairman: https://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/article-1304507255718-0be1652a00000578-510307_636x380.jpg or perhaps that’s just the camera angle
Hmm…Agoraphobia in fact isn’t a phobia in the sense people use the term. It’s a completely different kettle of fish, despite its name.
If agoraphobia is the only example, then you could as well say that no phobia at all (again, as the term is usually understood) is recognized by the DSM.
Guys, while I appreciate the bumps which are useful to draw more people to the thread, can we just agree that “phobia” is used in a broader sense than the DSM? Phobia also refers to repulsion (as in “hydrophobic” and “homophobic”).
If you disagree with my use of the term “trypophobia”, please propose a term (not a sentence) I could have used in the title instead. Once you’ve done that, you’ll have made your point and I’ll keep using “trypophobia”.
That’s no man.
My wife is easily grossed out by teeth and those lotus pod photoshops. This one almost makes her puke.
I have no objection to the use of the term, just that you should have provided a definition in the OP rather than assuming that everyone would be familiar with such an obscure term.
True.
Ugh, well you can put me down as also really disliking clustered holes. I looked at that lotus boob pic a few years ago and never again. Whenever I see something like that I really want to crush it.
So…
Trypophobia is fear of badly photoshopped images?
The obvious association to me is disease, note that lotus pods by themself are stocked by florists or interior design stores or places that sell dried flowers people enjoy their look. Seriously dried lotus pods are a popular item for room decor.
But lotus pod photoshopped to a breast or hand, the immediate thing that comes to mind is disease or infection. The seeds only make it worse by suggesting insect eggs or something in flesh.
But once someone has actually SEEN a lotus pod, it’s difficult to imagine being fooled by those photoshops; to me they are about as frightening as a rubber-suited Hammer Films monster with its zipper showing.
It’s not a question of being “fooled” - the images and patterns themselves are disturbing to me, even if I know perfectly well that they’ve been created in Photoshop. Nor is it “fear”, in the sense of thinking that the pattern represents some actual danger. It’s more like a feeling of being creeped out.
And yes, it’s irrational of course. That’s why people refer to it as a “phobia” even if that isn’t the technically correct term.
Yeah, it’s got nothing to do with fear, it just gives the sense of “ew gross, that is so disturbing, I must smoosh those!” Like I was cooking pasta the other day, and when I checked the pot all of the ziti had stuck together on their ends, so that when you looked down it was like a honeycomb and I just had to bash that with a wooden spoon to get rid of that pattern.
I wonder if people who are most “trypophobic” (i.e. who are most grossed out by such things) are the same people who are terrified by wasps, bees, and the like.
It would certainly be the case for me. I am revolted by many of the images linked to in this thread and absolutely phobic about hornets, wasps, etc., (to the point of putting my car windows up whenever I come to a stop even on the hottest summer day lest a hornet fly in).
I already noticed in previous thread that people with trypophobia all seem to have this urge to destroy the structure.
Is it generally the case for all phobias, or is it specific? (phobias of insects, spiders, etc… don’t count because even non phobic people tend to crush bugs).
I’m not. Bees and wasps don’t particularly bother me.
Me neither, but my scalp is itching like crazy even though I didn’t look at any of the images.
Today’s (26 July) NASA Earth Picture of the Day (EPOD) (http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2015/07/metasandstone-in-noosa-national-park-australia.html) is a close-up of some weathered rocks that loosely resembles the lotus seed irregular-honeycomb-of-dents. Definitely not a crappy Photoshop.
I thought it was pretty, but some folks who’re mildly bothered by this stuff might take a peek & report back. For Science.
The DSM definition of a phobia includes provoking panic attacks and irrational responses.
If you don’t like seeing something on the Internet and close the window whenever it appears, that’s a rational response. You don’t have a “phobia” unless you have a habit of passing out, taking out a knife and stabbing your computer screen, or so forth when such images come up.
“Trypophobia” is basically an imgur-invented term spuriously elevating the fact that some people don’t like looking at certain images to a disorder.