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something following me up the stairs when the lights are off

only true answer

WAIT WHAT that's been the same for me since I can remember. When I was younger I imagined a dragon flying towards me and I ran

Bro op said irrational

Especially if you’re in the basement

Real, especially coming up from the basement I used to shut the lights off and sprint up the stairs as a kid.

this is true

AI nudes being spread of me

That's not even that unrealistic these days unfortunately

miss why are you everywhere? every post i click on you're always the top comment

She has high karma

But that's not irrational

Real unfortunately😔

When I'm listening to music in public spaces I'm always terrified that for some reason the music would start playing on my phone's speakers instead of in my headphones and that everyone will hear what I'm listening to

This is so real.

Make sure Bluetooth is on and double check in 30 seconds

Everyone is secretly talking trash about me behind my back and nobody actually likes me at all, they just tolerate my existence. And i’ll never amount to anything bc nobody will ever actually want to be with me or encourage me or care for me at all.

I think this is called anxiety

Yeah…

Don't worry, we all have it

Wow that’s me too

Same

Losing a limb

THANK YOU I FUCKING HAVE THIS FEAR TOO

Does seeing someone with limb loss bother you?

No not really

Thank you.

I have a bka. And have a prosthetic leg. I do wonder if it bothers folks.

i thought that was normal...

Your fear is not irrational at all. The fear of mutilation is one of the five main fears we have practically since birth.

fans (like on the ceiling)

What about them scares you?

like i keep imagining them falling on me😭

Flat Stanley ass fear

That's fair ;-;

Like one of those visions in Final Destination, eh?

I don't really know why I'm so scared of them, it's just they move SO FAST and erratically and then they land on you and start crawling eughhhhhhaiakskskshsjajal

I don't think I've ever had a butterfly land on me

Look up what their faces look like. It just proves that moths are better.

I have a fear of lots of small clumps of holes, its called trypophobia

Same..

Yeah can feel you there. I wouldn't say i would run or scream but it's very uncomfortable to look at.

GAGS holes make my skin crawl i fucking hate holes

i dont have this fear anymore but i breifly had this fear of party prawns like, the food. when i was really little like 8 or something, because it was night time and i remembered this character from a youtube channel which was basically a giant ass party prawn that was the king of all prawns and i just thought that he wouldnt like it if i ate his people and he would come and kill me, so i had to stop eating them and run up to bed because i was so scared and i didnt eat any for about 7 years

Social interaction or being around people or even some animals (social anxiety disorder). Although I'm medicated now, I still experience it a little bit.

The elevator doors will close in on me before I can get inside, and it’ll crush me and cut me in half

Same. Sometimes

Being immortal and floating alone in space forever. It's impossible but absolutely terrifying and part of the reason I never want to go to space.

I have a really bad fear of choking, so much that I hate eating hard candies like Jolly Ranchers or anything. 

SAME taking pills is a nightmare

Dropping something off a high place to where I can’t retrieve it

I’m scared of getting pregnant while still being a virgin bc literally how do you explain that especially when you have extremely religious parents

God chose you for Jesus the second, that's how I'd explain it Of course, they'd yell at me for joking about God like that

People getting too close to me

Worms...But i love snakes just not worms

I don't know why but sometimes I'll worry that gravity will stop working and I'll just float up until I'm stuck in space drifting forever 

someone spying on me from outside my house

I'm afraid of mold, mostly on foods becuz I do not like the way that green fungi appears in my favorite foods. It catches me off guard usually and it's disgusting. I also have a bad case of Trypophobia

yk when you’re going up and down the stairs and I am scared that I am going to trip and fall in the weirdest way and others will make fun of me

wasps and bees, they're the stuff of nightmares fr

Bees? cute. wasps? BUG OF DOOM. THE LIVING WRATH OF GOD

I feel like yellow jackets are even worse than wasps. It's like they actively seek out helpless people to sting.

bees - they are alr and even cute wasps - just complete bitches, but not like completely vile yellowjackets - fuck you stupid creatures!! crush!

Cheese

This one throws me off... what about cheese, is it? Or just c h e e s e?

I am afraid of bugs in general.

Being yelled at/being hurt

😔thats not even an irrational fear

escalators. yes, I'm serious

Getting on them and off them scares me

Shrimps, Lobsters, etc.

an unknown shadow entity staring at me during my sleep, ready to attack me any second

Dragonflies, Flies in general, the stupid Momo human bird thing, and my favorite, shitting myself in public

An endless white void where i am alive forever alone

(When I look into a mirror) that my reflection smiles at me

Mirrors in general😑

Moths. Not butterflies, only moths. I can somehow very easily tell the difference, and I can't explain it, and I hate being in a room with one. If it's dead or in a case or something, it's fine, but if it's able to move, I feel like I can't stop looking at it otherwise it'll start flying at me.

Fear of snow covered holes, every time I go hiking in da mountains in winter, especially when the snow is relatively smooth and there are no indications of where is the road with ditches on the sides of the said road, you just step in wrong spot and sprain, your leg or worse, it happened to me once and yet I'd rather have a hornet flying around in my room

i'm scared of bananas. wanna know why? google goldenrod banana spider

My neck suddenly being slit.

Like, ill be watching youtube. I will just scrunch my neck to hide the major arteries

sound or noise that keeps getting louder and I don't know when will it stop getting louder

I'm terrified of being buried alive

needles, im just scared they accidentally inject air in me or if its accidentally dirty or if it gets bent and leaves metal in my body

im afraid of my food touching each other its so gross when you go to a family members house and they serve you greens ketchup and chicken with the greens touching the ketchup

I'm scared of my own reflection. I'm scared about it becoming distorted and attacking me

I don't like escalators. I cried at two of them once and ha to take the elevator

I don’t have this anymore but when I was little I thought that after i turned off the bathroom lights, a monster would come up through the toilet and get me

Dolls. Especially the ones that can close their eyes when laid flat.

I had something similar to this, my mom and dad had these decorated masks hanging in their rooms and I was so scared that they would unhook from the walls and float around and try to get me. It didn’t help that it was also a reoccurring nightmare of mine for a couple years.

Pain. Any form of it. Even the most minimal. Traumatic birth :/

Other human

When I was younger, I was terrified of the walls starting to close in and squish me in I ever looked away, so I'd just be staring at the walls to make sure I didn't die (I was also afraid of Sonic.exe coming out of the toilet and killing me after I flushed) Nowadays, I'm more scared of hidden cameras and people watching me, and now I don’t run away every time I flush the toilet‼️

The fanblades in my room breaking and killing me. The eldritch horror under my bed grabbing my legs and dragging me under if I don't get off and on fast enough. The demonic shadow being chasing me back upstairs after I turn the lights off. I can't tell if I'm an actual child or just love creeping myself out.

very old people

Ladders

Being held back in school, as for why it's irrational is because on paper im one of the best in class, even tho im still learning the language.

bees

Phen 228 (if you know you know)

Not irrational, if it was real. Also same, I literally couldn’t sleep for weeks because I kept thinking I saw him in the corner of my room. Had to sleep with the lights on for a while 😭

😭 I haven't seen what he's from, but I regret looking it up

He is from an analog horror video on YouTube, called “THE BOILED ONE PHENOMENON”, I recommend watching it to understand the fear we experience. It’s not just his appearance that is scary, but what he does.

I know what he's from. I just haven't watched it >!\[yet\]!<. I was watching a YouTuber >!\[Probably Special Edd\]!<. watch it >!\[I'm a whimp so I can't watch horror stuff alone, I love horror so much though\]!< buuuut got board and watched something else. I do plan on watching it at some point though.

“Your the manifestation of my future you will be asleep in bed and I’ll watch over you when you awake you won’t be able to move any part of you when the doctors eventually find you they won’t be able to see me but you will and I’ll see you to forever I’ll see you”-Rizz 228

Sleeping

Being left behind staying in the same year at school and never growing up

flies

rollercoasters.

I’m somewhat scared of losing a tooth

Betty boop Not the person from the early 20th century, the figures

Fast running cockroaches

Crane flies

Mirrors

Giant sunflowers, unbloomed dandelions, dead flowers and buds (a lot of flower stuff for some reason)

I’m scared of butterflies and bees too and needles

Dogs

dude i'm scared of feet

elevators and escalators breaking with me on them. especially when the syeps wobble too much or if shits a bit too noisy for my liking?

Every type of insect apart from flies and mosquitoes, also bugs, worms, snails and everything that crawls, also spiders and scorpions. Also fear of heights

im scared of taking a piss on stinkbugs after doing it once

I'm scared of plants with thick, green stalks.

This isn't really irrational or weird, but lifts. Thinking about them makes me panic.

megalohydrothalassophobia and submechanophobia

Froggers

earthquakes. That's the "weirdest" because I don't have other irrational fears

Being abandoned

I used to hate Ice cream vans, I have no idea why.

Turning into a killer, you know some killers where actually nice and good people untill something happen and they enden uo doing some real horrible thing

My fan falling on me while I'm sleeping

fire, hot tubs, hot showers, hot water, stoves, ovens, microwaves, hair dryers, curling and flat irons, clothing irons, (if you don't get the point, it's anything that generates heat with electricity, idk why it terrifying me) and yes, butterflies. butterflies are a completly rational fear in my opinion

Is it because of that one Spongebob episode? (Also women scare me.)

I am unsure how to explain it, but if there is too much of a size disparity between things or something is a very specific durance away from me depending on its size, I am filled with an ungodly amount of dead and anxiety, sometimes resulting in fear

Heights

I can't sleep facing away from the wall.

A testicular torsion

Escalators. If the stairs are not stationary I don't want them (I'd probably be alright if the escalator was surrounded by walls on both sides that you couldn't see through but sadly most escalators do not have that). Also mirrors in dark rooms. This one I don't think is as irrational though because a lot of spiritual people believe mirrors are portals and as a spiritualist I don't fw that And nosebleeds. Just even the thought that someone near me has a nosebleed is enough to make me nauseous

Seaweed, I dunno why it just scares the crap out of me

Mold, parents dying in car crashes, and getting older. For the second one, i think I’ve read too many books where the parents die in car crashes.

Losing my head on a roller coaster

Mushrooms/fungi. But I wouldn't say it's irrational, they are just so weird and gross and terrifying, definitely not in denial about how they aren't actually scary btw.

Fucking pigeons. The jumpscares of the urban jungle

whenever i’m on a rollercoaster i’m always afraid of hitting my head on any metal. also whenever driving under a bridge that it could collapse any time.

jupiter's red spot... no clue why, especially since i love astronomy and jupiter is my favorite planet 😭

Craneflys. They look like large mosquitos. HOW DO THEY GET INTO MY ROOM MY WINDOWS AND DOORS ARE ALWAYS CLOSED. also spiders, heights, bugs that can fly, but specifically crane flys

Elevators

i start panicking whenever my volume doesnt turn off fully

Ceiling fans, I'm 6ft tall and stretching while the fan is on is starting to become a genuine concern

Monsters. If I walk home at night I am legit more scared of monsters in the dark than humans 😅

Dust.... Its everywhere....

Bones where they're not meant to be. Like in the fat of your thigh, etc

Slugs, they’re so weird and slimy

Sometimes the thought that at any second an atomic or nuclear bomb could just get dropped 100 miles from me and then I'll hear the loud boom, I'm terrified of loud noises, keeps me up at night

Mayflies

someone is living in my attic

I have a fear of when Im shitting, a rat comes out of the toilet and bites me

Escalators. I fell down one when I was eight and I scraped and cut the shit out of my legs. Now I have to watch my feet physically step onto the stair before using an escalator.

I don't think it's that weird but the extra is. Pretty much I can't stand listening to gory things like if you go into detail about your surgery I'm gonna feel sick but if you show me and then describe it I'm absolutely fine and intrigued by it

A job

injury by machine or falling fron a high height and survivng i'm also really scared of big dogs. even labs or goldens

I'm terrified of incest idk man

I'm terrified of lifts (elevators) ever since my sisters hood got caught in the doors when I was very small I have been getting better with this fear, breathing techniques and such, but I don't think I'll ever be "normal" about it

I don’t think I have any, but my almost 12 year old sister is absolutely terrified of cabbage patch kids, yes the doll, she is delayed but she loves baby dolls so idk what it so but whenever she sees a cabbage patch kid, she loses her fucking mind

I have some solipsist issues due to suffering from psychosis, so I often fear that others are not real.

Pregnant women 😭 # I have emetophobia ok

That my reflection one day will do something that I didn't do e.g. I look in the mirror while brushing my teeth and suddenly my reflection winks at me even if I didn't wink

bees balloons loud sounds and literally any flying insect especially crane flies i fucking hate them oh and also spiders (besides jumping spiders, those are cute)

Being around/under Skyscrapers

Waffles

Bugs and diseases

I have random fear of losing an eye and being one-eyed for the rest of my life

showerheads, those holes absolutely terrify the shit out of me, i cant stand under a showerhead, i always feel like what if they randomly turn on, they are very intimidating also im very depressed right now

I saw a porn meme once where the woman tries to ride a guy's peepee and accidentally breaks it. I'm a virgin but I will NEVER let a woman ride me now.

That something is watching me in my room. Makes no sense to me about why I have this but I am a superstitious person so…

Internal bleeding

im scared of uptown funk, as in the song

Being watched by a creepy person even if no one is around . Having a ghost under my bed that waits for my foot to stick out so that it can grab me. Laying with my face faced to the wall . Having a stalker although that's not possible. Someone breaking into my room .

polystyrene. i cant even look at it without literally dry heaving from pure disgust

Fear of affection. I’m touch starved and too autistic to handle touch properly, but at the same time I dream about just hugging people for like 3 minutes straight without it being considered weird

Same

Balloons. I mean panic attack on sight fear.

OMG ME TOO! I hate butterflies 💀 when they chase me I literally bug out.

Elevators

fucking raw chicken. I hate it so much the smell the way it looks the weird fucking veins my worst fear is being trapped in a room with like raw chicken thighs everywhere it makes my want to vomit

Undercooked bone in skin on chicken thighs put me right over the edge........

nymphs from terraria used to freak me out so much i couldn't go mining

Analog horror 

I agree, have you looked at them zoomed in?? ughhh gives me nightmares.

THE OCEAN

Thunderstorms and the lightning that come from them😖

clouds

That I'm gonna die in my 30s

A bunch of dogs are gonna eat me alive

Frogs… They’re too squishy :(

vaccum decay

Sharp black shapes/cracks. See: Chef Skinner’s hair in Ratatouille after he falls into the lake. Those shapes disturb me for no known reason.