What are your phobias?

[Dann]

I fear failure.

Is there a fancy name for this?

 

[Darth_Pugwash]

I don't really have any phobias.

On the subject of jellyfish, I got stung by one once when I was on holiday in Italy a couple of years ago. I was at the beach swimming and I moved my hand right into one by accident. It felt as if I had a circle of pins in my hand for the next half an hour.

That reminds me...I DO have a phobia...those banana boat things that are at almost every beach in Europe. They are a shaped like a banana, you sit on it and get towed around by a speed-boat...and you spend the next 10 minutes with a face full of salt water praying that the thing won't flip over again. Damn I was glad to get my feet back onto dry land. I seriously don't reccomend them, they are incredibly unpleasant. Its not really a phobia, but I wouldn't get on one again.

 

[nonconformist]

On the subject of jellyfish, I got stung by one once when I was on holiday in Italy a couple of years ago. I was at the beach swimming and I moved my hand right into one by accident. It felt as if I had a circle of pins in my hand for the next half an hour.

You know how annoying my brother is?

A few years back, we went to a beach in France, but the water was fillled with thousands of tiny jellyfish.
My dad had a big, rubber, inflatable boat, that he paddles around in, keepign him off the water.
While he was doing this, my brother had a bucket, he filled with dozens of jellyfish, and he then decided to throw the buckt at my dad.
The bucket landed right on his chest, spilling out all the jellyfish.
My dad howled with pain/surprise, and jumped into the air, landing in the jellyfish-infested water.
Now THAT was funny.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Heights. To give you an idea of how bad its is, Im paralyzed with fear and whimpering past the 5th rung on a ladder. No exageration

 

[Evil Tyrant]

Spiders, bugs, needles.

 

[downtown]

I'm not afraid to admit this, but I am terrified of lightning. I got caught in a tornado in the woods once, freaked out, and never forgot it.

 

[Kyriakos]

Frogs, toads, slugs and snails. And caterpillars! Blergh >_<

So you are afraid of things that become bloated at times. The caterpillar is another interesting creature: it is long and has a slimy body.

Usefull to note that one is afraid of things due to their symbolisms, and not due to the actual things themselves, unless ofcourse the actual things are dangerous (eg walking near the edge of a cliff). All incectophobias though break down to symbolic reasons.

 

[Kyriakos]

Heights. To give you an idea of how bad its is, Im paralyzed with fear and whimpering past the 5th rung on a ladder. No exageration

This i actually found very interesting, and even charming, since it is writing material
It can have to do with a fear of going too high mentally too though For exampe a person who is in a more or less normal state of consciousness, can have a very pronounced emotionary understanding of the height where he is at any moment, in a building. When i was a child i definately had that. It can become a part of the general consciousness of the moment. However in essense it is entirely symbolic to be afraid of heights, and would either have to do with a fear of nearing something scary when climbing up a ladder of thought, or it could also have some background in an experience when you were younger during which going higher (in the outside world) meant great danger. And then both can be part of how you feel too.

This is very general, but it really interested me to read about your fear of heights

 

[bad_ronald]

By "big green grasshoppers" do you mean 'the praying mantis'?
If so then it is relatively easy to see why you are afraid of it, since it appears that you are adolescent (not that only adolescents can have such fears, but it is far more common for them to). The praying mantis is an interesting insect, mostly due to its sexual life, which at most times climaxes with each head being eatern up by the female of the species (metaphorically it could mean something existant in humans too, but in the mantis it happens literally ofcourse).

How would a person who comes to fear a praying mantis simply by looking at it acquire all this knowledge regarding its mating ritual? Even if you posit only a subconscious connection, there is no way for this to occur at any level in the mind of a person who hasn't directly observed it...

 

[Kyriakos]

How would a person who comes to fear a praying mantis simply by looking at it acquire all this knowledge regarding its mating ritual? Even if you posit only a subconscious connection, there is no way for this to occur at any level in the mind of a person who hasn't directly observed it...

I see what you mean, however the subconscious is a part of your psyche where connections are made without any need of you having watched the parts of them in the outside world; one doesnt need to have seen the praying mantis get decapitated and his head consumed, but merely to have once heard that this is happening to that insect. Another line in psychology is that possibly one does not even need to have ever found out/read/heard of any such thing, since the dna carries a sort of memory of the earlier human state along with it, which is why in some films you see the theme of going back mentally to the age of the hunter gatherer.
However one makes subconsciously the connection of a creature that gets decapitated and dies, after sex, with his own state, if he is sensitive enough and not really very confident with sex; and the latter is true for all adolescents (i mean those who dont yet have a sexual experience). That said not all people will be much aware of such subconscious connections, since one usually doesnt live in the symbolic realm of imagination, but has what we call 'logic' to keep him focused to a large degree on the outside world. Due to this focus on the outside world the fear created by the symbolic connection becomes so to speak an island in our thought, which is what a phobia is.
People who, on the other hand, are inside their subconscious, face all of those phobias on a daily basis, which leads to more pronounced effects, as in severe social phobia, and other syndromes. They are called syndromes because they break up to their more basic elements, from the greek "syndromon" which implies something being collective.

ps: i am not a psychologist, i am just very interested in symbolism and connections in the subconscious

 

[silver 2039]

I see what you mean, however the subconscious is a part of your psyche where connections are made without any need of you having watched the parts of them in the outside world; one doesnt need to have seen the praying mantis get decapitated and his head consumed, but merely to have once heard that this is happening to that insect. Another line in psychology is that possibly one does not even need to have ever found out/read/heard of any such thing, since the dna carries a sort of memory of the earlier human state along with it, which is why in some films you see the theme of going back mentally to the age of the hunter gatherer.
However one makes subconsciously the connection of a creature that gets decapitated and dies, after sex, with his own state, if he is sensitive enough and not really very confident with sex; and the latter is true for all adolescents. That said not all people will be much aware of such subconscious connections, since one usually doesnt live in the symbolic realm of imagination, but has what we call 'logic' to keep him focused to a large degree on the outside world. Due to this focus on the outside world the fear created by the symbolic connection becomes so to speak an island in our thought, which is what a phobia is.
People who, on the other hand, are inside their subconscious, face all of those phobias on a daily basis, which leads to more pronounced effects, as in severe social phobia, and other syndromes. They are called syndromes because they break up to their more basic elements, from the greek "syndromon" which implies something being collective.

ps: i am not a psychologist, i am just very interested in symbolism and connections in the subconscious

Out of curosity since you seem to know a lot about this what do you think that having a dream in which a person jumps off a bridge, lands on another bridge underneath, jumps of that bridges, lands, on one underneath and so on and so on until they wake up means? I have had this type of dream 8-9 times over the course of several years. Most recently a few months ago. Its a reuccuring dream.

 

[Kyriakos]

Very interesting dream; however it can have a lot of possible meanings, depending on how you yourself view things in general

And this because although a word (eg Bridge) has a global meaning, it also can have more individualised meanings, as far as what the person thinks of it.

Globally, though, the bridge symbolises a connection between two places. Bridges connect land, over sea for example.

What i find very interesting in your dream though is that there are so many bridges, but if the dream only has bridges, and you jumping off them, without anything else happening (for example what is your mood? is there any difference between the bridges themselves, apart from the fact that each one is higher than the next one?) i can have a guess, but in reality it wouldnt be (in all probability) close to its real meaning.

If it has just the bridges though, and the movement from one to the other, then it could symbolise the rapid movement from one thought to another, without staying long enough in pursuit of any one thought (you only get to see the bridge, but not anything away from it, on any of the different levels thebridges are built on). I repeat though that this is just a guess, and no one can really start to analyse a dream unless they have spoken to the person who dreamt it and heard him give first his own explanations, and then heard also other things about his life and personality

 

[silver 2039]

Very interesting dream; however it can have a lot of possible meanings, depending on how you yourself view things in general

And this because although a word (eg Bridge) has a global meaning, it also can have more individualised meanings, as far as what the person thinks of it.

Globally, though, the bridge symbolises a connection between two places. Bridges connect land, over sea for example.

What i find verythe next one?) i can have a guess, but in reality it wouldnt be (in all probability) close to its real meaning.

If it has just the bridges though, interesting in your dream though is that there are so many bridges, but if the dream only has bridges, and you jumping off them, without anything else happening (for example what is your mood? is there any difference between the bridges themselves, apart from the fact that each one is higher than and the movement from one to the other, then it could symbolise the rapid movement from one thought to another, without staying long enough in pursuit of any one thought (you only get to see the bridge, but not anything away from it, on any of the different levels thebridges are built on). I repeat though that this is just a guess, and no one can really start to analyse a dream unless they have spoken to the person who dreamt it and heard him give first his own explanations, and then heard also other things about his life and personality

Well it is a typical suspension bridge. Each one is the same one underneath the other. For wahtever reason I keep jumping off one only to land on the other. The skies color is pastel and I am alone and I can't see where the bridge begins or ends and there is nothing else except me and the bridge. No people, no water, cars etc.....
On the contraary I actually think about things for a long time and contemplate on them. My thoughts don't jump around excessively. I can't really gauge my mood well depression I assume.

 

[Reno]

Drowning and Heights. Also if i can't move my hands (for example, they are tied) i panic.

 

[Arachnaphobia]

Spiders. Hence my name. When I see big one, I poo my pants, and run away.

 

[silver 2039]

Drowning and Heights. Also if i can't move my hands (for example, they are tied) i panic.

Avoid BDSM If you are on the reciving end at least......

 

[Ultima Dragoon]

Spiders. Hence my name. When I see big one, I poo my pants, and run away.

Were you the one that used to have the custom title "Eatibus Anythingibus" or something like that?

I fear failure.

Is there a fancy name for this?

Atychiphobia.

 

[Arachnaphobia]

Were you the one that used to have the custom title "Eatibus Anythingibus" or something like that?

No. I've been the coconut since forever. Because of my hair, which apparently looks like a coconut

 

[Mathilda]

I don't have any real phobias.
If I did, I'd want to have hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
That's just such a cool word.

 

[Kyriakos]

Atychiphobia.

It sometimes helps to have a greek around

It should be Apotychophobia (fear of failure)

And Atychophobia would be "fear of being unlucky"