So, what freaks you out?

**furrycelt** · 10th May 07, 07:32 AM

spiders; watching my wife take out or put in her contacts; being in small confined spaces

**David White** · 10th May 07, 01:30 PM

Rollercoasters, heights. I love bugs, lighting and everything else.
Here is a picture for all of you spider fans, taken by a friend here in Virginia. Don't know where the spider comes from, but I don't think its native.

**ccga3359** · 10th May 07, 01:33 PM

Originally Posted by David White

Rollercoasters, heights. I love bugs, lighting and everything else.
Here is a picture for all of you spider fans, taken by a friend here in Virginia. Don't know where the spider comes from, but I don't think its native.

To think I always wanted to visit Virginia. Now thanks to Anti-Ambassador D. White... ewh!

**Retro Red** · 10th May 07, 02:08 PM

Tarantula Hawks!

This is the wasp from Hell & let me tell you, it looks the part. First, for a wasp it's big, about 2-inches (50 mm) long & has this sinister, irridecent metallic blue-black body, with reddish antennae & bright orange wings, with long legs with hooks at the end - just evil looking! And their stinger is about 1/3-inch (7 mm) long & it's considered among the most painful of any insect! It's listed near the top of the list in Schmidt Sting Pain Index.

We've got plenty of tarantulas in Arizona & therefore, plenty of Tarantula Hawks!

One of these scared the bejesus outta me when I was a kid & if I spot one now - I'M GONE!!!

**Dreadbelly** · 10th May 07, 02:21 PM

Bright lights. Not only painful on the peepers, but disorienting. The total loss of vision that it causes freaks me out.

Wide open spaces. Really. Like in a wide open field with no trees, no walls, no nothing. I get panicky and get this odd urge to find cover and quick. Almost like something will swoop out of the sky and get me. One time, while out in the road, I stopped in the middle of the some wheat field infested part of the US. Big mistake. Just stopped to, you know, take a little pit stop at the side of the road. Panic set in, followed by a bad panic attack. Hyperventilation. It was all I could do to get back on the bike and get the heck out of there.

It should be noted that I only feel this sensation when on land. Out at sea, I can stand on a boat, see the horizon in all directions, and be just fine.

No clue at all why that is.

**McMurdo** · 10th May 07, 02:28 PM

Originally Posted by Dreadbelly

It should be noted that I only feel this sensation when on land. Out at sea, I can stand on a boat, see the horizon in all directions, and be just fine.

No clue at all why that is.

Could it be that its because you're a

bloody pirate?!!!

**Dreadbelly** · 10th May 07, 02:35 PM

Originally Posted by McMurdo

Could it be that its because you're a

bloody pirate?!!!

Heh!

Really. All jokes aside, when out in the clear open with no cover, I get the strange feeling that something might come charging out of nowhere or swoop down from the sky and eat me. Or something.

I know I am not alone in this feeling... There are others with fears of wide open spaces.

**Mountainman** · 10th May 07, 02:42 PM

Dread, i can relate, flat lands, especially at night, tend not to sit well with me. think its because they remind me of Iraq, i like to be close to cover.

**Dirka Skene** · 11th May 07, 09:56 AM

I'm not afraid of spiders and snakes or bugs, just so long as I know EXACTLY where they are and that they ARE NOT MOVING. Rodents...I love rodents. I used to have a pet rat named Rico Poki Tonto.

I do not like needles. Well, shots really. I've got 5 tattoos and a few piercings, but there's something different about those kinds of needles. When a nurse comes near me with a syringe, I freak. I had to get a penacillin shot a couple years ago, I literally fainted when the nurse walked through the door. The

gave me the shot while I was out!

I'm also deathly afraid of stuff hitting me in the shins. I used to have nightmares of machetes flying at my shins and sticking in my shinbones. Not severing all the way through, but sticking in them. My husband will drum his fingertips on my shins just to get on my nerves. I can't stand things even so much as tapping my shins.

**The Celtic Gypsy** · 11th May 07, 10:42 AM

Ok there are two things that really freak me out (and they are a bit weird to say the least). The first is seeing some one chewing tobacco and spitting - man - even just writing about it turns my stomach and makes me wanna puke. CAN'T STAND IT! The other thing is strawberry flavored milk or shake - just sends me in to a complete dither (and the reason is a long, uky story).

And JimB - I get that same feeling in the pit of my stomach when it come to driving on ice or snow and lose control of the car - shiver!