I think the mayo think might be kind of common. I've known three women who were afraid of mayo. Two of them also were physically repulsed by the word "moist," which I believe is also kind of common.
i love how they phrased it as "mayo approaches her" as if it has a personal vendetta against her and tries to seek her out and attack her every second you aren't running, the mayonnaise approaches
Speaking of always approaching, I used to have a reoccurring nightmare of constantly being chased by spiders and if I didn't keep moving they would catch up. No matter where I was or what I did they would come find me. The funny thing is that I like spiders, my fear is just something chasing me forever.
Used to have an irrational fear of finding a skinned and flayed corpse staring at me when I entered my shower. I was seven. I didn't even know what skinning or flaying was.
Oh my god when I was younger I was also terrified of finding a skinned corpse in my shower?? Like pulling back the curtain and there would be a skinned body. I was a bit older, old enough to know what flaying ment and that this was a completely irrational fear, but I couldn't get it out of my head for years.
When that one guy said “This took me a while to realize this wasn’t the fetish thread” and I just imagined all of them as fetishes and it got real weird.
Being forgotten Biting a fork sideways The feeling of déjà vu Obliterating balls under the toilet seat Hands up Magnetizing and tearing blood vessels The feeling of déjà vu Pregnant women
One of my fears is that whenever I go to the toilet, I panic if I’m hallucinating nobody there, when in “reality” my mum or someone is there and I’m just shitting on them.
I wouldnt say it's a fear of mine, but it's a concern of mine that I'm not awake. And I'm just gonna wake up wetting the bed like a child. I cope with this by counting tiles. Because in dreams the tiles wiggle but in real life they don't move. I hope this helps you 💪
The duck one is actually understandable because it’s the fear of loss of sense of self, basically identity death. Much scarier when you put it this way.
I’m sometimes scared that my parents can read my thoughts, but then I’m like “No, if they could read my thoughts, we would have had some serious discussions a long time ago…”
That isn’t one of my fears, but I’ve thought about this before and it’s why I don’t like the concept of mind reading. Edit: I actually had a dream where that happened lol. Just like I expected, my intrusive thoughts starting coming in a bunch at the worst possible time. Yay…
I've always had a thought that if I make any sort of physical contact with someone, then they would be able to read my mind. So whenever I'm giving a family member a hug or something I always just switch my thoughts to kittens or other cute things.
I'm scared of the idea that someone near me is secretly a mind reader and that they will see the weird things I randomly think about and think I'm weird.
When I was 6, I spontaneously got afraid there was an alligator under my bed. Not a monster, an alligator. I ended up writing a letter to the alligator and putting it under my bed. This made the fear go away
@@memyself5866 ok I can barely remember but it was something like “dear mr alligator, please don’t eat me. I can feed you snacks and we can become friends”
I had a “scary” dream that only scared me once I woke up. It consisted of a pile of meat and a pond being in my house, as well as a really weird-looking kangaroo
Im terrified of spiders(literally one of the most popular phobias). I remember freaking out when I found a spider on my cats water bowl once. My brother,who was four at the time,smashed it WITH HIS BARE HAND. I’m scared of him to this day.
I had a science teacher in high school who had a phobia of cotton balls. At first I thought it was stupid, but then he explained why it freaked him out. When he was a kid a large part of his finger/thumb was cut off in an accident. (they were able to sew it back on and it looked fine now) But what they used to stop bleeding at first was cotton balls. So now when he sees people playing with or picking apart the cotton he associates it with the memory as well as raw flesh being picked apart.
@@blesskurunai9213 yea If blood is animated, then that would become my favourite thing, however, If it’s not, I would literally start to cry. I think it’s because when I was 3 years old my toenail came off, and now I’m scared of blood I’m also scared of pain or when people crack their knuckles or stuff like that
@@cocoan-s-e-a it’s only when I see it happening but sometimes when people talk about it and I’m feeling stressed or anxious already it’s the same thing as it actually happening
@@genericname2747 I'm scared of my relatives getting dementia too. Could be so sad 😕. My grandma had it at his last years of living and she was only able to recognize my voice and my mom's voice cos they are very similar. She asked for people we didn't know. Probably from her younger days.
One of my weirdest fears is the character “Toodles” from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. If you play an audio from the show where the characters say “Oh Toodles!” In a dark or light room, and if I’m alone, I will lower the Volume of the audio or Scream so that Toodles won’t come and scare me. I’m also scared if you say it to me because I don’t want toodles to hear me.
I have a fear of getting jumpscared by the nonexistent monsters in the dark. Not afraid of being killed by them, just being jumpscared, so usually I always look at the wall when going to sleep
not so much a phobia, but i have a big irrational fear of showing up to something after it’s been cancelled. i am CONSTANTLY checking for updates on appointments, hangouts, extra-curricular activities, because the thought of showing up when no one else is there terrifies me
I have casadastraphobia. It's the fear of falling into the sky. Completely irrational and it started when i hung by my knees from the monkey bars in elementary school, looking down into the sky. Instant fear that gravity was going to switch and i was going to fall into an endless blue nothingness (I had no concept of outer space at this point) I've been stuck with it since
I have a similar fear, just instead of falling into the sky it's floating up into the sky like a helium balloon, no-one being able to catch me, and just slowly drifting higher and higher contemplating my inevitable death in the earth's upper atmosphere. Yeah, don't ask. It came about after repeat episodes of night terrors I had when I was five-ish where I felt like I was floating up and up, and had to hold onto my bedposts for dear life.
I've started to develop a fear where if I'm taking a bath I'll be teleported into the deep ocean just floating on the top with the endless gaping darkness that is the oceans abyss right under where I'm sitting/floating on top.
I have a honestly haunting fear of saying something really stupid or childish in front of people randomly. Like stuff a 2 year old would do. Really odd. Like social anxiety but even weirder.
No bc actually. Sometimes I'll just be thinking and I'll be like "what if tomorrow spontaneously slapped someone" and then for the rest of the day I'll be thinking about it and I'll have to like actually consciously stop myself from doing it. I think there might be something wrong 😭😭💀
Oh boy you would be so screwed if you had tourettes. Nothing says I'm an adult like just randomly saying "That's my favourite kind of polymer" out of nowhere
It is pretty normal to have childish thoughts and play around with silly ideas, the thing is how do you react to them. Anxiety is a real problem and with the right help it can be controlled. these thoughts can feel weird and unreasonable but they most likely have their bases on our childhood experiences and stuff, and can become a real struggle if left unattended. You are not alone, reach out about things like these. sorry 4 possible bad english.
@@Autumnnn_017 I have the exact same kinds of thoughts!!! I'll be minding my own business when, all of a sudden, I'll be stricken with a thought of "what if I just lost it and started beating someone up?" I've never had an actual urge to do anything violent or actually been violent, but now that the thought is in my head, it won't go away. Fun times!
I think I might have trypophobia cause the thought of tiny holes in my organs and worms crawling through them grosses me tf out, but my way of coping is so much weirder than this fear. I literally imagine hole patterns being covered in eyes to make me feel better and it somehow always works. I need to see my therapist soon after this
Also fuck escalators, my mom almost fell down from them when trying to make me go in one and I had bad panic attacks from thinking about a piece of my dress, pants, or shoelace would get caught in the escalator and either rip off all my clothes until I'm butt ass naked or it crushes me into a fatty human fleshshake
My weirdest phobia is animal corpses. I’m genuinely terrified of seeing a dead fly on my window sill, or the COMPLETELY FLATTENED AND SHREDDED remains of a bunny on the road. Yet I still aspire to collect bones. I like the bones. Edit: 6:43 THAT SOUND TERRIFIES ME TOO.
When I was 8 years old I was terrified of the little apostrophe above the Kirkland logo because I thought it was gonna crawl off the package and attack me
I have haphephobia, the fear of being touched. However, I live in an area where it's common for people to touch your shoulders as a sign of friendship. Regularly get sent into panic attacks
as a child i was always terrified that i would get into the car with one of my parents after leaving school and we would just pull up to a different house and i would have to live my life out as a different person cause me and this adult had mistaken each other for our parent/child and neither of us would acknowledge it out of embarrassment
Frogs are the scariest creatures in all of nature, though I cannot make myself afraid of them. Matt Rose, you may be the only person to survive the upcoming frog-pocalypse.
I was terrified of Michael Jackson as kid. When he died the fear increased and I was always scared at night when I went to the toilet and passed under the hatch to our attic (which at the time had no door) that I’d see him looking down at me This fear crippled me so much that I wouldn’t go to the loo at night - Problem was, I was 13 at the time. It never fully went away. I remember being SEVENTEEN and if my parents were going out at night, my mum had to lock all doors and windows and close all the curtains so that I wouldn’t look out the window and see him out there. I’m 26 now and live in my own house with my fiancé but if I get it into my head that he’s out there - I’m staying hidden in bed.
I have a weird irrational fear of accidentally saying something that I’m thinking about out loud and everyone around judging me for it. I don’t know why. Edit: dang, I'm really glad I'm not the only one who feels this way.
Oh my gosh same! I worry about this every single day and it sucks. Sometimes I wonder if this is something I should see a therapist about. One of my sisters has anxiety. Maybe I need medicine or something, IDK.
I had a friend who was afraid of people listening to her pee in a public bathroom. At the height of her phobia she would quite literally scream while peeing to cover up the sound. It was terrifying for me because I may or may not have a fear of bringing attention to myself and she would do this in public bathrooms. It always brought attention to us and eventually I realized that she was kinda insane
I can kind of relate to that in a way. I avoided going into public bathrooms for multiple years because I was anxious about people hearing me pee, or when I was in the stall I'd wait for everyone else to leave for me to do my business. I never screamed about it though... Nowadays it doesn't bother me
I'm always scared that someone will stick their head over or under the stall to spy on my in public bathrooms. It has happened a couple of times. I'll never understand why anyone would want to watch someone peeing.
I have a fear that gravity randomly reverses, like we all don't get pulled down anymore, but pushed away into the endless empty sky. Every time i see into the sky i can't at it look more than 8 to 10 seconds.
I can relate to the first one a bit. Not the duck part, but the idea of losing complex thought and not being able to comprehend what happened and why terrifies me a bit
Back when I was pretty young, I was terrified of smoke detectors. It didn't really help that my avid imagination depicted our smoke detectors as faces. I had one right above my bedroom door, so every time I wanted to go in I would pause to brace myself and then make a run for it, terrified that the smoke detector would fall on my head and attack me...
Same here. In my childhood home, they’d blink red, and I was really scared of that for some reason. A few days ago, mine began beeping at six in the morning and woke me up.
Okay David Hasselhoff phobia is so valid. I used to be so weirded out and freaked out by him mainly because of the SpongeBob movie scene of him being so human next to animated SpongeBob, while transforming into some human torpedo boat thing. The closeups of his hairy chest inflating really did a number on me😭
As a theater kid, the only thing that scares me of David Hasselhoff is his starring role as Jekyll and Hyde in. Well. Jekyll and Hyde. And no, not because it's actually terrifying and a well played role.
i also have a phobia of having pictures of people in my room because i feel like they are watching me changing and judging me. i have many film posters and most of the characters in them actually look like they feel ashamed just looking at me. its really scary and i get insecure over their facial expressions for a long time.
I have my own slew of excessively specific intrusive thought 'what if' fears, but my most prominent and personal scariest is 'what if i put this needle in my mouth, suck it in, and it stabs me in the throat?'
My history teacher in school had a phobia of Queen Victoria the 1st (of england) and pictures of her would send her into a panic attack. I do not remember why. I have a phobia of wide open spaces on maps, particularly zooming in on oceans or forests with no roads on google maps gives me the creeps, maybe related to a deeper fear of being lost/stuck? I was also terrified of mirrors and curtain-less open windows due to a couple internet comics/videos I was shown at a young age by my family for a laugh to my reaction. One still haunts me, it gave me nightmares for weeks and I couldn't sleep by myself for a long time or look out into the dark (a strange webcomic based on a japanese ghost looking for her kid with a jumpscare at the end out of nowhere, I think. The other was a video where a girl looks down from a mirror and it keeps looking back, I was like 6 when I saw it and it deeply afffected me for a long time). Weirdly, despite being shown chucky by my babysitter around the age of 8-10, I'm not scared of dolls, though I grew up collecting them and don't remember the movie at all now.
I used to be scared of bugs, especially ants and spiders, but my fear turned into my proudest achievements, knowing an unhealthy amount of facts about ants and having the ability to set free any bug.
Right? Over the span of some sleepless nights researching about them, my arachnophobia somehow turned into some sort of arachnomania. I can now identify most spiders by the disposition of their eyes, and it is no longer with fear but out of fascination that I spend hours staring at the corners of the ceiling and examinating every tree branch after them. I actively seek that adrenaline rush from finding brown recluses in the house. Sometimes I wonder if I haven't simply lost the last hold on my flimsy mind
@@spacenaves Whoa, I had no idea it went like that for other people :O I only fear the bathroom ones now (the jittery spiders and the other ones that get confused with them, usually).
I did this with bees. I used to run away shrieking and flailing my arms. One day I sat down and watched bee documentaries for 10 hours. Now I love them.
Throughout my life I’ve had the most gut-wrenching fear that I’m “hearing wrong” or “seeing wrong”; a.k.a, everything/everyone I see isn’t actually what they say, and everything I hear isn’t actually what I think
Whenever we have to sing at school I think I'm the only one singing and it's just a massive test, and whenever I stop talking at school in general, it goes silent.
Sounds like real-event or need-to-know subtype of OCD - try researching psychologists who can really help through using ERP therapy! (I work in the ocd field)
I used to think that if you touched someone else's blood you would die. I scraped my knee once and my dad bandaged it and I sobbed my eyes out terrified that my dad would die. 💀
My guy played Elden Ring way before anybody else. Like how the fuck does bleeding on your own sword make it deal more damage and make other people bleed
I fully understand the wooden spoons one. I'm not afraid of them but they cause me a lot of mental pain thinking of trying to eat with one, let alone actually doing it. I went to an ice cream shop with my mom some time ago, and they've started giving customers wooden spoons as a better alternative to plastic. It was such a horrible sensory experience I thought I was going to explode. Thankfully, I had a spare plastic spoon in my pocket, but I felt kinda bad about it.
I'm with you there. The feeling of using a wooden fork and scraping your mouth along it gives me the same horrible chills as chalk on a blackboard. If I have to use one, I just bite the food off and don't touch the fork with my mouth 🤣
Thank you! I’ve been feeling this sensory madness since the thumbnail but it’s a Matt rose vid so just had to click in it. Now and again when I see a wooden spoon or something it makes my mouth feel ✨weird✨. The dryness, let alone the texture is just… aaaah. Even thinking about it I’m just….
My weird fear is falling on the corner of furniture and stabbing my eye out my socket, like if I tripped and fell onto the corner of a table, I’d somehow fall directly on my eye, popping it like a blood filled balloon
I was terrified of National Geographic's age restriction/viewer discretion warning screen, because one time I woke up in the dead of the night and that shit was silently staring me down in the fucking dark. I was scared of it for years.
My sister says she has an irrational fear of her animals suddenly starting to talk while she's feeding them, so much so that while she's taking care of them she makes sure to always talk to herself constantly so as not to give them "a gap in the conversation"
This video is making me feel much better about my fear of driving down hill, the steering wheel and brakes simultaneously breaking and the car crashing and killing me
the steering broke in my mom's car once while her and i were driving (luckily not very fast, we were relatively safe, but still). now whenever we get on highways i'm always afraid it's gonna happen again D: so i feel you on this one.
I experienced a similar situation when the brakes on my bicycle snapped as I was starting a downward descent from a steep hill. I didn't really feel time slow down as I've heard other people describe it. I just remember having a considerable amount of time to weigh the pros and cons of jumping off my bike. The hill merged with a round about and I managed to merge flawlessly into moving traffic. I didn't end up jumping off as I was frozen stiff in fear. I don't know how I'm still alive.
So i have no idea how to explain this in english but ima try. My mum once drove up a 40° ish upward facing ramp into some mall parking lot with like 4 floors. These ramps were maybe 10m long before turning around a corner to the next part of the parking lot, but one time, when we were basically almost at the top, my mums car went off on its own. So, while we felt the car go down and gain momentum, paired with that tickling in your stomach that you know from elevators, I watched my mum try to turn on the car in panic while almost dropping the car key. Needless to say, if she wouldn't have made it in time, the car would have hit the wall and broke or even gone through the wall due to the speed (on the 4th floor). She cried afterwards from the stress.
I used to be terrified of the prospect of dropping my phone off the side of a cruise ship. Specifically a phone, specifically off a cruise ship. That intrusive thought lasted for months after I got off the boat.
I have this but out of any vehicle, I can't stand having my phone in my hand even if the window is just cracked open. I can't trust myself not to try it at least once and then I get worried
I’ve always had this weird irrational fear that someone else is watching my entire life through my eyes and judging everything I do. I have no idea why I have this but it continuously effects me to this day
I always have in my mind that someone could be spying on me via the computer cam whenever Im on the computer, as well as monitoring everything I write and know way too much about me. But know it most likely doesn't happen. But I wouldn't get change clothes/naked in front of the computer for that reason
i feel like that too, but its less fear and more shame. ill be in the shower and be hit with a sudden wave of shame and thoughts like, "im disgusting, im cleaning the dirt off myself and now they (no clue who they is supposed to be) know im dirty." i dont even know when it started😭
sameee but it started because when i was younger i used to do like weird things and think it’s funny and pretend like i was on call with my classmates and they saw what i was doing and thought it was funny but now i continuously have a feeling people are watching me and judging me like how you are and it’s still here to this day
i have quite a few phobias and fears, but my weirdest one is having sharks fall on top of me. i believe it was sparked by a nightmare i had as a child after visiting an aquarium with a shark tunnel. in my dream, the tunnel shattered and all the sharks in the tank fell on top of me. this combined my fear of sharks, the ocean, being crushed and drowning, as i am now being crushed to death by sharks while drowning. its something i still fear, not just in shark tunnels but sometimes i get this overwhelming fear that sharks are above me right now and if i make a single mistake they are falling on top of me.
I had a nightmare of being flushed down a toilet not as scary now but still the thought of that is kinda terrifying even tho it physically can’t happen
I’m terrified of waking up one morning to find myself terrified of all the things I enjoy- like bugs, snakes, lizards and such. I adore them. I fear the thought of becoming fearful.
That is a _really_ sad thought... A while back, I was concerned that I would develop a fear of bats (I love bats). I told my therapist that it was really important to me that I didn't develop such a phobia, and she suggested doing a bunch of research on them. Humans naturally fear the unknown, after all, so the more you know about something, the less scary it will be. I don't know if that helps at all, but this made me so sad that I really wanted to do whatever I can to try and help.
I always liked clowns. Any clowns, even those, who are deliberately scary. And I fear that someday it will change. But it still makes me really sad that a lot of people are afraid of them or hate them. Even my good friend was once so scared by a guy in a creepy clown costume (he was advertising a scary attraction in the middle of a well lit busy street) that she wanted to beat him up. In my country you can't just become a clown. You have to graduate from a circus college first. And it's really hard to get accepted to. So all the clowns here are just people who devoted their lives to making people a bit happier, to make them laugh, to teach them how to overcome every hardship with humor and a smile on their faces. And all they get for that is minimum wage and hatred. All because of the media and pranksters who taught people to be afraid of them or hate them. They so don't deserve it... I don't even know any other person who feels that way about clowns. Everyone I know hate them or scared of them. Just thinking about it makes me want to cry.
I can kind of relate to that. I get intrusive thoughts making me wonder if I actually hate the things that I like, and what my life would be like if I suddenly had no interest in any of my life goals. It's definitely crisis-inducing
I have submechophobia, which is the irrational fear of man-made objects underwater. Most people with this phobia get freaked out by shipwrecks, underwater plane crash sites, the underwater parts of oil rigs/ boats, which are all freaky to me, but my phobia is mainly fixated on pool drains and pool lights. My parents used to bribe me to go touch a drain or pool jet, but I would always be too afraid to try. I’m always kinda tense if I try to take a bath because tub drain always freaks me out, but it’s more manageable
See the good side In case of a fire, she won't have the suicidal reaction to take the elevator And in general, she's healthier this way, doing physical exercise constantly :D
My big phobia (still after 4 years) is emergency alerts. It doesn't matter if its a tornado warning, amber alert, even just a "dont drink the water its contaminated" warning I still freak out the same way. I've had legitimate nightmares where I've been trapped in a room watching a never-ending emergency alert
That reminds me of a lucid dream I had I was playing a game in vr in the dream and it turned into a real room and every time I would take the headset off it would jump scare me in real life and I was forced to restart AND I WAS CONSCIOUS WHILE IT WAS HAPPENING it felt like it was never gonna end Until I woke up
Lmfao yeaaah. I’m more afraid of the alerts than the actual warning. At 5am, one went off. As an adult man, I almost cried. Than I read it and it said “local power plant has started showing signs of a meltdown (something like that). Seek shelter. This is not a drill.” My fear didn’t increase. And I felt relieved when the alarm stopped making sounds and went back to bed……it was an error at the plant. So, confirmed: I’m more afraid of an alarm sound than dying in a nuclear explosion. People were late for work that day. Some could not come in. My one coworker was already in a different continent. She was like “oh. It was a fluke? I’m like 5 hours away….can’t make it.” Understandable. Actually, a completely rational response to the situation, given the information provided. Even more rational given, the town I was in at the time was like 10 kilometres away from said power plant. But, yeah. Also, in elementary school, my mark would drop by like 30% in classes with a fire alarm in them, because I would spend most of the class with my ears covered. So yeah…..I get this. Funnily enough, I’m a musician/ producer now, and I really fuck with sound design, so it’s got me wondering if their is some correlation between general emotional ties to noise, and musical comprehension as a whole. Cuz it makes some sense. If you feel fear greater around sounds, you may feel other things more as well. So like, anybody who relates to alarm fear, do ya play an instrument or something?
I know I shouldn’t be laughing but god damn 😂 why would you only fear that you’d be trapped in a room with blazing sounds, I’d worry more about something coming in the room on top of the sounds
In primary school, I wrote a story about an alien getting bullied by other aliens for being afraid of soup. As I got older, I always thought it was a very random and silly thing to come up with, but there actually is a person with a fear of soup out there! I can't believe this!
i have this distinct memory of 4-6 year old meme walking in a mall then seeing the starbucks logo, be absolutely hypnotized by it and then start bawling my eyes out in fear
As I kid, I used to be terrified of Dr. Seuss. Well not exactly Dr. Seuss himself, but the books he wrote. The artstyle, the rhymes, and the themes shown in the story made me have nightmares, and when my parents bought a set of 42 books by Dr Seuss to encourage reading, not knowing I was afraid of those books, I demanded it be placed under my table so I wouldn't have to see it. Even then I'd still get scared thinking about the books under my table.
I actually had a similar thing with some books. Forgot what they were but the covers were weird so you aren't alone,I don't particularly like the Dr Seuss books anyway
ME TOO! I had to double check that I wasn't the one who wrote this comment haha! I still get heebee geebees every time I see his art. I can't watch The Grinch or the original Lorax movie (the newer one I'm fine with, tho). I think it all started with that one book about "If I ran the Circus." There was a monster who ate sidewalks, trees, and children. I was probably 3 when I read that... It haunts me to this day.
I really hate emergency alerts or alarms. They sound really creepy and ominous, and thinking about what they’re warning you about is even scarier. There have been countless times where I’ll wake up in the middle of the night hearing an alarm going off while my furby just stares at me from up on my shelf.
Not so much those but it’s fire alarms for me. I get very nervous when I hear an alarm even if I know it’s a test and almost go into a panic attack. Never been involved in a fire, so idk where this fear came from, maybe from school when we had fire drills.
i’m like. genuinely terrified of old people. their skin is so saggy and wrinkly it makes me feel physically sick and i can never tell if they’re gonna yell at me or if they’re just genuinely trying to tell me something. like if i see an old person in a public space i feel the need to get away as soon as possible so i don’t have to interact with them
1.)Turning 24 this month, and that 18 year old who is terrified of growing older embodied my own feelings 2.) The 6'11 guy scared of ants may just be a small elephant
This is how phobia related humor should work instead of the mean spirited stuff you see all too often. I love this self aware “man our brains can be so weird” approach. It can be quite cathartic. My mom once knew someone terrified of large leaves to the point he’d break out in cold sweats. Someone also mentioned fear of pregnant women. I know someone who is very whigged out by the idea of pregnancy so was quite happy to learn she’s very unlikely to ever get pregnant due to a physical thing. Not quite a phobia, but I have anxiety and for so long used to get very antsy whenever Nightwing would show up in a comic I was reading, especially unexpectedly. I think it’s largely because I heavily associate him with my brother who I even affectionately call my Nightwing and have saved as Nightwing in my phone and the image I have of the character is just generally really particular and really important to me so I would get quite anxious worrying something might ruin him. I’d legit feel all tingly from sheer nerves. What makes it really weird is that I’d only get like that if he was Nightwing. If he showed up as Robin or Grayson Batman or something else I was fine. But if he was Nightwing I’d be anxious. It also only happened with main universe comics. Nothing happened if I saw him in an elseworld comic or in a show or video game. It was by far the most oddly insanely specific part of my anxiety disorder for years. Eventually it just kinda…. stopped. Still not sure why it suddenly stopped but I’m not exactly complaining. My anxiety is usually pretty vague and just “what if SOMETHING goes wrong” but this one bit of it was abnormally specific and direct.
I'm also irked by pregnancy, and that's why I was so happy to find out I have polycystic ovaries. That decreases the chance of being able to successfully carry a child by a fair bit. Also decreases the chances of actually conceiving as well.
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"When really quiet people get angry and yell."
That's not a phobia, that's legit terrifying.
How about when loud people like a drill sergeant get really quiet. Now THAT is terrifying.
So basically just when people suddenly switch whether they're loud or quiet
@@benwachtler9842 So you're afraid of Nintendo Switch, uh?
A patient man's fury is worse than the Hulk's rage
Source: I've known many quiet people that have gotten pissed at one point
@@yourfinestlocalidiot Everyone has enough eventually
the 6’11 guy afraid of ants is like a perfect character trope
Didja ever see the fire ants scene in The Crystal Skull?
Or the scarab scenes in The Mummy 1 and 2?
@@0_dearghealach_083 Don't remind me of the mummy.....still traumatized to this day...
OMG UR SO TALLLL!!”
*ant*
“OMFG ,THERES AN ANT, AHHHHHHH-“
BAHAHHAHA
Yeah, how's he going to see them all the way down there?
Maybe he just hates crawlies
I have an irrational fear that if I scratch a blackboard, my nails will peel off.
That’s totally rational because THE TEXTURE OMGYGYJTFYRDTRDTR
No please
Mine is simillar except if i pull off a hangnail my skin will peel off like that one spongebob episode
@@DanHallow also rational
i hate that as well, im scared of my nails accidently bending backwards and snapping off its just EUGHSFJHGJ it makes me squirm
It actually makes sense to be afraid if a jar of mayo starts approaching you
I think the mayo think might be kind of common. I've known three women who were afraid of mayo. Two of them also were physically repulsed by the word "moist," which I believe is also kind of common.
Absolutely. Being afraid of an ominous jar of mayonnaise approaching is not irrational.
Yee
AFRAID?!
I feel offended, he just walks up ands asks me if I want ketchup
But jars of mayo don't usually sprout legs and start approaching you. I'd be pretty scared if one did
i love how they phrased it as "mayo approaches her" as if it has a personal vendetta against her and tries to seek her out and attack her
every second you aren't running, the mayonnaise approaches
*the mayo is c o m i n g*
Idea:
Tie a string to mayo tie the string to her and watch the choas
Speaking of always approaching, I used to have a reoccurring nightmare of constantly being chased by spiders and if I didn't keep moving they would catch up. No matter where I was or what I did they would come find me.
The funny thing is that I like spiders, my fear is just something chasing me forever.
@@cynister7384 you just probably fear being chased
As someone with a fear of mayo, this is accurate
Used to have an irrational fear of finding a skinned and flayed corpse staring at me when I entered my shower.
I was seven. I didn't even know what skinning or flaying was.
Oh my god when I was younger I was also terrified of finding a skinned corpse in my shower?? Like pulling back the curtain and there would be a skinned body. I was a bit older, old enough to know what flaying ment and that this was a completely irrational fear, but I couldn't get it out of my head for years.
@@mmtnw What the heck??? Why is this a common fear?
The SOUND from the teeth hitting the fork actually made me shrivel up in discomfort
Agreed.
Yeah, it just SOUNDED painful
My father cringes if someone accidentally scrapes their teeth with their fork
I love how Matt can pronounce absolute gibberish like it's a normal language
well, he is british
@@Sticky__Fingies he's Churchill grandson
@@Sticky__Fingies damn bro
@@Sticky__Fingies as a British person, his accent is very much exaggerated for affect, it's even hard for me to follow
Same
When that one guy said “This took me a while to realize this wasn’t the fetish thread” and I just imagined all of them as fetishes and it got real weird.
THE NIPPLES GETTING RIPPED OFF ONE HELP
2:46
Being forgotten
Biting a fork sideways
The feeling of déjà vu
Obliterating balls under the toilet seat
Hands up
Magnetizing and tearing blood vessels
The feeling of déjà vu
Pregnant women
@@AnEffingPinkCatThatBreathes I know people who have all of those fetishes. not all one person ofc, but like... still...
How to do you get a fetish for ferris wheels???
I expected "the feeling of déjà vu" to appear again at the end
the feeling of deja vu
the feeling of deja vu
the feeling of deja vu
Yeah was kinda spoiled by "chronic deja vu"
Yeah was kinda spoiled by "chronic deja vu"
One of my fears is that whenever I go to the toilet, I panic if I’m hallucinating nobody there, when in “reality” my mum or someone is there and I’m just shitting on them.
I wouldnt say it's a fear of mine, but it's a concern of mine that I'm not awake. And I'm just gonna wake up wetting the bed like a child. I cope with this by counting tiles. Because in dreams the tiles wiggle but in real life they don't move. I hope this helps you 💪
OMG I HAD THE IS FEAR TOO WHENEVER I WAS IN THE BATHROOM
@@Justknityoursweaters Or read something, as letters in dreams look like an ai image generator made it.
@@Justknityoursweaters search for things like superpowers and stuff
I've always had the same thing not exactly a fear but a thought in the back of my head that someone's on the toilet and I don't see them
The duck one is actually understandable because it’s the fear of loss of sense of self, basically identity death. Much scarier when you put it this way.
Hits differently when you're caring for your grandma with dementia and know it runs in the family...
But why a duck
@@sailor5853 why not a duck?
@@jasperjazziefair point
Nah the duck is my ideal form
for at least 5 years now, i've had a fear that people could read my mind and think my intrusive thoughts are my actual thoughts
same!! it’s awful
I’m sometimes scared that my parents can read my thoughts, but then I’m like “No, if they could read my thoughts, we would have had some serious discussions a long time ago…”
That isn’t one of my fears, but I’ve thought about this before and it’s why I don’t like the concept of mind reading.
Edit: I actually had a dream where that happened lol. Just like I expected, my intrusive thoughts starting coming in a bunch at the worst possible time. Yay…
I've always had a thought that if I make any sort of physical contact with someone, then they would be able to read my mind. So whenever I'm giving a family member a hug or something I always just switch my thoughts to kittens or other cute things.
That's... relatable. I actually really liked seeing that comment
My friend is literally horrified of chickens- for Christmas I got her a chicken stuffed animal, the next day she told me she strangled it
Had a friend with chickens, one was named Wilbur soot, she had to rename it
I guess you could say she really got into choking the chicken
I have an irrational fear that there is someone in the dark in my room and that some sort of horror monster will suddenly appear in the mirror
Same! I have to tell myself “you haven’t left your room at all today you would know if someone came in”
@@noelle_reads_alot Nice to see I’m not the only one lol
I'm scared of the idea that someone near me is secretly a mind reader and that they will see the weird things I randomly think about and think I'm weird.
Y E S Y E S Y E S Y E S
I never realised I was scared of this too
Me too, but mostly because I mostly because I don’t want other people to know about thoughts that make me uncomfortable, not embarrassing ones
YES BRO
Have this same fear
When I was 6, I spontaneously got afraid there was an alligator under my bed. Not a monster, an alligator. I ended up writing a letter to the alligator and putting it under my bed. This made the fear go away
What did the letter say?
@@memyself5866 ok I can barely remember but it was something like “dear mr alligator, please don’t eat me. I can feed you snacks and we can become friends”
Omg same. Tho I didn’t write a letter lmao
This is the cutest fucking thing though. Kid logic is great.
@Lavlikessquids But why is that so adorable though 😭
The emergency broadcast sound is more like:
AAAAHHHRN AAAAHHHRRN AAAAAAHHHRRN BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
It’s more like ERRRR ERRR ERRR BBRBFKNVJIBGTJIHETGUI
I love how you added the deja vu twice so it scares whoever’s afraid of deja vu. Small detail but funny.
The way he portrayed the fears of Deja Vu, Silence, and Furbies had me crying 😂
He repeated the Deja Vu one? I did not notice because I went back around that part lots of times
@@YeprilesteR no he didn’t repeat it, you must be seeing things
@@YeprilesteR wdym he didnt repeat it
Then how the hell did he portray Deja Vu
@@YeprilesteR i have no idea what you mean maybe this commenter made a mistake?
I had a “scary” dream that only scared me once I woke up. It consisted of a pile of meat and a pond being in my house, as well as a really weird-looking kangaroo
I had a dream when I was little about a mysterious hole in our porch. I’m not sure why, but I was terrified of it for years afterward.
i had a dream where i was eating human bodyparts that were scattered all over the room
I had a generic dream about a peaceful encounter with aliens but I was watching it and unexplainably fucking horrified throught it
you became vegetarian after that haven't you?
What was weird about the kangaroo? I'm interested more than I probably should.
8:35 i laughed so hard at seeing the BBC watermark in the corner
Big Black Cfrog
Im terrified of spiders(literally one of the most popular phobias). I remember freaking out when I found a spider on my cats water bowl once. My brother,who was four at the time,smashed it WITH HIS BARE HAND. I’m scared of him to this day.
spiders are cute
I had a science teacher in high school who had a phobia of cotton balls. At first I thought it was stupid, but then he explained why it freaked him out. When he was a kid a large part of his finger/thumb was cut off in an accident. (they were able to sew it back on and it looked fine now) But what they used to stop bleeding at first was cotton balls. So now when he sees people playing with or picking apart the cotton he associates it with the memory as well as raw flesh being picked apart.
Ohh that sounds terrible. All of the stupid and hilarious phobias are somehow linked with something painful.
@@blesskurunai9213 yea If blood is animated, then that would become my favourite thing, however, If it’s not, I would literally start to cry. I think it’s because when I was 3 years old my toenail came off, and now I’m scared of blood
I’m also scared of pain or when people crack their knuckles or stuff like that
@@cocoan-s-e-a i just cracked my knuckles while reading your comment
oh god
@@cocoan-s-e-a it’s only when I see it happening but sometimes when people talk about it and I’m feeling stressed or anxious already it’s the same thing as it actually happening
Having "the feeling of deja vu" show up twice was genius, I love this channel so much.
so do I
so do I*
I was so ready for it to pop up again at the end.
Me too!
Me too!
I'm also afraid of gravity turning off or inverting. Looking at tall ceilings or open sky feels like looking down from a tall building
If you want to become less scared of frogs look up: “Angry desert rain frog squeak”.
Cutest sound ever.
The fear of growing older and losing abilities is actually quite interesting
I worked with people with dementia for a bit, and hoo boy does that make you scared of getting older
@@genericname2747 I'm scared of my relatives getting dementia too. Could be so sad 😕. My grandma had it at his last years of living and she was only able to recognize my voice and my mom's voice cos they are very similar. She asked for people we didn't know. Probably from her younger days.
i have this and it all started because i watch that one dhmis video i think
Have that too. Same age as well. Literally cried several times thinking about the prospect, I think I’m reconciled with it by now.
And pretty common. I had it until I got chronically ill and realized I'll probably die young :) so at least I don't have to worry about that anymore
My mom walked past me while I was watching this and said, “I love seeing such a smile on your face.” 😂
Your mum sounds very sweet
Meanwhile my mom would wonder whats so funny and accuse me of watching someone stab a fetus or something.
Can we trade mums.
@@Bunny_Bill no, but we can euthanize her, y'know, put her out of her misery
That's adorable
Fawna_rose lol wth
I have a friend who is terrified of ketchup. If she sees a ketchup packet she didn’t notice she will jump exactly like when a cat sees a cucumber
One of my weirdest fears is the character “Toodles” from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. If you play an audio from the show where the characters say “Oh Toodles!” In a dark or light room, and if I’m alone, I will lower the Volume of the audio or Scream so that Toodles won’t come and scare me. I’m also scared if you say it to me because I don’t want toodles to hear me.
Also, my other fear is opening windows because I’m afraid that a sniper is gonna shoot me.
Oh Toodles!
@@seaspongestudios3050only the audio scares me. Not the text.
I have a fear of getting jumpscared by the nonexistent monsters in the dark. Not afraid of being killed by them, just being jumpscared, so usually I always look at the wall when going to sleep
same
My fear was more than they would possess me.
Not sure exacywhat they do once you're possessed, but I was certain it wasn't good
same. whenever i’m scared at night i have to look away from the bathroom mirror while i brush my teeth
Me too! Glad to know I’m not alone
Same
I have an irrational fear of mushrooms growing on my body... I dont understand my brain.
not so much a phobia, but i have a big irrational fear of showing up to something after it’s been cancelled. i am CONSTANTLY checking for updates on appointments, hangouts, extra-curricular activities, because the thought of showing up when no one else is there terrifies me
I have casadastraphobia. It's the fear of falling into the sky. Completely irrational and it started when i hung by my knees from the monkey bars in elementary school, looking down into the sky. Instant fear that gravity was going to switch and i was going to fall into an endless blue nothingness (I had no concept of outer space at this point) I've been stuck with it since
I have a similar fear, just instead of falling into the sky it's floating up into the sky like a helium balloon, no-one being able to catch me, and just slowly drifting higher and higher contemplating my inevitable death in the earth's upper atmosphere. Yeah, don't ask.
It came about after repeat episodes of night terrors I had when I was five-ish where I felt like I was floating up and up, and had to hold onto my bedposts for dear life.
Gravity is a harness.
@@0_dearghealach_083 WhAt Is ThAt MeLoDy
Me too
I've started to develop a fear where if I'm taking a bath I'll be teleported into the deep ocean just floating on the top with the endless gaping darkness that is the oceans abyss right under where I'm sitting/floating on top.
I have a honestly haunting fear of saying something really stupid or childish in front of people randomly. Like stuff a 2 year old would do. Really odd. Like social anxiety but even weirder.
I have weird urges to blurt out random things sometimes, so I get thay fear.
No bc actually. Sometimes I'll just be thinking and I'll be like "what if tomorrow spontaneously slapped someone" and then for the rest of the day I'll be thinking about it and I'll have to like actually consciously stop myself from doing it. I think there might be something wrong 😭😭💀
Oh boy you would be so screwed if you had tourettes. Nothing says I'm an adult like just randomly saying "That's my favourite kind of polymer" out of nowhere
It is pretty normal to have childish thoughts and play around with silly ideas, the thing is how do you react to them.
Anxiety is a real problem and with the right help it can be controlled. these thoughts can feel weird and unreasonable but they most likely have their bases on our childhood experiences and stuff, and can become a real struggle if left unattended. You are not alone, reach out about things like these.
sorry 4 possible bad english.
@@Autumnnn_017 I have the exact same kinds of thoughts!!! I'll be minding my own business when, all of a sudden, I'll be stricken with a thought of "what if I just lost it and started beating someone up?" I've never had an actual urge to do anything violent or actually been violent, but now that the thought is in my head, it won't go away. Fun times!
I think I might have trypophobia cause the thought of tiny holes in my organs and worms crawling through them grosses me tf out, but my way of coping is so much weirder than this fear.
I literally imagine hole patterns being covered in eyes to make me feel better and it somehow always works. I need to see my therapist soon after this
Also fuck escalators, my mom almost fell down from them when trying to make me go in one and I had bad panic attacks from thinking about a piece of my dress, pants, or shoelace would get caught in the escalator and either rip off all my clothes until I'm butt ass naked or it crushes me into a fatty human fleshshake
My weirdest phobia is animal corpses. I’m genuinely terrified of seeing a dead fly on my window sill, or the COMPLETELY FLATTENED AND SHREDDED remains of a bunny on the road. Yet I still aspire to collect bones. I like the bones.
Edit: 6:43 THAT SOUND TERRIFIES ME TOO.
I didn't know I had a fear of the emergency broadcast sound until you showed it and every muscle in my body tensed up. Thanks matt 👍
For me it’s the WW2 bomb siren sound. I can’t listen to it without crying.
@@bigHURRdontCURR yes
The sound is specifically designed to make you uncomfortable. So that just means it’s working
EBS and EAS alarms like those scare the shit out of me because of tornado sirens.
isn't that last tone illegal to play though
When I was 8 years old I was terrified of the little apostrophe above the Kirkland logo because I thought it was gonna crawl off the package and attack me
what
Poor 8 Year Old You 😭
*
...
I have haphephobia, the fear of being touched. However, I live in an area where it's common for people to touch your shoulders as a sign of friendship. Regularly get sent into panic attacks
0:01 being a duck (or any bird) would be brilliant as you can just fly away from your problems
Can we all just appreciate how he always pronounces the misspelled words and random letters and screams the capitalized words
3:41
we can and will
And the emojis!
as a child i was always terrified that i would get into the car with one of my parents after leaving school and we would just pull up to a different house and i would have to live my life out as a different person cause me and this adult had mistaken each other for our parent/child and neither of us would acknowledge it out of embarrassment
What the hell 😅
Me too
That's a good plot for a comedy sketch
This would make a wonderful sitcom.
Are you by any chance British because that sounds like an INCREDIBLY British fear 😂
Frogs are the scariest creatures in all of nature, though I cannot make myself afraid of them. Matt Rose, you may be the only person to survive the upcoming frog-pocalypse.
I have a fear that if I bite too hard on a metal fork, all my teeth will fall out cartoonishly.
I have no idea why.
I was terrified of Michael Jackson as kid. When he died the fear increased and I was always scared at night when I went to the toilet and passed under the hatch to our attic (which at the time had no door) that I’d see him looking down at me
This fear crippled me so much that I wouldn’t go to the loo at night - Problem was, I was 13 at the time. It never fully went away. I remember being SEVENTEEN and if my parents were going out at night, my mum had to lock all doors and windows and close all the curtains so that I wouldn’t look out the window and see him out there.
I’m 26 now and live in my own house with my fiancé but if I get it into my head that he’s out there - I’m staying hidden in bed.
Imagine slipping into your bed and hearing a muffled "HEE HEE" outside your window
@@snowyvul ok this was supposed to be scary but lmfaooo
Crazy how childhood fears can stick with you for so long. Its irrational but your brain really likes to scare itself for some reason.
crazy thing is, this is like the 3rd or 4th time ive seen someone say this
HEE HEE
I have a weird irrational fear of accidentally saying something that I’m thinking about out loud and everyone around judging me for it. I don’t know why.
Edit: dang, I'm really glad I'm not the only one who feels this way.
Same.
*W E L C O M E T O T H E I N T E R N E T*
Ain't that the truth- I'm always afraid of mispronouncing or blurting something.
me too
Oh my gosh same! I worry about this every single day and it sucks. Sometimes I wonder if this is something I should see a therapist about. One of my sisters has anxiety. Maybe I need medicine or something, IDK.
I have the fear of always being watched (making showering hard) and fear of being abandoned (from trauma)
The commitment he has for his videos is something to be feared and worshipped
I had a friend who was afraid of people listening to her pee in a public bathroom. At the height of her phobia she would quite literally scream while peeing to cover up the sound. It was terrifying for me because I may or may not have a fear of bringing attention to myself and she would do this in public bathrooms. It always brought attention to us and eventually I realized that she was kinda insane
I can kind of relate to that in a way. I avoided going into public bathrooms for multiple years because I was anxious about people hearing me pee, or when I was in the stall I'd wait for everyone else to leave for me to do my business. I never screamed about it though... Nowadays it doesn't bother me
I'm always scared that someone will stick their head over or under the stall to spy on my in public bathrooms. It has happened a couple of times. I'll never understand why anyone would want to watch someone peeing.
I’ve been in women’s public toilets in Japan where the sound of running water constantly played to hide it LMFAO
Im scared of getting locked in the stall.. its happened before
Imagine a woman just casually walk-in in the bathroom and the first thing she hears is blood curdling screaming
I’m absolutely mortified at the thought of bugs or other small things being inside of my ears or other body holes
I think everyone would. There was a comic I found in reddit that had a girl’s brain eaten by isopods, should be fun for you
I once had a wasp crawl inside my ear.
@@thwingerpodthvet4302 Bro😧
Don't make me physically cringe again. Jesus christ
Same
I have a fear that gravity randomly reverses, like we all don't get pulled down anymore, but pushed away into the endless empty sky. Every time i see into the sky i can't at it look more than 8 to 10 seconds.
I can relate to the first one a bit. Not the duck part, but the idea of losing complex thought and not being able to comprehend what happened and why terrifies me a bit
Back when I was pretty young, I was terrified of smoke detectors. It didn't really help that my avid imagination depicted our smoke detectors as faces. I had one right above my bedroom door, so every time I wanted to go in I would pause to brace myself and then make a run for it, terrified that the smoke detector would fall on my head and attack me...
I had the fear of the noise smoke detectors make
I was afraid the batteries would die and then I would die in a fire
@@evanlovesbacongames161 swap the fire with carbon monoxide, that was my fear
Same here. In my childhood home, they’d blink red, and I was really scared of that for some reason. A few days ago, mine began beeping at six in the morning and woke me up.
I have one above my bed.
Okay David Hasselhoff phobia is so valid. I used to be so weirded out and freaked out by him mainly because of the SpongeBob movie scene of him being so human next to animated SpongeBob, while transforming into some human torpedo boat thing. The closeups of his hairy chest inflating really did a number on me😭
That's exactly what I thought of when I tried to put myself in the shoes of someone who was freaked out by David Hasselhoff.
I sent the dude a pic of the Hoff with a text saying; "you can't escape the hoff"
@@The_notsoholy_one that’s evil and I love it
As a theater kid, the only thing that scares me of David Hasselhoff is his starring role as Jekyll and Hyde in. Well. Jekyll and Hyde.
And no, not because it's actually terrifying and a well played role.
I don’t even remember that scene but when I saw that phobia I was like “hmm it’s probably something to do with the spongebob movie so I understand”
i also have a phobia of having pictures of people in my room because i feel like they are watching me changing and judging me. i have many film posters and most of the characters in them actually look like they feel ashamed just looking at me. its really scary and i get insecure over their facial expressions for a long time.
I have a fear that someone is going to take a pair of (open) scissors and stab me in the forehead.
I used to have a fear of cars being sentient.
Like they would just start and run me over, i have no idea why, but it took years to get over this.
I mean that’s just Cars but in real life. Lightning McQueen is here for you…
FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE WHO HAS THIS
So like the entire plot of cars y’know the one with lighting McQueen
tesla
RIP self driving cars
I have my own slew of excessively specific intrusive thought 'what if' fears, but my most prominent and personal scariest is 'what if i put this needle in my mouth, suck it in, and it stabs me in the throat?'
I frequently put a sharp needle between my lips when doing embroidery, but now the thought of sucking it is in my head so we'll see what happens :D
@@CausaBrevitatis welcome to hell my friend
I have this recurring dread that I'll accidentally poke an eye out while combing or washing my hair.
Even now I still think when I use my bedroom bathroom if a deranged Tomas the tank engine will come after me 😐
@@areyoukittenme1677 I shouldn't laugh, but just picturing that scene is funny.
Things that heat up. Fire, ovens, stoves, that shit
My history teacher in school had a phobia of Queen Victoria the 1st (of england) and pictures of her would send her into a panic attack. I do not remember why. I have a phobia of wide open spaces on maps, particularly zooming in on oceans or forests with no roads on google maps gives me the creeps, maybe related to a deeper fear of being lost/stuck? I was also terrified of mirrors and curtain-less open windows due to a couple internet comics/videos I was shown at a young age by my family for a laugh to my reaction. One still haunts me, it gave me nightmares for weeks and I couldn't sleep by myself for a long time or look out into the dark (a strange webcomic based on a japanese ghost looking for her kid with a jumpscare at the end out of nowhere, I think. The other was a video where a girl looks down from a mirror and it keeps looking back, I was like 6 when I saw it and it deeply afffected me for a long time). Weirdly, despite being shown chucky by my babysitter around the age of 8-10, I'm not scared of dolls, though I grew up collecting them and don't remember the movie at all now.
I used to be scared of bugs, especially ants and spiders, but my fear turned into my proudest achievements, knowing an unhealthy amount of facts about ants and having the ability to set free any bug.
Right? Over the span of some sleepless nights researching about them, my arachnophobia somehow turned into some sort of arachnomania. I can now identify most spiders by the disposition of their eyes, and it is no longer with fear but out of fascination that I spend hours staring at the corners of the ceiling and examinating every tree branch after them. I actively seek that adrenaline rush from finding brown recluses in the house. Sometimes I wonder if I haven't simply lost the last hold on my flimsy mind
@@spacenaves Whoa, I had no idea it went like that for other people :O I only fear the bathroom ones now (the jittery spiders and the other ones that get confused with them, usually).
My brother's the same
I did this with bees. I used to run away shrieking and flailing my arms. One day I sat down and watched bee documentaries for 10 hours. Now I love them.
@@GCAT01Living Yes brother you are absolutely correct and it is now my life mission to wipe hornets from the earth
Throughout my life I’ve had the most gut-wrenching fear that I’m “hearing wrong” or “seeing wrong”; a.k.a, everything/everyone I see isn’t actually what they say, and everything I hear isn’t actually what I think
Oh my god, i have that!
Whenever we have to sing at school I think I'm the only one singing and it's just a massive test, and whenever I stop talking at school in general, it goes silent.
IS IT REAL OR IS IT THE MATRIX! 😎🤔😎
Sounds like real-event or need-to-know subtype of OCD - try researching psychologists who can really help through using ERP therapy! (I work in the ocd field)
It’s terrible to have to question your own perception…. Definitely one of the worst fears
I have a phobia of escalators and need to have someone hold me when I'm forced to use one.
Repeating the feeling of Deja vu was an amazing touch
I used to think that if you touched someone else's blood you would die. I scraped my knee once and my dad bandaged it and I sobbed my eyes out terrified that my dad would die. 💀
*SKU-HULL EMOJI!!*
Me too
@@toddboyce3599 not sure, I think something to do with infections or disease from touching blood
@@toddboyce3599 chill they were probably a little kid when they thought that lmao 💀
My guy played Elden Ring way before anybody else. Like how the fuck does bleeding on your own sword make it deal more damage and make other people bleed
I fully understand the wooden spoons one. I'm not afraid of them but they cause me a lot of mental pain thinking of trying to eat with one, let alone actually doing it. I went to an ice cream shop with my mom some time ago, and they've started giving customers wooden spoons as a better alternative to plastic. It was such a horrible sensory experience I thought I was going to explode. Thankfully, I had a spare plastic spoon in my pocket, but I felt kinda bad about it.
I'm with you there. The feeling of using a wooden fork and scraping your mouth along it gives me the same horrible chills as chalk on a blackboard. If I have to use one, I just bite the food off and don't touch the fork with my mouth 🤣
the very thought of wooden utensils and especially popsicle sticks gives me chills
Do lolly sticks count as wooden cutlery?
@@hps362 No, but those also feel disgusting
Thank you! I’ve been feeling this sensory madness since the thumbnail but it’s a Matt rose vid so just had to click in it.
Now and again when I see a wooden spoon or something it makes my mouth feel ✨weird✨. The dryness, let alone the texture is just… aaaah. Even thinking about it I’m just….
My weird fear is falling on the corner of furniture and stabbing my eye out my socket, like if I tripped and fell onto the corner of a table, I’d somehow fall directly on my eye, popping it like a blood filled balloon
I was terrified of National Geographic's age restriction/viewer discretion warning screen, because one time I woke up in the dead of the night and that shit was silently staring me down in the fucking dark. I was scared of it for years.
My sister says she has an irrational fear of her animals suddenly starting to talk while she's feeding them, so much so that while she's taking care of them she makes sure to always talk to herself constantly so as not to give them "a gap in the conversation"
This video is making me feel much better about my fear of driving down hill, the steering wheel and brakes simultaneously breaking and the car crashing and killing me
the steering broke in my mom's car once while her and i were driving (luckily not very fast, we were relatively safe, but still). now whenever we get on highways i'm always afraid it's gonna happen again D: so i feel you on this one.
I experienced a similar situation when the brakes on my bicycle snapped as I was starting a downward descent from a steep hill.
I didn't really feel time slow down as I've heard other people describe it. I just remember having a considerable amount of time to weigh the pros and cons of jumping off my bike.
The hill merged with a round about and I managed to merge flawlessly into moving traffic.
I didn't end up jumping off as I was frozen stiff in fear.
I don't know how I'm still alive.
So i have no idea how to explain this in english but ima try.
My mum once drove up a 40° ish upward facing ramp into some mall parking lot with like 4 floors. These ramps were maybe 10m long before turning around a corner to the next part of the parking lot, but one time, when we were basically almost at the top, my mums car went off on its own. So, while we felt the car go down and gain momentum, paired with that tickling in your stomach that you know from elevators, I watched my mum try to turn on the car in panic while almost dropping the car key. Needless to say, if she wouldn't have made it in time, the car would have hit the wall and broke or even gone through the wall due to the speed (on the 4th floor).
She cried afterwards from the stress.
I feel you...... not too irrational
@@Buhbayou that is so horrifying... glad you guys made it ok
When I was younger I used to be terrified of fireworks. I'm no longer so afraid but I wouldn't go out of my way to see a show
I hate silence, ptsd got me thinking peace is just a battle waiting to take off
I used to be terrified of the prospect of dropping my phone off the side of a cruise ship.
Specifically a phone, specifically off a cruise ship.
That intrusive thought lasted for months after I got off the boat.
Edit: Nope totally forgot about my fear of doing anything to accidentally pull a fire alarm.
I have this but out of any vehicle, I can't stand having my phone in my hand even if the window is just cracked open. I can't trust myself not to try it at least once and then I get worried
You never know when it can happen lmao
For my it was my shoe coming off and falling down the side of the British Columbia car ferries. Sort of similar I guess.
OH MY GOSH SAME
I’ve always had this weird irrational fear that someone else is watching my entire life through my eyes and judging everything I do. I have no idea why I have this but it continuously effects me to this day
I always have in my mind that someone could be spying on me via the computer cam whenever Im on the computer, as well as monitoring everything I write and know way too much about me. But know it most likely doesn't happen. But I wouldn't get change clothes/naked in front of the computer for that reason
That is derealisation, you are actually fearing a mental illness.
i feel like that too, but its less fear and more shame. ill be in the shower and be hit with a sudden wave of shame and thoughts like, "im disgusting, im cleaning the dirt off myself and now they (no clue who they is supposed to be) know im dirty."
i dont even know when it started😭
sameee but it started because when i was younger i used to do like weird things and think it’s funny and pretend like i was on call with my classmates and they saw what i was doing and thought it was funny but now i continuously have a feeling people are watching me and judging me like how you are and it’s still here to this day
Same here!
I appreciate that he put the fear of ‘Deja vu’ in there, TWICE
IRONIC, ain’t it?
I'm afraid that a bee is in my headphones even though I know it isn't possible, and I wear headphones all the time.
i have quite a few phobias and fears, but my weirdest one is having sharks fall on top of me. i believe it was sparked by a nightmare i had as a child after visiting an aquarium with a shark tunnel. in my dream, the tunnel shattered and all the sharks in the tank fell on top of me. this combined my fear of sharks, the ocean, being crushed and drowning, as i am now being crushed to death by sharks while drowning. its something i still fear, not just in shark tunnels but sometimes i get this overwhelming fear that sharks are above me right now and if i make a single mistake they are falling on top of me.
That is terrifying
Must've hated the sharknado movie
I had a nightmare of being flushed down a toilet not as scary now but still the thought of that is kinda terrifying even tho it physically can’t happen
I was originally afraid of that kind of thing but im over it. I didnt have any dreams like that though
One of my biggest fears was having giant sharks (we are talking millions of kms) fall from the clouds. I still have it.
I’m terrified of waking up one morning to find myself terrified of all the things I enjoy- like bugs, snakes, lizards and such. I adore them. I fear the thought of becoming fearful.
That is a _really_ sad thought...
A while back, I was concerned that I would develop a fear of bats (I love bats). I told my therapist that it was really important to me that I didn't develop such a phobia, and she suggested doing a bunch of research on them. Humans naturally fear the unknown, after all, so the more you know about something, the less scary it will be.
I don't know if that helps at all, but this made me so sad that I really wanted to do whatever I can to try and help.
I always liked clowns. Any clowns, even those, who are deliberately scary. And I fear that someday it will change.
But it still makes me really sad that a lot of people are afraid of them or hate them. Even my good friend was once so scared by a guy in a creepy clown costume (he was advertising a scary attraction in the middle of a well lit busy street) that she wanted to beat him up. In my country you can't just become a clown. You have to graduate from a circus college first. And it's really hard to get accepted to. So all the clowns here are just people who devoted their lives to making people a bit happier, to make them laugh, to teach them how to overcome every hardship with humor and a smile on their faces. And all they get for that is minimum wage and hatred. All because of the media and pranksters who taught people to be afraid of them or hate them. They so don't deserve it... I don't even know any other person who feels that way about clowns. Everyone I know hate them or scared of them. Just thinking about it makes me want to cry.
@@arima_song u ok bro
@@Ale-hl8ii uh... I mean... I'm probably not.
I can kind of relate to that. I get intrusive thoughts making me wonder if I actually hate the things that I like, and what my life would be like if I suddenly had no interest in any of my life goals. It's definitely crisis-inducing
Bold of him to put the deja vu twice of course
Trypophobia. I have a panic attack and nightmares when i see large clusters of holes
I have submechophobia, which is the irrational fear of man-made objects underwater. Most people with this phobia get freaked out by shipwrecks, underwater plane crash sites, the underwater parts of oil rigs/ boats, which are all freaky to me, but my phobia is mainly fixated on pool drains and pool lights. My parents used to bribe me to go touch a drain or pool jet, but I would always be too afraid to try. I’m always kinda tense if I try to take a bath because tub drain always freaks me out, but it’s more manageable
Good lord. I'm afraid of drains and can barely take a shower, let alone a bath. I can totally relate.
I actually Can relate, man made objects under that water freaks me out, Pool Jets don’t but totally pool drains
It's Submechanophobia you Tinky-Winky lookin ass
I am repulsed by negative numbers
I have this same fear :(
I have an irrational fear that in the middle of a social interaction I'll suddenly start berating people about nonsense.
I recognize this one! Or start hurting them just out of nowhere with absolutely no reason to, like you lose control over your own movements and speech
This one will come true as you age.
My mom is afraid of elevators, like she prefers walking 6 floors up the stairs, than taking a 15 second ride.
See the good side
In case of a fire, she won't have the suicidal reaction to take the elevator
And in general, she's healthier this way, doing physical exercise constantly :D
@@fenrir6911 That's a good point mate lol but sometimes her fear of elevators is irrational af
I am paranoid that all of my favorite characters are secretly watching me from the walls, judging me
My big phobia (still after 4 years) is emergency alerts. It doesn't matter if its a tornado warning, amber alert, even just a "dont drink the water its contaminated" warning I still freak out the same way. I've had legitimate nightmares where I've been trapped in a room watching a never-ending emergency alert
That reminds me of a lucid dream I had
I was playing a game in vr in the dream and it turned into a real room and every time I would take the headset off it would jump scare me in real life and I was forced to restart AND I WAS CONSCIOUS WHILE IT WAS HAPPENING it felt like it was never gonna end
Until I woke up
Lmfao yeaaah. I’m more afraid of the alerts than the actual warning. At 5am, one went off. As an adult man, I almost cried. Than I read it and it said “local power plant has started showing signs of a meltdown (something like that). Seek shelter. This is not a drill.” My fear didn’t increase. And I felt relieved when the alarm stopped making sounds and went back to bed……it was an error at the plant. So, confirmed: I’m more afraid of an alarm sound than dying in a nuclear explosion. People were late for work that day. Some could not come in. My one coworker was already in a different continent. She was like “oh. It was a fluke? I’m like 5 hours away….can’t make it.” Understandable. Actually, a completely rational response to the situation, given the information provided. Even more rational given, the town I was in at the time was like 10 kilometres away from said power plant. But, yeah. Also, in elementary school, my mark would drop by like 30% in classes with a fire alarm in them, because I would spend most of the class with my ears covered. So yeah…..I get this. Funnily enough, I’m a musician/ producer now, and I really fuck with sound design, so it’s got me wondering if their is some correlation between general emotional ties to noise, and musical comprehension as a whole. Cuz it makes some sense. If you feel fear greater around sounds, you may feel other things more as well. So like, anybody who relates to alarm fear, do ya play an instrument or something?
SAME GHFUOGUOSDHUO
I know I shouldn’t be laughing but god damn 😂 why would you only fear that you’d be trapped in a room with blazing sounds, I’d worry more about something coming in the room on top of the sounds
Kinda used to have that frear
In primary school, I wrote a story about an alien getting bullied by other aliens for being afraid of soup. As I got older, I always thought it was a very random and silly thing to come up with, but there actually is a person with a fear of soup out there! I can't believe this!
i have this distinct memory of 4-6 year old meme walking in a mall then seeing the starbucks logo, be absolutely hypnotized by it and then start bawling my eyes out in fear
Cars driving by my house, especially when I’m downstairs and it’s nighttime, it gives me anxiety
As I kid, I used to be terrified of Dr. Seuss. Well not exactly Dr. Seuss himself, but the books he wrote. The artstyle, the rhymes, and the themes shown in the story made me have nightmares, and when my parents bought a set of 42 books by Dr Seuss to encourage reading, not knowing I was afraid of those books, I demanded it be placed under my table so I wouldn't have to see it. Even then I'd still get scared thinking about the books under my table.
I actually had a similar thing with some books. Forgot what they were but the covers were weird so you aren't alone,I don't particularly like the Dr Seuss books anyway
Well, it is a very surreal art style. I can't say I blame you, it'd be confusing to anyone who is't familiar with it.
i once had this book about west virginia folklore and had tons of new fears after finishing it, but most of all of the flatwoods monster.
@@helencrw12 at 8 i was watching gore and shit swearing it didn't scare me but had 3 sleepless nights in a row
ME TOO! I had to double check that I wasn't the one who wrote this comment haha! I still get heebee geebees every time I see his art. I can't watch The Grinch or the original Lorax movie (the newer one I'm fine with, tho).
I think it all started with that one book about "If I ran the Circus." There was a monster who ate sidewalks, trees, and children. I was probably 3 when I read that... It haunts me to this day.
I really hate emergency alerts or alarms. They sound really creepy and ominous, and thinking about what they’re warning you about is even scarier. There have been countless times where I’ll wake up in the middle of the night hearing an alarm going off while my furby just stares at me from up on my shelf.
man i love the american eas so much, there's so much information in those sounds and it's a necessary evil
Same, I once heard a flash flood warning and literally had to lay down for a while
Not so much those but it’s fire alarms for me. I get very nervous when I hear an alarm even if I know it’s a test and almost go into a panic attack. Never been involved in a fire, so idk where this fear came from, maybe from school when we had fire drills.
Wooden cookware gives me the shivers... I avoid desperately holding them.
i’m like. genuinely terrified of old people. their skin is so saggy and wrinkly it makes me feel physically sick and i can never tell if they’re gonna yell at me or if they’re just genuinely trying to tell me something. like if i see an old person in a public space i feel the need to get away as soon as possible so i don’t have to interact with them
1.)Turning 24 this month, and that 18 year old who is terrified of growing older embodied my own feelings
2.) The 6'11 guy scared of ants may just be a small elephant
And the poster who's afraid of meteors might be a dinosaur
This is how phobia related humor should work instead of the mean spirited stuff you see all too often. I love this self aware “man our brains can be so weird” approach. It can be quite cathartic. My mom once knew someone terrified of large leaves to the point he’d break out in cold sweats. Someone also mentioned fear of pregnant women. I know someone who is very whigged out by the idea of pregnancy so was quite happy to learn she’s very unlikely to ever get pregnant due to a physical thing.
Not quite a phobia, but I have anxiety and for so long used to get very antsy whenever Nightwing would show up in a comic I was reading, especially unexpectedly. I think it’s largely because I heavily associate him with my brother who I even affectionately call my Nightwing and have saved as Nightwing in my phone and the image I have of the character is just generally really particular and really important to me so I would get quite anxious worrying something might ruin him. I’d legit feel all tingly from sheer nerves. What makes it really weird is that I’d only get like that if he was Nightwing. If he showed up as Robin or Grayson Batman or something else I was fine. But if he was Nightwing I’d be anxious. It also only happened with main universe comics. Nothing happened if I saw him in an elseworld comic or in a show or video game. It was by far the most oddly insanely specific part of my anxiety disorder for years. Eventually it just kinda…. stopped. Still not sure why it suddenly stopped but I’m not exactly complaining. My anxiety is usually pretty vague and just “what if SOMETHING goes wrong” but this one bit of it was abnormally specific and direct.
i'm gonna be honest, i thought you were talking about the dragon tribe from Wings of Fire until i saw the other names
Its late and to long to read this, ill be back tomorrow
Well said! I need to reframe my thoughts like that as well
I was reading it and I got confused when it turned into a comic comment but hey I love comics
I'm also irked by pregnancy, and that's why I was so happy to find out I have polycystic ovaries. That decreases the chance of being able to successfully carry a child by a fair bit. Also decreases the chances of actually conceiving as well.
The buoy guy makes complete sense, those things freak me out too
im scared of getting an icepick shoved under my toenail. Thanks a lot Weird Al 💀