What is yours? When I was a kid, it was being out in the woods and seeing bigfoot or a ufo. Scared the shit right out of me. You couldn't catch me out in the woods late at night for love or money. Now as an adult, my biggest irrational fear is being tied to an anchor, and dropped over board off of a boat in the ocean (thanks Dateline NBC for that one).
Being tied down and having a woodpecker peck on my chest. Getting a million paper cuts and then sliding into a pool of lemon juice. Having my nuts popped with pliers.
Sliding down a 50-ft razor blade into a vat of iodine. Being a woodpecker and being forced to peck MickZagger's chest. Being confined in jlprk's armageddon bunker while he tunes in a Blazer game on the rabbit ears TV.
I have recurring nightmares that this stacked blonde in a tight red miniskirt asks me to open a wine bottle she can't handle, and I'm grunting and kicking and getting a cramp in my neck but I can't twist it open.
Oh shit, you went there. It's almost being like struck by lightning if you're not of a few demographics. Mine used to be dying in a nuclear war. The Day After taught me about this during the Reagan years. Shortly thereafter, after I figured out that a global nuclear was against America wouldn't happen, was the mini-series V, when I was afraid that lizards disguised as humans would start eating us all.
Well, some fears are rational. As far as irrational, I would say my acrophobia. Yes, it makes sense to be afraid if a person is 50 feet in the air on a beam, but I get nervous on a stepladder. I get nervous in situations where I'm on solid ground but have the sensation of falling, for example, I can't lie on my back outside and look up at the sky. Never be a skydiver, obviously.
The feeling I'm always being watched. Like someone recording all my calls, e-mails, texts, tracking me everywhere I go. That someone is listening in on my conversations in my house and watching me through my webcam and TV. Oh, wait.... Go Blazers
I am a poor swimmer, so suddenly slipping and falling off of a dock while walking around on docks. We also take our dog, about 1.5yr, on hikes. I'm afraid of him being stupid and smelling/chasing something off the edge of a cliff.
