Irrational fears....

[gallicus]

Hmm... the only fear I can think of for me is bees/wasps/hornets. Of course, it's a warranted fear, since I've been stung at least 18 times in my life that I can remember (some were multiple stings from 1 insect though).

 

[nessonite1]

I dont think my fear of flying stingers is wholly warrented. As far as I know I've only been stung once, bya wasp. And it wasn't even flying around. It had gotten into our bedroom and hubby squished it. He thought it was dead but I guess it wasn't and it got onto the cvhair I was sitting on and stung me on the...um...hiney.
However I can't pass the area near our house where a man keeps bee hives (and they occasionally swarm) without feeling a tingling on my neck and I swear they're attacking me. I've actually had nightmares about this where I can very vivdly feel them flying around my neck. *shudder*

 

[Celtic_Emperor]

Ok, I finally remember one. I used to be afraid of needles (as in syringes). They don't hurt as much as they look like they will. And I used to have a fear they'd puncture something by accident or cut it open as it passed through my arm (like a vein or nerve or something).

The last time I got shots (which only several years back), I got 5 in a row in the same area of the arm one right after the other. The arm was numb for an hour or two because of it. While I didn't fear that, and I had this fear before this incident, I feared the needles themselves, fearing that they wouldn't put something good into me that would help me, but something that would hurt me, like poison. They looked menacing, sharp, and deadly. I also didn't trust the doctors when using them, fearing they might make a mistake, inject me the wrong way, or put the wrong medicine into me.

But that was my mentality on it as a kid, so I guess that doesn't count now. I haven't had to go to the doctor in a long time, many years in fact (not counting checkups), and when I do I just look the other way when getting shots. It goes by faster that way too. Same as when giving blood.

 

[Camel26]

My ler is deathly afraid of toe socks and grates in sidewalks...irrational fears indeed...😛

 

[waddleman1]

Being forced to call a customer survice hotline.

 

[CellarDweller]

What about scorpions? They don't fly, but they sting...and their sting is almost the most painful. I've been stung by one at age 7, so I can relate to this fear...

Well, where I am, there are no scorpions, so it's not an issue. lmao!

 

[CellarDweller]

i have a fear of large dogs.

That one is getting better for me. I used to be terrified by big dogs. When I was about 6 or 7, two huge German Sheppards were let out by their owner as I was riding a bike in front of their house, and they jumped at me, and knocked me down in the middle of the street. Thank God there were no cars coming at the time.