Phobia - Page 4

West Ender · 01-07-2006, 18:45

Is there such a thing as a fear of depths? I only ask because if I'm standing close to a high building and look up to the top I get dizzy, my stomach lurches and I feel as if I'm going to fall over. I'm not kidding, this really happens, though being on top of a height doesn't bother me at all.

Busman747 · 01-07-2006, 21:21

For those that attended my marriage to Willow last year, you may remember that the themed colours were ivory and burgundy and we had an abundance of balloons to match.

My best mans wife pleaded with me NOT to put up any balloons as she has a bad phobia. As the purchase had already been made and the gas ordered, I had to break the news to her that the balloons WILL be going up! Despite being a good and close friend for a long time and that her husband was the best man, she declined the journey up north simply because she could not face being in a room that has inflated balloons.

Madhatter · 01-07-2006, 21:38

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Originally Posted by West Ender

Is there such a thing as a fear of depths? I only ask because if I'm standing close to a high building and look up to the top I get dizzy, my stomach lurches and I feel as if I'm going to fall over. I'm not kidding, this really happens, though being on top of a height doesn't bother me at all.

Thats the same as some people get at the top of the building. thats virtigo.

WillowTheWhisp · 01-07-2006, 21:44

We even promised that Busman's best man's wife could stay outside and we would bring food out to her, or stay in the part of the room (separated by an archway) where there were no balloons as the balloons were only in the front area and not in the rear and only at the reception not at the church but even the prospect of being close to the balloons was enough to stop her coming.

Madhatter · 01-07-2006, 21:54

Some people have a fetish for balloons, they want to have sex in a room full of them.

jambutty · 02-07-2006, 09:43

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Originally Posted by West Ender

Is there such a thing as a fear of depths? I only ask because if I'm standing close to a high building and look up to the top I get dizzy, my stomach lurches and I feel as if I'm going to fall over. I'm not kidding, this really happens, though being on top of a height doesn't bother me at all.

By looking up West Ender you were probably putting some pressure on the blood supply to the brain and restricting it a little. Thus you got dizzy etc.

shillelagh · 02-07-2006, 22:57

My phobia is snakes. Cant stand them. If i see a picture of one i have nightmares. I went to chester zoo once and i wouldnt go in the tropical house because i would have had to go past the snakes to get out and while i was waiting for the rest of the family to come out i got talking to the woman behind the desk and she told me one of the keepers had been bit by one a couple of days before and that made me even more determined not to go in there.

All the talk of the spiders I had a mate who was scared of spiders but he wanted to see the film arachnaphobia. Anyway we were watching it and everytime a spider came on he hid behind a pillow. Anyway half way through watching the film and his head hid behind the pillow i ran my fingers up his back I've never seen anyone move so fast out of the room! I was laughing my head off!

Madhatter · 03-07-2006, 00:07

Was driving along friday, and the car infront must have clipped a snake in the road, it zigzaged across towards the gutter, I think I missed it, but it looked quite big, about three feet long, 3 inch high, is that a grass snake? I thought grass snakes were smaller than that.

WillowTheWhisp · 03-07-2006, 08:30

That does sound big for a grass snake.

pendy · 03-07-2006, 12:52

Grass snakes can grow quite large. My cousin in Kent kept losing fish from her pond, as did her neighbours, so they kept a look out for a heron. One day she noticed something greenish hanging over the pond. Thinking it was a plant which had fallen down, she went over to put it back. It was a grass snake, and she said it was as thick as her arm - obviously well fed! It could have been a baby python that had got loose, but more likely to be a grass snake, sort of sludgy greenish thing? Yes, I fear, loathe and detest snakes - but it's a question of "know thine enemy"!