Trump and his supporters.
Fair
The least logical thing I know is Donald Trump, and I’m afraid this idiot will set the world on fire…
American civil war 2. Lack of utilities, medications, water and food. I know its unlikely but I don’t want to end up in a med tent suffering from a amputation or washing mustard gas out of my eyes.
Lack of utilities is coming
You got it backwards, OP asked about least logical.
teeth falling out in dreams, then it becoming partially true irl.
Human faces. Eyes and mouth specifically. When talking to people, I focus on their hair to not feel uncomfortable without breaking “eye contact.” Even my own face on mirror/camera feels “weird” to look at.
I grew up in the times of “look at me when I talk to you” and would get in trouble for “looking past the person”. So I developed an ability to make eye contact while unfocusing my eyes. Turns out if you make eye contact long enough people get uncomfortable and look away thereby letting you relax.
Dentist.
It’s irrational also. Everything’s fine and cute. I’ll lie down, open wide, all good.
But as soon as the tools dissappear into my mouth I blank. I tense up, heartbeat spikes, sweating. Once I tensed up to hard I accidentally ripped off the armrest and gave the poor dentist a black eye.
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Prions. Misfolded proteins that manage to get into your brain and just wreck shit. I don’t handle anything that would be contaminated or anything but just the idea of this non-living thing that will just replicate and cause havok - horrifying.
Mad cow disease is also caused by prions, which is why the cow’s body gets destroyed, not just buried.
Spontaneous human combustion.
Watched a documentary on it as a kid and I’ve had the fear in the back of my mind ever since
In the 80s we figured we would be abducted, if not that, it would be quicksand that got us, and if that failed,we would spontaneously combust, and if all else failed the hole in the ozone layer would destroy all life on earth. We were so concerned with all that happening that we all became kinda apathetic.
Swimming pool drains. I panic if I get above one. No idea why. I used to love swimming/diving as a kid but I always made sure to stay as far away as I can from the drains. I didn’t go to a swimming pool for like 20 years (mostly because of body dysforia but the drains did play a role as well), only recently I’ve been to a spa - and I’m like a cat with a cucumber around the drains.
Oh, and leeches. Never want to see one of those fuckers in real life.
Also I have a fear of getting worms. One of my late cats got that type which, if in a wrong host, can travel to the eyes.
Swimming pool drains.
Not irrational; I’ve seen a crab get sucked through a tiny slit into an underwater pipe, shell and all. There’s YT footage I won’t post to save your sanity.
Delta P (difference is pressure) can be absolutely terrifying.
i wouldn’t recommend looking into it but a fear of pool drains is not illogical. the pressure differences have caused some absolutely horrifying deaths, albeit only a few ever
Yea, I won’t look into it. 😂
The invisible shark in the swimming pool. I will say nothing more
#omgsotrue
Invisible shark doot doot de doot de doo
Literally same here. Even getting skeeved out swimming in a video game.
I see you and salute you, internet person 🫡 Steering this anxiety riddled meatsack around the globe is suboptimal.
Definitely don’t play Sharks and Minnows, then…
I never knew that existed before today! Thanks, I hate it! 🤣🤣
Helicopter rotor blades. I’m afraid they will hit my eyes. Even seeing them on a video is very uncomfortable and I have to look away or close my eyes until they’re gone.
Pilot here. I’m afraid of running rotors and propellers because they can fucking mince you. I worked on Rotax 912-powered aircraft for awhile, they have twin carburetors that have to be balanced, ie the throttle valves have to open the same amount or one side of the engine is trying to run harder than the other. This has to be done with the engine running. If I had to get from one side of the engine compartment to the other, I’d walk around the tail.
How are you with kitchen blenders?
They don’t bother me. The blades are not exposed. I also own a ceiling fan and it doesn’t bother me either, even though it has exposed blades.
Huh. I, on the other hand, have weirdly intrusive thoughts with smaller blades, like a kitchen blender or an uncovered fan, but a helicopter doesn’t faze me. Although can’t say I’ve ever been in one, but I’ve been very close by.
Anyway when blending shit I sometimes have intrusive thoughts. I don’t think I’d have a garbage disposal like I see in the movies. They’re probably not even allowed here in Finland, and my laziness would want one, but my accident-prone-ass knows I probably shouldn’t get one even if I could.
I once bought a mandolin for my kitchen. Here’s Jeremy Clarkson demonstrating what happens to everyone who buys their first mandolin without having read the stories.
As someone who’s embarked and disembarked a helicopter with rotors spinning a myriad of times, I get it.
Dropping my phone when I’m in a high place
Put it into airplane mode and worry no more.
OMG you made me audibly giggle
Illogical fears require illogical solutions!
Hey, that’s a perfectly logical solution. Airplanes fly. Turning your phone into airplane mode obviously makes it behave like an airplane. Therefore, a phone in airplane mode can fly.
Similar, when I’m in a high place and I look down I have the sensation that my glasses will fall from my face into the void.
My glasses never have fallen from my face even doing jumps or stunts, but for some reason when I’m looking down from a balcony I’m terrified that they’ll just drop.Or when you walk over the threshold of an elevator door and there is that little gap. Same with keys.
Understandable
Honestly bees freak me out. I don’t run away screaming when they come around, but I get very tense. Even the fat fuzzy ones.
I have bad news for you: wasps.
My spouse was still sleeping earlier so I tried to sneak into the room to grab my phone I left on the nightstand. When I was walking out I stepped on a stuffed mouse on a string (usually hangs from a doorframe so the cat can play with it but he pulled it down apparently). When I stepped on it I thought it was a real animal and soon as my foot felt the pressure of pushing down on such an object I jerked it up roughly to my waist, kicked the door I was trying to walk through and it slammed shut.
One of those moments where you want to apologize, but really then you are just causing more noise to wake them up further.
Tldr; I’m an idiot
My childhood cat used to catch and eat mice. Unfortunately, it would leave their entrails on the kitchen floor. Listening to my mother curse, when she discovered them with her bare feet, was an interesting way to be woken up.
I think you got off lightly with the stuffed toy. 🤷♂️😅
Surprisingly often at the beach near me I’ll step on a whiting that wriggles off.
I have very mixed feelings about this: first I jump 10 feet in the air, then I worry that I hurt the fish, then I regret not catching & eating it.
Edit: also relief that is wasn’t a flathead or baby stingray.
Flying insects. I scream. Period.
Also, I adore them and I am fascinated by them. Period.
Fuckin hate bugs
I relate very much with the first half. For me, even the non flying ones seem to immobilise me. But I really don’t understand how you find them adorable. I mean I totally understand that they’re a very important piece of the ecosystem, but holy shit does my body stop working when I see one
I don’t find them adorable as in: 😍 but I rather adore the wonders that they bring to the world, like you said. So more as in: 🧐😯 check out eusociality and prepare to have you mind BLOWN 😃
