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Very little scares me, but I do have one embarrassing irrational fear. Lightning. My behavior with lightning likens to a phobia. Astraphobia, I believe, is the term for it. When driving home from work during a storm, I am paralyzed with mortal terror, in danger of wrecking because I won't stop staring at the sky, anxiously anticipating nearby lightning strikes. O_O' Even when I'm indoors, I'm filled with the "fight or flight" adrenaline rush, though I don't do anything as ridiculous as hiding in the closet or under the bed. ;) I know that lightning is capable of striking people inside the house, even if it is a rare occurrence.
I don't know where this fear of lightning originated in me. But then, where does any phobia come from?
Maybe I could face my fears by spending time in the Lightning Field in New Mexico. XD
Very little scares me, but I do have one embarrassing irrational fear. Lightning. My behavior with lightning likens to a phobia. Astraphobia, I believe, is the term for it. When driving home from work during a storm, I am paralyzed with mortal terror, in danger of wrecking because I won't stop staring at the sky, anxiously anticipating nearby lightning strikes. O_O' Even when I'm indoors, I'm filled with the "fight or flight" adrenaline rush, though I don't do anything as ridiculous as hiding in the closet or under the bed. ;) I know that lightning is capable of striking people inside the house, even if it is a rare occurrence.
I don't know where this fear of lightning originated in me. But then, where does any phobia come from?
Maybe I could face my fears by spending time in the Lightning Field in New Mexico. XD
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Date: 2009-10-18 02:56 pm (UTC)Your friend has a strange phobia indeed. :) I can't imagine where that one would have come from. I wonder if it has it's own scientific phobia name.
Fears
Date: 2009-10-18 07:22 pm (UTC)The fear of holes is called trypophobia.
I used to be very bothered by things consisting of millions of tiny granules, particularly baker's yeast. I think it may be because my mother told me it was alive when I first saw it. Something about the vastness of something made of such small particles is chilling. I am still bothered by things vaster than my comprehension, but I guess everyone is.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3452/3402575647_d3ed55ab40.jpg
http://www.bryanbybeedesign.com/hubull/_images/string-of-galaxies.jpg
Our solar system is a tiny speck in one of those galaxies.
http://www.albereo.com/img/Milky_Way_home.jpg
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Date: 2009-10-17 06:48 pm (UTC)I'm not sure where any phobia comes from, but I know that some are instinctive. Perhaps memories of a past life? I dunno - but I have observed that loud cracks or hisses (as a snake might make) will scare my horses, whereas equally loud and sudden but different sounds don't scare them. Maybe it's racial memory?
Anyway, if you're going to have a phobia, that's a pretty sane one!
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Date: 2009-10-18 03:03 pm (UTC)My mother once offered the suggestion of memories from a past life as well. :) But that's very interesting about your horses. I think we as humans have lots of instinctive fears as well. Some are almost universal, like the basic fear of the unknown. But all those other eccentric phobias.... where on earth did they come from? It's fascinating.
Yeah, I'm far less embarrassed about a fear of lightning than I would be a fear of mice or the color red or something. (I actually love mice. ^_^)