4/20/23


Happy 4/20 day!
Marijuana and me never really agreed. 
It mellowed me out way too much and I just wanted to stare at the lights. 
I know some people get super paranoid when they smoke the stuff so it reminded me of some of my irritational fears. 


  • Swimming in the ocean and getting attacked by a shark. I can thank watching "Jaws" at a way too early age for this fear. I know the odds but I am still fearful of going into the ocean because I think I am going to become a shark Lunchable.

  • Unable to get a contact lens out of my eye. It has never happened but I have had a few get stuck in the corner and it took a few minutes to remove them. 
  • Being framed for a crime and going to prison. Maybe too many crime TV/movie dramas but I can let my imagination run wild and think that my spit or fingernail might be found in an area like a playground where a crime was committed and they can trace it back to my DNA.

  • Getting locked in an industrial-sized freezer. I worked at a daycare facility when I was a teenager and was putting away food in the freezer when one of the kids shut the door while I was in there. Fortunately, another staff member saw it happen but it left a mark.

  • Snakes coming through your plumbing. I have read news stories about people getting bit by snakes while they were on the toilet and I also remember a movie where a snake came through the faucet while someone was taking a bath. 


Do you have any irrational fears you want to share?


Thanks for swinging by, take care and I will talk to you tomorrow.




I will persevere.
I will keep moving forward.
I will be the stream.

Comments

  1. Irrational fears may be unlikely to happen but they are not guaranteed to not happen. Can you tell I have a few myself? Being shut in a walk-in freezer is one that freaks me out as well. I read about it happening and it just seems so horrible. Okay, I am not helping here, am I? lol I also think about rats coming up the sewer into the toilet because I read about that too. Geez, maybe I need to stop reading! Fear is an evolutionary thing that is meant to help us so I don't worry about it too much. Most of the time, anyhow :)

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    1. You did not help me out, jenny_o, but thanks for trying. =)

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  2. Just to add to your list of fears, rats can apparently come up through the toilet too.

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  3. Those are not irrational fears. Being attacked by a space alien is irrational but your scenarios are unlikely but possible. Being trapped in a tunnel is my irrational fear, not because it couldn't happen but because, due to my fear, I would never go into a tunnel. Or a small cave, no thanks.

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  4. I have an irrational fear of centipedes. I had to kill one this week in our bathroom and now I find myself stepping over that spot, even though I used soap and a paper towel to clean it afterwards. I'm constantly afraid I'll step on one in the middle of the night when I got to the bathroom. They are just so nasty and run so fast.

    I'm also deathly afraid of heights. At the Grand Canyon, I walk on the outside edge of the paved path, even though the path is not anywhere near the edge. I completely freaked out at Bryce Canyon and had to go sit down and put my head between my legs at one of those lookouts.

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    1. I am become a little more anxious about heights after I went up in a hot air balloon ride.

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  5. I have no irrational fear of anything coming through the toilet, as long as spiders can't do it!

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  6. I feel like we have some of the same irrational fears. I don't like going into the ocean because of sharks and I have been told that they can swim in as low as 3 feet of water. I am deathly afraid of snakes and finding them in the basement in the fire place. One of my friends heard rustling in her attic and an exterminator found a snake up there. I am afraid of heights, really afraid of heights. Also afraid that someone will break into my home and hold me hostage

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    1. I think if we found a snake in our house we would move immediately.

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  7. I have a phobia about bugs in the house. Unfortunately, it's not always irrational. I do wish it was.

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    1. I don't mind too many bugs but earwigs gross me out.

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  8. I don't fear marijuana, but I've never tried it either. I do have the same irrational fear of the ocean. Fun fact, the first time I saw jaws was when I was in a hospital after getting my tonsils out. I jerked the IV clean out of my arm, tape and all. I don't fear snakes in plumbing but I do in outhouses. That is a story for another day.

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    1. I don't know if I will ever be ready to read that story, Ed.

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  9. I have a fear of long bridges over a large expanse of water giving way and dumping me in, say, the Ohio or Mississippi River. I am also afraid of extreme heights and won't look over edges into canyons, for example.

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    1. When we first crossed over a few big bridges that spanned the Mississippi, I was a little anxious.

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  10. Boy I feel really boring right now because I don't think I have any. But Tony is afraid of spiders and big bridges.

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    1. Be grateful that you don't have any, kden.

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  11. I have a few fears that I think are normal (the biggest is the fear of heights), but my only irrational fear is of worms. Snakes are fine, but worms, no.

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    1. Worms are OK but I do get kind of grossed out when I have to put them on fishing hooks.

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  12. I have been in the ocean with sharks. Don't worry about too many of these others. As a kid, I used to have nightmares of tornadoes (which now fascinate me as long as they don't hit my house) and a nuclear war. I used to also be afraid of sumac, all which seems to no longer be an issue for me. Well, except when I hear Putin talking ;)

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    1. Nuclear war and tornadoes were really frightening to me when my dad was stationed in North Dakota and Alaska.

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  13. I have to sit in a restaurant facing the door. I know no one is going to shoot me in the back like Hickock. But with my mouth..you never know.

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