[GOD]

Hi Everyone. God here.

I was just doing my rounds and I thought I would catch up on all the phobias I created for you. Glad to see the Cotton Wool one is doing well.

All the best

God


I am GOD..You are Not..I don't exist !!

[sharkeyandgeorge]

a phobia is just an irrational fear so fear of hights not so much a phobia as it can be life threatning also arachnophobia in uk a phobia but in a jungle with spiders that can kill you its a survival tool as for myself am just too lazy to be that frightened about anything

"I realised i was sitting on a thousand tons of fuel in a rocket built by the lowest bidder"  John Glen

[leeds laura]

i'm a bit new to this! but i totally agree on the fear of clowns! and i also get the fear when i see those street entertainers who are pretending to be robots, painted head to toe in silver! creepy. [)]

[drkev]

i just cant hold cotton wool it makes me feel very creepy and uncomfortbale. I can use cotton buds but its the balls of cotton wool, i cant have them in my hand at all.

I hate mime artists there is something really odd about them but clowns really do it for me.

Live long and Love life

Kevin Fisher

[ROBERT]

quote:Originally posted by MissMontana


Not keen on cotton wool either, I think it's the funny squeaky noise it makes when you squeeze it

Clown-phobia and needle-phobia are conditioned responses: they are learned.
However the screech of nails on blackboard, and the squeak of cotton wool cause disgust because of a resonance effect analogous to "brown noise" discussed elsewhere on this site.
The unpleasant effects of these sounds are innate, physiological, NOT learned, so they are not actually phobias.

Differentiating between psychological and physiological effects is important. Psychological conditioning can unlearned: phobias can be cured by psychotherapy. Physiological reflex actions cannot be altered by psychotherapy.  

[Soul Surfer]

I am not afraid of cotton wool I just find the feel of it very unpleasant and try to avoid it if posssible but it does not stop me from using the stuff.  I cannot see why it should be unpleasant. I think it must be a sensory warning like a bitter tase or a bad smell but I can't think what.  Fine fibres can be very dangerous and irritating and the creaky feel may be a way of sensing fine fibres.

Learn, create, test and tell
evolution rules in all things
God says so!

[tony6789]

I don't really have a phobia that i know of

[fmj1179]

I hate snakes....Far as I know, nothing has happened involving a snake but when I see one I just jump out of my skin and am to afraid to even scream.

There are a lot of things I just don't like but snakes are the worst.

Did I just say that out loud?

[ukmicky]

DOG SALIVA.

Michael

[moonfire]

I hate crowded elevators or really tight spots where tons of people stand shoulder to shoulder.and will wait until there are fewer people or find stairs in the case of elevators, snakes(but do like to look at them in aquariums, foil, needles, chalkboard, mom's cooking...ick!

"Lo" Loretta