What are your fears??

I have many, but my main one's are heights and water. Any height greater than atleast 5 meters I get really really paranoid and unsteady and when I'm really high I get vertigo. Speaking of heights, one time we were at dreamworld on the gold coast, and my brother forced me to go on the giant drop, the tallest free fall ride in the world. I was as pale as a gohst getting on it. It slowly takes you up to the top, then waits there for 40-50 seconds, and without warning, just drops you. The worst thing was, I nearly died, literally. When it was about to fall, I was looking down out of curiosity, and it dropped, and while it was falling I could not get my head back up from my knees. It hurt like hell. After the ride had finished, the operator said, "jeeze are you alright? You nearly broke your neck". For about 2 weeks after, I could feel a intense neck pain, chest pain and upper back pain.
And water cause I nearly died in it, i jumped in and somehow dislocated my shoulder with the enterance so i couldn't swim, i stayed under for about a minute and i can only hold my breath for about 40 seconds so.....

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riley

Heights, including flying and spiders which is why I'm glad I don't live where you do. They petrify me. Living in NYC with a height problem was occasionally problematic also.

CC

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Whats wrong with spiders? The way they move? Yer that kinda creeps me out, but I'm not scared of em.

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riley

Its just a phobia man, I dont know what it is. Cant be helped. I freeze on sight of them if they're big. I kill them if small.

CC

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I'm petrified of heights,I get vertigo when I step up on a curb.I also have this thing about insects of any kind especially cockroaches (which we don't have here,thank God)and European earwigs.Butterflies and caterpillers I don't mind but anything else just gives me the willies.Oh I don't mind spiders that much but I won't handle them.

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When I was a facilities manager, the girls in accounting called me at my extention screaming, and telling me to get up to the front of the building. I figured we had an intruder and showed up ready for a confrontation. It turned out to be a very small spider hanging down from the ceiling on a single thread.

I asked if that was what they called me for and they all said yes. It was at about head level, and I walked over and ate. The girls flipped.

Actually, that was a mistake on my part. My tongue started going numb rather quickly. I ran to the coke machine and washed the poison away.

Eating a spider is the kind of thing people talk about and it led to more spider eatings. I have retired from such things now...so don't ask.

yer I understand. Whenever I see a spider I just leave it alone.

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riley

read the first post now, I updated it and told a little story about me nearly braking my neck as a result of height.

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riley

I can stand the heights it the thought of falling that does it for me. I am perfectly fine going up in the Eiffel Tower but those free drop machines in theme parks and carnival. No way Jose.

A friend of mine had a similar story as you Riley. We were at a theme park in Benidorm Spain. He and couple of my friends went in the free fall machine (which I skipped). When the machine was at the top they stopped for a while and my friend got impatienced and looked down and at the same time the machine went into free fall, he almost $@!& his pants.

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Deyr fé
Deyja frændr
Deyr sjálfr ið sama
En orðstír
Deyr aldregi
Hveim er sér góðan getr

Yer, the feeling of falling is just insane...I never want to experience it again....And the feeling of nearly breaking your neck.

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riley

When I was a wee lad about 4 years old my older brother and I and one other boy, Roger, all lived in a new housing development in Dekalb Illinois. We located a big plank and were somehow able to get one end up on the roof of a ranch-style house being built nearby. Then, because a 4 year old is so intelligent, we all climbed up on the roof of this house. My brother and Roger went down before I did and pulled the plank off the roof. For having no other way down, I jumped off.

I am deathly afraid of heights but can work if I absolutely must. I refuse to pay someone to go on my house and brush out the pipes to my wood burning stove. I must admit that those first few minutes up there are nothing short of terrifying. The neighbors must laugh seeing this 230 pound biker guy up on his roof taking little tiny baby steps the whole way!

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This reminds me.

After lunch I am going up on a roof platform 18 meters (59 feets) above ground, after lunch. The year I started working here there was this contractor who met his maker aftet falling from the roof. I remember the first couple of weeks when ever I went up on that roof I felt a little chilly walking past where the man fell, but now I go up there almost with out thinking about it (My workplaca has this safety form called take 5, where the suggest you think about all the dangers doing certain jobs and how you can prevent accidents from happening).
The contractor was wearing a safety harness but it wasn't connected to anything.
I love the fact that the corp. I am working for learns from sad accidents like that, and now everybody that are working at height more than 4 meters have to wear safety harness (and of course safely connected).

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Deyr fé
Deyja frændr
Deyr sjálfr ið sama
En orðstír
Deyr aldregi
Hveim er sér góðan getr

Infallible web dogma and 99.99% of bugs.

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I'm not afraid of heights, I like the view
I'm not afrad of falling, falling is fun
I'm afraid of impact mind you.

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