Odd phobias

Ive got the radio on in the background. Some lunatic has phoned in and explained his phobia of pigeons.

Has a tourettes thing where he shouts out "pigeon" every now and then. he wakes in the middle of the night and screams "PIGEON!" sometimes and his mum has to calm him down. 18yrs old. vaguely remembers being attacked by one when he was younger.

"if i see a pigeon i try to walk by it, pretend its not there and close my eyes"

then he said "i worry about going up to glasgow cos there will be pigeons there. quite a lot in fact. they make this woo oohh noise, why do they have to do it?"
DJ:"do that noise again"
lunatic: "no."
DJ: "would you like to lose the fear?
lunatic: yes
DJ: are you ready?
lunatic: yes.
DJ: ok, stay on the line."

so i text in saying i have nightmares about them too and someone tried calling me back. left a voicemail to say "if you want to call back that would be good to give "Blair" some support"

Crying with laughter.

Explain your most unusual phobias!

i wouldn't say i have a phobie of them, but i'm not a pigeon or seagull fan (or most birds for that matter, but especially those two).

i bet you dont wake up screaming PIGEON in the middle of the night though!!

Pigeons are damn dirty birds, to be fair. I'm not sure if I have a phobia per se, but I have a strong aversion to walking over those metal grates you occasionally find on the sidewalks. You know, the ones you walk over and there's nothing but an empty void below them. Freaks me out. I'm always scared there will be some freak accident where the metal grate is faulty and I plummet 4 feet to my death.

Another one I used to have, but it doesn't really seem to bother me anymore-- I used to worry when waiting at a train/s-bahn crossing, that as the train was screaming by, a loose piece of gravel or a rock might fly up and knock my tooth out.

It's amazing to see some of the more unusual recognized phobias though. Imagine having "Ithyphallophobia - Fear of Erections"

Bizarre Phobias.

I actually have an irrational fear of pigeons too. There is no explanation for it. But I've been known to cross the road to avoid a flock of pigeons, and I hate it when little children chase pigeons around beer gardens and make them fly all over the place in panic.

The seagulls, now the seagulls are a different story. They're just evil creatures. I have a deathly fear of them too. But that's because I was once attacked, and it hurt. A lot.

I have had a certain weakness for parthenophobia ever since I used it in a pub quiz.

Having watched far to many horror films as a kid when I should not have I was having trouble sleeping.

Not nightmares, just that thing where it all goes quiet and your brain, being a funny thing decides to make you think about all the horror films.

My parents mention this to our GP while he was visiting my mother.

he asked me if I was scared of the dark, he said it was common.

I said the dark was ok, however all the monsters that hide there were cause for concern.

The doctor looked at me, looked at my parents and said...

'Thats quite logical reasoning for a yound child'..

Around this time I developed the habit of looking under my bed to see if 'anything' was under there.

My mother saw me doing this and asked me why. Not wanting to tell her I just said I was just looking.

To this she said 'you should be carefull when doing that, you may find what you are looking for.

Child -> Over active imagination...

So, whats best, to look and risk finding what I am looking for or nt look and risk it being there anyway...

Perhaps it only appears because you are looking for it... So if i dont look for it, it may not be there. Then again, i it is and i dont look...

Kept my brain occupied for ages.

I had snakes in the bottom of my sleeping bag. My Ma was convinced that wolves slept under her bed.

I am just jumpy. I don't like to be surprised with a tap on the shoulder etc. I jump about 10 feet in the air (or collapse to the floor). The family knows not to do this. I am the black sheep of the family AND the fainting goat as well.

It also means if I am meeting someone in a bar/place/airport I scan extra doublehard around looking for them 'cos I HATE it if I they find me first, and tap me on the shoulder.

I also have desks in rooms etc arranged so that I can always see people coming. It is bad Feng Shui anyway to have your back to a door.

I have a fear of bad beer and dirty glasses. Also dirty tap lines in pubs. It hasn't gotten to the point of me waking up screaming 'it's been two weeks clean your freaking tap lines for christs sake!', but it's getting close. The other phobia I'm slowly developing is going to small house breweries run by someone that has no idea about sanitation.

I don't know that I have any qualifiable phobias, but I do worry when I find myself terrified that I might accidentally on purpose jump in front of an Ubahn, or accidentally on purpose run my car off the road - you know, all that existential dread stuff. I'm not suicidal in the least, though I still get the random urge to jump off tall things or turn into oncoming traffic. Freaks me right out.

The last person I know who said just about exactly what you just posted ended up killing himself. Stay away from alcohol.

Sinophobia!

It actually pronounces the same as Xenophobia...interesting.

I have Trypophobia - Fear of Holes

I terrified of heights and falling, but for some reason always end up suggesting we climb the touristy church steeples when I travel. Oh and I'm a tad claustrophobic so that climb can be really fun sometimes