We all have irrational fears, not to mention rational ones. Me? I don’t do well with snakes, but they pretty much fall into the rational variety. Anything that can sneak up on you and deliver a lethal bite is worthy of my terror.
Of the irrational sort, I am afraid of clowns. In a big way. I’m a classic Bozo-phobe. I can even trace it back to an incident when I was about two years old and was taken to see a movie in a theater for the very first time. It was a matinee, back in the day when parents would drop kids off for the afternoon, unsupervised. Basically, it was anarchy. In between the Huey, Dewey and Louie cartoon and The Shaggy Dog, a special live appearance was made by Clarabell the clown. For those who don’t know, Clarabell was Howdy Doody’s sidekick. He didn’t speak (a particularly strange affectation embraced by some clowns) and only communicated through the honking of various horns. So this creep comes charging down the aisle, the kids go ballistic, and my brain exploded.
So it may be an irrational fear, but at least I have an excuse.
What irrational fears do you have?
nathan says:
@ Edward i feel you man my little brother and his friend did the same thing with the dolls to me and i have very keen smell and hearing considering im half blind i can barelly see anything im luck enough that my contacts make me see a little better and once i was sleeping when i heard a creak so i got up to check out what was going on and this is a fear i forgot about and another one after this but anyway i got out of bed and i swear to you we have a rocking chair in the living room this was 3 yrs ago and it was moving by it’s self so i went down there and saw my dog was on it>.> but it scared the crap out of me!! the other one im watching the T.V. when or some crazy reason (and i think i was hilousinating) but i was watching jurassic park and i heard a elp like the raptors made and im lik holy shi—- crap!!!!!!!!!!!! and i look behind me and there it was…. i screamed and it leaped at me and my parents woke up and saw nothing and tld me to shut up and go to sleep so now im afraid of dinosaurs and every time i think them being alive i feel like im going to get jumpped by one o.0 but ironicly i want to be a paliontologeist! >.>
nathan says:
If anyone understands what point im going at reply plz!!
nathan says:
wow ither nobody understands me or nobod is reading this >.>
nathan says:
wow ither nobody understands me or nobod is reading this >.> srry for the double type it locked out first one
mike kess says:
the fear i have is of dolls .you see when i was little and to this day my mother had quite a large amount of of old glass dolls .the reson the scare me is the eyes they are dark and black never blinking always looking never taking there eyes off you to this day (17 by the way ) i do not like to go in my mothers room alone.it has been to the point were i would cry when my mom put them near me i just cant be in the same room with
mike kess says:
them
nathan says:
ouch that’s got to suck man!
Edward Worton N.J. says:
@nathan
THANK YOU!!!!!!! finally someone understands where i’m coming from. and when i waS LITTLE i used to be afraid of dinosaurs too!!!!!!! I also once heard someone with a deep raspy voice say “Jason under here” that was when people called me jason. but the voice came from under my bed!!!!!!! i jumped five feet to the hall and slept on the couch.
Madge of Black Water says:
I think i may have fear of clowns….but its mostly just people with mascot masks on……I remember that i was hanging out with my friends at a football game and this guy in a mask came up the isle,and i whent BALISTIC!!!!creeeeeeeeppppyyyy……………..O_o
kimmie says:
Hahahah! I am deathly afraid of mayflies. They are like grandaddy longlegs with wings and I always think they are going to land on me and suck my blood. lol
nathan says:
@ Edward lol I rember once i was plaing video games and i saw a shadow so i looked at it nothing was there and then i saw it again and again and then finnally i saw it……. standing in front of me i saw a freaking monster frm the game i was playing i screamed and then sadly i was taken to a mental hospital for so called “imagining things” >.> but the thing is when i got out i saw it in my bed…… *shivers* call me crazy but i think it was Pedophile bear! o.0
Edward Worton N.J. says:
@nathan
I can’t tell if you’re making fun of me or not. My story is real.
Ben says:
Im terrified of mirrors especially when they’re in dark rooms or its even scarier in dim light.
Bob(not my real name) says:
i am freaked out by snakes and im the opposite of claustraphobic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kya says:
Hmm… Irrational fear. Spiders. Definatly spiders. I dont mind them if they are far away, but if they are close enough to touch me, i freak out. I also am terrified of needles, which is ironic, considering the fact that I have juvenile diabeties (which means alot of shots for me! Yayz!). I dont think having a fear of needles is irrational though, because anything that can inject you with poison and hurt you, you should be afraid of. If you arent afraid of needles or at least wary of them are either a diabetic or a meth addict.
Swiffy says:
Edward Worton N.J.:
O.K., I’m sorry. I used to be the same way, so i guess I don’t really have any room to talk… I think I was in a bad mood when I told you that.
But I gotta say that crickets are the scariest things…
Scarier than dinosaurs, voices saying, “Jason under here”, or even shadows. Don’t trust crickets!!!
Theyr’e really fightening!
Edward Worton N.J. says:
@swiffy
it’s. ok. i hate crickets too. have you ever seen a cave cricket? they’re huge and my house was infested with them once. i went to bed one night, and when i picked up my pillow, a dozen of them hopped away. one landed in my hair and got tangled up. i was freaking out.
Colin says:
i have alot of fears. Bugs, enclosed spaces, dark, enclosed spaces when its dark full of bugs. . . you get the idea.
Colin says:
Bees especially. I was three years old and wasps came and stung my head and arms and around my eyes. It was horrible. Now I’m still terrified of them. If I go outside and hear buzzing I run right back in my house.
Swiffy says:
No, I’ve never seen a cave cricket. But after what you just said, I don’t think i ever want to! lol
Corinne says:
Hmmm… I don’t really have any irrational fears. I used to be terrified of lightning (not anymore–I think it’s cool), I hate spiders and cockroaches. I used to be afraid of water which is so ironic because I’m on a swim team!
nathan says:
@Edward no I wasn’t makeing fun of you i swear i litterally saw it!!!!! lol im watching my grandfather go crazy about monsters this is him :WERE GUNNA DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TAKE COVER IN THE BASMENT KIDDIES ILL GET THE BEERZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol im laughing my butt off!
Edward Worton N.J. says:
@swiffy
trust me, you don’t want to see them
@nathan
why is your grandfather afraid? and why is he going to bring beer? why not just run out of the house? doesn’t he know that in horror movies, when weird things are going on, the one place that you’re never supposed to go, under any circumstances, is the basement?
Swiffy says:
Well, maybe he said WERE GUNNA DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He wanted to die having a good time, I suppose! lol
Jessica says:
I have an irrational fear of hornets…when I was two one stung me multiple times and I couldn’t get rid of it so I had this hornet chasing me around. Eventually I jumped in a swimming pool. But I still don’t like hornets.
Does Bobby Pendragon have any irrational fears…other then quigs?
kathleen says:
I fear water, and fish. I was bitten by one a few years ago, and now they freak me out SO much. And deep water just CREEPS ME OUT, expecialy water where I can’t see the bottom, it’s just too creepy. And boats, I can’t do boats.
Edward Worton N.J. says:
How were you bitten by a fish?
Markus says:
Im scared of finding someone who is smarter than me. (has not happened yet. 🙂 )
Hoyt says:
CLOWNS. Definitely Clowns. And a plane crash, though I suppose that isn’t irrational.
Jacob says:
@Kelsy R I have an irrational fear of spiders. Like if a see a spider it’s not really that I get freaked out but my mind starts jumping to thoughts of it climbing all over me and biting me (which really sucks cause I’m extremely allergic. I have an irrational fear for if I try to kill them. For some reason i always convince myself I’m gonna miss and just make it mad.
Another fear is of hights. If I’m in an airplane I’m fine, if I’m on a roller coaster I’m fine, I’d even probably be the first one to skydive out of my friends, but just when I’m thinking about doing it I’m scared. Like when I’m in line for the Millenium Force at Cedar Point I’m scared to death, then I get on and it’s awesome.
Darkness says:
i’m afraid of a lot of things: 1-spiders. I used to love spiders but i had a conapy over my bed a few years ago and there was a hole above my head. and one night i woke up and a spider was just about to crawl through the hole and land on me! i screamed and got my dad. since then i have been afraid of spiders.
2- natrual disaters and house fires. before 3rd grade i didn’t made natrual disaters much. then when we started learning about them and about the Roman city Pompeii and i learned what a volcano could do they were the ones i was most afraid of. and earthquakes cause we live on a fault line. i’m afraid of house fires because i know too many people who have been in a fire or have seen one that was close by and i have too many things that i couldn’t bare to lose.
3- the unseen. i’m not afraid of the dark, just what’s in it. i’ve watched too many horror movies and read too many scary books or just books where something that happens in the dark. so that’s why.
4- falling. i’m not scared of heights. well, maybe a little. but i’m more scared of falling and dying. or something like that.
5- burgalers, people creeping up on me, things like that. i swear we used to live in a haunted house. i would see things and hear things at night that would freak me out. now since our house is new i’m scared of burgalers. i hate it when people sneak up on me because i almost always can sense if someone is behind me. and once i was out with my parents a few years ago and this dude like followed us forever. it was freaky. he only stopped when he saw where we were going and then the next day we supposedly left the door open a bit and a person got in and stole some of my mom’s fake opal earrings. since then i’ve been afraid of burgalers.
Edward Worton N.J. says:
@ Markus
I’m probably smarter than you
Markus says:
i don’t care. you’re probably not.
Crim says:
Hmmm…..
Freshwater fish. No idea why. They’re just…. creepy. Tropical fish no problem.
2- Unevitable pain- I hate knowing that something is going to hurt but you have to do it anyways. Like pulling a bee’s stinger out of your skin. Its already hurting and you know pain is going to come much worse before you get it out. Ugh. *shudders* Or popping something that’s broken back into place…
3- Trimmers- Yeah. What you use every week after you mow your lawn. Just think of the damage those things could do. Why isn’t there a horror movie about a guy with a trimmer?
Darkness says:
wow crim. freshwater fish? trimmers? i know that they are dangerous, but what’s so dangerous about fish? tropical fish are more dangerous than freshwater ones- priannas-. and i agree with you about unevitable pain. *shuders too*
Markus says:
@Edward
The Markus under you was not the real one. I bet you aren’t though.
Darkness says:
@ Crim
i meant shudders not shuders. sorry
Lead Traveler says:
Some heights. Meaning, I don’t mind being on an airplane, but i get scared when I am on a building that has a floor-to-celing glass window. If it seems possible that I could fall (even though I won’t), I get scared.
Darkness says:
i agree. see through floors, stay away from them. well, i don’t mind heights just the fact of falling and dieing is what scares the crap out of me.
Amily says:
hmmm…i have a few.Failing, embarrassing myself, the dark (what you don’t know can sooo hurt you).
i wouldn’t say i’m the opposite of claustrophobic but whenever i’m in an open space (gym class,outside,etc) i always have to have my hands in front of me or i have to have them doing something otherwise i just want to cry.
Being corrected (like anything at all, even a teacher or a friend)
I know this is extremely weird but i’m scared of dying before i finish a book or a series (it happened with twilight, pendragon, uglies and some others) because if i do i will never know how it ends!
…I’m such a freak…
i will be a Traveler says:
i am now officially scared of clowns. the 6th grade band was heading back from a competion in Fruitland (never heard of it till then. on edge of Idaho.) and we were watching short PIXAR moives. one short clip was called Red’s Dream. it was about a unicycle that dreams it was in the circus. the clown that rode it was FREAKY!!!!!!!!! IT HAD THE WIERDEST FACE EVER!!!!!!!!! i don’t know if it’s a irrational fear yet. but it’s one of my main ones now.
Markus says:
Im scared of getting someones pencil. I hate it! It’s so gross! Especially if it’s not sharpened or if it’s earser is like rubbed off alittle on the edge, it’s so gross and annoying!!!!!!!!! I HATE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mikayla says:
proof of the Pendragon books being real…
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100510/ap_on_go_su_co/us_obama_supreme_court
D:
Mikayla says:
@darkness i personally love natural disasters…at least hurricanes. i love going outside during hurricanes. i live far enough from the coast so i wont be injured..
Keanu Reeves says:
I am terrified of being alone when the power is out. I watched too many scary movies and I get scared out of my mind! One time I was home alone, and half the power went out. Television, phone lines, and plugs didn’t work. Lights worked, though. Thank goodness! I didn’t know how to work my DVD player, too. That stunk because I was stuck watching…(gulp)…EDUCATIONAL DVD’S!!!!
Markus says:
@Mikayla
How is that proof? its obama……
Lead Traveler says:
ok. i’m not even goin’ to try to get on that website. based on what Markus said and i don’t care what else you said. i don’t think that they exist but if someone could show me they exist, like if i could go to Bronx and i found a flume that would totally convince me. i don’t know if i would try to go anywhere though. i might be to scared or too shocked to find out that it was real.
Markus says:
Please, SAVE YOURSELF
Lead Traveler says:
go one the epilouge.
Lead Traveler says:
meant on.