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Brendan Wrote:

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> The image I always get is that I will be walking

> into a lift and as I?m on the threshold the lift

> will fall, splitting me in half longways.


This actually happened at the NBS HQ (a local bank) in downtown Durban in the mid-90s or so.


It was noted at the time with some glee that their advertising jingle was "come on down to the NBS and get your slice*"


* Their logo was a sliced golden banana.... C'mon - it was africa.

Fear of falling, which as a child used to wake me up in the middle of the night.


Standing in the centre of a vertical pile of tyres which falls over and traps me, binding my arms so I cannot move.


Being a homeless down and out.


Dogs big enough to savage me.


Fear of failure, which effects what I am willing to try.

I used to have nightmares about being trapped in a burning building - not being impossible to get out but so paralysed by fear I couldn't move. I have no idea why, never been in a fire, or know anyone who has.


Now I seem to have nightmares about being executed. All those nasty news stories about people being caught and beheaded in Iraq....

Tripping over and smashing my teeth out on the pavement. I often think about this and it's horrible.


Also, when I lived with my Dad his staircase went round a corner and there was mini landing with a window. I always imgained falling down the stairs and going head first through the window, slitting my throat on the way through. :(

Annasfield Wrote:

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> Tripping over and smashing my teeth out on the

> pavement. I often think about this and it's

> horrible.


I've actually done it. Off my tits on various substances when I was about 16 or 17. Fell flat on my face and managed to smash eight of my teeth. Had four stiches in my chin as well.

clive3300 Wrote:

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> giggirl Wrote:

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> > Fear of slugs - I'm rooted to the spot in fear

> if

> > I see one, it's like time freezes and I can't

> move

>

> You stay frozen while it moves out of sight?

>

> You must spend a lot of time in the garden!



Clive Honey, did you not see the word "irrational" in the title thread?

I have been in a falling lift. In 2006 the company I was with (kELTBRAY) was carrying out the soft strip internal gut out of the former home office Queen Annes gate in Westmenster and during the early stages we were in a lift overloaded with large pipes being taken down to be cut up. On the 5th floor something failed and we fell. It's not a fluid journey because the safety grips kick in. You rapidly fall in stages i.e 5th you start falling then BANG you stop for about a second at the 4th and then so on until you get to the bottom, still very violent and scary especially as it happened in total darkness. That however is an extreme circumstance of a stupidly overloaded lift, at normal capacity if the cable were severed the safety system invented by Mr Otis will firmly lock the lift in place until such time as you can be rescued.


I'm also scared of:

Bank statements.

Deep murky water.

Impotence.

CamberwellOz Wrote:

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> I always hate getting into bed. My heart rate

> goes up and I have to close my eyes because I

> think a hand will come out and grab my leg. It

> doesn't matter what bed. All beds have evil men

> lying in wait underneath them.

>

> I feel quite uneasy talking about it.


well I hate the dark and can feel where you're coming from. I lie awake as well staring at the door handle of the bedroom door to turn by itself and in walks......well I shudder to think. When I come home to an empty house the first place I check is UNDER THE BED. I kid you not. Then the wardrobe. sounds crazy but tis true. It's exhausting sometimes.

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