People are afraid of a lot of things. In fact, most people are afraid of something. I don’t trust anyone who says they aren’t afraid of anything, because then I’d just be waiting for the lighting bolt to strike them from above.
Let’s take a quick look of what scares most people – the top five most common phobias.
1. Acrophobia – Fear of heights.
Heights make me weak in the knees, but I force myself to look over the edge of wherever I happen to go to try to
overcome it. Doesn’t work. Cliffhanger gave me heart palpitations on the television for goodness sake. When I rode the Skyway at Great Adventure, I almost left bruises on my husband’s biceps. Heights are not for me.
2. Claustrophobia – Fear of Enclosed Spaces
If you have this, don’t ever watch The Descent.
3. Nyctophobia – Fear of the Dark
Keep a flashlight handy.
4. Arachnophobia – Fear of Spiders
Stay away from the movie of the same name. I can’t even watch it on network TV, it gives me the ever-loving creeps.
5. Ophidiophobia – Fear of Snakes
They’re very slithery, aren’t they?
So…what scares YOU?
Dahlia
Oh there are quite a few things that give me pause, falling is one. 🙂 And that’s all I’m sharing with you.
I have an insane fear of being closed into a small space. And I did watch the Descent. It was the creepiest movie, for obvious reasons.
Rhonda, I was glad when the cave people appeared. It actually lessened the tension of the movie for me!
There is no Latin term for my fear. I have a fear of driving.
Spiders. Dead or alive. I get creeped out from reading about them in books. I read a short story about a man who got infested with them inside of his body…I couldn’t sleep for two days.
Oh, Rebecca! That gives me the willies just reading about it. (shivers)
Birds. I’m an ornithophobe! Because there is a name for it, I feel better about it.
Vallory, it validates your phobia now they have named it. 🙂
What scares me is the IRS. Actually, I can’t think of anything I am terrified about, but there are things I don’t like, spiders, snakes and stupid people. Oops did I really say that out loud? Tee hee