Fear of Fish

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I am always having nightmares about fish.

I am always having nightmares about falling into lake water.

I am afraid of touching seaweed.

I don't like lakes because you cannot see what is under the water....what your stepping on...etc.

Many of my dreams have dead fish in tanks....bloating...puffing.....diseased....

Many of my dreams involve me trying not to fall in the dirty water.

I would love to have fish as pets though....

Anyone else have these fears?

EDIT : And i'm born under Pisces.

dude everybody hates touching seaweed

I have major heebie-jeebies about all things seaweedish, mossyish, creepy fish-ish, and the like. I'm also scared of falling out of the boats into the water, and I still am today, because if I fell out of a canoe into the water I know I'd be swimming in the creepy goo and... blech.

As a kid (up to about age 16) my creep out factor was quite high, but as an adult I can tolerate some of it. Still, I'm in no hurry to go mucking through a swamp.

It's not really seaweed i hate. It's what could be lurking underneath. as in sharp shells that could cut your food open if you step on it, or a crab going pinchy pinchy.

i love little fishies. have had many bettas, they're adorable.

My feelings about water creatures are complex.

I don't fear fish in general. Some of them are cute. But many of them are quite creepy. Blowfish, for example. Rays and sharks are not a fun concept either. Not just because of their ability to harm, but just because they are creepy. Especially hammerheads.

I am, however, terrified of whales. The look of them, the size of them, the idea that they might be lurking out there right now *shudder*. Seeing a large model of a whale in an oceanic museum of some sort when I was younger majorly freaked me out.

Fish in small domestic tanks don't scare me but the large tanks they have in some decorative places (Rainforest Cafe anyone?) and in zoos and such do freak me out.

Lakes and oceans give me the heebeegeebees because you can't see what's in there.

I read Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer as a kid and as a result I am oddly terrified of the idea of a giant catfish sucking my leg off.

Oddly enough though, I've been scuba diving several times, once in a cave FULL of big catfish. I had to use a lot of logic related to the species of catfish and the amount of people already in the cave to get myself into the water.

I also have an irrational fear regarding sharks and blood. I think that some gross chick is going to swim in the ocean while she's menstruating and she'll attract a school of feeding frenzied sharks to eat everyone!! It is for this reason that I seldom get past my waste in the ocean, unless the water is really clear and blue.

I keep a 75 gallon tank in my house, and freak out whenever I have to move the plecostemus. He's 10" long and I'm afraid he'll "scrape" my finger with his weird mouth.

Not afraid of seaweed though...I eat it! nom nom nom

The only fish I truly, TRULY hate are those bubble-eyed goldfish! They gave me nightmares when I was a kid!

And I don't like stepping into seawater either. I don't wanna step on a live crab or anything.

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I have always stayed completely away from any kind of seaweed or underwater grass, and I have always had a fear of fish or turtles or whatever else -- Who could possibly know?! -- going after my toes while swimming. There have been times when wearing swim fins on my feet made me feel safer while snorkeling or diving, but all of that ended well over ten years ago after I noticed a barracuda hanging around under the houseboat my wife and I were living on at the time. I had tossed a coconut shell out on the water and the barracuda had charged out from under our boat and hit it (the shell) without even first looking to see what it was, and I never again went into the water after that. In fact, a screwdriver I had dropped stayed right there on the bottom until I eventually got someone else to go in and get it for me.

I want a three-eyed fish, like on the Simpsons.

I have some fish dreams too, like dreams about dark water with things lurking in it, and often I'm floating on something like a small or tippy log..
I think fear of the water and the things lurking in it must be instinct, and not as irrational as some people think.
Have you seen that TV show, River Monsters? And I think there have been some other similar shows recently too, with people getting eaten by sharks in freshwater lakes and waaay upstream in rivers.. so now I'm even more paranoid because the river near my house is not far from the sea, and one of the shows was in MY CITY, showing HUGE sharks that came 10 feet from the shore! I had no idea! Holy crap.
And once I saw something strange surface in the muddiest, murkiest part of the river, but I think it was just a sea lion. It was creepy but kind of cute, like a biiiig fat slimy dog with bulging eyes. I only saw it for a moment.

You really can never know what's under the water..