Page 1 of 1 [ 14 posts ] 

MikeyPikey92
Tufted Titmouse
Tufted Titmouse

User avatar

Joined: 18 Dec 2009
Gender: Male
Posts: 48

19 Jan 2010, 3:04 pm

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. :P



Shebakoby
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 5 Sep 2009
Age: 51
Gender: Female
Posts: 1,759

19 Jan 2010, 3:11 pm

dude everybody hates touching seaweed



MikeyPikey92
Tufted Titmouse
Tufted Titmouse

User avatar

Joined: 18 Dec 2009
Gender: Male
Posts: 48

19 Jan 2010, 3:13 pm

Shebakoby wrote:
dude everybody hates touching seaweed


When I went on a tubing tip last summer, (something I really didn't want to do,) I touched some and had a panic attack.



SkittlesMcBingBing
Pileated woodpecker
Pileated woodpecker

User avatar

Joined: 29 Aug 2009
Age: 41
Gender: Male
Posts: 192

19 Jan 2010, 3:20 pm

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.


_________________
Sometimes I speak in walls of text. I will never be offended if you tear it down.

I believe I am cousin.


Shebakoby
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 5 Sep 2009
Age: 51
Gender: Female
Posts: 1,759

19 Jan 2010, 3:22 pm

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. 8O



subliculous
Sea Gull
Sea Gull

User avatar

Joined: 17 Aug 2007
Gender: Female
Posts: 212

19 Jan 2010, 3:31 pm

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



mitharatowen
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 21 Oct 2008
Gender: Male
Posts: 3,675
Location: Arizona

19 Jan 2010, 5:41 pm

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.



gypsyRN
Toucan
Toucan

User avatar

Joined: 24 Feb 2008
Age: 44
Gender: Female
Posts: 292
Location: Indiana, USA

19 Jan 2010, 5:54 pm

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



Tim_Tex
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 2 Jul 2004
Age: 44
Gender: Male
Posts: 46,008
Location: Houston, Texas

19 Jan 2010, 5:56 pm

gypsyRN wrote:
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


Yet you have a fish as your avatar. :lol:

Oh, and Mithraowen, whales are mammals.


_________________
Who’s better at math than a robot? They’re made of math!

Now proficient in ChatGPT!


jocundthelilac
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 29 Apr 2009
Age: 33
Gender: Female
Posts: 1,541
Location: Maggiland's vital regions :P

19 Jan 2010, 6:00 pm

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.


_________________
I'm a writer, not a fighter and my pen is always loaded.

Magnús Scheving is my Icelandic rose :)


leejosepho
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 14 Sep 2009
Gender: Male
Posts: 9,011
Location: 200 miles south of Little Rock

19 Jan 2010, 6:18 pm

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 began looking for someone like me when I was five ...
My search ended at 59 ... right here on WrongPlanet.
==================================


Tim_Tex
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 2 Jul 2004
Age: 44
Gender: Male
Posts: 46,008
Location: Houston, Texas

19 Jan 2010, 6:22 pm

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


_________________
Who’s better at math than a robot? They’re made of math!

Now proficient in ChatGPT!


Avarice
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 5 Oct 2009
Age: 32
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,067

19 Jan 2010, 6:45 pm

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


I own a betta... do you keep them properly? As in, 5 gallon tanks at least with heaters and filters or are you in the majority which abuses the poor fish with the pet shop cups?

Anyway, I like fish, I hate seaweed though. I can't see how fish are frightening to you but most people don't see why I think bare feet are frightening either.



wigglyspider
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 23 Apr 2009
Age: 38
Gender: Female
Posts: 1,306
Location: WA, USA

19 Jan 2010, 9:46 pm

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..


_________________
"You gotta keep making decisions, even if they're wrong decisions, you know. If you don't make decisions, you're stuffed."
- Joe Simpson