What are You Afraid Of?

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Glaciers and hot springs are the reasons why Iceland even has a tourist industry.

How do you feel about snow-capped mountains that aren't glaciers?

^^^^As long as there isn't an avalanche!

If there was an avalanche risk, it would be posted.

Iceland is very cautious about such things.

I don't believe they get avalanches too often---because the temperature doesn't vary too much there.

Great! We're off to Iceland !

The best time to go is probably in May.

Because you will still see the snow-capped mountains in May, which are visible even a couple miles outside of the capital, Reykjavik.

All my life I had a terror of spiders. Then I went into Jungian analysis. We never mentioned spiders, but one day my fear was gone. There was a spider on the wall beside me and without thinking I picked it up with a kleenex and flushed it. (I hope to graduate to putting them outside). But then I thought, wait a minnit, that was a spider! But it didn't matter at all.

I wish I could tell you how to get rid of a fear like I did. But I don't know why fear of spiders would disappear when all we ever talked about in therapy was my mother.

In later years, I allowed one spider into my room, the first one of the season. Inevitably she took up an upper corner, spun a web, and spent the night getting rid of all other bugs. I never even got a mosquito bite. I thought it was a fair trade.

Losing my Mother and Father, I'll be all alone

I think it would be great if my wife and I, and your family, went to Iceland together.

It's not a realistic possibility---but I still think it would be great.

^^^^^It would be ! Apart from the glaciers, then.

^^^How do you feel about geysers and hot springs? They have lots of those in Iceland.

They are cool. I'm not scared of them !

Back to the OP's topic, I'll say I have relatively few fears:
*Anticipation of something loud, which doesn't make a lot of sense, given that I quite enjoy running loud machines (i.e. chainsaws, large power tools)
*Saying something inappropriate. This isn't disabling generally, except when maybe once every month or two someone tells me that what I said/did wasn't appropriate. If that happens I have a tendency to get frozen up, perhaps for up to a minute at most.
*Women who flirt with me or who ask me to go on a date can either make me very uncomfortable, or, if they were to flirt with me and touch me, I'd probably have a panic attack. I've never gone on a date before, and don't think that having sex makes alot of sense (and is highly over-rated by the media), hence my unwillingness to go on dates.

That's a fascinating story. I'm glad you were able to recover. I have never been afraid of spiders because I loved Charlotte's Web and felt sorry for her. I'm afraid of earthworms. I mean, it's immobilizing fear. I can barely type the word. I wonder if Jungian therapy would help me, too. Thanks for the story.

Same here. I experience a very big difference between being in control of the machine making the noise and having it turn on and off unpredictably. When our neighbours were having home improvements done recently, as soon as there was drilling into the party wall the first time, it was enough to make me incredibly anxious just knowing that the builders were there and I couldn't predict when it might start again. I had to leave the house some days because the high anxiety made a melt-down so much more likely if the drilling did start. Yet I can happily get out my own drill and get hyper-focused on a DIY project without any sound sensitivity problems at all. Anticipation and control definitely have a lot of influence on my sensory sensitivities - I suppose in the same way that it is impossible to tickle oneself.

I agree. Anticipation and relaxation are difficult when one has sensory issues.

You're in Yorkshire, right now?? If you could step outside at some point and say "hello, from Isabella" into the wind, I'd be extremely, extremely thrilled. I'm so envious.

Thunderstorms, balloons, flying. I'm not particularly scared of being struck by lightning or anything, it's just about being startled.