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People that sleep with their eyes open.

TV that makes animals looking like they are talking/singing

Houses with small windows in tall, pointy eaves. There a couple of red brick examples just down from The Grove in Drove Road.

Spooky as fuck

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I think you are mistaking what the X-Factor is all about ;)

The 1970s kids farm safety film "Apaches". Even today.

Who even does that?

Mine : those videos of people messing around at great heights.

My wife does that.

Not all of the time. but often enough....

And that, yes. heebie jeebies massif

Eye surgery of any kind, but especially when people are conscious and able to see the blade coming!  :(

Circus clowns,Moths and driving on the Peripherique.

Freakish. Don't her eyes dry up?


Pff. Can do that with my eyes closed. Like everyone else round here.

Fair comment,but i am not from "round here"

Spiders.

Evil little fuckers.

Spiders are ace you wimp

Nothing  ;)

Spiders are ace.

Cliffs. Not worried by either heights or the sea, but for some reason a combination of the two freaks me the fuck out.

That and palm/tarot readers. I can't articulate why, but they just creep me out, even though it's all ridiculous bollocks.

clowns

Compound fractures...

Eyes. Anything to do with eyes. Even watching someone putting contact lenses in, and although I'm a big fan of horror films, even I have to look away when eyes are involved. In fact, just typing this is making my eyes feel funny.

You need to watch Saw 7  :)

Do you want to hear about my laser eye surgery?

Germans and Russians and there obsession with wearing nut hugging speedos.
Not a sight you want to see when you go to a restaurant

For those that are scared of eyes and eye surgery...

I had a squint correction done last year. What they do is cut one of the muscles from your eyeball and sew it back on in the correct position to pull your eye more in line with the other. Once the surgery is complete you had an adjustable suture poking out of the eye so they can make fine adjustments while you are awake.

Quite the experience.

Onset of vertigo possibly. I'm not scared of heights either, but last few years, particularly watching people look off tall buildings in films, causes my stomach to flip over.

Cunt.

Making a decision without starting a thread about it on the tef, I would have thought that would give you the heebie jeebies.

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Ok, there's one thing  :)

On the plus side I can now see correctly most of the time.

I don't like moths or using urinals.

I don't get vertigo - done lots of stuff recently where vertigo would have been an issue and not a flutter. Just cliffs. I blame my dad for finding it funny pretending to push me off them as a child. Damaged goods.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Riu4deCuyx4

I do get vertigo, and it's a strange old thing.

So for example, I lived on the 12th floor of tower for a couple of years with no problem whatsoever, however I would get an attack looking at my kids doing things at height, because they didn't have it.  So the second hand vertigo you get from watching films etc.

Never really suffered from vertigo, although having said that, this isnt something that you'd catch me doing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b9LahaBJIk

Love to watch this sort of thing though

Think I have a form of vertigo.

Don't mind being up in a tall building but I can't look over the edge downwards without going all wobbly kneesed.

Stop calling it vertigo you bunch of cunts.

Fear of heights is called Acrophobia. Vertigo is a kind of dizziness.

And a wanky Robbie Williams song - makes you want to jump off a cliff

You are correct, I suffer occassionally from Vertigo but also get Acrophobia, they are very different...blame that on Alfred Hitchock.

But don't you usually get Vertigo if you have Acrophobia? I presumed that was why they were colloquially interchangable.

Its not the fear of heights that get me, its the fear of falling. I can go up the CN tower and jump up and down on the glass floor, no problem. Put me within 5 feet of a cliff edge - sweaty palms and an uncomfortable feeling soon appear.

Oh and I agree with Samdy re: spiders. Gangly legged creepy bastards.

Nope, not normally, They are very very different. Vertigo is a nausiating dizness when you stand quickly and nearly fall over again, very similar to being pissed.

Acrophobia is a fear and slight wobbly leg feeling when standing too close to an edge that is high up along with a little dizziness and fear.

Its not the fear of heights, its not the fear of falling...its the fear of hitting the ground that gets me.

Can someone put up that footage of the radio mast workers in America who climb up around 1600ft?  The last bit when they climb the mast is awesome.

We're off on holiday in a few weeks and the wife is absolutely petrified about flying, especially the take off and landing.

For me, that's the best bit!

Get her to read "Flying Without Fear" - sorted me out - I read it on the flight to Oz  ;D

For nervous flyers there is only one real prescription - half a Valium and half a bottle of spirits, taken the hour before takeoff in the airport bar.

I'm a nervous flyer and can confirm this really, really helps!

Try getting her to read during take off and landing as well, something to take her mind off it.

Get her to watch airplane the night before

For most fearful flyers it is just ignorance of what they think will happen and what will/can happen and lack of being in control. Once I understood more and had it explained my fear dropped by about 90%

Also realising planes are awesome. Because they are.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A_h2AjJaMw

Whatever they're being paid, it's not enough! 

Watching that, so many "what ifs..." come to mind.

I've seen it before, but it still gives me the full heebs, especially after the 7-minute mark: sweaty palms, stomach and everything else from the waist down churning and aching. Funny that it doesn't even need to be you doing it, and you know it ends ok, but it doesn't change a thing. Horrible.

That made me feel sick.

Must be even harder coming down

Probably a little tricky lighting your cigarette, too!   :)

For me it has been the complete opposite.  The more I fly, the older I get and the more I know about the things that cause plane crashes, the more petrified I have become.

That plane that crashed after taking off from JFK, where the pilot shook the engine off by simply applying his foot on the rudder control for fucks sake.

Heights, Deep Water and in recent years planes all get me.  Heights tends to be manageable when my feet are enclosed somehow, but exposed feet = full on attacks.  I lasted 10 seconds up the Stratosphere but can get by up the Empire State Building.