Things that give you the heebie jeebies.

[Reg Smeeton]

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.

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.

[blah blah]

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



Love to watch this sort of thing though

[Abrahammer]

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.

[Flashheart]

Stop calling it vertigo you bunch of cunts.

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

[kerry red]

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

[Peter Venkman]

Stop calling it vertigo you bunch of cunts.

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

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

[Honkytonk]

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

[Batch]

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.

[Peter Venkman]

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

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.

[4D]

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.

[Samdy Gray]

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!

[Bewster]

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 

[Honkytonk]

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.

[Tails]

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.

[4D]

Get her to watch airplane the night before