Phobia / Fear / Recurring nightmares/ What are you afraid of?

Water, deeper than I can see. Swimming pools are fine, shallow lakes in near vicinity of the shore are fine, the sea is not. Sailing on a ship makes me uneasy, though the bigger the ship the better.

Also I may have mild claustrophobia. Being under the earth makes me uneasy. Long traffic tunnels are okay, tunnels as in mining are a bag full of nope though.
Small enclosed spaces are also bad.

Also not a fan of many people in small spaces. Full buses and trains are more a nuisance but concerts and similar with 1000+ people are really making me uneasy.

Perfect combination of all this would be a submarine. Not going to set foot in one of these. nope nope nope.

Acrophobia but more the urge to "toss myself off" (the building/cliff) which I have controlled so far. Claustrophobia is my more common weakness as I can't even watch someone potholing on telly.
I used to have to do CBRN training which involved wearing multiple layers and a gas-tight mask which restricts your breathing a bit. Then the trainers would get you running or playing football in all the kit which makes the breathing worse. I gave it up after three years of missing out on a night's sleep the night before a training day caused by thinking about it.
I get panicky if my boots are too tight or I can't get my sweatshirt over my head.

Thank you introducing me to aliefs.
Had precisley one of the examples,
up the TV Tower in Shanghai on the acrylic walkway.
Knew engineers had ensured the clear acrylic sheeting was thick enough to support my weight,
and much more besides,
only way I could walk round was to make sure my every footstep covered some of the supporting steelwork.

Also have had the 'going to fail this exam' dream/nightmare,
but it is a Physics exam, (I graduated in Chemistry),
and,
the 1st year Physics exam I DID fail, (in '79), was subsequently passed in a re-sit!
So the dream/nightmare relives something that did happen,
and passed with little consequence!

Being buried alive, and heights like this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDNGZVmhkTo

No doubt a repost

I have a bit similar to you Constable Savage - although not as severe I suppose. I had to give up competitive shooting as I just couldn't stand the leather straps wrapped round your body shooting rifle, and working under a sink or a car dashboard makes me feel physically ill.

Oddly, caves and lifts etc don't bother me in the slightest - it's restriction of physical movement that gets me. If I wasn't mad when you put me in a straightjacket I would be shortly afterwards....

every 4 years I have to do the HUET underwater emergency escape training in a helicopter simulator - being strapped in with an emergency re-breather (basically a bag on your life jacket that you exhale your lungful of breath into before being submerged) whilst being turned upside down under water, and having to pull yourself through a window that you have to punch out with your elbow first is pretty much my least favourite thing to do - last time I did it I released the seat belt too early whilst still capsizing and ended up floating up into the body of the HUET and panicking - the guy opposite me saw me decide to release early and did the same - so both of us in 'freefall' in a washing machine - had to be pulled into the small air space (the floor, now the roof) by the divers

It's coming up next year and I'm already fucking dreading it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq9Dtn8ON8s

UUUurghghghg.

I saw a guy at school drown doing something similar with a Navy liferaft - he'd got stuck in the ropes on the underside as the raft was being righted. Well, I say I saw him drown - I saw him being pulled from the water.

Shhhhh.. that's probably not helping @EB

hate being under water

upside down

strapped in

trying to breath from a bag

and not freak out

what gets me through that course is the thought that I'd be marginally better prepared were it to happen in the wild, where there are no divers to rescue you.

true that - I don't even go on choppers any more that's the sick part

Anyone get the dream where you're in a fight and really want to smash someone's face in, but your arms are like they are made of lead or submerged in treacle?

Yes! For some reason it's always the same friend I'm trying to fight/hurt. Thing is, I have no reason to want to cause him harm.

But if it came to it you could have him IRL?

Probably not tbh!

I sometimes get the one where you are running but your legs kind of cross over in front of each other and you can't make any real progress - not running from something fearful, just running. Weird.

'cos when in REM you're paralysed 'innit?

I've had sleep paralysis twice now, both occasions I was going through major stress. Not nice to wake up and not be able to move.

This. Had that twice while still in school and napping on a friends couch. I pretty much panicked.

I'm (relatively) fine with small/enclosed spaces irl but have a recurring theme to dreams where I've entered a room/sewer/cave etc by an entrance which was perfectly large but then somehow lost this as my exit and Im faced with small, twisty exit routes and this shits me right up for some reason.

-> http://brasscockroach.com/h4ll0w33n2007/manga/Amigara-Full/Amigara-0.html
..Just for you!

Haha, that was....an interesting bed time read.

Thanks?

I've had sleep paralysis twice now, both occasions I was going through major stress. Not nice to wake up and not be able to move.

Had this so bad once, I spotted a huge rat in a mates kitchen one night and then had to sleep in an adjacent room with no door, very lucid dream/panic attack that the rat was on my neck, totally frozen with fear I could barely breath. Fuck rats.

I am terrified of the skin on hot milk.. one look and I'm heaving my lunch... is that a phobia or do I just need to take two of those special HTFU tablets.