Hmm...

I'm constantly "typing" things with my fingers or toes as I'm thinking them (not on a keyboard, just moving my digits).

I like to make weird sound effects/beat box.

I play with my damn hair all the time, even though it's not that long.

I'm an adrenaline junky and I'm just about confident in the fact that I'm addicted to gambling.

I shave my legs.

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Originally posted by occrider I like scary movies but they really scare the crap out of me, especially in a theater ... in other words, I'm a big wuss, but not such a wuss that I'll close my eyes. What I find myself doing during the buildup to the scary parts is that, in order to diminish the scariness, I will typically close one eye or squint really really hard. I find that by doing these foolish things, I'm self concious of the fact that I probably look like an idiot which helps to "get out of it" and remove myself from the moment so to speak. Thus I'm able to actually watch the scary parts though I'm usually punctuated with violent jerking movements at the crescendo.

Don't know if you intended this description to be funny, but it cracked me up.
Actually, I'm also a fan of scary movies, and my technique for getting through the scary parts is to raise my hand to just about three or four inches from my face, blocking out the part of the screen where I expect the scary thing to show up. What normally happens is that I am so absorbed in the plot that curiosity gets the better of me, and I start spreading my fingers to get small glimpses of the action. As most scary movies offer very long buildup, when the crescendo finally comes, I've usually lowered my hand entirely, thus having made sure to look like an idiot, but without any real benefit of my hand shield.

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Originally posted by DrUg_Tit0 I sometimes intentionally do that when I'm far away from home and have to walk all the way back. Then the journey isn't as boring

So you say that you'd rather be in a state of terror than be bored? If that's a preference shared by people around you, I can start to understand why you kept fighting in the 90s.

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Originally posted by Itarillë i'm usually in here reading all the threads on this forum, but i'm extremely afraid of expressing my opinions out of fear of being flamed... the root of this fear comes from my lifelong fear of being stupid...

Well, if you get some fun from reading, then I guess it's not stupid to keep doing so.
As to your fear of being flamed, I don't think that we do that a lot in here - at least not if all you're doing is expressing your *opinion*. My experience is, that it's when people confuse beliefs with facts that things get hot...

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Originally posted by TranceGiant I often find myself talking to myself, epsecially when I comment things I'm watching on TV.

So, you're still reading - just not posting much? Anyway, I do the talking to myself too - mostly when commenting ridiculous things on TV, and when I have fucked something up. Then I scold myself. Probably not healthy for my sanity, but what can you do.

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Originally posted by TranceGiant Last but not least, THE least rational behavior I'm currently observing: I start accepting Hip Hop / RnB as appropiate party music. Then again it might be the vodka red bull's fault.

And we have a winner. Disgusting.

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Originally posted by Dervish I don't like looking right over the side of high buildings.

Sharing this one as well - same goes for being close to the water's edge at a dock and the tracks at a train station when a train is approaching. If there's some kind of fence between me and the abyss I don't feel afraid, though. Somehow I must be fearing some unconscious dead wish taking over my mind or someone pushing me.

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Originally posted by NeoPhono I shave my legs.

Don't you get confused comments on this during summer?


Due to the talk on phobias, I came to think of what is probably affecting me the most: I loathe plastic buttons. I've never been able to stand those ugly bastards. I've further found that clothes, which once had buttons attached to them, retains a flair of repulsiveness after they have been removed.
When I'm talking to someone, it can make a world of difference to me whether they are wearing a shirt or polo shirt, rather than a simple t-shirt, and I cannot help letting that affect my sympathies towards the poor person wearing the offending garment. I'm pretty sure I have never been intimate with a girl wearing a shirt, for instance. I think I'm confusing the hell out of people, sometimes being friendly, and other times reserved or even slightly hostile. I guess few people make the connection between my mood and their attire.

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Originally posted by trancaholic Sharing this one as well - same goes for being close to the water's edge at a dock and the tracks at a train station when a train is approaching. If there's some kind of fence between me and the abyss I don't feel afraid, though. Somehow I must be fearing some unconscious dead wish taking over my mind or someone pushing me.

That is frigging weird thats exactly the way I think/feel about it.

The button thing however, well, yeah I don't do that I think.

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I am much more nervous flying over water than I am land, as if I'd survive the fall in either situation!

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Originally posted by trancaholic So you say that you'd rather be in a state of terror than be bored? If that's a preference shared by people around you, I can start to understand why you kept fighting in the 90s.

Well, the state of terror gets your adrenaline up. And then I start convincing myself that although that terrifying thing is sure to come, I am stronger than it and can beat it. Until I finally get in a sort of "waah, lemme at them!" mood. And after that I'm happy because I feel like I've conquered my fears

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Sharing this one as well - same goes for being close to the water's edge at a dock and the tracks at a train station when a train is approaching. If there's some kind of fence between me and the abyss I don't feel afraid, though. Somehow I must be fearing some unconscious dead wish taking over my mind or someone pushing me.

Yeah, same here. Like I'm afraid of having a wish to jump or something. It seems a lot of people have that sort of impulse, because I've already heard it from some other people too. Wonder why is that.


PS. Big evil glowing eye wolf is scarier than TV noise!

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Originally posted by trancaholic Don't you get confused comments on this during summer?

99% of people don't notice, and men never do. I only shave because I race, not because I have some weird OCD thing going on. I do hate body hair though, especially on women's arms.

I have two irrational fears...

1) The half second before I open a door, this thought goes through me that I will find something very unpleasant on the other side. But strangely enough I only get the sensation at home when I know that the only people around are the ones that probably would never want to do anything unpleasant to me.

2) When I am washing my face bent over the sink, I am terrified shitless that I will look up into the mirror and see a rotting old woman behind me looking over my shoulder at my reflection.

Some more irrational things I do:

I play out my life like a movie in my head when i am walking on the street.

I start dancing around by myself to songs on my winamp.

I usually die in my dreams, or am in the process of dying.

I rub the bridge of my nose a lot but I don't pick it! People don't believe me. I like the feel of the tip of my nose.

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Originally posted by Shakka I am much more nervous flying over water than I am land, as if I'd survive the fall in either situation!

hahaha, i do that too!

anyway, great thread!

will think of some stuff!

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Originally posted by razmataz 1) The half second before I open a door, this thought goes through me that I will find something very unpleasant on the other side. But strangely enough I only get the sensation at home when I know that the only people around are the ones that probably would never want to do anything unpleasant to me.

Same here, but only during the night and when noone is at home. I kinda have the feeling that I'll see some horrible scene on the other side of the door. Like when I watched the Ring, I had a fear for a while that the girl from the movie will be waiting for me on the other side of the door

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2) When I am washing my face bent over the sink, I am terrified shitless that I will look up into the mirror and see a rotting old woman behind me looking over my shoulder at my reflection.

Yeah, I had a similar fear too. Although it was not necessarrily a woman, just something old and rotting looking over my shoulder. That's why I was afraid of mirrors. Ha, nice to know I wasn't the only one with that fear!

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Originally posted by DrUg_Tit0 Same here, but only during the night and when noone is at home. I kinda have the feeling that I'll see some horrible scene on the other side of the door. Like when I watched the Ring, I had a fear for a while that the girl from the movie will be waiting for me on the other side of the door Yeah, I had a similar fear too. Although it was not necessarrily a woman, just something old and rotting looking over my shoulder. That's why I was afraid of mirrors. Ha, nice to know I wasn't the only one with that fear!

I thought I was alone too!

Also, I never leave the bathtub curtains closed. I like to see an empty tub when I am taking a leak instead of an ominous wall of blue!

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Originally posted by razmataz I thought I was alone too!

Apparently a lot of people have fear of mirrors...

http://www.changethatsrightnow.com/...?SDID=4082:1522

And I've also found a link where some mom claims that her kid is having a wolf with glowing red eyes stalking her

http://www.nightterrors.org/cgi-bin...ames;read=11183

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Also, I never leave the bathtub curtains closed. I like to see an empty tub when I am taking a leak instead of an ominous wall of blue!

Yes, bathtubs also made me unpleasant as a kid. But that was because I watched that horror mini series, It, and there was that one scene where a woman found her husband who was killed in a bathtub with all the blood around him. Now that I think of it, that damn clown could be responsible for most of my fears. I'm not sure if there was something with mirrors in the bathroom there, but I know that I was always more afraid of bathroom mirrors than other mirrors. He also did turn out to be a giant spider in the end. And right about that time I became totally afraid of spiders. Grr, if I ever get my hands on that bastard who made the movie, Stephen King I think it was...

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Originally posted by DrUg_Tit0 Yes, bathtubs also made me unpleasant as a kid. But that was because I watched that horror mini series, It, and there was that one scene where a woman found her husband who was killed in a bathtub with all the blood around him. Now that I think of it, that damn clown could be responsible for most of my fears. I'm not sure if there was something with mirrors in the bathroom there, but I know that I was always more afraid of bathroom mirrors than other mirrors. He also did turn out to be a giant spider in the end. And right about that time I became totally afraid of spiders. Grr, if I ever get my hands on that bastard who made the movie, Stephen King I think it was...

"It" was indeed a very scary mini-series (the winking and bleeding photo scared me to death), but you cannot really blame Stephen King for it, as he wasn't involved with the movie production. In fact the spider-ending wasn't even part of the book. "It" is killed/banished through some dream-like "battle of wits"-episode.

I did a little net research like you, and came up with the following link,

http://www.unusualphobias.com/buttons.html

which contains a number of stories of people suffering from the same loathing as me (as well as some that exhibit fright). I found it quite hillarious to read. It was also fascinating to hear about a mother who's baby showed signs of hating buttons, before it was able to speak - suggesting that the phobia is somehow encoded in the genes. Strange, as the evolutionary advantage of fearing buttons is quite unclear.