argh, Siiiiiiiiw … that’s a terrible one! is it a shell or something?
A friend just told me the other day, I think he’s worse than me, he was freaking out all day thinking about these things, for no apparent reason!
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What a fascinating phobia. I always find phobias and the opposite - fetishes - very interesting. Though I’m not sure why images are being posted without spoiler tags. Hell, if I had a topic for my phobia, I’d have to be some kinda masochist to keep coming back to it and looking at the images.
Wyvern, you have a very good point about the spoiler tags. For me the phobia is mild. It was a lot worse in my childhood, now it just makes me shiver and feel disgusted. I have a weird theory about how there is a shorter distance between repulsion and attraction that one might think, though. I know that I am at least strongly attracted to one thing now which scared me into tears every time I encountered it in my childhood. And who doesn’t get the urge to peek at something horrible?
Mattias, I was eating, and innocently reading wikipedia articles about seafood…when this close-up of a sea urchin popped up in my face.
True, they could be in spoiler tags. But one thing I’ve found reading about it, and for me is the same, is that there’s a strange curiosity involved with this “phobia” (for me it’s like with Siiw, just a repulsive feeling, not really a phobia). I guess you could compare it a bit to people that can’t stop looking at traffic accidents. Whenever I see someone posted here a little part of me goes “yay, more of that weird stuff!” but then when I see it it’s “aww, why did I look? … any more images?”
Really? THIS is supposed to make me hungry?
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Wait what? Are you scared of foam as well?
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Foam:
What about concrete?
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Concrete:
Bread?
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Breads
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Cakes?
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Cake
Very creepy cake
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My only reaction is I want dat chocolate and honey.
I suppose belly buttons must freak you out mattias
Are you stressed? Squeeze this nice stress ball.
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Urgh! I had nightmares like this when I was a kid… Sometimes I’d dream the sky or the floor was covered in holes like some of those pictures… and I’d fall into them then wake up terrified.
Way to bring back my childhood trauma, damn you!
Soothsayer created his own Trypophobic picture.
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So there’s a SciShow video about it now
Lots and LOTS of uh, interesting images in it. Don’t watch it. Don’t check it out. The facts are interesting but I feel sick. It’s great.
The link is for a video about prisons. I can’t see any videos about trypophobia pop up in the related videos, did you mispaste?
Ooh, I hate Surinam Toads now… That image will haunt me for the rest of my life. And @Adventure Time scene I’ve watched that episode too. They find a book of nursery rhymes which they mistake for a spellbook, and follow the rhyme of Jack Horner (Stuck his thumb in a pie and pulled out plum and said “What a good boy am I”) I was shuddering at the toad part… The snowman one was equally scary.
Welp… I come here to point out Surinam Toads and see someone has already beat me to it… by any chance did you learn about it from a certain True Facts video?
And for those of you who don’t know what a Surinam Toad is… take a peek at said “True Facts about the Frog” by zefrank.
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Not really! It’s usually just when there are lots of holes together and with different sizes.