Trypophobia

argh, Siiiiiiiiw … :anx: that’s a terrible one! :rofl: 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. :razz:

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. :bored:

True, they could be in spoiler tags. :razz: 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?” :rofl:

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:

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What about concrete?

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Concrete:

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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 :eek:

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. :scared:

Way to bring back my childhood trauma, damn you! :sad:

Saw this image on imgur and thought of this thread.
A bridge over icy water.

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?

It was apparently the newest scishow video, explaining Trypophobia: correct link here.

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? :razz:

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.

This picture got thrown into my face on a cooking site. shivers

Replying to an almost 1 year old comment… :shy:

Not really! It’s usually just when there are lots of holes together and with different sizes.